skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alfie's doctors made the decision that taking him from hospital for an experimental treatment in a different country had a strong chance of killing him, and that he was better off dying peacefully and not in pain in the UK. Alfie's parents fought to try and save his life at any cost even if it meant he went through tortuous pain first.

Frankly both sides of the argument are understandable. No one wants a child to suffer but no parent wants to give up on their baby. It's a tragic case.

It's also an exception. Using it as the basis of how you decide 99.999% of other medical cases is idiotic, and using Alfie's memory as a tool to promote a particular system of healthcare payment is obscene and shameful.

Just remember this - for every case like Alfie's where there genuinely are two sides to consider there are millions more where the doctors are simply right. Setting a precedent that parents wishes automatically overrule the doctors would cause so many children to suffer. This is why we let doctors and courts make decisions - to save children from stupid parents.
Hey shit for brains, did you know that many experimental treatments for cancer are randomized double blinds that result in a total lack of treatment.

Doctors frequently sign their patients up to roll the dice and get nothing.

By all means shout down anyone you want but you have NO idea which cancer patients are actually being saved by their medication.

Treatment != care.
Yes, they are completely liquid.
Sounds like Google+! I love the idea, I can be the dedicated (dark) bard for my group of friends. The realities of the situation are probably vastly different, but hey, I need hope.
With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics
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It has a ACPI bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200087 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/amd/+bug/1776563

but with the latest 5.0.7 kernels (F30 onwards).. they work great. maybe I lose a bit of battery life, but who cares.
It's the gamble that banks make. A bank holds your money and will give it to you at any time. To fund this, they make an assumption about how many of their customers will actually want their money at any one time, and they invest the rest.

If all their customers decide to withdraw their money, this is a "run on the bank" and generally dooms the bank.

Presumably Tether planned to do the same: a percentage of the money they held would be invested, based on the assumption that not everyone who held Tether would want USD at any one point in time.

Of course, this stretches the meaning of "reserve", and utterly fails if they mismanaged the investment bit and lost the money they invested
Well "do not admit fault" is basic advice that is printed on every auto insurance card and something that any lawyer will tell you for free. Do they really except the CEO of a large multinational company to just randomly say "yeah, it was totally our fault, sue us"?
You've still got access to brew via linuxbrew.

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

I'm also in the process of switching back from Macos to Windows thanks to WSL.
That's true, but that's not the same as firing Dr's or Nurses.

From https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-industry... it seems insurance companies add about 20% to the cost of healthcare.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep... says 12%.

The same article says Medicare is 2% with the assistance of industry groups, but would cost more without them.

So, abolishing insurance companies would save maybe 5%. That's not zero, but it's not exactly a lot, and would not come close to what's needed.
The issue with the MAX8 is that it is fundamentally imbalanced. The larger heavier engines are tacked on to an airframe similar to the existing 737, constantly causing the plane to tip forwards, such that repeated tiny changes are required to maintain level flight. It is these tiny changes that are automated by software and can cause a crash when fed faulty sensor data.

The MAX10 is a significantly longer aircraft. The forwards rotation of the larger heavier engines is better balanced by the forces imparted by the tail acting over a longer lever arm, so the problematic sensor-driven software-controlled tiny changes aren't required.
The intro to The Road Warrior postulates that two great warrior tribes went to war and that the world's reliance on oil was fatally crippled as a result. Not a word about climate change anywhere.

When you were growing up, did you watch NASA's James Hansen saying in 2008 that we would have NO Arctic sea ice in summer by 2018? Was he correct? No?
hi - so im actually curious about the infrastructure that allows you to connect bpython to it. Is it a rq process that you connect to, etc ?

I would love to setup an architecture like this that lets me connect to stuff through a CLI. Also, I'm assuming you are on kubernetes (or something). How does this bpython business work through all those layers ?
That's a smart argument, but I think what it's missing is that the cost of gasoline is much higher than the cost of its energy equivalent on the electricity market. I.e, the cost of 1 Joule of energy != the cost of 1 joule of gasoline.

Because gasoline is a premium energy source, if we can produce it from photovoltaic sources, we can effectively mark-up photovoltaic electricity. In the long-term, that would make it economical to greatly expand our photovoltaic capacity. The cost equivalence Prometheus is aiming for is: Market price of 1 gallon of gasoline > cost to produce 1 gallon of gasoline using renewable energy.

Another factor is that Prometheus production works in remote areas where transmission losses for electricity are high (i.e., remote hydroelectric plants).
I'm not sure I'd call any of this "intermediate" Vim. Most of it appears in vimtutor, and the rest in the "basic editing" portion of the reference manual.
Avoiding political persecution (at least what I meant by it) is more about kissing the right asses and not stepping on the wrong persons toes. Rich in the US does not mean living in a minefield.
Call your local hospital and ask what the wait time is for an appointment for a non-urgent MRI. If it's more than a week there is undersupply, not oversupply.

It's probably actually at least a month of waiting time.
Back when I actually bothered to investigate the matter (more than ten years ago), there were no universities that were taxpayer funded in the way that everyone expects when you say that (no to low tuition). Has that changed?
Ask NOAA for their temperature records going back a century and see if it's normal and cyclical instead of their cherry picked data from 1979 onwards.
In other words, "You're holding it wrong."
My understanding is that academic authorship credit is political: authors don’t always contribute, and contributors don’t always get credit. Is this not the case?
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Ask HN: Applied ml vs. Sde in an ML platform team for career growth
People who have been in the industry for a while, what would you recommend a junior starting out his career to do. I have an applied scientist and an sde in an ML team offer from Amazon.

The SDE role would involve around building the infra / services to scale the ML models and deal with things like metrics, logging, alarms, etc.

The applied scientist role would be an ML role in which I get to train models and write inference code in production. This would involve reading a lot of papers.

I do not have a PhD but have a strong master's background and do think that I'll be able to do both jobs well.

I have been told that distributed systems is mostly a solved problem and ai would offer rapid growth but would like to hear the opinion of people who have had few years in the industry.

My long term goal is to move into leadership roles like VP, CTO of small companies where I can create impact and define product vision. Can choosing ML over systems affect that?
That wouldn't help anything. At the end of the day even if you mixed them in, the same number of people would visit hospitals.

So hospital utilization would not change.

Remember I'm talking about the payment for any particular procedure, not the number of procedures an average person has.
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Despite the sensationalized title, this isn't a rehash of the tired old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis but rather a neurolinguistic perspective on language acquisition and bilingualism.
English is a huge advantage. I don't see the rest of the world clamouring to learn Mandarin any time soon. It's a benefit, sure, but not a necessity.
In the long term you're literally not supposed to consider sunk costs when evaluating a project, it's like finance 101.
"Some reason."

Could be, and now I'm just spitballing here, but it could be the use of government backed currencies, the heavy degree of government oversight and regulation, and the federally insured deposits.
I'm curious as to why Prometheus are pursuing air-based carbon sequestration rather than seawater, which apears far more efficient based on USNRL research.

The concept itself of fuel synthesis is exciting and well-established, if publicly obscure, dating to the early 1960s, and being based on even older industrial-scale WWII technology.

http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA539765

Robin Paul Bushore, "Synthetic Fuel Generation Capabilities of Nuclear Power Plants with Applications to Naval Ship Technology", 1977

https://calhoun.nps.edu/public/bitstream/handle/10945/18307/...

John Michael Galle-Bishop, "Nuclear Tanker Producing Liquid Fuels From Air and Water", 2011

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/76359/82393200...

Steinberg, M., and Beller, M., "Liquid Fuel Synthesis Using Nuclear Power in a Mobile Energy Depot System," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 8, pg 159, June 1965.

Additional references:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...

Discussion of Heather Willauer, et al, US Navy Research Lab studies:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/22k71x/us_navy...

And a number of further past mentions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=fischer-tropsc...
As far as I know Stuxnet didn't break any US/Isreal laws. Of course it broke Iranian laws, though.

I think Obama said "no comment" to reporters, but then basically admits it by talking about how he regrets that this information got out into the public.
And what's the root cause of this absurd arrangement that doesn't exist in unregulated markets?
Given communication is point-to-point, and very coherent, I'd think this is extremely easy to solve if glare in the system was a real issue. Aim the receiver through a tube (or array of tubes) painted black, for instance. Certainly easier than building an equally precise telescope.
> Not to mention my university was taxpayer funded.

As a counterpoint, those Chinese students not only pay about 50% more tuition than you, but they also have created a great intra-uni economy by hiring other people to take their entry tests, do their homework, and take their exams.
Net zero carbon emissions.
Oh great! I enjoyed your talk and look forward to trying it out. I just briefly browsed the repo and didn't see much in terms of documentation. Where do you recommend I should start?
As a Vim user one of my gripes when first using Vim was how cumbersome the built in help files were. I guess that's why there are so many "vim cheatsheets" out there, the built in documentation is a pain to use.
Thanks @ddcc7. Yes, I am the author.
Fixed the spelling mistake.
"I just can't see anyone we know living better, being safer or happier in the West, now or in their immediate future"

This is basically wrong, by almost every material measure.

So the question then becomes, why do so many feel this way?

I didn't realize that tons of people felt that way about life until I started reading forums etc.

It's hard to explain but it's possible that people don't have a basis of comparison - they weren't alive 50 years ago, or those what were, know we are materially better off. Even the 'complainers' know that 'heart bypass' 25 years ago was a major, dangerous operation, but now a lot of it is trivial.

If you are living in Europe, consider that 2 generations ago 1/2 of it was flattened by bombs. That 6 million were executed. 10's of millions dead. If you were male, aged 18-30, probably a 20% chance you'd die in war. A greater chance you'd lose maybe everything.

So just from that ... 'things are unequivocally better'.

At the start of the last century there was no health care insurance (save maybe German government officials). Most medical operations were amputations, and we didn't have antibiotics so you would probably die of that, or any other thing.

My father did not have plumbing or electricity when he was born! Only as a child did they get that, and they were the first in town to get it, i.e. not poor.

Very few people had cars back in the day, and they were dangerous and crap. Now everyone has them.

Flying was for rich people, now working class people can fly.

The number of hours we work is down. Working conditions are considerably safer. Men and women have career choices never heard of. Homes are way bigger. Everyone has air conditioning (which nobody had until a generation ago, and then it was a luxury).

My god man, just the produce available to us - amazing fruits and vegetables all year around! That's a new things.

Any kind of music, entertainment, at your fingertips!

Any number of electronic wizardly and time-saving things.

You can contact anyone in the world with a thing that sits in your pocket! This would have 'blown my mind' (and everyone else's) just 25 years ago, when I was a kid.

Major wars have stopped, the cold war is over, even with the 2007 downturn we have very good economic stability. In previous recessions a lot of people starved!

If you're gay, you can be that now. Even get married.

I could go on and on.

So there are many things that we need to look out for, and I feel we lack a lot of social cohesion and community - but materially, most things are good - and will be.

FYI - 'deflation' is not just prices going down, it can cause economic 'death spirals' - it's just just a number. And population evaporation has some other, culturally existential spooky things such as extinction of culture, which is scary. Though I don't think that will happen.

Also - going from 3x workers for every 1 retired, to 1 worker for every 3 retired is a hugely existential economic thing. It will be a problem to address.
This is complete, unmitigated bullshit, and anyone with a pulse, the ability to do a couple searches, and an 8th grade reasoning ability not completed blinded by "global warming is a librul conspiracy!!!" could figure this out. Just stop.
> Not to mention my university was taxpayer funded.

Assuming it was a US university, the Chinese students were paying a special extra-high tuition for international students.
Would you be kind enough to point to resources where one could learn more about this?
Participating in a religion, criticizing the communist party, speaking out about forbidden topics and more. Mostly though the system will take you down for not paying enough bribes or pissing off the wrong officials.
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It means that AI is going to be sequestered to buildings with big unfriendly signs at the door "No Foreign Persons Beyond This Point" and data will have to be managed in ways similar to medical, financial, legal, or payment data.

Long ago I worked in defense and had some export controlled hardware (unlocked/no restriction high performance GPS and satellite technology)

What it meant was that to work on our stuff you had to be a "US Person" and "export" could be a conversation with the wrong person. In practice it meant the work couldn't be shared with students from a short list of countries. The punishment for infractions could be as little as recording and notification and as severe as significant prison terms. "Export" happens quite a lot and usually consists of innocuous mistakes.
Energy storage has value.
is this for gaming ? the Dell XPS 13 is pretty decent when it comes to gaming. I have a 4 year old XPS and it plays a lot of games at lower XPS - im assuming the newer ones are even better.

The Ryzens are obviously in another league altogether here, but unless we get a Ryzen XPS, the Intel XPS are not bad.
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Name three systems that have had successful revolutions of that type.

I certainly can't think of one.
Of the big 5 personality traits in psychology, the three most highly correlated with success are: high disagreeableness, high conscientiousness, low neuroticism.

So there's an interesting give and take here.
Hi, this is Rob, Founder of Prometheus. There is more info on the podcast that accompanied the print piece here: https://megaphone.link/BLM3585271197

I'm also working on a HN launch summary that will fill in more details.
"A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text."

What are AES private keys? Does this mean there's AES public keys? When did AES become a public key crypto system?
As I understand it, employer provision of health insurance originated as a way to sneak around legal maximum wages (during WWII?).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782673
> The quality of software available on the nintendo store has nothing to do with how locked down the hardware is!

You say this and there was certainly a time when I would have agreed with you. Sadly, the reality doesn't match that belief so I no longer think that is the case.
I'm glad you were able to get healthcare, but the parent comment you're responding to and your own comment are both talking about the entire US. What you wrote is simply false. There are 14 states that still haven't expanded Medicaid and millions of poor people are without health insurance. California isn't the US and pretending like it is misleading and helps no one.

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/state-acti...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981167
I think the most cost effective non dream pipe one we have is that one lady is doing, genetically altering plants to suck in more carbon.

This and the combination of planting more trees seems much more feasible, assuming you use fertilizer that doesn't harm the environment even more.
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This is quite a tangent... But how are you sure about this? I have known many high performing kids that felt severely under-challenged in secondary school, or were even picked on for showing genuine interest in their material. Some of them made it through and turned out fine in the end, but some of them didn't. Some ended up dropping out early, or severely under-performing their potential and throwing away a shot at becoming "grad school capable". (Whether on purpose, due to self sabotage or boredom, peer pressure, or bad habits). The teachers did their best but had to focus on the even more at-risk students.

Not all high-performing students will do well regardless of their environment. Some will crash and burn without support, and that doesn't only mean "accelerating them farther faster". It can be enough to group them together with other kids that are similarly enthusiastic and curious, so that they don't shoot each other down.
I am not a handy man at the least. Pretty much anything beyond hammering a nail into a wall is beyond my skills. I've just repaired my Motorola phone using a kit from iFixIt and an online video, and it took me 15 mins. Yes, the phone still works. That's why I am never buying an iPhone (one of many reasons, to be sure).
Java, the most enterprise-y of the enterprise platforms. Practically no Java build system produces deterministic results. Gradle supposedly can, Maven does not, but I've read that the Java compiler itself can't be entirely trusted to produce exact builds soo...
Measuring Kotlin Build Performance at Uber
AFAIK there’s rule in Germany that a lawyer can chose to be paid 10% out of the difference they saved for the client. I wonder this rule would help with those shenanigans.
Why don’t you take the money from the dividends and spend it on Netflix shares? If Tim Cook went and spent all that cash on some company you don’t like, wouldn’t you be mad? If there’s one company Apple shareholders can agree is a good idea to buy... it’s Apple.
Podcat: Kotlin at Uber
He probably does mean the cereal, since it had the whistle that gave Captain Crunch (AKA John Draper) his name.
Same kind of artistes think light gray text on a white background is easier to read. Make things unusable for "artistic" reasons.
What you have described sounds logical, but it's not randomizing. It's giving out shifts by specific and well-defined criteria (maybe unethical or undesired by the worker, but hardly random).
Off topic: why would replacing carpeting with wood and tile floors make a difference?
The grid is a thing...
Growing up in Idaho I kept waiting for self-sabotaging policies to get so overwhelmingly bad for things to change.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
#1 really smacked me in the face recently. A friend of mine invited me to join her lifestyle group on FB. I couldn't do it because I just don't need my 70 year old mother or teenage daughter assuming things about my sex life based on FB groups I'm a member of.
This was the thing that crushed my dreams of learning French. I spent almost a year studying French. I learnt loads of vocabulary, studied advanced grammar and watched films and TV. My reading was good enough that I could read academic papers with ease and I even read some French novels. Then I went to France. I couldn't even get them to understand the word "tarte" in a boulangerie. My mouth just can't make the right sounds. I gave up there and then.

I'm still glad I learnt French, though. It taught me a lot about English and language in general.
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Sure, we can compare life in the EU now with the 1800s too. Or 1492 if you prefer. And Japan today with Japan in 1945.

That's not the discussion. Let's talk about living standards 15 years ago and now. Many EU countries are just reaching parity ( finally 11 years later ! ) with 2008 levels. Life was measurably better here in 2008, and since then until now. The grim dark future of Japan has been predicted again and again for decades now.

Edit : 'measurably' meaning pick any metric you like. Unemployment, health, life expectancy, technology, education, safety / crime, cost of living, real estate... This list can also go on and on.

And this is not to say Japan does not have problems. It's not Paradise at all.
OpenFaas?
https://www.openfaas.com/
This is why you don’t do feature detection with the user agent header, but someone needs to tell that to the 800 lb gorilla. In this case though I’m not going to be too harsh because Mozilla wasn’t exactly tripping over themselves to implement U2F support - I think it took them 2-3 years, and I still can’t use a key with any of my IOS browsers (which I think are all just window dressing for apple’s html widget, so blame that on Apple).

Web site support that uses the feature on any browser has been slow also. Robinhood is the only financial app that I’ve found that even supports TOTP. My E-trade account still requires a hardware token with a little lcd screen on it - paging Captain Marvel.
Medicine and testing isn't available on an actual physical shelf and the prices aren't advertised.

Send out a flier in the Sunday newspaper and the margins on medicine will reduce to as close to zero as possible just like food.
If you ban these jobs, would people that subsist on job+subsidy consume more public subsidies or less? Note that you assumed these people are very poor and have no alternative jobs. Now you have taken away their only (albeit low) income they had. Would it lead to consuming more of public subsidies or less? Would absence of taxes paid by corporations make providing these subsidies easier or harder?