skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative is to just not provide functions like charAt() that accept a codepoint index and are expected to be O(1). Instead, as Rust, Swift, and Go all do to some extent, you provide functions that accept UTF-8 byte indexes, and complain if they get an index that doesn’t correspond to the beginning of a codepoint (which can be verified in O(1) thanks to UTF-8’s self-synchronizing property). Then you can add higher-level APIs on top that provide non-random-access iterators over things like codepoints and grapheme clusters. After all, if you really want to treat a string as a list of characters, the most sensible default notion of “character” is probably a grapheme cluster rather than a codepoint - but there‘s no encoding that gives you O(1) random access to those anyway.

Under such a design, storing the string data as anything other than UTF-8 is unnecessary. In fact, it’s impossible: if you store string data as Latin-1, you can’t index into it with a UTF-8 byte index.

That does mean you can’t take advantage of the space savings of Latin-1 over UTF-8, but those are extremely minimal, since both encodings are 1 byte for all ASCII characters.
The rational, informed decision is that the government should run its own medical R&D. But no, we can't do that because muh freedums.
For the Bay Area, probably the best bets are Los Gatos if you work on the peninsula and Mill Valley if you work in the city ( San Francisco ). Requires a roughly one hour commute though, depending on time of day and the parking situation.
A public blockchain is straightforward to audit. It is the documentation internal to an exchange which can be opaque.

If trading is done off-chain, or transactions are made between currencies, those are not a part of the blockchain. For bitcoin-only transactions between wallets, no exchange is required.
If you're an employer in California and want to choose a provider that will not have to deal with this you might want to consider offering Kaiser to your employees. There's benefits and drawbacks, but one of the big benefits is that they're vertically integrated and the doctors, labs, pharmacies are all part of the same organization. I would think that would help avoid this specific type of situation.

The big drawback is that your employees would need to live near Kaiser facilities. In the Bay Area they are everywhere though and easy to get to. Making use of any doctor or service outside of the Kaiser network is probably not covered.
Not only that, but chopping off the bottom 5% typically makes room for more hiring; these emptied jobs are likely to be filled with less-than-stellar candidates. It take the new hires a few years before they too are dropped down into that lower 5% rank.

Stack ranking ensures that you have churn in your workforce, and not in a good way. You wonder why workers in the tech industry move around so much? Look at stack ranking as a significant contributing factor.
Problem with setting secure defaults, is that most of the worlds PHP would stop working properly.
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I got blisters and skinned knuckles just reading that. Need a tetnus booster now too.
Just to point out (again) that you don't need fancy equipment to do this. Connecting electrodes to the brain is unnecessary. Some simple external sensors† and hypnosis and you're good to go.

The basic idea is to set up simple binary signals between your unconscious mind and your sensors. This is trivial.

Then you can take e.g. eight data plus one clock and gang them together to make a simple parallel port between your brain and the computer. Easy. (The obvious thing to do is use eight fingers plus a thumb.)

The brain is already a hugely sophisticated information processing device. The problem is not to get the raw signal out of it and then decipher it. That's just pushing sideways on the train. Just use simple hardware and let the brain do the pre-processing to get legible signals (with the subjective perception of direct mind-to-screen typing, say.)

†Galvanic skin response, or these days use little IMUs in gloves to detect twitches. The signals you're generating are not subtle. Another thing, the brain already has a high-bandwidth output device: the face. These days it should be trivial to train a NN to read expressions and "micro-tics" from e.g. some HD cameras trained on your face, and co-evolve a protocol between mind and machine.

- - - -

Edit to add, you guys have seen "Forbidden Planet" right? Take heed of the fate of the Krell, design your tools well, raise no "Monsters from the Id"...
That's a consistent and reasoned argument, and also the one advanced at the turn of the century to deprecate <marquee>.

I'd have agreed with you, had the standard kept this approach. But it's obviously not the direction the committees are going for, not anymore. It seems we're going to add more and more presentational elements. I can't think of single argument for including <toast> that doesn't apply at least as well for <marquee> (and the same criticism should have applied to <toast> too).

So maybe we can just stop the charade and agree to not deprecate presentational HTML. Obviously we don't mean it anymore.
If you live more towards Grass Valley it is gorgeous, but wow the greater Sacramento area is pretty devoid of nature. I would argue Chico is way more beautiful, if you are working from home already.
I didn't know yosys did formal verification now: http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/10/19/formal-intro.html

Cool.
"But as this article demonstrates, if we care to use the inflammatory "death panels" label, we already have them."

It's not inflammatory when it's true. When the government runs our healthcare, choices are removed and someone else gets to decide if you should get surgery needed or not...and many times this is life or death.

At least now, if a cancer patient gets denied drugs, they can go to another doctor or get a second opinion.

All of my elderly relatives live in Canada and come over the border for any major surgery. This is mostly because the wait times are sometimes in the years..when they can just get private care in the US and get it done in a matter of weeks.

Doctors are also usually maxed out when it comes to patients, so individual care is lacking and they usually just want to try to push you out the door.

I also feel like I should have a say in someone's behavior, if I'm paying for their healthcare with my tax dollars: smoking, drinking, risky behavior, etc.

I've lived in countries with universal healthcare and the quality is sub-par compared to the US/private care. Sure private care can be improved, but it shouldn't be ripped out and replaced.
RIP Mark fisher.

It's a tragedy that self help book peddling people like Jordan Peterson pass as public intellectuals while while Mark Fishers Zeitgeist capturing work circulates between a tiny subset of lefty politicos and Avant Garde music fans.
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>Taken together those are likely to capture socio-economic status in all but a few edge cases.

Socio-economic status is notoriously difficult to control for.

https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/81-82/1/21/282643
Seriously. People who aren't aware of the current death panel situation and claim that the aca or future single payer healthcare will bring them are incredibly naive, uninformed, and stupid. They sure as hell haven't lost a relative to our current death panels. But of course, what do they care? Until it's happening to them, they will continue to believe whatever idiotic political bullshit their party or tribe subscribes to and eschew any logic or reason whatsoever. These people comprise most of our electorate, sadly.
The Brex interview handed out real customer bank balance and transaction history and suggested that that data was all they they used to build their underwriting model.
You might submit this as an "Ask HN". Though subreddits such as /r/homesteading or /r/permaculture might be more appropriate.
No, you need to do a ML-powered "This Anecdote Doesn't Exist" instead. Could provide a lot of amusement for HN.
> much of the work is not even visible to “customers”, so there is no way to write customer visible stories about it

If your work doesn't have a customer, why are you even doing it?

The customer doesn't have to be the business's end user. The can be another team or even your own team. Someone must benefit from the work or else the work should not be done.
It's "theirs" in that they're the ones with absolute discretion over its disposition. It's a turn of phrase, and not meant to be taken strictly literally.
I’ve observed the same thing. I’ve also observed that the dogma in the startup world is exactly opposite. Everything is about version 1 and there is nothing left in the tank for version 2.

The whole MVP thing is more about selling demoware to investors. It just sounds like it’s being supportive and it gets them what they want. They don’t give one shit about what happens 18 months from now. That’s somebody else’s problem. There’s always someone with a higher pain tolerance they can hire (note: pain tolerance is negatively correlated with capacity to anticipate problems before they become emergencies). And there’s always advertising or mergers to mask the real problems.
>Machine learning algorithms eventually determined how to spot when participants were answering a question and which one of the 24 answers they were choosing

Seems like it might be a bit of an overstatement to say that Facebook is close to anything of the sort. Assuming that neural typing is as simple as running some real-time classification algorithm on brain states, to predict words correctly you'd have to be able to predict about tens of thousands of different possibilities. Not to mention the more difficult problem of individual idiosyncrasies in neural architecture and language embeddings for any given brain. Building a word classifier for a single brain is one thing, but I doubt if any two brains process language in the exact same way, so building some general-purpose classification model that works on all brains still seems intractable with current ML techniques. It's a nice start, but I think we're a long way from fully automatic neural typing.
Can we agree to flag all those sick health insurance stories with a [US] prefix in the title ?
FYI:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenet

vs

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenant
It is misleading (actually a total lie...), here's the list:

https://sfoconnect.com/sites/default/files/SFO%20Approved%20...

As you see, it is not about flavored water or brands, it's just about plastic-free container. https://sfoconnect.com/zero-waste-concessions
They're not overriding policies set forth in the formulary during appeals process. Obviously, this problem space is hard to define so there is room for error and difference in judgement by people approving and denying, so an appeals serves the same purpose as it does in the court system, to get a second or third look on a decision to see if it was correct or not.
"Ugh" is not a substantial rejoinder. It's an apt analogy in my opinion. People keep waiting for AI to break out, and the argument here is it's not alone a product, it's a requisite tool for building them. AI, of course, is dependent on copious quality data, such that it fuels AI.

With what would you disagree?
You mean like the National Institutes of Health?
I don't really understand how it can use UCS-2. I don't think UCS-2 can represent emoji.
My grandmother was denied drugs by government-run healthcare and died in severe pain.
Yes. A film fan shot the president.
Oil is the processed product. Data is more like coal, generally useless to ML unless processed.
> Then on top of that they don't get all the types and amounts of medicine their doctor actually wants, based on science and experience

It can also be the insurer saying "Nononono!" to treatments that are unnecessarily expensive.

Treatments are often chosen because of marketing, and not because of clinical guidelines. E.g. Blindly trusting a sales rep's "education", or choosing something new out of sheer boredom.

It gets dicey when the new treatment is a bit better, but a lot more expensive.
>I've lived in countries with universal healthcare and >the quality is sub-par compared to the US/private care.

My experience has been the exact opposite. America's healthcare business ruined my life. As a result I have no insurance and have lost the "privilege" to BUY said American healthcare. I struggle with low income options and programs, all insufficient. The only good care I ever got was in Europe. My experiences with social hospitals and doctors was much better than in the USA where it counts. Places weren't often as fancy looking, but the care was superb. Even the private systems in those countries was far more affordable. a few hundred for an MRI etc rather than a few thousand.

Healthcare and education in America can bankrupt you. That isn't something people in countries with social options have to fear...despite any drawbacks since no place is perfect. I don't know if Americans who are so opposed to doing things like the rest of the first world just need to believe it's always better here so they ignore the benefits...or if they just haven't had to face this issue personally and are incapable of caring until they do. But I do know I had a future and now I do not...and there is no net to catch me or care. Whenever I see comments like yours I just get so upset realizing how it's an unwinnable battle in this country because of these ingrained beliefs.
It could also be a pricing problem - Charge a profitable amount for support and you won't need to worry about refusual to RTFM.
A huge loss. Walmart can’t afford to pay even 5% of their revenue.
The payer cannot state that, but they do have limited funds so they're not able to say "approve every prescription". Payers are not forced to use PBMs, they choose to to achieve their goals, such as staying within their budget.

My whole point is that blaming PBMs is a waste of time. With or without PBMs, someone working at or for the payers (employers, insurers, governments) will be approving and denying claims, just like they have to for home and auto and any other insurance claim.

The correct person to blame is us, the voters, for not voting for taxpayer funded healthcare for everyone. But even then, there will probably be some type of setup to ensure healthcare providers are not abusing and defrauding the system, hence someone to approve and deny payment from the government.
Scrum, not SCRUM. It's not an acronym.
It's almost 20 years old. That said, many of the languages considered hip are older (Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc)
I haven't been working with .NET for very long, but my experience is that mixing .NET Core and .NET Framework leads frequently to very confusing, inscrutable error messages about incompatibility between the two. Though if it builds it works fine.
That's the trick of these ML approaches though is that we trade the cost/time of building semantic understanding for something that appears to work, but will produce things that make no real semantic sense/understanding.
I have been getting WhatsApp forwards from my loved ones that are blatantly false. I have begged/urged them to stop sending them to the point of rupture in the relationship. But, they continue to do it instantaneously when they see the news without thinking. So, instead of blocking them altogether, I wrote this Chrome extension to hide/silence their forwards. Your feedback, please?
CPU overhead is nowadays much less important than cache misses. UTF-8 has the least cache misses, Linux/BSD UTF-32 widechars the most, and Windows UCS-2 in between. UTF-32 wchar_t was a gigantic design failure and should have been deprecated a long time ago. There's still no POSIX u8 api in sight.

The branch misses are not that high or costly, as most characters don't need the subsequent branches for 2-4 bytes, but cache misses cost ~50x more than a branch miss. And there are enough parallel pipelines now to avoid most utf-8 branch misses.

The new massive parallel SIMD ways to process UTF-8 are so fast because the width is so high, 256 bytes per loop, which is enough for most strings. But avoiding branching has some constant overhead to prepare the loops, for small strings it rarely pays off.
Very good now check the etymology of bond https://www.etymonline.com/word/bond
"c. 1300, "in a state of a serf, unfree," from bond (n.) "tenant, farmer holding land under a lord in return for customary service; a married bond as head of a household""

In ancient Mesopotamia, the words describing a husband meant “owner of a wife.” From “Israel’s house : Reflections on the use of “Byt Ysr’l” in the Old Testament in the light of its ancient Near Eastern environment” (PDF) by Daniel I. Block (page 268):

"In the patriarchal Mesopotamian society the father was considered to be the lord of the house.65
65 Cf. “The Code of Hammurabi,” ANET, 171, #129, and 173, #161, where he is called be-el as-sa-tim,“owner of a wife.” […]"

The man was usually indeed lord of the house, the manager among the 'slaves in a household', aka 'family'

family (n.)
early 15c., "servants of a household," from Latin familia "family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household," thus also "members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants," abstract noun formed from famulus "servant, slave,"
They fail to be fully operational after 30 days without connection to Lockheed servers, which is a problem even for USA because the connection is bandwidth intensive.
I’m not sure we want Facebook to have access to large amounts of verified consumer purchasing information.
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I have a really rare cancer, and it didn't get detected until I hit stage IV and it started shattering my bones. Thankfully I lived 2 miles from a cancer research hospital that actually has a specialist in this type of organ cancer.

My current treatment regime is based on a research paper. My insurance initially denied me treatment based on "an expert in the field" and stupidly listed the doctors name. I looked her up and she was a podiatrist...

For the most part, my treatment is dialed in and mostly working. But I had a solid three months of fighting with the insurance company to get all of the medications, and I do the monthly phone calls to three different specialty pharmacies to get all of the various things that keep me able to walk.

Its a crazy hard problem because one of my medications is a "failed" cancer drug. Tens of millions of dollars worth of R&D, several clinical trials, and it turns out it doesn't work on most common cancers. (And even on cancers it does work on, its usually used as a Hail Mary play, at EOL because it might give someone a few more weeks, maybe). It costs roughly 40k a month, and I might be stuck on it for the rest of my days.
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The federal government does not operate "the DMV". Each state does.
Your anecdotes aside, the vast majority of Canadians approve of their healthcare system, something you can’t say about the US.
It would be better if your friend insisted you bring beer instead of launching into a sermon or his MLM pitch, sure.

But we’re talking about moral fiber. For some people “they hit me first” is not ethically sound. There’s some ambiguity here about who hit first, but rather than a fair exchange we are getting what is rapidly approaching brinksmanship. Nobody is really in the right here.

But we also can’t seem to just go back to a paid model for high production values. We are satisfied with amateur work and underpaid professionals slowly burning a nest egg and hoping something changes. The advertisers are the only ones with a hand out, so they get to set the agenda.

I had hopes Brave was going to alter this trajectory but there seems to be some regulatory capture there. i kind of wonder if they hired some ad people and charisma won over the origin story.
Biologists reverse engineer microtubules that make up cell walls and spindles
I can't answer for why they would violate the policies they are supposed to be enforcing, but I do no know PBMs get audited by governments and penalized for improperly approving medications for Medicaid recipients.
As others have said, European football. When I was a teenager you'd get stopped on the street by "hardcore fans" and asked which side are you on - answer incorrectly or not at all and you're getting a mild couple punches, or if they had a few drinks then a good kicking on the ground. When there was a major football match in town then the streets would become deserted - the opposing side's fans were 100% guaranteed to pour out of the stadium and look for a fight with anyone. It would get incredibly brutal and people sometimes died. There's a reason why buses of football fans of some clubs are heavily escorted by the police whenever there is a match.
> There’s no safety net there, unlike in the US where, in many cases the husband could take time off or work from home to help out when the wife needs

A lot of people in the US (both men and women) do not have the flexibility to take time off from work whenever needed. Also in terms of “safety net” - Japan offers affordable (and soon to be free) daycare for households where both parents work full time.

The long work hours Japan is famous are a strain on families to be sure. But with the government actively working to change the culture and also the sheer necessity due to a large percentage of households where both parents work, I think things are changing quickly.

As others have noted, the US is experiencing similar declines in marriage and birth rates. And unlike in Japan where the government is actively working to address the issue, the US government does not seem capable of making necessary reforms to social welfare/child care systems right now and is even actively making things worse by discouraging immigration.
Sure. I guess what I'm trying to say is: when do you care about code point boundaries at all? In my experience, it's actually fairly rare. If you're drawing text, you care about the result after shaping. If you're moving the cursor, you care about grapheme cluster boundaries. If you're doing stuff like sorting and collation, you should use specialized Unicode libraries that get this stuff right. When is the last time you wrote code that really needed to iterate Unicode code points specifically?
That is awful and I'm so sorry to hear. :( It also doesn't invalidate my point, although it highlights that I should have said the government should run its own competent R&D
To add to your anecdote: I have a bill laying around where the asking price for the mri was $21000.
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The NS Savannah (US), Otto Hahn (German), and Mutsu (Japanese) are the only three nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built, though the Soviets/Russians have and do run a nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet, some with cargo capacity.

The three named ships all proved nonviable. Savannah, a liner-cargo combination suited neither role well, the Otto Hahn was simply uneconomical though was later converted to diesel, and the Mutsu had significant technical issues as well as political resistance. Whether or not low fossil fuel costs of the period (1962 - 1990, roughly) had a major impact isn't clear. Nuclear power requires very highly trained crew, however.

Another factor working against larger-scale marine propulsion deployment is the number of shipwrecks. Roughly 200 major vessels are lost every decade or so, which if a significant fraction were nuclear powered would be a large number of reactor cores littering highly trafficked sea lanes, many of which are shared with fishing and other uses. All told, there've been on the order of 400 or so marine propulsion nuclear powerplants deployed in total (most on submarines), whereas the commercial shipping fleet is on the order of 60-80k vessels.
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ejcx's blog, as sourced by Krebs:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/what-we-can-learn-from-t...