skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm. What is profit? If a company pays its CEO 10 million dollars, it is not stated profit, but that's a cost we could live without. If a CEO can write off a few million, a few 10s of millions in corporate gala spending, it is not stated profit, but that's a cost we could live without. I am sure if we dig deeper into cost per patient between Medicare and between lets pick a company, you will realize that you can do without maybe 20% of this 3.5 trillion easily. And that is before we start looking at many other factors such as abuses in the system (looking from the other side and looking at freeloaders to say it very bluntly and quickly).

While I look at the CEO's multi-million salary, I also wonder how much tax they pay. Did the 10 million salary lead to 3-3.5 million in taxes or ... we probably can guess the answer. It is a double / triple whammy.

Message: Look at the total loot, not the stated profit.
What incentive is there for someone so highly paid to step down? Would he even still get his golden parachute?
Does Revery use a native toolkit (winforms, gtk, etc) or is it also a webview like electron?

I've seen a couple of gui toolkits in rust following the Elm architecture and I think it's an amazing idea. It would be great if I was able to create apps like this using something like Qt behind the scenes.
It's not hard to get KeepassXC to generate a medium-length alphanumeric password, which is IMO easier to tap-type than a passphrase, and it also has a passphrase generator.
From the about page: Towards the end of 2017, I found myself wanting to play a quick game of something while I was working. That something turned out to be blackjack. I tried a few web-based games and downloaded a bunch to my phone. All of them either felt kinda scammy, were hard to look at, or just played way too slow. I like making things, so I made Blackjack Break. I hope it's a fun diversion for you like it is for me.
I think it's easy to misread what I wrote as saying that the current system is OK, or there aren't giant, urgent problems that need to be addressed. There are huge problems. The concern I have is that payer-side reforms are a sideshow.
Doesn't change that the NSFW content was the glue for the community. Without a community, you don't even have a chance at monetiztion.
Apologists for Facebook's operational decisions, and Facebook's operational professionals themselves, are represented by the foreman.
The new first quartile will be smaller than the old first quartile. Zeno would be pleased because if we take this to its limit, we'll eliminate the first quartile entirely!
Impressive spin but not enough to overcome the documentary evidence of deception. Lots of people go to prison for violence and I am heartily in favor of people like pharmaceutical executives joining them.
Floats are still useful when you want to express structured document flow layouts with illustrations for nearby body text, side-nav link boxes, aligned or otherwise flow-parametered effects such as initials, syndicated/contributed content, or when you just want to float text around images.
Just because the control is decentralized, doesn't mean that it won't be any less insidious. Please look at Mastodon, for an example.
I'm curious how an issue he experienced in the simulator relates to the problems that occur with MCAS. The known problems with MCAS occur when the active angle of attack sensor fails. Perhaps the simulation was simulating AoA sensor failure?
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I don’t see where you accounted for moderator activity?
Yes, the title should specify 2018
> It's an uncomfortable subject because the vast majority of front-line medical professionals like doctors, specialists, surgeons, nurses etc. are doing that job with passion and honesty to help people.

don't take this personally, but: this is an oft repeated meme that, in my experience, not really true, at least for MDs and nurses (to include doctors, specialists and surgeons). it certainly contributes to the sort of hero status of health care workers though.

physicians in the US earn a ton for a high-prestige, high social power, high earnings, generally safe career. in return they must sacrifice these earnings and social status for most of their 20s due to ridiculous quotas and standards in medical school, propped up by AMA; this makes the system higher prestige and sought after, a nice vicious (or virtuous for them) cycle.

the AMA also has them on the hook in a debt-slavery sort of way, because normal wages would never repay their ridiculous medical debt (see e.g. mid/low tier lawyers and law school outcomes when that got popular)

nursing, likewise, is seen as a j o b that offers some safety/consistency in return for investing time into education.

that these individuals """help people""" is generally of tertiary or lesser concern; much more "help" could be done by opening an affordable grocery store in a food desert. all but the most naive students either readily admit this or cop to it once asked.
From your link:

The process described above proved to be somewhat unreliable as the depth of the ridges created by the toner was a little too shallow. Therefore an alternative process based on the same principle was utilized and has been demonstrated in an extended video available here. First, the residual fingerprint from the phone is either photographed or scanned with a flatbed scanner at 2400 dpi. Then the image is converted to black & white, inverted and mirrored. This image is then printed onto transparent sheet at 1200 dpi. To create the mold, the mask is then used to expose the fingerprint structure on photo-senistive PCB material. The PCB material is then developed, etched and cleaned. After this process, the mold is ready. A thin coat of graphite spray is applied to ensure an improved capacitive response. This also makes it easier to remove the fake fingerprint. Finally a thin film of white wood glue is smeared into the mold. After the glue cures the new fake fingerprint is ready for use."

I'm not sure I would classify a process like that as being similar to putting a screen protector on.
Awesome, man! Let's start

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>I would argue that helping many people allocate their time towards activities they actually value is just as important as saving individual lives.

I think you'd pretty easily get trounced making that argument. People would much rather be alive to do something less efficiently than to... not be alive at all. This argument is a bit insane to me.
If those stakeholders are sponsoring the cash grab mentality that has the health industry so messed up right now, then screw em.

Sell off every private company involved and legally mandate that they can only sell to non-profit entities, and let every shareholder that's gouging everyone else scream or cry or whine however they want. The more noise they make, the more harm you know they were causing.

Sick and tired of greed making all these layers of corporate corruption, market lockup, government process tailoring, and outright deception the status quo.
It does seem that way. Which, I get it. That’s an easy target. I just think that kind of thing undermines the legitimate point this guy is making.
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Well i guess he can always try out for a clown role somewhere. As for the other part, I very much hope you are right and what she wrote isn't to be taken as strictly. It also very much depends on the situation.
I don't think differential GPS does anything here. It corrects for large-scale ionospheric delay error, which is going to be exactly the same for every drone at this scale. And they have WAAS receivers anyway, which provides better accuracy than differential GPS. (Maybe you mean RTK, which could help achieve centimeter accuracy.)
Replying to myself just to add -- I'm not saying that large companies aren't significant offenders. They employ a lot of people and certainly have the means to implement compliance mechanisms, so they should do better.

I'm simply pointing out that smaller businesses get away with much more (many operating without any compliance mechanisms whatsoever), and are able to continue to do so with almost zero scrutiny.
>> With my skillset (software engineer) I can easily pull low six figures. And I'm confident that doctors provide more value than I do. I'm pretty sure I've never saved anyone's life. So I have zero problem paying doctors 2 or 3 times my pay, which is about what you're saying they get paid.

There are many problems comparing software pay to healthcare pay.

- A large portion of software jobs are in the Bay Area, you are not being paid for your software job, you are being paid a giant CoL premium that gets taken away by landowners.

Doctors on the other hand have jobs available all across the country and need not live in super-expensive areas. Further, their pay usually goes UP as they go to less expensive areas .

- Medical salaries/jobs are not cyclical and do not suddenly disappear in droves as tech jobs did in 2001-2003 (countrywide) / 2008-2009 (NY+).

With tech jobs, your low six figure pay is also paying you a hazard premium which i'm hoping youre saving for the next down cycle.

- Many software engineers will tell you about age discrimination -- supposedly it gets harder and harder to find a job as you age. It is an unlicensed field, so there is theoretically unlimited supply. Further, there isnt a cartel-like mechanism (i.e., AMA and residency programs) to constrict supply. Thus, you are like a less extreme football player -- you make low six figures and then you pleateau or go down over time.

Doctors make more with experience and there is no age discrimination that is spoken of.

Depending on how many workers get imported on any given year, there are 300-500% more tech workers imported (e.g., with H1b) than all medical school graduates per year: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/interac...

There are near zero imported medical specialists in the US. There are imported primary care workers, but those arent where the big billings are coming from. There is literally no downward pressure on medical salaries like there is in the US for tech.
There is no war on porn and I don't think the imgur is trying to solve anything except for their liability and responsibility to sensitive material that needs to be curated and sectioned off from some users.
Quite possibly another Tumblr moment for Imgur. We'll see.
It's irrelevant. You need the CUDA SDK and the CuDNN SDK both of which have license agreements.

Edit: You may also need the official Nvidia driver. I have never run anything with the OSS drivers.
First of all I don't trust profit numbers of any large corporation. There are so many ways that large corporations can hide profit.

So lets pay attention to revenue.
UnitedHealth alone generated $200 billion in 2017.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180116/NEWS/18011...

Yeah there might be some fat there.
I have a non-profit healthcare plan and go to a non-profit hospital. It costs the same.

This completely misses the issue.
This appears to be the premise of stack ranking.
A lot of insiders say the safe, old Boeing went out the window with the McDonnell Douglas merger in '97.

It kinda turned into a reverse-merger, where MD bosses took over Boeing and heavily influenced the management style and practices thereafter.

Some of the commentary https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-invest...
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Seriously. An Airline Transport Pilot must:
* Have demonstrated precision flying, including precision power off landings, from a variety of altitudes and preconditions.
* Multiple demonstrations of a wide range of flying capabilities, including recovery from loss of navigation, systems failures, and unusual attitudes.
* Attained a 1st class medical certificate, which is actually quite challenging. Annual re-certification, and sometimes more frequently than that for pilots that have anything at all quirky going on in their body. This includes extensive health records (such as EKGs) sent to the FAA for analysis and includes relevant dental work. (Yes, pressure bubbles inside teeth can cause pilots to lose the ability to control an airplane.) Got a DUI? Pretty much eliminates flying for life.
* Attained a flight instructor's certificate. Almost all airline pilots were flight instructors before becoming airline pilots.
* 1500 hours flight experience, enough to all but guarantee in-flight emergency or systems failure will have occurred.
* 1000 hours jet experience.
* Attained instrument ratings, multi-engine ratings, etc.
* And that's just to get past the interview. Then the real training begins.

In all, that's a lot of training, and pilots pay about as much as a doctor to get that training. Since attaining a Private Pilot's license myself (which I found challenging and which ATPs consider kindergarten) I've realized that actual airline pilots are in general remarkably good pilots. Even if you, sitting in the back cabin, think the landing is rough, it's probably a really good firm precision landing considering the conditions.
I'm building a SaaS around creating repeatable checklists (and procedures). Experienced people know how to do their jobs, but they are still people. People are error prone even on a good day. On bad days, well...
No. This is like Atul Gwande saying he sucks at surgery. You’re supposed to laugh and relax
the question is why the end-user would want balkanization, other than for the abstract reason to limit power, which almost never works (or everyone would be installing firefox right now).

People seem to be allergic to balkanization. They want the convenience of typing a search result, a movie title, or a name into the platform instead of having to jump over ten. Even Mastodon with its hybrid model is unable to attract a significant amount of users from Facebook or Twitter.

Open APIs probably won't result in significant competition, and even if they do the privacy concerns exist for small companies as much as for larger ones, see Cambridge Analytica which with open APIs would basically roam around freely.
Not really. You can mix them in Haskell too. Think of F# as Haskell except you are always working in the IO monad. Haskell doesn't require a "new way of writing IO code" at all. It just allows you to separate out the IO from the pure in a way that can be enforced by the compiler. But there is nothing preventing you from writing all Haskell code in the IO monad if you were so inclined - which is essentially OCaml/F#.
Flexbox is a pain to do gutters
In the light of the NBA's problems with China some commentators have been puzzled. Why is it that American companies are so concerned with civil rights at home in the US, but don't seem to care at all about human rights in China?

There's really nothing puzzling about it. In each case it is their practice to cower before the biggest bully on the stage. When dealing with China, that bully is China, of course. But in the US domestic market the LGBTQ groups are the biggest bullies.
Prison: our solution to every problem.
And that's what did them in. It was inevitable from the beginning, what happened was only a matter of time. Porn kills monetization and having a userbase that insists on having porn will consequently kill your platform. It may seem to be running smoothly for a while, but that's just borrowed time.
Reimplementing a Solaris command in Python – 17x faster than C
I'd wager a nonprofit Japanese restaurant could have provided your meal at a lower cost.
It looks like JavaScript to me. Yes, these games are usually coded in scripting languages like JS or Python, even back in the day they were programmed in custom scripting languages running on the engines of yore. Finally, yes, these kinds of games are a great way to learn programming because they map very well on to basic control flow constructs (if, else, while) and don't usually require additional computer science knowledge.
Actually, it's Valve paying the bills for the MoltenVK guy so that MoltenVK is part of Khronos.

Basically, Valve is saying: "OS X is a completely useless environment but has lots of people who spend more money than Windows users. So, we can make lots of money if we can maintain one codebase by writing a shim wrapper even if we have to eat performance."
World's First Female Spacewalking Team Makes History
It's not fully decentralized and more focused on reducing bandwidth load on the actual site than anonymity or resilience, but the sadpanda's H@H system is one example of such a thing: https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Hentai@Home

e: this is mainly interesting because it demonstrates that there are people willing to donate storage/compute/bw to p2p nsfw image hosting, not because the underlying tech is particularly revolutionary or should be used as a model for future systems
What's really sad is you need the lawyers to let the public know something went wrong. If people had listened to the engineers (admittedly internal vs external communication are completely different) then we never would have had this problem in the first place.

Lawyers often profit from the misery of others (I know many lawyers that do great things and are proud of their work, but almost nobody gets into law because they "want to make the world a better place"), but sometimes that misery can prevent other's misery in the future.

Sadly the profits aren't in putting anyone in jail, but in civil suits. I would love to be wrong, but nobody is going to jail over this because nobody will profit from it.
So I'm working on a replacement for HTML and CSS. Right now it's written in JavaScript and it renders to canvas.

The reason I'm posting here is because you can write your own layout components in my system. So if you have a new idea, instead of waiting years for it to get standardized and supported by the browsers, you can just roll your own idea and run it in anywhere without any fuss. (Flexbox took years to do something that should have only taken days.)

Live demo: http://doc-test.maxharris.org/
(NB: it doesn't support mobile touch events yet, so try that out on a desktop browser.)

The framework used by the demo: https://github.com/maxharris9/layout

If you want to get in touch with me about this thing, I'm maxharris9 on twitter.
Apologies - I didn't catch that the HF / healthy patients are from two different datasets. Agreed that this essentially invalidates the result.

The missing experiment is to have a third dataset from yet another machine, with both positive/negative examples, and use it as the test dataset. Then transferability questions are at least somewhat addressed.
Not sure if there is an idiom in english like "nothing gives you confidence like complete ignorance"

I am not sure there is any non-trivial skill[1] you can truly master without humbly "understanding" the vast amount of knowledge you do not hold.

[1] Swimming in the deep end of the Dunning-Krueger pool is not counted as a skill here.
Crusader Kings 2 is free now
> If I'm signing a contract with you, and you tell me "no one is going to ever offer you a deal like this," even though you fully know many people would offer me a better deal, that's not illegal.

Is it not illegal to get someone to sign a contract based on a known falsehood? I.e. if I offer to sell you my house and tell you that it has no issues, but it turns out termites have eaten half of it and I knew that, is the contract not invalid? I think your solution only works because it's common sense that that is not a statement of fact.
Was their lack of OpenCL adoption on the trashcan Mac Pro really all attributable to OpenCL?

Or was it because the best GPU option it ever had was the FirePro D700 from 2014?

I guess you could buy a bunch of eGPU enclosures and hook up better GPUs over Thunderbolt (I think those ports are effectively PCIe x4), but regardless of how much effort they may have put in on the software side, they didn't keep up with the hardware. And being a proprietary GPU module in a thermally limited environment, they didn't have 3rd parties keeping up with it for them.

Blender (specifically their Cycles rendering engine) was one piece of software that supported OpenCL on the Mac, and AMD put a bunch of work into getting that working as an alternative to CUDA. It's now been disabled on account of Apple deprecating OpenCL. Bummer. https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2018-Decem...
I am not claiming they don't, but often these devices only run thousand lined of code, not millions. The security challenge is much, much smaller than securing the Linux kernel.
Glad I'm not a fly that lives less than 2 months!
Because part of what libc does is bridge the OS and user space. This is very much OS dependent. You can get a rough idea by looking at where it makes "syscalls."
Interesting. I've never heard of that.

So I stand corrected. (Sort of.) Apparently it's a very old provision. [1] It doesn't really make much sense in today's world. Read literally, almost anything you create--including online--must be sent to the LoC.

So, yes, it is a law on the books and maybe mainstream publishers comply with it. But But pretty much no one else does AFAIK.

[1] http://articles.ibpa-online.org/article/need-know-copyright-...
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> No one wants to hear their surgeon on the record saying "I'm just an OK surgeon"

I would find such a statement reassuring, assuming that their colleagues rate them higher.

In my experience over the years working with various professionals, the ones who speak highly of their own abilities tend not to be exceptional. The exceptional ones tend to be skeptical of their own abilities.
CUDA is not an "open standard"
I mean the whole article talks about how Apple wants to grab CUDA's market share with their own proprietary tech that is owned by Apple and only exists in Apple's walled garden. Not sure how much of a win for open source that is.
Lifestyle changes, not a magic pill, can reverse Alzheimer’s
> But I don't really care about what most of people say; I just don't want them to be racist.

I hope you're ready to be accused of being a sexist and anti-Semite by many people's definitions. Not to mention that I hope you know that watermelon, dancing, math, and balloons are racist (according to someone with 1000 Tumblr followers, probably), and so have no place on your platform. The point being that determining what is and isn't racist can be a pretty hard problem.
I agree with you on these points. I would support adding carbon taxes to make flying more expensive. I'd support development of carbon neutral aircraft be it solar, or hydrogen powered aircraft.

My disagreement is, I do not think shaming will effectively change the people that fly. Shaming could spur other solutions, but I'd rather just lay out the arguments and then develop some carbon neutral solutions.
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World's Fastest Ants Found in Sahara Desert
Amped to see Still Drinking on HN again.

If you enjoy devouring this guys writing, buy his book, “And Then I Thought I Was A Fish” (I think it’s the “novel” he references the game being based on?). I really really liked it. Link at the bottom of the original post.

The other book is just a collection of blog posts. It’s /okay/. But I really really liked ATITIWAF. The kind of book that makes you want to try your hand at writing.

—a random internet fan.
We could do a debt for equity swap. Set up a Government Sponsored Entity like Fannie Mae to issue bonds equivalent to the market value of the equity. Essentially a government sponsored leveraged buyout.
it is almost as if he wasn't entirely serious
think about the people you care about. would you rather live more years or spend more time with them over a shorter life? what would they prefer? it's an inherently subjective question, and I don't think the answer is obvious. I certainly don't think one of the answers is "insane".
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