skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance companies dictate what treatments they will cover for which conditions.

However, insurance companies are perversely cost conscious, because they are paid as a percentage of medical costs, not as surplus between premiums and costs.
In my experience, people who talk like this will gush about how a handful of seeds or a kale salad is more delicious than a cheeseburger or a burrito, which of course taste unnatural and disgusting. It's like talking to a breatharian
There’s also the knife, bomb, cigarette, and middle finger emojis. And Apple decided to keep the peach emoji looking like a butt:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/apple-brings-back-the-peac...
I really like the proposal for matching values (integral, strings, tuples). It's very lispy. Explicit representation (intrinsics?) of a map used as an expression.

Though I would prefer the keyword 'choose' over 'inspect'.

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I have noob questions about pattern matching on (polymorphic) types. Please humor:

It's syntactic sugar for std::is_base_of<> (Java's instanceof), right?

This is a consequence of C++ (and Java's) nominal type system, right?

So is pattern matching on types necessary (useful) for structural type systems?

I ask because a friend has been advocating structural typing. He's more of a language theorist whereas I'm more of a language mechanic (I don't even rate as a language engineer). While I'm totally on board with whatever he says, I just hope to better grasp the changes.
There’s also Liftbridge, which is a Kafka-like pub-sub API built on top of NATS. It is still in development but looks quite promising IMO.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the lawsuit and its conclusion. That definitely settles the initial point.
Didn't know about this. Thanks. Great to see some companies still care about HR.
There are path dependencies. If the short term hack accelerates your ability to get enough traction to increase runway, you may survive to see the “right” solution implemented. whereas if you pursued the “right” solution more directly from the beginning, the additional delays would have killed you. Good technical leadership embraces the short hack and guides the project through righting it when the opportunity is there. (To fail to do either is an equal failure, and both are hard.)

Anyone claiming there is a clear answer to these questions is deluding themselves. Tactically, the best weapon is to recognize your own weaknesses, and it seems to me that engineers often have more of a bias towards performing tool and technology analysis and research in the name of avoiding the hard and often humiliating task of shipping software that users will almost certainly hate in its earliest versions.
I have had life long headaches that I have given up on fixing. Occasionally when I switch to a new doctor I will mention it just to see if they have anything new to say.

They usually just put me on a concoction of various pain killers (e.g., migraine specific stuff like sumatriptan). These prescriptions actually work great. But so did OTC aleve/advil/tylenol too.

The problem was that I didn't really care for more effective pain killers. What I really want is to fix the root cause and stop having these headaches.

So yea, I can totally see why something like this would fail. If the solution is still qualitatively the same, a small percentage improvement is just micro-optimizations that most doctors and patients won't care much for.
He also doesn't seem to know quite what "delusional" means. He uses it to describe people that don't agree with him.
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I bit the bullet and was disappointed by fallen order. It combines a lot of genres and doesn't do any of them well. The story telling you might expect in a star wars game isn't there, the puzzles are frustrating, the pathing through the map will make you pull your hair out. The graphics are amazing though.
To be fair, Android does as well? Just typing "Android find my phone" into google produces a scary result.
>I would argue most machine learning papers that use public datasets have code available and are often also reproduced independently

lol have you ever tried? i have several github issues on published models because i couldn't recreate that have responses like "i don't remember the parameters i used and we've moved on".
While everyone else is here debating their biased you've isolated the key problem here.

Regardless of your thoughts on smoking, should a company be allowed to influence the personal lives of its workforce.

Companies testing for marijuana and other illicit drugs open the doors for this decades ago, now the intrusion is into legal substances. Where does the line end?

The slippery slope is already visible, be careful what you allow here, regardless of your thoughts on smoking.
The obvious next step (if there is one) is to get the insurance companies to pay for it, since they are the ones who would theoretically reap the benefits.
Boot camp and react aren’t mainstream programming. Also react isn’t full FP.
I see this as more of a response to the modern feminist movement, specifically the celebrities. If you were to believe some of their Twitter feeds you would have to beg your {mother,sister,wife,daughter,niece} to never leave the house for fear of rape or assault. The AEI is (libertarian) right leaning and have published similar things in the past.

What I do find surprising is that this particular post got traction whereas the one yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21938201) did not.
Or R1 research universities
This could have worked. It would have been possible to sell an integration with a major health insurance company or provider network (or a few) as a tool available to their members.

Like as a United Healthcare sponsored portal that helps you pick OTC drugs, or similar. Those guys love stuff like this. And I've actually worked in this space so I'm not just making things up.

With that said, the way to do that would be to make it a destination with a growing userbase and then approach them for partnership. Which would have cost money and taken a while to ramp up, so you'd need some runway. Also it's not a strategy to actually get rich, that wouldn't lead to tens of millions in revenue or valuation probably.

But it was in fact a good idea and there were some paths forward you could have taken. Had you done so there's an excellent chance you would have discovered some interesting and perhaps lucrative product extensions along the way.
Are player IP addresses stable enough to be used in this way? I've always considered my own IP to be dynamic, despite rarely changing.
Hi Tom, thanks for sharing this. I work for a company in the evidence based medicine space that would have become your competitor had you continued to pursue this idea. Send me a line (email in profile), it would be interesting to get introduced.
If you don't know how to monetize, you need investors...duh :) Then you can spend some millions working it out! And if you still cant monetize make sure one of your investors is deeply in the hole on this investment and you control the voting shares and make them buy you out.
Google search for “Android find my phone” tells you where it is
I've never used CarPlay but that's the general impression I have of it. Having used Android Auto, it's definitely a huge step up from a regular car infotainment system but not really from Tesla's UI/UX.

Android Auto is also not a deal breaker for me in purchasing a car, not even close, so I'm generally curious why people view it or CarPlay as dealbreakers.
I hope I can dig out my discs! By the way, the installation guide is super helpful. I haven't considered playing bf1942 for a long time and the detailed instructions on how to get everything running again is fantastic.

I haven't been this excited to play an old game in quite a while.
Haven’t read it so I can’t comment on the book itself. But the built-in tutorial in Emacs is quite good. Just type C-h t to launch it.
You and OP are both right. Smoking is bad, but labor laws should protect your job from arbitrary dismissal for legal activities outside of work.
I was highly disappointed.. this article had so much potential.

Really it's great but it was such a let down to only see an animation of one knot with their special cord in the article.. I was really hoping to see animations/gifs of a bunch of interesting knots!
Sure, something like a .clear or similar but the default behavior of clearing a loaded document by calling open on it is strange compared to what you would expect to happen with “normal” files/streams.

Edit to add:

I think calling write on a loaded document should have been an exceptional case and you should have had to explicitly call something to unload, replace or clear it.
Tech landscape has put a screen in every hand, net could become decentralized with the correct hardware, email does not have built-in spam prevention like coin, many factors encourage the idea that e-mail has a supercessor lurking undiscovered or unimplemented. So I'm wondering what it looks like, or what its features would be, or how we would build e-mail if we were tasked with it today a'fresh.
Unfortunately, I feel like this is a lesson that's best learned the hard way. Everyone can tell you from the get-go to "have a business plan" before committing financially and professionally to a self-concocted venture. It's not until you run through it and witness the brutality of failure first-hand that you realize the importance of doing your homework first and having a plan.
A: Look this, the perfect programming language I invented is the best.

B: (tick the checklist and sent it back)
I'm not convinced the idea could never possibly turn into a successful business.

Maybe he just tried to sell to the wrong people, maybe pharmaceutical companies could have been interested, maybe re-packaging the product differently...who knows...

The fact that it could provide real value for many people already sets it apart from most ideas.
Seconded on the Bafang bbshd. It's a great motor. But I bought the whole bike already assembled with disc brakes, which are essential for ebikes.
I'm not sure what to tell you. The insurance companies have done the math. IIRC, they're allowed to charge up to 50% more than non-smokers.
A torchship?

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php
Vaccines exist for a tiny fraction of conditions.

And in the market consumers revealed preference is for $1000/yr treatment over $20K vaccine, or equivalent multiples. When a new vaccine is invented, people balk at the price and complain it shouldn't have been created.

Far more investment is in "managing" conditions.
or, if you actually read the article:

"As of today, we have BusKill. The BusKill solution described in this article can trigger your laptop to self-destruct if it’s physically separated from you."
Unless the server truly sent only what the user is meant to see - i.e. video; no hacks can reveal more than what's in a grid of pixels.
Yeah if it impacts your ability to do your work more than a little that's a different thing.
>it's because there are health risks associated with most if not all forms of it. Some forms may have small health risks though.

There is a strong causal relationship between any nicotine consumption and a plethora of cardiovascular issues. While these effects might be small for the occasional user, they certainly have a detrimental impact on the health of habitual users.
> I see people riding them on sidewalks, in streets, and in bike lanes

Where are you suggesting that they ride?
> "Slippery slope" is a really weak argument, anyway.

The slippery slope is the only argument here. Testing for legal and somewhat socially tolerated substances is an encroachment of civil liberties.

> Those don't really seem comparable to me.

Neither would marijuana and tobacco smoking to someone in the 1950s.
Yup. But those people doesn’t grow on trees. AFAICT knowledge of git is practically nonexistent outside of software development.
I wish they didn't have Bioware. Or rather the shambling corpse of Bioware.
Agree to disagree. I think that 10 years from now, 6dof hand and head tracking will continue to be remembered as the core boundary between VR and not-VR, with the vive and rift being the 1st gen consumer VR devices.
The one in Wilsonville, Oregon has been a sad place for well over a decade. A friend went there just before Christmas this year, and found the same as the article mentions - empty shelves, everywhere.

Fry's in Wilsonville had some tough shoes to fill -- the building started as an electronics megastore called Incredible Universe, and in the beginning at least it was an event to go there. When Fry's moved in, they ditched all the theming (side note - this store never got a unique theme like many other Fry's stores; it was always promised to be "coming soon" but never did), and changed the layout to be a bit of a hodge-podge by comparison.

I really miss Incredible Universe's "bent and dent" room, where they sold items that were missing bits, slightly damaged, unboxed, etc, at a pretty steep discount.
I use an e-scooter rather than e-bike because 1) it's more compact 2) it's relatively cheaper 3) I only go short distances 4) I'm a lazy s.o.b.

Some people will need to sit while riding. Some people need to haul stuff. Some people may need to travel farther. Some people may prefer having weather-shielding. Future cities should allow for a range of micromobility options, not just one thing.
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obesity causes real health issues too
> Well actually, they are allowed in the automotive world, re: Tesla.

This is false: Tesla's "autopilot" isn't a control-loop, much less a certified control-loop. What Tesla calls "autopilot" is actually a "driving assistant". It is not in charge of controlling the car, but it is allowed to assist the driver to control the car.

This is a subtle but very important difference, since this is the reason that Tesla tells its owners to always keep the hands on the steering wheel, and Tesla cars are required to disable their "driving assistant" in countries like Germany if the driver hands leave the steering wheel. It is also the reason that Tesla is not liable if a car with "autopilot" kills somebody, because the "autopilot" isn't technically driving the car, the driver is.

The word "autopilot" comes from the aerospace industry, where pilots are not required to keep their hand on the controls or pay attention when the "autopilot" is on, and the manufacturer is liable if the "autopilot" screws up (e.g. see Boing). Tesla's usage of the word "autopilot" to refer to driving assistants is misleading and dangerous.

A true car "autopilot" is what people call "Level 5" in the autonomous driving community. Elon Musk promised to ship 10.000 self-driving Level 5 Tesla taxis in 2019, and now mid 2020. We'll see about that.Elon Musk has been saying that Level 5 will happen next year for the last 10 years, so at least when it comes to autonomous driving, their predictions have been consistently wrong.

Most CEOs who adventure to predict when Level 5 will happen say something like "not before 2030". And Waymo's goal is to achieve """Level 5""" in a very small restricted area of Phoenix downtown for some restricted weather conditions some time between 2020-2030, but it is unclear what the road after achieving it would be for certification, and the road from there to actual, real, Level 5 is still unclear at this point.
>I wasnt talking about user submitted anything

The OP you responded to was talking about that. That's the context of the conversation. Of the cheaters not getting banned; of those bans not happening in waves.

>The shocking part is that we've compiled a list[1][2] of 380+ cheaters with video proofs and we've transmitted this list to some DICE community managers and employees
Agreed. I may at some point be so desperate for a job that I can't be picky, but for now you can show me the records for everyone between where I'll be in the org chart and the CEO, inclusive, taking & passing the same tests, or you can fuck off.
Besides, if a cryptocurrency was vulnerable to quantum computing its value would drop as everyone watched QC get closer and closer to viability. Unless someone advances QC technology in secret the market cap of a coin will never be large enough to pay for cracking it.
Here's Eric Chahi explaining his decision to use polygons - he mistakenly thought that the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair used them!

https://youtu.be/JFaOYYSxSEA?t=245

Very cool video, wherein Chahi demonstrates his rotoscoping system, where he could use the Amiga's genlock to trace live video in his (extremely impressive) homemade animation/code tool.

The polygons in Another World are a bit different from today's games.

In a modern game, game models would contain fully 3D representations of each model. Each polygon vertice would have X, Y, and Z coords. The CPU/GPU then render these out.

In Another World, the polygons are 2D representations only, like paper cutouts. The animations are precalculated, and then at runtime they basically just need to be blitted out using some of the clever techniques mentioned in the linked article. You wouldn't really be able to alter the animations at runtime or change the perspective, but that was OK - it was a smart compromise to hit Chahi's stated target of about 20fps.

This "2D polygon" approach was a brilliant way to overcome the limitations of CPUs at this time. There were fully 3D polygon games at the time, but they run at a fraction of the frame rate as Another World and contain only a fraction of the detail. The 2D polygon world of Another World felt fluid and real (well, relative to the competition at the time) and some convincing pseudo 3D effects could even be faked.
Wow, you really picked the wrong link to support your claim. The entire article is filled with statements that refute your claim, such as the following:

> Allergy-like symptoms can be caused by tobacco smoke, but most doctors believe that they are not reactions to the smoke.

> Rather, because tobacco products (especially cigarettes) are filled with many toxic ingredients and irritating chemicals, some people have a reaction to those specific substances. People who suffer from allergic rhinitis appear to be more sensitive to these chemicals than others.
> The cost of just washing something can be relatively and unreasonably high, environmentally speaking.

We have a break room with a sink, reusable dinnerware, and disposable dinnerware. I cringed when I saw people washing a reusable plate in the sink. We're in Southern California. There's no way in which it is better for the environment to use gallons of water in order to keep a paper plate and a plastic fork out of the landfill.

Too often people take Reduce/Reuse/Recycle to heart without taking a broader view of all the resources that they are consuming.
Its kind of sad picturing the customer with a headache needing a app to tell him what medicine to buy at CVS...while there is a pharmacist right there.

I do like the quip at the end about lacing up all birds and jumping on the bird scooter. This makes me think how badly I need allbirds to join the sharing economy...how great would it be to have allbirds scattered all around your city sidewalks so you have a paid on demand when you need them without having the overhead of actually owning them. Its not sexy and doesn't scale well, ticking all the VC boxes.
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I can see how one would get that impression based on our media, but it would be an oversimplification to say the least. The history of Hillary Clinton is too complex and long to get into for the purposes of this discussion.

Suffice to say the Trump campaign made a concerted effort to use data to target ads at specific groups in the Rust Belt with the intention of de-legitimizing her as a Presidential candidate.
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/#kicking-and-banni.... FFS that is a lot of text just to kick a nazi out of the cybersecurity chat .. who is the mod for that big ass chat? I have't the faintest clue. No easy way for me to tell.
This isn't a ban on smoking. It's a ban on nicotine. That includes gum and other forms of it. It's not just about cigarettes.
http://theleanstartup.com/
> Yes, it is terrible at things like video editing, games, audio editing, etc. But for a work machine in an enterprise environment, it's fantastic.

Unless it runs Excel, that seems unlikely to apply to the enterprise in general.
I largely agree with your points as an ebike commuter on the west side of LA which has similar properties (surprisingly compact, protected bike lanes, good weather, very expensive gas).

I also use it regularly to carry groceries via saddle bags and find it to be much more convenient than fighting the parking lot at my local trader joes. Also, it is generally flat here so I don't find the need to shower and change clothes but then again, I bike to work in jeans and a t-shirt so maybe it would be different in a suit?
JS and PHP are worse because people have to use them.
By now, the Chomskian approach to linguistics is not unchallenged anymore and there is some doubt on whether the "poverty of stimulus" argument holds any water (see e.g. [1]).

IMHO, modern cognitive science based approaches (such as by Tomasello and others) have a better chance of explaining how language is acquired than the hypothesising of the 70s.

I don't have time now to go into more references, but the question is far from settled.

[1] https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/p-is-for-pov...
There's laws specifically prohibiting a lot of things. That doesn't stop those discriminations from happening.
This is why I get so grumpy about startup narratives. If you ask successful unicorns how they got started, they'll usually explain that's exactly what they did. Garrett Camp was just trying to hire a private driver, and realized it was too hard, there's no reason it should be so hard. Jack Dorsey saw a guy who didn't accept credit cards and realized it would be great if he could accept credit cards.

If you don't realize what's going on, that companies pick their founding myth based on which story sells the best rather than which story occurred on the earliest calendar date, it's very easy to get a false picture of how good startup ideas originate.
Xbox Game Pass makes a strong case for Microsoft’s game subscription service
Food shouldn't be left out unrefrigerated for more than 2 hours, is the USDA's recommendation, otherwise the bacteria can multiply to dangerous levels. Even if you eat it later and don't get sick, it doesn't mean it wasn't a risky thing you did.

So people that go out to eat then go out and do other things that night before going home, unless it's the middle of winter and the car is basically a refrigerator itself, probably shouldn't bother bringing leftovers home with them.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-long-can-you-leave-cooked-food...
To get in the door with doctors you need to pay them to use your product and then sell the data they generate to other companies. (not HIPPA data, but metrics, etc)
If the cheater isn't obvious enough then they aren't having much worse of an effect than a really good player.

But that's why I mention giving server control to users; they can experiment with their own alternative anti cheat and moderation solutions.
Can you give an example of the pattern matching in ML and Erlang that is not idiomatic in Haskell?
I had the same thought:

Sell this product to insurance companies so they can recommend cheaper/safer drugs to their customers, or show the more expensive one and if it truly had better outcomes. Everyone benefits from that.

That said, the medical establishment is a tough tough domain to move.
lol @ giving up after 2 weeks.
>Taycan is a Porsche, so is going to be limited to Porsche's.

Porsche is owned by Volkswagen, who seem committed to catch up to Tesla. At least some of the expertise and lessons learned are likely to be used across Volkswagen