skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all the doctor does is say "here's another dose", then something is wrong, for sure. My experience in needing occasional prescriptions for asthma inhalers (not in the US) has been that the doctor gave me a quick but thorough check up every time to ensure that my condition was not worsening. That's the reasoning behind it. Whether it's a valid reason or not, I don't make a claim either way. But I don't think this level of cynisism that says the doctors only do it for a paycheck is fair or warranted.
This is getting wildly off topic, but blackcurrant is an interesting story. Commercial blackcurrant production was actually banned in the US for between 50 and 100 years, depending on the state. That means it's basically an unknown fruit in the US today. It was banned because it is a carrier of a disease which was destroying a species of pine tree which is important to the US lumber industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcurrant_production_in_the...

Quote from the article: "Marvin Pritts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, asserts that less than 0.1% of Americans have likely ever eaten a blackcurrant."
The quote is "only one in 10 respondents said their health or a family member’s health had worsened as a result of delayed care". You may still think this is high, but it's not "1 in 10" when accounting for family size.
The fact that you used antibiotics as the example makes me very uneasy on this.

Antibiotics are almost certainly over-prescribed, and humanity is ultimately going to lose them as a result. It's good to make absolutely sure that you need them.
>from / in MacOS.

Via a Linux VM
That "popcnt1" is also known as a 1-hot constraint.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot
I agree whole heartedly with this comment. Until last year, my family and I lived in the undergrad dorms at UCLA (as a professor in residence). In the end the major thing I’d advise students to do is get involved. It might be research, but there are a million other things as well, and opportunities to explore these types of activities become a lot more rare after you leave college.

I wonder if over the long term there might be a way to replace that experience too, because I agree with the OP that it’s the most valuable part.
Was used to HDPI screens at home and previous gig. Now at work with Linux and some cheap Dell 24"s: just zoom like 200%, until text is huge. If you only fit 80 cols like god meant to, type will be clear, you can have your monitor further away, improve your posture and eye strain. Code might even get better.

Guess coders care little about typography, like everyone else, mostly out laziness and lack of appreciation.
Ask HN: How to raise a seed round remotely during Covid-19?
Our startup is making next-gen hearing aids. We just completed our initial prototype, and it’s time for us to raise a seed round. We will need to raise around $1 million.

We are USA based, but so far have been working remotely from abroad. The plan was always to move back to Silicon Valley for fund raising. But covid-19 changed everything around. So now the earliest we can move to California will be mid fall.

So my question to NH community is, - is it feasible to remotely raise a seed round right now during corvid-19? If anyone has done this, can you share some tips please? Any pointers to investors and funds that are ok with remote fund raising? Thank you!
The difficulty at this point is that states have little recourse to change corn policy on the national level. They’re forced to take action within their own scope, and a tax is something they can enact.
I think Apple is overreaching on this whole thing, but it feels somewhat disingenuous to argue that they did what Apple/Phil asked for.

He asked for a basic version that people can use without their service, and instead they implemented a variation on a 14 day demo.

Then they're posting publicly saying "We did what Apple asked for", without clearing this new solution (which isn't really what Apple asked for).

To be clear, I think Apple shouldn't be demanding a 30% cut here at all!
But this article feels like they're presenting their solution publicly in order to try to leverage Apple into accepting it.
These are only attractive to state actors in case of a major war or a war. No country is going to attack these infrastructures otherwise.

There are better targets for terrorists, especially much easier targets and targets that do not require much or any specialist equipment.
"In the mid 1990s, the intelligence community in America began to realize that they had an opportunity. The supercomputing community was just beginning to migrate from university settings into the private sector, led by investments from a place that would come to be known as Silicon Valley."

Sorry, what?

Silicon valley was already known as silicon valley in the 60s/70s because it made ... silicon.

If it had only gained it's name in the 90's it would have been known as 'Software Valley' or maybe even 'Grandiose and excited tech salesperson valley".
Many cell line stores are basically HeLa cells, and not whatever cell line they are labeled as, because probably at some point some grad student accidentally contaminated one petri dish with another and the HeLa s took over. heLa cells themselves have an interesting history.
* "has not had"
Reliance Jio Recharge Plans? रिलायंस जियो के ये डेटा प्लान आपके लिए बेस्ट हो सकत
While not a formal proof, it is fairly obvious that verifying a match is in P. Just fill in the captured groups from the answer in the regex and see if it corresponds to the input text.

Every SAT problem can be converted into a 3-SAT problem so that's also not really an issue, they are both NPC
Tried this, went back to school. Not recommended. Like me, you may be making this decisions based on arrogance of our own abilities or inflated ego.

Learning is much more difficult without experts. It's rare for someone to get a job in a skilled trade without proof of formal education. There are more than book smarts to be learned in shared education settings.

Also building websites and apps is not high paying for much longer. You will need skills which increasingly require more education.

Suck it up and stick out highschool, and then take some time off before college to work. Then after learning more about things go back and get college educated.

Are you even allowed to drop out before 16 years of age?
This is the role that physician's assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) fill at most large family practices in the US. I haven't seen an actual MD for a physical or sore throat in many years. And my communication with the practice is with a PA. Same for my wife, who has an in-house clinic at her employer (not in the medical field, just a perk).
There's a generation gap here. The information density in current game UIs is high with status indicators, aiming aids, location markers, objective lists. Players expect the game to be a DM giving them lots hints on how to proceed through the game. At the time Deus Ex was made one of the talking points was realism. Players wanted to experience the game as a simulation. The hand-holding that's expected today was frowned upon as breaking the immersion. The article briefly touches on this debate between realism vs playability with regards to level design.
but the coffee turns very dark in some roast and it generates a lot of smokes during the process.
I've been working on a Python implementation that uses Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (LightGBM/Treelite) instead of using a neural network for the value/policy models:

https://github.com/cgreer/alpha-zero-boosted

It's mostly to understand how AlphaZero&Friends work. I'm also curious about how well a GBDT could do, and if there are self-play techniques that can accelerate training.

The nice thing about a GBDT is that, unlike when using a NN, you can do thousands of value/policy lookups per second on a single core. So it should be cheaper to scale self-play and run a lot of self-play experiments (assuming the self-play learnings when using the GBDT model transfer to when you use the more-powerful NN in these environments).

If you're curious about accelerating self-play training, check out David Wu's work (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10565.pdf). He's the creator of KataGo. I implemented his "Playout Cap Randomization" technique in my implementation above and, sure enough, it's much more efficient: https://imgur.com/a/epaKtDY. It seems like it's still early days in terms of how efficient self-play training is.
Crypto Market: Fewer Players, More Power
Quick Wins have never helped anyone in the long run but they fool you into thinking you can go on with it forever.

When the entire debacle started I was suddenly an optimist on:

- Mobile vs Web debate forcing gate keepers on giving equally competent choices for users & makers alike.

- Apple relooking and rethinking their 70-30% strategy

- Small & Indie Developers openly talking about the problems being at the mercy of Apple and Google's stores.
True. But it's even more difficult to participate if you don't go. Even my fractionally-aware stumble through the resources available at the universities I went to opened up doors that I didn't even know existed.
I mean, this is not true? Impressionable young people raised in racist environments are impressed by racist arguments - whether emotions based ones or pragmatical ones.

Simply said, own supremacism feels good. Even if you know it is based false argument it can still feel good. Compliments do feel good even if false. It is definitely not a threat.

Also, my own supremacism is practically beneficial to me. I gain from that even if if is based on false arguments. That makes the supremacist arguments much more easy to accept.
No it doesn’t. In fact, when Spotify was still allowing in app purchases, they did exactly this.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8913105/spotify-apple-app-...
"Deus E(x)specially Limited Edition" works nicely as a replacement title...

At least you aren't alone[1]

Despite being an inferior product, Special Limited Edition was sold by major retailers for as much or more than the full game, sometimes on the same shelf. This version was very negatively received, as the similar price and misleading name lead many to unwittingly purchase what turned out to be an "extended demo" or "trialware".

[1] https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Deus_Ex#Game_versions
Depends on the type of game I think. I recently played a few older adventure games like The Dig[1] (1995) and enjoyed them a lot, but early 3D games are a rough deal.

I did replay Tron 2.0[2] (2003) a few years ago and it was passable, though I think the art direction helped a lot. But I've also tried to play some games I really enjoyed back around y2k and yeah... mostly had to give up even though I got them to run fine.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig_(video_game)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_2.0
I think your sentiment is great overall and I agree with it in essence. But realistically, there are way more obstacles to something like this than just creating a platform, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Especially when you mentioned above, "why not start when you're a baby" which I think you meant start at a young age. kinder-gardens, preschools, schools, are not only used as a place for education, unfortunately. Parents NEED their kids to be in someone else's care for a good part of the day. The current pandemic has made that even clearer if it already wasn't.

Additionally, the sheer number of people that need education is not only enormous, it's growing. Not only that, we are all different, with different needs. Some don't have computers, some don't have internet, or paper, or pens, or food. Some won't be able to learn how to read from home or learn math. Some are deaf or blind.

Again, that's all before getting to higher education.
Universities, despite their bad record and resistance to change, are a place where a lot of research happens. I'm not talking only about the US. Let's forget about the US for a second since the scope of your comment goes beyond that. We are talking about identifying, recording, and distributing courses from professors from around the globe. How do you decide who's good enough? How to decide who's getting paid and who's not? Most Universities and Colleges have more than one professor per subject area.

Again, I agree with the sentiment but I wanted to share a larger perspective because I thought your comment was interesting and worth discussing.
Just downloaded the app and there’s no sign of a free tier whatsoever. I can’t do anything with it, absolute shite if I didn’t know that it’s still in closed preview.
It should be about both: Following your distributor's rules and providing the good user experience of an app that doesn't immediately demand a login when you launch it.

Back when I was working at an iOS developer, our leadership brain trust decided that the next version of our app should require the user to log in, or sign up for an account, and not let the user move forward unless they did so. I advised against this because, 1. Apple generally forbids the practice, 2. It's an unnecessary roadblock to getting into the app (having an account provided optional benefits), and 3. The engineering effort, plus the effort to rework later once Apple rejects it, was not worth it. I was unconvincing, so we did the work, submitted to the App Store, and lo and behold, it was rejected, and we had to scramble to re-work a "skip the login" function (in 6 point gray-on-black text) link into the flow. sigh

This was almost a decade ago. I guess my point is that this whole episode, fair or not, was totally predictable and avoidable. I bet that Hey had engineers internally shouting for the hills to not do this, who were being ignored. Maybe the company's leadership just wanted to pick a fight with Apple. Who would want to start such a fight, I don't know? If you're not a behemoth then there are only two possible ways that fight ends: 1. tears and engineering re-work, or 2. App Store banishment. It's just not worth it. Or maybe it is worth it if you're an exec and it's not your time being wasted but some poor engineer working over the weekend to scramble for a fix.
First off, people are innocent until proven guilty.

Second, sure they will be proven guilty because of the video evidence, however, criminals still have a right to privacy. A conviction in the US is effectively a death sentence, as in your life is over - your mugshot will do the rounds on the internet, any future employer will deny you, etc. If people's privacy was protected, they could rehabilitate and reintegrate into society once they've done the time. Not much of a chance of that in the current system.
A priceless masterpiece (we used the book in our algorithms and data structures 1 course in 1993).
Terrorist don't attack it because they want to kill people, disrupting the internet for a short time does not instill terror, it's an annoyance. For State actors the internet is far more valuable to them if it is left in place because warfare today is mostly information warfare. If they blow up some fiber cables then it would just impair their own propaganda programs.
Yes! Much has changed. Here's a good summary: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46512888/how-is-string-c...

The change in question is JEP 280.
It’s not the word, it’s the sentence.
So the experience of someone who doesn't know anything about HEY, i.e. what Schiller cares about, is:

- download the app

- use the free service for 14 days

- see their emails disappear on day 14

Doesn't seem like a great xp. Wouldn't it be better to be told straight away "you need an account for this"?

Also, Schiller has now instigated a wonderful tool for trolling and harassment.
The entire overclocking community also decided lifetime is secondary to performance, yet I still feel rather displeased with Apple deciding to make lifetime secondary to saving a few cents on a better cooling solution :D
Along with potential overprescription of antibiotics, which is a bad thing for the individual and a bad thing for community health. Mayo Clinic says "Acute sinusitis usually doesn't require any treatment beyond symptomatic relief".
This was a great watch. I took this class as freshman, and watching this video now I realize how much of the material was wasted on 17-year old me. :-)

It's a testament to the quality of the teaching that it was eye-opening and inspiring back then at 17, and even more so now when I am 40.
I agree that "fearless concurrency" isn't the best tagline. While I'm definitely less fearful with concurrency in Rust, I'm still pretty fearful... I'm very good at writing deadlocks.
> For a long time now, StackOverflow has lost its way.

A big tell on this, is their homepage is no longer about the Q&A platform.

The new stack: https://i.imgur.com/RkzckLF.png

The old stack: https://i.imgur.com/kY1kkAi.png

The new image says: we took a lot of venture capital and there's not enough money in knowledge services. We've got returns to generate. We're going to sell you something, and hey we <3 people who code ("we less than three people who code"), we swear.

The old image (from 2015, when they were still in their prime) says: we're a knowledge service, we have a knowledge mission and that's what we're all about. Few frills, let's get to learning and sharing.

Do you suppose their tag line is revealing how few people at Stack actually still code? It's all MBAs now I suppose. Or maybe it means their new organization is less than the value of three people who code.
Do you view the ability to study and learn from books as a privilege?
That's true. But again, how could people know? My parents are not going to mention some minor health problem on the phone with me, especially if they can't go to the doctor to confirm there's something wrong.
Last time I went to a doctor, I was concerned about intestinal blockage; they gave me a prescription for a drug that slows intestinal motility. And told me I couldn't afford any tests to confirm my notions of what my actual health issues might be.

I've never been one of those who delegates the responsibility for my health to a doctor; but at least they used to be valuable consultants. Today I cannot imagine a circumstance that would make me want to be a customer of a health care provider. I can only hope to find a alternate source for any treatments they keep exclusive to themselves if i ever need one.
Don't quote me on this, but I think most String operations are compiled to StringBuilder operations automatically.
And precisely for this reason if I were Amazon/AWS I would buy ARM from Softbank right now - especially at a time when the Vision Fund is performing so poorly, and therefore there might be financial distress on the side of Softbank.
About the network polling addressed in the article, why does any app even need to poll for networks? On every computer, there's only ever one single app that needs to poll for networks, and that's the app that maintains your network connection. For every single other app, network should simply be considered a transparent service that they simply use and don't control. They have no business looking at other wifi networks. They don't even need to know whether they're on wifi or ethernet. Maybe they can ask the network app how crowded the network is, or whether whether they're free to use as much as they want or if they should tone it down a bit (which could be either because it's too busy, there's not enough bandwith, or because it's a metered connection), but other than that, they don't need to know.

Lately I keep running into these sort of weird, stupid problems in OS design, and it's making me want to write my own OS (which I won't do, because I lack the skill and knowledge).

I agree with much of the rest of the article too. I've always been annoyed that Apple doesn't sell a wired touch mouse. I love the touch mouse, I just don't love running out of battery while working. And I certainly don't like the way their more recent mice need to be charged with a wire inserted at the bottom! Who ever thought that was a good idea?!

In some situations, wireless can be very convenient, but when you're not walking around, wired is usually better in many ways.
Stop throwing GPU at HPC, Not all scientific problems are compute dense
Many commercial coffee makers use 5 ounces when calculating the number of cups they serve. Scroll down to the comparison chart and look at the carafe sizes:

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/ninja-reg-10-...
> K.K. and S.M. reported no conflicts of interest.

People need to understand that "conflict of interest" does not mean "proof of wrongdoing", it means being in a situation where serving one interest could be a detriment to another. There is 100% a conflict of interest here.
I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems far more straightforward. I will look at this, however, since it might be simpler still.
Can relate to most of things above.

BTW: re: food, it's been well-studied that what the balance of gut bacteria heavily influences one's mood:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/gut-feelings-how-food-af...
This isn't taking into effect the added mass of the engine itself, though. You'd need heavy radiation shielding, heavy shielding around the reactor itself so that it wouldn't be blown to bits in the event of a launch explosion, etc. Plus, hydrogen is the least dense propellant so your fuel tank needs to be much bigger than e.g. the RP-1/LOX fuel tanks used by the Falcon 9, Saturn V first stage, etc. You end up in a much worst place than even hydrolox, because at least in hydrolox the liquid oxygen fuel tank at least can be relatively small. With NERVA it's only hydrogen.

So, once you take into account these factors (rather than looking at the raw efficiency of just the engine alone), it ends up not being as much of an obvious win.
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
>My personal highlight of the report was an M&A transaction where Wirecard bought a company in India from an SPV for 300 mn USD that was acquired just one month before for 30 mn USD. Wirecard claimed that they didn’t know who the ultimate beneficiary of the sales price was. If I ever have seen something looking like explicit money laundering at a DAX company then it was this transaction.

Found a report that covers this: https://www.asianage.com/metros/delhi/180319/acquisition-of-...

And another from the date of the acquisition: https://www.medianama.com/2015/10/223-wirecard-great-indian-...
Things like asthma inhalers don't normally require bloodwork. Just a quick Q&A, which could be done less expensively over the phone, if it's even really necessary. Or, annually instead of bi-annually.
Lisps have a uniform syntax in S-expressions. This makes it unfamiliar to new users, but it means syntax just melts away, and you're expressing the abstract syntax tree of your program directly.

So writing code to manipulate abstract syntax trees becomes easy, since you're using to writing & thinking about programs in that form, and it's just manipulating lists, which is easy. For example, it becomes easy to write a program to symbolically differentiate an input expression.

You also think about functions as something easy and natural to pass around.

They also encourage pure functions, which allow lazy evaluation, easy memoization, and other fun things.
> she has a woman doctor that will only accept women and children patients; my male doctor only accepts male patients

Is that legal?
Tech savvy? Mate you can pry my iPhone from my dead nerd hands
Open Source Alternatives to VSCode
I agree. I remember back then hating that 6.001 wasn't taught in a "practical" programming language, but now I completely see the value (and perhaps also magical aura!) of Scheme.