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It’s not a country. It hasn’t declared anything, and follows all laws its subject to.

If you don’t like it, buy something else. Don’t expect the platform to be made worse to fit your specific needs, when they clearly don’t match up to the overwhelming choices of customers.
That's assuming you can anticipate the problem. The obvious edge case is that something goes badly wrong but the software does not recognize it as outside the design envelope.
A mortar tube without training is nothing more than an exciting way to get yourself and your mates killed.
If you are not a woman or a minority, get good at finding local partners who are certified as women-owned or minority-owned businesses. Some public agencies set up their RFPs with an automatic point deduction from your score if you can't tick this box.

Does this not bother anyone?
And, in the case of the software being discussed, eliminated or nearly eliminated the ability of office staff to handle those sorts of details. Additionally, it apparently failed to have reasonable defaults (active user isn't defaulted into the physician providing care; current date isn't defaulted into the date field for a note).
Hm. I've still had trouble integrated gender-neutral pronouns into my brain (for years and years I had been taught that "their" was strictly plural).

Believe me when I say I meant nothing by inserting a default gender. If nothing else I was projecting myself into your situation. I honestly am sorry for the mistake.
I'm not talking about emergency vehicles or people who get escorts. I'm talking about the doctors who have to make their own way in their own vehicles.
First off, you're definitely cherry picking -- or to put it more bluntly, and to use your own measuring stick: "lying" -- if you try to sum up fatality risks of nuclear by referring only Fukushima, and including (in that part of your post) any mention of Chernobyl.

For which, using the same website you used (ourworlindata.org -- I'll let you find the link) we have estimates of up to 60,000 worldwide fatalities due to the radiation release from that incident.

Seconds - when the author brought up "acute risk" he was referring to the 30 km exclusion zone and forced evacuation of 150,000 people (after Fukushima).

In other words - you're accusing the author of making unbalanced comparison (and not only that, basically calling him out as a fraud and/or idiot for doing so). But apparently not even attempting to make a balanced comparison yourself.
I think it would be an interesting feature of HN to allow you to see some reports when you are actually posting something; it is just quite time-consuming to do that check manually every single time.
The core Self concepts washed up in Javascript.

The most influential thing about Self turned out to be the optimization technique called "code splitting", where you identify a "happy path" and hoist out all the expensive lookups along that path, with maybe just checks for whether you are still on it. So, for example, you emit code for one loop that just does fixed-size integers, and another one for all the other numeric types. Then at runtime, the code first checks for an int32, and then (in practice) always ends up in the fast one.
I find your post kind of interesting. I develop software in a non-AI field and have been following and experimenting with AI on the side for a long time. Academics seem intent on publishing papers, not finding solutions to creating value. Corporate AI seems focused on sizzle not substance.

It is so frustrating to see the potential in the AI world and realize almost no one is really interested in building it.
Having spoken to a lot of doctors during medical school, it really does feel like a generational thing. Physicians who were trained in the pre-EMR times have a really hard time transitioning. This is partially a UX design failure on the part of EMR companies.

The newer crop of physicians have a much better time using EMRs. Don't get me wrong, they are acutely aware of the ridiculousness that is modern billing-centric medical records. But having been trained in that atmosphere, it definitely appears less painful to their day-to-day.
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Glycinate; thanks for the tip. Always looking to sharpen the tools i use.
Hmmh, I can see how you might take a more charitable interpretation of that claim, and maybe this does fall in the category of semantic disputes.

> we already agreed, deposits at non-bank institutions are not considered money.

...due to a technicality / accounting conventions. Yes, I conceeded that already in the original revision of the article. Nonetheless, I made a pretty good case why the IOUs created by Full Tilt Poker could be considered money, even though they were created by a non bank institution. Yes, the IOUs created by banks are "more like money", but in my view, the difference is not that large.
Chrome is not in the Mac App Store so does not go through review.
I learned Scala a few years ago and have some popular open source Scala libs. I like Scala, but wouldn't call it "eminently beginner friendly". Coming from Ruby, it was hard for me to learn SBT, Maven, Scalatest (much more complicated than Gemfiles, rubygems, and rspec in my opinion). With Ruby, you can easily make an Array.

Scala newbies find it hard to even perform basic Array operations. You need to dig into Array, Seq, and List, figure out the differences, try to see what's accepted by the community, etc.
Giving up your editor to tough, so I'll come back to that. I believe that Pharo and some other smalltalks no longer require giving up Git[1], and by extension, I assume that would allow keeping any git based review strategies. Some deployment strategies can also be kept largely intact[2][3], but I don't know what you give up by doing so. In those links, a lot of things aren't done how I would do them, but I can see how to adopt what is shown there to my preferred deployment tools.

Getting back to giving up your editor. It should be possible to use many editors with the smalltalk of your choice. However, in practice, there are many half finished and abandoned tools for doing so[4], and fighting with that while learning the system is unlikely to be productive.

[1] https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg
[2] https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBo...
[3] https://www.slideshare.net/umejava/dockerizing-pharo
[4] https://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/
If you can't hold it in your hot little hand, it does not exist. This also applies to your money and other valuables held by third parties such as Banks or Trusts, or wealth stored as numbers in a computer.

Unless you hold and control it personally, it's not yours at all.

While it's definitely convenient in good times for your wealth storage to be in the hands of others, you're completely dependent on the goodwill of those others. In bad or difficult times, you're not going to keep that wealth for very long.
Yup. It's an important topic, but I've been designing APIs for decades; just not the kind he talks about. I do things like device control APIs, these days.

The ones that I do have some issues that he doesn't cover, and a whole lot of issues that he discusses are of no concern to me.
I've experienced this outside of protests. My wife and I were driving somewhere near downtown St. Louis, on a part of the interstate where there are tall concrete barriers between the directions of traffic. There was a complete log jam due to an accident ahead, and we heard sirens coming up from behind us to the left. We were in the left of two lanes. The right shoulder was either filled up or too small (can't remember), so people couldn't really pull right more than a foot or two to allow the ambulance through.

The ambulance didn't let that deter them. They took the foot or two we and the other left-lane drivers could give by getting REALLY close to the car to our right, and used it to careen down the left shoulder, scraping the side of their vehicle along the concrete barrier much of the way.
> like XUL depreciation

There were specific reasons for that: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
Infra-Bayesianism is a new approach to epistemology/decision theory/RL theory
Has been, for generations now. This is news?
> Is this really all that bad? In the era of everything living in the cloud, it generally takes me only a couple hours to setup a system again from scratch.

In the 90s I used to laugh at my Windows friends who had to "reformat the C drive and re-install Windows" every month or so when it became unusable. Their excuses sounded much like yours: a lot of hand waving about how it's "not so bad" and not a big deal.
The big part of this issue is how lawyers and politicians make everything more complicated than it needs to be. Doctors can't access the data they need, require multiple forms and signatures for simple things (like transferring records), and are stuck in old school tech / jurisprudence (can I email a scan? Oh, it has to be fax).

Don't even get me started on the format of VAERS data...
> Logical based off of the axiom from spock which is what I'm assuming is something we all agree on.

No. That's the heart of it. Everyone dies. You do not save anyone, ever.

> Killing one is better than killing many.

Again, this is misguided. There is a view that one choice is not better because of the method proposed (choosing for someone else). Although most people cannot articulate it, removing agency is the moral wrong, not the temporary value as a moral net good, ascribed to human life.

> Lets change it even further. Let's say the train runs over a switch which triggers a nuclear bomb that will blow up a city killing millions.

That's not the same moral question. Now you have 2 populations who are unwitting and without fault. Again, I would not propose to choose as a moral right. If I can wreck the train (which I think is an option), I would not do that either. Moral relativism is a child's view of the world (everyone's life has limitless potential) and a moral dead end and I do not subscribe to it. I retain that life is sacred, just not MORE sacred in aggregate.

> Let's say the fat person is nimble, simply pushing the person doesn't do anything because the fat person can simply move out of the way of the train. In order to keep that person on the tracks you have to Plunge a knife into his heart after you pushed him.

As abhorrent as it may appear, my morality dictates the resolution much more clearly.

> Or let's change more parameters. Let's make it so you don't even see the train. There's just a lever 20,000 miles a way and you have the option to pull it to save millions or leave it to save one.

It should be clear, again, that I do not make the choice for another or a million others. That is my moral position.
How to do Discloure before new empoloyment
I have a few side-projects that I have been slowly working on when I can find time over the years. Many jobs require that they fully "own" you as long as you're employed by them, means whatever you do in the employment period is owned by the company.

How should I do a full disclosure before signing the offer letter? I want to keep what I had, further I also want to have the right to keep working on the side projects in the future and keep it to myself(out of work hours, and never use any employer's resource for that, and, never directly compete with the employer's market). The products are normally very different from what I will be doing once hired.
Wouldn’t that make young males more susceptible if testosterone induces a more severe immune response?
unsure why this is flagged, Bay Area housing issues directly affect some major technology companies as we know them.

The lack of affordable housing for many "minority" communities is a huge barrier to technology jobs, among many other things.

Bay Area housing prices are still out of control, though. I worry that it's going to continue to push ethnic communities right out of the area forever.
My first "real" job out of college was database reporting at my local hospital that used Epic. I was young and starry-eyed, but I remember sitting at these Epic trainings and using the software. I knew something must have gotten lost in translation during development, because the software was absolutely a mess of confusing menus and screens. After all, I was a budding software developer with absolute computer literacy, if I didn't get it, who would?!

I remember thinking that there was no way self respecting developers would allow this to happen, but I was so naive!
If you don't own that domain that your email goes to, you don't own the email address.

Any number of things could happen to cause you to lose access to that email address:

- the company who owns that domain is sold
- the domain is sold during bankruptcy proceedings after the company goes under
- the company that owns that domain decided to get out of the email business
- the company has a vested interest in migrating you to a new domain (as is here)

I'm surprised at the number of people – even in tech - who are willing to use an email account on a domain they don't have any control over.
I'm curious how Epic compares to SAP, having been subjected to the former for years but never having used the latter.
> The state (size of the government, GDP, debts, the legitimacy of power)

love to see how they quantify 'legitimacy of power'
MIT Drake
First line of article says "If you were a farmer..." So I understand why parent focuses on farm utility.

I agree with parent, productivity is the most important metric for farm equipment. Crops will not wait for you to charge your tractor.

But I also agree with you that this is a toy, not a serious piece of equipment.
Plus they replaced paper systems that were better in most ways!
Scala is unfortunately famous for having a toxic community as well. I've emailed with most of the "famous open source" Scala folks and they've all been really nice. But the subreddit seems to have some nasty folks, especially compared with other communities I've been involved with. It's a shame. It's a great language and the people producing the popular libraries are nice.
New Shape-Shifting Materials Get Super Cool, Super Fast
It's been a few years since I developed for iOS, but I guess via the "escalate this issue" button in the review dialogue.

So many of our updates were first rejected by a reviewer in the first round for bogus reasons and after escalating them were quickly approved. With both of those steps taking a few days each, this made updates on iOS such an annoyance that we put it on a slower release cycle than Android.
There's a lot of what I call "model fetishism" in machine learning.

Instead of focusing our energies on the infrastructure and quality of data around machine learning, there's eagerness to take bad data to very high-end models. I've seen it again and again at different companies, usually always with disastrous consequences.

A lot of these companies would do better to invest in engineering and domain expertise around the problem than worry about the type of model they're using to solve the problem (which usually comes later, once the other supporting maturity pieces are in place)
I mean that is the price for Stackpath WAF (captcha, rate limiting, etc) :)
That is such an interesting question; it could be either one IMHO, with equal likelihood
Oh my god, agreed. I have known many lawyers, my father being one, and the amount of hubris and tech-derision is insane. You could give lawyers a computer that prints money and they would shrug and tell you to get it out of their office.
Formatting

If you don't own that domain that your email goes to, you don't own the email address.

Any number of things could happen to cause you to lose access to that email address:

- the company who owns that domain is sold

- the domain is sold during bankruptcy proceedings after the company goes under

- the company that owns that domain decided to get out of the email business - the company has a vested interest in migrating you to a new domain (as is here)

I'm surprised at the number of people – even in tech - who are willing to use an email account on a domain they don't have any control over.
The problem I see is that in most non tech businesses they are not at the stage where they need ML, they are simply struggling with the basics: being able to seamlessly query or have consolidated up to date metrics and dashboards of the data scattered in all their databases. Of course the Big Data/AI “we’ll transform your data into insights” appealed to them, but that’s not what they need (also see the comments on the Palantir thread the other day).
I always found it to be a fun coincidence that San Jose, CA, now the heart of Silicon Valley, was founded in 1777--a year after the US Declaration of Independence. And that was right at the beginning of the colonization of "Upper" California by parties from New Spain (Mexico).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Jose,_Californi...
It's like asking "Why do pilots hate airplane food?"

It has nothing to do with why pilots are/aren't epicures, and a more to do with their bosses deciding to serve them crappy food.
What is your opinion of Epic?
Gold itself only became worth something because the government says it is. Or rather, it became worth far more once governments started demanding that taxes be paid in gold. Before that it probably wasn't worth all that much, because despite its rarity it wasn't useful for much in the ancient world. Gold isn't some magic substance with intrinsic value.

See Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber.
Common Critiques of Economics
I think you greatly over estimate the number of competent bomb makers considering just how effective taking them out has been.

Much of the military equipment in circulation is decades old, you have RPGs from the 70’s being in use.

The logistics for drones isn’t there yet, the human capital isn’t there yet either I would give it 5-10 more years till these drones will be prevalent in nearly every conflict.
I wonder if people will stop spreading missinformation while defending Apple.
Apple's marketshare in U.S. is around 52%, and no, worldwide marketshare does not matter to U.S. courts.
They don't want to have to ask.
I'll be happy to add a stats page once we have significant numbers to show.
So only the state has that power? No thanks.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Eclipsed Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Not allowing competitors to build a store on your property isn’t anti-competitive. And you clearly don’t understand the Microsoft case, where it had 90% of the operating system market.

Customers want the best possible products, forcing Apple to make their product worse, with worse security, a worse purchase experience, robs customers of an important choice.

Judges do make terrible rulings all the time. Like the Apple e-books case, where trying to ensure a level playing field was deemed “anti-competitive”, leading to Amazon to significantly grow market share and establishing an unassailable monopoly position since the ruling.
The Onions “Our Dumb Century” had an article about the Khmer Rouge switching to a skull based economy.
Is that an enby (or rather, en-bee) I see in the trailer?
I mean yes, but a human is probably less likely to see a flat semi-reflective roof and think "body of water"... though I hope there's some possibility for a human to intervene and do some course correction in an event of a crash landing with these systems.
US task force adviser pushing for 'herd immunity' strategy: report
Ugh, so a state agency is working on getting people unemployed. But the jobs of the bureaucrats will be safe.
NASA proposes to use Earth as a gravitational lens
I don't think that's entirely accurate. It's true that billing is a core part of most EMRs, but out of the hundreds/thousands of features in a big platform like DrChrono or EPIC, a large portion of them are not billing related.

There's tons of operational utilities like e-prescription, lab ordering, patient problem tracking, vital sign tracking, imaging and diagnostics tooling, etc. You could argue that all of those are somehow related to billing because they help doctors see more patients per day, but billing would still be possible without them, and they largely exist because doctors need them to work effectively and treat patients more efficiently, not because they directly serve the billing pipeline.
What is the point of disabled features in master except to not have to have feature branches. Making sure it compiles? You aren't really using those code paths are you? You should have unit tests on your feature branch anyways
NASA proposes to use Earth as the largest telescope ever built
Cloth masks do protect the wearer
Believe it or not they do, small arms are much easier to get than heavy weapons they also are much easier to use. The cartels ironically rely on a lot of weapons coming in from the US especially as the remnants of Cold War era proxy wars in central and South America die out and they can no longer benefit from both the US and the former USSR dumping enough weaponry to invade Europe into the jungles.

Weapons don’t grow on trees, they are easy to get as long as there are conflicts in the region which are sponsored by superpowers or other patrons with sufficient resources that facilitate those shipments once those end they become rarer and rare.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224209
NASA proposes to use Earth's atmosphere to image Earth-like planets
> they're going to be thinking about trying to survive and get to a place where they can land or at least ditch the plane survivably.

I think you immediately have to question how often this has been the source of a disaster. To me, this seems highly unlikely to have been a problem, or to be a problem at all.

Most accidents happen near airports. Most airports are in populated areas, because an airport far removed from a populated area is next to useless in terms of freight or passenger transport.

> An autonomous system doesn't have to do that

Well.. it can't. Which is part of the problem:

> it can spend its remaining time in the air finding and navigating to the most sparsely populated point of impact within its range.

That's a whole separate automation and computer intelligence problem on it's own. There's also no guarantee that a sparely populated area isn't completely empty or even currently unused for any civil or special purpose. Expecting a computer to "solve" this problem is asking a lot.

Just look at the Gimli Glider as an example[1]. Choosing a "safe" place to have an emergency isn't at all obvious and assumptions based upon outdated information are dangerous in and of themselves.

> Find the nearest/largest body of water and ditch into it

Finally.. even if it could make this determination, safely, and with enough sensor observations to reduce human loss of life on the ground, you're presuming a plane without engines can always reach this apparent planned crash site. If your plane can't add velocity, your ability to plan _anything_ is severely curtailed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Yes, I understand that. Just trying to make it clear that the issue is with that itself, not on our side.
In case of ATS, any C library can be treated as a "unsafe-marked" ATS library, so there's no problem with library support, the problem is with their formal verification. And Rust libraries regularly suffer from the same lack of formally-verified and proven-to-be-safe APIs.
How the First White House Website Came to Be
Perhaps pilots of previous generations could do this but, having trained numerous pilots for international airlines, as well as pilots for "fee-for-departure" (regional) airlines in the US, I wonder how many crews are up there that could competently handle most catastrophic events. Though I didn't train him directly, the pilot who crashed the Atlas 767 was pushed through the training program I worked for. Described as a "train wreck" in articles, his ability level was characteristic of others I trained (which I regret). Major US carriers do well screening their pilots but, at lower tiers of US aviation employment, I wonder if more automation would be the safer choice.