skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It originates with the CMS, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, sets the codes and there’s a committee of doctors that assigns relative value units to different types of work (“RVU”s). It’s all very complicated and opaque.

The US has this crazy amalgamation of taxpayer funded healthcare and private insurance funded healthcare where the each entity is trying to exert maximum pressure to either minimize expenses or maximize income, and it’s in a constant state of flux.

Thinking about the amount of man hours that are wasted on this endeavor resulting from a desire to not simply provide everyone a simple taxpayer funded system is disheartening.
I'm also curious about that. HN has very strong opinions about China especially about the Xinjiang re-education camps and/or the organ harvesting in China YET for some reason can't believe that the same country would lab make a virus like this.

idk I'm just an outsider
Why not just drive manually during the blizzard?
Sorry yes, those were expected deaths since March, not per year.

Excess deaths from

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/mortality-surve...

So 18% up in the last 9 months. Lockdown 2 dropped that to 10%/week, but that was before the effect of the December spike and the large numbers going into hospital has been truely seen.
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Currently building a privacy-first cryptocurrency portfolio management and trading app that allows you to easily create complex trades across exchanges. It will likely fail like my other projects :)
Or no commute. I like no commute :)
Yeah, all you need is one truck to lead a 'train' of autonomous trucks.. Think of the conductor/engineer being the truck in front, all other trucks ride so close to each other they cut down wind-sheer to save gas. At specific exits one truck will detach from the group, go to a staging area where a local driver finishes the last mile while the train keeps on going.
GMP is LGPL, so if you distribute a binary to someone it has to be possible for the recipient to re-link it with an alternate libgmp (either via dynamic linking, or by providing .o files and a script)
True! Though on work days you do need to wind down and possibly commute. You also spend one less night possibly mentally preparing for the next work day. While not 100% of the working, work days certainly can feel overall very different in the downtime than days off.
ohhhh well thank you it takes me a few seconds to login :d
In their 2016 NIPS talk they showed that they used mostly MPC + behavior templates. Seems still to be the same and not much ML?
Likelihood of covid originating from lab has always been 50-50, due to the fact that China has not allowed any impartial outside investigation on this. They even imposed trade restrictions on countries like Australia that demanded. What's sad is we may never know.
The biggest assumption with this sort of solution is that all state governments will act in good faith. I've had people wait weeks just to get an appointment with the welfare office in Texas.

Texas (and other states) routinely cut funding for departments that support social safety nets. Because the politicians in charge are diametrically opposed to the very idea of social safety nets.

Instead of putting more effort into combating and preventing fraud, these politicians would rather push for further cuts. The argument being that by making it less profitable to commit fraud, there will be less fraud. All the while ignoring people who actually need the social safety neet.
> At least in my tests GCC and Clang seem to propagate it just fine.

In my tests gcc clones sort and inlines the comparison only in -O3. clang doesn't do it even with -O3, neither with libstdc++ nor libc++.

https://godbolt.org/z/4feeex
Pretty much by waving my finger in the air :) I originally started with something subscription based, but it felt a bit inflexible. For example, if I offered 6mo subscriptions, people probably wouldn't purchase a subscription if they were planning a trip to take in the next month, because you're "wasting" 5mo.

Now, it could be that my prices are too high, but that was sort of my rationale--I thought it would be better to let people pay for what they need.

I think a freemium model could work, but at this point I don't think I have any real features that would meaningfully distinguish the free version from the paid version. I did consider limiting like the number of days your trip can be for "free" users--I might revisit this in the future.

Really appreciate the feedback!
Do people really not use libraries in Germany any more? In the US, they are more popular than ever.
The US government isn't great at busting $1B+ thefts either. Look at Enron, the 2008 financial collapse, and Donald Trump's career.
Could you elaborate why Reeh-Schlieder implies negative energy states? Typically in QM we only care about the spectrum being lower bounded (existence of vacua), and ignoring additive energy constants.
Most password managers let you share passwords without actually revealing the password.
The liability of China is the main question here.
If it was released from a lab (and I don't think it was), China is liable to this world pandemic which is a huge thing.
Tech firm workers in racial controversies condemn 'diversity grift'
I built this for a bit more than just "making money" (wanted some experience), and it is still early days. But I made an iOS game:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/two-birds-one-stone/id15396463...

So far, my main win has been to qualify for the apple small business program, so I will qualify for the reduced apple commission next year.

http://ideationapps.com/ (has gameplay video and other stuff for the curious).
Maybe off topic but this site might have convinced me to move to Firefox. Are all of you reading this page on mobile or a small screen?

I have a large monitor and this page expands full width of the screen and the lines are extremely hard to follow. It turns out Firefox has a "Reader View" that makes sites like this be put into a nice readable column.

Here is a comparison of the two:

https://i.imgur.com/plV0e7l.png

I find it interesting that this post reached to the top of HN with such an unreadable layout and so I was interested in if everyone has some tricks for reading content like this or is Firefox/Reader Mode the best way?
I appreciate the motivation behind this and the effort involved, but this is exactly what causes the stigma for the JS ecosystem.

“Fire off emails!”

It only works with Gmail, which will limit you. And only with user and pass, which is insecure.

No unsubscribe.

No persistence.

No SPF or DKIM, etc.

This is someone trying to solve a problem that has no real grasp of how big the scale of the problem is. There is a reason companies like Sendgrid exist, but we’re trying to recreate them for “hackers” and startups now. Great...
The developed world has sub-replacement fertility rates. As other countries develop, their fertility rate drops in the same manner.

Japan has been in a funk for years. China has shifted from a many-child culture to a one-child norm. These problems aren't theoretical.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521

https://www.oecd.org/japan/working-better-with-age-japan-978....
I think as the size of the application increases and the API you are switching out increases in importance to the functioning of that application then the analogy of moving from home goes up from moving apartments(my small side project), to moving cities (my small side project turned into a startup that has been running half a year but isn't especially profitable yet), to moving countries (my application that many large organizations use with all sorts of different functionality built in to support the needs of those organizations)
I think the public focus on cost has paradoxically led to this situation. If you’re a good engineer, why work for the government? The compensation is extremely poor compared to industry, especially in tech. The lazy/incompetent people at the top have remained there because they’re too lazy/incompetent to leave for much greener pastures. If you fired them, their replacements will be at least as bad (on average, there are some passionate and competent people), since now the pay is poor and evidently there isn’t even job security.

We’ve built a system where we refuse to pay public servants. We shouldn’t be surprised when a system designed to attract below average people leads to projects with below average results.
That doesn't really make sense because the problem were tryit to solve here is giving away too much money, which Texas gov would be on board with.
‘Ek number’ is more of a Maharashtra thing IMO. You’ll hear it quite frequently in MH state
I disagree that "it's not a coincidence that these two things happened in the same place" isn't science. It's a valid argument. In fact it's not unlike a p value. The null hypothesis is "covid came from animals". Under the null, the probability of getting this lab is very low - since there are many large cities in Asia. (The article has more details about e.g. the distance of Wuhan from wild bat populations.)
I don't say that the argument is enough to be persuasive on its own.
I assume by ISA they mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_share_agreement
Advice nudges people in a direction. Carnegie's advice is good for nudging people in the direction of being less self centered. For people pleasers who don't think of themselves enough, it is bad advice. For people too wrapped up in themselves, it is good advice.
ICE powered regular passenger cars are going to die off sooner or later sure, but I don't think motorcycles are going away in our lifetimes without some heavy regulations.

My gut says an annoyance fee makes sense, but I think we need to be careful... Maybe it's only something you enforce after you hit a threshold of deliveries per day/week or something? Today I can place a single amazon order for multiple small items (think batteries, toilet roll, etc), and there's a decent chance they'll all come on separate trucks, maybe even from different mail carriers. That doesn't feel much different? I can't think of too much more beyond a fresh cup of coffee that a drone could deliver that you can't already get today with services like UberEats et al. Should my neighbors pay an annoyance fee when they order pizza and the 18 year old delivery guy swings by with his radio on full blast? I'd love if the answer was yes, but that doesn't feel realistic.

Re: holding new technology to a higher standard... Sure, but we have to make sure not to disadvantage the new tech so much as to completely prevent adoption. If it costs $50 to get some batteries delivered in the next hour via drone vs $0 on an old ice-powered truck in the next day, we'll never move on. Even if we electrify the delivery trucks, they still cause significant wear and tear on local roads, and still pose a hazard to pedestrians (especially kids playing in otherwise quiet residential streets). We should be incentivizing companies and consumers to move away from this as fast as possible in my opinion. Make triple-glazed windows cheaper, invest in quieter drone motor tech, whatever it takes. If we regulated car emissions in the early days like we do today, we might still all be on horses...
There are very few "typical human tasks" that machine learning actually does better than a person at; playing game all the occurs to me. But driving, image description, language-translation, and so-forth, at the scale that a human does it, the human is generally still considered to do tremendously better. Of course, some ML programs are convenient in being able to do things at a large scale but a majority of what ML programs do is like language translation - not great and what we sometimes live with 'cause it's free.

Basically, one should really not discount human ability, especially in tasks considered mundane. Such skills often are often considered "mediocre" not because they're actually easy but because all human can do them, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
I also worked on a state unemployment system, and it was much the same. Took a couple weeks to get my laptop, but I still had to come in and sit in a chair and read the physical newspaper. When it did arrive, it took the better part of an hour to run the build.

That was the last government work I ever did. I lasted about 3 months.
I laughed. At least the booty would land in the bank accounts of Americans. But you're right
I bought the 8gb mini, haven't tried any dev work on it but have been editing videos using premiere. Mostly 1080p60, it's been awesome, some filters take a bit longer to preview than they do on my intel MacBook with amd gpu (my dev machine, node, python), but nothing to cause issues. I'm pleasantly surprised how well it works so far. Win 10 arm via parallels is a bit slower than I'd like but i don't need to do much in it to bother.
Oh lordy. What's the assumption here, that yeah he's sociable with interns but maybe he yells at waiters?
Nice idea to write that stuff down. Something that flummoxed me for a while was how Pokemon Yellow does the Pikachu sound, since the Game Boy doesn't really support sample-based audio. Turns out it does something akin to spending 100% of its CPU time turning the sound on and off to play the samples.
So it sounds like the fraud is far too small to care about.
This is different. This is a scientist condemning another scientist for standing on the pulpit and proselytizing to a mass of people. The cirtique by Mallory is that Levitt is using his credentials to bypass the scientific process and undermines the work of many. This is, in my opinion, something we should all condemn.
Yeah, the issue I see with something like that is that realistically, someone could easily take several years to take 3 trips.. seems a bit tricky to convert free customers to paying customers.

Thanks for the feedback and well wishes!
I would say that that option doesn't tend to appear on the ballots.
I believe it is because a lab origin would mean that we, humans, are not just the subject of the arbitrariness of nature. The virus exemplifies that we do not have control over everything. And that is a truth which is hard to accept.
Honestly, as a 3D modeler, what is your value proposition for me to have my assets on your platform? Why should I choose your platform over a platform where i get tens or hundreds of dollars for a single sale, compared to a Spotify model, where i might or might not get few dollars a month.

3D modeling is a labour intensive job and the market is way smaller than music or movies, meaning its way harder to get an audience large enough for this kind of service. Even with a audience large enough, could you guarantee I would receive as much as from other services?

Also, at $5 a month pricepoint you’re primarily going to attract below average modelers. Such a low pricepoint means the creator is not going to get much, considering the processing fees & comission and sharing the revenue with other creators.

However, as a consumer I like the idea. But as a creator I really don’t like it. If the subscription would be $50+, i would consider it.
I also think there is a lot of risk that people start to think of official records as identity (so any flaw in the system can be used to harm people by messing up their records). But that isn't how it works, identity is an intrinsic thing and official records describe aspects of it.

I certainly don't think a blockchain is of any use here. There might be some value in publishing some information in order to establish identities for use in other contexts, but a blockchain isn't necessary for that.

Even issue cryptographically strong identity cards has a bunch of hard problems. How do you repudiate a card without possessing it, how do you obtain a new one if it breaks, etc., etc.
Yeah, but an autonomous truck could pull over to the side of the road and wait for better weather
Things can change, but only in ways that are beneficial to the system. Corporations and governments at every level now have more power over human affairs than they have at any other time in human history.
Since being mandated to work from home, my team has switched to seven hour days (including an hour for lunch, ie, 10:00am - 5:00pm). My dream was a four day work week but this was my second choice! It’s so much easier to stay focused knowing the day is shorter and our productivity has shot up. There are, of course, other factors as well like. It having to commute and working remote, but still, the shorter day makes a huge difference.
(I am a Belgium resident)

I think the only reason they're considering this in Belgium right now is because they are unprepared in the extreme. They have frankly pissed away their time instead of actually preparing for the vaccine, the past nine months.

The current vaccination rollout plan leaves healthcare workers unvaccinated until march. HEALTHCARE WORKERS.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/147133/c...

There's been some pretty severe backlash to that, and rightfully so (I don't know of any other country that isn't vaccinating its health workers in the very first phase alongside senior citizens). I ran some numbers the other day and if you're distributing the vaccines exclusively via the 40-ish Belgian hospitals that can store the Pfizer one (and only 6 in Brussels), then there is no way to achieve herd immunity before end of 2020. The only real solution to that is to allow for more widespread distribution via pharmacies. (Yes, medium-term storage is an issue, but AIUI the Pfizer vaccines can still move around after thawing for some time so short term redistribution is possible if you've prepared for it).

So they're trying whatever they can to compress the timeline. It's not necessarily a bad decision, but it's a workaround to a worse one.
On sane OSes you could manually modify the routing tables. On iOS you can't even do basic things like turn of discoverable mode for bluetooth so this shouldn't be surprising.
Baltimore police does need a mass surveillance program - for it's own officers. Remember when they looked at 2 years of body-cam footage for one of their highest earners and came out the other end with 32 counts of assault, false imprisonment and generalized misconduct? [1]

They didn't get that idea themselves, though.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/12/an-office...
The French First Republic[1] and the early Soviet Union[2] both briefly reformed their calendars, but in both cases the changes were reverted after a couple of years. There's also a whole bunch of proposed calendar reforms[3], each with its pros and cons. But again, it looks like historically there's been too much resistance against calendar reforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
This site is about long distance trails--things that take weeks or months to complete, not stuff like your Old Rag for which every listed hike is in day-hike range. I don't see trail distances on your second link but once again it appears to be day-hiking.

Considering the US ones on that list--there are people that have managed to do all three in one year, albeit with some flip-flopping. There are more of them than there are moonwalkers.....still living.
Wow, sounds like a rollercoaster. You sure got some stories out of that one though!

I like the concept a lot, shame you never got to find out if it would have worked.
Please do not conflate cynicism with depression, or try to diagnose people with medical conditions over the internet.
100ms is very low for doing decent compression and decompression.

Network latency added by natting is microseconds.

Imagine I had a public IP - no natting involved. How would my video client tell my stateful firewall to allow a new incoming connection from the calling device?
That is what is behind it? I thought the cause was something less childish.
Another advantage of #define PRIMITIVE - it doesn't steal a handy 1-char identifier that the consuming program might want to use for its own purposes. And as well as making a longer identifier, I'd also personally suggest also adding a library-specific prefix, to further reduce the risk of conflicts.

(I have worked on code where the debug print macro was called P...)
Brazil didn't covered up, but it sure downplayed. Actually is still in the downplay process.
Fun game, even with trackpad I can do diagonal words. Nicely done.
If you want to write a game console emulator, but prefer to start with something simple — I suggest to look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 It could be implemented in a couple of evenings in any language.
I remember that Shopify used to have this as well for placed orders.
We all secretly hope 2020 was a blunder and we are starting from scratch.
What options are available if I want to keep it, security be damned?
dragonwriter is right.

In C for ex.

const int* p

means the value pointed at can't change, but

int* const p

means you can't reaffect p
They are supposed to vaccinate essential workers and seniors first, but the interest is so underwhelming they basically vaccinate everyone with Russian health insurance (Russia is single-payer).
Mallory is not saying that his words are directly swaying people but that his words are being used as political tool to undermine the scientific consensus.
I agree, but i am sure that inofficially not working for 1 day a week would get you fired in a megacorp, even if you perform the same or better.

How did you communicate this to upper management or was it don't ask/don't tell?
Yeah, the problem with this startup is that the high-minded Bayesianism of their model is going to run up against the crass incentive to make exciting, media-friendly claims. Their track record doesn't seem that rigorous either, they just list a few (like 5) cases where evidence has later supported them: https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_track_record
I think it's preference, do you want to enjoy your life while you're young, or bank that you'll live to an older age, and enjoy life when you're old.
>'When I would talk to someone about an idea, I found myself not understanding a word they were saying.’

Ha! It goes both ways! Penrose gave a colloquium at my institution when I was a graduate student (physics department), and I've often reflected on how it was the most impossible to understand talk I've ever attended.

He had multiple overhead projectors going to different screens (and this was in the early 2000s when wet-erase transparencies were already less common), and he kept mixing up the slide order or which projector he wanted them on. Then the geometry was so far beyond my capabilities that getting to the science was impossible.
Dollars aren’t capital. The fed can double the dollars in circulation tomorrow, but that doesn’t change the amount of manufacturing machinery in the country.
This is because this follows Google’s internal Python styeguide, which was established well before PEP8 and even Python 2.x.
Are you calling a predictable result of vanilla capitalism, that is, some companies succeeding while others fail, a “negative externality”?
The original version also had a smaller pop cap, less demanding graphics+audio, much smaller maps and less simulation (particles, animated water, fog, etc). Some other engine functionality like pathfinding has also been reworked in the Definitive Edition, so it's far from an apples-apples comparison.

> If it's become a bottleneck it's likely that there is very low hanging fruit to fix it.
This was true for the previous "remaster" of AOE2 (HD edition). That had persistent performance issues and was poorly optimized despite maintaining the same graphics style. If you read through a couple of the dev blogs for the DE release, I think it's pretty clear that there's little if any low-hanging fruit left before pretty major architectural improvements are necessary.
Congrats and big thanks to all contributors!
Is it possible to get QEMU to emulate these kinds of hardware? Assuming one knows enough C to make the machine and bus emulator that fits into QEMU?
Maybe try fewer animations