skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in this case, you're getting back what you put into the conversation. I've never been accused of disregarding human life, and I've had a bunch of conversations here and elsewhere about COVID-19 response.

It feels like you're in what I call a "contrarian headspace" where you believe you've discovered something that's under-reported or under-represented, and you've grabbed firmly onto that belief, riding it into every conversation you can. Here be dragons, especially on HN.

I think, to retain my own sanity, I'm going to bow out of this conversation, but I do suggest you take a good hard look at how your beliefs landed you on the same side as the system crushing Rebekah Jones. What they're doing to her is, regardless of legal technicality, problematic, and if you're not able to see that because of your feelings about COVID coverage, you're in some trouble.
Distilling my notes of the NYT bestseller book, The Power of Habit
Thanks for the link... but you just sent me down the rabbit hole of old Mike Wallace interviews!
Or even small organizations, or individuals. Our phones storage is uniformly encrypted by default now and have been for several years. There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts.

That said: there's no particular reason to think this laptop wasn't encrypted.
Since the headline calls her a "scientist" now we can rely on "scientific consensus".

She isn't a scientist.
I lived under the French system for years, and it’s entirely untrue that there is no cost or choice component. You pick the doctors and you pay them fully out of pocket. Your insurance company reimburses you at ~80% of reasonable and customary rates. If you wind up going for inpatient care it’s different, as is the situation for those in extreme poverty. Also, you can pay extra for 100% coverage if you want, but ISTR it was expensive and not really worth it for us.

Now, when I left, the doctors and insurance companies were setting up an analog of the US system: If you saw certain doctors, they would not charge you at point of delivery and there was no co-insurance requirement. It was still new and inconvenient, so I don’t know how that’s worked out.

I don’t have direct experience with the Swiss system, but from everything I’ve read, conversations, etc., it’s a slightly cheaper version of the US system. You buy leveled insurance, you have to pay some out of pocket, etc.
I can’t help but feel great curiosity as to what’s on that laptop. If it was anything important I think the government would be reacting far more aggressively. In my opinion it matters less the documents on the system, than what might be contained in emails or chat transcripts.
And old rant in their issue queue: https://github.com/probot/stale/pull/107#issuecomment-379021...

> Thesis: Stalebot -- in dutiful service of current human resource constraints -- feels like it unthinkingly prioritizes discard of past contributors' time resources, over the mobilization of new human resources.

I've had a beef with Stale since early on. It's a very old-world view of solving the problem of open source capacity. A better tool would instead try to find and encourage new resources (new contributors), whereas stalebot drives them away, and so kinda cuts the project off at the knees

imho, in the short-term, it rescues the cognitive and emotional resources of current contributors, but (in the long-term) drives future contributors away through promoting lack of care and by encouraging maintainers to not interact with them.
£9.15 per item [independent of its cost]

That's basically what a copay is.
The Vedas do not mention monkey people (vanaras), but the Mahabharata and the Ramayana do. The Vedas were composed 800-1000 years before these two epics. So the invention of the vanaras probably happened later, perhaps due to influence from indigenous religious ideas or perhaps a new set of myths. Interestingly, the Ramayana only gives vanaras monkey-like features but doesn't identify them as such, so there is some ambiguity about how they are to be represented.
> What is "a credible existential threat to civilization" to you?

For example: a delusional or demagogic leader who promulgates lies about the outcome of an election in order to fire up a mob and incite them to attempt to violently take over the seat of government of a country with nuclear weapons.

Not that such a thing would ever actually happen. I guess I'm just a worrier.
Apple pulls the plug on user-found method to sideload iOS apps on Mac
I haven't run into this, but considered a variant on it by connecting Yousician to Beeminder -- self-binding for piano practice (https://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/). I encountered a couple things that made it not worthwhile for me:

- I enjoy practicing, so the benefit from self-binding is reduced.

- Yousician doesn't have a supported API, just unofficial libraries written by users, so my connection would be brittle.

- I could probably only have tracked minutes per day or week, and while that's not bad, it's not a great measure of actual progress (and over half of my practice minutes are not using Yousician).

If Yousician had an API and Beeminder had native support for it, I'd probably have linked them and made a commitment. Somewhere in here, there's something I'd use :-) I think the best element of what you described is that it's completely passive yet works for anything. If I have to do a lot of session setup (like telling it which bars I'm playing), or run it on a computer instead of a phone/tablet, I don't think the benefit would be worth the effort.

For me, I'd accept whatever tradeoffs were required in order to make it completely passive (other than starting and stopping the app for a practice session). Even if that meant I only got heuristics and had to trust its inferences, that beats taking my hands off the keyboard to mess with it. For example, maybe it estimates my tempo accuracy based on how much my recording changes when quantized, and infers that more than X seconds of silence is the start of a new analysis period (new playthrough).

Feel free to contact me if you want a sounding board.
I have written very little rust code, but loop is probably the thing I like the least. It requires mutation to be useful in most cases, even for things where you could avoid it. I would much rather have something like scheme's named let (or a decorator to enforce LLVMs "sibling recursion").
No, parent is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_two_to_tango

The meaning of this expression has been extended to include any situation in which the two partners are by definition understood to be essential (...).
https://archive.is/wsmVU
Never forget that you are a seven-holed donut
You misunderstand: it's ageist to suggest that parents and grandparents are by definition not likely to be technical enough to use mitigations like containers and such.

Which it is.
Negotiating tactic. They'll hire someone with 1 year but offer much lower than the listed price because "they wanted 5 years"
I linked to the website (which was updated in May, but its contents could do with more work) because it has examples of how well the suite fits together.

I don't know much about Jax. I've seen competent benchmarks showing an order of magnitude benefit for using ReverseDiff from the AutoDiff suite over Autograd, which is what Pytorch uses for reverse-mode autodiff
My issue with the article that o treat technosolutionism as something imposed on society by engineers misses the point entirely. Technosolutionism is a response to the complete failure of our deliberative democratic institutions to deliver actual solutions to our problems. It is not reasonable to ask people to trust their institutions when they have frequently and completely failed the people they were created to serve. If we want people to trust deliberative democratic processes, and I think we should, then we need to ensure those bodies are actually capable of functioning.
I've heard the "fox plus hedgehog" idea before, as having a "T-shaped skill set". You have a familiarity with a range of related topics (this is the cap of the T) and deep understanding of a few things (the stem of the T). The premise is that this means you provide valuable expertise (for the deep part). But the breadth of basic knowledge means you are also able to collaborate and delegate well.

I've found that having other languages than my workaday ones in my repertoire is a valuable part of the cap of the T -- although it's certainly not the only kind of thing that should be there.
Hey there. The comment you are replying to specifically addresses this.

I find reading comment threads containing comments that don’t seem to account for the literal assertions made in the previous comment tend to be difficult to follow and quickly degrade.
How do we know venus fly traps feel?
Yes basically it's two browsers talking to each other.
But there is an important thing to notice.

You need to run a signaling server running somewhere. You cant run a signaling server in browser. When doing screen sharing between two browsers it basically goes to external signaling server on internet and asks credentials and then doing peer to peer communication.

Deskreen can run without access to world wide web with its own local signaling server.

The speed is also much better when doing direct communication through local signaling server running on host machine.

Hope that helps you to understand it better.

Cheers
Thanks, this confused me, I assumed it was aught/zero and couldn't parse it.
It seems that the general consensus here is that if a system is open, either without a password, or with a widely known password, it’s OK to go into that system. Even though accessing it may be a crime, reading the comments here it sounds like a lot of people are defending her because of the lack of security on the system as if it absolves her of liability. Did she not access the system without permission?
He lost me at - Forgot to eat Pizza.
I do something like this in "modern" Java to get for-each with index:

{ int i = -1; for (V v : list) { i++;
// stuff
} }

While declaring i = -1 to start is a little gross, I like that it has some of the same properties as a normal for loop. No effect on parent scope, and all loop-logic is concentrated on the first (textual) line.
> For a new R user it seems so much simpler:

> 1. run "library(dplyr)" 2. Google "how to XYZ in dplyr" 3. ??? 4. Profit

I beg to differ here. There’s much to be said for using data.table and base R instead of the tidyverse.

This article is worth a read in my view: https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic
> I don't agree that being forced to suffer the consequences of other people's poor decisions is freedom.

You're not forced to suffer the consequences. You have the freedom to adopt countermeasures. You can drive defensively and stay alert when behind the wheel as a countermeasure against other drivers possibly being drunk. You can wear a mask (properly), social distance, avoid crowds, etc., as a countermeasure against other people possibly having an infectious disease. That's how it's supposed to work in a free society.

> While Prohibition failed miserably in aggregate, its ongoing legacy of (American!) laws against drunk driving and public drunkenness are perfectly good examples of how this ethos works and why it's important.

The reason why the laws you refer to work reasonably well in America is that they are only enforced when someone has already made a mistake. We don't have roadblocks everywhere with cops forcibly administering breathalyzers to all drivers to make sure none of them are drunk. We don't have cops going around cities forcibly administering breathalyzers to everyone walking on the streets to make sure none of them are drunk. We only enforce those laws when someone has already done something like cause an accident, or drive erratically enough to get a cop's attention, or behave in public in a way that is obviously due to drunkenness.

And that very method of enforcement means that you, the individual citizen, cannot depend on it to protect you individually. In other words, those laws are not shielding you, individually, from the consequences of other people's bad decisions. You still have to adopt your own countermeasures when you drive, because you can't assume that every other driver is sober. And, again, that's the way it's supposed to work in a free society.
Her status as “data scientist” was discussed in previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942

She answers in this post quite clearly.

> Q: Do you consider yourself a GIS person, or a data scientist, or a whistleblower? Or maybe all three?

> A: I’m not a data scientist. I keep emphasizing to folks that I am a geographer — and I was recognized as a geographer in the news for months before the raid. Now I’m back to data scientist, and it’s highly inappropriate. All scientists work with data, that doesn’t make them data scientists. I consider myself a GIS expert, a whistleblower, a geographer.
Saying "It takes surprisingly little time to do!" isn't trying to give a lower bound on how much time it takes. Obviously not completely unambiguous, but the "sufficient" reading is completely natural English.
It's dangerous because poorly executed lockdowns can be counterproductive. New cases are currently higher in many locked-down states than they are in Florida - this is of course a multifactorial process, but part of the story has to be that people have stopped complying with the lockdowns.
No evidence Vitamin D affects Covid severity in people of European ancestry
That’s different, Reality Winner stole a secure document from a secure system, smuggled it out and gave it to a third-party. Do you know of any government or corporate employer that would condone such behavior?
But more net energy released when the oxygen instantly binds much more strongly into something else.
People spend their lives scrambling for power. Then when they get it, they're out of ideas after "Tax Cuts!". Zero vision, just self interest...
This sort of thing must make some cheaper alternatives appear.
If you adopt a health foreign baby it is because the baby was kidnapped from his loving parents and then a corrupt judge signed off on it.

The above isn't always true, but if you didn't investigate the agency deeply you should assume it is. This is why international adoptions are so hard, many counties have caught on and given up on giving the few kids who do need real homes help.
This is why (more than anything) I wanted the UK to stay in the EU. The EU seems to be one of the few organisations with the clout and principle to actually make this sort of thing happen - to improve people's lives and raise standards.

2 year guarantees being another example:
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
Except Li Wenliang in China was never jailed and completely exonerated by the state and never lost his job.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" may also be relevant here. By all means, criticize proposals to help weed out those that are truly bad and to refine those with problems into something better, but don't rule them out entirely because they don't check every box.

Obviously every situation is different and cost-to-benefit must always be weighed, but I think it's often better to implement an imperfect solution while waiting on something better.
Maybe it's egoist to do so, but if by doing check-ups I can improve the quality of my life when I'm older then I'm all in for that.

Moreover, some preventable conditions don't show symptoms. High cholesterol, for instance, doesn't show any symptoms until one of your blood vessels is clogged, but chances are that by then is too late and you might suffer a stroke/heart attack.

I don't know how much the average treatment for those costs, but I would say way less than few tens of blood/urine tests. Or even more "stealing" a good heart because you need a transplant due to a preventable condition.

By the way now I circumvent the Swiss reluctance to prevention by going to Italy and paying the analysis out of my pocket. It's still very cheap (~100 Euros every 18 month on average).
Somebody has to fill out the left half of the bell curve.
It's a stolen laptop, there's physical evidence. And she's on camera in the capitol. Seems like we're judging her on a lot more than just the "assertion" of her "jilted former lover".

I mean, this guy's tip that she had the laptop turned out to be correct! But you're saying trusting him about her intent to sell it to Russia demonstrates a lack of "skepticism and critical thinking"?
>pay for US doctors makes up a fairly small portion of overall US medical expenditures (less than 10%)

That is likely too low.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provides a National Health Expenditure estimate annually. [1]

Physician and clinical services represented $772 billion out of about $3.8 trillion, so more like 20%.

Hospital services are the other big one: about $1.2 trillion.

US physicians are paid terrifically relative to their counterparts almost anywhere else, this is especially true for specialists.

In fact, physicians represent about 15% - 16% of the top 1% of income earners in the US. See table 2 from this paper: https://web.williams.edu/Economics/wp/BakijaColeHeimJobsInco...
which was written using tax return data, not, e.g., self-reported income data.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Yup, from the article sounds like such thinking has been thrown out for a while.

Rather than basing on loosely defined observed traits like if something 'feels', we now have the context of evolution to guide our taxa.
I initially downvoted you as I read that wrong.

Yeah - we are in agreement - fuck surveillance...

Did anyone on HN also notice that as soon as Snowden released his thing, Palantir employees stopped wearing swag?

And facebook employees are now directed to stop wearing swag?
Do you know of any interesting natural ismorphism between the categories you define in your paper and the category of finite-dimensional hilbert spaces? Curious if you have thought about applications to categorical quantum mechanics.
Rather than a “rape kit start up,” which is a really awful phrase to use, why don’t we process all of the backlog rape kits that are sitting in the evidence lockers across the country, first.
Do you actually need to see it? The exploit should work fine even if the player is not visible.
My understanding is the insurance companies are incented for C to increase as well - under the ACA insurance companies can only have a certain profit margin, so the only way to increase profit is to increase revenue and payouts.
Yes it does. GP says we should make people publicly feel that it’s not OK to not want to change their body. That’s shame.

I’m not debating what’s healthy, I’m debating what we consider “ok”.

“Obesity is a health risk” is a fact indeed. “All health risks are not ok” is not a scientific fact.
Show HN: AI: Reversion to the old days – Software as a product (SaaP)
Multi post

1st Post: https://danmorozoff.substack.com/p/ai-reversion-to-the-old-d...

2nd Post: https://danmorozoff.substack.com/p/ai-reversion-to-the-old-d...
A flytrap closes in response to tactile stimuli. Meaning that it has a sense of touch.

The word "feel" is nebulous, but at least one meaning would include that.
Yet another example of why the whole concept of third-party cookies does much more evil than good. Yet all major browsers keep them enabled by default.
It’d be very easy for a foreign agent to sneak in with the crowd. In one of the latter videos on that thread, it looked like she was directing/encouraging people to push forward.
Sometimes people choose a path that is less convenient, they don't always choose the most convenient, right?

You may go to an ice-cream shop further away, because you like their ice cream better. You may choose to buy from an independent bookseller instead of amazon because you want to support them to stay in business. Or you might have to choose between a cheaper but less convenient option (say with two week delivery time), or a more convenient but more expensive option -- some people at some times will choose cheap, others at other times convenience.

Convenience/being "easier" doesn't always win against other values.

This shows that convenience or "easiness" is in fact just one of several values, weighted differently in different contexts.

Or are you talking about the fact that it might not be totally conscious and explicit? True, I think the way the OP is thinking about values, they are not always totally conscious and explicit.

Compare to other values in OP's list -- they aren't all "ethical" at all. Values in this context aren't about morality or ethics, just about what factors are valued. Say, "stability" or "velocity". A software development process doesn't necessarily consciously and explicitly acknowledge that they have chosen "velocity" over "approachability".
It depends on the company and how detached the money people are.

In my experience, companies with full closets of office supplies and lots of stuff don’t last. Exception: when investors are plowing unlimited cash.

First rule of procurement is to get 3 quotes and second is to buy intelligently. Engineers shouldn’t be buying cables, and if you just buy the first thing you see, the pennies you miss add up. It also avoids putting you in the position where you’re firing a valuable engineer because he’s buying stuff inappropriately to accumulate loyalty points or helping out a friend selling stuff, etc.
People like to harp on C++, but templates permit code that is simultaneously maximally clear and efficient:

#include <utility>

swap(s[i], s[j]);
Dummy display adapter for $1.47 shipped with promo code 7O8A2CEG

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08RCHWKWQ/
This is a bit chicken-and-egg. People are uninformed about cost and quality of healthcare because the third-party payer system obscures detail (often intentionally).

Spend some time uninsured and you become a very discerning consumer.

Further, for every service that requires healthcare advocacy (often provided by family members, btw, not professionals even in existing system) there are probably >five that are commodity services (labs, prescriptions, diagnosis, imaging, etc.)
What the ..... My wife paid non evasive extraction of appendix 600 euros in a private hospital (and was an emergency) in East EU and is considered luxury by some. It's free in public hospitals.

You guys are swimming in cash.
I don’t know if you realize this, but when you write it this way it seems that you are implying an ‘American way of thinking’ is a morally inferior one.
Agreed, but that's because they're hard to integrate together: one is concerned with enumerating over all facts that humans know about (a la Cyc) and the other is concerned with learning those directly from data. Developing feedback systems that combine these two would be quite exciting.
OP is taking a swing at Go's lack of generics.

Just because a language focuses on simplicity does not automatically make it bad. People use Go to solve complex issues, so it makes total sense none of that working memory should be occupied with understanding language features, even if they're as simple as generics.

A more extreme way to write Go is "space shuttle style" Code, as used in the Kubernetes Volume Controller, a radically different approach to "I want all my complex features that I can use to shoot myself in the foot".

You might be able to handle a firearm, but we have plenty of injuries and deaths through mishandled firearms every year, don't think you're exempt from that (or if you insist, at least do not talk down the need for safety).

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/con...