skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all starting to smack of desperation on the part of the authorities.

Hopefully common sense will kick in at some point, but for now it doesn't bode well for those in charge.
Do they adjust brightness or fake it by adjusting colour output?
For a contrast [1] from the other side of the pond, you could get by on about $3k USD (most British people have no idea about this! [2]):

> RESULTS

> Fifty laparoscopic appendicectomies were performed. Median operative time was 60 min. The median total operative cost of laparoscopic appendicectomy was £906. Median equipment cost for laparoscopically completed cases was £254. Median total in-patient cost was £1617 (range, £880–£3360). This compared with a mean re-imbursement of £1981 representing a [hospital] cost benefit of £233 per case (P = 0.0009).

> CONCLUSIONS

> Despite a liberal use of disposable equipment, laparoscopic appendicectomy can still be performed within the confines of the national tariffs. There is a considerable variation in the cost of this procedure, and it may be possible to reduce costs by more stringent use of disposable equipment and standardising recovery protocols.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966171/
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2016/feb/...
I'm a graduate student that's switched almost completely over to Julia. Prior to it I worked in both MATLAB (the IDE is so nice, and writing out matrix computations is just great) and Python (for ML). Julia is absolutely nicer to write in than either of the two. MATLAB is slow and at times feels less like a programming language and more like an incomplete and brittle interface with the JVM. Python is also slow, and it feels awkward to use given that it was not explicitly designed for scientific workflows. With Julia I get proper typing, incredible speed, easy parallelization, and a kick ass REPL.

The only thing I truly miss in using Julia is the plotting capacities of MATLAB. I haven't found an environment that can match it in terms of interactivity. Give me the ability to (easily) save interactive figures for later use and Julia would be perfect.
> They contain code, rendered Markdown, images, plots, video players, widgets, etc.

The code could be verbatim python code (or whatever language the notebook uses), and the rest could be embedded inside comments. I don't see any problem with that (besides the very concept of "rendered Markdown" being totally out of order). The fact that they are saving it as json by default seems more to be laziness by the developers than a well thought-out solution, that could be just a straightforward serializer.
Well maybe some of us need to fix our attitudes a little more.
There will never be 10x as many providers due to the AMA and lobbying. Existing interests don't want to see lower prices and competition.

If this was possible, I'd agree with you. But the reality is that the best we can hope for is single payer.
> Bitcoin will consume any and all energy resources necessary to secure its monetary network,

> which is inherently driven by the base demand to hold it as a currency. The more people

> that value the long-term stability it provides, the more energy it will consume.

> In the end, this consumption will ensure all other derivatives of energy consumption will

> continue to be fulfilled, which is why there is no more important long-term use of energy

> than securing the bitcoin network. Put a price on economic stability and the economic freedom

> a stable monetary system provides; that is the true justification for the amount of energy

> bitcoin should and will consume. Everything else is a distraction.

--

Rhetoric of the article in a nutshell: Economic stability is priceless. Bitcoin is the one true way
to have economic stability. The energy used by Bitcoin is then not wasted, however massive it is.
The charges:

"Jones is charged with one count of "offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices," the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said in a statement Monday."
People have been trying and failing to transmute lead into gold for centuries.

Some things just don't work. And proof of stake is not exactly technologically difficult. Yet it's still not here.
Think Lazy (open letter to the Safari team)
there are a bunch within 4 hours however, counting by metro population. Boston - NYC - Philadelpha - DC is the most obvious candidate for a dedicated 300-350kph HSR, that investment should be a no-brainer. Further candidates: Chicago - Cleveland - Pittsburgh - Philadelphia, SF - San Jose - Bakersfield (for connectivity) - LA - San Diego, Dallas - Houston.
There's a whole galaxy of small and medium (and actually quite large) businesses automatizing the boring shit in a boring way. Its my experience these shops nearly always use Windows. Note that most regular people do as well, so there's a fertile ground. Think of how things like Embarcadero and Pascal survives.
I always find this a bit ridiculous - do folks that want babies really know what they are getting into? Heck, do folks that have babies?

Probably not. The difference is that we can do things to prepare foster parents or adoptive parents for it - more so than natural birth.
... if you realize that not every company needs designers to access source, why is it shocking to you that designers don't have GH accounts? (Totally ignoring the fact that a large percentage of companies doesn't even use Github for their source code)
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Not particularly, no.

I use the word "regime" to differentiate the faux-religious oligarchy of power players who manipulate the Iranian government from the Iranian people and their non-governmental institutions.

It's a regime that pretends to have democracy, but only establishes a democratic caricature. Take, for example, that the President of Iran is a relatively powerless figurehead whose electoral transitions hide the constancy of the Supreme Leader's control over the nation. Consider also that the candidates who run for that office must be approved by the Guardian Council, which means that an election for the Iranian presidency is not free even if it is conducted fairly.

I think Iranians have a greater problem with their government than does the US establishment.

This fact is also true of Venezuela, another country that I assume would fall into the basket to which you refer. Both Iran and Venezuela have a large diaspora. The Iranian diaspora consists largely of people whose families were well-established prior to the Revolution of 1979; many of those people and their children are now doctors, lawyers, and engineers in other parts of the world. Comparatively speaking, the Venezuelan diaspora did not come from the upper class, as the middle class rather than the upper class was gutted in that country, and many of the people who have taken buses across South America in the past eight years or so arrive with nearly nothing. Many beg in order to pay for food and shelter, some resort to crime, and others leave behind a work history in a specialized field to work basic jobs (such as running a burger stand, or selling beers at events).

Those Venezuelans, too, have a far greater problem with their country's regime than does the US establishment.
Not everyone is in IT.
I see. Echoing the sibling comment: can you provide a bit more context for the kind of programming that you do? When does such a 'scriptable' DI framework become necessary/preferable? My initial reaction is one of aversion, which makes me think I haven't encountered the kind of problem where scriptable DI solves more problems than it creates.

The closest thing that comes to mind is writing software with some sort of global configuration. i.e.: the user provides some options (CLI flags, environment variables, configuration files, etc.) to change the runtime behavior of the software (e.g. use filesystem storage vs S3 storage, etc.).

In Go, I've always solved this pretty straightforwardly by combining Fx and functional options [1].

[1] https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fr...
Almost 60% of projected spending is not on all health and social services, but only 3 specific programs, 2 of which primarily benefit the elderly.

It can still be true that if a program to support the success of foster children increased by 10% of the budget from somewhere else, the program would be significantly more successful in helping children.
Julia absolutely is a general purpose language and has been from the beginning. However, there are plenty of languages that are fine for building websites, whereas there are no other languages with the combination of speed and usability that Julia offers in technical computing. It's a lovely language for doing all kinds of work and I personally mostly use it for non-technical computing these days — specifically to implement package management client/server infrastructure, which is mostly web + file system wrangling.
>Technosolutionism is a way of understanding the world that assigns priority to engineered solutions to human problems. Its first principle is the notion that an app, a machine, a software program, or an algorithm offers the best solution to any complicated problem.

Critics of "technosolutionism" as the author calls it often end up committing the same mistake backwards. Why implement an unpopular, slow, inconsistent and/or expensive social reform when a perfectly good technology does exist?

One example is noise pollution. We continue to build buildings with thin walls where even the "recommended" STC 50 means that you can hear "loud speech" through the wall, to say nothing of music:

http://commercial-acoustics.com/common-wall-stc-values/

Then we waste inordinate amounts of time and energy fining noise violations, which fails to actually prevent noise, but does do a good job of making young people hate the cops. After more than 10 years living in what passes for multi-unit housing in the United States, I still lie awake at night wishing for technosolutionism to put a proper wall between me and my neighbors.
The model is huge and is currently run in the cloud on many machines.
This could be a good argument for getting people vaccinated even if they feel they aren't at risk and their families have already been vaccinated. If the virus is allowed to circulate in any form, it risks mutating into a form that will bypass any vaccine, rendering it ineffective, meaning even vaccinated individuals are at risk.

It won't work on true anti-vaxxers but it could convince people who are merely indifferent or think they themselves aren't at risk.
I also really wish people understood that it's time society stops shrugging its collective shoulders and saying "not my problem" when it comes to stuff like that. I don't have any solutions, but there is a dire need for more institutional compassion.
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Gofakeit v6. Now supports concurrency and crypto/rand
The new v6 release now supports the ability to have localized rand that allows for concurrent generating of random data. Crypto/rand has now been integrated as well as if you have a custom rand that fulfills the math/rand source64 interface you can use it with gofakeit. Let me know your thoughts.

https://github.com/brianvoe/gofakeit
I knew there were people who don't see anything, but I would have thought anybody could do 6. I can imagine far more complex 3D stuff (more than rotating, also complex movements) but it's blurry unless I designed it or know the thing/place well (like my house), but I can "zoom" into things to get more detail.

You learn something new every day I guess. I wonder if this can be used to predict what fields someone goes into or could go into that they'd be good at (engineering, etc).
This is a bad link, not sure how it got upvoted when following it fails (there’s a trailing . after the domain). That’s kinda fishy...

Correct link should be https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/18/the-embedded-yout...
I think E14 bulbs are just too small for high power output. I only use them for accent lights that don't need a lot of power.
Yes. What I really want is that ipynb disappears everywhere forever to be replaced by jupytext or a variant of it.
You can't waste money on the scale of the US system by simply paying doctors too much. Rather, you need to hire entire departments of nonproductive people - eg billing and administration. When you zoom in, most of these positions look like a necessary function, but systematically they don't need to exist. Take for instance a "nurse navigator", whose entire job is to deal with insurance company rigmaroles - as a patient you're extremely thankful to have them, but their position is actually only necessary due to a corresponding insurance company department (that you're also paying for!) trying to deny you care.

The ultimate problem is this planned economy mandate of "full employment". It is in no individual's interest to declare that their own job is counterproductive, otherwise they'll starve. So they hang on performing in their own little niche, sucking resources out of the system so they personally can continue living a dignified life. We're stuck in a paperclip maximizer, and the healthcare industry is one of the best small-scale illustrations of this.
Or government IT never revoked her credentials to some FTP or someone else sent her the file so she could keep working on her data project, etc.

If the file was on a public website, then I hope the government smacks the prosecutor down hard. If the file contained citizen PII related to covid, I would hope it’s not on a public website. And if it did contain specific Covid infections for citizens, that’s a HIPAA violation for both her and the government agency if it was on a public website.
I think the difference in wages narrows down with specializations. I linked just the "general practitioner" because I couldn't find an average including all the specializations.
You've misinterpreted that part of the article.

The reason to avoid a monetary reward is not that it is tacky, but because money can easily be used to pass on influence to offspring, such as by boosting their profile, or buying votes for them. This can undermine a selection mechanism where they should win or gain reputation by engaging in pro-social activities.

Also, not everything may be monetised. I cannot sublet the garage attached to my apartment for example, because the contract forbids it. AirBnB is banned in some cities/situations.
Kurzgesagt has made a video about space junk.
End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yS1ibDImAYU
Could someone point me toward a good link or explainer on what this whole thing is about? I kinda feel like I've jumped into a soap opera with zero context. Who is Rebekah Jones and wha exactly did she do or not do with the State of Florida's COVID data? (That's all I've gathered so far).
n00b question: What is the ^= operator, and what language is it from?
Also, I think this may be the only data structure I have heard of that has an O(1) reverse ordering operation?
Now around 50,000 people live in Venice. It not so empty.
In Rome, Florence it is the same a lot of people have moved in the suburbs. Mestre, the city near Venice, has 88,552 resident.
I lived in Venice for about 30 years.
I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io

I setup a discord channel for the project https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG
If it contained phone numbers and Covid status, that’s a HIPAA concern no matter the intent or source of data.
This Guardian article from August 2020 describes and defends her actions:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/florida-rebe...

TLDR: she felt the Florida Governor was pushing to re-open schools etc too fast for political reasons. To save lives, she pushed against the official narrative.

I don't know if she just lobbied her colleagues, or if she hijacked the state's website. It does sound like she was "insubordinate".
Yes of course doubling would be a game changer! Think of the huge amount of good stuff already covered in healthcare and social services, even a 10% increase in budget could do a massive amount of good.
>raw cost of inpatient and outpatient care

I am interested to understand what makes the "raw" costs so wildly different.

When my son had an infection in germany, we went to the equivalent of pediatric urgent care and after seeing the nurse, having bloodwork done and a few different 15 minute sessions with the physician we came to the end of the visit with the doctor, they apologized that we had to be charged the full uninsured rate and that a bill would be given to us later that we could use to have our insurance (they could not bill our insurance internationally.) We paid the 50 euros and asked what the total amount would be, assuming that was the co-pay. There was a lot of confusion because the 50 euro wasn't the copay -- it was the full-freight amount. Getting a single 15 minutes with a doctor, let alone the prep with the nurses and bloodwork being rushed would be far more than that in USA.
Motivation: How Unsplash.com Was Created?
In typical comment section fashion most of the people including yourself don't know anything about the details of this case.

She was accessing a system that she was not supposed to access anymore including for messaging employees of the state of Florida. she was no longer an employee and was using the system to send out mass text messages.

They traced her IP and sent police to knock on her door with a search warrant. She would not open the door for over an hour so they eventually went into her home with more aggressive force. Her entire story for 2020 has been driven by her original termination due to her conflict with the data science team. She was making updates to the dashboard without their permission or approval and was terminated. Then when this happened she made a claim that is not substantiated that her conflict with the data science team was driven by a desire to hide data from the public on the part of the state. This was in May. The figures she claims were being hidden never materialized because it was never actually true. she had claimed tens of thousands more people had died than the state was reporting which was completely untrue.

The reality is that the partisan press and numerous partisan actors used her as a useful idiot to attack their political enemy Governor DeSantis. All of this was around this narrative that Florida must have far more deaths and infections because they were opening up more aggressively than other states with high death counts and infection rates. The reality is that the data is pretty clear and states like California aren't doing better than Florida in any metrics.

The most problematic element to all of this has been her shameless self-promotion that appeals to conspiracy theorist and others. And let's be clear: the media started calling her a data scientist to bolster credibility for their partisan attacks against DeSantis and that's the primary reason.

I would welcome any HN reader to look at the state statistics on covid especially per capita and wonder why the media treatment of certain states has been completely different than other states that have identical statistics. I have done so and the biggest driver I have found has been the political party of the governor. Illinois has not done well. California is not doing well. Florida has done far better than it should given its elderly population. Georgia is not markedly worse than other states, but media called their decision to open in the spring "an experiment in human sacrifice."
How do we disrupt the fucking debacle that is US healthcare?

Would it be possible to create a subscription-based health network that was vertically integrated and provided just basic outpatient needs? Charge $9/mo or something ridiculously low and encourage everyone to check their health often and maintain healthy lifestyles?

Use automation to reduce costs. Then gradually increase the scope of care.

That won't help with surgery, cancer, childbirth, etc. right away, but it might create a gravitational shift that puts swaths of expensive general practitioners out of business, creating excess supply and lowering the range of what insurance covers. That might greatly reduce costs.

We have to eat away at this bloated, inaccessible system somehow.
Yeah that's a generally interesting one because Kaiser's pricing is inflated assuming that all their patient's also have Kaiser insurance. But appendectomies do range quite a bit.
Neither you nor the OP have provided a reasonable example of a model which is less predictive and also more "true." the OPs analogy has been discussed to death here, and yours is explicitly of a model which is in fact more predictive.
The low-down on LOADALL (1990)
Are We Really Engineers?
Tantacrul’s video about the creation of the new engraving font (https://youtu.be/XGo4PJd1lng) is also an important story about the MS-DOS Score program, software obsolescence and stewardship, and the loss of value that can happen when an industry relies on proprietary software.

Without polemics or politics, this ends up presenting one of the strongest moral arguments for open source licensing.
> Success comes down to IQ

I think it arguably more likely that acceptance into the education system comes down to IQ due to antiquated practices in attempting to derive intelligence. Being within the education system is the sunny uplands to networking and generally better opportunities.

Its possible that almost every child has the potential of a "good enough" IQ and that nurture reigns supreme over the supporting cast of genetics. To separate the two within nurture there remains environmental factors such as an interpreted narrative of favouritism which can lead to downward spirals.
And they are wrong as evidenced by many Supreme Court rulings. Find any point of view and I'll find a group of people that take that view to an untenable extreme. The only reason they have that view is because they live in a world where its not a reality. If it were those people would likely be dead due to a pandemic of gun violence.
Yes, SPAs can easily get horribly sluggish. The Josh Hopkins University dashboard[0] has been the de facto international source on this pandemic, and man, while I'm grateful for it, it is horribly sluggish. How much power has been wasted by clients rendering the exact same map and data over and over all over the world?

Compare their approach to Worldmeters' COVID statistics page[1], which while less functional, it's very lightweight and responsive.

[0]. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

[1]. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The Effects of Online Disclosure About Personalised Pricing on Consumers
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No. Someone confirmed the picture as being from a different event. That the '6 million' shirt was at the Capitol is proven false.

We're down to one Auschwitz reference. One too many. But still nothing like 'actual Nazi flags'.

Again: how much research did you do?
No need to dig up references, I own a book on this topic. Thanks for the offer though.
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Just because you have an anecdote that illustrates something doesn't negate the broader conclusion.

Frankly, the original statement that 'it only takes one or two' should be rather obvious, it's called 'parenting' and it usually implies a couple of people who have a bond with a child.

That said, we all know every kind of person from every walk of life who ended up being in every kind of scenario.

There's a lot of randomness in humans.

That doesn't take away from the fact that a couple of 'good parents' and a decent community + school is almost assuredly the best path.