skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems a sensible bill - amazing that some of them were not already the case. Eg. mininum rest times for cabin crew.

However, what on earth has this got to do with aviation?!

> authorizes $1.68 billion for relief for Hurricane Florence, which hit the Carolinas last month;
Thanks for this, I will definitely follow along there. Yeah if they can just check a few of those boxes I'm much more likely to at least try to more regularly work with Julia.
I think it is a fairly safe assumption that raising children has aspects of a chaotic system. Small changes to upbringing can cause large impact on the result. Of course not all "inputs" have this chaotic nature, and there are lots of inputs that aren't under direct control of the parents. There are just so many variables that it is hard to tease out patterns.
I Taught My Daughter to Code
I'm not sure that's survivorship bias, since you can measure when dependents (or emancipated dependents) drop off from their support systems. The measure isn't just those that report back "I'm doing fine" but those that are tracked. There are a number of organizations that track these statistics, although I feel like the nordic countries seem to follow the strictest rigour. It's a null hypothesis to show that foster children (who are more likely to have mental disorders - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922948/, et al) do better with caring parental figures. They can only degenerate without stability.
The main difference is that a Petri net is basically an hypegraph, where you have directed edges connecting multiple vertexes both in the source and in the target.

Graphs give you finite state machines in the obvious way: You mark the vertex you are in and walk the arrows.

Hypergraphs give you Petri nets: You mark each vertex as many times as you want and walk the arrows to move marks around. This tells us two things:
1. Petri nets are a calculus of resources. The marking is not telling anymore "what state you are in". A state is an allocation of resources to each vertex in the net.
2. Petri nets are concurrent: you don't have to move stuff around by walking one edge at a time: Two different hyperedges in two different places of the hypergraph can "act at the same time", since the "what state you are in" thing makes no sense anymore.

Anyway, this paper is pretty complicated and for sure there are waaaaay easier places to start. Such as this one:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07629
Amazon has this documented extensively in their court filings.
Let’s be honest, that poo-pooing occurred because they are blinded by their hatred for a certain leader. That’s more important to them than integrity.
Iron Ore is FE + O.

I forget exactly the proportions, but... the entire point of iron-processing is to turn rust back into raw Iron (FE) by removing the O from it.
Julia has plenty of plotting solutions that are better for stats than matplotlib:

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl
https://github.com/queryverse/VegaLite.jl
https://github.com/JuliaPlots/StatsPlots.jl
That reminds me of:

> The phrase "I know it when I see it" is a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event, although the category is subjective or lacks clearly defined parameters. The phrase was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Our stale bot doesn't lock issues, merely marks them as closed after a configurable notification time, and a configurable no-activity time.

Which stale bot is the author referring to? This stale bot (THE stale bot?) https://github.com/probot/stale, doesn't even have an option to lock the issue.
Like quite a few things--for example, whether a vaccinated person can still spread the virus or if there could be long-term effects--the companies are quite correctly saying that they have no data to make a definitive statement. That doesn't mean that health professionals can't have fairly strong suspicions based on their experience with other things.

So, yes, Pfizer's position is (and should be) this is the data from the tests we ran. Pretty much anything else is speculation.
Chemotrophs probably existed before photosynthesis. The latter is a rather complex sequence of enzymes and took a while to evolve.

Chemotrophs hijack natural rock chemistry reactions. Most likely it was the weathering of fresh, hot basalt at underseas volcanos. Some of these metabolic pathways require no enzymes to proceed. Then enzymes would evolve to allow such life to expand into less opportunistic environments.
It's all about which "bubble" you're in. Many people posting here work for startups using micro services (for which Go is a decent fit) and for companies close to the whole Docker/Kubernetes ecosystem, which is based on Go. So naturally they assume Go is huge.

My anecdata kind of tells me that Go is reasonably big, but it's not yet near .NET and Java, worldwide. But it could get there in a few years, I've seen/heard about some enterprises adopting it.
The cloud company CoreWeave has agreed to provide the GPU resources necessary.
it is the same in politics.

Give people responsibilities and autonomy, and they will take care of their own community, neighbour, town, school, parks, roads, garbage, .... for free, and with full joy!

is it just me viewing it this way?
Yeah, it can be really helpful when you want to combine multiple data types/sources into a single meta type to query multiple types with just a single graphql query.
I think banning online advertising causing these sites to charge their users for the service would right a lot of wrongs automatically, when the free market can start to kick in and do it's job.

It makes it so Facebook's product becomes online photo sharing, instead of it's current product which is manipulation and addiction.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-ad...
What do you do when people simply want to spew emotional tirades and mindlessly copy memes, and won't argue in good or any faith? What is that worth really?
They need to fix their iOS app also
I think its website makes it pretty clear that it's mostly targeting scientists...

https://julialang.org/, https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/ (The first two words of the Introduction are literally "scientific computing".)
EleutherAI has already secured the resources necessary.

They get the seti@home suggestion a lot. There's a section in their FAQ that explains why it's infeasible.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/info
Wow! So the bulk of the energy we consume comes not from the hydrocarbons we're digging up, but the oxygen bonds we're breaking when we burn them. That's completely spun around my understanding of fuels. Fascinating.

That also means that the energy we use to fuel our lives mostly comes directly from recent photosynthesis, and not actually from historical sunlight embodied in the fossil fuels we're burning.
> Twitter and Facebook are extremely fast with the ban-hammer, in contrast.

Twitter and Facebook have recently grudgingly picked up the ban hammer and use it, often too late or ineffectively. But yes, they will eventually act which is the big difference.
Fun XOR trick: using it to move a cursor across the screen without having to keep a buffer of the contents under the cursor (and putting them back).

It didn't always look great, but if you were moving a full-screen crosshair around, it was sufficient. Especially on hardware that was slow to move buffers to and from ram.

Unfortunately, using this pure-math technique was also patented until 2007 [0], much to the surprise of my former employer in 1986. Cadtrak had collected from companies like IBM and NEC and made a nice business as a troll.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4197590B1/en
> But we've now done the experiment in a big way and the results seem overwhelmingly negative to me, to the point where they present a credible existential threat to civilization, on a par with climate change.

Free speech is certainly a double-edged sword. For example, would you be comfortable running a large site on which users spread misinformation about climate change? Would you continue allowing that misinformation?

It’s a pretty hard question for me personally.

(Practically speaking, you might seek to redirect profits from that misinformation toward donations that help combat climate change, or something similar to offset the impact of that misinformation.)
One of my businesses refuses to serve Americans simply because they have a habit of reaching for the legal system if they aren't happy with the service.

All the Americans end up going to my competitor, who is currently in the midst of three lawsuits which will probably sink the company. Two of the lawsuits are with clients I turned away simply because they looked likely to sue!

You can bet that as an American, you will pay substantially more than a local for many services simply because Americans have a reputation for this sort of stuff, and local businesses don't want to take the risk.

I really wish there was some kind of certificate saying "I have never set foot in a courtroom, threatened legal action, or hired a lawyer".
What happens when nobody is allowed to talk you down from this position?
You grant too much. The people who are making these deplatforming decisions do not represent a majority or anything close to it. Perhaps they believe they will when their cultural revolution is complete and the dust has settled, but that has yet to be seen.
Are you serious about bringing that article/site to the table as a source to try and make your point? Or is this sarcasm?
Also a fiscal conservative, I completely agree single-payer would be much better than what we have now.

What I think would be best though, is to eliminate medicare/medicaid, hand people cash, and get out of the way.

The high-order problem with medicine isn't coverage or insurance. It's price. There are only two ways to get price under control: meaningful competition, or government price controls (e.g. single payer). Single payer would end up like public schools: one choice for everyone, probably OK quality, but not great.

I think we could do so much more here if we just created a cash market and handed people money. It's what Singapore does. It would let doctors compete on -- even discover -- what actually matters to consumers -- wait times, when procedures take place, even how comfortable the office is. I would much rather have a market with choice and variety than one that straitjackets everyone into a one-size-fits-all system that might work for some but probably won't for others.

I know people are going to worry about rare (expensive) conditions not being covered, and this is indeed a problem. I don't have an answer to this. One good thing about competition though, is that it drives innovation. Provider prices will absolutely be set based on what they know people can pay. If people can't pay as much, the only thing for them to do is drop prices.

It's funny. In a community where people are so focused on innovation, and startups, and choice, I see a lot of support for a national single-payer scheme. I would much rather take the collective energies of this community and apply them to innovation in this market, with meaningful choice and competition. Medicine needs more of a startup mindset. And for those roasting me about how it's different/dangerous/risky: what we have today is KILLING us, economically.
It would be nice to further analyse the merge factor: Very often there are a handfull maintainers but a bigger team working on the project (or close circle). It would be nice to cluster the prs by people (many prs, medium prs, few prs).
Because if i want to submit a pr it does may make a difference whether i am a very regular contributor or want to submit just this time because i found a bug.
I used Gatsby about 3 years ago and loved it. With that being said, I feel like it's grown well beyond it's useful value proposition for me.

The biggest value was I could share a lot of components between my app and marketing site. Even though most of the marketing site was static content, Gatsby made it incredibly easy to introduce well integrated custom features.

I never hit of the point of needing a full CMS (the site wasn't large enough), so it was great for my needs. Not sure why anyone would use it if they're going full CMS, though.
Here’s another consideration: care quality is very disparate across the country in the US. And what’s even more frustrating is that cost is not correlated to quality. While I am a bit more critical because I’ve seen “how the sausage is made” first hand for years, this also makes it that much harder to implement universal health care in the US. Don’t think someone living in rural Wyoming should pay the same HC tax/premium as someone living right across the street from MGH.
> If you still wanted static output, you could probably serve it locally and then let wget crawl it for you.

Here's the complexity part that tools try to solve.
The problem here is confounding. Do we think there are no causes of fatherlessness that are also causes of poorer life outcomes (hint: there are plenty). Given this it's very hard to see clearly how much impact this makes, all the personal anecdotes here notwithstanding.
Self-hosting was a thing 10 - 15 years ago before the cloud hype and it is still an option today especially for those who have no choice but to do it.
If we removed dplyr, then R scripts would absolutely scream so I find the speed argument for 'why switch to X' unconvincing. If users cared so deeply about speed, almost no one would be using tidyverse instead we'd all be using base-R or data.table.

Multiple dispatch? Hmm is this really a problem that I'm going to come across in the real-world when 90% of our time is spent ingesting a poorly-formatted csv, doing some quick plots and perhaps building a model to test something out. If the goal of Julia is to replace R/Python then their priorities feel way off the mark
I can only agree - Azure is a mess in a lot of ways when you try to automate it as an IaaS.
They seem to have some sort of pattern issues in regards to UI and async API operations, and it bites you often enough to drive you crazy when automating.

I've had API calls fail because an Azure portal tab was open in my browser obviously locking or otherwise interfering with API operations until the I close, what looks like, a completely idle tab.

Also... dog slow provisioning compared to the "other two".
Unfortunately they do represent an overwhelming majority of the power in this particular domain.
I don’t get all the anti free speech comments here. I rather live in a country with real free speech but no democracy than the reverse. You can’t have democracy without free speech.
Well, they have moved to a mixed-economy and are still moving.

There was a documentary several years back that had a VC General who was being interviewed. He was walking down a street talking about his grandchildren's interests and walking by all those American company's logos. He was not pleased.
There was an attempt at this with prescription drugs. Encourage patients to take generics by forcing a larger amount of cost onto the patients in the form of higher copays.

Pharma companies realized and started giving copay vouchers (still charge insurance more, but short circuit the patient incentive). When that loophole got tighter they formed charitable foundations to give the vouchers instead.

I'm not disagreeing with your points, per se. It's just amazing what entrenched interests can manage.
Right. In a very different context, I implemented something a lot like this for a game's bug tracker, using assignments.

Ask the player to clarify something, assign the bug to feedback. If no one ever comments to save it, it'll get nudged a few times before it's automatically dismissed.

It was a godsend, because it got those issues out of the triage queue and didn't return them until they were actionable again.
This is great (and totally unfortunate that it needs to exist in the US), thanks for building it.

One issue: it looks like the search is not respecting the zip code for me if I change it. For example, if I search for a procedure using the zip code the site auto-populates, my results are great. However, if I change the zip code to my actual neighborhood here in NYC, I'm seeing results from all over the country.
Fascinating story, especially because the writer has real experience. The bit about how she felt about this loss was poignant to me.
Oh wow, so a "Tonsil Removal (Patient Under 12)" procedure has a huge price-range:

$298.00

$7,830.76

$7,299.85

$10,243.23

$13,964.19

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How are these even comparable?
So can Julia:

https://github.com/plotly/Dash.jl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLhXgt_gKJc
https://github.com/GenieFramework/Genie.jl
a rock the size of pebble or as small as a grain of sand will cause a very bad day when you realize that some of the objects have incredible amounts of kinetic energy due to the speeds involved (the speed of the rock or the speed of the thing to be damaged).
It's up to every democracy to decide the limits of any freedom. Germany bans Nazi symbols, communications, and organizations altogether, and it doesn't appear as if their state is suffering.

Also, Apple and Android ban porn, which is basically an entire industry.
It's true that US doctors are paid more (although the gap isn't as big as it used to be). However, pay for US doctors makes up a fairly small portion of overall US medical expenditures (less than 10%). So, you could ask every doctor to work for free and not significantly change costs.
This is not true. The OpenAI team only trained one full-sized GPT-3, and conducted their hyperparameter sweep on significantly smaller models (see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361). The compute savings from not having to do the hyperparameter sweep are negligible and do not significantly change the feasibility of the project.
What is the product?

What do they take payment for?
If a recipe has 20 minutes of prep, then everyone who is fast can do the prep in 20 minutes. But everyone who is slow will take a different amount of time, because anyone who is slow is slow for different reasons.
Parler says they will return by by February. There is too much financial opportunity for large niche ideologies. They will miss the inauguration drama as the deplatformers intended. I wonder what alternative stack Parler will use.
"UPDATE (1/18/2021): Monday in court prosecutors asked that Jones be banned from the internet, and be required to wear a GPS monitor — but a judge rejected the request "

Good for the Judge, things like this by the prosecution are abusive IMHO. GPS tracker - ok, even monitoring internet activity would be ok'ish, but a downright ban would be akin to saying you can't see a lawyer and in today's Zoom times, that would be exactly the case.
Yep. "Java is the new COBOL" was simply irresistible. If you want to troll a Java developer, that was absolute perfection.
New Signal groups are hosted on Google Servers
Congratulations on the launch!

Turquoise Health could be solving this need gap - 'How much will I be charged for my treatment'[1] posted on my problem validation platform.

You're welcomed to explain how Turquoise Health helps solve their problem in that thread.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/122-how-much-will-i-be-charged-... (Disclaimer: It's a problem validation platform I created).
You ever notice how the only countries with "regimes" are coincidentally the countries the US establishment has a problem with?
Google search provides value by linking things that people are looking for - like any other search engine. Similar to the Yellow Pages, or any of the innumerable aggregators for things like travel, booking, shopping, etc.

They do not prevent people from using the website’s own search; it’s just that almost no one does so because a general purpose search engine is more useful to them.
I had a lot of fun couchsurfing
From the actual GitHub apology, they said that the investigation they hired revealed significant failures and errors in judgement, so yes that sounds like more than just one individual being treated wrongly.

We won’t know, and don’t need to, but it’s fairly common for a high level exec who was in charge when there is a big screw-up underneath them to be fired. In those situations, if the company feels the screwup wasn’t mostly the exec’s fault, but they still must be held accountable, offering them the chance to resign is a way to let them save face to some degree while still facing consequences. It’s a softer firing.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s what happened in this case.
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Please re read my comment above as a response to the main article of this post.
Oxygen fuels fires.

Oxygen rusts metals.

Humans need to breathe it to survive. It's very reactive and fuels many of the domains of life.

But since it's so reactive it also wears you down and ages you. And causes cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865650/
Not yet. But just wait until the singularity is here.
Do you have any studies or sources to back this up?

As I understand it, in most EU markets there's no price component, nor much of a choice component and costs haven't skyrocketed.
> actual bias from which side complains more.

It's complains sometimes side vs never complained side, in my pool of channels.
They've been doing some stellar work, good job.

I hope that they are considering to build a sheet music hosting platform as an open alternative to the now "rogue" MuseScore. Sorely missed.
Black markets were a thing in the Soviet Union.

Not trusting the State does not mean that the State is able to exert absolute control over people's lives. In fact, I'd say that the less trust the people have on the State, the more "illegal" activities people practice.
Just throwing some data, average general practice doctor is 150k$ in US vs 61k$ in germany.

https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Physician_%2F_Docto...

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Physician_%2F_Docto...
Yeah .. but not inan extend as the US.
Wow, that’s a cool site! I’ve never seen orbiting satellites visualized like that. (But of course, also haven’t sought any out.)
It is a challenge. Giving people a voice means that good and bad (depending on anyone's personal view) voices are amplified. Hate is strong and it takes time for people to "have enough", only then do cooler heads prevail.

The main issue is the ability to amplify and spread so easily. Social media is built upon addiction because addicted people view more ads. How different would social media look with just a few changes like no ability to repost/retweet/copy&paste/etc and what if you never saw who liked a post and what if you weren't show things that your networked liked? These things are what creates the echo chamber. People are lazy. Most wouldn't take the time to gather information and create original posts.

I think privacy is another issue. We should always have some expectations of privacy. Regardless of which party you favor, what if the government bans your way of thinking? The ability to share a counter message is crucial to any stable system. If there is only ever one message, all is lost and you see things like North Korea.

I think there are ways to do communications applications that are freedom empowering and not subject to a central authority. The question comes down to support. Will people pay for that or use the free ones that abuse them with ads and manufactured outrage? I'm curious on what your product vision is, could you give an elevator pitch?
You bring up a good point. I don't engage with folks like that. I assume they're already indoctrinated or an influencer from outside of the country or a troll. If I'm feeling empathetic I might try to appeal to the human in them.

Edit: If you're asking me as if I were the host of the free speech platform. I guess I would allow everything except anything that violated criminal law. And would keep a law firm on retainer to field complaints and give the final say to our legal department. It's a tough question.