skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>who decides? and how

I was talking about Kleros at the beginning of the discussion, but it's just one possible option.

>You can only hire someone for a job if you have the money.

No, you can only hire someone for a job using this specific method if you have the money beforehand. This means that Bob can be 100% sure that his employer is capable of paying him.

>In reality many people hire someone for a job and thanks to their help they'll have the money to repay them in the future.

There can be other smart contracts which allow this. The cool thing about them is that Bob is always fully aware whether his employer has the funds to pay him or it's just an IOU.

>But what if Alice disappeared because she's dead, and Bob id the one who killed her?

This is outside of our threat model. We're designing a smart contract for employing a freelancer, not high value SC where murder would be economically viable. If Bob murders Alice this is handled the same way as any other murder.
There is more money in treating customers even just slightly better.
A pretty smart guy once said, “if wars can be started by lies, perhaps peace can be started by the truth.”
Well that ruined my day... you're right of course. Putting it that way just confirms my belief that the best course is to dissolve this union. Let's chop it into about a dozen pieces. That would be better for Americans, and also for non-Americans. Raytheon would lose some business...
> Hospitals make ridiculous profit.

"It depends."

Non-trauma hospitals in affluent areas that perform lots of elective procedures make a lot of profit.

Trauma centers in less-affluent, usually urban or rural, areas that deliver emergency care almost always run at a loss, and are subsidized by city / state / federal funds to maintain capability.
You have to provide a valid credit card in order to sign up for the free account, which probably helps stymie abuse.
> you should not try to discredit anyone for holding a set of beliefs

You should discredit the beliefs (if they are not factual), and discredit people who knowingly spread misinformation. AND you you should question at least privately whether they truly hold those beliefs or merely say they do.

Rumors. Think why spreading rumors is considered bad and unethical? It is because many people will believe them and thus get mislead. And whoever spreads the rumors typically somehow gains from doing so, perhaps simply by getting the attention of other people. When you get people to listen to you, and "believe" you, you are in a better position.
Until your nemesis says “Yeah upgrade my account for all that cool stuff!”
Fair enough and understood.

The problem is these numbers get reported in headlines as “inflation”.

People are experiencing greater than 6% inflation in their pocketbooks. So I suppose I’m objecting to something different from what you’re talking about.
Non-profit does not mean that hospitals aren't out to make money. It only means there is some restriction on where the extra money goes.
A fair point. But assuming Lostech exists then we would expect some number of impressive examples to be discovered. We might, for instance, find a device that we can then build off of or which is superior in functionality to our present devices for the purpose.
I sometimes wonder if someone from the future really did come back to write some of those shows.

Look what was predicted for 2024 from DS9 in 1995:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Sp...

"Sanctuary Districts" sounds like "Sanctuary City" - very bizarre naming. Not to mention the homelessness situation has started exploding lately.
Pretty much none of the country has billboards for "normal products" these days. They're either advertising a local establishment (i.e. "McDonalds! next exit!"), or they're advertising something that the TV networks/AdSense/Facebook wouldn't allow them to (i.e. CBD or sex shops or random religious nutjobmania).
Fourier Analysis.

Knowing how easy it is to go from time to frequency (fft), how there is an uncertainty principle at play between resolution in time and frequency and interesting use cases such as pulling out periodic patterns from data sets (sensor data is great).

It's pretty fun and accessible. Introduces beautiful mathematics and you can easily play with them visually in a Python or Julia notebook etc.
Much better article: A group of scientists based at Kyoto Prefectural University have developed surgical-style face masks that glow under UV light if they contain traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to Kyodo News https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/12/ostrich-en...

> Tsukamoto noticed in the early 1990s that his captive ostriches were oddly disease-free compared with other captive birds. He and other scientists identified this as being due to their eggs. In the later stages of pregnancy, mothers boost their offspring’s defences by passing on antibodies: mammals via placenta and milk, and birds through yolk. ... Tsukamoto’s research focuses on customising the antibodies in ostrich eggs by injecting females with inactive viruses, allergens and bacteria, then extracting the antibodies to develop medicines for humans. ... Tsukamoto believes ostrich eggs have advantages due to the rapid pace at which the antibodies form in the yolks; the ability to collect them without harming mother or chick, and the resilience of the ostrich antibodies. Tsukamoto told media that the proteins can withstand high temperatures and acidities, meaning they could even be added to sweets that require cooking temperatures that would break down most antibodies
Agreed, adding a profit motive on top of that only makes it worse.
Can't even sign up. Gives generic error about "payment / registration failed" - its a regular credit card that I use everywhere. Oh well...kinda glad to be honest.

Knowing Oracle it will eventually become a nightmare anyway (whoops, we accidentally billed you $70 for the free-tier, but you need to manually call this long-distance number between the hours of 9am-4pm to reverse the charge and this also happens to be our sales dept)
Are you using the high accuracy eng model for NER? I’ve been very happy with orgs recognition, it actually did way better than any other open source model in my case.
Pfizer must be in a tough position now: it has to demonstrate consistent YoY growth and the only way to do that is endless booster mandates.
Comparing Delphi and C++ Builder with modern SPAs, or dealing with the Kubernetes boilerplate doesn't really sound that productive to me.
Well! I don't have a PhD at all, but I think the exponential map is a surprisingly intuitive operation once you get used to it. It works on all kinds of operators. I'd argue for teaching it much earlier, in intro calculus, to introduce the idea that e^(a d_x) f(x) = f(x + a). But it still feels like there is some magic in the fact that works that I don't have a really satisfying explanation for (although it is easy to see by expanding the Taylor series).
Scripps, the hospital in question, is already a non-profit. Their domain even ends in .org! They also have posters asking for donations, and will send mailers asking for donations as well.
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And then waste and graft moves from a semi-accountable company to a group that has the use of force to enforce their policies. No thanks.
Rosie Kay: I resigned from my own dance company
Ech, nostalgia is real with this one. I just put christmas tree today. Thank you, h2odragon!
What I really missed was generic map-function-over-slice, which could be
handled by adding a much narrower feature.

If one graded possible Go point extensions by a figure of merit in which the
numerator is "how much Python expressiveness this keeps" and the
denominator is "how simple and self-contained the Go feature would be",
I think this one would be top of list.

So: map as a functional builtin takes two arguments, one x = []T and a
second f = func(T)T. The expression map(x, f) yields a new slice in
which for each element of x, f(x) is appended.

I think this is an excellent way of evaluating new features, and it represents a real missed opportunity for Go to explore new PL territory. Instead, we're getting full-blown user-defined generics, which increases the "denominator" far, far more than it increases the "numerator."
My impression is that there is plenty of growth left. However, the perception has changed for the worse because technology has allowed us to expose the bad side through social media and ubiquitous surveillance via cell phones and security cameras. Our grandparents and parents were quite uninformed compared to our generation.
Assuming that reliability is weakly inversely correlated with repairability (reliable things may be more complicated and thus harder to fix without specialized tools or knowledge), I'm sure there are subjective optima that balance the two and are more practical than the current extreme of maximizing reliability but being completely crippled at the slightest disturbance.
One interesting thing about quaternions that’s almost never mentioned anywhere on the internets, there’re two conventions for them.

The convention in that article is known as “Hamilton's quaternions”. There’s another incompatible one usually called “JPL quaternions”, for some American Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Authors of 99% articles about the quaternions, and software libraries implementing quaternions, are assuming exactly one of these conventions, and almost never mention which one that is.

More info there: https://fzheng.me/2017/11/12/quaternion_conventions_en/
I find the Oracle dashboard very confusing.

My notes: https://www.2uo.de/Computing/setting-up-a-free-server-in-ora...

Also this: https://www.2uo.de/Computing/firewall-in-oracle-cloud/
> The string ‘run’ has to be learned

Yes, it does. And 'run' can be looked up in a dictionary. Even by someone who doesn't know English.

Not so for icons.

I am constantly amazed at the collective blindness to the enormous practical advantages of a phonetic alphabet. Steve Jobs was incredibly good at selling the emperor clothes.
No, sorry I think the analogy was a bit too extreme meant only to show that under some circumstances arresting him would be fine. I think according to Wikipedia the specific claim is

> The charges stem from the allegation that Assange attempted and failed to crack a password hash so that Chelsea Manning could use a different username to download classified documents and avoid detection.
SSLError on pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com
>That was also a decade of explosive automation and globalization.

Actually globalisation has plateaued over the last decade.

https://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wor...
I've noticed that an awful lot of insurers around here seem to always be crying about "losing money" on seemingly every plan, now, and so demanding huge rate hikes every year. I don't believe that they're actually that terrible at their jobs—not the parts that directly relate to P&L, anyway—so I have to assume this is some part of scam they've worked out.
Yeah, I'm really surprised they haven't. I'm not a huge touchscreen on laptop user but they've become so ubiquitous on non-apple laptops that I regularly poke the screen on my MacBook.

It's not like a touchscreen is great ergonomics on a conventional laptop but there are certain situations and applications where it's just convenient to have the option. And it's low cost these days, so it makes perfect sense to me for manufacturers to throw them in so you have the choice of a really easy, fast interaction when you're flipping pages or pausing videos.

What I really miss are pen digitizers which had been the basic minimum on convertible tablets for a long time in the '90s, but then everyone got rid of them. Only now they're slowly creeping back but mostly only on very high end tablets, although a few manufacturers like Lenovo have put them back on convertible laptops.
Cool project. But much of that functionality was available with GEOS in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system...
There's more to it than that.
Are there any examples where a public option is available at a reasonable price so any private practices have to compete on price?
Is this even legal? In most jurisdictions, you have to be a government to fine anybody.

Sending frivolous charges may be considered fraud and also lead to chargebacks.
I understand that you didn’t claim this explicitly, but it’s a common misconception so I addressed it anyway. While I have no doubt that a given Go program could be written more tersely in Python, Java, or C# I’ve written and operated enough programs in those languages to know that the results are rarely if ever more readable or less error-prone. I think Go’s preferences for simplicity over cleverness and explicitness over terseness are significant factors in these readability and quality disparities. Newline characters aren’t where your bugs are coming from.
What's really fascinating here is that there is no scale leather armor from that period that can be placed contextually in Assyria! We only know of it from art and writing. It's wild to think that the first set with archaeological context was found so far away, imagine if we didn't have the Assyrian art/context, we might think the armor was first developed in North West China!
Sometimes. Using someone else’s code is only a benefit if it saves time overall, compared to writing it yourself. You have to count both the time to write it and the time to maintain it over however long your product is active. You have to assume that you’ll be maintaining it yourself either way.

Also, don’t forget that languages with big standard libraries, like Python or C# or Java, always end up with oodles of stuff in there that is deprecated or incompatible. That’s as bad a sign as anything.

But I do agree with you, a lot of the time you have inherited the mess rather than writing it yourself. Not much you can do about it, except to clean it up and then dodge better next time. Going back to Rust specifically, Cargo gives you some tools that make the mess easier to clean. The Rust language also helps, because you can safely use multiple versions of your dependencies, when it turns out to be necessary.
All non-profit means is money doesn’t go to investors. And considering tax and fringe benefits going to “donors” even that is somewhat less true.
This needs a lot of qualifiers. I can see that for web development maybe (I don't know, haven't done that for almost 10 years, but I can imagine given the constraints), but for system level programming for example I don't want to go back to the 90s. Not that Visual Basic or Delphi worked for that anyway.
The answer is well-documented in Merrill R. Chapman’s book “In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters”

Terrible title but great book.

Basically Microsoft dominated every software category by waiting for the #1 company to make a dumb mistake. They then swooped in and won.

This book is an excellent but biased history of that era.
"And who defines the right or wrong?"

The Law under the purview of the Justice System, which is why they are pressing for a trial.
We frequently limit property rights and speech when it pollutes, disturbs, or otherwise negatively affects others.

Is this a limit on property rights or an expansion of viewshed rights? It all depends on perspective.
Oracle for Startups gives 70% off for 2 years:

https://www.oracle.com/startup/explore-the-program/
I get your worry, but I think you have some of the cause/effects backwards. Investors invest in places that do not allow enough housing. The best way to stick it to the investors is to produce abundant housing.

https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...

> If you zoned more places to be walkable and lowered rent for the kinds of places people wanted to walk to you wouldn’t have to cram people into a few desirable places.

Yes, we should absolutely relax zoning! But rents are set by the market, by and large. You drop them by allowing housing to be built to meet market demand.
Sure, $100k, plus another $100k for the latest and greatest hardware every few years (or worse yet to rent a small chunk of not-latest-or-greatest hardware for a year), plus another $100k for the software licenses...
I talked to a guy once who was a "hibernate expert". On his desk he had about 10 books on Hibernate. Coming from the Ruby world, I was amazed and perplexed. Is Hibernate really that much more complex than ActiveRecord? Of course it isn't. But someone benefits complex frameworks and libraries, and libraries that are over-documented to the point of absurdity.

Who benefits is Java developers. Java is a simple to learn language, and almost everyone learns it in college. As a result, competition at the entry level is fierce. You can't break into Java development coming out of college without rote memorization of Java builtin classes, knowing Hibernate and log4j like the back of your hand, and knowing all of the latest acronyms and buzzwords.

This provides a cushy barrier to entry so people who survive that can stay employed without risk from cheaper incoming developers.
yay -S xsnow
No. The northeast has plenty of anti-abortion, sex shops, fireworks, CBD/marijuana (MM is legal in PA - any state with legalized dispensaries will have these billboards.

Don’t know what you consider a normal product but for truckers and people coming from NY adult stores and fireworks are “normal”
Making existing buildings somehow move isn't the objective.
I am a Scripps customer. Their prices are not different than any other healthcare system in the area. They all do this; Scripps just made it more obvious how prices are actually set.

And since this has been brought up in the thread: Scripps is already a non-profit! Their domain name ends in .org. They routinely ask for donations.
As far as I can tell, Philippe Khan was the reason Borland failed.
Yeah, there is necessarily more specialization because there is vastly more knowledge than ever before. As a fraction of expertise, low level knowledge might be less but low level experts are more numerous than ever before. Rather than forgetting, the real risk might be knowledge production extending beyond our collective capacity to keep up and make sense of it.
This is an infuriating but not surprising read. The only surprising thing to me is to see the number written down. (And that some part of the system was available to a nurse to see!)

I’m a health economist and much of my research is on hospitals. As much as everyone loves to complain about drug companies and insurers as being responsible for high US health care costs, that is not where the money goes. The money goes to doctors and to hospitals. (Specifically: about half of all national health spending to those two groups.)

If you want to save money on health care, you need to talk about paying less to doctors and to hospitals. If you don’t want to pay less money to those two sets of entities, you aren’t going to save much money. That’s all there is to it.

Yes, we can do better by spending less on drugs, but it’s a small amount compared to the gigantic sums which go to doctors and to hospitals. (Specifically: all drug spending is about ten percent of national health spending.) Yes, we can do better by reducing the administrative burden, but that slice of the pie is less than 10%. (And you will never have 0 admin expenses.) The administrative burden of health insurance is even lower than 10%.

So… go ahead and share your ideas for paying doctors and hospitals less, because otherwise you’re talking about stuff which doesn’t amount to much!
What was the stdlib's cross platform GUI like in Pascal?
Stoicism is most definitely a fad and experienced a strong revival along with the male "self-improvement" and "grind" culture. It basically popped up out of nowhere around 2015-2016 in these circles.

Georgism is also a fad. A friend of mine brought it up at a barbecue during the summer and I had never heard of it in my life, and consider myself decently aware of philosophy at a basic level. Ever since then I've seen about 10 articles/topics on HN front page about it.
I dig it, I just think monk is the wrong model.
Acquired by Microfocus in 2005. Apparently some of the products live on: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/borland/overview

I also wonder what Phillipe Kahn is up to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn
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Given the severity, we've also rolled this out to our Free plan customers, who don't otherwise have access to the WAF.
Verifiable Computing Applications in Blockchain
How is iterating over the string each time you want to do anything meaningful better? Also, there is a short string optimization, where you can store the string inside the pointer , eg. c++ does just that.
So is it OK for you if we sacrifice you for the greater good?
> Tech is weaponised against us in every way, but that's not the tech's fault.

Yes, it is. Because the tech was specifically designed for it.
Why do you think they only targeted Borland like that?
Administrative fees =/= “profit”. That is wrong.

Administrative fees include profit, but also salaries, IT expenses, whatever other costs it takes to actually run an insurer.
That depends entirely on the use case and the user.

I have the choice of many many many text editors and IDEs to manage my source code.

What do I use? vim. In a terminal(-emulator).

Why? Because I like my editor to be ready the moment my finger leaves the ENTER key, I like direct interoperability with the terminal, I like that I can hack together even the most absurd things in .vimrc, and I like that I have the same editor with the same settings on all servers I take care of, even when I connect to them via ssh.

I also use vlc for playing audio and video. Are there players that have a more edge UX? Sure. Do they come with builtin-full support for almost all formats, have a tiny memory footprint, can be used to convert stuff, don't spy on me and can be controlled via a terminal (hello ncurses mode!)? Nope.
It's a question of Bona Fide. If you say "I believe" we should be able to assume that you do believe so. Meaning you would be willing to bet on it being true. If you don't then that is bad faith on your part, which will not help the rest of us.

Of course with some people you would assume that they are only pretending to believe but that means simply that you don't trust them generally.

People who use "believe" when they should say "I pretend to believe" should not be trusted, and are not trusted when it becomes clear what they are up to. Like say pretending to believe that vaccines are bad and not helpful and then getting the vaccine yourself.
I think you’ve really nailed it here.

Libertarianism is so strong in the tech world that people have blinders on.
"was declared guilty by Obama, in public, before her trial ever began "

That's not how it works. Biden made similar public declarations about Rittenhouse, who was subsequently found not guilty.

Now, none of them should be talking about, but that they did does not imply a miscarriage of justice.

The extradition is legitimate, and Assange will receive a fair trial in the US where the whole world will see the evidence against him.
Having to take off the bumper is pretty bad.

On the other hand, taking off a tire takes perhaps a minute.