skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really appreciate how accessible SpaCy has made NLP work but their NER is definitely low accuracy.

Where stem/lem felt critical to successful NLP processing a few years ago, we've found stem/lem work to be much less important for downstream tasks when transformer based models are involved.

For topic extraction stem/lem still seems to do a lot to improve accuracy and for rules based approaches I can still see how it would facilitate more efficient processing at scale. I'd be curious to hear your experience fine tuning and/or training new models after stem/lem processing with transformers, we've admittedly done little testing to see how transformers actually performer if properly tuned to post-processed data.
Around 75% of hospitals in the US are actually non-profit.

Source: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/hospitals-by-owner...

All this ends up meaning is that any revenue above their expenses is plowed into hiring more and more administrative staff and building new facilities.
There are many who work in non-profits with high 6 or 7 figure salaries. Seems like profit to me!

Back in 2015 the president of Boston University raked in $2.5 million https://www.bostonmagazine.com/education/2017/12/11/boston-u...
Do they provide free IPv4 for the x86 instances?
Rather than picking a “stack”, I would encourage starting with what’s the problem being solved, for who, and then figure out the tech from there.

It sounds like your area is specifically on a service and web front end. Can you describe what you’re wanting to do, even at a very high level?

Node, React, etc. this might all just be overkill.
> I started asking questions,” the nurse said. “I was told that if we didn’t mark things up like this, insurance companies wouldn’t give us what we want.”

> Healthcare providers routinely ignore the actual cost of treatment when calculating bills and instead cook up nonsensical figures to push reimbursement from insurers higher.

This is the real story of health care, in a nutshell.

Providers say "A procedure costs $100." Insurers say "Great, we'll reimburse you $50 for it, or you won't be in network." Providers say "But it actually costs $100." Insurers say "Fine, but cut us a deal in exchange for our business, and charge us $50." They hammer out a contract that specifies $55 for that procedure.

On the next procedure, which costs $200, the providers (and their facility) stops to think. "Wait, insurance is going to ask for a substantial haircut on whatever number we give them." So providers say "This procedure costs $400." Insurance says "Fine, we'll reimburse you $200." Providers say "Oh no. Fine, we'll take it."

Then a few years later insurance analysts get around to noticing relative cost differences, and the entire dance starts over again.

The fundamental problems with US health care are (1) the lack of end-user (patient) visibility into costs before undertaking a procedure, (2) opaque insurance-facility contracts, & (3) the bullshit dance between facilities, middle people, and insurance companies that end up adding confusion, delay, and costs to what would otherwise be simpler transactions.
AWS has like 200 services. Do they all suck?

(for the record, I dont disagree, Quicksigiht could make things faster and more visible)
Reading in bed before going to sleep works for me (and my wife). It's a fixed moment where you unwind and relax, and with a good book it is something to look forward to every day. It also stimulates going to bed at a decent time instead of starting another episode on Netflix or gaming into the small hours.
The point of povray is that you program the scenes. Maybe something like "25 days of blender python scenes" would be equivalent.
> And do it right here on HN [...] And big groups do it too, apparently [...]

Indeed; all this is old news for anyone who has worked in open source communities for a decent chunk of time (say, six years at least). It's the "angels" that are disconnected from real world that tend to stretch a small observation into a sweeping generalization, in the name of "insight". The cynic in me says, "they're doing it for the clicks and brand-building."
Yep, it was a start. But the insurance companies have figured out ways around the caps.
I used Borland C++ in the late 90s. It had a quirky UI. I remember that many windows would just float around instead of them being docked like Visual C++. I read in a magazine (probably Byte magazine) that there were layoffs at Borland and that a famous engineer got fired and he drove to Seattle to work for Microsoft. Looking at other comments it looks like Borland fell into bad times in late 90s.
They are, as of January 2021. The effects of that will take some time to be seen in pricing.
No. More accurately: with very large heaps the default performance characteristics of the GC might be different than what you’d like it to be. For example you might get huge throughput but occasional long GC pauses.

But it’s all tunable.
At a quick glance, no Bitcoin
The masks are really coming off.
We were a paying customer, and the same thing happened. I expect it was lack of competence more than dark patterns, although strategic incompetence is always possible with O. Oracle is not a credible cloud vendor.
I didn't say it would solve all the problems, but it would help.
ACF has a lag argument correct? Also isn't the bright vertical line just the result of the fact that ACF at lag 0 is 1?
> The scientist team hopes to gain government approval and possibly start selling the masks in 2022. The secret to the mask’s coronavirus detection is ostrich eggs, as ostriches are capable of producing several different antibodies ... the team developed a special mask filter that can be taken out and sprayed with a fluorescent dye containing the coronavirus antibodies from the eggs. if it comes into contact with the virus, the mask will glow brightly under a UV light. The idea is that anyone wearing the face shield will realize they may be infected with coronavirus when the mask glows and seek an early diagnosis
I see a very strong reason. It’s not lifespan that matters, it’s attention span.

You could build a device with a 1000 year lifespan, but it’s a waste of effort if the consumer wants a new one after 5 years. It’s optimal to build a device with a lifespan that will only be as long as a consumer’s interest in it.
Tasmania in Australia has pretty strict rules on billboards and other signage. It's lovely.
Yep, the [paper's conclusion](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200000027/downloads/20...) was just as you said, there'd not be much of a record to find for civs older than 4 Ma. Also, there are past anomalous and abrupt events in the geological record that appear similar to byproducts from our anthropogenic activity. Evidence against is that timing for majority of such anomalous events can be matched to mundane geological activity in the record.

The rate at which we're accumulating change compared to geological record is also a strong argument against, although they argue limitations in current dating methods reducing how much can be said with certainty about prior epochs.

While there is precious little reason and evidence to believe a priori in a previous advanced dino civ, there are studies that could be done on sediment data that'd lend more certainty (such as looking for unusually rapid metal production).

> Anthropocene layer in ocean sediment will be abrupt and multi-variate, consisting of seemingly concurrent-specific peaks in multiple geochemical proxies, biomarkers, elemental composition and mineralogy. It will likely demarcate a clear transition of faunal taxa prior to the event compared with afterwards. Most of the individual markers will not be unique in the context of Earth history as we demonstrate below, but the combination of tracers may be. However, we speculate that some specific tracers
that would be unique, specifically persistent synthetic molecules, plastics and (potentially) very long-lived radioactive fallout in the event of nuclear catastrophe. Absent those markers, the uniqueness of the event may well be seen in the multitude of relatively independent fingerprints as opposed to a coherent set of changes associated with a single geophysical cause.

My opinion is this ultimately boils down to how hard human level intelligence is to evolve, which is why the hypothesis is interesting in the context of the Fermi Paradox. Intelligence might be extremely difficult to evolve, it might require an unusual background environment set of condition or just might not be that useful in general.
Regarding the "pedagogy", my favorite method of learning is straightforward problem solving: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

If you wanted to have state with pure functions, you would, according to DRY, be compelled to write the bind operator. You wouldn't have known to call it a monad or why some basement theoretician likens it to a burrtiofunctor, but you nevertheless would have made the obvious coding solution.

Is this possible for rotation without a PhD in geometry or algebra?
Back when Facebook made their huge update to convert to a one-page-app, it was pretty obvious they were doing this because on tenuous connections the interactions with the text would be very strange, as if they are caching your text and operating on it server-side using commands sent from client-side.
I agree that everyone is a bit quick to judge, and I’m sorry you’re more vulnerable because of a preexisting condition. And I’m sorry to hear of that kind of complication from any medication. I hope she was able to make a claim and get compensation through the adverse effects program (assuming you’re in the US).

My dad gets the flu shot each year. He’s not an anti-vaxxer. The COVID shot seems different though.

My dad still refuses to get a vaccine because all he hears is mis- and disinformation. He’s recently changed to “leaning toward getting the shot,” which is great, but he wants to drive another family member around this weekend who is currently suffering from COVID-19.

Being open and honest with him, I told him the most likely outcome for him, and even held back on how grim his particular prognosis would likely be given his risk factors. But people don’t want to hear the reality.

That reality is that these vaccines are, statistically, safe and effective for the vast majority of the population. (I know that you weren’t asserting otherwise, and that you aren’t in that majority.) There comes a point when refusal to engage with that reality in typical circumstances becomes a dividing line. It might be fear driven for those who don’t have a contraindicated condition, but it’s hard not think of refusal by people in medically typical circumstances, at this point, to be precious and selfish.
Nail Lodged in Skeleton’s Foot Is First Evidence of Crucifixion in England
> There's some temptation to think that terse==readable, but in practice this rarely extends beyond the simplest cases

A quick glance at any array language (APL, J, K, Q, etc.) confirms this. ;)
Same issue as college degree inflation. Clue : free money from Uncle Sam. At the end of the day, we all need to accept healthcare is never meant universal. It is limited just like a Gucci bag or a Ferrari. You can't make everyone have a Tesla, even if you try, the price will just go up. The only way to democratize the access it to build more and not to give more free money. If government build more hospitals, finance tons of MDs graduate, conduct all the pharmaceutical researches, hospital bills will reduce significantly. But alas, we all want coverage. We all believe every Tom Dick and Harry or Jane Jill or Jenny should be guaranteed with healthcare access. See Barry nonsense Barrycare. We all need to learn from handphone market. There will always be many tiers models to fit different budgets. We shouldn't restrict doctors and care only within USA. Let other countries healthcare acceptable to USA insurance and medicaid claims. If every handset is made in USA, sure Motorola will still be the Apple iPhone today. See when China able to crank out segway and phones cheaper, many gets to enjoyed it.
I use 1password for everything, and as great as it is, it isnt a seamless and bulletproof solution. No password manager is. The log in experience is EVERYWHERE and I have to generate new passwords seemingly everyday for new sites and apps.
Not all the time. Every once in a while we get the interfaces in Tron Legacy or The Matrix Reloaded:

https://ilikeinterfaces.com/2015/03/19/terminal-ui-tron-lega...

and

https://nmap.org/movies/matrix/trinity-nmapscreen-hd-crop-12...

or sometimes they even use real software, like NMAP

https://nmap.org/movies/

But yea, for the most part they're only for show.
There's also enormous pressure from the public to be able to find things, especially in the case of... you know, a McDonalds on the interstate with people driving by who are from the other side of the country. ;)

I don't think most people have a problem with honest ads. The issue is the billboards that tell you "There's something amazing ahead!" and you pay $10 to get in and it's a stupid doll. Or the collections of a billion billboards for different things on a single building. Or the TV ads that use every trick in the book to try and manipulate you into buying a crappy product.

Sadly businesses seem to be moving more and more towards "just spend all our money on marketing" rather than "just spend all our money on the product". (I'm looking at you, Plex.)
'Follow the money' is a good starting point for sure, though obviously we know that lots of people young and old are happy to 'pay' for 'free' products like FB / IG / gmail etc. by being surveilled (and I think it's fair to say that's fairly uncritical of them, or at least fatalistic). I like Cui Bono a little more, since there can be other kinds of motivations besides purely monetary ones. As for Hegel, I don't know that anyone really uses the dialectic 'out of the box' but the practice of trying to formulate the antithesis of your naive argument, and then incorporate it in an improved version is potentially very useful (and counter intuitive).
(Context, the late creator of the original TempleOS, Terry Davis, was very schizophrenic.)

This video is the definitive rundown on his life and illness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg

Terry Davis, in life and online, was completely wild. What's interesting though is that when you play in TempleOS for a little while, it's easy to forget that. The OS is religious and super idiosyncratic, but that nasty, manic, hateful, attitude isn't there (with few exceptions). And the code and docs are damn good. I think Terry tried hard to keep the actual OS and documentation "pure", in a way.

I think digging in and working on extremely complex C code was a regulating force that calmed him, in the exact opposite way that being jeered at online (especially by 4Chan and the like) upset him and made his condition worse.
I've been using it for about 3 years without issue, but you're right - you do have to be careful to set it up properly. I've also never gotten any related (or unrelated) physical mail from them about my account.
My computer graphics class used pov ray back in early 2000s. I remember I wrote a Perl script to generate my scenes to avoid typing things manually. I still may have the code somewhere.
That's funny, but it actually doesn't make sense. Java file operations involve a lot of boilerplate, so it's understandable that logging frameworks exist in Java. However, as the leading framework, log4j quickly developed "Feature Creep" and now... it has templating? A plugin architecture? Translations? Can it parse POP3 email logs yet?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
Programmer productivity has gotten worse. None of the development tools in widespread use today is as productive as Visual Basic or Delphi were back in 1996.
Unloved by Generations of Soldiers, the MRE Finds a Fan Base
Did you try something like autoNLP by huggingface?
If it just uses regex over source material i guess it would be fine, though seems like it might hit a fair number of false positives if it's too loose. Too rigid and it might not work if you don't write your css vars in something that looks html-like.

Will be interesting!
These ridiculous markups existed before those caps imposed by the ACA.
Back in 1988, at the height of TV viewing, these scene on Star Trek TNG seemed massively futuristic. Imagine TV ending by 2040

DATA: Is there something wrong?

SONNY: Wrong? Only that your computer here fixed about the best martini I have ever had. I just might get to like this place. Let's see if the Braves are on. How do you turn on this teevee?

RIKER: TV?

SONNY: Yeah, the boob tube. I'd like to see how the Braves are doing after all this time. Probably still finding ways to lose.

DATA: I believe he means television, sir. That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year two thousand forty.

Yet here we are, 24 years on, with just 18 years to go to that 2040 date, and it looks like it may well work out about right - as in TV as a passive viewing habit (rather than actively seeking out an episode of the Mandalorian or Tom Scott or what-have-you)
My ability to read anything in long form, including books.
Interesting, thanks! My position on the whole 'using moral intuitions in applied cases to disprove fundamental moral theories' is basically what I said in this thread: https://twitter.com/samziz/status/1412198411579887622

Incidentally I wouldn't agree with utilitarian arguments for torture, but not - necessarily - because I don't agree with utilitarianism. I think it's certainly possible to make higher-order or rule-utilitarian arguments against torture, within the parameters of utilitarianism.
> I think everyone, including the writer of the article, understands the mechanism at play.

That is the most interesting aspect of these articles. They are optimised for the title, not the content. Ignore the oil spill: if you lose $100m, you won't pay tax on that..."Billionaire pays no tax" is a better headline than "Billionaire loses lots of money". If you think that a wealth tax is a good idea, fine just say that...don't bother with the article. But the reason most journalists don't write about wealth taxes is because they lack the actual knowledge to understand why we don't have wealth taxes, they just write misleading bullshit about income taxes instead.

This isn't just splitting hairs either. There is enough real information on inequality in the US (this is something that most journalists are very clever about...this is an article about inequality because journalists know that the target audience will interpret it that way). You don't need the bullshit articles. These articles misinform the public, they don't need to be written.
I made a good bit of money in undergrad and grad school building software in Turbo Vision in the early 90s.

The biggest project was writing all the software included with this college textbook: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/quality-cont....

I found out later that the software in that book ended up being used in industry, including Jim Beam (the whiskey brand) using it in their distillery.
Look at it then as a developer in the real world: I doubt 40 years taught you to give estimates for systems you've never seen, for needs you know nothing about, for clients and users you know nothing about. My guess is that much more often, like everyone else in our industry, you deal with clueless people on the outside who say, 'why should that take so long? it's simple!'.
I recently moved and was wearing noise-canceling headphones while using the flat black minimalist buttons on my shiny stove and microwave and realized without hearing the beep it was hard to tell if I'd hit the button sensor. I had to wait and see how the minimalist alphanumeric display updated to know if I'd pressed the right little bit of text. People with disabilities or deafness would have a hell of a time.

> not what would actually be functional for users

Functional is ugly and ugly doesn't sell. This has been a problem with product design for decades: durability, usability, safety is all ignored in favor of whatever visual flair maximizes impulse buying. How the product performs when the owner actually uses it is irrelevant. Even worse dynamics are at play when it comes to advertising-supported software services. We've gone from a race to the bottom to a race to hell.
> This is what happens when the buyer doesn't care what the price is because its not their money and the seller doesn't publish prices to allow comparison.

The norm in most systems (in developed states, anyway) is that the buyer doesn't care what the price is, to at least the same degree that they don't in ours. Yet they're all much cheaper than our system.
It has nothing to do with assumptions about how smart people in the past were, we have every reason to believe they were just as smart as us. In fact we have direct evidence from surviving mathematical texts, treatises on philosophy, etc that they could be highly original and insightful thinkers. Smarts is simply not at all the issue and frankly you describing diligent scholars who clearly have huge appreciation and admiration of the people they study bigots is highly offensive and uncalled for.

The real bigots are the conspiracy nuts who think ancient civilizations we know of couldn't have achieved the many things we evidence of, and think it must have been aliens or other advanced civilizations on implausible magic islands.

The question is simply one of technology. We can't simply assume that people at a certain time had technology we have no evidence for, no accounts of, and no evidence of similar or near precursor technologies. The Antikythera mechanism was a shock because there was no evidence any such thing could exist at that time. We also don't have evidence such things existed in Babylon a thousand years previously, or in Egypt 3,000 years before that. Equally we have no evidence they definitely didn't have them. So should we assume they had such things? We simply make the best estimates we can and adjust when we find wonderful surprises like this one.
One of the issues I had with Go was that even though functions can return pseudo-tuples (multiple return values), there are no tuples anywhere else in the language. So you can't chain functions which return (T, err), easily create a slice of their return values, feed their output to a channel, etc. Just made handling operations on slices so tedious
Haven't used them all. Primarily referring to consistency of interface, visibility of errors and usability of dev tooling (not core product feature).
It is more common than you realize. Turkers are all over the place in psychology, sociology, machine learning, etc. It's something of a methodological issue: Turkers are extremely convenient and cheap, but they are also not necessarily representative of any realistic population, and the data can be absolute garbage sometimes... but at other times, they're great and they get you results at 1/10th or better the cost, so you can't just write off Turk entirely. Too useful to not use a lot, too dangerous to use blithely.
The hospital system in the article (Scripps), is indeed a non-profit. They even have posters and mailers asking for donations.
Lazarus/Free Pascal - It's all I use these days. It avoids the hassle of .NET, produces small executables, and just works.

If I had to do something on the web, I'd use the LAMP stack at my ISP.