skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> way more physicians required on staff

IIRC, as of several years ago, the supply of doctors is artificially constrained and hasn't really grown with the population.
I want to like this, but I feel like 32GB of RAM is minimum if I were buying a new laptop. I’ve been heavily eyeing the Framework but I’d prefer AMD. This had AMD but is limited to 16GB of RAM… lots of unnecessary tradeoffs being made here.
I eagerly await the admission from mainstream historians that all these tons of rock were not carved by semi-nomadic hunter gatherers. The scope of the stonework is evidence of agriculture; it's obnoxiously obvious yet still fringe to say it.
Is this a custom laptop or a different SKU of an existing one? I haven’t seen a recent EliteBook so I can’t identify it on sight anymore, unfortunately.
Tesla themselves admit Elon is overstating Autopilot/FSD capabilities to the public.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...
A book on the Wright brothers I would very much recommend is "The Bishop's Boys", fascinating story with a lot of detail I was unaware of. From my recollection it wasn't so much no-one believed in them as they just didn't give a dam what others thought, they just were interested in trying. I should clarify that by saying that they were certainly interested in learning what others had done but, as far as I recall, they weren't concerned what others thought about the probability of success.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23827.The_Bishop_s_Boys
> the further we replace the spirit of charity with an impersonal, dysfunctional system of coercion

This is a pretty dishonest strawman on many levels. First, taxation-based disability support is "spirit of charity" at scale.

Second, local charity is not mutually exclusive with disability support and talking about "replace" makes a strawman.

Third, local charity is in no way guaranteed. Something happens and suddenly charities run out of funds and disabled people can die of hunger.
> it'd be rather hard for a hunter gatherer society to realistically cover such a large area under tons of rubble

We should be careful about underestimating the capabilities of predecessor cultures. We don't even know to what extent these sites were hunter-gatherer societies, right? Isn't a good part of its significance that it's pushing the clock back on our assumptions?
Hmm. I've been wondering why all the Russian yachts have been "arrested" lately in the news as opposed to "seized", for example. It sounded very strange to me as I thought that "arrested" only applied to people.

Your use in this comment make me think that usage is tied to this legal concept of in rem.
Radeon graphics and 16GB memory for $1,100 sounds like a good deal imo.
Yep that makes sense. I could be an outlier on exclusive left shift key usage.
I believe it's too small a market.

Modern treatments are hugely expensive to develop, and they also tend to be very specific (ie. only 1 in 5,000 people might get the exact right kind of brain tumour for your treatment to be an option).

With only about 1 million all-cause deaths per year in the UK, that means your treatment for a specific terminal brain tumour might only have 200 patients per year.

The 'we just saved 4 hours of clinician time by using fancy AI' just isn't worth it if it only saves 800 hours of clinician time per year, yet costs millions to develop.

The fix is to roll this out somewhere with more patients (eg. China) and where trials are cheaper (ie. China).
> If you feel it’s unsubstantiated, please perhaps try reading the title of the article we’re commenting about…

If a comment's substance can be acquired by reading the title of the article, then by definition it adds nothing of substance.

Look, if the article's title is "1+1", it's just pointless to comment "that's 2 btw".

Notice how I'm ignoring all the ad hominems and just answering the core?
Yes you are. We are talking about a tool, so you are asking why someone would "find it be useful".
Comparative analysis of crime predictions using machine learning, geospatials
Escaping the cult some refer to as "Mormonism" or the "LDS Church".

Making it on my own and thriving in Silicon Valley.

I have a feeling the best is yet to come. But time is running out.. we'll see.
Good thing healthcare professionals have malpractice insurance?
You're proposing cutting government support for the poor so that they'll try harder to escape poverty? Since I'm pretty sure there's already plenty of incentives to not living in poverty
Poker may have good life lessons, but I would hesitate to wholeheartedly recommend poker to children because the worst-case scenario for the player is much worse than for a player of chess. From a research review paper [0]: "In the majority of situations, gambling in adolescence does not appear to have obvious serious negative consequences; however, in a number of cases it does. There are several risk factors for adolescent problem gambling, including parents with gambling problems, an earlier age of first gambling activity, and greater impulsivity. Children of problem gamblers tend to gamble earlier than their peers."

A worst-case scenario for a player can arise due to "tilt" in poker, aka a losing streak magnified by negative emotions. From another review paper [1]: "Tilting is defined as “a strong negative emotional state elicited by elements of the poker game (e.g., “bad beats” or a prolonged “losing streak”) that is characterised by losing control, and due to which the quality of decision-making in poker has decreased” [...] After a significant loss, tilt occurs in three phases: (1) a dissociative phase (disbelief, “unreality,” unwillingness to “accept” the events), (2) a phase of indignation and negative emotions (feelings of injustice and unfairness), (3) and the chasing phase."

Since real money can be at stake, especially if a young person starts to play poker online, the consequences can be far worse than for a person who develops an unhealthy relationship with chess. Though a research review paper suggests that these worst-case scenarios do not happen to the majority of young poker players, it can still happen to a significant number of them.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945873/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387767/
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I don't think anyone living in a country with reasonable public transport and uses it actually thinks that that is how it works.

I get the feeling that there might be a whole lot of "it sucks in my country so you probably have a bad experience too" replies here (not yours as it's quite a clear illustration of details people might miss), and I would almost immediately assume it'll be mostly people from the US who are car-bound for their transport needs.

The idea that you can life a nice and productive life and go places as you please without dring a car is very foreign to some people. Even the idea of switching it up and having some work commute by bike or bus seems like a 'poor people thing' to some people. It's weird.
“The Recent Unpleasantness,” as a certain Great-Aunt used to say.
A thermometer mostly tells you if you have an infection, and how close you are to your body temperature becoming a medically urgent or life-threatening situation.

Not even remotely the same thing.
My experience is that it doesn’t even mean you played better than your opponent overall, just that you “made the second to last mistake”.

I also think there’s a larger element to reading your opponent in chess than many people give it credit for — what are they planning? …can you “tilt” them to make them play worse? Etc.

It’s only at the very highest level you should expect people to play nearly perfect games… and even those players discuss the psychology (eg, Hikaru Nakamura is top 50ish and discusses the role of psychology in high level chess).
>First, taxation-based disability support is "spirit of charity" at scale.

I invite you to not pay your taxes and watch what happens.
At the time I was working for a consulting company. After a few years of grinding through assessments over and over I wanted to take a stab at actually helping improve the security of a company rather than simply telling them what they were doing wrong. I still get to do _SOME_ offensive work, but now I also get to follow up and help design/implement a good solution to the issue.
I can't help but mention that I play poker on commercial airline flights against the programmed computer opponent. I have crushed them three times in a row. I would've thought the programming would have been a wee bit tougher, but maybe they want us to feel good about ourselves and our card counting, pixel-reading acumen. It works.

Next time you're on a flight trying this out and you get an invite to join a table against a passenger in the cheap seats, that might be me. Watch your wallet.
> I wish we had a way of challenging every smart kid with proper material.

We do. It’s called acceleration. It’s not used because no one cares. The school system is not set up for learning. If it was students who were proficient at grade level could learn the material of the next grade up or two levels up.

https://www.accelerationinstitute.org/Nation_Deceived/ND_v1....
Take a swing at it, but I wager the idea is that the Latin and Greek words presume a state of human community that doesn't exhaust these even older configurations, premised as they are on erected physical barriers between inside and outside, state and nature, whereas a hunter-gather group building something like Tepe defies this difference.

Aristotle asserted that human communities form no less naturally than a hive of bees or an ant mound (something Spinoza will echo thousands of years later), in contrast to say Hobbesian theory of community, but he jumped right to the configuration of the city straight from there when we have glimpses of stranger possibilities that arose before, and labeled all other configurations defective.
How long should one rent for in this hypothetical situation?

Could a section 8 resident buy a house, and pay for a 1 month short term rental in the interim and meet your criteria? 6 mo? A year?
> you should consider that there is nothing wrong with having two subtly different, yet very good tools.

It's amusing that this needs to be said when writing for a particular audience.
I wouldn’t really say that’s a fair assessment either. I don’t think it’s in any way clear that Chess is deeper than Poker, or even by what metric you would determine such a thing.

Certainly in both games there are no competitors, human or robot, that has solved the game.
Can confirm from second-hand experience that this is a very real problem.

There’s a “cliff” that makes it so many people get stuck. There needs to be a gradual decline in assistance as income goes up, and it should never ever get cut off for got because of a fortunate month or year.
I often type them on the left side with one hand holding the shift and typing. It's not as hard as it sounds.
I would say there is no equivalent of the patriots as there are far fewer teams in the NFL, a more suitable comparison would be comparing the tournament-style WSOP to PGA(golf) majors, where in the past 3 years (11 majors) there have been 10 unique champions. Almost all sports games have some element of chance where the better team does not always win, the NCAA basketball tournament is another good example of this, No one is going to win every single game every single time.
Just to clarify what this is probably about, for people who don't do security research (that's what Quarkslab does) --- this is mostly valuable information for people who need to instrument apps under test to see what they're doing.

Locked-down TLS is a pain for testers, because, of course, the whole idea is preventing third parties from seeing plaintext. But that's what app testers need to do (usually, to get enough information to write their own tooling-grade clients and servers to use to probe vulnerabilities with). There's a bunch of different tools people use for this purpose; Frida is probably the best-known example, for mobile and native clients.

But if your target under test is Linux, modern eBPF gives you enough tooling to capture plaintext without directly instrumenting binaries, which is handy.

This isn't, like, per se a vulnerability; they're not saying it is.
I completely agree, I was just responding to the parent commenter's assertion that the UK didn't have the offensive power to have "exorbitant privilege"
Working on my home assistant installation - slowly finding more and more ways to make it useful!
The worst part is it's biased towards those who already have the time / security to devote to it, aka those from the upper class. Vicious cycle.
>can you make that work at scale with a data store that you have no information about? How’s it going to get the data to operate on in the first place? Will your data retrieval query cripple a prod database? Read from replica? How far behind can that data be without making your fancy algorithm useless? How will you parallelize that work set? In-request or background job? Multi-threaded or single thread? What about changing state in multi threaded contexts? Database indexes? Schema design? How will you handle failures in your algorithm? How will you handle malformed data? And most importantly, does what you’re doing benefit the user, or just your epeen?

Some of these questions are perfectly valid during LC coding rounds. Others would be more appropriate in a system design round.
Yes, there may be situations where certain people need more assistance than others. And it would require a bureaucracy to qualify and whatnot, but that is the same as the situation now. At least with a minimum amount of straight cash to everyone, a significant portion of the population no longer has to jump through hurdles.
Some scientists don't even try to hide an obscene acronym:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100024508

> The development and verification of the Charring Ablating Thermal Protection Implicit System Solver (CATPISS) is presented. [...]
Does this mean M1 MacBook Air? There is no M1 MacBook
Very true but allowing and encouraging students to skip grades isn’t.
Just for wonder's sake. Do you think it could be possible for a system of underground waterways to basically be pushed uphill by a natural dam breaking and the pressure of the Mediterranean sea forcing the water to sort of gush uphill?

Similar to [https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/02/why-is-water-pouring-o...] (just a quick Google search, maybe not the best article):

> "In the Estonian village of Tuhala, there is a well that starts spouting water after a heavy downpour. The well happens to be placed just over an underground river. After rain water floods the river, water pressure builds to the point that it shoots up out of the well, sometimes up to half a meter high. This continues for a few days. During this time, more than 100 liters of water can flow out every second."
Isn't there just an element of basic fairness to this? The budget for Section 8 is only so much, and people who can afford market rent need to be moving out of the program to make way for others.
How about we play competitive Pokemon instead?

Its got all the reads, bluffs, random chance, meta-gaming, math and strategy, and none of the gambling.

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Don't get me wrong. Poker is a great game. But if we're talking about "reading" the opponent, relatively simple decisions that have deep mathematical backgrounds... a large variety of "simultaneous choice" video games (Pokemon, being a turnbased game with 60% to 100% accuracy on common attacks), leads to very rich gameplay, interaction and reads.

I personally see Poker as just one game in a large family of simultaneous-choice, random-chance, incomplete-information high-skill gaming.

Magic: The Gathering is another one. The cards your opponent plays necessarily reveals information (the colors of cards reveals what kind of strategies they are going for, and your opponent chooses to reveal that information only when necessary). I've won games by "holding onto lands" (worthless cards), bluffing that I had a response against my opponent's moves. Just delaying a turn or two (keeping them cautious) bought me the time to draw the cards I really needed to turn the game around.

And I've lost games by going all in (assuming my opponent was bluffing, so I did a high-risk move), and lo-and-behold, my opponent had the "combat trick" needed to break my attack.
The US does a lot of shit, but it doesn't actively threaten countries with nuclear weapons
My guess is that he discovered a method to break the Luhn check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm that is not a strong check. It's only useful to avoid typos. That's probably enough to make the "send" button happy.

I guess he didn't discover how to break the secret code of the card, and the transactions were flagged by the server immediately. Some servers flag the card secretly, so credit card thieves have more problems to validate the stolen cards.

The press article claims it was something impressive, but my guess is that it's just a bad report by the police or by the journalists.
We basically adopted the MINASWAN interview, which Jesse Spevack can explain much better than myself in his talk [here](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c4K-ORZmrGk&feature=share).

The overview is that for each candidate we spend 20 minutes reading through code we provide to them to demonstrate comprehension, and then we give them 45 minutes to pair with us on reimplementing that same code from scratch.

What that code is doesn’t really matter, it’s more about getting a chance to work with them and start a conversation, and starting with trying to explain a provided example really smooths the way into the pair programming.
You play for money?
Has that one common usage anywhere?
I don't think it's like that? At least in the US, you can have literally the same card number, expiry, and name, with only the CVC being different.
When hearing annecdotes about the intelligence of jumping I’m always reminded of and David Attenborough’s narration of Portia

https://youtu.be/UDtlvZGmHYk

Well worth the watch if it’s new to you! Quite the perspective shifter
I’m a big fan of pop_os & have been using it for years, but being limited to 16gb of memory is probably a dealbreaker
The mistake in this logic is that not all code is the same. A good counterexample is separating policy and mechanism. The policy code should definitely align with external (higher level) decisions. The mechanisms also satisfy constraints that should also be known or expected but is typically more of a technical nature or more about potential capabilities fathered than immediately delivered.
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It’s a Pavilion afaict.
Graeber spends a lot of time arguing against exactly this assumption in The Dawn of Everything. I.e. that agriculture must come before civilization. Pretty persuasively, IMHO.
Of course; I’m sure that, if it were easy enough, people would commit social security fraud.

I know this is a subjective statement, but as I go through this process it just feels way, way, way over the top.

We could probably do with a lot less. We could probably make the process kinder. The experience is so humiliating and we do it to people who are already suffering.

Edit: Imagine, hypothetically, that the process were twice as kind but bumped the fraud rate to 1.5%. I would be totally OK with that. Maybe it’s worth spending a little extra public money to treat people with dignity.
Considering the manufacturing and ensuing migration, it’s rising one way or another.

Won or lose, we still see Carpet Baggers…
> We should be careful about underestimating the capabilities of predecessor cultures

This is surely true, however allowing oneself to imagine and dream, especially when not in a position of authority in the matter can't be that bad, can it? I'm wholly open to any and all possibilities and rebuttals.

> We don't even know to what extent these sites were hunter-gatherer societies, right?

I think the article mentions this is a theory they have.

> Isn't a good part of its significance that it's pushing the clock back on our assumptions?

It is! I hope I'm not detracting from it by entertaining a wild thought.
iPhone autocorrect…
Your statements aren't even accurate in this post.

First of all there have been tons of successful private and public tech companies in the 100M+ range since Facebook which received venture funding. You can find a whole list of them just in this very website, from YC alone. Many of them profitable, not just focusing on growth and future profitablity. I also don't see a reason to limit things arbitrarily to "since Facebook".

Secondly I only fact checked your claim about Apple, but they received much more than $20k of funding. But whether or not those companies were venture funded really doesn't affect my argument. There are tons of successful companies that received venture funding. That you would double down on your claim that it's just a giant Ponzi scheme beggars belief.
>sue their parents for wrongful birth

Nah, not when there's an obvious and simple remedy.
Also, Twitter front end nitter.net gives out rss feeds of your twitter timeline.
It was not so easy back then as well. They had draft riots in New York City, which had to be suppressed by regular Union regiments. There were also deserters and bounty jumpers.

The South had trouble to support their armies. Lee basically planned the Gettysburg campaign to live of the land. Soldiers were happy because they had enough to eat. A lot of soldiers lacked shoes.
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> but then doesn't that just indicate that modern software development is a joke and the job is not actually hiring developers to do anything difficult?

You just said the quiet part out loud. Most of what we're doing is just slinging CRUD code. Some of the worst developers to work with are the ones who think they're God's gift to programming, because they're the ones who twist the codebase into knots in pursuit of cleverness points. Guess which type leetcode filters for.
They’re attacking the best thing that’s happened to their town in decades. All the best to them
Agreed, "why does it matter?"

For now, it absolutely doesn't, and for 99.99999999999999% of humanity, it never will.
Hey tennis and golf have wind and ant hills and birds. That’s more “chance” than chess.
The sooner you realize how many of these systems only exist to keep you poor and dependent the better.
Me too. It's essentially a polemic of the common idea that modernity "fell" from Eden, or more conventionally, "fell" from Rousseau's State of Nature.

Gobekli Tepi is used as one of many examples of how nowadays the evidence is stacked against the idea of agriculture being an inevitable and necessary step on the road to civilisation and all its concomitant ills. Rather the picture is far less linear, indeed it would seem that many societies both knew and had the ability to farm, but actively chose not to.

I haven't finished it yet, but personally it's bringing "modernity" down a peg or 10. It seems that all the possible forms of social organisation that we can imagine, and more, have already been experimented with, multiple times even. What's unique about our version, isn't so much its innovation, but merely its scale. And if we consider this current scale as, encompassing-all-the-lands-we-know-of, then that too has already been and, crucially, gone. What if there have already been societies that, not only witnessed that ultimate jeopardy of the complete collapse of their all-encompassing civilisation, but also went beyond and innovated a post-civilisation society? In some ways that would make them more "modern" than us.
There’s that famous thing Plato said: if you don’t already know Poker, don’t bother applying to the Academy.
What is with those arrow keys? Who wants double wide half height up and down keys? 2 x 0.5 does not equal one full sized key.

Am I really to believe that relabeling the win key to super is some sort of engineering feat?