skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find a lot of the criticism of healthcare today to be misguided.

Why would healthcare be inexpensive? Go into a clinic today and there’s a legion of professionals who attend to each patient. Each of them has years of training, even the clerk at the desk.

They use a whole battery of expensive equipment. Multi-million dollar machines to literally see inside your body.

Every piece of tubing, bandage, needle, plastic fitting, etc is sterile, and used only once. They are made in a facility to exacting standards which is in turn monitored and supervised by another network of professionals with reams of policy dictating how the equipment is made, accounted for, and an army of lawyers behind the scenes as well.

The facility itself has exacting standards for cleanliness, emergency power, disaster-resistance.

The medical records are held in computer systems which abide by HIPAA requirements, again with a team of engineers and cybersecurity professionals ensuring that standards are met.

Healthcare is expensive because it’s expensive. The alternative is suffering with untreatable injuries or just dying, which we take for granted because we don’t see it that much anymore. We don’t have country doctors working out of their house charging a few bucks for a visit.

Are there inefficiencies? Is there waste, fraud and abuse? Are there greedy pharmaceutical execs making billions of dollars on the backs of unsuspecting pill poppers? Could we do things better or cheaper? I’m sure we could, but I don’t think there’s some kind of grand conspiracy to make us slaves to our employers vía medicine.
A person can certainly become a software engineer without a college education, but I worry that constantly learning things just in time for using them will give them disconnected snippets of knowledge in a lot of areas rather than a good concept of how the underlying system functions. I guess it depends on if they are studying computer architecture, complexity theory, and whatnot in those videos or if they are just copying snippets of code from SO.

I learned by doing, initially, because I started learning programming with minimal resources before going to college and had to unlearn or restructure a lot of the knowledge I had gained up to that point once I did. I would probably have gotten there in the end, but it would have taken me a lot longer. The world was different then, though. Instead of easy access to info before going to college I was lucky to find a book somewhere that someone threw out that talked about things in a peripheral way that I needed to know, or ran into someone I could discuss things with that were as info-deprived as I was.

That's where my skepticism of this approach comes from, I guess. But I didn't live in a world where knowledge was at my fingertips from a very early age, so who knows?
Can you elaborate on how this link is related? I spent 30 seconds on the site and couldn't make the connection...
Rivos Inc. A RISC-V startup supposedly with many ex-Apple engineers.
Yeah, you're right. I realize that I eluded to it in the subsequent statement, but didn't outright say it, but I meant to say,

> I don't know of a RWD car with a torque converted that can hit sixty in under 3.0 seconds on street tires,

It's insane what the C8 can do with RWD on street tires. Being able to launch at full HP without destroying the rear tires is amazing. DCTs have near EV levels of torque management capabilities.
Does this mean the researchers also have to provide the data as well so others can try to reproduce the results?
No, that's parthenogenesis. We can already do that with mice.
Maybe try calling your bank before. Talking to people goes a long way.
The Biden administration is really getting some major wins over the last month or two.
Degrade into CO2 and H2O at altitude where CO2 actually have an impact.
Damn I had forgotten about that. Now I'll have to start forgetting about it all over again.
I wonder about what, a thousand years from now, people will look back on us and say 'if they just did this, they could have discovered that thing centuries earlier'.
In this scenario, the server would have already been shut down for maintenance but the company would still be debating whether to hire someone for actually doing the maintenance.
Pain receptors that are activated by burning are indicating something harmful is occurring to your body not because the receptor is actually activated, but because of the cellular damage that triggers the receptor.

On the other hand, capsaicin doesn't activate pain receptors by cellular damage. It activates pain receptors by allowing a flood of (Na+? Ca2+?) ions through cellular walls. This triggers the pain receptors to fire without the cell damage. That is a laymen's description of reference [1].

It's interesting because the biochemistry of spicy foods differs by the 'spicy' compound. Capsaicin isn't the only one at play, wasabi and horseradish-containing foods have an entirely different molecule responsible for producing the spicy sensation, allyl isothiocyanate.[2] If you're a fan of spicy peppers and horseradish, you have definitely noticed the difference in how the 'heat' manifests: capsaicin-containing foods cause areas of damaged skin or mucus membranes to feel painful, usually localized in the mouth or around nail beds of those preparing the peppers.

Horseradish on the other hand, with it's spicy-ness provided by allyl isothiocyanate, produces a heat that - for me - is more located in the back of the head or in the upper sinus cavities. A completely different sensation than that of capsaicin.

Unfortunately, I don't know what the biochemical method of action is to produce those feelings. I'm sure it is buried deep in the literature, but it isn't on the wiki.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin#Mechanism_of_action

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate
Ah, that way around. Sorry, didn't get that you looked at it from that angle.
> I fail to see how information retention maps to skill in this case.

It doesn't really matter if you understand why it works; the facts are what they are.
A lot of this is caused by the bad faith of some state actors.

Many computer science conferences are under systematic assault from these places, which systematically swamp the PC's with submissions.

What needs to happen is :

- Regionalisation; make conferences regional only. So that submission can only come from that area or small group of nations. This will reduce travel demands and increase plurality.

- Sharp constraints on personal submission: one and only one paper as an author by anyone.

- Block outs : you get in one year, you skip a year.
I was in a similar position, ended up transitioning to machine learning. Very happy with it, but I also echo the sentimemt expressed in other comments that work is work and ultimately fulfillment is better sought outside of the workplace.

If you still want more challenging technical work (as opposed to e.g. enterpreneurship challenges) maybe you can play with more niche topics (3d / scientific / DSP / whatever) and seek employment there, though that may come with other compromises.

Hope you work it out, and enjoy the journey!
Joe Armstrong gave a good talk on forgotten ideas in Computer Science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
That’s not an excuse. In fact, smaller hacker shops more often than not provide a better experience than most ‘consumer’ shops; and certainly better than the average massive corporation.

It’s the kind of place you can maybe talk to an actual human.

It’s not the kind of place where you break your Credit Card Merchant’s rules and refuse refunds on items poorly packaged and broken on arrival.

After reading OP’s comment, I will never be ordering from this company, and I was highly considering it.
At least in the US, I've never experienced this nor have I heard of any others that have.
If it's a renewal, presumably those documents have already been validated. One would need to validate the old passport being sent in but that should be it.
I wonder to what extent any of these ancient industrial revolutions would have been similar to the modern one. Mass produced crucible steel certainly would have given Rome even more military and trade might, but it's hard to see what else it leads to.

Same for the flying shuttle or steam engine. Water wheels and such were used by Romans. Romans liked useful engineering. But, I don't think they were a keystone technology. Rome could have still been Rome without water wheels, perhaps. What would they have powered with engines, and how much of it? Would they have learned to to mine coal?

The flying shuttle is even more interesting to me, because it's more independant. Like steel, textile is a trade good. Automated weaving probably would have become widespread in rome, and changed the economy.

I agree with you though. There are multiple routes to industrialisation. Metallurgical techniques could have been invented much earlier. Historical happenstance. Some important metallurgical techniques may have been invented, kept secret, and eventually forgotten. There are lots of curious, ancient steel artifacts in museums and even more in lore.

Metallurgy may have been retarded by millenia, because secrecy.
Norwegian chip startups:

- ONiO: Single-chip microcontroller with builtin energy harvesting and radio communication, enabling IoT devices without battery or dedicated charging.

https://www.onio.com/

- Ascenium: Software-defined CPU without an instruction set. Highly parallel architecture with extensive compiler integration.

https://www.ascenium.com/

- Disruptive Technologies: Single-chip compute + sensing with built-in battery for 10+ year operation.

https://www.disruptive-technologies.com/
You are likely not aware of just how much crap gets submitted for any given conference/journal.
Can you share recommended resources to get started? Is it possible to get into without a degree?
Not sure if that's old people painting the past rose, but System 7 was not awesome. Cooperative scheduling and lack of memory protection were anachronisms already in 1991.

I think we're talking about different things here. The UI might have been superior in MacOS, but the technical foundations of Unix clearly were. Something OSX tried to (belatedly) reconcile. Nothing stops you from adding an awesome UI on top of Linux (although I'd say UI will always be a matter of personal taste and prior experience).
In a way I can agree with that, but we need to change the narrative. Instead of telling kids to go to college to get a job, we would need to change it to "go to college to learn interesting things." When we tell kids that, that's the expectation they will end up having when they go.

The demand for college also has to go way down to make it more affordable, save for maybe an act on the government's part. Learning for learnings sake is great, but not $50k great.
I would not just knowledge transfer, but knowledge organization. We have so many different ways to represent knowledge, but it is very hard to access it or know where to look.

I think better training and investigation into best practices of organizing knowledge would benefit all industries.
If I had to guess, I'd say food distribution and preservation. But that's just a guess.
"Hanna hopes to use the technique to develop human synthetic embryos that can be a source of new organs and tissues for people who need them."
Yes, and if we completely eliminated all other ethical restrictions on research, we'd innovate all the faster. Get those old Nazi scientists on the phone, there's slightly faster progress to be made!
> Comments often show the reviewers never read the paper.

And when they do, it's not sure they understood it or even put the slightest towards understanding. I've a rejected paper where one of the comment was that the header of a table featuring 4 columns named N, V, ADJ, ADV was "hard to understand". The table was between two paragraphs each mentioning nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, in a paper mostly about dictionary...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's $1B art collection to be auctioned off
I know of course. But you still need to audit them before. And then on every npm update you do. It can be a full time job. But even then there’s no guarantee you’ll slip and miss.

I can definitely see a potential targeted attack. Since you could reverse the 1P bundle and see what packages it uses and then try to insert some malicious code.

And then gain access to millions of 1P vaults.
I made a USB-C iPhone 13
I'm gonna strike right back with the Czech, perfectly valid, words "vchrstls" and "smrskls" (roughly "you have splashed/thrown/hurled" and "you have shrunk", respectively).
Nope.

I wouldn't want to go to doc that has to Google basic stuff.
And the Reddit community has disowned him. I'm glad HN still remembers.
> Nvidia CFO Colette Kress insisted that the company is "unable to accurately quantify the extent to which reduced crypto mining contributed to the decline in gaming demand," notably because Nvidia has gotten into trouble with the SEC for obscuring the number of GPUs it was selling to cryptocurrency miners in the past.

This sentence is confusing. Is "because" the right word here? If Nvidia got into trouble for obscuring the number of GPUs used in mining, wouldn't that motivate the company to get a handle on this number as part of its obligation to disclose risks to shareholders? Especially because Ethereum is about to render most mining rigs useless with the upcoming "merge"?
Tolerance of different pronunciations is helpful for people learning to speak English, but not so much for following what they're saying. Plus of course we have a significant number of words where an attempted phonetic pronunciation might not be a bit unusual so much as completely unintelligible.
At least we're not that fussy about stress and apart from implied questions don't really convey much important meaning with tone.
The stage is set for the AI Golden Age?
I was recently tasked with moving a chevy bolt what was parked on the street too long to save it from being impounded.

It had sat there for quite a long time and wasn't anywhere near full when it was parked. When I got it the battery was in the orange where it stops telling you how much range is left and just says find a charger. I belive this kicks in at the 15-20 miles remaining range.

I moved the car about 10 miles to a residential driveway that has a 120ac plug.

When I left, the car was indicating it would be fully charged in 60 hours.

That's two and a half days to do what a gas station can do in 5 minutes.

Bottom line is relying on 120 to keep your car charged up is a fantasy unless your car usage is so low you might as well have a bicycle instead of a car.
I wonder why Apple haven't made this a default on TouchID Macs?
Those 529 funds can be used for other forms of education, such as a trade school.

I think the biggest problem is credentialing. Employers want 4 year degrees for just about everything. Many careers/industries could probably switch to 2 year degrees and be fine. I'm sure there are a few that could just do a bootcamp.

All that sort of leads into the secondary problem of debt, with people not considering the cost differences of various schools due to bias, prestige, easy loans (like you mention), whatever. It's still possible to go to the state school I attended and end up with around $85k in debt. Not great, but much better than other schools where tuition alone would surpass that. I feel like this cost difference isn't covered enough in high school, and that students are making emotional decisions about where to go.
OMG yes! Awesome news!! Too bad this didn’t happened while I was doing my degree, it would’ve saved me some money and the sci-hub chrome extension.
Unfortunately 'solving problems' often really means accumulating easy money. Every strategy is acceptable, like faking and manipulating.
In our current (primitive) system, this way of life may lead to what's called success in this system.
I deeply doubt, that it can lead to a fulfilling life, which you may realize only when it's too late. I have witnessed this late realization multiple times and it's tragic.
Only in cities with dedicated bus lanes. Otherwise the buses are stuck in the same traffic as the cars.
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One source doesn't equate consensus. Given the myriads of criticisms among diets, food production and emissions, I'd ask you to remain skeptical of anything advocating for more open loops. Plenty of sources put transport far higher than agriculture, and many of the differences are based on methodology. No, this doesn't mean the critics are right.

>Finally, it doesn't have to be either or.

Not the point. One of these is pushed aggressively. The others aren't. That alone should warrant enough skepticism regarding the entire thing. Even if we don't agree on what is the worst, it's ridiculous to push one but not the other. That's how you create political friction.

>Few of us have the ability to unilaterally shut down a coal plant or an oil company, but a large number of us do have the ability to change our consumption habits to be less destructive.

You can't keep compensating for a few unwilling individuals taking advantage of the breathing room opened up. Playing a game prisoner's dilemma should be the first thing to get your head closer on the wanted list. How this is even negotiable in the face of a global threat is beyond me.
> The government is supposed to work by collecting taxes and then spending these taxpayers dollars.

Not by printing? Where are those taxpayers dollars coming from before they're collected, if they were never printed? Once printed, how is new money moved into circulation? Answer:

The government prints money, which it then distributes into the economy via government spending. It then collects taxes to remove money from circulation.

Your suggestion is the common understanding, but that leaves no room for how the whole cycle starts before money has been printed, and seems to reverse the order of events.
Immaculate Conception is a doctrine pertaining to the conception of Mary, not Jesus. /pedant
That could go the wrong way too... "thanks for letting us know that we should investigate you further, we're going to shut down your account until you can prove yourself otherwise"...
> By the time I came back to my apartment it'd look like I just came back from a meet and greet at a strip club.

In Shanghai they would shove cards advertising prostitutes under the door of your apartment. You can't reject the card that way!

(That practice may have lessened now, with prostitutes advertising more directly over wechat. I'm not sure.)
My point was that all Apple has done is let end users disable third party tracking cookies on apps. They gave users choice on whether they wish to be surveilled. That’s it.

The only potential market this capability hurts is the market for ads based on surveillance on Apple devices. Would these be seen as an illegal/unfair practice? I find it highly unlikely to be seen as such by any western government.
Has it? I thought the language was built non-extendable and essentially frozen.
I’ve found a watch to be way more effective than any phone or other device I’ve ever tried at keeping a reliable alarm.

And no; not a smartwatch that needs charging every day - or ever…just a timex that might need it’s battery replaced every year or two.

As far as reliable connectivity, dumbphones are way more rock solid than any smartphone could pretty much ever hope to be.
I learned plenty of things in college. The real question is how much of it is stuff I actually use today, especially for my job.

Calculus - no, literature - no, Spanish - no, English - no (HS level is sufficient), cryptography - no, networking - no, COBOL - no, assembly - no, business minor classes - barely, all those liberal arts - nope.
I enjoyed that comment very much. It reminded me of good old Civilization where you could take paths through inventions in order to get more and more advanced over time.
Not in the land of the 2nd Amendment it won't.
What I did was realized that my job is just a means to an end. I do my work and promptly leave at 5 PM to play with my kids, family, and enjoy life. I pursue challenges in areas outside my job, including being more fit.

I acknowledge this perspective isn't for everyone though.
That’s a good question. I don’t have any high traffic sites hosted with Vercel.
Great link, thanks.

I was actually talking to a guy from the late 1800s the other day at a dinner party, and he simply couldn't believe that we spend all our days (including early morning!) on "calls" with co-workers, but never have a set day and time set aside for social calls. Truly, we lost something.
The Office Open XML file format is extremely complex, and takes up around 6,500 pages (compared to ~1000 for ODF). One thing you notice when reading the DOCX spec is that they designed it with the sole constraint that DOC files could easily be converted to DOCX. For example, you'll frequently see compatibility tags like "autoSpaceLikeWord95", "footnoteLayoutLikeWW8", "useWord2002TableStyleRules", and "lineWrapLikeWord6" that expose internal implementation details. Rather than creating a useful standard allowing all users to store their documents in a clean, portable way, Microsoft decided to make their standard faithfully reproduce all of the quirks and bugs of their legacy binary formats. It's so difficult to correctly implement the Office Open XML standard that even Microsoft took until Office 2013 to do so (the standard was approved in 2006).
Definitely, transfer can only happen when knowledge is organised and understandable by a variety of stakeholders, with different backgrounds (education, languages spoken, years of expertise)
I've done so much work in this space that I wrote up a patern that I modify as needed. The only data-specific issues you'll encounter are the underwriting rules - each insurer has their own secret sauce that they guard very closely.

My template - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Protection_System.aspx
I remember hearing (though can't find it on wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat_(software)) or elsewhere) that the project was born out of wanting to give some fault tolerance to datasets from publicly funded research
Mary was conceived immaculately too?
The Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) was actually close to industrialization with high steel and coal productions, but apparently never took off due to the lack of a middle class to purchase the manufactured goods.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Industrialization_of_China#/Hist...
The science behind NFL Next Gen Stats’ new passing metric
For the sake of that talk I focused only on open source you could self-host.

SQL
• PostgreSQL
• CockroachDB

NoSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• ScyllaDB [Cassandra]

There are a lot of points in the DBaaS world to also consider, but there's also issues of visibility — can these issues be known, perceived or understood from a user's POV? Are they documented? Or are some of these considerations obscured and trade secreted? So I had to pare down.

I planned to do a whole different talk on DBaaS systems, and yes, I'd likely shortlist Bigtable, Spanner, DynamoDB, and a few others for that.

Only so much to do in an hour! :)
I finally managed to get my last name as a domain name. My calling cards are all letterpress (reverse embossing) and read "{first_name}@{last-name}.com". The twist is that first name and last name are black, the "@" and ".com" are struck blind (no ink). The result is a card that just has my name on it at first glance, but when you look at it you realize it's an email address.

That's it. No phone, nothing else.
John Henry specialized in hammering... He was a steel driving man!
Is this someone’s name Agent Smith?
french has a lot more tenses, behold:
avoir, tu avais, tu as eu, tu as, tu auras, tu auras eu, tu aurais, tu aurais eu, tu eus, tu eus eu, que tu aies, que tu aies eu, que tu eusses, que tu eusses eu, aie, aie eu
it's nice that for once, hr is the one being filtered.
I basically support Dark Brandon at this point.