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This website provides daily updates on the spread of the virus: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

There is a tendency to undervalue recent advancements because they haven't had the same amount of time to demonstrate an impact on the world.

I would point to the 2010's as the rise of two phenomena:

- Social networking and meme culture

- Explosive growth of software

These will prove to be just as important as the developments of the 2000's, but haven't had the time for other developments to build on them.

There is also a lower focus on end of life care in Singapore, which makes up the vast majority of spending in the American system.

These issues are cultural, not just political or economic. I am looking forward to seeing what PC and TC can come up with for a common framework. This seems to be a tough problem.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the XPrize foundation: https://oceandiscovery.xprize.org/prizes/ocean-discovery

> As part of its post-prize impact work, XPRIZE announced a partnership with Seabed 2030, a collaborative project between The Nippon Foundation and The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) to inspire the complete mapping of the world’s ocean by 2030 and to compile all bathymetric data into the freely-available GEBCO Ocean Map.

Do you worry that Substack is going to eat your userbase here?

This comment is probably the most common reaction, and also the reason the course exists.

Thanks for this clarification. I have been wondering about this for awhile and your explanation helped a lot.

You may find this interesting: http://www.takecareofmyplant.com/

There is a related subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/takecareofmyplant/

Behind a paywall. Does anyone have a workaround?

Here's an article from Verge that seems to be from a journalist attending the event: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20697123/elon-musk-neural...

I'm not sure the assumption that other countries give a damn about what the U.S. Constitution says is correct.

Hi Geoff, congratulations on the new role. Do you have any thoughts you can share on YC's presence outside of SF? Any plans to move the core operations or setup hubs in alternate geographies?

Anthem | Senior Software Engineer, Junior Software Engineer | Atlanta, GA | Full-time, Onsite

Anthem is a Fortune 30 company that specializes in for-profit health insurance and is the largest member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

As part of an ongoing push to rapidly grow our digital capabilities, we are hiring talent to make our large volume of data useful to improve people's health.

We are hiring software engineers into several teams that will focus on building internal machine learning models for predicting health outcomes, building blockchain based systems to improve security and transparency among the healthcare ecosystem, and generally make healthcare a more modern experience.

Put candidly -- this is a new group within a traditional organization that is growing quickly and looking for top talent. There are more roles than people at the moment and a lot of projects going on in this space. This is a great opportunity to use the resources of a large American company and solve problems at the complex intersection of technology, health, and regulations.

We currently serve 40 million members and just finished our best performance year to date.

If you're interested, reach out directly to phil.mohun (at) anthem.com

I'm not sure replacing Slack is as easy as you may think. If you have used their product, then you understand the amount of integrations and dependencies that become built into a team's workflow.

When your entire history of communications, way of tracking tickets, and document repository is stored in a desktop application, replacing Slack may not be as simple as switching to another messaging program.

Could you "replace Outlook" -- it's just an email client after all.

The very first result, Coachella, is listed as $300. Having attended multiple times (and going again in 3 days), I can assure you that the actual cost is much higher.

It makes me skeptical of the rest of the information displayed for festivals I am less familiar with.

Smart contracts are programs whose computation is run independently across a large number of distributed machines, with an output that is verified using a predetermined consensus mechanism.

They are useful is situations where an actor would benefit from altering the result of the computation, or masking values. The primary use case that I've seen is for escrow payments with Ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native currency.

They trade processing speed for finality and verification of results.

Anthem | Senior Software Engineer, Junior Software Engineer | Atlanta, GA; Palo Alto, CA; Chicago, IL | Full-time, Onsite

Anthem is a Fortune 30 company that specializes in for-profit health insurance and is the largest member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

As part of an ongoing push to rapidly grow our digital capabilities, we are hiring talent to make our large volume of data useful to improve people's health.

We are hiring software engineers into several teams that will focus on building internal machine learning models for predicting health outcomes, building blockchain based systems to improve security and transparency among the healthcare ecosystem, and generally make healthcare a more modern experience.

Put candidly -- this is a new group within a traditional organization that is growing quickly and looking for top talent. There are more roles than people at the moment and a lot of projects going on in this space. This is a great opportunity to use the resources of a large American company and solve problems at the complex intersection of technology, health, and regulations.

We currently serve 40 million members and just finished our best performance year to date.

If you're interested, reach out directly to phil.mohun (at) anthem.com

What was the app called?

I don't have an input on the potential security risks of pen cameras on airlines, but I do have an opinion on your description of economy travel on modern airlines.

It's spot on, and unbelievable to me that there are no other options available for air travel. With the amount of time business executives spend in the air I have to imagine there is an airline company out there modeling the business case for increased ticket prices with the justification of companies subsidizing to make up for lost productivity.

- written from the 3rd flight I've taken this week

This has a dangerous implication that we've seen recently with the newsfeed "bubble."

If dissenting opinions are never allowed into your sphere of influence then we may continue to see an accelerating polarization of our society towards extremes.

This is not an effective argument - you are assuming that a user of digital currency will not keep multiple copies of their money, especially in meaningful amounts.

This brought back a memory I hadn't accessed in quite a while:

In highschool we had a filesharing systems that teachers "used" to upload class materials, homework, notes, etc.

In reality, about 5% of the teachers used it to host their syllabus but didn't bother to upload anything for the remainder of the year. My junior year I spent the better part of a semester building a workaround to allow students to locally install AoE via a cracked version that I torrented and brought in on a CD. We hosted the files deep into our technologically inept math teachers directory and buried ourselves during study hall to try and host complete matches in our allotted 40 minutes.

I wonder if it's still there. Even today I can still imagine the cries of "more wood please!" very distinctly.

> When we've saved those millions of lives, we can work on ways to get the benefits of both privacy and still saving those lives.

In this hypothetical, the genie is out of the bottle unfortunately

Fascinating:

"We observed that for precision grasps, such as the Tip Pinch grasp, Dactyl uses the thumb and little finger. Humans tend to use the thumb and either the index or middle finger instead. However, the robot hand’s little finger is more flexible due to an extra degree of freedom, which may explain why Dactyl prefers it. This means that Dactyl can rediscover grasps found in humans, but adapt them to better fit the limitations and abilities of its own body."

The learning of "emergent" behavior, specifically when it creates improvements to natural human motion is one of the main reasons why this type of work is so important. Similar to the way that we imitate design from nature (e.g. wings, suction cups), we can now accelerate development by observing how the bots perform the task in a variety of environments