skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> coordinate to manage patient flow

Right there. That's why the costs are so extreme.

Where is it written that someone must 'coordinate to manage patient flow?' Show me what fundamental principle of this nation mandates that some body of colluding apparatchiks are supposed to 'coordinate to manage patient flow.' What great benefit is achieved by subjecting every evolution of the medical system to a horde of bureaucrats?

The entire medical industry is rife with this mentality; that nothing may exist without the blessing of a dozen regulatory agencies and another dozen industry trade groups, all actively colluding to prevent any market forces interfering with their fiefdoms and livelihoods.

>> Hospitals are not something you want competitive churn in.

Why? Where is that written? What makes you think competition would be bad?

You're going to claim something like "churn would make medicine dangerous and put lives at risk." Maybe. That's your guesswork. The last major illness I had -- the only one more exotic than a flu I've ever had in my life -- was C. diff, contracted in a US hospital while visiting a patient. Don't tell me the unbelievably huge costs of our medical system are some surety against risk.

The US medical system is the biggest bubble in the history of our species. At some point the forces of nature are going to pop it. That's not a right wing view or a left wing view. It's just physics. These costs cannot continue to compound unless you're willing to employ gulags.

I'm betting that in the aftermath a full featured ultrasound machine will cost maybe $15k and the biggest measurable effect of that (if anyone is bothering to measure at that point) will be that there are more of them and more people will have access to them. And yes, I'm fully willing to risk whatever parade of horribles you can imagine. I'm also willing to make you risk them as well, and the pressure being created by spiraling costs means that have eventually I and the many, many people that also share my view, will have the power to do exactly that.
Amazon's pursuit of the grocery business is precisely the opposite of focusing solely on one product. The direct line from books to bananas runs through the land of conceit. Amazon's legacy infrastructure is built around the long tail items that can sit on a warehouse shelf for five years without spoiling.

Amazon is not a plucky young startup. It's a twentyfive year old enterprise that hires MBA's in the hope of staying relevant. It's last major success was AWS, a product that scratched its own itch and monetized necessary but idle capacity. Most importantly it was B2B.

In B2C Amazon has been incrementing extraction since the original Kindle. Prime is Sam's Club + Netflix + arcane pricing and shipping terms. Echo is Siri for shopping. All of it comes on the back of higher prices whenever Amazon's algorithms suggest it can get away with it.

And that's the real way to judge the status of Amazon. It structures transactions in its favor and requires consumer vigilance. The Monoprix pitch is really about that more than anything else. The pitch provides a plausible explanation of how the transaction works and implies that the ordinary norms of human transactions are at work. The cashier is going to charge everyone the same price that's on the shelf and the delivery person is not going to implement surge pricing.
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Who's Wasting the Most Vacation Days?
What your describing is very unlikely to actually happen. Further, VC's don't deal in highly liquid assets making pre sale numbers basically meaningless.
Yes - though it's a little more abstract. Those 57 threads could be occupying the available cores in any number of ways to get to 247.9%
People? So Apple isn't interested in selling to families and couples anymore?
>The answer can be found in relatively simple math. As a simple example, consider an investment of $1 million in a fund that generates a 10 percent return in years one and two and then loses 5 percent in years three and four. The investor would end up with about $1.09 million, a total gain of $90,000, or 9 percent, over the four years before fees.

1,000,000x(1.1x1.1x0.95x0.95-1) = 92,025

Why do you bother rounding down the figure and using a different unit (m$) if you are going to use the same unit eventually. ($92,025 = $0.09 million = $90,000).

>the fund manager earns $20,000 and $20,400 for a total of $40,400

And then they proceed to take $400 into account. Vexing.
I understand your reasoning, but I respectfully disagree. The reason I think its important that ALL sites use HTTPS is that by encrypting everything "important" data becomes indistinguishable from "unimportant" data. This helps the security of the herd by making it more difficult for an attacker to identify what packets to collect and expend their compute resources on. In addition, anything we can do to normalize the use of encryption in such a way as basic crypto knowledge becomes mainstream is a win for the security of everyone.

The fight isn't about a hacker stealing your passwords. The fight is about every single entity on the Internet being hostile towards user privacy with a strong monetary and power incentive to use any and every inch you give them to take a mile. So let's not give them any inches. Encrypt everything using the strongest cipher suites available and the best methods of identity verification we have. It may not be enough, but it's better than giving up and letting the baddies win without a fight.

And to clarify before the inevitable reply points out that HTTPS isn't sufficient by itself to protect user privacy. Yes, I understand that. But it's an important basic building block for doing so.
No excuse for shipping buggy software, but it has to be said that Safari uses a lot less CPU than other browsers under normal circumstances. I wonder how they do it.
> To some degree you can get this with the current web by "following" the Feeds of certain blogs and construction a timeline for yourself.

Yes definitely, the problem with the current Web is that you cant deploy sites cheaply enough. P2P tech makes domain allocation free and fast, so it can fit into a typical application's flow. (The Dat protocol also caches data really well, so read latency is less prohibitive.)

> What do you think of GNU Social? I am a fan and enjoy it.

What I know about GNU Social, I like. I think its impact will be limited because it's still the old model of federation that binds user identity & data to a specific server. But I still support it.

> Off topic but, I would like to thank the people who created the Decentralized Web Conference in SF in June

See you at the next one!
Don't realize that this is exactly what f-strings are doing? If you accept the `f""` version but not the `"".format_map(locals())`, you're lying to yourself[1]. At least the `str.format_map(locals())` isn't magic (and IMO, much more pythonic (by virtue of explicit), although not as pythonic as `str.format(template_var=scoped_var)`).

The only way `str.format_map(locals())` is a code-smell is if the people working on the code don't actually know Python. Builtin methods of core types, dictionary unpacking, and builtin functions are all extremely common and only complete novices at python would find any issue with them. Compare that to what you need to know when you encounter `f"hello {name}"`:

0) am I working with Python 3.6+?

1) when does replacement happen?

2) what scopes are examined for substitution?

Of course, 2) is a trick question because you EVALUATE ARBITRARY PYTHON EXPRESSIONS IN THE FORMAT STRING![2]

[1] Technically, PEP-0498 states that we're not exposing a full locals() or globals(), but this actually matters very little. The danger here is that both .format() and f"" use object.__format__() (falling back __repr__ IIRC) to figure out the replacement. If your object.__format__() is malicious, it gets access to more data than it needs. However, since python has zero security model, if it's malicious, it pings whatever command and control server it's reporting to and starts up a thread listening for commands anyway (aka you're fucked). Realistically, this means that, you might leak credentials (or other sensitive information) to third party loggers, but only if your method for censoring outgoing log/exception data is a a poorly-built blacklist.

[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/#supporting-full-py...
Practice...
try paper and pen first
follow language convention and coding standards
Why I quit my job at Microsoft to start a Startup
Same here. While there are obvious exceptions, the style often makes me think of colleges and especially community colleges, which is a very good association. College buildings in this style are typically not as huge and monolithic as government buildings and often have brick, glass, and wood accents, which soften the look.
It's clear from your other comments that this is simply describing something you find appalling, as do we all.

As the number of readers gets large, though, the long tail of interpretation guarantees that a few will, for whatever random reason, miss the subtext. The cost of such misreadings (pointless off-topic indignation) is high. So when commenting on appalling or other divisive things, please be explicit rather than implicit.

This is one case of the general phenomenon—noticeable on HN—that effective communication to large, weakly cohesive groups works differently than to small, close ones. The available range is narrower if one wants not to put the needle in the red. That's a pity, because it gives less latitude for expressing yourself, but putting the needle in the red is much worse.
> But for a lot of sites (like phrasegenerator.com, one of mine) I'm not sure it makes sense

An attacker could replace your site with anything: ads, viruses, malware, payment prompt. HTTPS also allows you to add HTTP2 support which can lead to faster page loads.

Given that there's a lot of low effort ways to add HTTPS (e.g. Netlify, Cloudflare, Heroku), the question should really be why go with HTTP 1?
Wow:

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

"Malacosteus and the related genera ... are the only fishes that produce red bioluminescence. As most of their prey organisms are not capable of perceiving light at those wavelengths, this allows Malacosteus to hunt with an essentially invisible beam of light. Furthermore, Malacosteus is unique amongst animals in using a chlorophyll derivative to perceive red light."
In our legal system a confession means next to nothing. You need a multitude of sources to draw from to convict
>There are bound to be lots of implementations for things like low-level I/O because lots of people want to explore the relationship between the OS, the application and the hardware.

You say it like it's a good thing.
Making Santa Dance with the Web Audio API
Ha, I love that trick but always feel guilty because it's breaking "explicit is better than implicit" and someone on the internet told me it's poor style. Very happy the new style was implemented.
Do we know if the customers definitely pay the fees in full? One might imagine a large customer (like a pension fund) might be able to negotiate a discount, and the discount might not show up in the published returns, or something like that?
Why and when did this shift start? Was it because of the uptick in terrorism in Western Europe?
The Hubspot API is particularly awful.
Experiments with Angular Renderers
Riak TS 1.5 just dropped this week [0]. Designed to do the horizontal scale thing over temporally sorted data.

/disclaimer/ I work for Basho

[0] http://docs.basho.com/riak/ts/1.5.0/releasenotes/
So the alternate modes are required for proper operation? Or will it fall back to a standard mode and still work?
>The "Rust team" isn't picking winners

It would be better if they would, though, is what some of us are thinking.

Between "totally chaotic third-party libs landscape" and "official lib designed with the language and part of the standard library", picking winners is a great middle ground.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-05-05/rich-hedg...

>But "hedge funds are a compensation scheme masquerading as an asset class," and maybe there's some value in the compensation scheme itself. If you are looking to hedge funds for outsize returns, you might want to pay your manager an option on your returns, by giving him a performance fee of 20 percent of the upside and limited penalties on the downside. Options increase in value with volatility, and giving a manager asymmetric rewards might encourage desirable risk-taking. That might be exactly what you want if you're a pension fund investing a small chunk of your portfolio with hedge funds in order to earn above-market returns. On the other hand, if your manager is already a billionaire investing a big percentage of his net worth alongside you, he might be more conservative with your money than you are, or than you want. It's probably more important for him to stay a billionaire than to rack up more money.
This made me think of Bret Victor's classic Inventing on Principle talk [0]. It was also broken up in similar 3 sections.

[0] https://vimeo.com/36579366
It's not physically possible either. It's a pretty common affectation of trust fund kids that they can just pretend to be normal, but it's just play-acting or maybe economic tourism. The song "Common People" describes how it turns out: "But still you'll never get it right / 'cos when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall / If you call your Dad he could stop it all."
Using double trigger vesting (the RSUs vest only when both the normal vesting period is up and the IPO/exit happens), the tax situation can be managed. I know of pre-IPO startups doing RSUs.
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As a dog owner I really agree with this. I am also building a little rasberry pi robot capable of being a companion for my dog when I'm at work.

The idea is if I have a moving agent being able to entertain my dog and keep him occupied, we just need to extrapolate it and imagine robot companions.

Securing love, sex and companionship is hard. with the advent of tinder and likes, women can have 1000's of options at their fingertips while men gotta settle for what they can find. The insane traffic on porn sites suggest that artificially satisfying this need is something we will easily accept. imagine westworld like robots created for human pleasure.

We have this innate needs and desires. Something that ad companies probe and thrive upon.

Google and Facebook are becoming a hoarder of collosal amounts of data, capital and AI talent in the hopes to shove more ads. To satisfy their ever growing share price and do more with less humans. It's a very scary scenario already. Because it's free, all our data belongs to them to endlessly learn about our behaviours and shove ad bait in our face.
whisper is 12 bytes per data point. The Gorilla style time series saves gobs of data over the whisper style, there is simply little to no comparison. Gorilla is better than whisper when it comes to storing the same data in less storage space.

Disclaimer: I am a co-maintainer of graphite and try to write code for it when I have free time (so not much right now or for the past year or so)

https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=S...
If you work at Apple there are likely chargers all over the place so you don't realize that some people actually do care about battery life.
I think it would be interesting to measure how well sites maintain their HTTPS too. I occasionally see improperly-configured certificate warnings (on corporate and even government web sites!). It may be that anyone who set up HTTPS once last month is going to have problems in 3 months or 6 months, and may not be set up properly for the long term.

In this “modern” world, it seems past time for governments to start supplying digital IDs. Why for instance can’t every single person have a government-backed certificate of identity once they have done all the usual things that it would take to obtain a driver’s license or passport? And if you can count on a passport being valid for 10 years, why can’t you count on a government CA (say) to continue to validate your certificate for 10 years?
Between 00:00:-01 and 00:00:00 of the first of January? There would be problems with segmented displays.
lol, I like how it does the same as HN, but is totally built like something a marketeer would make.
Any disclosures required or are you just a happy user?
There were some refurb 2015 models I wanted last night for about 4 hours, but I wasn't in a position to order right at that moment (driving, in meetings, etc). Got home, and they're gone! :/ Will keep looking, and ebay/CL generally have some decent ones now and then too.

Benchmarks between 2015 and 2016 were within 1% on geekbench for most tests, and 2016 was often the slower one. Hard to justify $1000+ more for... not much more in the day to day benefit (but as you know, the 2016 is a pretty slick feeling machine, no doubt).

Oh, and 6 hours on battery for heavy use is pretty good - I currently get 2-3 now, on a 2012 battery that is 1200+ cycles in.

I may still go back to 2016 - we'll see. Good luck!
Is there any best Internet Research Certification?
Please give me any suggestion ?
My GF and my friend's GF (both from poorer 3rd world countries) traveling to see us in the US had very similar yet different experiences based on one primary difference:

My girlfriend is employed. So once they found that out, they had little concern and it became much more relaxed. My friend's girlfriend is not (student, finished undergrad and taking a bit of time off before starting a PhD program). They give her the third degree.

It doesn't help that it can be pretty arbitrary depending on which agent you get, too. Having a similar description to yours, customs agents have always let me walk through without difficulty. Except for one time coming back from Canada.
But it's not just for personal information.

HTTPS keeps your ISP, your wifi hotspot, a dodgy router, or anything else from injecting ads and tracking information into your pages

HTTPS ensures that the server and information the user is requesting actually comes from you (and not a shady middleman who might give out bad information or just annoy the user with a slightly broken setup)

HTTPS ensures that content isn't being blocked by a bad government actor based on it's content

HTTPS keeps bad actors from injecting malware into your javascript, your images, even downloaded executables (there is "one click" software out there to inject malware into any .exe download it can find on the network in real time)

HTTPS helps protect against "dragnet surveillance". That doesn't just include bad governments, but also an ISP which might build a profile on you based on your browsing habits.

HTTPS treats information as "secure by default". You won't always know what is and isn't "private" to each person. "phrasegenerator.com" might just be a fun game to you, but to someone else it might generate a phrase that could get someone fired, or worse, based on the content of that phrase.

And using HTTPS everywhere means that it's harder to identify "secure" information from "insecure" information. Breaking one HTTPS connection one time for one person and one server isn't "easy", but it's not impossible. Breaking HTTPS for all connections to everyone every time for every server becomes practically impossible.

The overhead is next to nothing, the complexity mostly abstracted away, and with stuff like Let's Encrypt the "maintenance factor" is quickly getting reduced to "fire and forget".

There's no excuse to not use HTTPS any more in my opinion.
I missed sooooo many cues. I started having much, much better luck in my mid-twenties when I just said fuck it, and started making moves on date 2 or 3 without trying to 'read the situation, see if she'd react favorably first'. And even after I started doing that I'd get women saying afterwards, "Phew! I thought you might not like me before you did that!" to which I'd always think "You're crazy! I would have ended the date or not asked you out again if I wasn't interested!"
I will cede to your first source, but your second source is specifically for CSF membership at Granada Hills, which doesn't look like it's mandatory for graduation.

But sure, it looks like my naive search approach is inadequate, as it for the most part brought up credits (as you mentioned).
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All good points, thanks for explaining!
Isn't that the conclusion he gives at the end of the article? Ethical considerations
> Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. [...]

Do "ethical principles" fall in the same category?

I think the author is confusing principles for heuristics.
Refurb supply is less predictable than BTO supply.

Because we're talking about soldered on RAM on a super high priced laptop, I tend to think refurb supply of those machines is going to be very small since fewer people are buying them in the first place.

And even if I bought a 32GB refurb, I'd expect it to last at least 5 years if the CPU is recent. IMO, you're not getting big enough performance gains every two years on the top quad core i7 chips that would make it worth the hassle to flip the computer. It's not like the old days where you could just pop your SSD/HD out and stick it in the new Mac. I find CCC/Time Capsule restores to be a pain in the ass.
Where would you put 1941 in your list?
> The downside of course is that asshole's are even more pronounced and even the most well meaning people start to sound a bit like assholes.

I think I have some kind of communication issue because often when I'm asking questions about decisions, people often think I'm arguing against them. Example: My boss decides to make a policy of $x. When I ask why, I can see my boss get frustrated.

I'm legitimately asking why, because I'm curious. I'm not trying to be an ass, but I come across that way for some reason I don't understand. I wish I could figure out why, but nobody has been able to articulate to me why they think I'm arguing.
> I wonder if C programmers only drive manual.

FWIW, I mostly program in C and I drive automatic. C enables me to be a control freak with my code, but I don't really have a need or desire to be a control freak with other things in my life…
I agree, but it also seems trivial for Amazon to integrate this into their Amazon Fresh service which is grocery delivery to your house.

When you finish walking around shopping you put your basket/ cart into a waiting slot and some Fresh delivery person grabs it and loads it into their truck. They already have your payment and shipping information too.
If you've ever been on hotel wifi that injected content into every unencrypted page load, you might think this was less about dogma. Such things are cheap and easy to do now, and people will do them more and more where they think there is an advantage. Unless they can't.

Then there is the whole MUTANT BROTH program, which maintains a database of billions of intercepted cookies, and can be correlated with other traffic to identify particular engineers behind a corporate firewall for targeting and exploitation, as was done with Belgacom [1]. To thwart such an attack requires encrypting any request that contains a cookie (or, conversely, never accepting a cookie from an unencrypted site).

The problem is that it's really hard to make judgments about what's "security sensitive" for someone else.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
Some of these are great, some of these are OK, and some of these are horrible ideas. I wish instead of "studies" we did RFCs