skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will second that. I've been using the OS X build of Duplicati for a while now to backup via SCP and it works flawlessly. And, yes, I did test restoring some files from time to time with it. Note that the new "Duplicati 2.0" is no longer based on duplicity as far as I understand but a complete rewrite. It also uses a completely different backup architecture which should avoid / lessen the need for regular "full backups".

I backup to a 1 TB storage VPS from time4vps.eu, which at 72 EUR for two years is also much cheaper than Crashplan which I used before (and which seemed to be far more resource hungry on my Mac).

Only downside of Duplicati in my opinion is that it performs daily backups not "real-time" backups as some others do.

On the other hand, the post above asks for a "full service solution", in that case I would probably still recommend CrashPlan - it also supports local encryption with your own encryption keys and has been very reliable for me as well.
Many niche drugs have no protection, yet because of the FDA approval process, it doesn't make sense for anyone to try to compete.
Which is fine, honestly. I don't actually pay money for either of those (Obviously I pay with data and things). They also aren't something that is going to save my life in the same way as insulin does for a diabetic or an epi pen does for those allergic enough to need one.

I don't actually care what percentage profit the drug companies make so long as the end user can both access the medication and clearly afford to pay for them.
Such would be a notable example of cognitive bias interfering with rational fiscal decision making. I mentioned earlier about such biases resulting in poor investment results.

I recommend again "Thinking Fast and Slow"'s section on how cognitive biases interfere with sound money management. Being aware of them can be very helpful in countering one's own unhelpful tendencies. Interestingly, the book details how professional money managers fall victim to them, even when they are made aware of such biases.

This is one aspect where computer algorithmic investing can do better. One can dispassionately program out such biases.
What seems most natural to me is that the gas station would have a fillUp(IFillableWithGas) method that takes an object with the IFillableWithGas interface, which has a method that returns the amount it was able to take and a method to put that much in. The gas station is the one "doing" the action "to" things that are able to take gas, and it's the gas station's responsibility to know how to pump up the gas from the tank and calculate the price. gasStation->fillUp could look like (leaving it at a gas station with only one pump for simplicity)

float price = 0;
while (!vehicle.gasIsFull()){
Gas gas = this.undergroundGasTank.getGas();
vehicle.depositGas(gas);
price += gas.getAmount() * this.gasPricePerGallon;
this.display(price);
}

It would be out of place for a car or gas canister class to know how to use the undergroundGasTank object and to calculate the price themselves.
You make it sound like it's impossible to regulate these things at sea. That is simply not true and very much possible. For example, right now the highest allowable sulfur content for bunker fuels used outside of ECAs is 3.5%. Obviously this requirement will be tightened further in the future.
as far as free alternatives, i saw no mention yet of borg[0]/borgmatic[1], which i quite like -- think 'rsync with encryption and pruning'.

[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[1] https://github.com/witten/borgmatic
There are over 2,500,000 Kilotons of nuclear warheads out there. Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined received about 38 Kilotons. Extrapolate from the realization that all of that death and destruction represents, in absolute terms, .000152% of the current arsenal.
Always good to see PicoLisp on HN.
Specifically on InfoSec, I would recommend:

Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com

Daniel Miessler
https://danielmiessler.com/blog
>Why isn't there a larger focus on reducing the costs of hospitals and healthcare professionals?

Because that's exactly the wrong end to save money with health care. Drugs work with an economy of scale, highly specialized jobs, like medical doctors and the myriad of others, don't scale like that.

I'd rather save money buying generic drugs, than saving money by visiting an inexperienced/barely educated medical doctor.

Not to mention: Dumping wages isn't a good long-term approach to any sector, least of all health care sector.

When Edward Burger Flipper has a bad day, due to low pay and crappy working conditions, the worst that can happen to you as a customer is you get some stomach troubles from badly prepared food. If a doctor or nurse has a bad day, due to low pay and crappy working conditions, it may cost you your life.
How would you recommend phrasing it?

Your typical user is much more at risk with end-to-end encryption than with a well-architected SaaS product, since their likelihood of being a victim of some sort of easily preventable fraud is much more likely than them having their data misappropriated. (Think of how Gmail automatically handles con artists, phishing scams, viruses, XSS attacks, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, etc.)

Because of this, users tend to be better off having their data protected through a combination of technology and legal agreements rather than protected solely through technology, although this can be difficult to communicate.

E.g. how would you communicate to your (archetypal) grandmother that she's better off using Gmail than the same sort of setup as Edward Snowden, and make her feel safe doing so?
Would a FUSE implementation of ZFS not be possible? (Just wondering I've no idea what's possible here)
> As someone who works at a deep learning chip startup, this is great news! Looks like there's a market for our chips ;)

While there may be a market for your chips, I'm curious why you think the K computer is in that market? National supercomputers, like Japan’s RIKEN "K" supercomputer, are used for many different applications (for example, physics and engineering simulations) - not just "AI." The multi-purpose use of such machines is what justifies their multi-billion dollar budgets in the first place. I can't imagine a government spending billions of dollars on a machine that only has one function (e.g. neural net training).

The history of HPC hardware is littered with special-purpose HPC microarchitectures that were eventually abandoned in favor of general-purpose processors. The one lasting exception to this has been GPUs, which have proven to be a boon to HPC applications and sparked the Deep Learning renaissance in machine learning. The difference with GPUs is that they were not strictly aimed at HPC applications. Obviously, they are used for graphics rendering in gaming, professional graphics and CAD. There are hundreds of millions of GPUs deployed for gaming and other graphics applications. The application of GPUs to HPC came later, and the specific application to deep neural networks came later still. GPUs are successful because they are a form of commodity hardware and have a wide range of applications. In a sense, hard-core gamers have become the R&D funding source for state-of-the-art HPC processors. This healthy and diversified ecosystem is what allows for the long-term sustainability of the microarchitecture.

You can always build a more efficient machine by specializing it to a narrow application. In the extreme case, you can just build a custom ASIC that has some fixed function. That would be the ultimate solution in efficiency, but things become less sustainable when you need to continuously compete with alternative solutions - the cost of competing in this space is astronomical, and there needs to be sustainable source of funding for that activity. This is why the HPC industry is completely dominated by Intel/AMD/NVIDIA processors, instead of custom ASICs that (for example) could perform some fixed matrix operations.

Having said that, there is a vague opportunity on the horizon if and when Moore's Law scaling completely fizzles out. Conceivably, after processor node scaling completely ends and the established microarchitectures have been completely optimized to death, the industry will reach a state where competition on performance/efficiency stalls because there is no major next-gen CPU or GPU because nothing more can be done to improve the product while maintaining its general-purpose applicability. At that stage, a significant opportunity could open up for special-purpose processors and it could be sustainable since the field would be far less competitive.
We use use normal credit card processing through stripe and support paypal as well (as well as a few other options).

40% of payments are still made through paypal.

How many of those customers would have aborted if we didn't support paypal? I don't know, but I'm sure it's a non-zero number.
We're still fighting over abortion and contraception because the other side's position is "people who don't want children should either abstain from sex or give them up for adoption". Reasonable people can disagree with that but that is nowhere near the level of crazy as "9/11 was caused by the gays".
You're right. My father would be so ashamed of me :/

I always misspell that word. I should know better by now. I will go flagellate myself for penance.
Ask HN: An alternative to hnrss?
The site appears to be down, and my feeds have stopped updating. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good alternative?
crc32c is not weakish, and was chosen for a reason: crc32c has widespread hardware acceleration support that remains faster than any hash, and crc32c can be computed in parallel (unlike a hash, it has no hidden state, so you can sum independently computed block checksums to get the overall blob checksum). Bitrot detection doesn't need a cryptographic hash. You may want a hash for other purposes (like if you somehow trust your metadata volume more than your data volume), but that's a separate and slower use case.
[This is a reply to the 'edited heavily' version, I didn't see the original]

> I question your motivation in doing so.

The users in question wanted to get into the habit of using hjkl because you can do things like 23j more easily with them. My motivation was to help them do so.

My suggestion helped them achieve that, and once it had, they removed the config lines again. And thanked me for the help.

> There is no One True Way. If you can put that in a shortcut, I strongly urge you to do it, and use it ten times a day until it really sinks in.

I agree that there's no One True Way. Which is why your a-priori assumption that this couldn't possibly help people when I already know it can seems strange to me; I'm sure it wouldn't help everybody, but the specific people I picked got on fine with it.
> I only found out about the above details when I went to doctor for 1st time in like a decade for dizziness

I go to the doctor every 6 months for a checkup and lab work. I got into the habit of having the lab work done (request the script) the week before the appointment. That way I wouldn't have double anxiety. Prior to that I'd meet with the doctor, he'd give me a script and then I'd have to wait for him to call with the results. Also found it was helpful to schedule other appointments (eye, dental) around the same time. Compact all the anxiety into a 2 week period.

One thing that is good is my wife is an internal medicine doctor but deals usually with really sick hospital patients. So typically anything that I am concerned about I can just ask her and she can put my mind to ease. (So far hah hah).

The only upside to the anxiety that I have (I wouldn't call it severe but it's noticeable) is that I get a definite mood bump right after an appointment when I find nothing is wrong. [1]

[1] So hey since you don't go every year or more you don't know what you are missing!!!
>I'm not sure we should be celebrating what's basically an intimidation campaign to shutdown free speech

An actor set up a camera and told people to chant a mantra into it. When people started saying political things he didn't like, he flipped his shit, got pushy and ended up getting arrested. When people started saying racist things (which is protected by the constitution) that he didn't like, he moved locations. That sounds a lot like trying to shutdown free speech.
Buying a laptop for work and travel – choose the OS/software first
Their position ranges from what you said, to wanting doctors who perform abortions killed, and the mothers who have them prosecuted. Our current sitting president once had that position for god's sake. You can pretend that it's just the WBC and 99.99999999% of decent, "love thy neighbor" types, but it just isn't. About a quarter of the US population is evangelical, and a lot of them are not tolerant of much.

It's not one or two people burning Harry Potter books. It's not one or two people who sent their kids to (and send them) to gay "rehab".
Your proposed use seems intended to add randomness. However, Schor's algorithm (for example) doesn't attack the randomness of a message but factors keys.

How would you propose to securely exchange the keys for the several algorithms? If there is enough meta or implied information for you to know what algorithms are used, an attacker would also know what algorithms are in use.

The obstacle isn't lack of randomness or an excess of decipherability but not using a quantum resistant algorithm.
Fully Automated Deep Learning System for Bone Age Assessment
Reading guides how to choose a laptop for work and travel always seems to contain a few things:

1. it has to be sturdy

2. it should have a good keyboard & trackpad

But what about the software? I’ve come across a lot of people that bought MacBooks only to realise that they actually needed Windows (to run specific software). I don’t think installing Windows on a Mac is a bad idea but why not think about the software first and buy the hardware according to your needs?

What do you think?
Netvibes: https://www.netvibes.com/en
Let's compare costs (in billions):

(1970)
Cost of proffesional services: $19.8
Prescription drugs: $5.5

(2013)
Cost of proffesional services: $777.9
Prescription drugs: $271.1

% change:
Cost of proffesional services: 3928%
Prescription drugs: 4929%

The drugs increased in cost a lot more than proffesional services.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus14.pdf#103
> Firstly, has there ever been an accidental detonation of a live nuclear warhead? A lot more common than zero is still fairly infrequent.

No, but there have been plenty of accidents with live nuclear warheads (including losing them in the ocean!). The fact one hasn't gone off is more a matter of there not being a ton of them in the first place.
Think to yourself, if this was a nazi flag, would you feel the same way?

That's basically what the Pepe flag stands for at this point, as I suspect you are already aware.
Title should be amended to clarify "if you use android"
Even if you DO accomplish something amazing, you then have to figure out how to share it with people who can find it, promote it, or buy it. It's likely they will not understand the amazing thing you have done, and you'll be stuck for a week, a month, or a year.

If you accomplish some great work of genius, but no one can understand it, what then?
I wonder, where does ponylang fall short? I think that might be an interesting way to compare it to other languages.
How to Hypnotise an Artificial Intelligence
1) Minimize the startup costs of a decent life: education and housing. Bring college costs back in line with what students can realistically earn. Establish and promote affordable vocational training for people who don't genuinely want the intellectual part.

Build abundant housing in cities with economic opportunity. Protect owner property value less, and renter budgets and financial security more. End this insane system where if you're young enough to have "missed the boat" on education and housing being affordable, you're starting out life with enormous debt, enormous rents, or just no realistic access to the modern economy (intellectual work in major cities).

2) Shift the relationship between wages and expenses such that more people can have a decent standard of living and security and retirement at the same time. Probably via productivity growth. (Yes, there is an argument that some people will always raise their expenses to the level of their income and beyond. We can still do better. And blaming people's spending a few hundred extra dollars a year for the fact that their incomes are a few tens of thousands too low is not that helpful).

3) Dampen the effect of your parents' station in life on your own, especially with respect to K12, college, and getting your first professional job. (Probably by having the state expand some of the boosts that upper-middle-class parents give their own children, such as high-quality K12 and affordable college, to kids at all income levels).
But even "physical reality" is hard to pin down. Plenty of evidence from QM suggests that we should not think of (any) physical properties as objectively real. Trying to pin reasons on them seems troublesome as well.
Plus, you know the whole 4 years of graduate work, 3 tiers of USMLE testing, 3 years of residency at what works out to be less than what you can make at Starbucks, a few more as a fellow before you can even start practicing. Even at the top end (cardiologists, anesthesiologists, neurologists), you're going to pretty much salary cap at around $750k pre-tax. There is a lot of waste in medicine, but the salary of doctors is pretty fairly priced.

Imagine if cardiologists all of a sudden went 'value-based free market' in their pricing. With all the retiring boomers in their waning years, I could very easily see 6 hours of labor for a staff of ~6-8 in the OR performing a bypass being billed at $100k.
Curious how you interface your chip (ASIC or FPGA?) with a processor? Or is it a self-contained solution?
> They also aren't something that is going to save my life in the same way as insulin does for a diabetic or an epi pen does for those allergic enough to need one.

Which is more reason for those companies to be profitable, not less. The bright kid choosing between making $200k straight out of college peddling advertising or entertainment and making that much mid-career with a bio-chem PhD is willing to take a little bit of a haircut to work on socially-valuable things, but probably not that much of one.

> I don't actually care what percentage profit the drug companies make so long as the end user can both access the medication and clearly afford to pay for them.

That's a failure of the government's healthcare programs, not drug companies' pricing methods.
As a counterpoint, zero defect policies could be be harmful. If everyone must take a test and score 100% or otherwise end their career, shenanigans happen.
Eh well just like eugenics programs survived constitutional review, all the states, territories and the federal government will have to just stop practicing it. Whether it is a new law in some states or merely political unfavorability preventing it from being an acceptable practice.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that can be controlled entirely via diet; specifically because people with it cannot process the Gluten found in wheat.

(Fun fact: Rice has gluten too; but it's not a variety that people with Celiac have trouble digesting).
After looking through our records, I think perhaps you might mean 2015 instead of 2016. I took over the company that year and some things have changed. At the time customer satisfaction ratings were around 84%, and we're in the high 90s now. If I've found the correct case, we did at least suspend billing when the issue started and eventually issued a full refund.

I'm sorry we weren't able to determine the cause of the slowness for you. Troubleshooting an end-to-end encrypted product is hard because you can't just see everything that's happening by looking at the server. We have seen ISPs deny or aggressively throttle connections to our destination networks. Palo Alto firewalls classify traffic to SpiderOak as an online backup service and often block it outright or put it at least priority. I'm not saying that these were necessarily the causes in your situation.

SpiderOak keeps improving and the 2017 road map is action packed. If for some reason you would ever like to try SpiderOak again on me, you're welcome to contact me directly, or write to support@spideroak.com where these days we do a pretty good job of taking care of everyone. Otherwise I'm glad you've found backup solutions you're happy with. Cheers!
ZFS is self-healing. It can automatically restore from mirror/RAID drives. And if you only have one drive, you can set a parity option so that information will be written several times, like a mirror but on one disk. (Obviously doesn't protect against a whole drive failure :D)
We need that info for the day's run. Many figures on ships are calculated daily. Distance, fuel use, lube oil consumption, fresh water, etc. This is mostly from tradition, because it's quite easy to compute the vessel's position at noon using celestial means.
this is only used with the new keyword. You can however program JS avoiding both new, prototype and this, by using "factory functions". Or avoid OOP structures altogether using a more functional paradigm.
>When people started saying racist things (which is protected by the constitution) that he didn't like, he moved locations. That sounds a lot like trying to shutdown free speech.

The Constitution doesn't compel private persons to provide a platform for speech they disagree with.
Yes, but if you cut the cost in half you would be saving 5% of the overall. We all know there is far more than 5% savings in the 90% piece.
You sound pretty frustrated about the whole situation, and I totally get it. I've been there and it sucks. I'd recommend getting involved with the politics of this issue so that you can help make a change. Are you involved with the ACGME? Does your residency / fellowship have a union? If not, consider making contact with the the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR)--I met with them when I was a resident and learned a lot more about what I could do to help make things better for myself and my colleagues.
I'm still not scared.

There must be several orders of magnitude more steel rolling around the streets and highways, crashing in to people's living rooms, moving down cyclists, being used as weapons by drunks and crazies.

Threat of nuclear destruction doesn't factor in to my threat analysis at all. I'm more worried about data corruption in my photos backups, or my dog getting hit by a car, or dropping a 5000kg load of steel on myself, or someone else, at work.
In plenty of other countries doctors are paid substantially less and the quality of healthcare is better. I don't think it's impossible for the U.S. to do what everyone else is already doing.
Right... except that when you're playing with a few things, like engineered plagues, or nuclear weapons... you need to be perfect.

If you can't be, then for fuck's sake, let the perfect be the enemy of the good!!
Compounding drugs is a non-trivial problem, public safety demands compliance and testing. Not too long ago, there was a rash of deaths (!) from a homoeopathic (!!) belladonna preparation. Turns out, the manufacturer was honest and did use belladonna but had a problem with their dilutions, the distribution was uneven and some of their globuli actually had sufficient atropine to kill an infant. The things were sold as a teething aid.

For some hair-raisers, try Chemjobber's "Warning Letter of the Week" category: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter...

I don't want to find out what things would look like without adult supervision.

You also need to prove equivalence for your preparation, bioavailability depends on the filler composition in your pill.
Because it's not a solved problem.
Firefox doesn't seem to afford this beyond installing an extension. Somewhat annoyed that Firefox, with the reputation that it has for privacy and choice, doesn't offer a simple toggle in their settings panel.