skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are ways to combat high health care prices. One is an all-payer system, like that seen in Maryland. This regulates prices so that all insurers and public programs pay the same amount. A single-payer system could also regulate prices. If attempted nationally, or even in a state, either of these would be met with resistance from all those who directly benefit from high prices, including physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies — and pretty much every other provider of health care in the United States.

And then end up like Venezuela has after implementing price controls? How about you let intelligent macroeconomics majors who have spent years in college studying exactly the ideal solution to this predicament give thoughtful and effective solutions. I understand the writer was likely good intentioned, but:

1) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

2) For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

While some liberal arts majors have their own theories and hunches to inject on how our world economy should run, a well-studied economist would give the best answer for providing a solution that establishes the perfect price-point between satisfying as much of the medical demand as possible while having a never-extinguished supply of medical care.

A little history: During the great depression, the US implemented price controls on wages; capping the wages. So companies started adding in health coverage in with the job as a perk instead. The great depression was extended and the health insurance in our country has been forever screwed up by that event.

Btw, I'm not pro government or anti-government, left or right. I'm pro-lets-get-the-facts-straight-before-we-jump-to-conclusions-that-affect-the-whole-country. Admitting that you don't know the answer to something goes a long ways.
Betcha the theory turns out to be intractable because it'll be possible to encode the behaviors of algorithms into the properties of such ordered matter.
Photochroms of Istanbul, circa 1890
doesn't blocking someone on twitter also block others from seeing the replies too? If so, it's a lot more impactful than that
The US is a large country with poor and rich areas. Older airports will be dirtier than newer airports. Generally public transit will be worse as most people drive cars.

Also, per capita GDP is comparable or lower than parts of Western Europe, which will affect how nice/poor it looks.
hi, do you have an email or twitter I can reach you at?
How to Structure Permissions in a SaaS App
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Or perhaps it is time to stop measuring them altogether.
If you stay with a system that is as open as possible from the lowest levels of the hardware to the highest level of the software, and if you airgap, and audiogap, and RF-gap the system permanently until it ceases to exist, you are pretty fine.

Also, more practically, two computers with different ISA and underlying hardware that compute the exact same high level semantics, that don't know each other but transparently share the necessary hardware (for example hardware random number generator), talking to the world through a simple electronic checker, that stops the system if both computers don't communicate exactly the same information bit by bit, is also pretty safe, even if you use backdoored computers. Just make sure both computers don't contain identical backdoors (which is not that difficult).

High and sufficient security in computer systems is practically possible. We just don't work at it. Instead we work on JavaScript and WebAssembly and proprietary hardware and software.
Well, at least you know how to punctuate it.
Ethical/moral interest in the content, for one (wolfgang42 gave an example of that). That's a pretty small market though.

The other content could be academic and an alternative to information akin to the old Usenet (pre binaries) and things like Gopher and BBS.

The major demand for a system like this, I'd wager, is pirated content. That is, if its better than the current models. The two big models currently being used for piracy are:

1) Usenet/NZB

* Centralized. Only a handful large networks with long retention. Rest are resellers.

* Usenet servers adhere to DMCA; indexers generally don't

* Pseudonymous, potentially anonymous

* Doesn't require upload; provided quick download speeds

* Based on open source and open standards

* Pretty much requires payment for payserver & indexer

* Little bit rougher on resources due to PAR2 and quick downloading/unpacking of large files has I/O impact. Nothing huge on recent desktop systems.

* Requires a bit more software for everything to work though nowadays there are all in one packages doing the dirty work for you.

2) BitTorrent

* Decentralized.

* Not anonymous. Requires at least VPN, who likely log, even though they claim they don't.

* Free as in beer

* Requires upload

* Based on open source and open standards

* Self-hosted. Some indexers adhere to DMCA; generally
they don't

* Private indexers ("trackers") have a reputation system requiring more than 1:1 download/upload.

* Doesn't work at all with DSLite (native IPv6 + IPv4 behind NAT).

* BitTorrent, like Usenet, also has abstraction software (full stack) to make life easier.

BitTorrent is far better known among the general public but I regard BitTorrent as a poor man's Usenet. If it ain't on Highwinds, it ain't anywhere (of course not completely true given DMCA but still, they got 3,3k days retention).

With Usenet you pay for a sub to a payserver & indexer, with BitTorrent you pay by uploading and VPN.

Now, my question is, where does IPFS belong in this list? Can it compete with these 2 technologies?
Was jumping on to say exactly that. We are most likely somewhere close to the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" for the current iteration of AI. It's useful, just not a magic bullet to solve all problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle#/media/File:Gartner...
From traveling Europe I honestly thought that it felt cheap in a lot of places so maybe it is just a traveling thing.
The hacker who found the Intel bug is dead
> I've been very happy with Postmark.

Postmark's service is great but their new min $10/month pricing scheme is a retrograde step and penalises small companies sending less than 1000 emails a month.

Deeply unhappy with the change, and wish more companies would follow the Amazon AWS pricing model.
This clearly varies quite a bit, particularly between countries in Europe. Roads, in my limited experience, are often more efficient in the US thanks to higher typical travel speeds and generally more accessible parking. However, they are certainly of less consistent quality compared to at least western European countries.
That’s the next step, after implementing more GAN papers. If you’re up to it, you’re very welcome to contribute with that. :)
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> gold watches

This is no longer the case - the most expensive Apple Watch has a ceramic case.
Is not my counter-example one of GDP success?
While I found this article super-interesting, it (and the book from which it's drawn) are being so widely discussed in other fora that it doesn't seem to fit with HN guidelines.
Pretty funny how anti-tracking they are, in their daily submissions to HN, considering the number of resources from external sites - Google, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, Linkedin, etc - their page loads.
Except that the smallpox virus doesn't have the brains to team up with a thousand other viruses, create an exploit kit, test your immune system, and then deploy only the one specific tool most likely to bring you down. The immunology metaphor breaks down once we realize that electronic pathogens are deployed not by innocent rats but sentient human vectors.
Heat resistant suggests a higher melting point, it is not necessarily flame retardant. The yellowed plastics on old consumer electronics aren't specifically heat resistant.
You fix deception (edit: originally used 'populism' here in the sense of manipulating the concerns of the average citizen) with more free speech. More and more to shed light on lies before it can become something nasty.

I think you're getting it backwards, you can't reverse engineer a perfect society to cradle free speech, the society advances and becomes less violent through more speech.

Going back to the original point though, I think that it's totally fair to discuss freedom of speech alongside twitter as the company has in the past used it in their PR for positive gain. I actually agree that twitter is private and can enforce or ban what they like. What I don't agree with is thought-terminating cliches like not being able to discuss it because of the narrow view that freedom of speech is solely a citizen/government relationship.

In saying that, thank you for expanding on your thoughts.
"Random Number Generation Is Too Important to Be Left to Chance" -- Robert Coveyou
i really wish there was a 15".
No mention of Panini's grammar, what a joke.
* Dunkirk

* Baby Driver

* Lady Bird

* Blade Runner 2049

* Logan

* The Disaster Artist

* The Beguiled

* ...
DHS, Army develops video game to help teachers survive shool shootings
The point is that the flow is not the same as the change in stock. If A is the stock of wealth, people tend to think that GDP is dA/dt. It is not. It is more like dA/dt + dD/dt - dW/dt + ...

These extra terms are things like increase in debt, change in mean velocity of money, usage of non-durable goods, etc. Confusing GDP for wealth flow is ignoring some of the largest factors in its calculation.
There are at least three separate attacks involved, and the reporting has been pretty confusing. See http://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/meltdownspectre-needs-be...
Or stop using iMessage on your phone too?
Fascinating work. Not only does it get at the very heart of connecting Nature with Mathematics. But there are some interesting novel electronics that can result.

A Rechargeable Spin Battery

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1602531

More broadly is the emerging field of "Materials Informatics". Roughly ML algorithms applied to the search of stable new materials phases. As well as the processes required to create them.

Machine learning in materials informatics: recent applications and prospects

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-017-0056-5

Quantum Espresso: an integrated suite of Open-Source computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale

http://www.quantum-espresso.org/
I've been bullish on nuclear for as long as I can remember. It's the perfect power source. Safe and dense power generation that scales extremely well. No CO2 emissions as part of normal operation. Not dependent on external factors such as hydro, wind, solar etc...

Gradually I've been pushed away from nuclear by three factors.

1. The high level of operational excellence required to avoid accidents is difficult to maintain. Ongoing oversight is difficult in any industry. Let alone something as out of sight/mind as power generation.

2. NIMBYism and FUD create large costs to the construction and operation of nuclear that can't simply be waved away.

3. The cost trends of PV solar are very promising.

Seems like we could build the future with PV + Natural gas and get 80% of the solution that nuclear would give us without all the surrounding headaches.
Hah so basically not at all more involved than when we still assumed modern platforms are just safe and trustworthy. Phew.
I might be mistaken and it might be GEM. There was the base os and then another window manager it would go into.
That won't happen until consumers figure out they care and put their money where their mouth is. When people buy the latest and then complain companies learn that the complaints are meaningless. When people start buying "brand-quality" devices only after they have been in the market for a while companies will learn that building a quality product pays because it has a longer life.

Airplanes and medical software is much more reliable (though both have major problems)

Apple has no need to increase their quality: their customers are loyal at the current levels. Their customers will say it is because the competition is worse overall (the truth of this statement is different debate).
A military base buys labor, technology, services, raw resources and produces defense/security. You're conflating what the military base spends with what it produces. (the point of the argument against GDP)

Just because I spend money on something, does not mean that I produce that thing, even if my spending increases demand for said good. That results in double counting production, which was already counted once by the seller.
Reading that list warmed my heart. Hasta la vista, Elsevier!
The argument typically goes that "because most government services are not sold in markets, they have no market-determined prices to be used in calculating their total value to those who benefit from them." In fact "some government services have negative value: given a choice, the people victimized by these 'services' would be willing to pay to be rid of them."

Read more: http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_18_01_10_higgs.pdf
It's law in the US, and he is a United States Senator. Just because people in the military don't report sexual assault for being whacked in the balls doesn't mean one couldn't, or shouldn't. Sex isn't evil, but sex is often used in the workplace to coerce, intimidate and violate. There is absolutely nothing wrong with sex, there is absolutely something wrong with violating consent. People have the right to their bodily autonomy, some people even have strict religious codes that they've been working all their life to follow. Some people commit suicide after a sexual assault. If you want to hit your own balls that's fine, if someone gives you express permission to hit their balls that's also fine (though you should probably get it in writing), but if you go up and down the streets hitting people in the balls you're going to get arrested.
The difference is that if you pay someone to host this site for you you are paying for bandwidth, DNS registration, and disk space. One DDOS attack could mean the end of your project.

With this kind of system the idea is that the cost difference between unpopular content and popular content isn't so pronounced. You might have to pay a little more up front, but there are fewer surprises in your bill.
How would you improve the new Dust?
>At least it could describe some evidence in why there is a reasonable suspicion exists that something is wrong.

The burden should be on the state to demonstrate that voting is secure and accurate, especially given that they control the data and the processes, thereby making it more difficult for someone to present evidence. As it is, the state's position is circular: "we won't give you access to the information you need to prove something was amiss until you prove that something was amiss".

But, even in the absence of someone questioning, the state should be able to show why there is no cause for concern in ways that allow the public and outside experts to verify for themselves.

However, on the contrary, many precincts refuse to allow a paper trail/receipts and they continue to use machines that have demonstrated vulnerabilities, further obscuring the issue.

It looks like this case may be prompting legislation that is moving in exactly this direction. That would be a positive outcome.
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Not always (see Russia), but Trump recognized Twitter's power while Clinton did not. I don't expect that asymmetry to happen again; either both candidates will hire Twitter teams, or Twitter will go out of business.
This is a good example of where JadeNB's comment about it being dangerous to roll RNGs where it matters[0] applies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16081264
It doesn't help that there are a to of automated test zealots telling management that if you put your effort into automated tests you won't need manual testing. If you listen carefully the experts are really saying that is the ideal, not that it will ever be the reality.
Or just use pen and paper. It's an easier tech for Joe Dilbert and easier for them to understand how to keep it secure.
RISC-V ISA Dev › Discussion: Safeguards on Speculative Execution?
Yeah, it's not 100% obvious to me that you couldn't stage some variant of Spectre against even this more limited form of speculation.

In the comments on the article the author argues: "Why don’t speculative instruction (and data) fetches introduce a vulnerability? Because unlike speculative execution they don’t lead to a separation between a read instruction and the process (whether a hardware page fault or a software bounds check) that determines whether that read instruction is allowed."

but that would seem to be confusing the details of Spectre with Meltdown (which is happening a lot right now). Spectre doesn't depend on unauthorized reads succeeding.
The linked page doesn't talk about his death so here's a little more context from Wikipedia[1]:

On February 10, 2017, Kris Kaspersky (Nikolay Likhachev) was critically injured in a hard landing after sky diving: "A sky diver who took a hard landing at Skydive DeLand remains in intensive care and is unable to communicate, a nurse at Halifax Health Medical Center said Monday. The sky diver, 40-year-old Nikolay Likhachev, suffered a compound fracture to his left leg and a head injury, an incident report released Monday by DeLand police states. The report states that Likhachev had completed 200 jumps, most of them at Skydive DeLand. Likhachev […] was injured Friday just before 9:15 a.m."

Kris Kaspersky was taken off life support and died from his wounds a week later on February 18, 2017.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kaspersky
Ah - by “consumer TRNGs” did you mean TRNGs sold separately to consumers, as opposed to TRNGs that happen to be embedded into a consumer device? That would make more sense / would be the source of my confusion.
I agree, and you can even disagree in that discussion.

But to not have the discussion in the first place because of this meme of free speech solely being a citizen/government issue and not a concept in itself is a damn shame.
xsv is fantastic. I'm a longtime user and fan of csvkit but I've slowly switched some of my habitual usage to xsv. Note that csvkit -- not being a single program like xsv but rather a collection of utilities -- contains a few branches of functionality that xsv doesn't aim to replicate, namely csvsql (convert CSV into SQL create and insert statements) and in2csv (convert XLS and JSON to CSV).
What is your (parents) caste ?

Is it offensive to ask this about indians in the US?
Meals are bought often enough that you learn what you like over time. Cars are so expensive nobody can afford not to think about quality. Software (and many other things in life) is in that area where you don't buy often enough that you learn, and not so expensive that you need to do research.
Honestly, not really. You'd be surprised how much valuable information people leave laying on their desks. Or loose-leaf in a backpack that is half zipped. Or in their pockets. Or on their car seat. The list goes on.
And research, writing, and peer-review was publicly funded most likely anyway.
I haven't used kraken, but I can say that I would not qualify Coinbase as good... it as at best "usable".

Unacceptably poor customer service, significant markup when buying bitcoin, sometimes a week or more delay between purchase and fulfillment, arduous verification process for new customers, being arbitrarily (from the customer's perspective) flagged for a verification even though you already sent them a photo of your passport 3 months prior, banning customers for sending coins to certain addresses, and did I mention unacceptably terrible customer service? Sometimes just never even responding to a customer ever?

I can't say it's not usable... I have bought bitcoin from there and I did receive it, but the experience has been very far from good.
Most have sound proof walls
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits...
IBM has confirmed that POWER is vulnerable.

See https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-...

Linux patches to drop 1/9, AIX and i to drop 2/12.
For a while, I was pretty excited about secure enclaves, as a tool before homomorphic encryption reaches practicality. If remote code execution on the PSP means broken remote attestation, that hope goes down the drain, quickly.

Maybe, the keys in the PSP are still protected by secure computing technology, like ARM TrustZone…
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Statistical Learning.
(https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf)
Potential Impact of Spectre on Processors in the Power family
According to the link, the temperature was as warm back then, but the warming trend that got the ocean there was much, much slower.
I think you probably confused GEOS (C64 OS/GUI) with the Atari ST's GEM, GEMDOS, or GDOS. Lots of similar names!
I mean that seems a bit hyperbolic. I'm merely saying that it's reasonable to expected elected officials to not engage in criminal behavior.
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I am more aware than you might think, but not as worried about what can be stolen in a few hundred pages as what can be stolen in hundreds of thousands of documents.

I'm also not enthusiastic about how it's more secure from governmental snooping to mail a hard drive than it is to send its content over the Internet.
Is this a fair way to express your problem?

You're being asked to use AI to replace an entire process all at once, rather than to assist with or replace a step in that process.

Instead of being asked "how do I solve this problem" it would be nice if you were asked "can you replace this thing I have to do all the time?"

Maybe this doesn't apply to your work, but if I were in your position I'd talk to the human that does the human version of the process and break down everything they do to get from A to Z into steps. If you can start by just replacing or augmenting a single step, you're adding value right away and you've also built a part of your eventual A to Z machine, right? For example, your search engine idea is a good direction. Can you automate the process of finding relevant articles? That would help the humans but would also help whatever AI you're working up to, right? Then maybe further in there's some other process involving physics modeling or something that is clear enough in scope to do programmatically.

I do much simpler work, but I find it's much easier to automate processes one step at a time rather than all at once.
Sure, but the DB knows what transactions are active.

Assuming active transactions {T}_i ordered by id, then if you are committing T_i, any row whose [Tmin, Tmax] visibility interval is fully contained in (T_(i-1), T_(i+1)) (i.e. for which Tmin > T_(i-1) && T_(i+1) < Tmax) is now dead (taking -inf and a large value for the previous/next transaction ids if there are none).

I believe this sort of query can be efficiently handled in time O(k polylog n) with several data structures, like an interval tree such as a B-tree augmented with maximum values or several kinds of 2D search trees.

It's also possible to use a simple index and just reclaim those rows whose Tmax is lower than the oldest active transaction, although this means that a single never-closed transaction blocks all row reclamation forever, which seems a bad design for a production-quality database.