skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would make more sense than what we are doing currently. Given the high percentage of US GDP and individual income going to healthcare, it would also make a lot more sense than all this talk of Basic Income.

When I was a military wife, I never had to wonder if my kid was sick enough to justify seeing a doctor. I never had to consider cost as a factor. I never had to save for retirement. If he made 20 years, we would have a retirement check. When I was in quarters, I didn't have to worry about rent going up or other related expenses.

That security and stability was incredibly valuable for my peace of mind. It made life simple. We just needed to stay out of trouble and make sure my husband was a good soldier and everything would be okay.

We had two special needs kids and I have serious health issues. I had a college class on homelessness while still married. These kinds of problems are a root cause of homelessness in the US. After the divorce, my adult sons and I spent nearly 6 years homeless.

I think universal basic healthcare and a solution for the affordable housing crisis in the US would drastically reduce homelessness and be a vastly better solution than Basic Income. These are proven solutions with many available models. Basic Income is an unknown that has a lot of potential problems.

If people think single payer medical us not politically viable in the US, what in earth makes them think Basic Income is more politically viable? And if they don't think it is politically viable and are touting it anyway, doesn't that mean they are just jerking our chain and hoping that talk if some feel good answer will keep the masses mollified and not rioting in the streets while we continue to be crapped all over?
Lots of data typically means streams of data, which means processes running 24/7 moving data and files around. Streams, connectivity, and processes can cut out periodically which means you need some logic to reconcile and fill the gap and also restart the processes. You will also need some data QA as it is perfectly reasonable to get 'extra' data, either as duplicates or metadata bleeding into content.

If your data is from disparate sources then you may need to normalize timestamps across records from different sources, you may be dealing with different languages, identical tokens that mean different things depending on the source, different formatting of numeric fields, etc.

This is an incomplete list, the GP probably has a more exhaustive list of problem types...
I've been programming for 47 years and I love it. There have been bad times, like the 3 times I fought compiler errors, or the 2 times the hardware bugs made life difficult. But it's been a constant learning experience. I've done everything from building a computer and operating system from scratch to creating expert systems to programming FPGAs and creating really complex software.

I tell everyone who has ever asked "Should I learn to program?" that they need to know if they can handle being constantly frustrated, puzzled, and confused. Do they know that they'll spend a week on a bug, fix it with a rush of success, only to be on to the next problem minutes later? Can they handle losing a weeks worth of work because the hard drive crashed?

It really isn't about programming, It's about facing yourself in the mirror that programming represents. Are you happy being alone with your own thoughts and facing your own limitations and flaws? Writers face the same problem, alone in a room with blank paper.

Mirrors are terrible things. The joy is in the struggle.
Those browser's vulnerability to those attacks are entirely based on the fact that they execute JavaScript. Thus, if your browser doesn't execute JS, it's immune.
I love the designing most, and the programming second; brainstorming is also fun. Debugging is okay. I'd say I dread marketing... but its necessary.
To your first point: because a lot of people don’t actually negotiate their damned contracts. Drives me mental — over broad IP assignment clauses are the first thing I strike out/adjust, though it has meant passing on job offers where they refused to budge on it. Well worth it however. They don’t own me and don’t own what I do outside of their damned office hours.
Best. Game. Ever. Tempest came out when I was in high school, and my buddy and I would rather skip lunch and play this instead of eat each day. We produced a little booklet of each level we kept in our wallets so we could jot down where we had the best luck leaving the flipper while we fired away. I was thrilled to find a working Tempest at the “Game Master” exhibit in San Diego's Balboa Park last summer.
There are other countries that use the mandatory insurance model, and it works fine. Of course, they do it much better.
Except those companies have multiple products. Salomon, for example, produces clothing, shoes, skis, goggles, and helmets.

Salomon originally was a metalworking company that sold saw blades. And they turned that into sporting goods equipment. They also own Mavic -- bike parts.

Patagonia originally sold rock climbing gear only.. and expanded into clothing.

Those companies are diversified stable companies, that have expanded into other lines of business... reducing their risk.

GoPro is like Salomon deciding to stick with saw blades.

I don't think GoPro necessarily needs to add outdoor gear.. it was merely an example. GoPro has quite a few options open to it... virtually all unexplored by GoPro.
I'd be happy if they'd just keep on working on "hey Google" until I can train it to understand me on the first try. It was like magic when I got my first Galaxy S3 but the recognition has only gotten worse.
The most amazing thing I learned from this book is just how primitive medical practice and training were in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th Century: there were no requirements for doctors to have science education or clinical training. Many doctors had to go to Europe to get better educations. This started changing shortly before the big flu epidemic, and the people - doctors and philanthropists - who brought about the changes were also instrumental in the battle against the flu epidemic. The book is as much a biography of the key players as a history of the events.

Also, the book explains how huge numbers of deaths were caused by politicians and bureaucrats. The political machine in one city (Philadelphia, I think) refused to shut down a popular parade, as urged by the health authorities, to stop the spread of the flu. Lots of people needlessly got infected and died. The military packed excessive numbers of WWI recruits into camps designed for a fraction of the number of people, also against the advice of doctors; huge numbers of healthy young men caught the flu and died.

And the scientific detective story of how researchers tried to find a cure for the flu was very interesting, with ongoing controversy over what the infectious agent was (virus? bacteria?). We know the answer today, but it wasn't so clear back then.

It's a very good read on many levels.

Here's a link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143036491
Not if she gets bankrupted by the $50k that the insurance didn't cover.
Very useful, simple list here. I was recently looking for a list like this for a NLP side-project and it was surprisingly hard to find anything good.
I had an over weight friend in highschool who could run really fast. He did this by basically by making his top half fall forward which caused his legs to move quickly to keep him from landing on his face.

I think this is a similar phenomenon where the people tripping up the stairs have an imbalance causing their top half to fall forward. As a result the unconsciously speed their bottom half up to catch the top half from falling.
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Bogus clickbait. True airspeed didn't exceed 575MPH; they just had a 200MPH tailwind. No sonic booms, sorry.
It's often not even clear who you will be paying much less how much it will cost.
Sounds like failed experiment. It's not too late to give it up. They should stick to making exciting hardware.
Look for prior art as that is likely your only way to use similar software techniques outside the company. But if you are still working at the company then you should push as hard as you can internally to get them to support the work that interests you, eventually they will get sick of hearing about it and let you do what you want.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22evaluate%20to%20true%22&sor...

The first has 140+ comments, 170+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16161030
Yes I'm specifically talking about oauth2_proxy.

Cool project, by the way! Thank you for making it open source. I had a similar use case where I added an extra Nginx just for auth_request, this makes me reevaluate.
> I can definitely see the other point of view from folks who do not have children and/or do not want children.

The society you live in needs to replace its dying citizens with new citizens. The easiest way to do that is by existing citizens having children. If having children is too expensive such that the birth-rate shrinks below replacement levels, your society will shrink, and your economy will shrink. This is bad for you, regardless of you having children or not. Therefore, it's in your interest that society uses some of its pooled resources to ensure that the birth-rate is kept above replacement level, i.e. use your taxes to subsidize children.
Any cancer large enough to shed detectable amounts of DNA into the blood stream is quite a ways along. You want to detect the pre-malignant when it's a few millimeters in size. Which is hard enough on your skin, let alone an internal organ.
Yes, oh yes. When I actually get to work with code, it's sublime. I had a quiet day today, and I got to fix a buggy module, refactoring out into cleaner pieces, building out a test suite to verify its correctness, shaping and molding a hairy, slapped-together piece of trash into something I may never have to touch again. On the best days, it's like code is clay in my hands, and I just sculpt it.

It makes all the rest of the time I spend frigging around with customers, tracking down environmental weirdness, ttading emails, herding cats, frustrating ops work, and fighting to be allowed to actually do anything worth it. Sometimes all that overhead overwhelms me, but the fleeting moments of solitude in the IDE, bringing form out of the elemental chaos, restores me.
Interesting, and sorry to hear about your bout with homelessness. I spent some time homeless as a teenager and it was awful. I can't imagine going through that with kids.

I've wondered quite a bit about the basic income idea. One of the issues that has me stumped is what to do when AI and automation are taking lots of jobs that people currently do (like truck driving, which is going to disappear fast). I'm not sure providing only health care and not basic necessities will be enough.

Maybe at first people can retrain into other career fields, but the AI revolution will come swiftly and leave much wreckage in its path. I tend to think this will eventually be a very good thing, but it will wreak havoc and cause a lot of short term pain like the industrial revolution did in the 19th century.

Definitely interesting stuff to think about. Thanks for sharing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_mandate

I am not seeing anything described here remotely like Obamacare. It sounds like bald faced copying any of those systems to the best of our ability would be a vast improvement.

I was homeless when Obamacare passed, so I was exempt. I am no longer homeless. I worry how this will impact me and I wish Trump would actually fix it like he said he was going to do when he took office. If he fixed our completely broken health coverage system, I would be willing to largely overlook what an utter shit show of a politician the man has been.
If that's all you can get in this labor market, the problem is probably your resume, the way you apply to jobs, and the way you interview.

You should not conclude from your experience that tech is a bad career choice.
The hole raiblock is 1.7g for 5millions + transactions
Check out fundrise or other real-estate crowdfunding (I know you said no real-estate, but it's not really the same thing). I'm not an expert on that stuff but it seems like an interesting way to invest.
Very likely the headline and the article were written by different people. And yeah, it’s a good article.
It has everything to do with the economic costs. There is no other reason other than perceived threat to human life that drives that cost. How is that not obvious ?

That paper, and others like it, demonstrates that radiation is much more benign than generally believed, and that level of resources spent on threads that don't exists, especially in comparison with others, like drink a can of soda a day, or living in a city, is not justifiable.
How did you find & vet the provider in Mexico?
The transputer still lives in on Xmos (started by David May), http://www.xmos.com/products/silicon/xcore-200
It unfortunately doesn't seem to work properly with Storage Spaces. It can account for about 2% of the used space on my 50%-full thin-provisioned D: drive.
Meanwhile in Japan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karōshi
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Isn't this the truth. I had a test done and got bills from 3 different people, at 3 different times, separated by a couple of months. Some submitted to insurance, others didn't.
Funny. I did the same thing, in high school I wrote to ST Microelectronics who had purchased Inmos about transputer documentation. They sent me a small refrigerator sized box of manuals.

The onboard scheduler and instruction set format was amazing.
Machines previously were threatening to take jobs away. It ultimately led to many improvements for commoners, such as the 40 hour work week. We call it The Industrial Revolution.

But no need to learn from history. We can just pretend that restructuring work isn't possible and act like what we are currently facing is utterly unique and the world hasn't seen anything like it before.

(Not a swipe at you. I am just angry and frustrated about the entire world acting like only UBI can save us from the robot-job-pocalypse.)
Are there any known security vulnerabilities or incidents you can elaborate?
Well, it would certainly limit the uncertainty of your location from "anywhere on the planet" to "within a few hundred/thousand meters of this point"
We’re B2C selling globally. We implemented VAT ourselves on top of Stripe. It’s a pain though. But it’s not only VAT MESS as they call it. At least in Germany tax is complicated and bureaucratic with freelancers and corporation tax rules.

If I could start fresh, I would probably set up a company in Singapore. Moving an existing business is FAR more complicated... There’s a pretty great post from the Ghost founder about it (on mobile so can’t look it up easily). Worth considering in my opinion.
That makes sense too.
It boggles my mind, that a country with the most billionaires still has not addressed gun laws and universal healthcare.
Undecidability basically guarantees the existence of arbitrarily hard to prove but easy to state theorems.
Can we have meta-PRs for code comments? "Please review these changes/improvements I made to your comments."
To get the best deal out of any of the knockoffs and competitors, though, you have to get a little bit knowledgeable about the camera tech. The SJ5000 is a large step up over the SJ4000 because it uses a 16MP Panasonic MN34110PA sensor rather than the SJ4000's 3.5MP Aptina AR0330 (which they upscale to call a "12MP sensor"). And that's just what a $25 bump gets you! This isn't something you're just gonna know, though--do your research.
Just wanted to share a quick update. Having NSNumber and System Type support only is very limiting. So today I just uploaded a new version of the Framework with support for any Object now. Just add the CondorObject protocol and you can sort any Object array. This includes CoreData which relies on sortedArrayUsingDescriptors method.

Here is a tweet with a photo attached benchmarking Condor vs Apple sort. https://twitter.com/ThomasLock_/status/954568624731295744
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Not GPS tracking. Simply tracking the fact that you transmitted a signal to a particular cell tower (the one nearby in radio terms) is sufficient to narrow your location considerably.
I miss the feel of hardware controllers that didn't go through so many layers of software. The tempest controller the best of all of them. Low latency and completely consistent response.
oh FUCK...I mean I literally thought nobody could top Japan when it came to eating live meat...

NSFL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPp-ZDdNdrQ

frog is for "mens health" apparently...
Although disappointed, I am not surprised. Google collects way more data than we could imagine.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore
so i just watched the 23 minute gameplay video linked in the article. after 5 minutes, i realized how much i sucked at this game. it's amazing that even after so many years of game design progress, these old style games still grab my attention.
I agree with what you said, but I think

> the world is full of short-sighted morons who can't think long-term

is counterproductive (and probably a violation of HN guidelines (see "In comments, paragraphs 1 and 2): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) since it seems to be calling the person you are responding to a moron.
Which is rather disappointing, considering the amount of space on phones hasn't increased much. Back in 2010 when 1 MB was a normal app size, a decent phone had 32 to 64 gb of storage. Now apps are twenty times as big, and a decent phone might have 64 to 128 gb. It's not scaling in sync.
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Why can't undergraduates enter straight into a medical school program?

That is a thing called a direct entry medical program. It gets you the the end of medical school in 6 years instead of 8 by dispensing with the undergraduate degree. The extra two years cover the sciences and how to learn at medical school speeds.

It shaves two years off, but at the cost of pinning the student into a rigid track. The number of high school seniors who think they want to be doctors and change their mind during an undergraduate is pretty high.
Pneumonia vaccine might have prevented such a death -
depends on the individual, of course. This option
appears to be less well-known than the flu vaccine
(and is only reccomended for some of the population).
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/pneumo/public/index.html
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"We should take away from this exactly what is true, not what is motivational. Our whole problem lately is that we've been doing the opposite.

These things are bigger than you and me and the person next door and there are far more important things than motivating some random person to train more. That is, frankly, peanuts compared to what is at stake."
Ooh, interesting. Can you elaborate more on what you thing the "whole problem" is? What things are you talking about? What is at stake?

Let me say what my actual opinion on all this is, since you seem to be assuming a lot of intent("You are pushing...") from my 2 sentence original post. Many people ask: "why is X more creative than me?", "why is X better than me at Y?" and often the goal is not really to better understand anything about the nature of creativity but to give some justification for their perceived deficiencies. In these cases, this kind of thinking is unproductive because the explanation(something something brain connections blah blah blah) is out of their control! Exactly what you're saying with this being a "conflict of interest." And to these people I say, IF you care about being more creative, IF you care about being the best in your field: control what you control, and whatever happens happens.
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Be wary of confirmation bias. I think YAGNI is typically a good idea. There's a balance between YAGNI and planning (as the extreme in either case is obviously wrong). You probably understand the system fairly well and have good judgement, but YAGNI definitely saves more than I think it hurts in my experience.
Seems like the last thing anyone ought to regret.
The difference is that they will only hack into your on-prem solution if you are the target. With a central service, all of slack's million customers get compromised because of one single hack.
People in here are talking like GoPro’s issues are market related. That’s not true at all.

If you know anyone who is or has worked there you know it’s because they are incredibly poorly run. They routinely waste development time on nothing projects, failing to ship code - even bug fixes - for literal years.

Their problems come from one of the most disfunctional managing cultures I’ve heard of in the Bay Area - and that’s a high bar.
To answer the part of your question I'm able to answer:

Q: Is there a safer way to back up Google content?

Install the Thunderbird email client which can download all gmail mail via a separate user-initiated request or automatically, to Thunderbird files or separate .eml files. Every time you open the client it can automatically sync with gmail.

Then, back up those files two ways: locally to an encrypted partition on an external drive, and via a more secure cloud service (e.g. Dropbox, Carbonite, Mozy, Sync, Box, etc.).

[Edited to comment on which part of the question I'm able to answer]
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> Requiring universal insurance is a terrible way to try to arrange universal health coverage for the nation.

The country where Obamacare was copied from, Switzerland, also outlawed group insurance so (a) you didn't get health insurance from work and (b) EVERYONE was in the same risk pool.

The current situation, you have group policies that are actually affordable because...people with good jobs to provide it typically are lower health risks. Everyone else is stuck a shitty individual pool with lots of high risk individuals. As long as the group pools siphon off all of the low risk, Obamacare won't work.
It shocks me that this isn't criminal. I can't think of any other good/service where we accept this sort of thing. It also really exposes the extreme arbitrary nature of healthcare pricing.
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I thought they were Neanderthal.
Low-level hacker roles are hard to fill. For example, my posting on the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)" thread is this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057016

We get a little bit of luck with people who started hacking back when it was normal to care about assembly language. For example, somebody on our team used to write cartridge-based games for the Atari 800XL computer, which was an 8-bit home computer system. There are not a lot of people like that though, and many of them don't want to move because they have settled down with houses and family.

We get a little luck with people fresh out of high-end engineering schools like Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech. Those schools still prepare students for dealing with low-level hacking.

I think much of the trouble is that many people entering college have a focus on games, web sites, and phone apps. Writing low-level code (hypervisor, emulator, exploits, boot loader, OS kernel, compiler back end...) isn't something that seriously enters the mind of the typical student. People pass (or avoid?) their "Computer Architecture CS351" course with MIPS code, and their "Operating Systems CS302" course with Minix, and then they forget that stuff as fast as they can.
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