skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having grown up in India, even after I've spent almost my entire adult life in the US, I'm still reluctant to go the doctor here.

In India, the process is very simple: you call the doctor in the morning, you get an appointment for the afternoon, you show up, get looked at, pay the cost of the visit (usually less than $10-15), and you're done. It's basically like any other business transaction. So even if I had a minor seeming infection, going to the doctor was the right and efficient move.

Here, I call the doctor's office, and might not get an appointment for another two months, if I'm lucky. At that point there is some opaque process involving my insurance, and it just seems like a much weightier event than a simple visit should be.

Of course, I'm guessing that an infection would speed up the process, but the psychological barrier is already up in my mind, and I'd rather just power through on my own.

But there seems to be some hope. Recently, my wife was able to go to an urgent care clinic to treat an infection, and the process was much more like what happens in India. Still, there is some intervention of insurance, though a bit more transparently so.
AI in the court: When algorithms rule on jail time
I have a few brokerage accounts at a few places (Fidelity, E-Trade, Vanguard). Haven't done much margin trading and never worked with futures (done a little with options) so I just don't know what to look for in the interfaces. Is there a "ticker symbol" that represents a future contract for Bitcoin? Are there multiple parties offering such contracts? Is there a broker that you know of who's currently offering these contracts?

I found this, but it didn't clarify much: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoi...

Thanks for the help. If it's easier to follow up by email it's in my profile.
I suspect (but I am not certain) that any language that wants to work in that space is going to turn into Java EJB or C++ with CORBA and/or DCOM. I think it's the space, not the language, that produces such appalling monstrosities.

(And, if you needed that kind of thing, even EJB or CORBA was better than implementing that same functionality by hand...)
Integrating with Blockchain Technology
This is one of the (many) reasons that I don't want to see them come to chicago.
heh. Has anyone ever used gdb to debug Pascal? :)
Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' in the Brain
It's basically defamation lite, for when the statement isn't actually false (as in a deep fake), or the falsity is clearly expressed, but publication of the statement still portrays the person in a false context that causes quantifiable harm to their reputation.

Generally, any person who pursues a defamation claim over a deepfake would likely include this claim if they can't meet the burden for defamation.

(Please don't try to pick that apart as I'm only trying to provide a very-high-level-in-a-nutshell general overview.)
The "Founders" can go fuck themselves. Most of them believed in using state violence to enslave, rape, and murder non-whites, among countless other atrocities.
Glad to see you in this space Terrance! Been a long time since the traveling parser revival and beer tasting festival!
A common behavior I witness, is people using ad/tracker blockers such as ublock origin and/or umatrix and yet continue to consult websites that makes use of those trackers. Worse, they link those sites to other people that might not make use of those blockers. They don't think much of it, but ain't that evil?

Most of the times they don't even notice anymore that trackers were blocked on the page they consult.

Just look at links posted here on HN, most are of hostile websites.

I'd love to see a browser extension more radical: if it detects such third party scripts or cookies it simply stop loading the page and display a message explaining why instead.

Someone sends you a link to an article on cnn.com? Answer with this message telling why you won't consult it.

Going further: the extension attempts to extract the content, strip it of anything useless (some js libs works OK for such tasks), and share this version with others using this extension.
It supports blacklists now too. The bigger mitigation is that IPFS is a "push" and not a "pull" system, so you only store content you have explicitly requested.
The pull is the 50,000 jobs right? If that averages out to $100k/person then that is approx $5B per year going into that local economy (minus Fed income tax but some of that comes back at state level right?).

They aren't going to immediately post 50,000 jobs or relocate 50,000 people right? So that $5B/year doesn't happen til they are all there. If any incentives are to be there, it should be based on number of employees they staff up in that area... they don't hit a number, they don't get incentives.
Anecdotally, the world of science really opened up for me in a way that counteracted the kind of blindness you're describing when I took a class on statistics in high school. It finally clicked for me both how much scientific knowledge can be trusted and, paradoxically, how much we still need to be careful about trusting it.

This is due to a teacher who actively pushed this kind of thinking instead of teaching us to blindly recite the mathematics behind calculating p-values, which certainly could have been an option. It might help to require a few lessons directly on epistemology for high school or college curricula, but in the end you can't teach kids who don't want to learn effectively with teachers who don't want to teach effectively.
Wouldn't it only matter if the company is within EU jurisdiction?
Yes but the loss is linear while the gains are often exponents. I bet the integral of each would make the 'lost money' nearly insignificant.
no. there is no clear distinction like that with coreOS.

Its just one of the distributions that try to be a ... docker hypervisor for lack of a better term.

It tries to be a tiny distribution for the sole purpose of letting you use a docker daemon.

a direct competitor would be RancherOS

/edit: furthermore, the kubernetes docker daemon is (afaik) a fork from the original docker and predates docker swarm by a long time. It was the only way to really scale with docker back then.
Docker Swarm seems to be a viable alternative at this point, however. And honestly, its way easier to use from my experience.
The metaphorical Pandora's box has been opened, and the contents aren't going back in. Best we can hope for is practical legislation. The EU is ahead on this one. Its GDPR is going to throw a massive wrench in these practices.
> Isn't it innate nature? In the wild, whether it is chimps or lions, you vanquish the males and rape/procreate with the females. For much of human history, rape wasn't a crime. One of the reasons for going to war was for women.

It's very deppressing but apparently shape of human penis is very good for shoveling sperm of the guy that was before you. In tribal or pre-tribal times it's possible that war gang rapes were common enough to shape evolution.
I'm not sure the first example where the town failed to buy out a bad water company supports author's argument.

The article hinted that the company was doing something malicious that on the voting day, "locals who had toiled on the issue for years noticed many newcomers", who eventually voted the idea down. It almost sound like those newcomers were brought in by the company to influence votes in its favor.

But in my experience with condo boards and other small democratic organizations, there are always a small but vocal group who tend to run the show, while the majority just carry on with their lives without paying too much attention to the local politics. That does not mean those people have no opinion on major issues, and their opinions tend to be revealed at those kind of major votes.

It sucks if you worked for years to get your ideas through, only to be voted down by the majority. But is this really a failure of democracy?
I don't think it was the goal. Just the side effect.
VW plans to produce 1,500 electric cars per day at its Zwickau factory
Aye, Dr. Daniel Jackson proved that pretty conclusively.
> they're both wary of a crash causing demand to stop as miners sell their burned-out GPUs

Offtopic FYI: GPUs that are in use 24/7 would probably in a better shape than those that encounter more thermal (on/off) cycles. There's obviously more wear and tear on the moving part, but fans are easier to replace than mechanically stressed silicon/PCBs.
I was just thinking about a proliferation of Javascript statistical libraries popping up... only an NPM away. And I shuddered a little.

And then it occurred to me that CRAN and NPM have a fair bit in common. Both have a package for anything you might imagine, and both have a mix of amazing and less-than-amazing quality.
Politician Doxes Old Boss by Reading Signal Messages in Front of Cameras
I was referring to my own thoughts when I read it. I could not identify the mistake which means Amazon and Berkshire stick but not JP Morgan for some reason.
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> but it demonstrates one reason why one can avoid doctors for seemingly non-serious ailments and conditions, particularly with all the times they've shrugged.

You didn't have breathing problems when you asked for an appointment; you had a cough. Then when you had breathing problems, you sought out emergency care and had that taken care of. But you blame your original doctor for... not predicting your breathing problems? Or not giving you lung x-rays the moment you diagnosed yourself with pneumonia? I'm confused what you would rather they have done.

The missed allergy sounds like a legit failure, though, but I'm not a doctor.
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The aggregation of data is extensive and the ubiquity of the net means the data covers nearly every aspect of your life. Such information can be misused in many ways. Unfortunately, those misuses don't really become clear until the data set is already built, so there is no way to undo it. Even if Facebook or Google don't exploit the data themselves, the data could be stolen by criminals or seized by the government.

Are there personal things in your past you don't want your insurance company to know about? How about your employer? Or the IRS? Even your spouse? What if someone showed up one day and threatened to your your secrets unless you pay up?

Is that worth the price free access to your high-school friends' duckface selfies?
What do you mean by "concierge edition?"
My point: If the city decides the breaks are worth it, then the city has ended up ahead.

Your point (I think): It's competing with other cities and taking less tax in doing so. So it may end up _less_ ahead than if there were no competition. Since every city is doing this, it makes sense to keep under-cutting other cities until the net-gain is effectively just larger than zero.

Nobody forces the city to participate or offer incentives. This article advocates that they shouldn't.

A city should be clever about its incentives and make them align with what the company wants so the outcome isn't so zero-sum.

Many cities do this with zoning - only allowing waterfront building permits if the developer also builds parks or whatever. These increase the property-values for the developers while paying for a public-good that everyone can use.

Something similar here may be to offer tax credits toward infrastructure near the campus. E.g. don't demand the taxes directly but instead force the company to build new roads.

This is more or less an accounting-trick of course, but imho it's a lot less zero-sum and actually forces the company to consider how their incentives (or requirements) will actually benefit them.

If you prohibit all tax-incentives, cities are effectively forced to pre-build or promise services to make themselves attractive to companies. This can lead to huge amounts of waste (4-lane roads that could have been 2 for example) and cities defaulting on bonds to build such things when the company ends up choosing another city etc. I don't know if this is much better than requiring clever accounting.
You are right! I could not find any when they announced but I should have checked again. Here they are others:

- Atlanta, GA
- Austin, TX
- Boston, MA
- Chicago, IL
- Columbus, OH
- Dallas, TX
- Denver, CO
- Indianapolis, IN
- Los Angeles, CA
- Miami, FL
- Montgomery County, MD
- Nashville, TN
- Newark, NJ
- New York City, NY
- Northern Virginia, VA
- Philadelphia, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Raleigh, NC
- Toronto, ON
- Washington D.C.
But most general computing is single threaded, while high core counts work well for code that often benefits from AVX512. High core counts are also good for webservers, but here AMD is once again going to have an underpowered consumer chip.
"Hey, $MAJOR_CORP, advertise with us, you'll reach millions of your target market! Just pay $X."

"So how many of them are real and how many of them are fake accounts?"

"We work very hard to make sure Facebook is free of fake accounts."

"That's not the answer to my question.".
That's not how state government works though. Representatives are not businesses that can steal customers. They each have interests they wish to serve. If people are electing the people they want and those people are doing what they are elected to do then democracy is working. How have we outsourced accountability any more than we intended to in the first place with representative democracy?
If employees are capable of generating that revenue independent of the organization/management, why haven’t they?

There’s no “ownership of the means of production” argument when you are the means of production.
Indeed. People may not know just how bad AMD's situation got.

But by 2013, AMD had sold its headquarters in a "reverse mortgage" to remain solvent. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/amd-s...

AMD had almost a full decade without making money.
File checksums are typically used when the checksum is still on the master site but the file could be in untrusted mirrors. TCP level stuff is useless in those scenarios.
I'd have been ok with the parent post if it was about that, or if it was just stating an opinion and fairly treated the moral dilemma of eating intelligent meat. Instead it was like "I'm clearly not Japanese but I fancy its culture and its good good people don't want to eat whale meat" yeah, no.
Why stopping going to the sites? The point of blockers is specifically to make them harmless.
> it's just not tied to the politics of hardware

What do you mean by this? Is there some sort of hardware politics battle in the GNU social community or something?
Ah yes, when you say one thing but mean your mother.
The article seems to argue for a GDPR[1]-like equivalent in the US. It'll be interesting to see how it is enforced in the EU. If applied as intended, it could offer a more realistic alternative to the only other privacy-preserving option at the moment: not using Google/Facebook/etc. 'noyb'[2] is planning to help that along. I just hope we don't get another cookie-law like debacle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
[2]: https://noyb.eu/
This seems like Mary-Sue got in a fight with Bubba, so she goes down the their favorite pub, starts dancing with any handy guy, knowing Bubba will be along chasing her shortly.

It looks like Amazon is flirting with a few other cities to make her beau a bit jealous. And its about as seemly.
Back in high school I worked for a call center that handled follow-up surveys and customer inquiries relating to recent medical claims made through Kaiser. I would handle dozens of calls a day for post-rejection follow up. People turned down for cancer treatment, heart surgery, etc. People telling me that they were now condemned to die because of places like Kaiser. Whatever you all are doing in the US for health care, it isn't working.
A more neutral candidate could be just: "Is It Legal to Swap Someone’s Face into Porn?" (It delivers the same information since it wouldn't be a legal question if all participants agreed to the act.)
I think it applies to startups too.
Enabled protests in dictatorial regimes, sure. But let’s not overstate social media’s positive impact: nearly a decade after the Arab Spring, few governments outside of Tunisia look markedly different.

The ability of state actors to use social media to spread propaganda should also be considered in our tally of social media impact. The jury is still out on whether they are a net good.
True. For example, Force India, one of the teams with the least amount of funding of all of them on circuit. They are competing way above their way class, in terms of money, and doing very well. It's actually pretty amazing how often they are in the points (top 10 race finish) for the resources they have. Talk about amazing engineering and process they must use to compete against Ferrari/Mercedes/Red bull.
"natural philosopher" = "scientist" before we had a separate term for it.
Of course a rote analysis would show tremendous cost savings to just denying everyone health care or insurance coverage after the age of ___, if all you are counting is the dollars spent to extend life versus the economic productivity measured as annual income over the years that person's life was extended.

The glaring and obvious problem with such a naive analysis is the associated costs to society of actually implementing such a program.

We can conclude that smokers aren't exerting a net direct cost to the health care system due to their smoking, while simultaneously concluding that it's in the interest of public health and overall society to reduce smoking. Just don't tell me you're doing it as a cost saving measure!
I went free diving with a former Navy Seal - he said two slow breaths trying to fully empty your lungs each time, then take a deep breath and hold. Actively hyperventilating, especially if you're going deeper than 2 ATM (~10m/30ft) and your risk of a shallow water blackout goes way up.
I guess the trouble, in my mind, is that these instances are often grey enough that a justification like this could come up, but there is a tendency, in aggregate, for things to break one way. For an example that is probably familiar to HN readers, consider municipal broadband.
Because I have far more important things to do than correct paragraphs of inaccurate statements.
I don't know what I would read all day if I had that extension installed. There'd be nothing left.

Classic quote, semi-relevant: "I'm pretty sure that if you took all the porn off the internet there would only be one site left and it would be called 'bring back the porn'" -Dr Cox
> You are claiming that he is unfit. That’s your opinion but wasn’t the opinion of millions of people.

Although we embrace democracy that doesn’t mean we embrace relativism.
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The thing is you might have had ticks on you and not even known it. You have to be very careful to check all over your body. How many people actually do that? Also, the tick might be in your hair, so you might not even see it. Finally, some baby ticks (which can carry Lyme) are smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. They are very hard to spot.
> the MTA is a private entity which receives the bulk of its funding from the state

That's not really true. The biggest source of funding for the MTA is fares, followed closely by dedicated taxes (i.e. there would be no reason for the taxes to exist were it not specifically for the MTA). A majority of those taxes are levied specifically on people who live in the MTA's core area (basically counties surrounding and including the city) [1].

The state actually dips into these dedicated taxes to cover other budget shortfalls.

You make it sound as though the state covers for the MTA using the general tax pool, which is such a minor part of the MTA's budget (through subsidies largely) as to be not meaningful.

> the state government is (ostensibly) responsible for holding it accountable.

No, the board is. The governor appoints 6 board members, the city 4, and the other 7 are delegates from various counties throughout the state.

> New York is a special case

Special case according to whom? Georgia rated 3rd-to-last on Ballotpedia's "competitiveness index" for the 2016 election cycle [2]. If your argument is that:

1) New York overtly colludes to remain uncompetitive

2) Georgia doesn't

3) George still manages to hold less competitive elections than New York

then I think a logical conclusion is one of:

1) Georgia legislators collude but less overtly

2) There's less transparency about the collusion in Georgia

3) Collusion clearly isn't as large a factor in uncompetitive elections as other factors

1: http://interactive.nydailynews.com/project/mta-funding

2: https://ballotpedia.org/2016_state_legislative_elections_ana...
But why does it matter to a general user if there are real or fake users behind twitter accounts? It makes no difference to me whether I have fake followers or not, as I'm not going to be forced to see anything they're posting (or not posting). I can just ignore them and follow who I want.

It seems like it only matters from an investment stance.
Soon You Won't Have to Say 'Hey Google' to Launch Google Assistant
My entire point is that Amazon has likely already chosen its HQ2 location for unrelated business reasons.

But if the finalist cities think that it has not made up its mind yet, and that tax incentives are the primary criterion it is using to make up its mind, then Amazon benefits from them thinking that. It still gets the HQ2 in the city it wants, but on top of that it gets highly competitive tax incentives.

It's not going to chose that place in Idaho (or in my tiny state of Delaware, which also made a proposal) just to spite them.
What’s North Korea like?
When you combine stories like this along with the massively convoluted legal system and incredibly dense surveillance penetrating everything all the time, it makes me terrified to even visit the place. When traveling to Europe I route around instead of doing stopovers in UK.
It is ghoulish. It stupid obvious that people dying saves the healthcare industry money, but it's not a thought you should entertain because it offers no solutions. It's ghoulish because it promotes the idea that letting people die is "better" than trying to save them. "Here Steve, smoke another pack so you can go quickly instead of slowly".

Why have a healthcare industry at all? It would cost us nothing at all to let people just die instead of trying to save them. Diabetes costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat over a lifetime, why not save the cost and just let diabetics OD on sugar?
I'm not sure that's quite the same thing. That seems to be an example, at least somewhat, of using the platform as intended.

If your profile is public, and they decide to follow it, in part, to make you aware of their existence, perhaps that's a feature not a bug, given that the main use for the thing is to connect with accounts and follow them and discover content.
There's currently a big discussion about the future of LMP2 due to that sort of restrictive innovation, taking it closer to spec. Then there's the multitude of one-make series further down the ladder - certainly isn't a new phenomenon to have arbitrarily close cars from one or more manufacturers.
Different idea: If you have an interest into stock markets/business in general, look into stock market trading robots, you don’t need developers, cofounders or customers... I think it is the perfect life style business model...
If You Stop Thinking About Exercise as a Way to Lose Weight, You Might Enjoy It
Well then it doesn't really seem to answer the argument that a "representative democracy" and "direct democracy" can plausibly be classified as two forms of democracy.
> There is no evidence to suggest that the Lyme disease vaccine ever caused Lyme arthritis, but it was taken off the market largely in response to lawsuits alleging exactly that.
AMD would have to license Thunderbolt from Intel, so it's unlikely.