skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Krankenkassen and Krankenversicherungen are not generally state entities

They are state entities established by law (Körperschaften öffentlichen Rechts mit Selbstverwaltung) and have to follow the strict regulations of the public sector. They regularly issue Verwaltungsakte.

> Would you call something like the Audi BKK a state entity?

Yes, absolutely. It's a state entity that provides care for Audi employees, since 2010 for everybody (and they can't legally refuse members). Audi has absolutely no input on their inner workings, it's really just the name and the fact that they have many members working there (and thus provide special services for them). It's basically a historical quirk of how the German insurance system came to be.

> No, health care contributions are paid directly to the Krankenkasse/Krankenversicherung where one is a member, not the tax administration (Finanzamt).

The Krankenkasse (to be exact their Einzugstelle) is really just a Finanzamt for social insurance contributions. If you don't pay they have the whole range to force you that's
just available to state entities. See e.g. https://www.bundesversicherungsamt.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Kr... A private entity does not have these options and would need to go through general courts.

> Obviously not. In the health care domain, the Social Insurance systems and tax-based health care systems are different models.

They are different models (and should be contrasted) but both are financed through taxes (just different kinds). Yes, we don't call these "Steuern" in German but that doesn't translate 1-to-1 to other countries. "Abgaben" would be a much better translation for taxes.
Perhaps there's a difference if you meet someone who is already successful or who's past accomplishments you admire versus that idiot in high school who barely passed chemistry by cheating off your answers, exibited the worst of the sexist jock/bro mentality, skated by on his good looks and is now driving a lambo and married to a supermodel.
I love how much effort MIT is putting in making these courses widely available (i.e. releasing slides, video and exercises online).
> AlphaGo's precomputation

What are you talking about, training the Go neural net?
My choice is to avoid OS beta versions ^_^
WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg’s other headache – Social media and misinformation
Maybe inappropriate methods of recruiting software engineers
Yes, I simply don’t buy that either. I try comparatively hard to use Siri, and I don’t think I write more than 5% via Siri. It doesn’t work that well even while driving.
I'd still like to see someone make a "HER" type of OS even just as a prototype/demo piece touching new functionalities. Currently Siri indeed doesn't offer much, but even Google and Alexa aren't yet at the level that I'm likely to use it for much more than set a timer or put on some music in the long run...
Japanese are frenetic buyers as well. I would not dare to say they consume less than in Europe or the US.
>>'m curious, how do you know that you need 1) 3500mah battery or 2) 2.1Ghz processor or 3) 4GB Ram on a smartphone?...

Your way of comparison is wrong, most of the user neither need a phd in electric or computer science or are going to compare that way. The way is simple
3500mah> 3000mah
2.1 Ghz<2.6 Ghz
4 GB Ram < 8 GB Ram
See.
Show HN: Open source list on MIT Design Lab website
Not what I wanted to wake up to this morning. I suspect we’re in for a rough ride for a long time thanks to this mess.
By “recently deceased Eve programming language,” are you referring to witheve.com? Where do you see it has been abandoned?

Edit: Ah, found it. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/eve-talk/YFguOGkNr...
If Facebook can't moderate properly because it is too expensive, then Facebook can't exist. We can go back to a more plural world of many specialist forums with community moderation. That way the content properly reflects the society that generates it.
they have. Its used.
> Of course you could also just follow them IRL if you were there, so I'm not sure this is a big deal.

Yes. But in that case, the person being followed can tell that they are being followed. A spy (MI6/CIA/etc) might be able to follow a target without being seen, but an jilted lover would probably not. So the victim is aware that they are being observed, and by who.

In this case, the victim cannot see who is looking at the track, and cannot take evasive actions.
A video of this robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjZPvXKewFk
>content moderation is essentially a form of social engineering

I mean, do you think social engineering is bad? What do you think Public Service Announcements are for? Why do you think governments give tax credits to people who buy electric vehicles? Social engineering is a great tool when wielded responsibly with citizen oversight.
“If you are running an impacted device, this update can be applied by downloading it from the Microsoft Update Catalog website”

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4078130/update-to-d...
As a child I thought guacamole looked absolutely disgusting and wouldn't touch it. It's amazing and you must try it.
Their service is also called Kuroneko, black cat, by most people.
Linus was right
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/eve-talk/YFguOGkNrBo
FUnny to see Apple being so popular in Japan while all their ads here and websites are minimalist bY design.
There's definitely that aspect of it.

I think what has evolved out of the book, especially as connectivity has gotten better across the world, is the 'digital nomad' jobs you see. People working remotely at US wages while living in Chiang Mai or Medellin and using the value of the US dollar to really extend their visits. Retiree expats were already doing it and now people can actually do that while of working age.

The ones that fall into a snake oil or other sort of category are the folks that are funding these trips via selling you e-books about how you can do the same thing. It has an MLM feel about it. I also, as someone that has lived and traveled abroad for long periods of time, wonder about burnout. Some people can keep up that life for a while but it can get pretty tiresome.

As to creating 'turnkey' businesses...I have a friend whose wife works at a startup that they've "built to sale" aka the pipe dream of growing fast and trying to cash out in x number of years as if they were flipping a house vs building a viable business that someone would actually want to acquire (or that makes money). It relies mainly on overseas programmers to build it and, given the very little amount of cash I know they have, I doubt they're of the highest or most consistent quality.

Tim Ferriss isn't the only one selling the snake oil. SV does a pretty good job itself, as we know from hanging out on HN.
Just how I program after 10 years of practice. Tables and procedures mostly :-). No considerable developments in programming languages needed as far as I'm concerned.
Automated mass surveillance has the potential to lead to even more selective, discretionary enforcement of the law...with the obvious threat to life and liberty.
> I suspect that in the long grind to "polish your work", there's a simply tendency to remove all these "empty feeling" spots more than to "trim the fat".

I think it's interesting that "Japanese design" in almost every other area hints at a certain functional minimalism, that stands in stark contrast to these sites. I mean sites like, ironically enough, the Css Zen Garden (http://www.csszengarden.com/), highlight the western perception of their design principles: lots of white space, consistent design, minimalism.

White space is luxury for the eyes.
Not sure about "nationalizing" but certainly choosing who supplies equipment to run a network is a very important decision.

Remember the story about wiretapping in Athens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...
This sort of flamebait will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
Like always.
They have Web pages for buying tethers/selling them, but they're always closed and just say contact them if you're a $x million investor. So the claim is presumably that the billions of tethers printed are all backed by institutional investors. I just had a look at the site now and the registration system is apparently being rebuilt, so there's no path to buy/sell through them today.
How do they know they aren't honeypots?
Google confirms investment in Indonesia’s ride-hailing leader Go-Jek
Apple didn't fumble a five-year lead in voice control, they've just not closed Google's 15 year lead in AI.

The article kind of touches on this topic but misses the point - Google is using data about you to inform it's AI. One could argue that the author not realizing the extent to which it does so is more likely a sign they've become very good at it.
From a single datapoint, senior citizens prefer speaking into the phone instead of typing out long messages.
Google Yanked My Chrome Extension This Sunday
Oh, the code I'm working with certainly does all that, but I wouldn't qualify it as good. :)

I jest, but I agree with your statement.
So you're implying a lawyer plays no role?
It is gross incompetence that it was not a built-in feature.
Rome 2 rio - https://www.rome2rio.com/ is a great tool to see what the different transportation options are. Say, for example, you want to travel from Lisbon to Berlin, rome2rio will show you what your options are (fly, train, bus, etc) and what the respective costs are.

Especially useful if you are traveling to countries where public transport isn't a given.
But why? What benefit this brings to the user? Practice their pre-school math?

Why just don't write random numbers on the box so the users can compare these?

Write, for example, 400 capacitors and let users compare the number of capacitors on the circuit board. Let them brag that their phone have more capacitors.

Maybe write the number of diodes, so Huwei Hr67 users can enjoy the wonders of diode dominance over Mi 8jj that has 20 diodes less.

...or maybe you forgot the /s :)
A few thoughts:

Unless you were fired for misconduct, its usually better to say you were laid off. Its worth figuring out what information the company will give out. If you didn't leave on good terms, have a friend call and ask for employment verification. If it was a legitimate company based in the US, its likely they'll give dates of employment and nothing else.

Get some thoughts down in writing, especially what went wrong/what you could have done better. Its pretty common to be unhappy at a job and wanting to leave, so its good to figure out how to do that without making it too obvious.

Don't be shy about reaching out to people who still work at the company you left. It always feels more awkward to you than it really is.

By far the best thing you can do to minimize damage is get another job as soon as possible. It's really easy to get in a rut after a setback and get discouraged, procrastinate, then before you know it a few months have gone by and you have a 'gap' on your resume to explain.

It's tough, but remember that this exact situation happens to way more people than it seems. Its just someone nobody brings up so it seems rare. You'll get through it.
I've been paying attention to the lowering fertility rate across the world. My instinct, until now, was that it was because of fire retardant chemicals found in furniture that act as an endocrine disruptor. It didn't totally fit though so I felt like there was something else that was a major contributor.

Ibuprofen being a cause of lower sperm counts could be the missing piece of the puzzle. It's also a big deal because Tylenol has been pushed aside for the last 20 years as being more unsafe for children than Ibuprofen.
The author makes it seem that everybody is eager to use voice assistants to replace their Android or iOS screen interactions. But I don’t know anybody who would dictate their private messages on the subway, or even at home - they are called private for a reason. And just imagine requesting „tell me the current value of a bitcoin“ while at work - I don’t think this would go well.

There would be a lot of noise pollution everywhere, with people constantly murmuring to themselves, alternated with an unresponsive silence while listening to the device‘s answer. It would seem like everybody is on the phone, all the time. Also, for me, digesting information via text is way easier, because I can jump back and forth to support short term memory - good luck with that with a voice assistant.

The iPhone (and friends) disrupted the PC because they made reading and writing mobile. Voice assistants are not iterating on this paradigm, but they are rather iterating on phone calls. I‘m skeptical that this is suitable to replace the iPhone I‘m writing this on.
While the results do matter, this is probably being blown out of proportion

> One group of subjects received ibuprofen, 2 × 600 mg/d, (Ibumetin; Nycomed Denmark Aps) for a period of 6 wk

Yeah, that's a lot of Ibuprofen for a long time
Android Treble: blessing or trouble?
I don't get the arguement that Facebook, (previously a way to stay in touch with friends) should have to broadcast every crank who wants to talk. If you want to be in a newspaper or radio you have to hit a certain quality level, and be the right kind of content. This editorship is not a restriction of speech, I can start my own website, print my own newsletter etc.
I would guess that this statistic is about using the voice button on the keyboard, rather then commanding Siri "send a message to...". I've watched people that do this constantly, and perhaps they send more messages overall as a result of the behavior.
I read the paper, I saw the plots accompanying the paper, and I tried following the rabbit hole in search of some raw data that I can get my hands on, just to see if I can.

Perhaps the data is the result of the experiments that have been paid for by a third party, fine, but please mention that! People might be willing to pay for it, for example, me!

What's wrong with "Here's the raw data, here's how we measured it, Here's how we've shown the data, and look you can see for yourself that we are right! oh and the data costs $$$ much." ?

I understand experiment reproducibility is not incentivised in academia, but then why make it hard for an external party to reproduce it/study it?

Do we have to go through the usual "Contact the academic, maybe they answer, and maybe you'll get the same (version of) data that they used in that experiment, maybe you'll have to go through Elsevier, oh and you must have .edu/.ac.uk address to be taken seriously through all those requests."

What a chore. Just adds to the hate towards 'experts' and their opinions.
What is the best book about each country?
Composed or merely sent as a voice message?
100% of iMessages are composed by voice on the Apple Watch, which may be weighting this figure somewhat.
It's interesting how many folks in this thread claim the US government is a "huge" intel customer.
I do not believe that to be true. Certainly, they buy computers with Intel chips in them, but in terms of chip purchases (IE who intel was probably notifying), they are probably nowhere in volume.

Intel has 8 customers accounting for 75% of revenue[1].

By numbers, America and Taiwan are tied for third in terms of volume per country. Singapore is #1, followed by China.

Even for just client computing, 3 customers account for 38% of their revenue.

None are the US government[2]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/100214/inside-...
[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00000508631700...
>Not to say it's a bad thing to drink after recovering from alcoholism, but wouldn't that just be managed addiction?

Not any more so than drinking before alcoholism is "managed addiction".

If you can manage it and drink whenever you want after being an alcoholic (e.g. not drink for weeks, then drink at a party and then again not for weeks, and have no withdrawal effects when you don't drink) then you're not addicted anymore.
Great code is understandable for all. So it's not the code from insert developers name here
That link is for ibuprofen, not aspirin.

Aspirin is dirt cheap in the U.S.
What Business Intelligence Information Can Be Gathered via GPS Tracking
Windows Hypervisor Platform
I am probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but, do these games work over windows?
Anecdatally, it seems to be quite common in Brazil.
PLC manufacturers and the controls community in general is lagging behind technologically by twenty years. It is very frustrating for a security-minded, computer-literate controls engineer to work with decade old hardware and software.

In a company I worked at, there were PLCs controlling sensitive processes, including heaters for welding plastic, connected to the company network via Modbus-over-TCP. A visitor with a guest access, nmap and pymodbus could read AND SET temperatures of any of the devices. A black hat could easily have started fires or leaked acid in our production floor.
considering how rabidly most cryptocurrency supporters denounce the government and the banking system and wall street and evil regulations, you would think they would be livid at the idea of a government(!) prosecuting people for anything related to cryptocurrency.
“Then I look for a general rule for attacking similar problems, that would have led me to approach the given problem in the most efficient way the first time. Often, such a rule is of permanent value.“

I like this. It’s a rule for finding useful rules. I wonder if I can get good at this kind of analysis.
Err, huh? I use the scribble feature (not voice) on the Apple Watch to compose iMessages all the time.
A therapy chatbot and app for depression and anxiety
TLDR: I got a 7-day warning related to my Chrome extension this Sunday. I fixed the issue (added link to Privacy Policy) within hours, and Google then strangely pulled the Chrome extension, saying that the time period had elapsed and I hadn't fixed it.

This makes no sense, since it had been less than 1 day, and because I had fixed the issue already. Has anyone else had an issue like this, or know where to turn to get reinstated? I have 65k users, so this isn't some fly-by-night operation...
I bought some IOTA a while ago and after doing a Google search on how to generate a wallet seed, it sent me to iotaseed.io. Thankfully though I didn't feel comfortable about a third party website potentially knowing my seed (which cannot be changed later) so I searched for alternatives and found a simple Linux command to do it. That probably saved me some money.

It's still surprising that it was a fraud, it looked like a legit website. It seems almost too blatant a crime given that the Github repo, IPs and the domain name of the site can probably be traced to someone.
I honestly find myself thinking more and more that maybe old-school Victorian-era social norms weren't the worst things in the world (as we make them out to be these days).

For one thing, there was way less grey area than there is nowadays in terms of appropriate conduct.
Before the Internet, you had to talk to people to do all the things we now do with apps and web browsers and texts and so on. A lot of time was spent on the phone. So the world has gotten quieter, but it's not like it was that quiet to begin with.
Would you rather live in a country where medication is freely available over the counter, or one in which you need a prescription for everything? Having lived in both, I'd choose the former. What is a problem in the latter is trivial in the former. Does requiring medical intervention lessen drug abuse? Not entirely. But the vast majority of medications purchased are not drugs of abuse. When was the last time you heard of patients abusing blood pressure medication? Or heart medication? Sure, there are idiots who will eat Tide pods. An adult can purchase a semi-automatic rifle in my country, but .375 milligram aspirin? God forbid.
>So long as you're willing to abandon locality, hidden variables can work. Given that the other two interpretations posit equally weird things, abandoning locality won't seem so weird.

Abandoning causality (that goes along with locality) wont seem so weird?
Firefox will
The highly unusual company behind Sriracha
You can put the untrusted VMs in the cloud, to get better isolation between them and more important stuff. This, e.g., is a way of preventing two colluding VMs from communicating.
Someone who maintains something is true while lacking any evidence of that. There's an infinity of possible untrue statements, but only finite amount of research resource. Disproving every crackpot theory doesn't advance actual science one tiny bit.
What do people actually use voice for besides playing music, smart home, transcribing and "widget" stuff like timers and weather?

Are there lots of people out there actually using it for productivity like scheduling, communicating, researching, comparing?

To me it seems like until voice AI gets smart enough to respond to a query like "Alexa, how will our Q4 projected net profits change if I switch widget vendors from AlphaCorp to BetaCorp?" an interactive screen will be needed.
The way you are framing it, it sounds like Lindgren did a bad thing in criticising the Social democrats, but in the end she remained committed to socialism, so she ended up on the "safe side".
Or being "good socialist" is one end of the scale, and "bad fascist capitalist" is on the other end. That doesn't make much sense, as that is mixing up two different scales. Fascism is a political system (could be described as a militaristic nationalism) that is opposed to democracy, while capitalism is an economical system.
In fact, what Lindgren did remain committed to was not really socialism, but rather a form of social democracy with a "mix" economy including both state and private ownership - which is what Swedens Social Democratic party came to represent in the 1990s.
Don't think I would.
From the wiki article:

> The synchronous abstraction makes reasoning about time in a synchronous program a lot easier, thanks to the notion of logical ticks: a synchronous program reacts to its environment in a sequence of ticks, and computations within a tick are assumed to be instantaneous,

I wouldn't classify HDLs as synchronous or reactive programming explicitly because the last assumption in the quote (instantaneous ticks) is emphatically false when doing HDL programming. Synchronous programming (as with FRP systems in haskell, usage of mobx or Vue in javascript, or other such libraries) affords the programmer this tick based Excel-like approach to expressing cause-effect chains. You really can't do this in, say, Verilog if you want a functioning program.
Flu can certainly impair one's immune system and pave the way for an opportunistic bacterial infection, but in the general case, antibiotics do nothing for viral infection.
Well, this is HN, a forum for mostly software engineers, so an income of over 59k€ should be expected.

You are right, though, if one considers the average citizen.
This was discussed ~3 weeks ago. Here's the thread--
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16101072
Have you seen how some people gobble this stuff?

I've felt compelled to say to more than one person: probably shouldn't take that much ...
In physics the map IS the territory. Or, if you prefer, we're not merely constructing a map, but a model, that is, we try to feel out and understand the territory, what it's made of, and how it works.
I was thinking the same. But, everyone builds on a platform, or distribution channel, or depends on other bisinesses. I suppose you must look at your position in the value chain, your partners as competitors, and do what you always must: consider your unique value to customers, and your protection from competitors - and enhance both.