skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely relevant as these hospital networks are gobbling up medical practcies, nursing facilities, and other providers (acute rehab, pt, hospice, etc).

The results are predictable. Prices are going up and medical providers are marketing funnels.

In my little area (Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY), 90% of the providers are now affiliated with two medical systems. One is a former Catholic medical system that was absorbed by a national system and the other is a federation of joint ventures headlined by the local trauma/teaching hospital. 10 years ago, we had 5 networks in the region. Even as an outsider looking in, you can see the monopolist behaviors. Nursing and other medical staff are taking 20% salary haircuts, doctors are forced to sell practices or lose referrals and go out of business, and the quality and costs are not moving the right way.
A mental institution is not always a good starting point, especially if they are committed involuntarily. It can actually make things worse as the experience of being committed involuntarily is often traumatic to the individual. Inpatient treatment is not always loving or validating, especially in environments where the inpatient treatment is for poor or homeless individuals. Homeless shelters aren’t always equipped for individuals suffering from schizophrenia, but homeless shelters are not really the loving and validating spaces someone who is mentally ill may need anyways. I know there are apparently programs that House the mentally ill in small apartments or with willing caretaker families That are paid for it.

I’m not saying “you are wrong and I have the answers”, merely that thmakes perception that anyone who talks to themselves needs inpatient and medication may not be necessarily true. They could just need some time in a safe place, while inpatient treatment can actually not be safe and incredibly traumatic.
Even parts of London have spots where even 3G coverage is poor.
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It's tricky though, if you work, marginal benefit from an extra unit of work is quite high.

If you're unemployed and on benefits, it tends to be zero and could even be negative, until you reach a full workweek and/or something above minimum wage.

For example, I know people who receive about $1k a month and don't work. If they worked 20 hours, they'd lose their entire $1k assistance and earn about $650 (at $7.5 minimum wage). If they work 40 hours, they earn about $1300, which ends up slightly above $1k after-tax. They effectively earn the same but now have full-time employment and need to pay someone to take care of the kids. Financially, she's better off saving $100 a month with a 15 hour discount-seeking occupation and taking care of her kids.

It really depends on the welfare system how all of this works, but there's this idea of the benefits/welfare cliff:

http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-welfare-cliff-and-why-m...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/20/benefits-cliff...
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Adblock caught that - apologies.
> but glass fiber can more easily be controlled by your ISP and your government, unlike satellite internet.

What would lead you to believe that? The reality is that the reverse is true, satellite internet is more heavily scrutinized as it’s far easier to intercept and very few companies are doing it.
Thank you, I was not aware of this.
Ask HN: What to do with an old Watchguard XTM 525
Hi,

I received a Watchguard XTM 525 and now I wonder what I can do with it.

I'd like to use it at home. Do you have any suggestions for what to do? My experience with firewalls is low, as I am at the beginning of my career. Though I thought I could do a little work with it. You understand me - I am looking forward to your suggestions :)

Maybe something Mr.Robot style?!

Greetings :)
If you google "wolfenstein", 100% of the first page results are related to the game series.
On the other hand, a quick Google or Wikipedia search would have enlightened you fast enough.
Here is another gui:

https://rthomsen6.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/introducing-syste...
Try asking the network admin of your clients network to allocate a max limit - e.g. in a 4 GBPS line, your application will get max 2 GBPS, so the files keep uploading but your users wont feel their net is down when someone uses your app.
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let me know if this gets torrented i could seed it ad infinitum
OS and server stack updates aren’t a case of “more secure”. Somebody still needs to do that work, and you’re trading the responsibility of doing it for the promise that somebody else will (often with no visibility into how and when).

DoS is only “solved” by “infinite capacity” insofar as you’re willing to pay for the capacity. If you have any spending caps in place, you’ll be DoSed by burning through your budget. DoS protecting must happen at a lower level than that.
An "ISP in a box" is something I've toyed with, but on the basis of connectivity options ranging from a leased line, a microwave link and high gain wifi, but that stills ranges from expensive to "just" allowing you to extend out from the borders of nearby services. Having a cheap satellite option so that people can start providing that in rural locations where they are effectively an island of coverage would certainly be very interesting.
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You're right, now they all fail. I have this ugly Google cache link for you:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jLWeTh...
I feel ya. My dad was a Boilermaker. There were good years and some really bad years during the "boom" time of the 1980s! He worked out of town a lot. Phrases like "six tens" or "seven tens" meant how many days per week of work and the hours. He could get time and half on Saturday and double time on Sunday. He'd work like that for 3-4 months, then get laid off and our family would coast on what he earned plus unemployment for awhile after. We were never homeless or living out of a car, though. We had a crappy house, and probably no one thought I would ever amount to anything. Growing up there was sometimes fun, not like suburbia at all. It made me a man, not like these cuckold twats who are scared of their own shadows. I learned how to fix things and get by on limited resources and it definitely made me eager for a better career and better life, something which I worked very hard to obtain.

The saddest thing of all is that my dad was a great carpenter and fabricator and should have been building houses in the 1980s, a business he had already worked in and knew how to do. At some point he become obsessed with that union pension and couldn't think about anything else. So while a lot of people were getting rich in the '80s, our family was just scraping by. He got that pension, though. But he almost got us killed trying to stay in that union.

Anyone who thinks unions are happy fun organizations don't know anything about unions and what they do to their members--it's just another power structure with the regular people acting as raw meat. The Boilermakers tried their level best to force members out before they could reach retirement age and collect their pensions. They were horrible to women and minorities, too. Imagine a bunch of bikers, just the trash of the world, running the show and you have a pretty good picture in your head of that union.
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Ask HN: Why Does the Smiling People A/B Test Not Work for Us?
We're developers at heart, and marketing doesn’t come naturally to us. We’ve read multiple articles on the positive effects of placing smiling people on pages. So we decided to try this out.

Bugfender is available for several platforms, with our primary focus on iOS and Android. So we thought we’d A/B test our original platform pages with a version of a smiling person.

We ran that test at a 50/50 ratio for 10 weeks, tracked the number page views and the number of clicks through to the the signup form from each version.

Both versions were served on the same url, but for the purpose of this demonstration, we’ve separated them out, and you can view them here:

- https://bugfender.com/platforms/ios

- https://bugfender.com/platforms/ios-smiling

- https://bugfender.com/platforms/android

- https://bugfender.com/platforms/android-smiling

Based on what we’d read, we expected to see some sort of increase (however small) in sign-up clicks when coming from the smiling versions. However the result we had we very different:

• Android smiling CTR: 17.49%

• Android normal CTR: 21.29%

• iOS smiling CTR: 21.74%

• iOS normal CTR: 31.43%

* Percentage of users who clicked through to sign up after viewing each of the platforms page

Over the course of 10 weeks, pages served with a smiling person always performed worse, averaging 5% for Android and 10% for iOS.

We understand that there is no special formula that works for all, but we didn’t expect this, and we were wondering if anyone may have any insights or ideas as to why this might be?

Could it have been the extended content? Or that the picture was too generic? Did it perhaps distract from the real data about the product? These are some of our thoughts, but as marketing is not our forte, we really have no idea and this is just speculation.

We’re always keen to try out A/B test and experiments, so we’d love to hear any ideas or suggestions you have too.

Thanks for taking the time to read this :)
Agreed. Or Musk will have to agree to filter traffic.
> Don't forget aviation and to a lesser extent maritime either.

And trains, busses (it might be orders of magnitude cheaper than paying for cell data to provide those local hotspots people use on busses to/from work everyday), cars (I could easily see teslas using it over cell for data in the future), and rural areas where laying fiber is expensive.
I'm sorry, but you won't get that. That isn't how computer's work.

There is no magical "understanding" available through a computer to tell you WHY an error occurred.

It is a computing device. It can tell you THAT a problem occurred, and WHAT it was doing at the time. With a debugger, you are free to ask the WHAT question at many points within the program to figure out WHERE the problem is coming from.

But the answer to WHY can only be divined by you. Mom had a saying she was fond of: "You must be at least 10% smarter than the piece of equipment."

Computers are not smart. They are dumb things that are exceedingly trainable at doing very dumb, repetitive things very quickly. Layer on a bunch of layers of dumb stuff and finding the spot where someone derped becomes very difdicult, very quickly.
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Is it possible to get good at software architecture without having a lot of personal experience with many subcomponents of said architecture? Sure.

Is it likely? Not at all. This area is even more experience-driven than other senior-orchestration-type roles in other fields, and most of those roles--even the literal example of an orchestra conductor/director you mentioned--very often start with someone with immense personal experience playing a lot of metaphorical "instruments". All the other people in this subthread saying "build things and see how they fail" are right--and you have to be intimately involved of the building of a lot of things to start to see the patterns and move closer to an architect role.

I wouldn't bet the farm on being able to conduct the orchestra without knowing how to play an instrument.

EDIT: I don't think parent should be downvoted. They're highlighting important distinctions and seeking advice early in their career. Just because y'all disagree with their approach doesn't mean their comments lack substance or are bad. And if you think the down arrow will teach some kind of "punishment" for having a disagreeable outlook . . . well, I hope you don't raise kids, 'cause that tends to backfire.
as a system administrator, I find the summary as laughable as the FAAS movement itself.

"FaaS takes on the responsibility for “patching” the underlying servers, freeing you from OS patching"

So a sysadm-er, devops admin will be rolling these out and back with CI on a regular basis to dev,test and prod.

"Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are naturally thwarted by the (presumed) infinite capacity Serverless offers."

Unless youre invoicing department is cutting cheques to cloudflare, you'd be surprised just how limited the service is. Capacity might be amorphously defined as infinite on paper, but network capacity is quite real.

"Since the OS is unreachable, attackers will shift their attention to the areas that remain exposed – and first amongst those would be the application itself."

the OS is reachable, what you mean to say is that its not your problem.
> women that had like two or three kids, live longer on average than those that didn't

Can't have 3 kids if you died at age of 10.
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If they can make it so you could get a cheap subscription to starlink, without needing your own receiver, to route your udp traffic I would pay for sure. Since it's going to be a LEO constellation the pings will be crazy low round the world and you could play US-EU games at under 100 ms even if you had to have a hop or two via fiber to the nearest starlink connected hub.
This is what happens when directors and C-level folks get a reputation bonus from being able to talk about how they "led a migration to the cloud" in their previous company.
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People today have largely lost the understanding that parody and pastiche are different but related formats.

Both are referential, but pastiches are affectionate and often deferential, while parodies poke fun in a biting, sarcastic way.
I'm very curious about this but don't think I really understand what it is. How can I learn more?
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Hi Bemmu. I subscribe to TokyoTreat, and formerly subscribed to Japan Crate (and the 'umai crate' noodle box, until one of them got seized by customs because they shipped something with pork bits...)

I don't subscribe to CJ despite having seen it a million times here and almost definitely being the target audience (though this particular ad would have definitely repelled me) because your prices just aren't competitive. I mean, sure, the root price of $29 a month is, but when you consider the volume of candy you get, it's not even close. 7 items on your example image vs. the 14 I got in the February TokyoTreat (one of which was a heavy drink and another of which was a 30-piece share pack) just makes it clear.

Have you considered dropping the shipping to once a month like all the other boxes and making them bigger? I think that would help you compete more effectively, because you'd be paying less for shipping as a percentage of your subscription gross and the "unboxing" pictures of your boxes wouldn't look as sad.

$29 for 7 items is over $4 an item. You're going to have a hard time convincing people it's worth paying that if they look at any other subscription box.

From looking at the list of past boxes, I think you do a really good job hitting the right balance of "ooh, exclusive Japan thing" and balancing out the tastes of an average person. The candy you select is spot-on with what I considered some of the best stuff I got when I lived there.
Nice, I wish i had a bit more code to show off on github, as most of my stuff is in house.
Hackerrank is such a crap way to evaluate engineers.
Most likely just the old dump repackaged.
No, no, no. They have the job, you want it. That email comes across so arrogant that I would expect even the newest hiring manager to laugh and delete.

Without even addressing the sour grapes attitude about coding interviews, the sheer arrogance with which you try to dictate someone else's process is a red flag in the first place. That, plus the fact that you're refusing to do what they want, is really bad for your chances of being hired.
> The solution, for higher primates, was to slough off the whole superficial endometrium

Doesn't that suggest that's reason for higher primates? Or are you disagreeing with the author of that post?
I think of it the same way you'd think of it in a workshop: a "safe" drill or saw is one that can be used in a safe way, not one that's safe from deliberate attacks.
> I don't see how such an "App manager" would be able to setup, for instance, an nginx server with multiple virtual hosts

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
require App_Manager;
app_provides("service", "nginx", "config", "test.com", "server { root $APP_HTML_DIR; index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; server_name test.com www.test.com; location / {try_files $uri $uri/ =404;}}"
app_provides("service", "nginx", "config", "example.com", "server { root $APP_HTML_DIR; index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; server_name example.com www.example.com; location / {try_files $uri $uri/ =404;}}"
app_wants("service", "inet", "http", "{ tcp port http ; tcp6 port http }", "acceptable_providers { nginx; }")
app_wants("service", "inet", "http", "nginx")

This is a dumb example, but illustrates one way this could happen. The actual CM in the background that the App_Manager library connects to would take these config directives and communicate with the other software (nginx) in order to set it up how the app above has specified.

Ideally the above would not include an Nginx-specific configuration, but one that was more abstract, to allow any HTTP service to provide for the needs of the application. That's probably wishful thinking. But on the other hand, there are probably millions of examples of an application needing an HTTP server in extremely similar ways, so maybe service-specific configuration specifications aren't totally insane.

> Some applications need entire configuration languages because they are so flexible that writing some ini/json/xml quickly becomes too cumbersome. How would your system deal with those problems?

You can abstract away almost all of the details of an automated system. They're just not built today with this in mind. Systems today are built as isolated islands of complexity and depend on humans to teach them how to shake hands. This is largely not necessary, but it is with how people are currently managing systems.

> Finally, your proposed solution seems to suffer from having to adapt all applications to be able to manage them

In the same way that networked applications "suffer" from adapting a standard protocol.

Another example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
$dsn = "dbi:SQLite:dbname=$dbfile";
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password);
$sql = 'CREATE TABLE people (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, fname VARCHAR(100), lname VARCHAR(100), email VARCHAR(100) UNIQUE NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(20))';
$dbh->do($sql);

But this looks complicated; I guess asking apps to suffer under the concept of a standard interface and language will never catch on.
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Hiring managers need to be sure they're being fair to everyone. How can they do that looking at your side projects? They need a way to compare apples to apples.
As a developer, being able to immediately see the value add from the example picture above the fold on the non-smiling version is a really big sell. In one glance I know what your software does and I know how I might need it.

With the smiling version, it's a lot less clear what your software does and how I might use it. There's more text explaining the product, sure, but I don't really want to spend the cognitive effort reading it. Even after I have read it, I still don't really understand how your software solves my problem - at least not nearly as well as when you give an example image.
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I think it's probably a great way to understand the culture of the hiring organisation and to see if your approach would work with theirs.

It'll probably be relatively unsuccessful at a bigger company with worse internal comms, with an HR function that's too far removed from the engineering team.

I'm sure you'll find a job that suits _you_ with this approach, though.
If you want to know more about Debussy the person (unlike the author of this article!), Roger Nichols' "Debussy Remembered" is very good.
I think that is a great response. But you also should be prepared for them to say no, not because your proposal is bad, but because many hiring managers want to put all applicants through the same hoops, to understand better how they all compare when having to decide between 5 people who all could do the job well.
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Being a few hours on the front page of HN is definitely not worth $14k.
I think it depends, some employers might appreciate being showed evidence that the process they've decided on isn't suitable for reasons they were unable to see.
Yes, but you gotta find a balance - you'll go crazy if you rotate passwords everyday! Seeing your email in a new breach is certainly a good time to do so.
They don't have to guarantee results - Companies are becoming disillusioned about Ads as it is (since they don't understand technology and/or can't compete with companies that do)...we need a platform where such companies go back doing their core-services if you will and leave the rest to experts - As an example - a B2B company making some airplane part does not need to host it's own marketing site (for it's sales pipeline), measure KPIs on this site etc. - Instead, it could pay $X to an self-serve app, and let them manage everything about said content (maybe even help with the content creation as well) to achieve measurable results Y (KPIs).
Your blog article does say that under a section called "facts", but it is still nothing more than an unsourced blog with an agenda that might be even more questionable that that of pharmaceutical companies, so I am not going to trust it above a research publication that found birth control pills reduce risk.
Can confirm that there's a radius of about 600m around my flat (SE3) which has spotty 3G coverage on Three with the inner ~100m being as good as zero (and my flat has had nailed-on zero 3G signal since 2010.)
Why choose between gRPC and REST? Expose both on a single port
You want a personalized interview, styled exactly for you ?

I would be a 'no' if i were interviewing me. You obviously can program but this makes you appear to be someone who would be difficult to work with.
Problem is, the pastebin has been removed, so I don't know what account associated with my email address has been compromised.
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But no matter how you slice it, pay is a function of supply and demand. Nothing more, nothing less. Burger flipping is low-wage because everyone is willing to do it, and people will undercut each other to secure that they get the job over someone else. The changing economy may make all jobs more difficult, but there will still be jobs that the masses gravitate to, and those jobs will remain low-wage as a result.
> The question is what happens when they launch all 1000 satellites?

The plan is for 12,000 satellites and they are only designed to last a few years and then be replaced. This keeps launch rates constant, allows them to make much larger use of economies of scale by having that many satellites, and to constantly improve speed by building the new satellites with state of the art technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellat...
My regular policy is to ghost any employer who throws a HackerRank test at me. This is usually a strong indicator that the work environment is incompatible with my values.