skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point wasn't just about cost, but rather care. People need doctors, and "there isn't enough doctors" seems to be a common problem in health care. The cost could also be mitigated by simply charging more, but having doctors spend their time driving instead of treating patients means that the number of doctors needed for the same quality of care goes way up, and in many cases doctors are not a resource that you can simply get more of because you need more.

For every doctor's appointment serviced by Heal, ~3 appointments are taken away from a community clinic somewhere.
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Yep - de-identified data is the best way to assure compliance when developing/working-on/dealing with large sensitive data-sets.

that said, compliance audits are pretty strict if they are doing it correctly, and not-so-fun. It will be an interesting world when there is a medical-data-firehose pointed at an AI that is looking at all the available med records to do predictive analytics against an entire population....

We are likely a decade from that.
The only thing holding me back is I'd probably have to pay for both since I use Drive for a daily NAS scheduled backup for business purposes. Looks like I can now do that with Dropbox as well.

Great. Might just spend the money :)
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Answer: yes. Many former MS folks now in Google. What do you think inspired the Ballmer chair throwing incident ?
haha, I have a guy like this in my job. He won't do ANYTHING that couldn't be represented in a promotion document. Which is annoying but at the same time he is always successful with his promotions
I think there would be significant challenges to do so. I think this is one of the reasons why google's health care initiatives in the US failed so horrifically and one of the reasons why their deepmind NHS initiative is with the NHS and not someone in the US.
Depends on what it takes to close each section of the deal, and what you're working on in the interim.
I will speculate that it's because the author mentions "Julia Evans" [1] who is quite famous in this community for their articles. That or more people than I thought didn't know some details about how basic commands/built-in functions work in Unix. Nevertheless, whatever people find interesting, they upvote. Good or not, this article caught the attention of many, that's all.

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Where is our phone-body linux OS with SIM hardware already, right?
Didn't IBM switch to getting a majority of their developers from India?

Enough said.
In China where delivery of all kinds is omnipresent (the other day we even ordered someone to go shop for us and had the makings for breakfast arrive within half an hour!) it feels to me that people are beginning to see the limitations of prepared food delivery.

While it's always great to get some food when you're hungry, the waiting involved in a typical order is 45min+ and the experience never matches eat-in or self-made due to factors like post-cook cool-down while in transit, corresponding ingredient visual and textural degradation, timing unpredictability (what if I need to bury myself in work or have a conference call? I don't want someone at the doorbell suddenly interrupting), etc. Limited hours of availability also suck, as do random phone calls about parking/access/are-you-around/etc.

Some of these problems are impossible to completely solve as orders tend to be heavily grouped at peak periods, and driver and vehicle fleet size cannot be realistically optimized for short term burst demand patterns without substantially increasing costs.
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I love finding the counter examples because they keep me optimistic about what is actually possible, even if it isn't likely.
The prebuilt Graylog virtual machine appliance (OVA) defaults to a pitiful amount of RAM (I think 512MB? 1GB?) and we used it in production successfully for a very long time in this configuration. We bumped it up but just because it seemed like a good idea, not because the memory was giving us any trouble. From our Graylog dashboard currently:

> The JVM is using 637.8MB of 980.1MB heap space and will not attempt to use more than 1.4GB

It also defaulted to a single vCPU, which seemed to be fine. It seems like Graylog can scale down pretty well if needed.
True, the link between antidepressants and suicide is a current area of study.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353604/

In no way do I want to diminish how serious these drugs are. They can have a profound effect on a person's behavior that occurs in a very short period.

Finding a medication regimen that works for a person is a serious undertaking. It often takes years. A person may have to taper on and off dozens of different regimens to find a good effect while minimizing side effects. The constant personal changes a person experiences through this process can strain relationships, ruin careers and much worse.
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One of my grievances was the missing ability to remove or at least drastically shrink most parts of the UI. When I set the window to the desired size, the actual area where peoples messages appeared was ridiculously small. One would think that's not how you treat the most important part of your UI.
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Shortly after Cloudflare's blog post, memcached pushed a commit that disabled UDP by default:

https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054b...
Looks like some error page for me: "We had some trouble loading this form. Click here to continue."

Clicking results in another error "This form didn't load. Please try again later."
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There are some other distro specific build systems missing. So I wouldn't think much of it. But here would be my point for 'Nix': QA doesn't tested for Cross-compiling so it doesn't work while it should be supported in principle.
If I'm interpreting the article correctly, they made at least $888 million off of their scheme. It's likely that a significant amount of their illicit profit was not detected by the enforcement agencies, so $2 billion sounds like they potentially profited even factoring in the fine, it's only a little over twice their profit.
No. The CSR is tied to the key and the resulting certificate as well. Verifying that the CSR belongs to the key would be he CAs job, not the servers. If the server was rooted, an attacker could probably just use it to create an arbitrary new certificate - but revoking the legitimate cert won’t fix that.
So it doesn't have to be this way.

I work for Alberta Health Services, we have 120,000 employees across the province. There are likely 5 separate unions plus out of scope staff (management). This organization was created after the merger of 5 separate health care organizations all with separate systems etc. They over time rolled everyone into the same pay system and I didn't hear about a single person missing their pay. The federal government transition has resulted in tons of people being not paid at all, being paid too little or being paid too much.
Yes, but after the damage was done and only because the damage happened to be uncovered.
What I really miss is the pulled pork mac 'n cheese. I don't want to know how many calories were in that thing, but it was delicious.
This is the reason why proprietary cloud services will never be as flexible as traditional programs on our computers. With N cloud services there need to be N^2 integrations to make them all work together. With N desktop programs it is enough if each of them implements a single common API (for example text bast stdin/stdout Posix API) to make them all work together.

Imagine if 'cat' and 'sort' needed to implement a dedicated API to work together, and then 'sed' would add another one, and 'wc' another. This is a kind of mess that we see with cloud services integrations.
I didnt say it was OK - im saying "i cant blame them"=="I understand humans, and this is not a surprising outcome from having access to that data in a company known for sexual mis-conduct, crazy ceo egoist stories and illegally accessing an employees medical records, etc etc etc"

So blame was the wrong word...
Talking to someone is not a magical, but highly effective bullshit detector.
It's a misplaced comment, looks like it was meant to reply to another commenter below.

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My Nexus 5 still runs for a week on battery. I believe Apple shipped low quality batteries as part of the planned obsolescence.

It's like committing two bugs. By themselves, they aren't a problem, but together, they open an NSA backdoor. If anyone is caught, they have plausible deniability.

Same here with Apple. They're so evil, they though ahead on how to avoid punishment for doing bad things. They'll skip off to the bank with bags of money while ignorant iPhone buyers just keep buying more iPhones instead of a quality device.
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If you want "An open protocol, free choice of clients, and decentralised infrastructure" then Jabber and Matrix are both much closer competitors to slack. IRCv3 is a step in the right direction for IRC, but is not as far along as either of those.
What's the advantages of using the client vs. using it as a tab in your browser? Tab in the browser seems to be working for me OK, once I figured out I could "pin" the tab in Firefox, which prevented me from accidentally closing it.
Is Spotify really worth $23bn?
Hey this is pretty cool. GitHub orgs for free!
In this context, the only history that matters is that which speaks to its current ability to good work. I don't follow IBM closely, but the impression I get is that its current reputation is spotty.
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Been there! Will never make that mistake again.
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Infinite scrollback is only possible with support from the protocol: if you assume that partitions happen between two servers or between the client and the server, then the client will not be able to see every message that happens so cannot provide the scrollback.
Unsolicited feedback for you @chubot, in case you're open to it:

Clicking through to oilshell - I wanted to know what is different and exciting about it, but all I found was text saying it's "new". Making the value proposition clearer would go a long way and be a big help to people who are curious and geniunely want to understand what's amazing about your creation.. !
I wonder if there will be a way to pair a driver with a patient who only speaks Spanish. Health care transportation is a huge market for elderly in Miami, especially since retirement homes are taboo in many hispanic cultures.
I made a graph plotter called the same. Even when I came up with the name I knew it would clash. I was unaware of the clashing projects but by using a non-mutilated word I was fairly certain they would exist.

There are more projects than words, Possibly more projects than easily pronounceable utterances. Is there any good solution?

The dystopian vision - "I'm sorry the project name Graphite is already taken, Graphite001675 is available"
> You could serve 80% of the payroll burden with software that cost $10m. 90% coverage costs $100m. 98% costs $1,000m. And 100% costs $∞

I read something in a trade journal probably probably about 15 years ago, that really stuck with me: When businesses buy big software solutions (I think the article was about ERP systems), they should prepare to adjust and change their processes (within reason, of course) and not just insist that the software be modified endlessly to suit every little ossified process and preference. Not just because it's very expensive, but because the resulting system will be brittle and incompatible and taking advantage of further developments.

Too many buyers of software would benefit immensely from taking a good, hard look at those remaining 20% and making some hard decisions about what is actually important. Sure, for a government payroll system, there is limited room for movement, but I'd suspect that the majority of the long tail are people on weird, custom contracts and the correct solution is actually to hire a room full of clerks to handle these in Excel - and/or applying political pressure on the hiring parties to get their contracts adjusted to fit standard payroll schemes.
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1. User validates domain and submits csr
2. Rootkit swaps out csr with one of its own whose private key is under its control and submits upstream to the CA
3. CA signs a cert because the domain was validated
4. Rootkit receives valid cert for its own private key
5. Rootkit presents a bogus error to enduser
6. Enduser tries again and rootkit lets it through

End-result: there are now two certs and private keys for the domain, one of which is compromised?

Just a though experiment. I'm not familiar with the domain validation flow this reseller site was using.
Wouldn't that attack mean that the cert the domain owner got wouldn't work on their webserver, since they didn't have the correct private key for it?
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I can see how it's less obvious for people, and it is important to bring these things up. They will inevitably help someone.

Also man, that second point really hits home. I've had a total of 8 'friends' over the past 10 or more years. Of that, I would consider two of them to be close, intimate friends. And they're both located hundreds of miles from me. One of them is NC with me, as we both accentuate the depressive nature of one another.

The only really rewarding thing I experience is video games, because I enjoy competition, and regularly hold top positions over others. It's also the major distraction from depressive thoughts I have. I also have hallucinations / extreme paranoia when away from a computer for too long.

The only real release from my depression I feel is being free enough to feel what I please at any time, which is impossible, or to achieve the un-achievable.

To put it into a very high-level form, I enjoy learning about anything under the sun, so much so that I wish I could solely dedicate my life to it. However the nature of our world leads to complications: money, family, jobs, etc. That's just something that you have to expect. These things are manageable. What chance within those constraints of society, humanity, and more can you expect to discover or create something that transcends history, to be remembered forever? What about affecting the world in a positive way enough to affect the coming generations into a mindset where knowledge comes first, with no border to access it, with the same plan to better the universe?

Such things aren't possible. No single human can have such an effect on the world. So personally I have to make a choice to attempt the impossible every day, trying to work on projects that might some day better our existence, or just give up.

I feel a good cutoff age for me is 29. If I don't like the direction my life is going by then, I'll probably take steps to make it not exist, or I'll continue.

I don't want to push my views on anyone, and would urge anyone that has the same ideas as me or has felt this way before to seek some form of treatment. It does help, and can get you out of a slump.

I've lost friends, family, jobs and more due to the way that I feel. I've spent days not eating or drinking laying in bed crying, waiting for it to end. If you think you need to seek help, do so.
Can anyone with better knowledge of satellite tech explain why this article mentions use against Norwegians and draws a parallel with illegal spying?

The source documents they provide seem to be about targeting satellite traffic (Inmarsat, RU civ/mil traffic, etc) from certain foreign satellites.
Only huge failures make the news. CBC doesn’t run a feature on a successful software implementation.
Not one character in the article is actually devoted to how `cd` works...it's just the story of how the author found out where to find the code for it.

An article much more worthy of the title "How does `cd` work?" would maybe, you know, actually go through the code that makes `cd` work.
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Same transciever, different FPGA, different ADCs, no extra ram, and some other differences. Different architectures on the digital sides of things.
I got downvoted, I think one of them chimed in.
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That is a fantastic summary, thank you!
With what rocket system do you plan to launch these sats? Which company will launch and which will assemble them (often these are different ones)?
Interesting note on the AxiDraw, the way it holds the pen at an angle and drags it around means it can work with a fountain pen where you need the nib held with a softer angle relative to the paper (both tines touching, ink flows out in between). The photo shows it with a Lamy Safari.

I don't think this is the case with regular pen plotters, which look like they hold the pen vertically and keep it fixed as it draws in different directions. Some pens will write vertically, but it's not ideal depending on the nib grind. The bottom corner of the nib is rounded to work at a range of angles, but the top might have sharper edges that would catch when dragging it upward.

EDIT - I suppose you could make an adapter for a pen plotter that would hold it at an angle though.
Gregg is not the way to go if you're looking for a shorthand
that captures text in the way you would need for programming or science and I don't know of a good shorthand for this [if it wasn't already APL.]

Gregg is very much a "visible" sound system from a time when people just needed to capture the conversations and later expand back into text with the aid of a secretary. That is, if you didn't mutate your shorthand for your own purposes.

That being said, Aaron Hsu's handwriting is beautiful, but not my cup of tea for thinking on paper--my initial reaction to his scanned pages was unpleasant because it wasn't what I was used to from my own hands.
Everybody who comes to know about systems calls will have learned the concept for the first time. Some people come to that knowledge by becoming a web developer, gaining some rudimentary understanding of the command line, typing `which cd`, and eventually reading the bash source. The fact that this is even possible is a testament to the author's curiosity and the value of free software.

Others come to that knowledge by reading a 650 page book about System V after graduating from university. Maybe they already learned it before getting the book, in some practical circumstance, like the author. Maybe they have always known it. But for me, an article by someone in the midst of their learning is a great help, an opportunity for others to share what they know, and exemplary of the hacker spirit.
Why couldn't cloud providers adopt a common API? Some providers are adopting AWS apis for their services.

And we can also look at the email example : a lot of cloud provide email services and they all use the same protocols (SMTP, IMAP...).
Of course false-positives can also be bad. To use your example "you then spend $10,000 prepping for the baby, but it never comes, what a waste!"
You're right. That was too sweeping, in fairness. I've edited in 'good software products'; that record is categorically abysmal. IBM makes amazing mainframes and physical technical systems, and conducts some fascinating cutting-edge research, and even built really effective punch-card machines for use within Nazi concentration camps. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust)
I think the point of building habitats is that spherical planets are a very inefficient use of matter from a surface-area-to-mass ratio point of view. We could create a lot more surface area (i.e. usable land) with less material if it were arranged in a more useful configuration.
The choice of TensorFlow is a bit disappointing for a beginner-focused course which looks really solid otherwise. Business seems to have gotten priority over pedagogy in that case.

I see TensorFlow as the Angular of machine learning: first on the market, powerful but unwiedly. Like Angular, it will ultimately get superseded by tools with a nicer API (scikit-learn, Keras) or more versatility (PyTorch). Like Angular, it's probably not the best choice for a beginner to invest time into.
I had a similar reaction. I had to double check the timestamps when I first read them. That this was all handled so fast is extremely impressive to me.