skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My daughter was born premature. Mum was in hospital for a week prior and post birth (in her own room). I was given a room for the week next to the hospital. Then when daughter was born she was in hospital for four months of intensive care - in conversation with a doctor he remarked that the cost to the NHS for this would have been about £125k. Coming close to release time we were given a room in the ward so we could be with our baby 24 hours.

Cost to us for the whole thing - £0.

We were even given a pass so we could get free parking throughout.

The one downside to the whole thing, when it came to crunch time there was no space in the nearest neonatal ward, so we had to be rushed in an ambulance the the nearest one that did have space. About 200 miles away, so we weren't able to go home for a couple of months until baby was stable enough to be transferred closer. It was tough, but I will be forever grateful to the NHS for the amazing effort that everyone involved happily contributed.
LineageOS is pretty good, I've been using it since the Cyanogen/Lineage split.
Power uses can utilize native clients, which they actually do.
Ask HN: How can I become a software consultant?
I have been a software developer for six years (Ruby). I don't want to code for all of my life. What are other career advancement options? Become a consultant? How does one transition from software developer to software consultant?

Thanks!
"Features" like these are actually worse than useless because they give users a false sense of security.
>> I don't completely understand why so many comments to this article are discussing "RBF" as an objectively real phenomenon.

Uh, I think the correct acronym is "BRF", as in "Bitchy Resting Face". "RBF" is for "Radial Basis Function", or "Rich Boy Friend", depending on where you're coming from.

Of course, since I realised the connection I've never been able to stop reading "RBF kernel" as the "Rich Boy Friend kernel".
Another excellent write-up from cloudflare of a major issue... good job!
Installing Node.js tutorial
I use gmail as an archive of all the data / communications I've ever received.

Now that messages will expire and be removed from this archive I suppose it's time to look at alternatives.
Exactly. It is almost a mis-feature for bringing fake sense of security to their users, since receivers actually can very well take a screenshot or even a photograph.
Same, Sweden.
I wish they'd just fix Gmail sync between tabs. Sending a reply to a message you've already replied to (because the first reply didn't show up in the tab) is embarrasing.
In this case it's a UK private hospital not funded by the NHS so the comparison is valid. The article compares one of the most expensive private hospital of the UK to the cost of an average US hospital. Also the US spends more in public taxes for healthcare than the UK so I don't see your point.
I don't know about the split, but agree that more interesting (and HN relevant) posts are published on the research blog than the more product-oriented blog.google.

This HN domain leaderboard also ranks the research blog domain higher (74 vs 89) over the past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16692149
> ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry

Sadly that also reflects the state of the new Gmail. It's bigger and slower to load than ever before. At least based on testing I've done on a test-account given to me by Google.

(Which may or may not contain debug-builds, extra logging, instrumentation, etc. I'll not entirely exclude the possibility that the final release builds may leaner.)

Anyhow, needless to say, I'm happy with Fastmail :D
"Successful products"

If you define success by the numbers of users, i guess tweaking the UI makes sense to try to get even more users.
> Apple's Mail.app can't be beat

Uhm, I think there are some great 3rd party apps out there that are much more powerful. But I concur that an actual email client is the way to go, especially as soon as you have more than one address.
Unfortunately mobile Mail app still has issues with push notifications from Gmail — they come a few minutes late at least.
Finally, email meets DRM!
WhatsApp will ban under-16s across Europe
I think it's a little less true each year. Poland used to have the no-smiling reputation just like Russia. Perhaps it still does. Yet if you go to Russia the difference is absolutely undeniable. Stereotypes often outlive the actual behavior.
And a ridiculous one. It's a Common Market, not a Price-Flat Market.
I think actual nitpicking would be "welllll paper bags reduce plastic waste by X %, but they also increase paper waste by Y %".
damn! those are some gnarly slopes! any word on when spaceX will start doing ski-trips? ;)
I don't understand the hate. It's still a good way to send a password or some financial information, just because you know that it's going to be deleted soon and if in the future your contact's account is hacked it will be long gone.
Basically, it's a secret chat for email.
You are missing something about HTTPS: you can't produce a valid certificate for the site you're trying to impersonate, and therefore users would notice.

HTTPS operates on the assumption that DNS is insecure.
You can use Configurator to disable Safari among other things. Had a pared down 5c a while back that I made distration free :)
My American ex-wife was afraid about this, then she found out that in Italy you pay 0.

We are really lucky.
That would only work for websites that do not use HSTS.
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Original here, in better quality: https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168
Not to mention everyone who uses email may now need to have a Google-account to read email, even if they don't use Google mail services themselves.

I wonder if they had any discussions about this internally, and if anyone on the engineering team objected to such changes. I find it hard to believe such a change was done by pure accident without anyone noticing.
The feature flag probably hasn't been flipped through all the Gmail clusters yet, but probably will be soon.

EDIT, for more clarity: Gmail spans lots of clusters ("Gmail's web interface runs in many locations”, https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-is...) and Google is an US-centric ("5%") company, so it's likely that the rollout has been timed to be complete or mostly complete during the day... US daytime, that is. It's barely 5AM on the East Coast.
When will countries finally understand that it's better to co-operate them too compete against another? Multinational companies are playing them against each other.
> My opinion: Does not sound confident for me... it will be a always beta product?!

Asked if Gmail update meant changes to Inbox, Google said no. Sounds simple to me.

As for being a "beta" product, to the extent that's true it's nothing new: from the start Inbox has always been a testing ground for new ideas, where the Gmail team could experiment without dealing with the entire Gmail userbase.
I kind of get the opposite. I'm Greek but have been living in the UK for 12 years. It's really remarkable how much more people smile at you here in situations where you wouldn't expect anyone to smile, back home.

For instance, anyone who is offering a service or selling something is smiling, here. Back home, I find that people tend to smile when they meet friends or acquaintances, but not when they service total strangers. In fact, a merchant that always smiles would probably come across as dishonest. People tend to consider social smiles to be fake smiles and I think they try to avoid them so as to not look distrustful.

The effect this had on me is that when I go back home, or when I'm serviced by non-British staff who may not have been long enougn in the UK to pick up the habit, I sometimes find myself wondering why they are being so brusque. Which is not at all the case. People aren't impolite when they don't go out of their way to put a smile on everything. They're just acting neutrally.

Edit: Oh and I've been on the other end of this myself- when colleagues complained that I was treating them with disrespect when I was just ...not smiling :)
What they could do is put the contents in a video* and have the media be DRM'd. You couldn't take a screenshot, only a picture with your phone.

*Or image, not really sure if that works.
Stop calling these Dark Design Patterns – these are simply a**hole designs
When Caddy was first released I tried, and failed, to get Caddy to serve an https site locally. Is that possible now? The docs[1] hint that it could be if I add an entry to my hosts file pointing an IP address of, say, a Docker container, as that wouldn't technically be localhost or an IP address. It doesn't explicitly say it's possible though. Adding something to the tutorials would be immensely helpful if it does work.

[1] https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https
I think the way the Gmail team implements new features is quite cautious when I compare that, for example, to the recent Reddit redesign.

Progressive and slow changes, so that the users don't notice them and get overwhelmed is the way to go. I bet Google has the manpower and funds to A/B test the usefulness and user acceptance of any such changes.
I am learning German at school, a couple classmates changed their phone to German and they said it helped learning new words, I should try it out.
Generating a synopsis might have other implications (e.g. accusations of libel if the original author considers the synopsis attributes false claims to them).
Airmail is great until I find that I collect a lot of mail - At that point - it starts becoming extremely buggy.

I tried it a few times - each time worked great at the start and then fell apart once the mail volume grew.

Gmail's web interface, crappy though it may be, seems to be the interface that works best out of the lot.
>This message will get deleted in 2 years.

>Password is piedpiper123

"Oh, better I copy the password to my computer if I ever need it."
webpack now uses TypeScript’s type checking
> very small taxes from Apple (and other companies) is better than no taxes from Apple at all.

It's not just about the tax paid by Apple, but the tax paid by Apple employees. Income tax and VAT make up the majority of Ireland's tax receipts[0], and adding more jobs increases those.

Ireland did not make 21B from additional VAT and income tax receipts thanks to Apple - I estimate more like 2B - but she probably made an amount commensurate with the amount of value added by Apple employees in Ireland. The excess comes from Apple's ability to declare a large part of its worldwide corporate income in Ireland, which somehow is not what is under scrutiny here.

[0]https://amp.independent.ie/business/irish/tax-receipts-on-ta...
The article is oddly silent regarding thus "exceptionally egalitarian" society's frequent human sacrifices.
Its refreshing to read a hopeful and positive piece about the future of America. So much has been written of the state of the great divide between races, conservatives and liberals, heartland America and the coastal liberal cities, republican vs democrats. At least out of all this turmoil there is a sense of activism and involvement in politics I have not seen in years.

>“If you want to create a great community, you move someplace that needs your help,”
I have a tablet that does not have a data plan, I have Maps.me and OSMAnd+ with offline maps, road suggestions and a bunch of other stuff for when we're out of town and our phones are dead.
My first child spent the first 3 days in hospital (with mother), cost me a fortune in petrol and parking -- possibly as high as £20

Second child was in and out in 16 hours, and it was overnight, parking was free at that hospital, so only cost the petrol, about £1?
This talk host said he doesn't believe 5nm will crack (unless major electronics breakthrough)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g&t=1136s
If you don't want your financial information shared with anyone, don't put it on the internet. Even with a strong privacy policy, do think anyone can guarantee that your data will always remain safe?
As per that post, they only ignored robots.txt for .gov and .mil sites.
But... traditionally, Unix systems do allow creating hardlinks of other users' files. And yes, this misfeature is a source of great number of security holes.

An option to disable this behavior (/proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks) was addded only in Linux 3.6, and then it's still disabled by default.
Applications of Machine Learning and Its Future
The point I rarely see discussed in these ongoing debates about the best way to pay for healthcare is the benefit of knowing what you have to pay.
As I understand it in the US even with health insurance there is likely to be an additional payment required by the patient for treatment, and the cost of that payment is generally unknown upfront.

With the NHS is the UK I can be pretty confident that no matter what medication my doctor prescribes that when I collect it from the pharmacy it will cost me exactly £8.60

I can also be confident that when I go for an appointment to see my GP that it will cost me nothing. This doesn't mean that is is free, as my National Insurance contributions are substantial, but that I know that I don't bear any financial risk from going to see a doctor.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have to worry about whether going to see a doctor about this mole that's changed a bit might land me with an unknown bill. Or to worry that my daughters peanut allergy could see me paying hundreds of dollars when her adrenaline pens expires.
Here in Scotland when my son was born, he needed to stay in hospital for 10 days for what turned out to be benign myclonic jerks in his sleep.

The midwives gave my wife her own room and even set up a camp-bed for me. They gave me tea and toast in the morning joking that they weren't sure they should do, but there was enough to spare.

We didn't need to pay anything and both being on paid parental leave took any financial pressure off so we were able to concentrate on the baby.
Let's hope your local Starbucks has device isolation enabled so that isn't possible.
What did you end up moving to for e-mail?
Medicare costs the US about the same as the NHS costs the UK -- £1500 per citizen. That's not per medicare citizen, that's per citizen.

The NHS covers everyone (although if you want fancier healthcare you can pay and go private).
> Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently?

It comes with age.
It appears that the snooze function is straight from Google Inbox (inbox.google.com). Meanwhile, you still can't unmark messages marked as spam in Google Inbox.

I kind of alternate between Gmail and Google Inbox because they present different views. It's all pretty confusing.
Gmail will send you a link, so you can at least tell the person off and have them communicate with you like a real human being.
Same here. Also no mention of the Early Adopter Program on our G Suite account.

I can't enroll with any of my personal or work accounts.
The first letter you got after a birth in Germany used to read something like this and is addressed to the newborn (hopefully they have changed it by now):

Regarding: Assignment of the Tax ID according to § 139b of the tax code

Dear <name of the newborn>,

the Federal Central Tax Office has assigned you the Tax ID <number>. It is used for taxation purposes and valid your whole life. Please keep this letter even if you are currently not paying any taxes. Always mention your Tax ID when communicating with financial authorities. Please also note the information on the back.

Kind regards, your Federal Central Tax Office
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Gmail’s big redesign helps you spend less time in your inbox
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in Italy is free too
https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691
Google rolls out massive Gmail redesign – here's what's new and how to access it
This is just a tool, some people may find it useful, others probably won't even use it.
So I try to make a copy of any interesting web pages on archive.is these days.

http://archive.is/faq#Why_does_archive_is_not_obey_robots_tx...
You can see a difference in the striations in ridges in the picture on the right. There are more "cracks" suggesting some sort of internal collapse.
The maker culture contradicts your hypothesis. I have a friend who has for decades run his own little metal furnaces. By comparison to the modern industrial refining processes, his are primitive. But they are easily built and work well for the individual.

There is plenty of information available today that allows one to rebuild some level of technology very quickly.
less and less for hackers and more and more for the general public

I think this is the "excuse" but to me it seems like it's as much about "locking down" as "dumbing down".

History moves in cycles [0] and I'm seeing something like how we transitioned from Home Computers to game consoles in the mid 90s.

Hackers are experts at getting value out of equipment that the manufacturers never expected, and this is what you want with a nascent technology, to help build a market. But as things mature, as a business you want to lock down more and more of this creative potential for yourself and lock in the revenue.

We've seen it with music like this: Vinyl (locked down) -> tapes (hackable) -> CDs (locked down) -> CD Writers -> MP3s (hackable) -> Streaming (locked down) -> ... (tapes? [1])

We've seen it with home computing like this: Pong & Atari -> Commodore, Spectrum, Apple II -> NES, Master System -> Amiga, Atari ST -> SNES, Genesis -> PC -> Playstation -> The Apple Renaissance -> The Ripened Apple

Even on a smaller scale I can see Apple's pivot from "Rip, Mix, Burn" [2] to doing away with personal music altogether over the course of 10 years [3]

Or my PS4 where I'm more and more likely to just download a game now than go out to the shops and buy a disc.

At each stage there is a trade-off. You get a slightly more polished product, but you lose a certain degree of agency over it. I guess it's cyclical because the "locking down" goes a little too far and then people loses interest and then you need to bring in the hackers again to jump start the community once more. I'm sure there's some tie in with the innovators dilemma [4]

I think the only popular industry I can think of that has resisted broad-scale hacking is the movie industry. I can only speculate that the scale, and political importance meant they had to always stay ahead of the curve.

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/06/cassette-tapes-are-back-ki...

[2] https://www.macworld.com/article/2934175/think-retro-rip-rip...

[3] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/04/06/apple-shutting-i...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
CO2 has numerous industrial applications, so you typically don’t store it but bottle it and send it elsewhere. Beer manufacturing (to add bubbles) is an anecdotic use; green house or urban farm agriculture is a growing need.
Good question: unfortunately not. We only really generate machine code for hot, optimized functions, using TurboFan (all the other machine code, like builtins and the interpreter, is loaded from the "snapshot"). This code is pretty execution specific, and will include things like constants, raw pointers, logic specific to the hidden class transition trees, etc.. Relocating this when serializing/deserializing a cache would be expensive, and we'd probably have to also serialize half the state of the current VM heap, so it would overall be a net loss.

Additionally, our current caching is only after initial top-level execution, where hopefully[0] you haven't run enough code for it to be hot yet, so there wouldn't be any optimized code to cache anyway.

[0] I say "hopefully" because getting code hot during initial execution would usually mean that execution is stalling the main thread at startup, which isn't great.
I think what the parent said essentially was that: "there is not much variety in the opinions held by SCOTUS justices so don't count on the appointment of a new justice to inject (much needed?) variety into the range of existing opinions that could lead to a policy shift."
Somewhere in the account settings, there is a way to get an HTML-only version of GMail. (the alternative is "standard") This is what I use. I was forced to switch because of older hardware, but mostly I like the interface better. It is far more predictable. Text boxes act as they are defined by my browser. They don't jump around or do anything else weird. The standard interface has scripting that I would always end up fighting and cursing at.
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The next sentence says: "Plus, Gmail will start suggesting when to unsubscribe from newsletters or offers you no longer care about."

And the following screenshot: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

Shows: "Try notifications for only your most important emails: Turn on / No thanks".

So in context, the message is not that "high-priority notifications" mean louder ringtones but that (if you accept) Gmail will try to notify you only when an incoming email is important. That hopefully means fewer interruptions from newsletters and other bacn.
That sounds like a case for absolutely everyone to undervalue their property unless and until someone wants to buy it (and speculators have little incentive to try to buy houses when nobody actually accepts offers at the low rates implied by their tax valuations)
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OLPC showed that it was possible; before that companies didn't seem to be interested in seeing if they could. True netbooks never amounted to much, but they did show that there existed a market for basically a consumption device (web browser and movie-watcher). Which the iPad took up and make much more usable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
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Yeah, they went:

./publish-blog-post.sh

./deploy-gmail.sh

instead of the other way around :p
Ask HN: Where are the best online programing courses?
Looking in particular for SQL and RStudio courses, but would be interesting to know where the best materials overall are these days, free or otherwise.

I was pretty underwhelmed by Coursera's Duke SQL course.
> oil company is majority owned by the government
You are correct. Thats in Norway in the US its the other way around.
What's the corresponding result on, say, women, principally tasked with or tacitly expected to fill such roles?

Apply role-reversal or the Veil of Ignorance.
A DIY RPI phone? Is that a serious suggestion? Is anyone actually doing this?

And what’s the point if the baseband is not open?
> This is not true, the US spends as much government money per capita on health care as the UK

Per capita spending seems like a misleading basis for comparison to me. US government healthcare schemes cover about 25% of the population, whereas in the UK the NHS covers essentially 100% of the population.
Artificial intelligence will be worth $1.2 trillion to the enterprise in 2018
They're just changing how they notify so that you get fewer notifs on important mail only.

Just turn them off if you dont want notifs at all.
Also worth pointing out that in the UK, we were offered three choices of births. Home, water or hospital. We started off in the birthing pools until mum decided she wanted the epidural after all. I thought all three of options were quite luxurious and service by the midwives was second to none!

If I think about our decision making process for a car-seat (oh god, let's go for the best - just in case), I am glad that no-one has put a monetary value on giving birth.