skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to review the different paths and come up with answers for all of them?

E.g., if on a platform with a hardware RNG then it should never be necessary to block: just read 128 bits out of the hardware RNG & generate a stream of random numbers.

On a platform without a hardware RNG, could one require a previous seed? An installer could install the seed in some persistent storage somewhere, so there's no need to do this even on boot. A VM system needs someway to atomically read the seed & then write a new seed.

On a platform without a hardware RNG and without a previous seed (i.e., the very first boot after a hand-install or something), could the system require the user to type keys until it has collected 128 bits of entropy?

I'm not certain if there's a good answer on systems with no hardware RNG, no previous seed and no input capability. Maybe CPU timing loops or somesuch?

It'd be also be nice were there a filesystem interface to getrandom(2) …
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So because some censorship happens there should now be an increase in censorship?
Russian, better; I've been through the Duolingo course many times over now. I like it's teaching style, but it ends too soon, and I'm struggling to find good learning resources to advance to a higher level.

More mathematics, particularly more degree-level analysis and geometry. It's the area that interests me most, and I feel I missed out on it doing a computer science degree. I'd also like to understand elliptic curve crypto.

Not really a "topic", but I've wanted to get around to learning piano for a while now.
Even a 1% shift in the direction of something as massive as Apple, compounded over an additional decade of Steve Job's tenure (assuming retirement at 65), could make a massive difference - whether this would be good or bad for humanity is another question and still debatable.
Apple is luxury in China too. Do you really think it's the average Chinese that are buying iPhones?
> But as the article put it, Apple isn't a Tech company

That's not what the article says. In fact, it says "Apple is the perfect tech company..."

I'd like to hear a definition of "tech company" and doesn't include Apple.
Not worth it.

Jobs was, for all intents and purposes a phenomenal business person in spite of the fact that many people early in his career didn't see it.

Name a product apple invented that was HUGE? Go ahead and think about that. GUI & Mac was Xerox, the iPhone was Xerox and palm and...

Simply put he was a master at finding good things and refining them into great things.

Lets look at the design side. MacBooks for all their glory are just advanced machining (cnc + automation) put to work at scale (and thats "new" but not groundbreaking). OSX is just *nix with a nice GUI (something open source could learn from).

Jony Ive leaves apple, then I might start to worry.
I agree the article is a bit of a laundry list but job search success is not about culture fit; technical screens and technical interviews are ubiquitous and critical.
Yes, health care is important, if not morally necessary in the 21st century.

That said, it's also (imo) a proxy. The more accurate metrics are things like infant mortality rate (IMR), longevity, etc. KPIs that measure actual health and health outcomes. Access isn't necessarily the key.

Take for __example__ the USA. We now have the vast majority of the population covered. We spend more and more (and more)on healthcare. Yet, IMR is climbing. It's predicted that the current generation(s) will die younger. And finally, obesity is so widespread it's been mentioned as a threat to nation security.

Point being, (as stated) healthcare is a proxy (even for the countries that have it). I would imagine there are 5 to 10 KPI's that measure __health and wellness__ that would be more accurate (and likely paint a different impression).

Healthcare isn't a panacea. Yes, it's necessary. But benefits come from health (and wellness / prevention) and not just care.

Editorial: Discussing health care without also discussing (personal) health is a fool's errand. Championing healthcare is great for buying votes, but it's only part of the picture.
Cool! Does this handle rate limiting or retries?
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All I see is a bunch of proprietary connectors and dongles, and I sleep like a log.

Jobs was just the salesman. Those products aren't lost, but they may have had a harder time getting to market without the "visionary" around to hype them up.
"Facebook doesn't really benefit from the endless stream of likes and comments and sharing."

I am pretty sure it does. It can sell targeted ads based on what you like. My previous company was implementing an "advocates program" where people could get rewards for sharing stuff on facebok (about the company).
No-one outside Apple knows, and we won't find out for at least another 5-10 years when executives start writing books about it, if ever. But you miss my point entirely.

Perhaps a better way of putting it is in this comment from Tim Cook in 2009[1]:

We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.

If there ever was a car-project (which there was enough smoke for that I think there probably was), it was because Apple's management genuinely believed at the time they could make a significant contribution to the automotive industry. The fact that, after trying for however long, they concluded the money had been pissed up the wall doesn't make the attempt any less valid.

[1]: https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_coo_tim_cook_l...
I don't know who is supposed to enforce it, but I feel as if its almost a list of "hey this person will be MAD if we call, this could be fun"
If bootcamps trend upwards to overtake traditional 4 year curricula, then this list will absolutely make them stand out. Those courses are hyper-focused on essential OJT basics that they wouldn't have time to incorporate a lot of this information.
If you are interested in the basic concepts on which TensorChart (TC) is built, check out these mini-tutorials explaining heatmaps (the red/green/blue squares) and TC features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCUMtV8rBU&list=PLV2igM-bP0...
I once had a UX designer who was tasked with creating, or picking (with appropriate license) an icon to represent the volume of traffic on a keyword on the Twitter firehose.

They picked some traffic lights. Keep in mind, the icon represented the amount of traffic, not whether traffic is stopped, started, or pending change. The icon would have been poor for that task too, since it was in two colors.

The UX designer required explanation as to why their traffic icon wasn't sufficient. Later, the company folded, amongst the other reasons given were that they should have fired the Kara way earlier than they did (for many reasons, including lack of competance and not being able to handle feedback).
This can keep a liver alive outside of the body, which helps with transplants. Current techniques to temporarily store livers can cause damage.
I don't see how you can define the state taking money from the wealthy to buy healthcare for the poor as violently coercive but not also define a corporation withholding necessary care from a poor person as violently coercive.
Lay people don't have the training to determine if an ailment is life-threatening or not; that's why they pay for insurance, so they can see a medical professional who is qualified to say if you could die or not.
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Could that same thing be said for channels doing gun modifications? Many people got very mad when Youtube took down some of them.
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Is this a standalone application or a web service?
TL; DR;
"We have no idea of how we gonna use it, but we needed to do some blockchain like every other cool kids"

LMAO
Yes. I've already wrote that but when people were against Emacs in the previous century they crafted acronyms like "Eight megabytes and swapping". This shouldn't be hard to create with ICO... and more respectufl to those who are fighting cancer today.
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Zipdrug increases access to prescription drugs for aging populations by driving down cost and offering free delivery.

We've found a novel way to navigate the byzantine channels of the prescription drug industry that greatly benefits virtually all parties involved - patients, insurers, pharmacies, drug manufacturers, prescribers and the U.S. gov't - to the detriment of cost-inflating middlemen in the pharmaceutical space.

We are currently very small (7 people) but very much punching above our weight with partnerships with 3 of the top 5 nation wide insurers and several well respected VCs in diligence for an A round. We're looking to scale to 30 people by Jan 1.

We use node/graphl, react, airflow. You would be the second hire and help me do everything from build out the team to laying out foundational patterns and infrastructure moving forward.

We would love the opportunity to build a purpose-driven, billion dollar company with you.

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pete@zipdrug.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-berg-nyc/
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I actually am not bothered by that so much as that Apple did not produce a decent 1st party USB-C hub and most of the ones I've purchased produce a lot of signal noise (curse of sensitive ears + quiet home office) so I had to return (if I got around to it before return period) or donate them.

The issue IMHO would be moot if they included a USB-C charging adapter (and a USB-A dongle/converter) on newer iPhones.

Also it sucks that Amazon is so full of fake stuff. Hard to find/promote good accessories. Apple needs to step up and provide quality 1st party or heavily promoted 3rd party accessories.
It's a metaphor. I personally think that "cancer" describes something that is deadly, awful, and spreads. Instead of saying those three things, or maybe more, it conveys the message to me more quickly.
The fact that some people or nations behave in a particular way does not in any way determine whether that behavior is moral.
Private entities contract with Medicare to provide insurance that covers what Medicare covers (and perhaps more). Would said insurers cover everyone that Medicare covers in the absence of Medicare? The answer is no.

How many of these people on private Medicare plans pay for Medigap? Everyone who get kicked off a private plan can go back to the original Medicare. Your point is disingenuous. Medicare is the universal insurer of last resort for elderly. Their lives would be much worse without this last resort insurer.
For those of us who were PDA users in the late 90s and Treo users in the early 2000s, the iPhone is an incremental improvement on those ideas.

The presence of ubiquitous wireless networking (I am lumping cellular wireless and WiFi in together) was the real game changer.

If you are not convinced, try this thought experiment: Imagine yourself in 1998 standing on the street in a major city holding a Palm pilot. It has an SDK, a TCP/IP stack and a POP email client. But no wireless connection.

Now add a wireless connection. Could you tweet or Facebook? Sure, if those things existed then.
Absolutely. A distributed system where each user controls their data is theoretically an architectural fix. But not one that is an option for FB since owning my data is the core of their business model.
No, I am saying, what happened to her, she has a right to sue.

Basically, she would be compensated, and it would serve as a deterrent to our US hospital system to not behave as poorly.

I would even argue it is discrimination based on nationality.
Care for them under the universal system, but bill the cost of the universal system directly.
Joe Rogan fan right there.
Can someone give the link to Koum's Facebook post?
Exactly. HTML email is a privacy hell[0]. However, many email clients can work around this, e.g. in Mutt you can let Lynx do a plaintext dump of the HTML email.

Also, the whole issue of JavaScript in HTML emails at least deserves a mention[1]. Since Ivelope is an Electron app, I'd guess it would go ahead and just run everything it receives, right?

[0]: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/09/28/i-never-signed-up-f...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3054315/is-javascript-su...
That's a different question which is outside of the scope of healthcare in the US IMO.
Good to have a gVisor developer on here. At Dropbox one way we use secure containers is to run machine learning models. Do you know if TensorFlow works in a gVisor container? How is GPU support in the container? If running on a CPU, are BLAS libraries supported to speed up matrix math in the container? Finally, do you know if OpenCV currently runs in gVisor containers?
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Getting into amateur radio is a good way to pursue these activities. GNURadio is popular and well-supported for software-defined-radio systems, and hardware can be a cheap as $10.

If you're talking about kinematic control systems, building a quadcopter or RC plane may be worthwhile. There are tons of self-balancing arduino-powered things out there too.
Hello, author of the article here. You're right, I did miss that important point, thanks for pointing it out. I've made some minor updates to the article to account for it. Thanks!
On my iPhone, I've been using Hiya to help, and it's been pretty good so far.
I'd argue she's flat missed the most important aspects of programming, as shown in these two books:
1. Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, and,
2. Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Really, almost anything by Nelson, but this one is the classic.)

Neither teaches programming. Both teach the things that make good programming good, and if you don't know these things, you're condemned to mediocrity at best, and making furrows by plowing the sea at worst...
Actually, this has changed:

"On April 23, however, the US government gave Rusal's American customers "more time to comply with sanctions", even saying it would "consider lifting them if United Company Rusal Plc’s major shareholder, Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, ceded control of the company." Department of the Treasury gave these clients until October 23, 2018 to comply with (wind down business) the Rusal sanctions."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-rusa...
> iPhone was Xerox

LoL what?

Everything that's built with computers can be traced back to the guy who invented the transistor, but that does not mean innovation stopped then.
Just because something has worked for other countries does not mean it will work for the US.
cancer isn't transmittable either
Interestingly I live in a country (Japan) where all the highways are privatized and made into toll roads. Driving 3 hours to the next big city over costs nearly as much in gas+tolls as taking the high-speed rail (which takes half the time). To me for transport making costs transparent actually makes things more efficient.

We still have universal healthcare though.
I never kept tabs on the development effort on neither VSCode nor Sublime Text, but it was always my impression that much of the power either editor has comes from 3rd party extensions rather than the editor core. As such, I believe it was the hype around Atom and VSCode that drove people to write extensions for them, leaving ST behind.
The rationing can be in a moral way or in an immoral way. All systems ration care. Most do so in a much more morally palatable way than the U.S.
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It's immoral for people to pay for the time and work of others?
I’d settle for Apple allowing you to stay in your group texts after you deactivate iMessage.
Blender Guru on Youtube has a good set of video tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKHwx1VCdgnxwbjyb9Iu1g

I came across his channel when an interesting interview he did with Blender's founding creator was linked on here a while back.
- Better theories of social interaction patterns online. I don't even know if that body of knowledge is out there outside of facebook/google, but i wish I had a better concrete understanding of how people interact online.

- Off-the-beaten-path interface design. UI design seems to have converged around a set of principles that are generally pretty sound, but seem to have been optimized for looking good in demos but lead to underwhelming user experiences.
The most economically efficient way to pay for B is to allow the free market to drive the cost of care so low that...

Talking about free market efficiencies is a bit like talking about the effect of Newtonian forces on a spherical cow. Very useful to learn from in an undergrad setting but rarely sufficient to capture real world systems.

What you actually want from policy is something like a trajectory toward the best expected result in existing markets over reasonable times. This is much more practical than a provably optimal result in an oversimplified model. Models can be very useful, but the map is not the territory.
Can the title be fixed to include the comma that was inexplicably dropped from the original title?
> The VA is, on the whole, atrocitous. There are a couple of regions which do relatively well, because the system is federated, but on the whole, it's almost universally considered to be a disaster, even by people who are supportive of the program's existence.

Yeah, this is bullshit. The VA and its effectiveness has been studied quite a bit. Its quality has been found to generally exceed the quality of private hospitals. The media and conservatives paint this idea that the VA is "atrocious" but it has no basis in reality.

The scientific evidence for universal healthcare is overwhelming. The only "controversy" -- exactly like the "controversy" around climate change -- exists within people who have carefully decided to ignore the evidence and buy into the propaganda. The problem here is not the VA. The problem here is that many Americans have abandoned reality.
Books:

1 - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

2 - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

3 - Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell

4 - Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick & Kevin Wayne

5 - Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce

Best to learn? Highly unlikely.
Interesting? Didn't capture my attention right away.
Good practices? More or less.
Advances the craft? Let's say yes.
I think you're using an outlier to compare to an entire population, the argument doesn't really hold up.

(indeed, it's unfortunate for your friend and I'm sorry that they're in that situation)

For the average person though (which, when we talk about American healthcare, is largely who we are discussing), and a for the majority of the population, things work out very differently. Myself and the members of my family have had countless hospital stays, ER visits, surgeries, checkups, ambulance rides (approx $300 flat fee), assessments, scans and x-rays. All without any of us carrying any debt or dealing with any related financial hardship (lower tax bracket, so no special benefit plans or anything).

Friend's kid's appendix needed removal, multiple night stay at the hospital. No cost. What does that look like in America?

I had a deviated septum and didn't breath great. I breath just fine now after my totally covered septoplasty. What does that look like in America?

Kids recently got strep throat and needed a doctors appointment to get a prescription for antibiotics ($42 to cover the prescription) What does that look like in America? (honestly I'm curious about this one, would it be more than a couple hundred dollars for that?)

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So many words are insensitive nowadays. Language is dynamic and always evolving and words have many definitions. For example cancer:
"a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate"

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I find that 99% of spam calls (at least for now) can be eliminated by simply not answering any numbers that match the first six digits of my own telephone number.

I don't know why telemarketers decided this would be a good strategy to increase conversions, but it certainly makes things easier for me.
Easy clickbait
I'm on AT&T mobile, and they have an app called AT&T Call Protect.
I don't mourn the loss of Jobs as an inventor. I mourn the loss of Jobs as a person who could recognize great ideas for what they were.

I hear some version of "He didn't actually invent it" over and over again, and I think it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what made Jobs a visionary. Before the iPhone, nobody was making anything even remotely as good as the iPhone.
Liability for Apple, they have more sensitive information that they need to protect.
Another way to look at it is that for the iPhone to exist, a long string of failures had to exist going back to the PDA market, the Newton, the iPAQ, nokia smartphones, etc because the intermediate steps has to be funded to cost and size reduce the components needed until an inflection point was reached.

Apple invests at inflection points, after massive R&D spending by others have created many of the pieces needed.

You could call it brilliant or you could call it parasitic, I tend to find it a parasitic freerider in a way, not publishing as much research openly, not acquiring or funding as much of the startup community, in general, not funding research for the purpose of research and taking the risk of uneconomical results. This is similar to a University doing research for decades on a Particular drug pathway or health condition and the a pharmaceutical swooping in, taking the end result and patenting a medicine. Sure, they still spend a lot of money on developing the drug and going through medics trials, but public investment on the basics that came before it is what enabled it.

I’d like to see more basic R&D funded by Apple, not just product development. More Bell Labs, IBM TJ Watson, Microsoft R&D.
No, I don't think these alternate examples are relevant. I suspect, and this is not my field of expertise, the largest differentiator is history. The US has been developing its health care system, uninterrupted, longer than other nations.

It is much easier, politically, to build a great system if you start from scratch and have excellent examples at hand of what not to do as compared to modifying a deeply entrenched system in current operation.
If open source didn't distract from ph.d's, we wouldn't have had ipython! ;)
Thanks for the reply Ted. Looking forward to something more standardised!
I have Sync.Net installed on my phone. It has an option for automatically declining calls from numbers that have been flagged by other users.

Disclaimer: it's very sketchy because it takes your contact list and uses it for other users in the reverse lookup feature. Which is a neat feature, you get FB picture and name of the caller on each call, but still a privacy concern.
thanks a lot, now I have to dig around to find the twitter link. the paper is boring.
I'm not interested in fuse here. Gvisor has fsgofer, which is a proxy of some kind to a filesystem, there is even ReadAt [1]. But it is light on details, I was curious how and to what extent it proxies filesystem API.

[1] https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/0c7d73b31ae5e7ba506866...
Remote images in email is an anti-feature[0]. And if the images are attached to the email, why not just use an image viewer? Does your email client support video playback?

[0]: https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf