skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are very prejudiced against economics because economists don't predict well and have contradictory policy recommendations, but the basis of economics is quite solid.

(My favorite illustration: if there were no underlying laws to economics, then dictators would just issue edicts about currency and markets which would then just plain work rather than causing havoc -- and yet dictators very much suffer side effects of their dictates.)

This is very similar to weather prediction, which in some geographical areas is very untrustworthy, but not because its scientific foundation is lacking.

Psychology has subareas that are very rigorous and evidence based, but also major foundational areas that remain essentially speculative/opinion-based (what is mind/consciousness/free will?)

Evolutionary psychology is again firmly rooted, but is most famous for its speculative and unproven areas.

Marketing and persuasion/propaganda have subareas that incorporate statistics and/or psychology and/or sociology etc., but are not themselves actually sciences at all, so that's very much apples and oranges.
More than reasonable. Not awarding the contract to an organization with the requisite scale would be cause for investigating the process.

In my mind, the likelihood is that people would complain no matter who got this contract. If it went to Microsoft, the article would be about all the high ranking contacts between Microsoft and the Pentagon. As a pragmatic matter, any organization with the expertise and scale to realistically execute this contract will have deep connections with the Pentagon. At several levels.
I am having a hard time understanding how Mayo was able to basically hold one of their patient hostage. Isn't that akin to kidnapping?

But also:

What prevented Alyssa from getting up her bed and walk out? When did her parents start "figuring out how to escape" and how long for? If they were at that point were they believed they needed to "escape" from the hospital, why didn't they call the police?
Seems a bit too tailored though - "To even make a bid, a provider must maintain a distance of at least 150 miles between its data centers, a prerequisite that only Amazon can currently meet. JEDI also asks for “32 GB of RAM”—the precise specification of Amazon’s services. (Microsoft, by contrast, offers only 28 GB, and Google provides 30 GB.) In places, JEDI echoes Amazon’s own language: It calls for a “ruggedized” storage system, the same word Amazon uses to tout its Snowball Edge product."
What are the merits?
> Using the HP Officejet Pro 6830 all-in-one printer as a test case, we were able to demonstrate the security risk that lies in a modern implementation of the fax protocol. Using nothing but a phone line, we were able to send a fax that could take full control over the printer, and later spread our payload inside the computer network accessible to the printer.

We believe that this security risk should be given special attention by the community, changing the way that modern network architectures treat network printers and fax machines. From now on, a fax machine should be treated as a possible infiltration vector into the corporate network.

This is a great piece of research and a beautiful write up which is extremely accessible to anyone interested in how these attacks are developed.

The twist at the end, of bundling NSA exploits for complete network takeover all starting from a faxed JPEG file with a malformed header, is icing on the cake.
Interesting, thanks for the correction and links.
> Another possibility: create good parental controls (time limits, time fencing, insight into usage, etc.)

> Wasn't it a group of Apple activist shareholders demanding some of these features get built into iOS?

Yep, and it's happening.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/21/ios-12-how-to-set-up-screen-t...
Is there a need to attribute to malice when all the incentives are stacked against the correct behavior ?

Poor communication partly occurs because at no point does the Clinic have to go against its interest, there is that much less friction in the decisions taken.

Ethics is an issue but it seems that wouldn’t be sufficient as a focus for a solution.
When i was 18 my dad gave me the envelope himself. Which I promptly turned to shreds and instead voted what I wanted.
While I agree this type of situation is likely most often due to miscommunication, that doesn't preclude certain instances from being malicious in intent (possibly including this one - we really don't have enough information to attribute motive and cause, but there are enough odd behaviors on the Mayo clinic's part that I hesitate to employ Hanlon's razor). The hospital's ethics council only works as a solution to greed and/or malice when the patient has prior knowledge of the council, as otherwise there is little reason to believe they would be informed - and even in the case of a knowledgeable patient, the integrity of the council may be compromised due to the same conflict of interest. An unaffiliated council might be effective in avoiding this, but that fails to solve the problem of dissemination of information. Perhaps the role could be foisted onto insurance providers, but they are not impartial (having financial incentives to reduce patient expenses, as well as strong relationships with hospitals). A potential solution is to use smaller, local clinics, rather than nationwide chains, as smaller companies are generally more pliable, both to non-contentious discussion and legal pressure, but such clinics are increasingly a rarity in many areas.

It's a thorny problem, that's made more so by its perceived rarity - if few are impacted by it and even less speak out over it, it's difficult to justify reform or review, especially if it increases the financial burden of the healthcare system.
I’m rusty, can you remind me of the SQL statement to run against the master tables to give me the schema? :-)
> has no right to disclose any information on this patient’s stay or condition

Except that according to the article the Mayo said they would if the patient signed a release form. So the patient did so (called their bluff basically), and they still refused to discuss it.

> they earnestly thought she was extremely ill. Which makes their actions less evil than the article implies.

Make no difference whatsoever. People have the right to stop medical treatment whenever they like. They have zero right to force anything on anyone.

On top of that a different set of Dr's said she was just fine to go home. So on top of everything else they were also wrong medically.
> chemical-free

Are they selling a vacuum? What could that phrase possibly mean with regards to baryonic matter?
Chicago has a minor version of this, even without zone fares: The entry fee to get on a train is $2.50 everywhere except O'Hare Airport, where it's $5.
I wouldn't be that generous. You park 15 mins longer than permitted once outside your workplace, and now your violent ex knows where you now work.
Guys, please, try to be reasonable here.

150 miles is not an insert for Amazon. I'm not a general, but even I can see that 150 miles is military sense.
96GB of RAM with a NVLink connection! It will be interesting to see what happens on the RTX 2080 front next week, am hoping we finally get more RAM!
I didn't know this either. Amusing.

Many founders do founder.

verb (used without object)

(of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.

to fall or sink down, as buildings, ground, etc.:

Built on a former lake bed, the building has foundered nearly ten feet.

to become wrecked; fail utterly:

The project foundered because public support was lacking.

to stumble, break down, or go lame, as a horse:

to become ill from overeating.

Veterinary Pathology. (of a horse) to suffer from laminitis.
That may delete your production database.
It sounds like the military wants what Amazon can provide, but is allowing other competitors to step up and give it a better deal. There are obvious reasons why a military customer would want distance between data centers and ruggedized storage, that's surely one of the reasons why Amazon has implemented them.
Have you thought about distributing the data, for accessibility and reproducibility? As well as save the taxpayers a little bit of dough in case someone else wants to request the same data.

edit: my bad, didn't see it at the end
In 1170 a king once famously said "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" The priest in question was soon killed by four knights, and as a result, the knights were sent to the Crusades for 14 years, and the king had to confess his sins, strip his clothes above the waist except for his crown, and allow himself to be struck with rods by all of the Bishops and monks of the church of the dead priest[0].

This the most famous historical example of the concept that weasel words don't absolve you of responsibility. If everyone knows what you mean then you said it directly.

James Comey later referenced the quote "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" when Trump told him "I hope you can see your way to letting Flynn go."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket_controversy
Way out of date, too. I suspect the reporting should have been fact checked, or updated.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing

I guarantee that Google has more than 150 miles between data centers ;)
Context change was implied as soon as the respondent began with the words "on the flip side...". The topic in this sub-tree is now about that "flip side". Discussion has expanded into new areas.
I forgot about this, but at the same time that doesn't imply it's legal for a government agency to just give it away. There are obviously industries that gather up all your personal information from address and DoB to SSN but that doesn't mean a government agency can just give it out to a random nobody.
That's fair and was helpful to hear! I had dimensionality reduction in the back of my mind, and now that you mention it, your point about conceptual sparsity definitely seems important here.
Could also signal the area is starved for parking, so the lane should be removed and bicyclists should just ride in the road for those stretches. Small inconvenience to the bicyclists who still get to use the road, big win for the drivers.
Linux does that. Windows...

Judging by the performance I'm (not) getting, Windows does a very poor job with NUMA.
Google provides up to 3844 GB of Ram,
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/Introducing-ult...

While google also provides custom VM sizes, Does this mean Jedi includes hard instance type requirements that were basically copies of AWS EC2 types?
> We don't have any information on the parents at all.

I'm not sure what you read, but there is plenty of information about the parents. They are quoted, they have videos, they have facebook posts.

There is no reason to see them as mentally incompetent.

> could have been ignorant, suspicious and contrary.

Makes no difference. They have the right to stop medical treatment whenever they want. They have the right to leave the hospital and take their daughter whenever they want.

Not to mention the patient was over 18 and wanted to leave, and the hospital didn't let them.

> wary of trusting them with anything as important as a critically ill patient.

Too bad. Then you explain to them how to help her. The hospital has no legal right to hold someone prisoner.
Those seem like standard specs to me. 32 GB is a standard number for RAM. Also, I'd be shocked if other major cloud providers have all their data centers within 150 miles of each other - that would eliminate geographic redundancies.
>And the craziest part is that as part of HIPAA you can ask the doctor to correct the record, but they are under no obligation to do so.

Couldn't you sue (or threaten to sue) them for libel? It's a written false statement that is injurious to your reputation.
I think anyone discounting things like this should also explain what they would accept to change their views.

Skepticism isn’t the same as denial, these attitudes of permanent ignorance remind me of the late nineties with Microsoft in the Linux community.
Payfuckingwalled.
the author's use of 'snowflake' repeatedly made me stop reading. It's obviously a hit piece, and has no substance from a right wing nut job, who has an agenda. Not worth my time to address or read alt-right commentary.
My preferred rejoinder to crap like that is "A witty saying proves nothing - Voltaire"
Australian surveillance laws give police power to access electronic devices
> What prevented Alyssa from getting up her bed and walk out?

They assigned two nurses to watch her day and night.

> why didn't they call the police?

They probably figured the police would automatically believe the hospital.
I was asking about the legality, not the morality. If it's not technically criminal then that's all that matters.

Also, this is completely missing the point here:

> Don't want your name tarnished? Don't park illegally.

It's not about reputation, it's about privacy -- and safety.
dictionary.com says that flounder may have come from a combination of flounce and founder (back around 1570 or 1580).
This email outlines some potential issues with Speck: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html

And that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214827

I really can't judge the quality of that critique of Speck, but, its a lot more interesting than just "NSA = bad".
The dataset is linked to at the end of the article (http://freeourinfo.com/tickets/)
It's not a small inconvenience for cyclists, it's a large decrease in safety
You are one click away from the home page, where there is a nice explanation.
This is not criminal though?
Can we change the URL to https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/health/mayo-clinic-escape-1-e... which is the original source?
The only part of the article I can pay attention to is the fact that it's encoded in cp1252, and I'm on a Mac, so all the apostrophes show up as �.
I wouldn't say I'm _concerned_ about that. Even the right to kick that question around, or just forget about it, is pretty fun & precious to me. :-)

> (sub specie aeternitatis)

That's quite, err...thank you for that. The Wikipedia article on this one is pretty lofty, whew. But from what I can understand, the _point_ of relating that phrase is to conjure up something like "with a better perspective you'll always see your past more clearly", with which I do agree. However I'm not sure it merits Latin at this point except as a sort of rhetorical respect-production technology...which admittedly you might as well use when you can. (Email subject: You may have unclaimed respect points from a recent HN discussion) Let me know if I'm wrong about the phrase and its meaning.
Please refrain from name calling and personal attacks.

It would be really great if you can elaborate your point. For example, why do you think it is nonsense? What line of argument or examples can you provide to make your point?

Here’s an example:

@GP

Perhaps stating it as a fact sounds a bit too strong me. How did you come to realize this fact? Do you have any source or “experiential evidence” for stating it as a fact. Perhaps I misunderstood your analogy but I would be very happy to hear your full point.
Some of the shorter ones have unreserved coach class tickets that aren't restricted to a specific train. So, while there is no generalized, "I want a ticket from DC to NYC", there is a generalized, "I want a ticket from Chicago to Milwaukee."
Ethics councils are often hybrid in nature, including members of the local community that do not stand to benefit financially from patient care. I agree that informing patients about the presence of these governing bodies is a difficult problem. However, many bad situations would be avoided if the information was disseminated as standard procedure at the earliest possible convenience (before disagreement has a chance to arise).
Subway Surfers Hack – Working Online Hack Tool – No Survey
If you get a 1099-MISC, you need to file Schedule C [1]. They can make a guess at line 1 based on the 1099-MISC, but none of the other lines come with a counter party filing forms with the IRS to give them hints.

I agree that most people who don't need to file Schedule C, who don't have investment gains or losses outside of tax sheltered accounts, and who don't pay for childcare while they work (Form 2441), and who don't have miscellaneous deductions (which include medical expenses and unreimbursed employee expenses if they exceed 2% of your income) could have the IRS correctly fill out their taxes for them. And thats a lot of people, and the IRS should do it. But the parent comment said "If you only have W-2 or 1099 income, the government already has all of the data," and my point is that unless they mean something weird by "1099 income," then thats wrong.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sc.pdf
Because it goes completely against the interests of local governments. You will be amazed to see how large a portion of your city and police department's budgets are from fines.
> I can easily see this whole situation occurring because of poor communication and the culture of paternalism in medicine.

I can see it starting that way, but there is an absolute line the hospital should have never crossed: People have the right to chose what medical treatment they want.

They crossed the line.
> these people could have been ignorant, suspicious and contrary

So if they were "suspicious" the hospital is justified in committing kidnapping, even after being turned down for conservatorship by two judges?
Azure is certified for Secret data, but not Top Secret AFAIK.
Dude thanks so much. Clerky has saved my bacon so much!
Cores without memory channels being useless: Unsuprising. Interconnect power, that was a big suprise. Would we be able to get some kind of comparison between this on die interconnect approach and multi-socket power consumption? Two things seem apparent: Multi socket would have fewer thermal issues, but also lower inter-socket performance.

For raw performance though, I would guess we will see some rather extreme cooling actually becoming more mainstream in future in the workstation space.
Do you have a reference to this? As far as I'm can tell, core devs are still aiming to ship parallelism w/ 1.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213619. But, Windows support might be held back: https://dev.to/dougeverly/comment/lob.
Making games instead of playing them, for one. That's what got me into computer science when I was a kid.
Not the person you're asking but I've filled a CFPB complaint against Citibank. It was an easy process, took maybe 10 minutes to fill out an online fourm. They contacted Citibank with the information I gave them and I got an apology from Citibank probably within a week.
FWIW, it's a long-time, standard complaint by the losers that the specs were written in a way that favored the winner. On one hand, it's an obvious tactic for insiders to favor certain outsiders.

On the other, of course the winner has capabilities that better suit the specs - that's the goal of competitive bidding and we should hope that it's true of all winning bidders. So the fact that the winner's capabilities match the specs well doesn't tell us anything; if they didn't match well, it would be signal of corruption in the selection process.
The types of mommy-bloggers and non-a-list celebs who would think dihydrogen monoxide is a caustic toxin. It's a certain type. You'll know them when you see/read them. ;)
Sure it does, because if you have deductions, your effective tax rate isn't actually flat.
No. You replied to my comment. If you want to spin off into your own convo about homelessness in general, reply directly to the parent and leave me out of it.
Facing $17B in Fire Damages, a CEO Blames Climate Change
They need no such thing. The target number (usually quoted as 8) is pure folk mythology, there never was a study that concluded that that was the right number for some medical/biological reason. This has been in the news.

The correct number depends on individual, weather, activity level, etc. The actual medical recommendation is merely that healthy people should pay attention to their thirst and drink when thirsty, and plan ahead for exertion and desert excursions etc.

Certainly some people don't pay attention to their own thirst, but that's not to say that 6 or 8 are the correct numbers. That may be too much or too little.
Nope, still a Google 404 page.
Is it just me, or does the BB style render the most interesting characters as rectangles? (Chrome on OS X)

𝔸 𝔹 𝔺 𝔻 𝔼 𝔽 𝔾 𝔿 𝕀 𝕁 𝕂 𝕃 𝕄 𝕅 𝕆 𝕇 𝕈 𝕉 𝕊 𝕋 𝕌 𝕍 𝕎 𝕏 𝕐 𝕑
Do you have a link to any resource which talks about what the best way to use it? Everything easily searched seems to be how to get your dishwasher to run at its most efficient.

I've never had a problem with our one with it's 2.5hr eco mode, when running overnight (which is 90% of our loads). If we need a quick load during the day, we'll use the 40min cycle. Either way the wash quality seems the same.
We found that there were a lot of awards and prizes that we could enter.

I would love to see a list of these.

Edit: I guess this is a partial list within the article itself, UK based stuff, though I would be more interested in a US based list:

Winner, Excellence in Mobile Healthcare and overall winner, eHealth Insider Awards, 2013

Highly Commended, Improving Care with Technology, Health Service Journal Awards, 2013

Highly Commended, Innovative Mobile App of the Year, BCS UK IT Industry Awards, 2013

Highly Commended, Best Use of Mobile Technology in Healthcare, eHealth Insider Awards, 2012

Winner, Excellence in Innovation, NHS North West Health Innovation Awards, 2011
Yup. Late 30s here, pretty decent chunk of savings, and still don’t expect to ever be able to retire in anything approaching comfort.

Social security and Medicare will be gutted by the time our generation reaches what was once considered retirement age. There’s no longer such a thing as a pension unless you belong to a public sector union. Agism makes me concerned about being able to stay employed past the next 10 years.

And that’s all still assuming that automation-related unemployment and growing inequality don’t result in extremely destructive social unrest that tears the economy to pieces. (Or that it doesn’t collapse in on itself due to inequality leaving the masses without the disposable income needed to sustain a consumption-based economy.)
Is this path tracing or ray tracing? both seem to be mentioned. The examples look too physically accurate for ray tracing but I know it's often incorrectly used as a synonym for a superset of path tracing (which it's not).
What's your comprehensive alternative?

If you "want to do something BIG", that "BIG" thing is, by definition, going to have an impact. That is to say, it will exert some form of power. And you're probably going to have to do that with other people. Probably in the form of a corporation.
How to remember a provably strong password: a new way using constrained choice
The key question may be to what degree China's economy resembles Russia's. If China's is some free-market lipstick on a planned-economy pig, they are likely to suffer Russia's fate. To the extent that the free-market reforms are real, they have a better chance of escaping it.

My personal opinion is that China's free market is real, but the state intervention is still fairly heavy for a "free market economy". What does that translate into in terms of China's chance to avoid collapse? I don't know.
Cryptographers ought to be suspect of everything. Reputation isn't nothing, but the key part of a design is what can be proved about it, not who proposed it.
That demonstrates an ignorance of what the medical profession is like in practice.

People without family to watch them get terrible care.

There are exceptions (ICU for example is usually pretty good), but any care that doesn't have someone watching/caring for them 24/7 is going to be bad.

You NEED someone in the hospital watching out for you, unless you are in a unit where there is a permanent nurse on duty with you (not doing rounds). Typically family or friends fulfill this role because hospitals can not afford to do it.