skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the monetary incentives are definitely incorrectly aligned in the current healthcare system as is. That said, I don't think that monetary incentives are the only incentives present here. Most physicians don't go into medicine only to make money. There are easier ways to make more money. From my experience, most healthcare providers genuinely care about the patients' well being. That is why I bristle whenever people rush to attribute a physician's actions to greed. I totally agree with you that a better incentive structure would improve the system.
Nobody said anything about a backdoor; the question was "what's suspect about Speck". Speck is suspicious (which includes more potential risks than just a "backdoor") because "Everything the NSA and the US govt touches is suspect".

This is the same kind of security-minded heuristic as the advice that you should restore from a clean backup instead of assuming you can even know how to clean a compromised host of every rootkit/backdoor/etc. Once trust has been broken, you have to assume risks might exist until proven safe. This is why burning trust is often a very bad idea; regaining that trust takes a lot of time and effort.

Also, suspicion does not require an actual risk to exist.

edit:

For the record, I don't know much about Speck, good or bad. It might be fine, but that's orthogonal to the NSA earning a reputation that invites suspicion.
The only digital equivalent of a fax is:

1) Get a public IP address on the internet.
2) Put a server on the internet, with an open port, running software that can receive arbitrary files.
3) Connect to it from your computer and send it a file. 4) Receive confirmation that the remote server correctly received your whole file.

Everything else, like e-mail, depends on a chain of service providers and accounts to deliver and store content reliably over the network. Fax enables any person with a phone number to send documents to any person with a phone number. E-mail may seem similar (you need a phone service provider and a fax machine), but I think faxing is a less technically complicated solution, more reliable overall, and allows a lot more independence.
I'm having trouble resolving the antecedents of your comment. Am I the skeptic here, or is "can't trust SPECK, NSA" person?
That is scary, thanks for sharing. And for those here who don't seem to be worried about the safety aspect, note that this means any corporation with a lot of your personal info (insurance, Equifax, etc.) could just submit a FOIA request to get the license plate number of anyone in Illinois (and likely other states) who's parked anywhere illegally, whether intentionally or accidentally... and then strike a deal to gather license plate scanning data to track where you go and what you do. Heck, I wonder if this sort of thing is already happening and we just don't know about it.
10 Untold Secrets of a CTO; How to Become a Chief Technology Officer
"When I was eighty, still doing frequent poetry readings, audiences stood and clapped when I concluded, and kept on clapping until I shushed them. Of course I stayed to sign book after book and returned to my hotel understanding that they applauded so much because they would never see me again."

Brings to mind Mary Oliver[0]

"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

[0] http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html
> Edit: I'll give you a concrete example - let's say my ex-wife decides to marry the systems engineer she is dating, who is also a high-earner. In that case, she can sue for more child support because it will move her up a tax bracket.

This is just incredible. What a naive legal system!
> What prevented Alyssa from getting up her bed and walk out?

She needed to be pushed out in a wheelchair. She was presumably only provided access to one due to the pretext of "Grandma Betty" who (it was claimed) could not access Alyssa's room. Additionally, hospital staff attempted to physically restrain her from leaving, which may have been more successful without the ruse.

> If they were at that point were they believed they needed to "escape" from the hospital, why didn't they call the police?

This is a good question that's not fully addressed by the article, however, given that the police initially did side with the hospital when it came to a "our word vs theirs" situation, it may have been the correct choice.
How exactly do you find a list of YouTube channels "correct" or "incorrect"?

YouTube bans thousands of channels a day. It's their right to ban whomever they please and they likely didn't even give the channel owner a reason much less me. For all I know each one of those violated very reasonable terms.

Where did this list even come from? Why are these channels special enough to make it to this list? My guess is the poster agreed with their content, or found news about their banning through various conspiracy-oriented websites.

There's no reason whatsoever to think this list is interesting. There is, however, plenty of reason to think where it was posted is not worth my time.
My mother in-law was kept at a facility when we wanted to transfer her to a better one, but we were given lots of run-around and people insisted everything was fine. She died. She might have died anyways, but we'll never get to know. We had serious concerns with her care and nobody was her advocate to getting better care, except my wife (her daughter) and she was dealing with a morass of bureaucracy that nobody should have to deal with when someone is in critical condition. I follow the age old advice of most of the older members of my family: stay out of hospitals as long as you can, once you go in, you don't have much control over when you come out again, if at all.
Planned Move to Azure
This is hand-waving. Backdoor, weakness, vulnerability, whatever you want to call it. What's the suggested mechanism?

In fact, as another commenter here rightly points out, cryptography does not in fact run on trust; if anything, it runs on the opposite: verify.
Using Entropy to Measure Software Maturity
Constant incorrect activation of the trackpad was one of the main reasons I sold my '16 MBP and bought a '15. Never had that problem with any previous Macbook.

The other reason for selling it was two failures of the awful keyboard in six months - I wanted shot before the warranty ended.
Previous generations were much less likely to have crippling student loans, for one thing. So they weren’t starting in the hole.
I'm curious to if this result will extend to the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithms.

Two problems that have to do with k-NN are

1. It's a non-parametric method: the number of parameters grow linearly with the size of the training set since the distance function must be calculated for all training points and the test point.

2. The curse of dimensionality: distance metrics like the Euclidean distance do not perform well in higher dimensions; points which seem "close" in 2D may be far in 3D, 4D, etc. As a result, we would need an exponential amount of more training data for every additional dimension. Locality sensitive hashing tries to combat this by reducing the dimensionality of the data.
Plex relies on a backend server, on your LAN, to work. So you can't sell standalone Plex boxes, or if you did, it would have to include both the server and the client together, and the server requires a reasonably powerful system. A Raspberry Pi wouldn't be good enough.
Low expectation, high variance, I'm guessing.
We don't know the full story and likely never will. What if the doctors were correct in their assessment that the patient was unfit to make medical decisions and that she was being coerced by parents to act against her own best interest? I would be interested in looking at her medical record to try and understand what was really going on but that is unlikely to ever happen. There is really bad information asymmetry here because the hospital is legally prohibited from releasing any medical information but the patient can choose to reveal as much or as little as they wish.
One interesting project is the mostly Chinese-funded port of Gwadar, in Balochistan, Pakistan. They're trying to develop it as a deep water port as an alternative to Karachi. So far not with very much success, because of political instability and difficulty of attracting other foreign investors to the region.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gwadar+port+china&ie=utf-8&o...

Now this part is just my opinion, but the really, really hard part is the proposed road or high-speed rail cargo link from Gwadar to Western China. The Karakorum highway is no joke. It's narrow, twisty, carved into steep rocky mountain passes. I've driven from Islamabad via Gilgit to the Chinese border. It will take many, many billions of dollars of tunneling and road construction to bring it up to the standard of a highway that can take a large volume of 20/40ft cargo container traffic. Right now trucks spend a great deal of time in 1st gear crawling along at 15km/h.

https://www.google.com/search?q=karakoram+highway&ie=utf-8&o...
Ha! Yes, COMAL. Thanks.
What are you doing about the missing GCM/FCM? Especially with messaging apps it's super annoying when they only receive updates when you actually open them.
Which SNP/s is it?
Also, suspicion does not require an actual risk to exist.

No, of course not. But if you are taking that position, you are basically saying "I suffer from paranoid delusions and don't confuse me with the facts."

From what I gather from skimming this discussion, the question being put to you is "Suppose I don't suffer from the same paranoid delusions. What are the actual risks here that a rational person should be genuinely concerned with? Please and thank you."
Yes, need at least 32GB vram to render them console ports.
> For example, “Manhattan” distance forces you to make 90-degree turns, as if you were walking on a street grid. Using Manhattan distance, a point 5 miles away as the crow flies might require you to go across town for 3 miles and then uptown another 4 miles.

It's interesting that this is called Manhattan distance because it's only relevant in a town where everyone jaywalks... Like Manhattan. It's far from true anywhere where jaywalking is frowned upon.

Because of (the lack of) crosswalk synchronization, it's a lot faster to walk to a place 2 blocks over and 2 blocks up than it is to walk to a place 4 blocks in one direction. Because at the first two lights you have the option of crossing in either direction, at which point you may only have to wait a few moments before crossing in the other direction.
Depending on the governing body, there is a process of comment and redaction before a law is adopted which is recorded and can be used to make a case. It serves such a purpose.
I'm going to speculate (Occam's razor) that the majority of their server portfolio are 32GB servers in those 400 datacenters, and so this is what they need, and so they documented it as a requirement. For data center migrations, this is fairly typical.
Anandtech have coverage of the SIGGRAPH keynote at the link below.

Headline specs for Turing:

754mm^2 die area

18.6 billion transistors

up to 16TFLOPs

up to 500 trillion tensor ops per second

It looks like an absolute beast, but don't expect to see anything remotely like it at a consumer price point.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13215/nvidia-siggraph-2018-ke...
i use it to denote a lasting sound. like heeey = hey~
Is Bottom Secret more secret or less secret that Top Secret?
I was unaware of this design for the ethics councils. In that case, I agree that this would go a long way towards alleviating the problem - even if it's not completely unbiased, even a few unaffiliated members can be a major moderating influence.

Thank you for the information, your suggestion seems like a very effective way of minimizing future incidents.
Would be nice if they’d unveil the next generation of consumer GPUs instead of sitting on them just to milk more profits out of the current generation.
They should definitely be taking Mayo to court. Absurd. But a good lesson and next time I check anyone into the hospital I will have legal counsel at hand.
Miles per gallon is a horrendous unit of measurement for this exact reason. Trips are of fixed length, and you generally want to calculate fuel usage for those trips. MPG is useful for comparing what sort of trips you can take with a fixed amount of fuel, which describes approximately zero real-world situations.

The overwhelming majority of calculations involving MPG require you to take the reciprocal first. Like, the "average" for average fuel economy of different cars is the harmonic mean. It's silly. Gah.
Dumb, yes, dumb. The ambitions were unrefined, unintelligent, and I had no idea how to make an ambition more refined and add more intelligence to it. But the truth is, that is a thing you can and must do.

Were I to start again I would use defined models to refine those ambitions. I would analyze them and refine them again and again, the more important they are. Which is to say, my _current_ ambitions are much more refined, flexible, well-modeled, than they have ever been.

[I work with people and coach them on this stuff, and so here I have to say: I don't recommend this course to everyone; this is me relating my own experience. To some, a process like ongoing analysis has a similar effect to removing one's computer's cooling system, and so they shouldn't worry so much about analyzing things.]

If I set out to do something today, I am much, much more likely to succeed. My life has been transformed (see profile). I temper this by saying that this dumb-talk is as much a warning to my future self as it is a lamentation. But recent measurements of my personal health and happiness do seem to indicate that my recent ambitions are much less dumb. If future-me has any complaints he can talk to the spreadsheet, he can talk to the journal, he can talk to the people to whom I listened more, because I was more mature.

I do think I was an intelligent person overall when I was those ages, and hindsight is 20/20, but yeah, still those were dumb ambitions and my happiness suffered measurably.

I don't see "overcoming dumbness" as a neverending pursuit, either. Evidence seems to show that you can minimize your dumbness until its effect is like rolling a 1 on a d100, then a d1000, and so on. In university I believe I had maybe a d10.

Take a simple technology like saying "I'm sorry. I messed up. Can I get a do-over?" That move right there can potentially level you up to a d100.

I am semi-tongue in cheek here, so I hope I don't burn too many of a reader's analysis cycles. Better to learn this stuff yourself through trial and error.

I remember being shocked when a professor told us undergrads in a very respectful way that we were "dumb undergrads." But you know what? He was right in a big way.
Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard an American use "mutton" or seen it on an American restaurant menu.
A comment on the thread from the code's contributor is super useful: SPECK was added because on low-end Android devices with less than 50MB/s AES, it enables phones to have encryption enabled by default. That is, SPECK is useful in cases where the alternative would be no encryption at all.

I'd be a little surprised if SPECK was the only workable answer here.

Later:

It isn't; Google is doing HPolyC instead.
These terms tend to be used interchangeably. In the context of your original quote I think path tracing is the more accurate term. Even Arnold Renderer is described as a raytracer. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_(software) )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126961
Consider putting the site behind Cloudflare or similar content cache provider maybe?
That's not what I'm talking about, though. Compiling large C++ code requires much more memory than compiling C, which, on a TR and its NUMA architecture, can make significant differences. And we do know that Linux tends to work better on NUMA than Windows, so comparing a C compile on Linux to a C++ compile on Windows, even if it didn't have the LTCG setup problem, would still be apples to oranges.
The precarious business of living off modding
I think, because he glossed over it in the post, that you are underestimating how much work Matt does to get the data & how much the governments he works with try to hinder & redact it.

In some cases that is a very good thing. In other cases it’s just them trying to obfuscate and block transparency.
> A 14-year old has the maturity to run for office

Literally everybody has the maturity to run for office because there's no maturity requirement to run for office.
Scaling StatsD at DoordDash
For the record I have no problem seeing it.
MBP have supported 2 5k monitors since late 2016: https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/27/4k-and-5k-displays-with-new-m...
Market forces are enough to do lots of good things, but that doesn’t mean that they will, because they’re also enough to do lots of bad things.
It is illegal because the railway byelaws make it illegal. The railway doesn't just have its own law, it also has its own police force, The British Transport Police, though as far as I know they don't do the ticket enforcement.

You are not allowed to break a journey either, so a ticket inspector can spot a ticket for a longer journey at one end of the other. The multiple tickets ruse is more of a grey area.
New SaAS VC-funded startup: Netcat As a Service (NaAs). Cloud hosted with slick HTML5 control panel.
I'm sorry, but did you mean Oxytocin when you said Oxycontin?
Google has decided not to use it [1], so there is discussion of it being removed [2].

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=No-Speck...

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ke...
Was this something like OBS is for Twitch/YouTube streamers?
Where you can set different scenes and overlays that are pretty interactive when connected properly to whichever platform's API!?
>Great powers are the nations that best harness their economic potential to build up military strength. When they become overextended, the splurge of spending to sustain a strategic edge leaves more productive parts of the economy starved of capital, leading to inevitable decline.

This describes the US better than China. The US spends 7.8% of it's GDP on the military, while China spends only 1.9%. If any country is over-exerting itself and "starving the economy of capital", that's America.
ok I calculated the height/depth for a shaft housing a glass weight half the size (which is the optimal height for the weight in any shaft of fixed height, I assume you understand this is optimum, if you want a derivation I can provide it upon request)

For clear skies (typical of deserts), we can use the daily insolation at sea level: 21,6 MJ/m^2

(I will ignore inefficiency of solar panel, the less efficient, the less deep or tall we need to store the energy generated, and one time construction of the storage is preferable over reconstructing the weights and shafts once more efficient panels become available)

So if we want to store it as potential energy of a glass weight under the solar panel that generated the energy we have for each square meter of panel:

a glass weight with cross section one scquare meter, and height l = L/2 where L is the height of the shaft.

glass weights 2500 kg/m^3, so we have mass of the weight: m = l * 1 m^2 * 2500 kg/m^3 = l * 2500 kg/m = L/2 * 2500 kg/m

We want the weight to be at all times contained in the shaft so it can be closed and sand can not blow under the weight or into the mechanisms.

the height difference for the glass weigh at the top -but still completely inside the shaft- to the bottom -but also still completely inside the shaft- is h = L - l/2 - l/2 = L -l = L - L/2 = L/2

The potential energy difference for a weight of mass m and vertical travel distance h is E = m * g * h

Plugging everything together:

E = ( L/2 * 2500 kg/m * 9.81 N/kg * L/2 )

Solving for L = 2 * sqrt ( E / (2500 * 9,81 N/m))

Since the assumed insolation is 21.6 MJ/m^2 then one square meter of (ideal futuristic) solar panel will simply generate 21.6 MJ = 21,6 MNm

Plugging into the equation for L we get L = 59,35 m

I seeriously underestimated potential energy I guess, I thought it would have been larger.

If your panels are less efficient (say 10%) or you have a large unused area you can of course make the structure less tall/deep.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-me...

Also, O’Conner vs. Donaldson was the key case that caused a significant shift in mental health treatment.

Blaming Reagan is intellectually lazy.
It's not the world's first ray-tracing GPU. Imagination Technologies had one ages ago.

https://www.imgtec.com/legacy-gpu-cores/ray-tracing/
> Everything else, like e-mail, depends on a chain of service providers and accounts to deliver and store content reliably over the network

In your proposal, how do the packets get from point A to B?
Indeed; but I was replying with my solution to the general problem of

> remember openssl commands you use twice a year
Autonomous Driving with the Raspberry Pi
Dual socket setups are limited to the EPYC line of processors where 64 core/128 thread setups are already possible.
The last I knew, in the U.S. the fax still carried some legal recognition/privileges that email did not.

For example, your doctor can fax a prescription to the pharmacist. Or a request for records to another doctor. A faxed copy of a signed contract carries some degree of official legal recognition/status (yeah, go figure).

Bog standard email did/does not carry such authority. Maybe closed email interconnects now do. For example, I think our area health care networks (we have 3 big ones, here) now support email requests for some things requiring authorization. But those emails are within their private network, and on private links between their networks where they've agreed to interconnect on such things.

Or they should be... Speaking more generally, I observe at least some doctors and offices emailing all sort of stuff on the public, general Internet, that should actually remain protected.

(One of the reasons I expect the Internet to continue to be de facto locked down by authority (laws and rubber hoses, as opposed to technically complete "solutions"). People, including authority figures, insist upon using it as if it is secure. They have a lot of power, that will end up enforcing "security" through physical power against those who don't "obey the rules".)
> A spokeswoman for the Mayo Clinic said hospital officials would be willing to answer CNN's questions if Alyssa signed a privacy release form giving them permission to discuss her case publicly with CNN. The spokeswoman, Ginger Plumbo, supplied that form to CNN.

> Alyssa signed the form, but Plumbo declined to answer CNN's questions on the record.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/health/mayo-clinic-escape-1-e...
I do have plans, but I can't carry any of it out because I can't afford it. College prices are so high now that it's out of my reach, and debt of any sort scares me. I would like to get out of tech (corporate has ruined this for me) and peruse Meteorology, but Meteorology presents another problem, there aren't many jobs and they don't really pay well.

S&P doesn't really help me since I've always been low income.

My grandparents are an example, but with 80% of the country living paycheck to paycheck, 50% deemed poor or in poverty, 1/5 children in poverty, 60% of the country hasn't seen a pay raise since the 70's when adjusted for inflation, and workers rights being crushed daily, it's not just my grandparents, the majority of the country is feeling it. There's a reason most Millennials are "not on track", and it's because they have no money.

What do I have to look forward to? I don't have money to invest in my future, and I'm a very frugal person. Cutting 2-5% to put into some sort of savings would crush me monthly. I feel like this is how most Millennials feel too.
Also here is Show HN RSS[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showrss