skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDG is comparable.
Ever looked at the PHP implementation throughout its popular existence? Popularity is an awful metric for gauging implementation quality.
> 72,000 overdose deaths is just a staggeringly large number.

It's still only a drop in the bucket compared to overall drug-related deaths though. Tobacco-related deaths alone account for 500k deaths annually, and that's not even counting deaths related to third-hand smoke.
One advice from deep work was about embracing boredom. Like that was hell to survive. Usually boredom makes me lazier.
do we hate boingboing now?
> As I understand it, salaries are only one of the many ways that doctors make money. Many "providers" are doctor-owned.

No, nowadays, private practices are a dying breed. Most physicians are, in fact, salaried. And that salary isn't actually all earnings, because a large chunk of their business and professional expenses (insurance, continuing education, various licenses, etc.) all have to be paid out-of-pocket. These expenses are not generally tax-deductible, because of the AMT thresholds, so doctors' actual disposable income is dramatically less than you would think just by looking at the raw salary number. It's very different from other fields (like software engineering) in this regard.
That's a good point in general; NIST recommends not using SMS for challenge-response authentication.

I don't know whether in this case the victim was using SMS codes, or whether the attacker used their phone number as part of a more involved attack (e.g. calling customer support and impersonating the victim). Even if you don't use SMS codes, there are a number of attacks that are opened up if someone seizes your cell phone number.

In general, however, I think it would be a good thing if service providers were held liable for damages occurring due to account breaches; that's the only way we're going to get proper account security. Schneier has written on this subject extensively, e.g. https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2003/11/liability_c....
the best things that china does is copy
>I would say I'd like to live in a world where private corporations didn't censor digital mass communication.

Why on earth would you want that? We already have a tonne of mechanisms by which anybody can say anything they like, within the confines of the law, and ignoring that arguably infowars breaks that, why does _everything_ need to be like that?

If you go to, say, a forum about cooking, and start talking about cars, then ten years ago getting your posts deleted for being off topic was simply considered good moderation. Now it's a political statement that causes controversy! Sets of rules and codes of conduct have been a mainstay of almost every serious digital community since day one. Everything from 4chan to mailing lists to twitter to niche forums to basically anything else has _always_ "censored" content which is against the rules.

A world where nobody gets to set any rules is a world in which good communities cannot grow. We've seen this over and over again, with every mature community having enforced rules, and every attempt to create "rules free" or "uncensorable" communities ending up collapsing in on themselves.

I think we need to frame this discussion in the reality of the situation: This "censorship" is nothing different to what has always been done, and the people who are now claiming that it is wrong are the ones pushing for a massive change in how we operate. Reasons and justifications for this must be provided.
I am the first person in my family to attend university. Stanford gave me a full ride to study CS and it has made a world of difference in my ability to access opportunities.

I am an anecdote obviously. However, I want it to be known that at Stanford, people at the bottom of the economic ladder receive aid, but people in the middle still get squeezed.

Making tuition free for all would actually be a net positive. Sure. There are people at the top who would benefit, but for the most part, financial aid is financed by the estates of people in that elite socioeconomic class.

I don't really have a point here. This is just my experience of the system.
The main barrier to other auto-injectors, as I understand it, is that doctor's prescriptions for "EpiPens" couldn't be used to purchase them. With these that apparently isn't the case.
Not sure about this one, but GE is making engine components out of a ceramic composite: https://www.ge.com/reports/space-age-cmcs-aviations-new-cup-...
This doesn't tell the whole story. In states like Illinois, the pension assumptions were unrealistic to begin with. From what I've read, they assumed 7% annual growth and included 3% annual increases to account for inflation. Even if government officials had property invested the funds, we still would've ended up with a massive shortfall compounded over several decades.

Unions are incentivized to bargain for as much compensation as possible and politicians are incentivized to give it to them if union workers make up a significant chunk of votes. Politicians don't have to be concerned with whether or not those obligations are realistic because they'll be out of office by the time the whole thing falls apart.
> Just make college free.

Sure, have some funding ideas?
>No one has said it's done, and Xorg still works fine.

Not when apps will exclusively choose to support it.
Creating a Chrome extension in 2018: the good, the bad and the meh
Would it be possible to change the link from bb to the source:

https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/
Their failures prove that no matter their market cap, they will have a hard time expanding outside of the few things they do well.
Or you're not giving the Bing team enough credit for their work in porn search, and they're just better at it!
> If you ban a conspiracy theorist, doesn't that give him credibility among conspiracy theorists?

Not just among conspiracy theorists. You've heard of the Streisand effect? Alex Jones's banning corresponded with the infowars app release. It quickly shot to the #1 "trending" app on Google Play.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/technology/infowars-app-t...
Yeah, the court would never figure that one out and charge with destruction of evidence!
My Latin is a little rusty and mixing Latin grammar with English is doomed to be an exercise in futility, but IIRC that declension is only correct if you're using alumn- as an adjective for another noun which is masculine or feminine (which doesn't necessarily match the gender of the person, e.g. agricola is a masculine noun but can refer to a female farmer)

If you're using it by itself as a noun, it's 2nd declension and the ending changes only based on plurality or case, not the gender of the actual graduate(s)
the hypocrisy is amazing from google and its employees. Censorship is bad in China but no in the bad lands of USA, lol
The V5 and G7s are nice; I have also been pleasantly surprised by the Pentel BL77 rollerball pens we’ve had in the office lately; dirt cheap (otherwise, sigh, we wouldn’t have had them), writes well, long-lasting and even refillable. Comes in loads of different colours.

I mostly bring my own pens to the office, though - my grandfather gave me a Lamy fountain pen when I was a kid, figuring it would learn me to write properly. I’ve been a fountain pen addict ever since.
On the opposite team Al-Qaeda and ISIS snipers learned to use wool blankets.

So if you're ever in a war-zone and see a nice wool blanked in the middle of nowhere, take cover.
No, at wast wast majority never saw the US as liberators. Quite the opposite. Are you in a filter bubble or military?
The render engine still has to do that. But that isn't much different from how it works now, where the website has to provide the necessary information.

Besides, nobody says we can't have a protocol for some additional accessibility information.
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Netflix recently released a documentary called Bleeding Edge which takes a sobering look at several medical devices approved by the FDA:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8106576
I worked for a web analytics company and they simply used reverse proxies.
Tutorial: How to deploy an app to production with an actual button
I went through so many years without bothering to find out why I hated some pens and loved some pens, until I decided to dive into the subject a bit. The type of ink and pen affects writing joy so much. I discovered that I was a gel pen kind of person and tried a bunch of different makes, so now and then I buy a big pack of Pilot Super Gel 07, and now I always have pens around that I love writing with. I'm probably going to get one or two quality gel pens too, like Parkers or similar, because now I know what I like.

I highly recommend finding out which kind of ink and pen give you the most writing joy! A simple comparison to get you started can be found on the gel pen Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_pen
for nyu to make tuition go away means that they are already having a large cost processing loans/grants/discounts along with the compliance costs for sallie mae,etc. NYU is a PRIVATE university as well so they can be super selective in whom they accept - and now they become even more selective - admitting those with legacy contacts, etc. Finally, the truth is that they need warm bodies to run the hospital and if the cost of living in NYC is so high that nobody wants to do residency there (training after med school), then how are they going to get PCPs? They'll need to pay an arm and a leg to get them (dark pun?) By having a steady supply of med students who are already situated in NYC, they assure a steady supply of residency candidates.
> Organic labelled produce cant, it is subject to greater restrictions of pesticide use than general international farming regulations

Kinds, yes, which often results in greater and more environmentally harmful quantities. And the kinds are not based on any scientific evaluation of safety or health, but on what amounts to religious preference.

Organic certification is like kosher or halal certification.
Sueing tge internet to force it to forget your number?
This is a problem we have in Europe as well (at least southern EU where I'm from): colleges are almost free (1000€/yr here, so affordable), even the best ones.

But who can get to the best ones? People from poorer environments unfortunately get a poorer education as well (middle and high schools are of less quality), and it makes it way harder for them.

Equal opportunity is really tricky to get right.
So random question because I know I would get this wrong in an interview, but would a 0 based indexing system have fewer assembly language instructions to calculate a memory offset than a 1 based system?
Can you win in a system set up to protect officers? (Simulation)
Well, woe is you then.
> I'm convinced that it's the cost structure, implemented by many-to-many negotiation between providers and insurers, that drives the uniquely high cost of the US health care system. (Unique as in twice as much per capita as the rest of the industrialized world.) Japan's system is structurally very similar to ours - employer-provided private insurance - with one key difference. In Japan, pricing for all medical goods/services are set by a government agency, with an eye to keeping the industry functional/profitable while keeping costs under control. There are no "networks". Everyone knows what it's going to cost, everywhere.

In the US, Medicare pays for 40% of the market, and they set prices unilaterally. In addition to providers are legally required to charge private insurers more, Medicare has no mandate to keep the industry profitable, and in fact their reimbursement rates are about 7% lower than COGS. In other words, providers are (in the aggregate) losing money on Medicare patients on a per-patient basis, even before they account for overhead (building maintenance, staff wages, etc.).

Medicare knows this and admits as much - not just in their annual reports, but because they actually have a number of different stipend programs that provide extra money to providers who see a lot of Medicare patients, because otherwise they would literally go bankrupt and close their practices (ie, if they don't see enough privately-insured patients to be able to make up the gap, they will go out of business).

Medicare is, actually, the biggest beneficiary of price opacity in the American healthcare system today, but that opacity is not going anywhere.
Ask HN: What would you pay $5/month for?
Is there anything missing that you would gladly pay $5/month for? Whether it's a software service, traditional service, physical good(s), etc (really anything "realistic", ie a mansion with sports cars is not a real answer)
Do You Actually Need Photoshop, or Is MS Paint Better Value?
IMHO, there was never a set of hard rules that enforced the split to any particular value. Business philosophy changed from a paternalistic profits + play a part-of-society view to the very literal greed-is-good view by the 1980s.

There was also a generational shift from business leaders who had been alive to feel the effects of the depression as well as when the rich weren't so insulated from the poor, to those where born well after those effects firsthand.
That's what I figured, it was just so floridly put that I'd check.
Glyphosate is a an herbicide, not a pesticide.
To be so privileged that the free med school is something you can do without is to be in an almost insignificant percentage of the population. Even for the upper middle class med school costs are huge.

Now less privileged people can see NYU med school as something to aspire to. I fail to see the problem here.
section vs. list in eno is like object vs. array in JSON - you need both.

eno has neither indentation nor closing tags of any sort, that means if you use a section to group some values, you need to start another section to end the previous one (no closing tags!), that's why there are fieldsets, which allow short groupings that automatically end with the next field/list/fieldset.

I share your opinion that a single syntax would be the ideal thing, but not having closing tags (which keeps the language simple and fast to write) required a trade-off in the language design to be made.

Why not JSON, Lua table-notation or S-expressions? Because the prime design goal was to achieve greatest possible simplicity and accessibility - almost anyone should be able to use it, no matter the background. If possible I would have wanted eno to be even more reduced and simple, but at some point you have to draw a line too, otherwise you end up with a toy, and then you won't ever get adoption by devs either. So this is why eno ... :) Thanks for your question!
Re commentary #1, it is due to websites being hosted on ever changing IPs such as with AWS and GCP allowing them to fire up additional resources easily, or using a fronting load balancer, or even a DDOS protection tool like CloudFront. In these cases only the domain name is known in advance by the intercepting firewall. It can’t get this info via reverse lookup on the requested destination IP (nor should it; reverse dns doesn’t always work and performance doing this for every connection would be bad).

I’ve also looked at other options, like dns based firewall rules that are populated by the firewall also being the local dns server and so is able to see the resolved IP(s), but if those IPs are to CloudFront etc then it would be granting access to everything else also hosted by CloudFront etc.

TLS SNI is the only way of knowing where the client is trying to reach — short of the expensive and difficult to deploy explicit/non-transparent HTTPS proxy.

Re commentary #2, since all the TLS traffic is going through the proxy, the original request and any subsequent requests would go to the same IP each time.
That's concerning, because it's incredibly easy to feed sensitive and/or valuable data to your phone without it being deliberate. One could argue that that's Google's (and many others') business model.

Practically speaking, this is not a long jump to suggesting "don't think any banned thoughts", which obviously gets ugly fast.
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> I don't see a problem with this, so long as doctors can earn a decent living.

There's an enormous opportunity to disrupt doctors. Doctors, particularly in the US, are grossly overpaid for the value they deliver. As I said below, there's an extra $100-$250 billion a year that gets sucked up by doctors. Frankly, the vast majority of what doctors end up doing -- collecting information, analyzing it, prescribing a course, repeat -- does not warrant the salaries doctors commandeer.

The industrialization of healthcare can't be done inside the existing system and the government certainly won't help which is what makes things tricky. But it's why you see Amazon, JP Morgan, Google and Uber starting their own healthcare companies and pushing into this industry more and more. [1] There's a great deal of money to be saved here while potentially improving outcomes. The current system, where a single doctor works obscene hours while spending 15 minutes with each patient, is just dumb.

[1] https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/3/6/17071750/amazon-heal...
Show HN: Calculator for car insurance overpayment based on 27k actual policies
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You had me until the second paragraph. Who instigates change in society, if not for the people in it? Sadly, parent’s last question

> Does the public have an attention span long enough to ruin Google's reputation?

is a resounding ‘no’ to me right now. It is as if these days many people have the same attitude you do, wanting someone else to do the legwork to bring societal change. That’s a good way to wind up with totalitarianism, and that’s how you end up with a president for life dictating what information citizens can and cannot consume.
A probabilistic study – Can technical analysis predict stock movement?
Eh, no. Skyscrapers are not cheap. The cheapest thing you can build is sprawling low-rise.

Some streets in Paris are narrow, others aren't. Streets with two-way road traffic are wide enough.
You can spawn a thread manually and use the POSIX sigwait() function.
There is a popup. Remember when browsers added popup blockers? They've worked around them now with JS & CSS...
Show HN: Editfight.com – minimalist clone of r/place
Raise the income tax, create a VAT, kill the mortgage-interest tax deduction, add a Financial transaction tax, tax capital gains like normal income, stop subsidizing fossil fuel extraction, add a carbon tax, and lower the threshold for the inheritance tax and raise the percentage.
That doesn't seem like it would be helpful from a forensics standpoint -- if a court is asking for my password, they probably already have an image cloned from my device, so any such things seem like they would either be noticeable, or simply be ineffective.
They need warm bodies (residents are cheap labor) to run the hospital (the money machine that gets thousands of dollars per xray, per drug, etc). A steady supply of med students who are already situated in NYC saves them the cost of recruiting residents from afar. And who knows how much money they save by cutting the bureaucracy to administer tuition, loans, Sally Mae compliance, etc.
Third-hand smoke? Please, tell me more.
It doesn't seem so easy to do reasonably. Somebody can compare your call log/messages to data they got from your provider.

It still seems like a nice idea, but it doesn't really give you plausible deniability.
I can understand that companies have so many degree qualified people to sift through nowadays that this is necessary but from the candidates point of view, I have no idea why anybody, desperate grad or not, would subject themselves to such a process. Walk away and find reasonable alternative employment!
Mastodon is fairly decent, I've taken to looking at my local instance's aggregate feed and the federated timeline to find interesting discussions. Browsing the federated timeline is a bit about timing, as the federated timeline can get quite busy with uninteresting posts when Japan wakes up.
I doubt very much it'll be Baidu, and maybe what supplants Google doesn't exist yet. Maybe it doesn't happen at all.

I just think that with China drawing towards being almost 20% of the population of the entire planet, the government there wields a lot more power globally than they are credited with.

A 20% smaller market is a serious disadvantage in the future, and I imagine Google have known this for some time.

I think we were all hoping their withdrawal would contribute to an eventual change of the censorship policy, but that hasn't happened, and by all accounts looks less likely now.
> Even in tech there has been wage/benefit reducing collusion/monopoly behavior.
> Why are people so anti-union?

You realize that unions are cartels/monopolies on labor, right? You already recognize that monopolies distort markets, promote corruption and rent-seeking, and produce bad outcomes for society. Why would it be any different with unions?
People in the US will eventually start to care about their own privacy (maybe even enough to do something about it), but the same people probably won't care about the privacy of Chinese citizens, ever.

We pay attention to the big ticket events shown to us by the media (Tianamen Square, the occasional artist, etc.), but I seriously doubt very many people are concerned with the average person over there, since there's no easy way to package that up for a tweet.
Herbicides are a subset of pesticides by the technical definition, though “pesticide” is often used to mean something closer to (but sightly broader than) “insecticide” in popular use.
This wasn't what I got from the article. I believe it posits that if China is given a paddle on the butt, it will start to behave, which will be in everyone's best interests.
Do Chinese citizens even have privacy to protect anymore? At this point it's more of a question of what privacy they can reclaim unfortunately.
Reminds me of Wi-Vi: See Through Walls with Wi-Fi Signals from 2013:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/
In my experience, most people simply use "alum" for the singular, "alums" for the plural. Dropping the n, even!
The most interesting feature of this is the time lapse gifs. Over the course of 6 months, about 1,500 time lapse gifs were made by people visiting this site and working together. I plan to put some best-ofs up later today. I had to drop down to C for the gif feature since there is no gif encoder in JS that is fast enough to encode several mb of time lapse data. The time lapse format is really simple but since it stores x,y,c,t for each change, and t = double for unix timestamp, each file gets heavy quick.
What's the opinion of Oakland? Or, say, Modesto?
There were no 19th century communist states.
I liked the financial transaction tax proposed by Sanders. France, Belgium, and Singapore manage to have this without being known as financial wastelands were no exchanges exist.

Additionally fully nationalize the public schools, and work to remove the administrative bloat that has occurred. I know that the libertarian side here on HN is going to see this and say "more government -> less overhead? does not compute", but hear me out. Their pseudo private status has set up the incentives to de facto remove education from the core mission of universities. Chasing grant money, real estate capital, and investments might technically make them more money, but that flies in the face of what they should be doing, IMO.
> Im inclined to distrust both of you.

It's neither religion, nor politics. It's tech. You don't need to believe in anything you cannot verify yourself. I have checked most of the statements provided by the co-founder of PIA, and found none of them to be false, even if he sometimes crossed the line of a civil discussion.
It's pretty heavy on trackers, including canvas fingerprinting.
I'm pretty sure most Netgear routers have OpenDNS interactions that you can use to block domains. At least my Nighthawk did.

Otherwise I think you can pay for an OpenDNS account.