skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the project's successful. The chance that most of what we're building with Rails hits the required escape velocity to require something other than Rails is a "Nice Problem".

> For the vast majority of things people are building for the web, "CRUD+Auth+Billing" is all that's needed, maybe with a few API hooks into something more novel running on different infra.

> If you then need it, then you can just build out a few more services with a few more API hooks, and then transition to a non-Rails stack as required.

True as far as it goes. But if we're just talking about a prototype for validating product/market fit, with the intent to transition to a more maintainable stack as and when that becomes necessary, what's the problem with "list of 30 random npm packages" as a starting point?
More specifically, it is run by HCA Healthcare, a for-profit company listed on the NYSE.
If only there was some law... Some kind of General Data Protection Regulation
First of all, this doesn't apply to the US in the way that it applies to other countries. The US has over-whelming air superiority. It's biggest concern are Brahmos II missiles taking out one of its 9 carrier battle groups.

The way the US handles this threat is having an AWACS plane on each carrier providing over-the-horizon radar coverage and being able to guide its hypersonic anti-missile missiles to the approaching missiles in time. That, or getting its F/A-18Es in the air off of the carrier to intercept any incoming aircraft (not really a thing anymore).
I was less than 4 years old when the Biafra war ended, but it lived in public consciousness here longer due to a church [1] being built at the time, and some students spraying big red letters BIAFRA to the rock wall to protest church construction when people were dying of famine over there. It's an iconic photograph of 1960's here.

Not that it would have been very easy to relieve that famine with whatever amount of money, without military intervention.

Biafra received also special attention from my country because they adopted "Finlandia" by Sibelius as national anthem of their short-lived nation (with different lyrics, but same theme about rising from oppression.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church
You go to ZERODIUM or another broker. They find a buyer. Sure, you get less, but you don't have to deal with sourcing buyers yourself.
I mean this is such a straw man argument. It's simply impossible to maintain HBO level quality putting out the amount of content they do. And to make it clear they have no choice but to greenlight that amount of content.

Autoplay though was a profoundly good idea. It's literally the reason binge watching exist, which from a business is genius. For what reason do you dislike autoplay?

I see nothing wrong with search either. I mostly use the PS4 app in which in works fine. It's admittedly not the best but certainly no worse than any other streaming service and worlds better than what my cable provider has.
Or basically anywhere not the west coast, within a few miles of the water? In Chicago you have heating in the winter and AC in the summer. Same with NYC. In the California central valley, your AC will be running a lot of the time. Wyoming, some serious heating, Etc.
I don't know who has what legal remedies when a nonprofit acts inappropriately, but another observation is that most of Let's Encrypt's technology is developed in public.

https://github.com/letsencrypt

If you needed to set up another ACME-compatible CA on the same model (which could then be a drop-in replacement compatible with the existing client base), it would be a lot less expensive (although it would require datacenter build-out, hiring an operations team, and a variety of PKI-specific stuff like key ceremonies, HSMs, cross-signing, CPS, and audits).
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Push the Limit of Gaming Graphics
good on him. there’s not many things to fear in this world but the prospect of someone having you by the balls is definitely one of them.

well, unless you’re into that
I think it's hard to get a feel for how it would look in practice from those short examples.

Library code might be a little ugly and abstract, but as an end-developer, you usually don't need to worry about it. The code you yourself would see and write is going to have a lot more meaning and be more understandable.

I've rarely had to do anything fancy with generics in my own projects. Where I've seen it be most useful is when I want to offer a flexible public API -- in which case, the choice of writing a bit of generic library code is much less smelly than copy pasta.
>I can't imagine many security focused companies would touch her with a 10 foot pole now that she publicly admitted that she is willing to sell a 0day for profit.

Selling 0days for profit isn't the issue. The more pressing issue, considering she seems to be desperately looking for an employer, is that she has aired her life openly, honestly, and unfiltered through the same channels as her professional work. Sorry, but any serious employer isn't going to hire somebody who is openly unstable, especially not the "suicidal/disappearing for months at a time" unstable.

I'd recommend reading the rest of her twitter posts, plus the content she has published on her website, to get a better idea of her character. While she has a moderate amount of technical ability in her specific niche, it's nowhere near the level that would justify hiring past all of the red flags.

It's unfortunate, but she really needs to re-invent her online presence by decoupling her severe emotional issues from her showcased professional work.
I live in Seattle (well, Bellevue) and don’t have A/C at home. A couple weeks out of the year I wish I did.

I do appreciate A/C in offices however, since I run on the hot side and can always put on clothes rather than take them off. I would prefer an office with an opening window next to some trees (I had that in
Sieg hall a long time ago), but that would screw up facility costs.
Looks really cool and will definitely make my life easier as I’m thinking about my infrastructure.
Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox
ST Micro had a sorta-never-launched FPGA and Arm SoC called "Greenfield" that they announced back in 2005.

https://www.st.com/resource/en/data_brief/CD00051559.pdf

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1195750
I suppose we have to suffer this type of non-content in order to enable those who ultimately deliver the goods!
Not at all since you aren't using Windows of course?
No one is interested in your perverted lifestyle.

A majority believe that gender is not a choice.
> The mindset for rational and sane upward mobility seems to remain stubbornly out of reach, causing many honest, decent people to save up nest eggs which are then extremely vulnerable to scammers. If we had a body of information available that's better than the current personal finance advice, which seems geared for retirement planning, then we could cut down on a lot of tragic outcomes.

For me, writing this post, I was hoping to make some information available to all that could promote a narrow part of investing that is safe and helps people get the most out of their shorter-term savings. But there is a much bigger picture. Personal finance basics (ex. how to save, how to spend, investing, debt, credit, buy vs. borrow, day-to-day stuff) are sorely lacking in our society and it leaves people vulnerable. It's a huge issue that is going to take a lot to address... This is just a tiny part but I hope to do more.

Please feel free to email me if you ever want to discuss more topics like this.
I recently retired from a small organization, 4000 users. A large chunk of those people could probably switch from Windows to Linux desktops just fine. But then the desktop support folks would have two platforms to support instead of one. Then would their linux client software give them all the same functionality they are getting from outlook, skype and exchange? I have no idea, but I'm guessing the savings would have to be substantial for anybody to even start investigating this.
I don't think anyone is treating the company's word as law. Just about everything is open to negotiation just about all of the time.

I'm assuming you mean "gospel" and not the 1971 Broadway musical.
There's not always a lot in the way of warning signs, and people tend not to get casual arteriograms just for kicks. The apparently-healthy suddenly dropping dead isn't exactly a rare phenomenon, and "being in shape" can be misleading. Jim Fixx[1] was kind of the poster child for this sort of thing; his death pretty much kicked off the over-40 checkup routine.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx
One of the main motivations for adding generics is that we could then put typesafe algorithms and data structures in the standard library.
I think you should read https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ICRIBI.pdf

You generally seem to be conflating face (static) value with market (dynamic) value. You're not wrong but your article makes a number of statements implying a ladder is better/safer simply because you refuse to recognize that the current value will deviate from par.
Yeah, out-of-network coverage (if provided) is often limited by terms like "the usual, customary, and reasonable amount". When a provider charges unreasonable amount the insurance will not have any contracts that enforce the cost of services. And the patient left holding the bag. ;(

My guess is in a situation like this I'd get the reasonable amounts for services provided from my insurer and use them as a basis to refuse any unreasonable charges.
Why isn't the problem that Google has a monopoly on search?

IF (a big IF) Google was actually biased, you could go to their competitor. But if there's no other real competitor then IMO the solution isn't to regulate Google, but to fix root cause problems which led to there only being one company controlling all search (AKA breaking up the monopoly)
You can control the formatting pandoc-citeproc (which is now built in to pandoc) produces with a CSL file. That's great if your institution provides one, otherwise... you'll have to learn CSL ;-/
I'm an emacs user who would be happier using vscode except that accessing documentation about how vscode is implemented requires a live web connection, and I try to minimize the amount of time I spend connected to the web.

I do my Emacs-Lisp hacking offline, which is possible because the emacs-lisp reference manual and other useful resources (e.g., the entirety of emacswiki.org as a directory of MediaWiki markup files) can be downloaded with a single command line. In contrast it is too hard to find and render locally usable collections of vscode, typescript, Electron or JavaScript documentation larger than individual web pages.

There are many aspects of my life that require me to be on the web, but I HATE THE WEB and would put up with a lot to avoid making yet another regular activity of mine dependent on my being connected to the web.

There is no net connection in my apartment these days (though there is in some of the common rooms in my apartment building) and I do all my emacs hacking in my apartment.

I long ago got used to making a constant series of small modifications to my emacs environment. Although I might choose to refrain from getting into the habit of doing that if I could live my life over again, it wouldnt make sense for me to unlearn that habit at this late stage of my life, which explains why i would regularly need access to documentation on how vscode is implemented if I were to replace emacs with vscode.

I used to like the web, in the 1990s and later, but it has slowly changed into something I hate. HTML 5 for example severely diminished my experience of the web.
Judt an fyi because you'll never see the reply on the actual thread flagged by HN. The search term was and is "US inventors" it was not a typo and done in incognito on two separate machines but thanks for the down vote
This is why it's good to be English - our national health service fixes you up and sends you on your way without providing you with a bill.
Syntax aside, are verified smart contracts a solution looking for a problem?
They were supposed to be the killer app for blockchain-based solution, but they are computationally (and architecture-wise) prohibitively expensive, slow and just too complicated given the problems they can and can't solve. Am I wrong here? You can always cheat a 'smart' contract outside of blockchain?
You can get a price upfront in my experience. Especially for standard procedures. And definitely for outpatient stuff.

But it isn't reasonable to expect upfront pricing in things as complicated as heart surgery. Or where you are going in for unknown problems. There is no way to know what complications may arise or additional procedures, x-rays or scans may be required.
I am not quite fond of the idea of having C++/Java Style Generics (I simply don't like the syntax that comes with it), but I see that the current system is broken.

From my current perspective I think fixing some things related to Go Interfaces and Container types (Maps/Slices) should make them even more usable than they are now and making them pretty much the thing people want to use Generics for. Currently, it looks like hell to build something with the empty interface and using a lib which is built around the empty interface doesn't look nice either.

Using Go maps is sometimes awkward too as they require some weird attribute 'comparable' which some types posses and others don't. Why??? I mean why can't the Go authors use their own language construct and use an Interface like:

interface Comparable {
Comparable(interface{}) bool
}

Similarly, I find it awkward that we still can't use Interface Slices[1]. I mean I understand it isn't simple to implement but certainly not impossible.

One thing on my todo list is writing an experience report with better examples. It's priority just got up-voted ;-)

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/InterfaceSlice
From what I gather this is privilege escalation for a attacker that already has arbitrary code execution. It is serious but not "shut everything down immediately" serious. Malware or malicious apps you already have could be made more dangerous.
Over-The-Air Updates for Amazon FreeRTOS
This paper has data up to 2016 https://www.valueeconomics.com/data/The%20Bond%20Ladder%20Fa...
"I curious to know the details of his health. He just did an IRONMAN 5 months before. Why was he unaware of the status of his clogged “widow-maker” artery? Why was his artery clogged? high cholesterol? What does his diet consist of?"

That just happens. There are people who are in great health and drop dead one day. Whatever you do lifestyle-wise just improves your chances of being healthy but there are no guarantees. You can smoke a pack of cigarettes daily and live up to 100 and others will get lung cancer without ever touching a cigarette.
how do you plan to handle multiple cursors (eg: simultaneous-edit & collab), vertical / column selections, and multiple disjoint selections?
Not many technical details from Magic Leap themselves, unfortunately. I'd recommend you check out the [Tested review][1] and [iFixit teardown][2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrq2akzdFq8

[2]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/1122...
I subscribed to Direct-TV-Now to save money on television but then hit the bandwidth cap of Cox Cable internet and so now I pay an extra fee for unlimited bandthwidth. I never realized there was a cap until we had multiple tv sets streaming HD video on top of other Internet use.
I found out about this breach Friday via The Verge. At that point in time, I didn't receive an email/text. So for a while, I figure I'm not part of the subset of users. Then, at 9:11pm that day, I received the text message.
The internet is a reflection of the most extreme (and thus crazy) parts of our society. It’s basically what you’d get in a democracy if you could just vote over and over again. Nutcases with too much time on their hands would spend all day voting, because they’re true believers or just for the lulz. Ordinary people might vote a few times, but they have other stuff to do. When they realize they have no real power against the nutcases, they might just give up.

Now replace “voting” with “posting” and you’re pretty close to how modern social media works.
Automated CD ladders are great too. The only issues are if you need to liquidate in an emergency you take a bigger hit, and you owe state tax but in general they can be good enough for many people.
It's worse than that.

Let's say a far right conspiracy blog is posting a conspiracy about a school shooting before any information is really available. Suddenly, it's on top of Google and being surfaced prominently on Facebook.

People don't like this because these neutral companies are now promoting fake, definitely potentially harmful stories.

But if you penalize them for this, from one viewpoint, you are suppressing political opinion.

That's with a conspiracy; but if you drag the slider backwards, you find that there's no actual tipping point where it's clear action should be taken. Further, what if the far right has more conspiracy theorist than the far left? It would be partisan to not run fake news!

Going more subtle, bias in algorithms is a thing. Like PageRank is based on the number of high quality links to your page, right? What happens when rightwing views are underrepresented because their network of links is naturally considered less high quality due to being less linked around the web?

And if you think people would never make arguments like this, try to remember how often people fight over the correlation of politics and population density. It's why the United States has a Senate and a House.
As much as people spend on training and support, I doubt that is enough to get many people to switch.
Code integrates well with the command line git usage. The docs explain how to set up Code as your default git editor and difftool (used by all the merging commands) [0]. The Git for Windows installer now even offers that as a config option directly while installing and will even sometimes default to it if you have Code installed, which I think is neat.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/versioncontrol#_vs...
And make the standard library unmagical? One of the things I've always disliked about Go is how stdlib provides magic facilities unavailable to user code.
They violate multiple GDPR restrictions already by having all kinds of options already pre-checked for you when you click "allow", and hidden no less.

https://twitter.com/ow/status/999575371556294656?lang=en
Robots in Hospitals Are Making Deliveries and Performing Surgery
> But Rust has no equivalent of handle: the convenience of the ? operator comes with the likely omission of proper handling.

Additionally, Rust programs heavily use "RAII", avoiding the need for `handle`.

But there is talk of adding support for `catch`.

See https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-catching-functions...
You think someone who is staring at bankruptcy is going to say to themselves "I know what I'll do, I'll spend thousands of dollars I don't have on a lawyer to solve this problem for other people in 5 years"?
In my experience, the same mindset that cannot figure out clear directions on how to set up a GPU machine is similarly incompetent at cleaning up data and understanding machine and deep learning models sufficiently to produce useful results. For bonus points, many of them seem to look down on those that can as "the help" or as "Ops."

That said, configuring a GPU machine is (still) ridiculously complicated IMO. It's just that I've been doing it for almost 20 years.
Thank you for the description, I was hesitant to download a .rar just to read something...

> So any file that we have read access over as a user and that system has the write DACL permission for, we can pivot into full control and overwrite it.

Doesn't this imply we can use guest access to install any kind of backdoor, since we'll have "read access" to a bunch of programs that start on boot? Seems really bad, maybe I'm misinterpreting (I haven't been on Windows for a while).
> Did not realize selling bugs outside of bug bounty programs and related bug programs was a normal thing. Now I know.

I'm curious why you made such a post without knowing the industry?
My point is that in the markets, like in sports, a "fair contest" does not mean that both parties are equally likely to be successful. "Fairness" means that the rules were followed. Right now a PhD with a model is allowed to use his information advantage if he's trading against someone less informed, but an insider to the company is not. It may be the case that insider trading laws as they currently exist are good and help financial markets work better, but if that's true it's not because no one with an information advantage should be allowed to trade.
> St. David’s HealthCare defended its handling of Calver’s bill and sought to blame the school district and Aetna for offering such a narrow network.

So while dying of a heart attack he should have been negotiating with the ambulance driver, the paramedics, the nurses, each intern and doctor to make sure they are "in-network".

> St. David’s said it was now willing to accept $782.29 to resolve the $108,951 balance because Drew Calver qualifies for its “financial assistance discount.” I

You can pay $100k or just $700, whatever is cool with us. I guess, go to the media and try to shame everyone involved is your best hope? I can see if they did this to people buying luxury suites or yachts. Doing this to people who are dying of a heart attack is particularly disgusting. And it's not like anyone involved is going to be punished for this practice or learn a lesson. They'll turn around and do the same thing to the next patient.
I found the opposite, where I'm willing to try things I initially didn't think I would like, especially foreign language series.
There is a whole industry of "medical billing advocates" you can pay to find what is likely thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars of completely made up charges on any given US hospital bill and "negotiate" them away. You don't necessarily need press coverage though it obviously helps.

Hell one time I got a $15k bill for something insurance should have covered. Called the hospital, turns out insurance had covered it and I didn't actually owe any money at all. How many people get this kind of stuff and just pay it anyway?
You don't need to have private keys to exploit this scenario. Let's say you own example.com, and you add a certificate by Let's Encrypt. If Let's Encrypt is a malicious actor, they could MiTM a connection to your site, and present a VALID certificate to the target user, as they hold the private keys used to sign the public certificate.

The value of a CA is that it's a trusted 3rd party that holds a private key used to sign public keys (certificates). Never a CA should get hold of your private keys.
Side-note that Hololens is over two years old, and a second iteration is coming.
And emergency text alerts.
I'd say generics aren't just about avoiding copy-pasting. It's also added type safety. At this point the closest thing is using an interface as a function parameter. You get a dynamically typed value (albeit limited to types that implement the interface).
At some point waste heat itself will warm the planet enough to matter. With exponential growth one can get there pretty quickly. A few hundred years. At some point we should add a heat tax to compliment the carbon tax (that we should already have in place).
A critical take on Fukuyama's new book:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/francis-fukuya...