skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thank you for directly attacking my character without even addressing my actual argument.

"But it's hard, for no actual reason I will define" is not a meaningful argument. So--when one hears hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

> I would estimate that 40% of doctors today are not compliant with HIPAA, sending X-rays and other similar patient information over email with providers that they haven't signed BAAs with.

Probably true! But that's their own damned fault. Medical has Artesys and similar, dental has Apteryx and similar. This problem is largely solved but for hands-on unwillingness to use them.

Those providers should be nailed to the wall, the wall should not be torn down for them.

> Up until a few years ago (maybe even just a year) you couldn't use AWS to host medical data.

AWS has been signing BAAs since at least...2013? I believe the first time I looked into it was 2014. But, regardless--if your innovation was so tremendously stifled by this, I'm not particularly sympathetic. I've been running my own services and writing them too for at least a decade and you can do thou likewise, I promise. I am, however, saying that today it's very easy to do so 'cause Amazon is all-too-happy to sign one.

Also, I haven't had to use GCP for HIPAA-covered entities--found their BAA pretty easily though!--but even assuming you're correct the idea that you have to, hiss, talk to somebody before getting them to take some legal responsibility for your held PHI, I don't find that to be a particularly nasty requirement. I still find it odd that AWS will just let you sign right through with AWS Artifact.

Azure's all-too-happy to sign one, too. Not that I'd recommend it.
If you wanted to do the study fairly, you'd make also some attempt to quantify the benefits from fewer accidents, lower insurance premiums, lower remediation costs and faster work etc associated with licensed professionals carrying it out. In a number of fields, you might well get an indication that there's a net financial benefit to doing so (even before you start trying to quantify intangible stuff like peace of mind). If you wanted to represent the scope of the study honestly, you wouldn't claim the gross difference in earnings between licensed and unlicensed professionals as the "cost"

You'd probably want something more granular than SOC code and age to identify the difference between the premium licensed professionals earn for having their document and the premium they earn for also being on average more experienced and capable professionals performing more specialised and difficult work than unlicensed ones in their field.

But then the study is far more about headlines than anything else. Disappointed they weren't bold enough to note that the coefficient on "married" was similar in size to the coefficient on "licensed" and use the same dataset to argue that "U.S. Consumers and the Economy Loses Billions to Professionals Being Married"!
MAU and DAU. Plenty of companies focus only on those two metrics for valuation. Oath(Yahoo/AOL) still has massive amounts of both. Yahoo and AOL mail form an enormous (albeit aging) captive audience. The quality doesn't matter, only the number. All the other things people are commenting on are irrelevant to Verizon. What it is writing off is the value of the content channels, Yahoo Finance, Techcrunch, etc. Yahoo is one of the last companies actually paying people full-time to produce internet content for their own channels. That content is not popular enough to sell enough ads against to meet their projections. So, they just write it off and use it as an excuse to cull full-time labor costs. It will be contracted out.
> If 20% of CenturyLink customers canceled their service for a week in a very publicized way, CenturyLink would scramble.

Their customers can't do that without incurring ridiculous early termination fees. And many of them don't have any other option for broadband anyway.

Further, I suspect boycotts very rarely work even against companies that aren't quasi-monopolies.
As IT people, we owe it to our families to offer to self-host their social data on one of the many open-source platforms that are available.

Maybe spend some time over the Xmas period having 'The Conversation' with our loved ones about their data safety?
Dueling implies that someone who is _better at one thing_ (hurting others) is inherently Right. It also means that someone who is sufficiently good at such things can act as a bully.

Dueling introduces personal risk for libelous claims, but it _also_ introduces the same risk for those who are making true claims. People already fear the people that hurt them; giving them a legally supported way of hurting them even more (as a legal "defense") would make people even less likely to report others' bad behavior.

Would you challenge someone to a duel, knowing that you're likely to die, even though that person wronged you? Few would take that risk.
Please, please read the Calvin paper http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/papers/calvin-sigmod12.pdf. The assumption that Calvin serializes cross-partition transactions is a common misunderstanding is 100% inaccurate. The paper shows how Calvin gets better parallelism on cross-partition transactions than traditional systems.
No. Google's impact is colossally larger.

But in the 90s they had no real competition and some of their products were actually pretty good and convenient given the limitations of the time.

Everyday I woke up with a phone call from yahoo at my chosen time telling me how many unread emails I had, the weather for that day and what events my calendar had.

All went to waste...
Technically, these aren't breaches or leaks, they're vulnerabilities.

Whether you believe data was exfiltrated is essentially a reflection of how much you trust or distrust Google.
Customers got emails a few days before this, and they're getting a lot of help. It's easy to criticize but I think they're handling it pretty well.
I think it's safe to say that the costs of vigilantly mob justice is far higher than any benefit it might have. You usually end up with situations like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

It's also impossible to have the full context of a story from the information available in a shame storm (often the other half of the story from the shame-ey is missing or not believed). The severity of the "punishment" that is doled out based on extremely thin "facts" is terrifying and not something a just society should encourage.
No this is nonsense. That relative decline was because the pie grew... and grew spectacularly, for the first time in history, for reasons that had next to nothing to do with some colonial adventure.
I'm not following. How would eliminating parking minimums for housing make it harder to get to work? They're not getting rid of parking or preventing people from building parking. Plus there are plenty of large parking ramps downtown, not to mention all the Metro Transit buses and trains.
The difficulty I have with this is that many right-wing conservatives with radical opinions on everything from the rights of LGBTQ folks to race are trying, desperately, to rebrand themselves as moderate conservatives. In the same way that white nationalists are trying to avoid being called out as White Supremacists.

I'm sure Jonah would like me to believe he is a moderate conservative. The history lesson in Liberal Fascism is laughably inaccurate and built on a poorly thought-out premise. It was an argument made that had never existed before. In a word, I don't have any reason to believe he is any kind of moderate person.

I think what we're seeing with public shaming are dis-empowered people calling a spade a spade.

What I'm curious to see is whether people who have felt this kind of shame will change. Will they re-examine their behavior? Or will they, like the Jonah's of the world, dig in and continue to bloviate about leftist-shame-mongering hordes abusing their free speech? And in the process what happens to the rest of us? Will my kids be shamed and called a f-g when they get to school and end up in a hospital with a fractured skull? Will we ever change?
Also, the population growth rate in India was significantly lower during the colonial period (1750 to 1950). This was primarily due to increased mortality from the famines created by the British. Over a 200 year period, the British colonialists performed the largest instance of genocide known to humanity.
We don't have any trouble creating fusion explosions. The whole trouble of fusion is sustaining a reaction. Fusion bombs already exist, and what you're describing isn't that different from an Ulam-Teller device.
In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers
I wonder if licensing really even is the right way to avoid harm even in industries like aviation and medicine. At least: licensing in its current form, which is pretty all encompassing.

If licensing were merely focused on knowing your own limitations, avoiding harm, and transparency rather than being all mixed up with general education and sometimes extremely overbroad vocational training that is only tenuously connection to the actual vocation... I'd be less skeptical.

Obviously simply dumping licensing and having a snake-oil free for all is probably not an improvement. But the choice shouldn't need to be "no regulation at all" and "status quo regulation".
Hi Jesse, amazing work! Even reading the article I'm still stymied.

Let's say I understand DNNs and ODEs well enough. Could you explain like I'm five how ODEnet differs from the more traditional architectures, and what uses it might have?
Not at all. There are high end touring and backpacking, i.e. full service guided hut/cat/heli drops and hut to hut style, all over the world in or near most major ski destinations. Most people I know who can afford to do these trips is within the STEM group or independently wealthy. Or they're younger with no overhead and they dirtbag it for a awhile to save up but this is the minority.
I like the basic technical idea behind Backplane, which is that your backend servers "dial-out" and connect to the edge load balancers. Does anyone know why this technique is not used more? Or is it actually common but I just haven't heard of it? If so who/where is it actually done this way?
Agree. While I think the law is silly an unneeded on the merits, I do have to agree with the lawmaker on this one. It's not like he made an exception to a law that banned notices, so "electronic communication" was perfectly fine.

What we need is a separate net neutrality law that bans all DNS hijacking and the like. Furthermore, it costs more for CenturyLink to set up DNS hijacking (unless of course they have bigger plans for it) than to quickly throw out a mass email or slip a note at the bottom of the next bill. So we all know this had nothing to do with compliance with the law.
you're the kind person helping me move from backplane to fly.io!
I haven't tried ordering combos (don't really like sodas), so I haven't had this experience. I feel it would be fun to be on the team to test and design revisions to the touch screen menu.
Revolving Door:How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the US
Yes. Ruby is not that slow, this is not quite the throughput that will require load-balancing or even caching.
2018 morality applied to 1800's people.
> Would you not want someone to be able to verify that they have the skills to do what they say they offer.

The state of Georgia (and likely many others) requires chiropractors to have a license.

Please explain how the State is uniquely qualified to determine the competence of a practitioner of junk science?
Granted a large part of that is due to the Laissez-faire/incompetent moderation of the site

Actually I'm surprised there hasn't been an anonymous website with strict rules and actually decent moderation; every single spin-off of the site also takes a freeform approach to everything
Exactly, by that point is was beating a dead horse.
Yes! Go snowboarding! You'll never be as good as the guys in the videos but you'll definitely be able to feel what they feel! Super fun!
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> 2. 30 front and 15 rear is too much of a difference, which means you'll never learn switch, and things will feel wrong when the board accidentally goes the wrong way (beginners get this all the time).

Not true. Mentally you'll be riding reverse even with full duck stance. People do it on skis and alpine boards. But people put on a very awkward stance for regular riding because they feel they can't ride switch otherwise.
Can you elaborate on that experience?
> You live in an utter delusional fantasy world if you believe that public transport and trains can replace cars.

You live in an utter delusional fantasy world if you believe that's what I wrote, but we both know that you're consciously strawmanning.
> good aim

Andrew Jackson (I believe it was) was challenged to a duel once - he turned around, let his opponent shoot him, and then took his time aiming to make sure that his shot would be fatal whereas his opponents wasn't.
Not all 14 of them are Republican. Delaware has two Democrats, and Vermont has one Democrat and one Bernie Sanders.
PKI absolutely works, but the complexity complaint is still valid. I work in PKI, and we often tell people that PKI is difficult to do correctly, easy to do wrong, and nearly impossible to remove once you've screwed it up. That's the fundamental difference between something like PKI and DNS. It's very easy to set up a PKI and get things to trust your chain, but if you haven't done the leg-work to figure out how you'll replace it when it expires/breaks/needs upgrading/gets compromised, you're totally hosed. I've seen more than one environment brought to its knees because it was easy to check the "use certificates for my AD environment" boxes in Windows (just as an example), and then the root CA is on a laptop in Jim-Bob's desk drawer and five years after he retires the whole network goes sideways and no one knows why or how to fix it.

Fortunately, as someone pointed out up-thread, the demand for new PKI being generated not just for SSL by things like Let's Encrypt but also by things like device-aware trust is helping encourage a trend in making it easier to do it correctly and harder to do it wrong. Not quite there yet, but showing signs of improvement.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is the very definition of a terrorist group. They aren’t criticizing— they are blowing people up.

Setting yourself of fire — that’s speech. Suicide bombing- that’s not speech. You can criticize and even hate. But when that turns to the promotion of killing innocent people, that crosses the line from dissent to terror.

If white supremacy is taken down but groups that actually blow up innocent people as a tactic are not taken down, that’s a weird inconsistency. This would be a non story if Cloudflare were consistent. By taking down the white supremacist sites but not taking down al-Aqsa, Cloudflare has taken a position inconsistent with content-agnostic management of their platform.

Hamas could be debated, but there isn’t any logical reasoning behind al-Aqsa being allowed while white supremacists aren’t. Both groups are far beyond “criticizing totalitarian regimes.” If we can’t see the moral difference between al-Aqsa and dissidents, then we have lost the plot.
This is actually pretty genius. Perhaps the Chinese economy is recession-proof. But I doubt it. It's at the height of a 30-year bull market. It doesn't seem insane that a downturn could happen.

And the party seems to be pretty weak when the Chinese economy isn't doing swimmingly. If things finally do turn sour, what a convenient time. You can just blame it on someone else.
To be clear, I was responding to this:

> Are you a blue-collar minority? Unless you know exactly when and where to go to get a license, then voting is practically impossible.

How else can you interpret this? Blue-collar minorities are less capable of knowing where/when to get a license than blue-collar whites? Or perhaps the "minority" bit is a red-herring altogether and the salient criterion is "blue-collar"?
> Thank you for uploading 2 TB of data. Unfortunately Google One is being phased out and you will have until July 31st to download your data before it is pruned. Our new storage product is called Google Two - we don't currently have a migration program so you'll need to download and reupload your data once you pay for a Google Two membership. Thank you for being a loyal cus-tomb-er!
I didn't see this mentioned, but as advice for getting up and operating on a snowboard in general: practice learning how to rock back on forth, leaning into the nose and tail and bending it. Don't worry, any snowboard worth it's weight will support you.

You can use this technique to help you stand up from sitting on flat. Simply bend your back leg and bring your tail (or nose if you want to start in switch) closer to a riding position, and push your Central weight onto that side of the board. The board should flex, as you'd be doing a sort of manual as you stand up. Balancing like this might be difficult at first, but the technique is better than trying to stand up without using the board's flexible property.

Likewise, butter tricks are very fun and can be useful for beginners.

Another example: if you get get stuck on flat and think you need to unbuckle and walk, try this: stand facing the direction you want to go, and start running while still in the bindings. Use your nose and tail's flexibility to help popup the opposite side, to swing forward and continue the cycle. It looks ridiculous until you realize you can make good distance on flat without much efforts or unbuckling.

Happy shredding.
>are widely known to have a tenuous relationship with reality

So, like the New York Times?
I think you would probably be surprised how similar rural area culture can be on opposite sides of the country.
I have my sincere doubts about this.

China always had a requirement to grow 6% for every city. So I believe some numbers are inflated ( mostly about real estate eg. Ghost cities, ..). This doesn't give many issues, because there is actual growth.

The reasoning goes that when the growth slows, the entire pyramid goes crumbling down ( debts).

As weird as it is, I think it's an objective overview of everything China related. It's a personal hunch of all the FOMO I read about China and can't support it with links.

The reasoning I follow is: expansion internally (China), expansion externally ( requirement) with Africa / one road one belt, knocking down on bank fraud, no export of money internationally, ... In the process, trying to become too big too fail.

We'll see if I'm right about this.

Ps. I could be wrong, so comments are appreciated
Robinhood said to not be properly insured to offer checking and savings
cheap router manufacturers have been doing dumb things for a long time:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
Ok, sorry about that if it wasn't correct. But are you still not globally ordering every cross-partition transaction - "every scheduler to piece together its own view of a global transaction order by interleaving (in a deterministic, round-robin manner) all sequencers’ batches for that epoch".
Even if the sequencers are distributed and execute the transactions in parallel, they need to agree on a total order. This contrast with the lock-aware programming model in NDB, where programmers can allow cross-partition transactions to proceed immediately in parallel if they are sure that they don't conflict.
Giant is a strong word here..
I personally live in a "small" city specifically to have room for more than that, and I'm still unsatisfied with my small-ish free standing house and lot. In a year or two of saving, I'll be moving to the most rural place I can afford and stand to commute from, so your idea wouldn't be acceptable to me in the slightest. What do we do for the people who want something different for themselves? Is their way of life simply no longer going to be allowed?
No. Because Nazis.
I recently ran into an issue with Spectrum where an agent signed me up for a new plan with lower pricing and shipped me a new modem, but the pricing didn't actually update in their system. Called back a few days later to correct this, and no one could find anything about the plan I signed up for, claimed I was lying, etc. After escalating several times and getting no where I emailed the first person from this list [0] and received a call back the next that solved the problem.

[0] https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/charter-communicati...
This reads like a parody of every thread on nuclear technology on HN or, before it, slashdot.

It’s always „decades away“, but there’s always pebble bed/molten salt/thorium/whatever technology that’s far better, basically functional, mostly free, and only held up by those darn environmentalists/idiot politicians/liberals/oil lobby/NIMBYs/Elton John/…

It feels like the tech community is forever trapped in the science fiction of the 50s, while actual science (and politicians) have created options that, frankly, are far better in every regard, including costs.
> 3. Start on a Blue slope. Seriously. I hate seeing beginners exhausting themselves on green slopes straining to get enough speed to get on edge and then catching the opposite edge because there is not enough slope.

You need a _wide_ slope with good snow. Could be an Austrian black, as long as you have enough time to ride to the sides in between turns. Slopes that are too flat are bad for sure.
Another option is to use a touchless approach with something like leap motion.
Another author here– I'll add to Jared's comment above that for long-running experiments (like the ones our Dota team runs), it can be useful to track this statistic in real time to see whether or not it would be useful to scale up the experiment.
Cities have wanted minority rights, legal marijuana, abortion rights, gay rights, public transport, minimum wage, higher education, multitudes of other items for a long time, and I don’t see them getting those without an uphill battle every time. Time and time again, the majority of voters are overruled due to the way the game is setup, and they can’t change the way it’s setup since they would need the political majority (even though they have the voter majority) to do that.
I'm neither an employee nor a customer, just someone who was following the project on twitter because it looked very intriguing. I just want to say that the comments on this thread are absolutely ridiculous and I expected better. Does anyone actually think the customers would find out at the last minute? That the company would leave its users without any support? It's baseless speculation and my guess is it's totally wrong.
- The company is founded by Blake Mizerany https://twitter.com/bmizerany?lang=en an engineer known for Sinatra and a bunch of other well respected projects.
- The users adopting an early stage startup's product are likely friends/former colleagues who are putting personal trust into the team. Does anyone really think nobody got a heads up, or possible support deals while they migrate?

Second,
Backplane really looked like great tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wFJBRTHG0
I don't think Mac's share is declining -- it has grown in the overall laptop market.

What I think is their share of creative might have dropped slightly, as some have moved to Windows (e.g. Premiere using editors, and others finding Apple's Pro machines slow release pace and high prices for customizations to disk/memory bad).
> Also known as "authoritarianism", and the security community seems to be full of it.

This, exactly. Maybe that's déformation professionnelle of a kind.