skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious about the quality of that source actually.

Based on the pdf linked from the OECD page [0] it looks like they're measuring the reported incidents of cancer based on medical records.

The medical records for the US may be skewed because they only cover the well-off (after all, the poor can't afford healthcare), while in other countries, like Poland, everyone rich and poor receives care and are included in the statistic.

Also, the numbers on wikipedia are stale, but they don't seem to have changed that much on the OEDC website. The ux is garbage so I didn't click around that much.

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Definitions-of-Healt...
s/the auto repair/every other/
What other (I'm assuming redeeming since if they're not redeeming, why would we care?) properties could the opinion "LGBTQ people should be done away with" have?
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Laptop: Teclast F5 (8GB memory, 128GB storage)

Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage

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IDE: Visual Studio Community, VS Code

Languages: C#, JavaScript

Frameworks: Xamarin, Uno

Source control: Git

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>Another problem is, for many, you won't even know what your ailment and treatments will be until after.

Progress is progress, even if it's not perfect. Many people get diagnosed and treated on separate visits, and many more have long-term illnesses that they know relatively well. Soon there will be a proliferation of guides for common long-term illnesses like diabetes, detailing what billing codes you can expect. Eventually, I hope to be able to put a condition (say, pregnancy) along with some personal information into a computer, and get out the flow matrix telling me the probabilities of all possible futures and the costs of each. That's a long way off, but this is the first step.

When medical costs are being discussed, the relatively rare situation of being rushed in to a hospital unconscious for doctors to do a series of completely unpredictable procedures on you tends to get focused on almost exclusively. In reality, a huge fraction of medical expenses go to (comparatively) predictable things like cancer treatments, where an operation will be scheduled out two weeks in advance. Even a day's notice would be enough time for price selection to happen, if all you had to do was look at a list of providers, prices and success rates.
Availability and durability are different.

S3 has 11 9's of durability. This means you can expect to lose one out of 100,000,000,000 objects stored in S3, during an unspecified period of time. S3 achieves this by using "erasure codes", distributing chunks across hundreds of hard drives, and quickly replacing lost chunks. Hadoop is a popular storage system that can do erasure coding on your own servers. To make it more durable, you will need many reliable hard drives. But I didn't find any indication that Hadoop detects and replaces lost chunks automatically, so its durability is severely limited compared to S3.

S3 has 4 9's of availability. This means you must expect S3 to be inaccessible 0.0001 of the time, or about an hour per year.
Sunk cost or costly effort? There are a more than a handful of large of technologies, frameworks and libraries used in my industry which would have to be ported/rewritten and supported from C++ before anyone would think twice before using an alternate language. Particularly when speed is the name of the game (in terms of integration, not just compiled binaries). There are hundreds of C++ libraries employed daily that would be non-trivial to port.
Exactly. While Boeing indeed added a new system, the malfunctions and resolutions matrix didn’t change. Thus Boeing didn’t need to change training and claimed that new planes can be flown without any additional training. It’s hard to fault Boeing here.
In what way do you find the number of air disasters surprising? What number would be unsurprising?
This is honestly something I look forward to witnessing. Currently it's hard to find detailed financial information for how much a person with whatever diseases ends up being covered per year with costs. I think transparency about coverage is necessary for people being unfairly handled by providers based on their condition being minuscule compared to another disease with a larger population that has better coverage because more advocacy.
If they're unpopular opinions, people are already disagreeing, aren't they? Anyway, the same way we do away with anything - gather support, shun the opinion makers, educate the rest, make it economically unviable to support the position, etc.
First, it's not hypocrisy to believe in protected classes but not wanting fascists to be one of them. I don't think businesses should be able to turn down customers on the basis of their race, I do think businesses should be able to turn down customers on the basis of their shirt saying "Race War Now" on it. No hypocrisy here.

Second, even if we set aside protected classes, I don't think Patreon should be obligated to host projects it doesn't agree with, whatever they may be. It is their right to cultivate their public image in whatever way they see fit.

Of course, I also believe VISA is under no obligation to process transactions for Patreon, and so I'd sincerely hope that they'd cut off a hypothetical Patreon that exists just to enrich 4chan weirdos, and I'd work to achieve that goal in society. I would help any effort to shut down such a site.
Please. You cannot be serious. Are you really saying that pricing in the US healthcare system is so broken that the only way to set prices is to take other countries prices and convert them?
> no mass-market computing platform has been safer than the flagship hardware/software platforms from Apple and Google

That's a pretty low bar, because, as you say:

> SS7 is insecure

Also...

> operational practices at both the carriers and inside governments rely on those insecurities to get jobs done, and some of those jobs are important and enjoy wide support

Sure, law enforcement is easier then the citizenry isn't free. But the U.S. used to pride itself on being the one place on earth where that argument does not carry the day.
Adding MCAS didn’t change the symptoms / responses matrix. It’s mailfunction is the same as runaway trim and responses are the same (turn it off). This was a fair engineering decision to do not requir retraining for this.
I think 10 million dollars is as much incentive as 100 million for anyone trying to make it big. After a certain amount for most people it is just a lot of extra zeros.

The idea that someone who would strive to do something great would lose interest at being limited to 10 million is laughable.
That only works for non-urgent care and when estimates are cheap enough to encourage shopping around. Although even free estimates cost you time.
My only issue with Notable is the absence of an Android app and sync across devices. I'd love to use it as my daily driver, if not for these features. Really love your UI. I'm currently using Joplin <https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/>
How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown
You are right. I think the behavior should be:

toolName /somepath # process all files the tool chooses to
toolName /sompath/* # process every single file, even files it does not support (with a warning)

This is far closer to standard behavior.
Hard to say without more concrete details, but if I had to reply in broad strokes:

- For web, user/pass login exchanged for plain session cookies. Should be marked httpOnly/Secure, and bonus points for SameSite and __Host prefix [1]

- For web, deploy a preloaded Strict-Transport-Security header [2]

- For api clients, use a bearer token. Enforce TLS (either don't listen on port 80, or if someone makes a request over port 80 revoke that token).

- If you go with OpenID/Oauth for client sign-ins then require https callbacks and provide scoped permissions.

- Don't use JWT [3]. Don't use CORS [4].

Again these are broad strokes - if you gave more information you'd get a better response.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/St...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token

[4]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
I didn’t say research alone did. I said that when you compare investment in research, as well as the quality of care, you’d expect the cost of healthcare in the US to be higher. As much higher as they are? I don’t think so. But if you want to fix the accessibility issues without impacting innovation and quality of care, then you’re going to need a solution slightly more thought out than hamfisted price fixing.
Devise, if you’re building a Rails app.
> This is my experience though. I'd happily stand corrected if I'm wrong.

I don't think anyone can call your own experience "wrong" per se. I'd point to the Google logograms as a "smart and fun [easter egg]" per your definition but they are definitely one of the more sinister corporations.
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My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?
I get the multi-tenancy argument, for certain use cases. I'm not sure I understand the point about greater resource utilization. Presumably they mean workloads can be scheduled more densely given a set of hardware resources, vs. containers... but I'd think that containers would score better on that metric than VMs. Can someone expound?

The best part of the piece for me was "kubesprawl," my new favorite word for the week. We've seen it ourselves to some extent, but we are at least aware of it and try to exert some pressure in the other direction. Beyond that I am not particularly bothered by the idea of running lots of clusters for different purposes.
Also when you take a video and someone calls it ends the video recording - even if you don't decide to answer. So you have to put your phone into airplane mode, which sucks because if you lost your phone before remembering to turn it off then find my iPhone wouldn't work... I wish there was some sort of option to not disturb while doing video... Something you could toggle on and off.
SDM dialogs live even today in the bowls of office Apps. Although it has since been supplanted by at least two “hot new things” since then. Last I heard there wast talk of moving to React.

Never does a new technology fully replace the old.
Roll my own. Passwords are stored as bcrypt hashes. Just use plain old cookies to store session IDs.
Experiments like these were done even decades back. Every time, there is some temporary indignation/outrage from some limited quarters and then the news dies down while such experiments continue behind closed doors. Only the much derided "animals rights" group keep up sustained focus but they're effectively isolated and ignored.

Perhaps society will do well to keep in mind that what we do to animals we will eventually do to each other too, when the circumstances and motives align just right. Such things have happened in the past and will happen again, unless we can find ways and means to elevate our collective ethics, checks and balances as a global species. Yet daily we shrink from confronting the really tough questions.
Healthcare is a dangerous sector for a security novice. Please make sure you are familiar with HIPAA [0], including your obligations when handling health information and the nature of possible sanctions. Handling health data at all is risky. Sharing it with partners is something you probably shouldn't even consider before you can afford a serious legal team.

OpenID is a mechanism for one website to assert a user's identity to another website. OAuth is a way to let a user delegate access to some of their data on one site to another site. Neither have any particular affinity with the healthcare space, and they are not things you sprinkle on for extra security.

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/index.h...
1. Go deeper into the PyTorch ecosystem to be able to work my way through an ARXIV research paper and implement it.
2. Go deeper into Calculus and Linear Algebra to support my quest to understand the PyTorch implementations better.
3. Using these newly acquired skills build a better clone of a very popular SAAS offfering that charges an arm and leg for even basic operations and offer it at a deep discount.
4.Learn marketing skills(NOT Growth hacking)
5. Learn tech interview skills. Similar to what someone had posted.
Why is "No WYSIWYG" your stated goal? Unless your target is an audience of developers, WYSIWYG is making Microsoft a cool $30B/year. Also, Typora - possibly the most popular markdown editor, is WYSIWYG.

Shameless plug: Please try https://writepubapp.github.io/download/

It is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with built-in git, without having to learn either.
ramnode lets you do custom isos and since it is KVM they are pretty good for this. I run it on the smallest instance too with 1gb of ram and 2gb of swap.
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Are people really billed based on diagnostic codes? If true, it’s not what ICD-10 was designed for.

Patient A can recover from the same procedure for the same diagnosis much quicker and with fewer interventions than Patient B. Would insureco get billed the same for both?
I was in a similar position, we started using Okta and eventually migrated to AWS Cognito. Rolling your own auth is a recipe for disaster unless you know what you are doing and really need to. Also, be prepared to be fairly locked in once you choose an auth provider, especially if you choose one that is fairly integrated into your ecosystem.
I disagree about quality/availability. In Japan, Taiwan, Mainland China, Thailand; I’ve had amazing health care for the fraction of the price. Shit, a full cancer check only cost me 90 dollars in Japan. Getting my eyes fully checked for retinal tears cost me nothing due to national insurance in China.

In some cases, maybe the US has better care. But the cost of that is just way too damn high.

Yes, medical research in the US is superior, but that shouldn’t be at the cost of peoples’ lives.
then the USA is going to start invading everyone because it is the strongest.

That's where the values matter: US ones are better than Russia/China's. And before the barking: not perfect, just better. Good enough not to grab Ukraine or the South China Sea.

Let's fund this with a reduction in our standing army

False dichotomy. It is not the only way to fund it. Besides, OP article wasn't a funding issue, it never is, as you point out, with military spending. It's a moral one, and the author decided in 2004 that virtue signaling was more important that defending the aforementioned values against internal and external enemies. 14 years later we (the West) seem to be behind in information warfare.
It is a coincidence. Legitimate operations are not spoofing their numbers in the first place, whereas spoofers have shown themselves to be dishonest by spoofing.

So you are not being removed from any spam lists using this method. Not only do they have zero incentive to remove you, they have also received a reliable indication that a human answers your phone.
Isn't the argument against JWT mainly one against using it with weak algorithms, and not something inherent to JWT itself?
Why not JWT?
it's that or deadweight loss
Sure, as long as they aren't using massive tax avoidance schemes to not pay the taxes. Also they aren't persons.
Also (separate post for separate replies), why not use CORS? this is the first I'm hearing about this. SPA websites often use things like JWT and CORS (ours included)
Okay, I get what your point.

I'm still living in the world where operating a platform for the benefit of a set of developers entails building and operating a set of services that abstracts the details of the infrastructure sufficiently that these things don't matter.
Isn't JWT also a type of bearer token? Could you please provide some more detailed arguments about why JWT shouldn't be used other than linking its wikipedia article?
Most health care is non urgent.
Makes sense. I am sure I misworded, and got turned around a bit. Much of the documentation with fhir talks about oidc. Which seems to be in place if you are doing much more sharing of your data. These things as you mention are probably beyond what is necessary initially and could be added at a further date. However using a service or an open source project that can allow to scale to that size is an interesting proposition.
Not an exhaustive list I imagine, but here's the list from pysixel's readme.

RLogin (Japanese terminal emulator)

http://nanno.dip.jp/softlib/man/rlogin/

tanasinn (Works with firefox)

http://github.com/saitoha/tanasinn/

mlterm

Works on each of X, win32/cygwin, framebuffer version. http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/

XTerm (compiled with --enable-sixel option) You should launch xterm with "-ti 340" option. the SIXEL palette is limited to a maximum of 16 colors. http://invisible-island.net/xterm/

DECterm

Kermit

WRQ Reflection

ZSTEM
Surely in Germany robocallers woul call people in German.
U2F + a password or biometric.

What I wish is Apple and co would give the consumer choices. I am a low threat target; I don't need to enter a pw to unlock the SIP. So presenting a fingerprint + a hardware key would be a huge security improvement and a reasonable defense against 99.9999999% of the threats I face. Unfortunately, Apple assumes we're all being targeting by physical attacks from the NSA, decreasing my convenience level for a non-existant threat.
Huh? Overturning Citizens United is a key goal of “leftists”, so much so that Bernie Sanders talked about it continuously during his campaign.

The entire GOP continues to vilify Soros though and seem perfectly content with Citizens United.
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Yeah, you still have to resign with your own thing in the keychain. It’s kind of weird and it caused me to hold off for a while. Eventually I caved in because I can’t stand using the mouse so much.
If you are handling any kind of medical data about people, then you cannot think about security at a future date and your life will be difficult from the start.
Shrug. Most regions have natural disasters. Floods and hurricanes seem just as bad if not more. Tornadoes are no cup of tea either. And most Orange County metros probably have less fire risk due to the geography of that area.
Yeah, I prefer vim for sure but XCode with vim key bindings is a decent compromise
Things are being rewritten, and those which are still not, can be used by combining languages.
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GIMP offers ASCII art as a target, and that's expected by line printers/teletypewriters; does that mean TXTs can be images?
Did I say security? I said sharing at a future date.
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The ability to “shop around” for cheaper care sounds fantastic. But could that system actually work for healthcare? Is there anything intrinsic to healthcare that limits the ability of a free market in that arena (morally, economically, etc.)?
You can kind of get both today if you put your data directory inside Dropbox and then edit your notes with any available text editor. It's definitely not the same thing though.

Maybe I will make a mobile app for this in the future.
Build the Linux Kernel, BusyBox, Glibc and Dropbear for ARM and Run Them on QEMU
Obama used a Blackberry for years before eventually switching to a hardened Galaxy S4 that was so locked down that "it doesn’t take pictures, you can’t text, the phone doesn’t work, you can’t play your music on it" [1]

Trump, on the other hand, does use an iPhone but doesn't have it checked by security experts as often as his aides would like [2]

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/obama-ditches-blackberr...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-securi...
Spoiler warning: I didn’t read the article (can’t access now due to vpn not working)

So from reading others comments and such: yeah, I understand the idea that the pigs could be comatose and not experiencing anything. From the science behind brains as we know it, that seems to be the case.

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with this because, in the end, it will benefit humans. And we are more important than pigs.

Personally, I’d be all for human experiments as long as it was done correctly. This is why we do everything on animals first before human trials are even approved.

Give me, or my family enough money, and I’d be happen to be a brain in a bucket for a fixed period of time. Who knows what could happen. Maybe I’d be dead, maybe I’ll be in a waking dream, or maybe nothing at all. We don’t know.

Pig experiments may give us some insight to it. I hope so. Consciousness is one of those elusive things that we haven’t been able to pin down.

Who knows, we might even be able to Altered Carbon ourselves in the future, all thanks to pigs.
An old video from the Hollywood Magic Castle of Richard Turner, a blind 'card mechanic' with inhuman card manipulation skills.

He managed to fool Penn and Teller on 'Fool Us', but I think this video is a much nicer demonstration of his abilities, as it shows more techniques.
What about the backlight?
When something breaks on Windows, the situation is no different and in fact possibly worse. Since it is proprietary, you have far fewer people who really know the innermost guts of the system and can help. Microsoft's own forums are practically useless for non-paying 'users.' As for the rest of the Internet, it is the same as Linux:

"Run this command and tell me the output"

"Run this script as admin/root"

"Go into these folders and delete these files"

"Add these lines to these files (Linux)/Registry (Windows)"

and of course the famous:

"Reset/Refresh/Reinstall" catch-all.

The problem is exponential complexity of interactions of various systems, hardware and software, and almost nobody really seems to know the exact workings and interactions of the system. At least no one on web forums.
The amount of scam callers able to do this is approximately zero.
That was literally tax law in the 1950s.
In the developed world, the price of routine checkups are not what people would generally be referring to when discussing _quality_ of healthcare. Generally speaking, the US has the best facilities, technology, expertise and pharmaceuticals available. Which is why people come from all over the world for procedures that simply aren’t available elsewhere. Again, I’m not talking about the problems with accessibility, merely talking about available treatments.

Reducing investment in medical research will absolutely come at the cost of people’s lives. More people’s infact, as anybody will die from a terminal illness that doesn’t have a treatment. As an example the US market constitutes something life 70% of _global_ pharmaceutical profits.
I don't think this is true: what C leaves out in terms of language features , programmers have to reinvent or keep in their heads perpetually while writing code, leading to tons of gotchas.
Yeah, you just described how too. KDE used to thumbnail txt files with a portion of their actual text.
"As for languages, the future of computing is JavaScript (except for the lowest and most performance-sensitive layers, over which the Rust Evangelism Strike Force has an unshakable claim". You mentioned AI/ML both of which are deeply embedded in Python ecosystem though R is still the choice of academia. JS is and will continue to be a client only Tech stack for ML because of it's lack of a NUMPy like Math library. Between friends you should also add Python to your arsenal of languages to learn.