skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather hotels had my passport number than most home address.
Last I checked insurance companies gave a discount for AP Tesla’s over non AP Tesla’s suggesting the opposite. Do you some support backing this up?
Mine: Firefox, WhatsApp (for family) & Telegram (friends and groups), andOTP instead of Google authenticator, New Pipe instead of YouTube, FBReader, Orgzly (notes), Phonograph for music and trying to move to LessPass for passwords.
Unless I absolutely have to have the app (work or something), I avoid it. Webpage any day. It wont bug me in the middle of the night.

3AM. Sleeping
Phone: BING!!!
Me: *groggy* shit, hope everything is ok...
Me: *picks up phone*
Phone: Rayman Adventures has updated!
Me: *uninstalls Rayman Adventures, angrily goes back to sleep*
I've done a good bit of thinking about medical note taking.

To me it's a little odd that hospitals are the ones who keep this information. I'd think that the records should belong to patients—it's about them after all. And that the patients would provide access to doctors or hospitals.

Right now I've got a personal medical journal that has things like:

* Sickness - Date Range and Notes

* Flu Shots - Date

* Injuries - Date and Notes

* Observations - Date and Notes

* Blood tests - Date and Photos of Tests

Before my yearly checkup (or if I have to visit a clinic) I review the last entries and open them on my phone incase my doctor wants to see any of them.

It works well enough for me, but seems like there could be a ton of opportunity for improvement. I'd love to have a system where my doctor could be notified and comment on new notes or events. Also the ability to bring in my scale, run tracker and other fitness data.
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The US has previously had top marginal income tax rates even higher than 70%. As far as I can tell, currently the highest tax bracket is 37% at income over $600,000. Why not add more brackets with progressively higher rates? The largest barrier is that usually to get elected to to the federal positions that are required to pass this policy you need the support of the donor class, exactly the constituency that would be opposed to the policy.
>password fields are encrypted

If you are encrypting your passwords you are already doing it wrong.
Well gitbook is smart! Thought I was reading through official documentation.
I think you're being too kind. The person taking notes was (or should have been) trained to listen for and accurately record admissions against interest. If it ever wound up in court stuff like this is presumed to be highly reliable because reasonable people are disinclined to admit to negative things.

This sort of thing highlights the need for broad and bulletproof physician-patient privilege.
Isn't exploiting the intellectual property of a non-profit for financial gain the business model for essentially every single tech company in existence?

That is, at least every tech company that has open source software somewhere in their stack - which is presumably all of them.
Is that nearly enough money to do what they intend?

Edit: To be clear — I find the prospect of affordable supersonic flight super exciting. But, knowing 0 about the aviation industry, what's the secret sauce that makes this believable (e.g. budget at least one order of magnitude lower than competing products)?
> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.

Climate change is not WWII.
They should't be available via Firefox, just chrome/google search
Unfortunately no politician in power has voted against surveillance. Even the green party is guilty of this where in power (Polizeiaufgabengesetz in Hessen and Baden-Württemberg, both of which I consider anti-constitutional).
I think you're right, and so do a lot of other people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...
None of the other replies try to explain specifics of how this works, so let me illustrate an example of two teams collaborating to add Feature X to the monorepo without branching:

1) Team A checks in their code to provide Feature X. Their code is not used anywhere in the codebase yet, however full unit test coverage exists for the public API; this is required for code review.

2) Team B checks in their code to turn on Feature X in their product, gated under a command-line flag which by default uses the old behavior.

3) Team B checks in an integration test that flips the flag and makes sure everything works as planned.

4) If Team B requires changes to Feature X to get expected behavior, they communicate those changes to Team A and someone from either team (using available human resources) makes the changes.

5) Team B checks in a small change to flip the flag by default.

6) Team B monitors their product. If things go awry, only the very latest change is reverted and repeat (4).

7) Once stability is achieved, Team B checks in a change to remove the flag.
I agree with raising taxes, maybe not through income tax as it’s shown it often can decreases revenue and capital flight etc. and I support high brackets in the $10M range and up. Many people think 100k is rich and 400k is extremely rich but taxing that further I’m sure will decrease revenue.

I support things like a tax on digital advertising. This is a tax that wouldn’t slow growth or harm the econo,y really and impacts mostly those with extremely high capital investments. Facebook, Google help our economy a lot but they don’t have that many jobs in relation to profits. A 10% tax on digital advertising would eat marginally into their profits but their profits rise 25% a year so not too bad. That would raise around $15-$20B a year by 2020. Imagine how doubling the subsidies for solar and EVs would do for renewables and EVs.
That's a good point. Though I don't know if I'm sure about the risk, it would be good to see some data on that.

Some games, especially follow ons of well established 'game brands' I can see as being less risky ... but for new titles?

But yes, there's no reason for the countless hours, that's basically just taking advantage of creatives no doubt and admittedly unions may help in some way.
> "WHEN IT COMES to the toll of travel, the NBA is in a league all its own. NBA teams, according to ESPN Stats & Information's Vincent Johnson, average 43,534 miles per season, nearly 7 percent more than..."

Not to get too far off topic but couldn't it be possible for the NBA (or any league) to optimize for this?

Along the same lines, I have to wonder if there's a way to incorporate such signals into a betting algorithm. That is, once you get past home team advantage, perhaps stops / miles in the previous week is worth +/- X points.
Not really. Most passports contain NFC chips now. There's an NFC app for Android that can extract all your passport details from a UK passport, including your photo, and it's all digitally signed by the passport office.
You don't have to run emacs: Teco is alive and well in the BSD ports tree

https://www.freshports.org/editors/teco/
> The way Elon Musk tells it, they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers. Which seems like a legitimate point.

It's also only used/active when it is reasonably able to work. Therefore the miles used are inherently better/safer as it is (much less whiteout / torrential AP driving).

This is a luxury human drivers do not have, short of "do not drive those miles at all".

I have always hated this metric. It's disingenuous, and selective.
No, it is actually much, much worse.
This claim is... very detached from reality. Source: lived there for 20+ years.
I think I never had more than 10 apps installed on a smartphone since like 2008. Not for privacy or security concerns, I just never had any use for more than a few core apps and always used the browser for the rest.
I look at these "tax the super-rich" ideas like this:

>"Added together, the total net worth for 2018's billionaires was US$9.1 trillion"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires

Meanwhile, the US federal government spends ~$4 trillion per year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/...

So even confiscating all the wealth of the top couple thousand richest people in the world (not just US) would only fund the US government for 2-3 years. And that would be a one-time event.

Basically, the amount of money spent by the US government is already so massive that I don't see how giving it more can possibly help with anything. It would be much more realistic to attempt making the government slightly more efficient and then reallocating the money saved.

And that ignores that barely anyone will end up paying these 90% taxes, just like almost no revenue was collected from the 90% bracket in the 1950s since various accounting methods/etc were be used to avoid it.
My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek. I'm well aware of the goals of the GOP, thank you very much.

I'm also very much aware of the fact that the GOP was obstructions to his agenda, effectively neutering his work. (Also hopeful for the destruction of the GOP once Mueller is done with his work).

That said, Obama's support for the fiasco in Afghanistan is not "liberal" in any way, and his failure to even bring up the notion of the criminality of the 2008 financial crisis showed that he was beholden to his corporate donors more than the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouc...
You're right - the stakes are much higher with climate change.
Well off the top of my head, most of the time baseball teams play 3-4 games in a series in the same place.

In basketball, lets say you're an east coast team, they'll usually schedule a tour of all 4 LA teams, but you have to play every Western team once, but not all at once.
One "solution" is sometimes to use speech-to-text. The mangled results would be hilarious if they weren't frightening.
If you take away those features then you cease to have instagram.

Instagram users only use instagram because it provides access to those functionalities.
She's just reframing the debate. Once people realize how much support there is for a 70% tax bracket at the top, they'll be happy if it's "only" 50%.
I think the author's point isn't that getting money is good, but that people get money in exchange for good. Therefore, if you are receiving money, it is due to some good action you've done. If you are spending money, you are not creating good for the other person, but compensating that person for the good that they've done. (I do not fully agree with the author's point AIUI.)
Tesla subsidized those discounts, it wasn't (or wasn't wholly) a factor of actuarial's assessment of AP safety.

But Tesla knew it would certainly be perceived as such.
Self driving cars need to be safer and faster than human driven cars, otherwise it will be cheaper to keep humans in the driving seat.
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Because income tax in the first place is a compromise with people who don't want that system at all. So you get a solution that isn't what anyone wants.
Although Ocasio-Cortez minored in economics, she doesn't seem to understand simple concepts such as unemployment rates. In a recent interview[1], in response to a question about how low unemployment rates undermine her message of the working class falling behind, she said the following:

> I think the numbers you just talked about is part of the problem. Because we look at these figures and say, "Unemployment is low. Everything is fine." Well unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their kids.

This was so incorrect that Politifact rated it "pants on fire".[2]

AOC also doesn't seem to have an understanding of basic historical facts. Immediately after she put her foot in her mouth on labor stats, she said:

> Right now we have this no-holds-barred wild west hypercapitalism. What that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world. When this country started, we were not capitalist. We did not operate on a capitalist economy.

That is not the sort of mind that I want tinkering with the economy I am part of.

1. Starting around 5:45 in this video: https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/

2. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul...
I was recommended yr.no many years ago and find it very accurate. I'm UK-based.
Patient claims to be suicidal.
How relevant is this actually? Legislators make the law but it's the bureaucrats, who are the real specialists in crafting the details of legislation that are actually relevant.

Competent politicians aren't competent because they're knowledgeable in every possible topic, but because they surround themselves with subject matter experts.
Why do you believe she's not competent? She seems to be competent.

Secondly, isn't empathy, vision, ambition and an ability to rally people incredibly important for a politician? Politicians aren't supposed to know everything, but rather work with appropriate experts and aides.
It begs the question : are big companies like Atlassian, GitHub or say VolksWagen required, by their scale, to have a slick solution in order to perform on the international market?
I hate being an armchair critic, but Boom brings it out in me. It’s so arrogant to claim that you’re going to deliver a commercial supersonic airliner for pennies in just a few years. They haven’t even flown a scale model, built a full-scale model, etc, and they’ll need to innovate many different areas at once, from manufacturing to aerodynamic design to propulsion, etc. They could easily spend billions of dollars and 10-15 years on all that before they get to certification, which is incredibly expensive and time-consuming. Established companies like Boeing and Airbus that have been building jets for many decades don’t have a magic wand, and it takes them much longer and more money to incrementally improve their planes, not to mention entering an entirely new category where tons of innovation is required.

Why are people so convinced some random startup with no experience is going to be able to do the impossible? It’s not enough to point at SpaceX and say “they did it, so we can too!” It’s a totally different product category, market, and regulatory environment.

I wish there was a way to short the stock of private companies.
One thing I like about Japan, where I live now, is that every time I get a test done (and unfortunately I've had a lot of them recently), they send a copy of the results to me. I have everything my doctor has. He also writes personal notes for himself, but usually they are descriptions of symptoms when I complain about stuff. I could write them down too (and maybe I should), but those are his personal notes just to remind him what was going one when I visited him. I don't need access to that, as far as I'm concerned (although he shows me what he's writing and sometimes I even ask him to show me what he's written on a previous page).
It seems like most of these articles focus on the documentation side.

There are other elements, like med/consult/lab/diagnostic imaging orders going to the relevant person/department instantly. With a handy interface for following them along, cancelling or re-scheduling them at any time.

A nurse doesn’t need to follow a provider around to find out what the new orders are, they show up automatically on their own task scheduler.

Providers can enter orders remotely.

Or allergies just getting verified instead of collected from scratch each visit.

Or billing/appointments happening electronically instead of manually completing forms.
Those exist but are rarely read except at the gates specifically for biometric passports. Nobody will question you for having a passport with a broken chip.

At least right now the NFC chips simply have no effect on passport forgeries.
Forget "view". I want to own my records. It's my personal data that I've enlisted a professional to gather on my behalf.
"It costs too much to be palatable".
> She cites Lincoln and FDR as evidence that radical ideas can be good ones. But "there have been radical ideas that have been good" does not imply "this radical idea is a good one".

But it does rebut the common line of argument that it is preemptively deployed against, which is “Radical ideas should be rejected as bad merely because they are radical.”

> As for the idea itself: IIRC, there seem to be significant second-order effects that keep the federal government's income at 18-22% of GDP, no matter what the tax rates are. So raising the rates like this may provide significantly less new income than she expects.

To the extent that revenue seems relatively stable with apparently large changes in rates, I don't think those are “second order effects”, I think that they are coordinated changes to tax policy other than rates. The US doesn't have some kind fof special sui generis immunity to policy changing effective rate of total taxation.

Also, US federal tax revenues were 27.1% of GDP in 2017 [0], so the 18-22% range is not only not immutable, but also not what is recently observed.

[0]
https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd...
I wonder if taxing stated wealth (even if at a miniscule percentage) would help avoid insane/gamed valuations.
Sorry, implement what?
I wonder if negative results would be present had the economy been worse off. When your business has grown 10% because of a booming economy it’s easier to cover extra expenses. Will Seattle fair as well in a recession than other economies? I really doubt it.
No? Not directly comparable but perhaps useful as an indicator of general magnitude, the Boeing 787 had a development cost of $16 billion. Assuming it costs 1/10th as much, that's still over $1 billion.
A somewhat relevant question: what is a good way to get into longevity research/research support for a software engineer with a degree in optical engineering, who recently started refreshing college math?
Hmm. Maybe use a log scale? Every factor of 10 in income, the incremental tax rate goes up a percent or three. If 35% is the top now, and starts at $100K (numbers made up because I refuse to grovel through the IRS code in order to make an HN post), and if the delta is 3% per factor of 10, then we get 38% at $1M, 41% at $10M, 44% at $100M, 47% at $1B (income, per year). I'll stop there, because I'm not sure anyone has ever reported $10B income in one year ever in history.

If you made the delta 9%, that would get you 44% at $1M, 53% at 10M, 62% at $100M, and 71% at $1B. This gets you in the neighborhood of Ocasio-Cortez's idea, but without one big step to get you there. (I suspect that it would also raise considerably less money than her plan...)
Good luck with your free year of credit monitoring and a check for $5.00.
$141 million and 100 employees seems pretty light for what their goals are.
You make a good point. Sure, caffeine provides a quick, easy and relatively safe (and legal) boost. But ultimately, you have to balance that short term solution with a slightly longer term view of sleep quality and other recovery efforts. For example, what do they eat / drink as soon as the game is over to optimize recovery (so caffeine is less necessary the following night).

Put another way, you can alert the body and the mind but that doesn't necessarily lead to a high quality performance. Feel better is not the same as scoring more points.
Yes, FF/Linux. They must be doing some magic with scrolling.
Tesla has the largest sensor fleet on the road [1] (~370k vehicles with AP2.0+ hardware, adding ~25k units a month to that) contributing to the refinement of their models (~1.2 billion miles of shadow mode experience). Waymo may be closer because of Google/Alphabet resources, but I can't buy a Waymo vehicle nor ride in one, and I'd rather give Tesla the money than Google.

[1] https://i.redd.it/qvrw7zcvw8821.png
This is really the nub of the issue.

I love that when I’m traveling for business everything is arranged for me, but I hate that I get put in situations where I’m booked into big hotels with policies like this.

Increasingly it seems like there should be some kind of regulation that (with exceptions) if a good or service costs money, you should be able to buy it in exchange for money, and refuse to provide personal information even if requested.
I used to develop an emulator. Different scope, but I guess there are a lot of similarities, so I feel your pain.

Getting things working on platforms other than originally intended is really hard. Nice work!
That reminds me of this classic tale about the cat & mouse games of the directtv hacks:

https://www.wired.com/2008/05/tarnovsky/?currentPage=all
What if we were to have an amendment to the Constitution such that income taxes for each income group would have to be approved by a plebiscite of those actually IN that income group? I wouldn't feel nearly so uneasy about taxing the ultra-rich at 70% if the majority of them were in favor of it.
Two things can be true. A company or service (sole proprietorship/lifestyle project can be hacked just as easily as a massive C corp) can be liable for negligence. But I'm emphasizing that one should never lose sight of who perpetrates and benefits from the crime. That would be the actual criminals/intelligence services who steal (and perhaps sell) the data.
> they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers

The thing is that I can take precautions to increase my safety margin - don't drive impaired, drive in good weather conditions, get lots of sleep, don't be aggressive, don't follow closely, etc. etc. etc.

I don't have a Tesla, but I imagine there's nothing I can do to voluntarily make it safer. It functions normally until it doesn't.
Well, that, or unwilling to see millions of Americans put out of work simply so he can make a vain statement about his principles. But tomato/tomato.
The US GDP was $17.5 trillion last year. I don't think you're looking at the right numbers. This isn't about seizing wealth, it's just an increase in the top bracket of income taxes.

Anyway the climate plan is more about moving money around than just taking it and throwing it in a hole. Ideally, more wealth would be generated from people actually spending the money for useful things than would be made from the passive investments favored by the ultra-rich.
Unfortunately in the hotel and timeshare industry (large overlap) IT is not a central concern it is an expense and often treated as one. Meaning large portions of the system development is outsourced to dev shops out of the country or teams are brought in from India etc. This is not a slight on those engineers as they are often highly skilled. The issue is that they are working off of requirements produced by senior management level people who are very lacking in knowing the low level details. The engineers also don't have the background on what is a surprisingly complicated process and things get lost. These engineering teams were brought in to save money and as such corners are often cut everywhere especially security. The engineers are also often not in a position to push back as they are contractors from poorer nations and rely on these salaries to a far greater degree than a US citizen might.
Perhaps every human being is entitled to equal dignity. A certain level of wealth (dependent on the size of population and level of development) might be necessary to maintain one's dignity.

Within families we do not keep tallies of who owes what to whom. My parents did not present me on my 18th birthday with an itemized bill of what I had cost them. Nor did I do that to my children. Economics should be a servant of society, not vice versa.

Unfair distributions of dignity, income, wealth, and power seem easier to accomplish within large entities (corporations, governments) compared to families or tribes. Division of labor and specialization make it easier to justify unequal and unfair treatment.

What changes do we make to our values and ways of organizing ourselves, to have more just outcomes?