skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although that's not necessarily true either. Insurance contract typically pay for FDA-approved indications, but they also usually have some process where they will pay for off-label use if you can submit evidence that it's scientifically justified and cheaper alternatives would not work. Of course this is pretty stressfull, but it's really necessary in the U.S. because getting FDA to approve a new indication is really expensive for the drug companies, so there are a lot of drugs which are not approved for some of their main uses. For example, SSRIs are commonly used for anxiety even though this is off-label.[1] And monoclonal antibody-based immunosuppressives like adalimumab are often only approved for a few conditions, like Crohn's and arthritis, even though they are useful for auto-immune diseases in general.

In the specific case of ketamine for depression, some people do seem to have successfully gotten insurance companies to pay for it.[2] Even without FDA approval, this would probably get easier over time, as more studies show effectiveness.

[1] https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0801/p498.html
[2] https://www.ketaminewellnesscenters.com/getting-insurance-to...
I love this focus on the funnel.

Yes, a "funnel" isn't a completely accurate representation of how people buy. All models are wrong, some are more helpful than others, and this one remains helpful.
cmdliner is like 100 times better than argparse in my experience.
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Wow.

Today I learned that "capitalist" means "treating the customer as the enemy" and "legitimized exploitation".

Honestly curious - have you absorbed these attitudes from an MBA program, or did you develop them more organically?
It's not a "shortcoming" of the language per se. Visitor is a mitigation of the Expression Problem[0] on the Object Oriented spectrum. Object oriented designs need to use Visitor to add functionality to existing data structures, whereas doing such is a natural feature of Functional languages (though FP languages have their own awkward angle in attempting to add new data structures to existing functionality). This is a big motivator for most modern programming languages supporting multiple design paradigms.

[0] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-an...
Wonderful to see this innovative platform grow, and even better to be a part of it!

Our process of building Personyze's integration with the Segment platform recently was easy and truly enjoyable, from start to finish. They have been pleasant to work with, and have guided us in a very clear and straightforward manner every step of the way.

I know I speak for the rest of our team when I say that we are proud to be integrated with Segment, and look forward to expanding the integration even further, in the future.
Its a matter of degree. If the membranes are cheap enough (the point of the new material in fact) then they don't have to last as long.
IBM Pitches Quantum Volume as Benchmarking Tool for Gate-Based Quantum Computers
The way I understand their economics is, that you do not pay them per night, but per hour. I never heard of someone actually staying overnight in one of them, since that should be prohibitively expensive.
Ellison claims (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazons-consumer-business-move...) Aurora is Oracle's because it's MySQL based:

> So this is another claim I'm going to make, Aurora, not built by Amazon, built by us, called MySQL. Amazon just gave it a new name. It's also true of Redshift. Amazon didn't build Redshift, that's not what they do. These are -- they just open-sourced pieces where they built -- that they used to build their cloud. They did a great job. They did a great job of making those pieces available in a coherent -- deliver them in a coherent cloud. I give them a lot of credit. But they don't build databases. Amazon still runs all of their -- all of Amazon on Oracle Database. They are trying, they promised because they don't like me reminding them of that publicly. They said they're trying to get off Oracle by 2020.

> Aurora is our other database. It's our low-end database. It's our database. It's not theirs. Well, it's open source. Anyone can use it for nothing.

(This is bullshit, of course.)
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Are the example charts supposed to have red backgrounds? It loads that way on my system in 3 different browsers.

edit: It is working fine now. No more red backgrounds.
thanks for that link!!
Quote is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=38m25s
No, pre-echos are unrelated to high-frequency sine waves. And DTMF aren't what I'd consider high-frequency. I'm talking about 4-20kHz.
We do not, we're a combination of grant-driven research, production/clinical genome sequencing, and scale computing; the work is hard to structure for ad-hoc volunteer contribution.
> I used to put Google Analytics on my blog

Have you found a viable alternative or removed analytics from your blog altogether?
In this day and age if I owned a company, and some Director or VP suggested using anything from Oracle or HP, I would assume they were getting some kind of fringe benefit from the sales person and fire them immediately.
because the first line of people and services affected by FOSTA are the ones no one wants to talk about. sex workers and underprivileged queers only exist as part of the conversation when it's politically expedient for those in power. America may no longer be a god-fearing nation, but the skeleton of moralism still exists, just with all it's values stripped away. you will hear far more screams if netflix loses even 1 percent of it's value than if the safety and livelihood of all the undesirables is erased.
No-bullshit link: https://outline.com/ZEdxXN
"Facebook has refused to provide the British parliament with the names of individuals behind a shadowy network backing an extreme ‘no deal’ Brexit outcome over a government-negotiated compromise."

Good? Why on earth should governments be allowed to pressure companies to disclose who is advertising on their platform? It's not like this company is breaking into people's houses and forcing them to do things at gun point, they're just running ads. Honestly, if an ad can convince people that your position is bunk, maybe it's not that great of a position to begin with.
When people say that "programming doesn't involve mathematics", I think they really mean that programming doesn't involve hard mathematics. It's obvious that computers can only calculate, and meta-calculation is mathematics. However, most people have this notion that math is hard, and many programming tasks are easy.

Then, you take a look at a distributed system. Every task is substantially harder in a distributed system. The answers are not obvious, so folks are more willing to accept that those things are math.
I do even one better to get out of doing IT work. If someone random asks me to do computer maintenance I profess my incompetence but say that I’ll give it a try. I just go into settings and make the problem one epsilon worse. Then I give it back and say “ugh I don’t know what I did, I just [disabled the network adapter] but now it won’t even open the WiFi menu.” Gives them enough information to reverse what I did but makes sure they never ask me again.
Oracle primarily targets large enterprise customers outside of tech. E.g. the US government and banks.
They booked a nearly risk free profit on that mortgage that was paid off early.
This guy gets it. Missing out on over a billion people as an ad-revenue based company just because you don't want to do what is already being done (and will continue to be done) is just insanely stupid.

The idea that you are somehow creating change in China by refusing to interact with China is just stupid. It will only serve to have a negative affect on promoting your ethics. China is increasing its influence in the rest of the world and that includes its politics.

It's the same thought processes that people who don't vote because they don't like any of the candidates use. It's only detrimental to society.
This seems more like an issue of not being able to afford housing anymore in areas where there's enough demand for work.

Feels dystopian to see the future as having less.
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Are you really looking at their acquisitions? They own an SD-WAN company, NetSuite, a massive construction software business (Textura, Aconex, etc), a pretty massive marketing cloud to compete with Adobe and Salesforce.

I think people who are calling Oracle just a database company are really underselling how much value they sell above the database abstraction, they are much closer to Microsoft and AWS (and SAP, Adobe, Autodesk) than people think. They own and sell a ton of cloud "services" that arent "database" but instead specific tasks.

Their "divisions" are Servers, Storage, and Networking; Middleware; Industry Solutions including Communications and Media, Construction and Engineering, Health Sciences, Hospitality and Retail, Utilities; and Applications. They tend to focus on more specific purpose software, compared to Microsoft and Adobe more general purpose software for all industries.
Ask HN: Semantic (English) naming conventions for (JSON) data models?
There are a few naming conventions that handle mostly the syntactic part of structure names, e.g. Google's JSON style guide is great, with a few references to semantics [1]. Dart's style guide adds a few more guideline for half-semantics, e.g. how to handle abbreviations [2].

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsoncstyleguide.xml#Property_Name_Format
[2] https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/effective-dart/style

Are there guides that target the semantic naming of fields?

For example, I'm running a web scraper, and I extract some information out of it. I have about 90% content that I keep as-is, and 10% that I further parse and classify. I have two examples:

First, let's say it is some kind of a type (or class, or kind, or category). How would you name (a) the raw/orignal text (that is on the downloaded HTML page), and how would you name the (b) parsed identifier (which is internal to the parser application). E.g. raw text may be "Computer- and IT-Accessories", and your parsed identifier is "computer-accessories". Some alternatives:

(a): type, rawType, typeRaw, typeOriginal, sourceType, ...
(b): type, parsedType, typeParsed, typeCode, ...

Another example is an address line. The (a) original text content could be a single string that has the parts in any order (e.g. city, street, country), while the (b) parsed address should be a structure that has something like {"city": "...", "countryCode": "...", "street": "...", ...}.

(a): address, rawAddress, addressRaw, sourceAddress, ...
(b): address, parsedAddress, addressParsed, ...

Which combination would you choose and why?
If your company has very little software capabilities it can be good to have an out of the box solution from Oracle. Clothing brands, heavy equipment dealers, etc.
AAC has an additional advantage though, which is that many phones and receivers can transmit AAC files over Bluetooth without reencoding. this is technically possible for MP3 too, but very few devices implement it.

the loss of quality from transcoding lossy to lossy is usually a lot worse than the difference in quality between codecs and bitrates (within reason).
Honestly it is remarkable how many engineers (self-proclaimed or otherwise) in audio don't understand the basics of sampled systems and quantization. You'd think that anyone making broad claims about these kinds of systems would have at least a rough understanding of the foundational principles, but no.
> right after the metric system

I think folks who want the US to be metric will have to go industry-by-industry.
seems pretty malicious

why not just ask them to pay you for your time, or else say sorry you need to hire a professional instead of giving them more grief
This is good for everyone. Hopefully the adoption is swift and we can pretend the myriad Thunderbolt/USB-C/USB 3.0 issues, differences, and confusion never happened.
I personally prefer that these operations be kept separate for clarity. An extra line is justified.
For further context, Jem Bendell is one of the founding members of the political activist group "Extinction Rebellion."
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Ask HN: Any advice about calling companies regarding open job opportunities?
Hi all, long-time reader first-time poster, hoping the community here will be able to give me some advice.

Whilst the question is complete (the only addition being that I'm referring to companies that indicate they're happy for people to call them), I thought it might be helpful to give a bit of background information.

I'm in the final stages of studying for a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (~7 months until I hand in my thesis) in the UK and am starting to think about job prospects outside of academia.

Whilst the PhD is not in CS my BSc and MSc are. My research involves collecting/analysing data from different sources (clinical, sensors, etc) and as such I've spent a large amount of time coding (mostly Java, Python and a bit of server-side SQL stuff with PHP) to aid collecting/merging/analysing data and communicating the results and processes to a mostly clinical audience.

Aside from coding and problem-solving, the main aspect of the PhD I've enjoyed is communicating my research to and working with audiences that don't necessarily have a technology background. This has made me think working for a tech consultancy, going in as a software engineer, might be a suitable career path - solving technology-based problems, communicating potential solutions and working on different projects sounds very appealing (please do let me know if I am misunderstanding consultancy, I'm very new to this!).

I'm aware writing code in academia is often a far cry from real-world software engineering, but I'm hopeful I'll find a company that won't mind taking me on despite my lack of experience.

Several companies, in particular BJSS, publish open invitations to call and discuss job opportunities, however as I said I'm rather new to this and as such have no idea what to expect when I start communicating with them - hence seeking some advice about what to expect!

Any advice/comments/critique that anyone has on any of this would be greatly appreciated!
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>Why do people get depressed? Break up, lost loved ones, lose a job etc. etc.

This is not depression.
Its politically correct name is git annotate. ;)
> mass media

In which languages?
I use Heap Analytics. I get all of the analytics I want, but they aren’t selling the analytics data to advertisers.
Reminds of those "free" software install dialogs that did everything they could to trick you into installing extra spam-ware using double negatives: "Do you not want to skip installing the Great Deals browser tool-bar?"

Microsoft got into similar hot water tricking people into installing Windows 10 via confusing dialog boxes.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309701

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316955
Or the commonly used bioinformatics tool "kraken" which is used to predict the species a bit of DNA came from (useful in metagenomic studies of the microbiome or environment where a sample may contain DNA from thousands of organisms)
https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken/
Previous discussion of this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309701
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From a carbon footprint standpoint, international travel is about as "bad" as you can get.

From a social media narcissism eating the world standpoint, it's also pretty bad to be spending thousands of dollars to travel somewhere just to shoot an instagram shot and hope for likes (imho).
>As you can imagine, these certificates are stupidly expensive for what they do.

For US based certificate looking at -
$2000~ for 10k signing via entrust trusted adobe cert.
Not cheap correct
This is a funny comment. It comes across like a satirical "typical privileged American" silicon valley-esque comment. Is Uber now somehow the mark of a progressive society? Most cities, particularly tourist destination, have old shops selling trinkets, antiques, and other items that can be a lot of fun. Many airbnbs are technically illegal and detrimental to the local community, so again, not sure how this demonstrates Barcelona being "extremely regressive" by fining them. Then the icing on top of the cake, you are upset that the locals refuse to speak in English... in their own country... where English isn't the native language. You sound exactly like the kind of tourist these people want to keep away
https://github.com/file/file/tree/master/magic/Magdir exists for file types.
In the US 30 fixed have no prepayment penalty.
The issue isn't the functionality, it's the design of the format. This design will lead to an endless slew of possible attacks. It is just a poor way of doing things.

What you want is to sign the whole file. It looks like the design here is a hack using the existing PDF format instead of adding a container to the PDF. If you want multiple parties signing the same document, you should have a container that allows you to append additional signatures to the container. The idea that you need to have a squiggly line inside the PDF to show that it's valid is really dumb in this context anyways. Instead the PDF reader should show you that "@raul signed this document on 2019-03-06 at 11:47:55 EST, here is his GPG signature", and that's it. No squiggly lines needed.
Not the parent, but I switched to Matomo (https://matomo.org/ - previously known as Piwik) and have been quite happy with it.
36 participants is reasonable for showing some effects, and it is easy for people who've just internalized "small samples bad" to underestimate that. I'm glad you raised the point, especially since ignoring it tends to push people to respect very large studies - even when those studies use self-report on famously unreliable topics like weight and sleep.

I still find it worrying here because we know there's substantial variance in how/when people sleep, and 36 is well below "representative sample" numbers. More generally, a 36 participant, 2 week study ought to be examined pretty carefully when it contradicts a study (Akerstedt et al) on 38,000 subjects over 13 years. I can hardly blame the authors for that, though; small lab confirmations of large self-report studies are a useful and established practice.

But I don't think that's the damning part. The 9 night study span is incredibly worrying for trying to assess a long-term effect. If a value shifts over that span, is it rising steadily, rising to a new equilibrium, or reacting to a change and then returning to homeostasis?

(I do want to give credit to the study for using pre-experiment substance/diet/sleep control, and then applying individual sleep times to avoid "night owls" being a confounder. Seeing studies judge "sleep time" by making all subjects go to bed at the same hour is infuriating.)

Finally, there's strong evidence that something was unusual about study conditions. The WaPo article claims that the weekend sleepers "gained nearly three pounds over two weeks", but that's pretty much journalistic malpractice. The study actually found that all patients in the study gained weight; more weight with higher confidence for the low-sleep groups, but the groups had heavy overlap in amount gained. We can be confident that two weeks of work-schedule sleep do not cause that sort of weight gain for most people, since the reduction to the absurd there is everyone gaining ~70 lb/year indefinitely. It's the sort of number which raises pretty significant questions about how this compares to anything outside the lab setting.
oh my bad then.
but yeah, is this news? don't we know fb already.
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Probably a bad source or typo. This one, from a university, says he died in '95 on a specific day and place. https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/estudios-cultura-maya/i...
TLA+, Alloy, Isabelle, Coq, or Lean would all be fine choices.

I'd prefer TLA+ myself as the language, TLA, is straight-forward maths.
I've found VS 2017 a step down from VS 2015 with way worse performance on iddentical workload and PC.
It's definitely a thing in the US. 64% of the population lived in urban areas in 1950 compared to 81% in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
Its consistent with iteration over a dict:

for k in my_dict:
print(my_dict[k])

In this example it is implied that unless you specify .items(), you are only considering keys in the iteration. This would apply to the + and - operations too as I understand
Japanese conforms extremely poorly to the duolingo format. As someone who is also learning Japanese, I'm very surprised you've stuck with Duolingo this long. My experience was that it explained nothing. No explanation of particles, the different between hiragana and katakana, no other grammar explanations, etc.
This is when those things aren’t working or politically infeasible at work
Server-side, goaccess is pretty rudimentary, but it works really well for me.
Maybe, but at 4% interest, isn’t it financially optimal for me as a consumer to continue borrowing?

Why would I dump $x00,000 into home equity when I could leverage that money for decades are earn more in the market?

It seems like a win win, at least for people who have access to 4% interest.
Yeah, I also hope for the same. It's hard though. Major jobs are around the big cities so a lot of people migrate from smaller towns.
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Chinese school buys its pupils tracking bracelets
My friends in Toronto co-bought a giant home in a great neighbourhood.

Vice media covered their story:
https://free.vice.com/en_ca/article/59xp9z/how-six-friends-p...
I don't mean to shift the goalposts, but neuroscience isn't completely understood, and that's what I mean by hearing and how music makes you feel.
A 600sqft box is a luxury because we have decided it should be rare.

We are massively overbuilding a housing type with offensive levels of resource consumption built in: single family detached.

Cap VW at 100 cars a year. Think they’re going to be Jettas or Porsche? Probably Porsche. Doing that, then getting mad that cars are unaffordable, and saying “clearly if we let the automakers make more cars they will just be more Porsches, that’s not helping” would be silly.
An experienced caver buddy of of mine tells stories about doing chest compressions to get through really small spaces. You know, because the hole is too small for you to pass through with lungs full of air. So you exhale it all and hope there's space ahead for you to breath in again.

No thanks, man. I'll stick with kayaking.
What if women built the internet?
The article's author, Chris "Monty" Montgomery, is one of the authors of Ogg Vorbis [1] and Opus [2].

It puzzles me that many people don't yet know about Opus. Let me quote the FAQ [3]:

"Does Opus make all those other lossy codecs obsolete?

Yes.

From a technical point of view (loss, delay, bitrates, ...) Opus renders Speex obsolete and should also replace Vorbis and the common proprietary codecs too (e.g. AAC, MP3, ...)."

[1] https://xiph.org/vorbis/

[2] http://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/

[3] https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Does_Opus_make_all_those_other...