skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is universal care going to reduce the shortage of primary care doctors?
How is universal care going to eliminate patents for pharma?
How is universal care going to make non-profit hospitals cheaper?
How is universal care going to eliminate fee-for-service, which has the administrative costs that are the woes of care providers?
How is universal care going to reduce healthcare spending?
https://xkcd.com/293/
The same company also blamed a hack in Australia on Iran, which the Australian government does not agree with. https://www.itwire.com/security/86141-iran-or-china-competin...
Doop is a fantastic base system to extend for anyone wanting to do program analysis generally! I built my thesis work on top of it (recently defended but unfortunately not published yet) and Datalog is incredibly productive to prototype ideas.

(Performance is another matter -- one has to pay careful attention to clause ordering, and watch out for O(n^2) / O(n^3) / ... loop nests, but at least it's easier to try options than refactoring an ad-hoc analysis engine.)
I think the answer to the question what's the point is to notice that there's a bit of a rhetorical trick going on. Notice how they say (in passive voice) proposes building a national Domain Name System to allow the internet to continue functioning even if the country is cut off from foreign infrastructure. So you're trying to analyze this as if a foreign country tries to cut Russia off from the internet. The Russian government has an interest of its own in cutting itself off from the internet to control its own citizens' speech on the internet, it's just that it's a little bit cynical to imagine it and it wouldn't be balanced to mention it explicitly in a news article.
On the surface this reminds me of Opera Turbo[0], but a lot of the details are different. Opera Turbo still seems to rely on the browser to do a lot of what you're suggesting the server should do.

[0] https://www.opera.com/turbo
if anyone else wondered, it is of course pseudoscience that hearts have neurons, they have cardiomyocytes which are quite different than neurons. But its easy to understand why thats a another fantasy spread by popular "science" journalism (add it to the list of bullshit they spread lol).
Show HN: Postman/Gherkin tests generator from swagger spec
I see it all the time in my domain (search). Novice data scientists getting into a new field quickly get frustrated with existing practitioners. Existing practitioners want to use tried and true methods; data scientists want to reinvent the field with ML. The existing practitioners don’t know how to manage the usually black-box ML solution. Data scientists don't know the domain enough to be effective. So it doesn’t go far.

It’s a dynamic that sadly burns out overly optimistic, but smart data scientists and sadly leaves a negative impression on existing practitioners on the promise of ML. Those practitioners stick their head back in a hole instead of innovating.

All to say with more explainable ML (and more humility on everyone’s part) more progress would be made.
And it's well known that disreputable repair shops will ask you up front how much your insurance is paying you so they can get the full amount.
> There is a threshold of contentedness above which it doesn't matter one bit what the hierarchy does to maintain integrity.

If that's true, then the threshold for suffering is dramatically high. I don't think we need to list all of the oppressive states that have existed or still do exist where millions have died.

Unfortunately, it's getting easier for fewer people to monitor and control more.
When you say "People demand the system spare no expense on their care." is that really all americans?

So there's no market for cheaper but somewhat less effective health care?

Given that medical bills are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA[1], it seems really odd that all those people who's lives are getting seriously messed up by this wouldn't want some form of cheaper health care, even if it wasn't the no.1 most effective option.

https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-415...
Interesting, I have little idea how the field really works. I guess there must still be some kind of internet presence, maybe not through a typical social network ?
I give it a year before the enemy realized the flying wolf-thing has no teeth. Animals arent stupid when it comes to the predator-prey relationship. It is an old game.
I think cable providers should be forced to open up their lines for other resellers that then can compete with different plans. It works pretty well for cell phones where you have multiple MVNOs offering plans on the big networks. In short the ownership of infrastructure should be separate from selling to end users.
I wish DuckDuckGo had the minus operator to exclude keywords from the results. Otherwise it is my daily driver.
>"CI/CD (that needs to build a container)? Use buildah."

Is buildah an alternative to Kaniko then?
Are the action potentials spinning up like a turbo in a car engine?
Ruler needs to give his subjects bread and circuses. The circus part is increasingly happening in the Internet.

If I was Putin, I would make sure that you can stream or torrent movies and have good access to game servers, cat videos and mindless entertainment like my life depends on it.
Yep,better tell to the professional book editors the big mistake they are making in their high profile printing.
Some large IP networks still use IS-IS for routing (IS-IS is OSI's version of OSPF, and runs directly on top of ethernet rather than being encapsulated IP, and is seen as easier to deploy).

For a time, in the late 1990s, some regional ISPs effective ran over X.25 --- they leased shared "backbones" running Frame Relay (which is OSI stack); this is sort of like the phone company runs a backbone that you and some of your competitors buy and run IP over for your ISP customers. There are probably still some offices and retail chains that use frame and thus the X.25 stack.

My handle (twitter, email, whatever) comes from X.25. If you were a kid growing up on the mean streets of dial-up Internet in the 1990s, X.25 was a big deal. :)
Allowing Others the Freedom to Change
Brexit, Briefly: Revisited!
Based on this, I've tried most of today to make minikube work on macOS. But as I'm using DNSCrypt-Proxy I had major issues making it work without manual steps.

So far, the Docker for Mac is a solution that just works.

If someone have some experience, I'll gladly want to know how you make it work flawless.
The eMPG is an attempt to convert WH/m into MPG based on some fixed numbers for $/kWh and $/gallon.

a WH/m x b $/kWh / 1000 = x $/mi

c $/ga gasoline / x $/mi = mpg equivalent.

For a=300, b=0.15, c=$3.00 you get 66mpg.

You can plug in your own numbers as you see fit.

The cost savings is then estimated by plugging in a number of miles driven, and comparing gallons of gas versus a hypothetically less efficient car (not sure what MPG rating Tesla uses for its comparison)

Note that the Tesla Model 3 is closer to 150 WH/mi. And what does gasoline cost in those European countries?
Then it can be spoofed, right? Most of us don't get sufficient sunlight exposure. I use a light therapy machine in the morning and try to spend time outside. Presumably in this modern age the efficient range for our circadian rhythms is a wide one.
I've been bitten by the Spotlight key combination and the input switching key combination being similar, but this is a PEBKAC rather than a bug.

I've since disabled the input switching key combination because it conflicts with Emacs' set-mark-command.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/can-organ-transplant-change-rec...
Airline List
This is interesting:

A Kaggle competition to predict loan defaults gives an extreme example. This competition had 100s of raw features. For privacy reasons, the features had names like f1, f2, f3 rather than common English names. This simulated a scenario where you have little intuition about the raw data.

One competitor found that the difference between two of the features, specifically f527 — f528, created a very powerful new feature. Models including that difference as a feature were far better than models without it. But how might you think of creating this variable when you start with hundreds of variables?

The techniques you’ll learn in [OP's cours] would make it transparent that f527 and f528 are important features, and that their role is tightly entangled. This will direct you to consider transformations of these two variables, and likely find the “golden feature” of f527 — f528.
I think in principle it’s a good thing to avoid having companies that are very big. These giants are not very innovative compared to their size so having multiple smaller competitors is probably healthy.

Breaking up large companies may be a form of “creative destruction “. Maybe there are other ways to accomplish this big I am convinced that very large companies are not good for a market economy.
My guess is cortisol and possibly anxiety surrounding sleep.
You've given me qualities of an ideal proposal, but no actual proposal. I suspect because that level of perfection cannot exist. If there were a superior alternative to drop in, we would drop it in!

More generally, I don't think violations will play out as you expect. We have experience with this kind of provision, under licenses like GPLv3, much more often under breach-termination provisions found in many kinds of contracts. Section 8 of GPLv3 may sound more precise for using legal dialect, but that language, like "cure" and "cease all violation", isn't really more precise. For example, to "cease" violating GPLv3, do I have to go back and fix my past transgressions? How? If not, why does the following paragraph say "cure"? Does "cure" apply to future violations? Or does "cure" just point back to "cessation" in the previous paragraph?

All of this is actually quite alright, because by the time the licensor and licensee are in direct communication, it's within their power to settle the matter on their own terms, and not necessarily those of the license. Obviously, the licensor is the arbiter of practicality, up to the point where they decide to bring a claim or not. But the broad terms of the excuse provision give the licensee leverage and breathing room. The language does what we want, which is put the licensor and licensee in an interactive process toward resolution, and not in pre-litigation mode.

There is nothing capricious about paving a path back to compliance, despite breach, in a public open source software license. Quite the opposite. The effect of the term is to prevent capricious claims for injunctions and money damages against licensees who may have unknowingly, or even perfectly innocently, violated it terms. That kind of mousetrap claim, and copyright trolling, are possible under MIT, BSD, and even Apache 2.0, which lack excuse rules for their attribution conditions.

This looks to me like a case of shooting the honest messenger. Blue Oak has made this kind of term more transparent, in plainer language, with less reliance on the (false) mystique of legalese. Now that you can read the term, and the clear expectation is that you can and will understand it for yourself, you see the actual mechanism. And it isn't perfect precision, total lack of ambiguity, or a quasi-mathematical formula. That doesn't exist in practical legal terms.
> yes, I am a Googler, I am most definitely not trying to hide it, it's in my HN profile, I just got tired of constantly typing it

While I don't personally care too much, I suppose it could be problematic if you remove this information from your profile at a later date, and from that point on people reading your comments wouldn't (easily) be able to know that you work at Google.
That's an absolutely insane rate. They should all be grounded...
That is probably true. Airbus pilots know and expect the computer to have the last word. Pilots of all planes are expected to know how to engage alternate law (more direct control) or disable specific parts of automation when necessary. I was going to say they are not doing too well at that, but then you only hear about it when they failed. In the same vein you don't hear much about automation saving lives.

I have a friend who is a commercial pilot and who doesn't like Airbus planes because he doesn't want to be overruled by a computer... Accident statistics are a wash between Boeing and Airbus, though.
C++ is not C. For that we have C.
Yep! I agree as well, the less you speak, the more you listen, the better!
Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)
>The protests in Moscow, the southern city of Voronezh and Khabarovsk in the far east had all been officially authorized.

How subversive.
Find the origin of all SQL queries in your Rails applications
Yeah exactly...and those developers who just want to run something quickly are not really your ideal customers. People using it for workloads in production are...
I switched from DDG to Searx. Both are pretty good, but Searx is actually FOSS while the only reason I was using DDG is because it's not Google.

There are actually several Searx instances you can choose: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
The new kid on the block, React hooks
Wrote a piece on React hooks and what I've learned so far on it.
Link to article here ->

https://blog.linguinecode.com/post/getting-started-with-reac...
> "Giving the infrequency of airplane crashes, it probably isn't coincidence."

I don't think that's how statistics work. You need larger sample sizes in order to make such a statement with high confidence.
>Noise, they have come to understand, is the secondhand smoke of this era.

Most of the author's points about sound come down to hand waving and weasel wording. He says hearing loss is "coming up fast on the list" of public health problems (a meaningless assertion), and then he never presents evidence that leaf blowers are a significant cause of this. He started with the conclusion (leaf blowers make an annoying sound), and then did his best to argue the sound that annoys him should be illegal.

On the other hand, he's right that 2 stroke engines are dirty as hell, and his statistics to that ends are a bit more convincing.
I'd like to see them work on a digital bill of rights. I'm not sure what such a thing would look like, but I hope it would enshrine privacy in a way that will stand the test of time. It would benefit the individual citizen though, so it is probably damn near impossible to do at this point.
There aren't any models from history of what happens to totalitarian states when their population is connected to a much larger external network.

This is the first generation of totalitarian leaders that has to figure out how to handle the "connectedness". They will do the obvious thing and try to disconnect. There is nothing to suggest it will result in anything but a loss to the state and to them.
Speaking as a technical founder... That is ok.

"A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Marketing / sales / bd / etc do not understand most of the variables engineering is working theough. They can be big: impacting price to build/extend and when it starts being a profit center! The tricky bit is those depts also have their own tracked variables that need to be rolled into the decision. Non-engineering variables can also be critical: E.g., going to market before others, hitting some top account or partner, growing revenue by x% compounding now and using that to pay for tech debt, or even learning the workaround isn't worth improving from the customer's/market's perspective.

The humbling thing is no one has all the info, from engineering and product to sales and marketing to the execs. That is where your job comes in. So communicating opportunities at the level of time/cost/growth within engineering's field of view, and making this a non-unilateral discussion. (And if you are good, invisibly sneaking in color around all your other operational glue: who is doing well, what new ideas came in, etc.)
I am speaking from memory, but iirc Libet's study wasn't without flaws and it was contested many times during the years.

More researchs like this are positive, as this is a far from solved field.
I don't see anything in the article which actually matches the title's claim. They never argue against the 8-hour workday, and in fact say "the length of the workday didn’t matter much". This article merely argues in favor of taking regular breaks.
Ask HN: Crypto Categorization/Taxonomy
Is there a crypto categorization system or taxonomy thats being adopted as a standard across the industry?
> The author suggests that the model "understands" colour because it drafts decks of specific colours. Well, its dataset consists of decks with cards of specific colours. It learned to reproduce those decks. It didn't learn anything about why those decks pick particular cards, or what particular cards are. All it has is a list of numbers that it has to learn to put together in specific ways.

> This is as far from "understanding the concept of colour", or anything, as can be.

It is very arguably bad feature engineering - if you have the information readily available, don't make the network infer it - but I think the description is fair.

Word2vec uses a similar model. It starts out knowing nothing about each word except an arbitrary numeric index, and learns everything else by predicting words that appear next to each other. By the end of the training it clearly has internal representations of concepts like "color", "verb", "gender", etc.

The same concept should apply here - by observing what cards are used in similar decks, with enough training data it should eventually associate concepts like card type, color and mana costs to each card.

In this case there isn't enough training data for that kind of resolution, but it has learned that blue cards go with blue cards, and red cards with red cards, and there's no hard lines from there to the concept of color.

Sure this isn't going to "solve" MtG, and I don't think it is a particularly good approach for the problem statement, but I think the idea is workable, and the network could already contain a proto-concept of "color" that would be refined with more training.
The unfortunate part about this is that there's a lot of really talented network engineers who are from Russia (or Ukraine, or Belarus, or other former soviet states). The high quality of math education is part of it, totally subjective personal theory of course...

A lot of the most talented Russian network engineers don't want to work for an autocratic regime. I've met at least a half dozen that now work for international ISPs you would see on a top-30 list for CAIDA ASRank, none of which are Russian ISPs. They're living outside Russia, enjoying actual free speech and human rights, and making a better salary.
Suggest bi-partisan regulations sounds like a bare minimum. Gather information from specialists. Suggesting to split companies requires a minimum effort: understand what interactions exist now between the teams. I don’t have the impression that she’s done that.
Facebook should not have been allowed to acquire Instagram.

The law targeting monopoly is broken in the digital era.
I don't know where you live, but is it not the same (i.e. you need official approbation to plan a protest) in most countries?
On desktop I can add columns to the cities display, so that I can sort by various metrics like overall production output, waste, etc.

Without that feature it is quite difficult to plan at a high level especially as the number of cities grows (and I play large pox!)
Big deal, because I can react to some things almost immediately, as they happen sometimes, so where's your science god now?

Case in point, the door opens suddenly, and without warning. The otherside of the door is soundproofed, so footsteps in the hallway cannot be heard. In walks in so-and-so. I can tell who it is without looking, by the footsteps (jangling spurs, or what have you), and it's someone unexpected. In less than a second, I say hello to them by name.

There would not have been any unconscious brain activity, since I was not expecting that person to walk through the door, although I was able to recognize and react within a smaller window of anticipation.

Here I am minding my own business. I see a bullshit headline, and in less than 11 seconds, I able to summon a cogent rebuttal to its hypothesis. Predict that with your fMRI.

Argue with me some more. Tell me my brain had already queued a cluster of event loops upon waking from my bed that morning. That's fine. Are to going to fMRI that too? And then what?
This assumes brain time is free. Most of us are too busy navigate all of the deals. Sure, just this one thing for audible is easy. But then you have to remember that other thing for Hulu ..and weird trick for Spotify ...and the spring promo for the grocery store.. Pretty soon we get lost.
or as Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi put it: "Charity is the drowning of rights in the shithole of mercy."
So I'm an early employee in a small startup that decided outsourcing the software was the way to create the MVP. It bought the company valuable time to start because none of the founders was technical and they just want the MVP to launch on the app stores. We did launch early and the MVP is working to validate business processes and iron out things we did not think about before. One thing that's left is the technical debt for extensibility/maintenance.

One thing I want to bring up in this scenario is the need for the founders to still find a key technical person ASAP as they are trying to prove their idea works. If one of the company's edge is in their technical capability[0], you need someone in house to own the stack eventually. Preferably experienced, as they need to look over the handed over code and vet any possible future problems and/or fix any pressing bugs ASAP.

[0]: Technical edge does not have to be bleeding edge technology. Most of the time, the advantage of having the right CRUD app built that is an improvement over your competitor/existing business process/product is enough.
I think putting "This project is used by X, Y and Z" on your website would still constitute trademark infringement. That it's a factual statement is irrelevant. The purpose of trademark laws is to prevent confusion in the marketplace. The pertinent question here is whether the statement creates a false impression that X, Y, and Z are endorsing your product. The answer is a clear yes.

If you write an blog post complaining how X, Y, and Z are using your product but won't let you use their logos, then you'd be in the clear. That's covered by fair use. Identification of the companies in question is absolutely essential to the message you're trying to convey.
“Feedback” on public betas seems to be an even lower priority.

I’ve reported that each iOS beta gnaws away system storage since they started the program.

My phone is currently giving up 176GB to system storage and seems to have no end in sight.

So many enthusiast users I know are so frustrated they want to give up.