skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT: how much of a pain is it under HIPPA to deal with medical data provided by the patients themselves through channels that aren't supposed to be used for such data?

I've never dealt with medical data, but do deal with credit card data so have to deal with PCI. With credit card data we run into customers who send emails, or use online chat, or leave voice mails telling us they have a new card and giving the number. We never ask for them to do this, and indeed everything we tell them says never to send us a credit card by such means, but they do it anyway.

That brings all those systems into scope for PCI, which is a pain in the ass.

We use helpdesk and support chat software licensed from a third party. We had to write scripts that understand its DB schema and data formats and can find and remove credit card information, and keep them up to date as the helpdesk and chat software is updated.

A few years ago, the vendor tried to discontinue the stand-alone version and move its users to their cloud service version, but had to drop that plan when they found out that a lot of their customers were doing the same thing we were, and absolutely could not move to a cloud service unless that cloud service handled PCI issues. Apparently they didn't want to deal with making their cloud service handle that, and there had been no talk since then of dropping the stand alone version.

Do people dealing with HIPPA run into similar issues?
Can't they place a machine in the stores where people can deposit cash and get a loaded card to purchase things with?

Cash is legal tender and should always be a possible method of purchase at physical locations.
According to Brown, as many as 50 percent of black and Latino households in San Francisco go without a bank account

This stat is hard to believe. Does anybody have a link to the actual study? Most national studies (like the FDIC one) put this number around 5%. My wife works in the restaurant industry, and most all of the illegal immigrants have bank accounts, smart phones, use direct deposit, etc.
Ask HN: Being Badmouthed in the Industry
Hello HN,

Three years ago, I ran into a nasty individual during a job interview (details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886753) That would've been a long forgotten story if it didn't came back to bite me.

Recently, I was trying to get in touch with my industry contacts, talking about moving jobs as my current employer ran into financial troubles.

I had a LinkedIn conversation with an owner of one very successful iot chip company 3 years ago, but he abruptly stopped responding to my messages back then. It is just now that I realised that the guy mentioned above got connected to him on LinkedIn right around that time, and to other people in my social circle.

This is why I suspect that it is possible that he went badmouthing me after our argument, especially given him emanating that "Internet weirdo" feel (despite him being a very business like smooth talker on a first look.) That man owns his own non-insubstantial business, and has some reputation in the industry.

Right now, it is very important to me to repair that relationship.

Two things are possible:

1. The owner of the company was simply too busy to answer random messages, and I am just too paranoid.

2. The scenario above actually happened, and I am in trouble now.

Have anybody encountered anything similar?

Question to 40-50+ people, how would've you handled that?

How would've you prepared an email taking in account both possibilities (CEO being pissed off about randoms contacting him directly, or him being disinformated.)
There are so many unbanked people in the U.S. that I wonder whether local governments should step in to address the problem, because the private market has clearly failed to serve these people.
If you can't buy tickets with cash ... sure, sounds good.
>Take the money and play your own game.

Any example here?
As someone who has taken a 4.5 day trip from vancouver to toronto in coach, I would advise the same . I love trains, but that was too much.
The judge will definitely not rule that the SEC is in "clear overreach" since the 500k tweet is only one of the many tweets they cite in their filing as evidence that Elon has violated his settlement agreement. The 500k tweet was just the final straw.

Also, with respect to the "previously published numbers," Tesla provided a range of 360k to 500k. A large range, indicating significant uncertainty. Musk's tweet narrowed that range quite drastically to the upper-high end (i.e., "about 500k"), indicating substantially less uncertainty about Tesla's capacity. That is materially new information. Moreover, Musk's comment was that Tesla would make 500k cars in 2019, not make cars at an annualized rate of 500k/year at the end of the year. He had to correct that tweet with a followup, but the followup tweet also contained material information: he narrowed the 2019 delivery estimate of 400k.

Musk is going to face some penalty for violating the settlement agreement. No one is sure what that will be. He'll probably still be CEO afterward, but he'll definitely be a few million poorer...and it's likely that Tesla will also pay another monetary penalty for its failure to uphold its part of the settlement agreement.
> TFA disagrees with you:

Quite the opposite in fact. TFA is quite clear on how their aim is to stop new housing units to be used for rentals, and they even force an arbitrary process to approve exceptions to the ban by enabling local polititians to approve specific projects they may see as acceptable.

Nevertheless, the goal is quite clear: raise barriers to the introduction of rental properties.
You'll be happy to hear that we invested a lot of software effort into this recently, and are catching a ton of cases. Unfortunately, it's hard to do well and impossible to do precisely, so we have to be more modest than we'd like. Still, if you post "These secrets of the story behind exactly these things", the title will convert to "Things".
How about solving this through store credit cards? Put a machine outside Amazon store. Insert cash -> Get loaded card. Sorted!
This makes sense.

Why is it hard for these stores to process cash in some way? Why not just have the ability to put cash into a machine in the store and spit out an anonymous account? (asking seriously)
According to the article, the data the city is using is from 2005. It is likely access has increased in the past 14 years.
Prohibiting renting will create downward pressure on property prices and make them more affordable. If you can't rent a property, then it is worthless to you other than as a straight-up investment. If Amsterdam paired this with an unoccupied-residence tax then it would probably drive prices low enough for all housing to be owned by occupants (since housing would be worthless otherwise).

If Amsterdam went even further and subsidized/required lenders to approve 0% down home ownership then they could likely fully solve the problem.
If FB truly cared it would likely never have happened, let alone gone on for years. I'm not saying no employee at FB cares; I'm saying FB as an organization doesn't, and we have plenty of "I'm sorry, we'll do better" statements to back that up.
I'm sure Lazy Bear can come up with a coherent way to accept cash, as can all these other stores.

Your argument is a bit lazy though, right? The point is that cash itself says you have to accept it for "all debts public and private" and as an equitable society we have an incentive to make sure that is true. Out of hand dismissals of a coherent argument do not help us learn more; they only serve to make you feel good about being smarter than some other people.
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Wasn’t worth commercially, but as a fan I’m really happy they did it.
I always wrote elaborate search queries with most important terms first, no filler words, etc.

Lately I'm using more natural language searches, because they return better results. Probably they're optimizing the engine to return the best results for the most people, and most people want to know "how do I turn on the furnace" not "[model number] furnace manual"
I understand that it's inconvenient when services shut down but I see 3 options.

1) Wait until it seems there's enough comittment from Google before using it.
2) Start using it right away knowing that it might not be around forever.
3) Don't use it because you don't trust Google to maintain it.

Given these 3 options, does Google launching a service really have that much impact on consumer's lives? I'm a huge Gmail user and have been for over a decade. If they shut it down it will suck but I'll find another way to email people.

I get the philosophical arguments but curious why some people have the level of concern or angst when Google announces a product.

(for the sake of this comment let's forget about competition and monopolies)
Yes, this is an industry-wide problem. Many logging API's are designed for convenience, not security. We need systematic solutions that are still easy to use (or they won't be used).
They give you a barcode that you can use to fill your wallet.
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I painted too broad strokes. I agree, and admit my mistake.
The recent attempts at banning cashless stores is addressing the symptoms without considering the root cause. The two main reasons to ban cashless stores revolve around privacy and access to the un/underbanked. Privacy is a legitimate concern, but what are we doing to solve the crisis of folks who don't have access to a bank? There are some policy papers floating around regarding postal banking and programs of a similar nature, but none of these proposals are getting legislative traction.
> "Software Engineer" is just a job title.

And like the job title "sandwich engineer", it should probably be derided.

Apologies to anybody working in the honorable trade of sandwich crafting. I love sandwiches and appreciate your work. They bring me much more enjoyment than software.
I'm going to bet that technology in general has a whole lot to do with it. I remember all the trouble people got into because they were just out and about with nothing to do. Having a cellphone gives you instant access to something you are interested in regardless of what it is and can be used acceptably if there is any downtime.
>Amazon's "secret sauce" is "obsessive compulsive focus on the customer."

I feel like this used to be true, but hasn't been the case for at least the past year
This is easily solved with cash machines that reload value onto an Amazon card. They could have those at the entrance and then you can shop only up to the limit of the amount loaded on the card.
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That is weird. The paper was published in 2009 by Microsoft Research, and the Xbox One entered development in early 2011 according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One). So when the author started working on the problem for Microsoft, Microsoft already knew how to solve the problem.
Why do we have to jump to infinity? Why can't the velocity of money vary based on market forces, including economic growth? Credit markets are the closest thing we have to visibility into monetary velocity.

This is all assuming that we're talking about modern Chicago-school monetary theory. In Keynsian (i.e. most mainstream economics) there's not even a universally accepted connection between money supply and price inflation/deflation. Most Keynsian theorists (and practitioners) agree that directly manipulating credit markets through artificial price floors on future money is a much more sane way to affect price inflation and deflation, while also having the secondary effect of manipulating the employment market.

The idea of an asset that always increases in value (or a "free lunch", let's call it) is explicitly disowned by every theory of economics, from the Austrians & monetarists to the Keynsians & the Marxists.
If you're buying a sleeper car ticket, you should be comparing it to an international business class flight with a lie-flat seat. Not a domestic flight in economy.
I'd come across this before, but only just now experienced it. It seems much easier to lock on to the hidden image when it's animated. Also panning your head up/down/left/right with your eyes seems to help too.

Even when your eyes are pointing in the right direction, you eyes' lenses can be incorrectly focused. In order to see the image, you have to hit the correct combination of focus and parallax (which will disagree with what your brain is used to seeing).

> Is there something physically different about my eyes or brain compared to people who can see them?

This is possible, but probably unlikely. If you can't perceive depth, e.g. neurologically incapable, or you have less than two eyes, this won't work for you.
I believe the reason is because freight gets higher priority on the rails than travelers in the U.S.
Good to know. Someone in Facebook probably writes all his emails in all caps.
> But given the shitshow that is Tesla's logistics , that's extremely unlikely, as Tesla's logistics processes simply aren't valuable IP.

The "shitshow" standard is not the standard a court uses regarding IP theft/misappropriation. I'm in enough IP legal battles to know that dumber stuff has been valid in courts.
The whole premise of Amazon stores is to just grab stuff off the shelf and leave.

If someone feeds $1 into the machine and gets a loaded card, can they just walk out with $20 worth of merch? With a credit card you just get charged for whatever you took and you pay later.
Are there toll roads in the US that don't accept cash?
When I was a smaller human being I could find an empty row on a train and stretch out fully diagonally under the seats. no way could I do that now but it was nice while it lasted. took the south west chief a few times, the empire builder, the capitol limited and lakeshore limited. trains are great
You need to find out the scale of the numbers. Even if 5% does, and clicks on them, it is a crazy number.
Does anyone know why Microsoft believe that GDPR disallows comments? Or why GDPR does actually disallow comments in case that's the case?
Even toll roads without people accepting payment there, can be paid for in cash afterwards, at least in California

https://thetollroads.com/help/faq/386
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That seems easy enough to me. That isn't any different than an arcade where you put $5 into a machine and they give you tokens for the game machines. Except instead of tokens they would give you a temporary card.
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I think it's amazing how little the rankings have changed over the past few years.
FWIW, more and more cities are trying to ban cashless stores. Philadelphia became the first city to ban cashless stores citywide earlier this month [1]. Would be interesting to see if NYC and SF both ban them as well.

[1] https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-ban-cashless-stores...
Super cool!

Does anyone know alternative non-random dot approaches to autostereogram generation?

Seeing the random dot approach in video highlights the lack of temporal coherence across frames.
Then the practical solution is to pass a law requiring them to have a machine to load a card with, not banning them outright.

This policy is needlessly destructive.
DC AG filing shows Facebook knew about Cambridge A long before first report
Something that I've always wondered, did you pay income tax on your tips, or just the base wage? My understanding was that tips were equivalent to "under the counter" pay.

I dislike tipping because oftentimes the people who are making your food make less money than the person who brings it to me, which seems wrong. People are always crying about how little servers make while neglecting the fact that society has trained people to automatically tip, meaning that you don't even have to do an exceptional job to earn 15%+ on most checks. Nowadays every business has a tipping option at the cash register, AKA my order getting punched into an Ipad somehow qualifies you getting paid more, and then when people say "raise wages and prices" so I can make better decisions and not tip, servers are the first to complain about that as well.

I apologize if what I said offends any servers, but I've had too many conversations where servers are simultaneously not making enough money but also don't want minimum wage laws applied to their job because then they'd make less money. With $15 minimum wage you'd think that'd be enough for what is usually an entry-level job.
A Julia Interpreter and Debugger
Whatever is the final evaluator gets to define what is required. Beyond that, give your users the power to do it their way. Or they will find a way to get it themselves.
It would be naive to pretend the connection between the shooter and Spyro is as random and meaningless as the connection between PewDiePie and white nationalist/alt-right trolling. I'm absolutely not blaming PewDiePie in any way for things that crowd does, even if they give a religious-terrorist-style pledge to him before they commit murder as a "joke", but I do think he is somewhat at fault for their attraction to him.
I did live TeXing for about a year, after only having ~a year of emacs and latex use. It's not as hard as it sounds but yes like you mention, it takes your head out of the lecture and into your editor. However, the idea of 'rewrite your notes at the end of the day', who has the time for that though?
If you go into a store, they can reject you for any reason (unless it's due to being a member of a protected class). Cash must be accepted to settle debts, but if I refuse to serve you, there is no debt. It's legal for stores to say "we don't accept $100 bills" and it's legal to say "we don't accept cash". However, if you eat dinner, THEN pay, you have a debt, and cash must be accepted.
> There are so many unbanked people in the U.S.

How many?

> local governments should step in to address the problem

What do you suggest they do?
Before the post title was changed it contained a question, "any idea how its hardware works?" That's where my comment was directed.
Are you asking a policy question, or is this a rhetorical question and you're making a point that there are already cases where not taking cash is an accepted practice?

I don't see a need to ban it because it's fairly unlikely that someone can both afford a Lazy Bear ticket and also be unbanked.

But if you take the nuance out of this question and forced me to choose, then yes, I would say that Lazy Bear should be required to offer a cash-based way to buy tickets.
Holy crap, it’s flagged and gone. Wow. My god, I hate this timeline.
IIRC they were trying to start a public bank in LA but they didn't get the votes.
It helps if you make a conscious effort to cross your eyes; if you're unable to do that it's probably harder, if not impossible
Do you know public, private and protected in Ruby?
100% decentralization is an utopia. But with the Fediverse, we have the best of the both worlds: most people will register to a "centralized" instance like mastodon.social and people who want will be able to run their own instances/nodes with their rules, their policies, ... and federate it. Pretty much like any email server.
Using React Component for routing has a benefit: Universal Routing, with all benefits of React inside the route itself (lifecycle, state, data fetching,...).
Many toll roads in the US are being switched to automated systems that either scan a device attached to your windshield or license plate, allowing you to either prepay into an account or pay afterward.
>I am using Amazon less and less these days

Agreed, everything about amazon has been getting progressively worse. Prices, reviews, products, usability, shipping, etc.
The problem isn't that the 500k was never said before. The problem was that the original use of the 500k was part of a ranged estimate with a great deal of uncertainty (approximately 30-45%), but Musk's original problematic tweet eliminated all of that uncertainty. The elimination of uncertainty is material information to investors.

And the original tweet was also simply wrong. Musk had to correct in a followup tweet about the 500k being an annualized rate.
Bezos' real customer is shareholders. The people buying on Amazon have been products for a long time now.
Privacy protections become more and more relevant with the ubiquity of information that companies process, store and share. Sure it adds work for companies, but that is a preferable trade off to the alternative. GDPR won't make the difference between a company being a large global player or not.

Similarly, taxing companies that go to every possible extent to avoid it and hardly pay any taxes even though they are some of the largest companies in the world is hardly being "obsessed with finding ways to tax US internet giants as much as they can".

I think a large reason for the lack of large European IT companies is the language and small/segmented markets problem.

It's natural to start with your home country/market since that is were you are, were you have market insight, connections to get things going, .... But in Europe you have many countries with different languages, different currencies, tax schemes, regulations, and very different levels of income and prosperity.
Expansion / internationalization is often a very cumbersome step by step process.

Compared to the US where you have a large demographic with a single language, somewhat more unified regulation, and a big ecosystem of startups, things are a lot more challenging.

Stricter employment protection and regulation in general, and the lack of the achievement and entrepreneurial culture certainly play a role though.
> At Google you don't get to read random log files

> crawling randomly through logs for no good reason is a quick way to get in trouble.

So do you get to or do you not?
Let's say a company does implement client side hashing. Now the server just needs the hash to log you in. Isn't the hash now basically the password? Now if the hash leaks or gets logged, a malicious user can still login to the company service using that hash. Only difference is, since it's not a plaintext password, with proper salting the user is somewhat protected from having their other services with similar password hacked.
I probably just misread your comment then :)
I really wanted to have Firefox work for me on macOS, but if you use more than 1 OS user concurrently, Firefox regularly locks up when switching between them, or when the computer comes back from sleep. Having to constantly reboot the browser was a deal breaker for me.
“Your margin is my opportunity" is a better quote for this move.
Should the same principle apply to Uber, AirBnB, Instacart, Lime, Netflix and other operators?
oh, I thought a DNS server meant I would be storing my own copy of table of URL's to IP adresses?

So the privacy enhancement is tracking by the DNS server? but if my local DNS server forwards these requests, how exactly does it improve my privacy if it does not store a bulk "DNS table" in my amateur speak?
i think back to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon... (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378658 )

> Later that day, Tripp heard from the sheriff’s department in Storey County, Nev. Tesla’s security department had passed a tip to police. An anonymous caller had contacted the company to say Tripp was planning a mass shooting at the Gigafactory.

it sounds like there's a reasonably high probability that some one high up at Telsa arranged for some bullshit report to be made to police claiming an ex-employee whistleblower was going to go on a shooting spree at the factory. I'd like to see this bullshit report investigated and prosecuted as attempted-murder-(by-cop), this behaviour by any employer to any former employee, let alone a whistleblower, is completely unacceptable. It makes it a bit hard to take other claims made by the same company about other former employees seriously given that in some cases the company is observably acting in a very toxic and fraudulent manner.