skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not clear to me that the two are competing for resources. Getting a phone working requires completely different staff from bringing up online services, and a steady cash flow can lift the pots on all the burners.
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain
We plan to implement an API for users to submit CC-licensed works that they'd like to add to our database later this year. Once we have that, you can call our API when you publish a new CC-licensed work and we'll automatically add it to our catalog. We have to work out some details like how we can verify that the content is actually CC-licensed.

Encouraging use of ccREL embedding like aldenpage mentioned in another response is also in our long-term vision since that would require no additional actions from the creators.
Everything already has an error margin. The difference is that the entire error margin is paid by the unlikely few who turned to cost more than expected. The point is to reduce risk by spreading the cost between those unlucky enough to have incurred extra with the rest of the patients.

If the actual cost of covering the unexpected costs is less than the margin they are tacking on, then that is simply over charging, and is not meaningfully different from the overcharging they can do anyway.
That makes sense. ICD9/10 is certainly byzantine, and widely abused, but it seems reasonable to not quote something that isn't coded yet. I did some research for a company once on Medicare reimbursements. That data is all publicly available via data.gov, sorted by code and much more. The private insurance market could follow suit, and providers could also publish that information if agreements didn't forbid it.

The data simply needs to be price per code per insurance policy. I understand providers may not want people bickering over what codes are used, but they ought to be able to produce that report easily.
Hi Graycat, it actually may be easier to make fuel by mining air. We used to make fertilizer by mining guano and collecting animal droppings, but once Haber and Bosch figured out how to make ammonia from atmospheric N2, it just make more economic and practical sense. It's hard to mine oil, transport it, refine it, etc. Compare that to making it where and when you need it with no waste. I think it will be better.
This econtalk episode[1] provides some interesting background on how this happens with medication. There are man-in-the-middle companies (Pharmacy Benefit Managers - PBM) that negotiate plans with pharma companies. These companies get paid a commission based on the delta between list price and the deal they got. The Pharma companies need these deals, so both benefit by the pharma company increasing list prices every year and then cutting better deals to those PBMs. If someone is offering a generic that's cheaper, there is less incentive for PBMs to add them to their plan, because the prices are too cheap to begin with and they have a smaller market share initially. It's all a giant Rube Goldberg machine of a mess.

EDIT: One more interesting detail from the podcast and the book it's based on: Those deals between PBMs and pharma companies are secret. Not even the insurance companies know the details of what's in there.

It's also fun to point out that typically this is everyone involved in a consumer getting their drug:
* the consumer
* the consumer's employer who selects the insurance
* the insurance
* a PBM who get a Pharma benefit plan for the insurance
* the Pharma company that manufactures the drug
* the pharmacy you actually buy the drugs.
On top of that the actual payment apparently happens often months after you received the drug.

Edit2: Clarifying "PBM"

[1]http://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drugs-money-and-sec...
Why do I want to attempt a 24-wheel donut all of the sudden?
What is a full cylinder?
> You're seriously going to defend the App Store?!

Yup, flawed as it is, I find it much more useful than apt. If I'm wearing a dev hat and were forbidden from using anything to manage software installs other than one of apt or App Store (no nix!), I'd rather have apt. But for my non dev apps (you know, even people who tweak kernel parameters have non-programming related apps they want to use from time to time ;), Appstore is obviously more useful.

> However claiming apt and yum suck when also praising the OSX App Store is just weird.

Why? Both fill different needs and App Store solves a problems that are useful to me acceptably well (making it easy to install up-to-date software I want, upgrade it and remember what I have on a per-account not per machine basis).

Yum and apt, on the other hand don't (they don't have up-to-date software I want, they don't give me what I consider a decent way to manage the same or similar setups on multiple machines etc.). I basically install everything I can with nix instead.

> So now on OSX you not only need to run the same "crufty [package manager] queries" on OSX but you also need to install the package manager itself too.

Unlike apt/yum nix offers good ways to do this – no cruftiness involved. E.g. you can just write a small file with what you want and you'll get it, on any machine.

> You only have a finite amount of system resources so you cant really complain if you intentionally over commit them.

That's not what's happened, my VMs where capped at reasonable limits. I used to run some tools for various reasons that could in some scenarios eat a lot of a ram fairly suddenly (I don't think the systems was anywhere close to overloaded CPU wise was true most of the time but I can't vouch I remember this right anymore).

Either way, I don't think the whole OS falling over because one app wants to consume too much memory and the OS has decided to never say no is reasonable. And it's not something I can recall ever happening to me with any other OS (in recent years, I don't want to think back to ancient windows days).
I would love to find a car that I could replace the filter from the top. Easily the most annoying part of the oil change is getting under the car into a position to find the oil filter conveniently located in a dark crevasse against the firewall with just enough space to make it an absolute bitch to get the tool over the filter. Maybe my car just sucks though.
Why would anybody buy Tethers for $1.00 from Tether if someone else is selling them for $0.99?
A "free society" doesn't require that parents be given free reign to torture their children. You may wish to argue whether that's what was happening, but that's the reasoning the state gave for their actions. If you'd like to argue that a free society does require this, go ahead, but I don't think most people agree.
People replace screens all the time, it is not a difficult job.
> Your point is?

Probably that the "everything wrong with tech" statement was a bit strong if I could speak for the person you responded to. I'm not sure I'd go as far to say he's "everything wrong with tech", would you? He's certainly done lots of good too, along with bad.
> We eradicated 5c coins in NZ because they cost something like 6c to make.

Why would that matter? A 5c coin is spent thousands, millions of times. Why would there need to be any connection at all between how much it costs to make the coin and the value that coin represents in a transaction?
Crowd oil not crude oil
mbasic.facebook.com

Still cluttered and awful but fast.
Security is hard. On the upside, every breach is a chance to learn for everyone else. I hope they release more details on how it happened.

Is there any blog or news that summarizes such post-mortem lessons? Could be a nice project to collect that.
One could argue that we are currently stuck on a local maxima, and that the broader political system is designed such that any significant improvement will first require massively disruptive changes that will indeed lead to deaths. In this sort of situation, the end result of a change will save many more lives over the long term, but it will require short term sacrifices. Not just sacrifices of money; unfortunately, some people won't make it through the process.

Opposition from incumbents ensures that any change will be a difficult process, and a "new normal" will not come easily. Any long-term planning efforts will be sabotaged and subverted toward capture of profits. The best we can hope for is a series of smaller disruptive shifts (each followed by a resettling) that eventually improves the situation.

Something needs to happen. Increasingly it looks like dissatisfaction with the current system will boil over and force a major shift, but other events (wars, for instance) could pop up and distract the public for a time.
Your children will die unless you lobby your representative to listen to this person. This shit is realer than any other crisis in the history of mankind and we face extinction if we do not fight it now. Pay attention.
Not spray and pray spammers, no. But, this agency is likely thinking of this, from their site: https://www.dealeron.com/automotive-seo/off-site-signals/

They use the same rubber stamp template for every dealer site they make. They aren't interested in UX feedback.
Conveniently you (and everyone else who quotes that line) left out the following part.

"But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we’re all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

His whole point is to NOT use their services because they are bound by law to turn over that kind of data. Not to shame you.
Mark Zuckerberg tries to make a joke about privacy and nobody laughs
A metaphor from an internal-combustion engine; a cylinder is said to be firing when the fuel inside it is ignited.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesaur...
See, even someone who should know better gets the argument confused. Socialism is not opposing democracy. Much of Europe is more socialist than the US and have democracies as strong or stronger than the US.
Share repurchasing of that magnitude doesn't seem like a good sign to me. I am interpreting that as meaning they could not find anything better to do with that money. If they were problem free and executing perfectly, maybe that would make sense. But that's hardly the case.
Strangers, sure. Would you send one to a sexual partner?

Medical records are another good example. Most people are squeamish about reproductive and sexual health... but share such info with a doctor.
Ironically that stuff is already public
In an attempt to appear unique, everyone ends up doing the same thing.

Instagram is just a reflection of what society does in real life. This is visible in fashion, hair styles, beard, and whatever is the trend now.

I personally don’t understand why so many people have this need to look like their peers. Does anyone with more social skills have an explanation?
Could also have continuing niche uses where energy density is paramount, like aircraft/rocket fuel and portable generators. e.g. the US military has been looking at biological or synthesized JP-8 substitutes for a while, for supply-chain risk reasons instead of environmental ones.
I'd say this depends on the environment and the audience. My younger self took many years to realize that wearing too many button-down shirts isn't always a good thing.
You might want to consider not relying on Milgram to make your point, what with the replication crisis taking out about 2/3rds of psychological research as deeply flawed, and Milgram and the various replications, have not escaped criticism.
Setting Up SSL on tomcat using letsencrypt wild card certificate
These are the highest-paid CEOs at America’s largest companies
This is what tools like py2exe and PyInstaller do.
I would have appreciated your approach. When I studied French we focused on reading and writing, not speaking. So, I was admittedly not a strong French speaker. I can understand their frustration. Had I been given the choice I might have chosen English.

You've been to American restaurants and only been interrupted once or twice by waiters? You were quite blessed then. Ordinarily, we expect conversations to be interrupted 5-6 times per meal. (I'm only slightly exaggerating.) Here's a true story illustrating how ridiculous it gets. I proposed to my wife in our favorite restaurant. I chose purposefully an early dinner time so we would have the restaurant to ourselves. As I began to kneel and pull the engagement ring out of my pocket, a busboy stepped between my wife and I to refill our water glasses. It was a bit awkward for about 20 seconds or so.
Aren't you in bucket 1 here? :)
There's no indication that they are submitting the full trip trace.
If they only submit 500 meter long traces, it may he sufficiently anonymous.
Could it be used as an sdk to pass small amounts of data around - think multi-player games....
But if you've been handed a death sentence, why NOT try a keto diet? That's a rhetorical question btw of course the is no reason not to try it.
> Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the lovable star, and nobody wanted to work with the incompetent jerk. Things got a lot more interesting, though, when people faced the choice between competent jerks and lovable fools.

> Ask managers about this choice—and we’ve asked many of them, both as part of our research and in executive education programs we teach—and you’ll often hear them say that when it comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. “I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he’s competent, but I can’t train someone who’s incompetent,” says the CIO at a large engineering company. Or, in the words of a knowledge management executive in the IT department of a professional services firm: “I really care about the skills and expertise you bring to the table. If you’re a nice person on top of that, that’s simply a bonus.”

> But despite what such people might say about their preferences, the reverse turned out to be true in practice in the organizations we analyzed. Personal feelings played a more important role in forming work relationships—not friendships at work but job-oriented relationships—than is commonly acknowledged. They were even more important than evaluations of competence. In fact, feelings worked as a gating factor: We found that if someone is strongly disliked, it’s almost irrelevant whether or not she is competent; people won’t want to work with her anyway. By contrast, if someone is liked, his colleagues will seek out every little bit of competence he has to offer. And this tendency didn’t exist only in extreme cases; it was true across the board. Generally speaking, a little extra likability goes a longer way than a little extra competence in making someone desirable to work with.

https://hbr.org/2005/06/competent-jerks-lovable-fools-and-th...
Dinosaurs didn't have numbers as they hadn't been invented yet. Merely being surround by quantities of stuff doesn't make human abstractions spring into existence.

The natural world doesn't perform arithmetic beyond summation and subtraction or symbolic manipulation of anything. We may use invented symbols to model abstract concepts aspects of the natural world but that doesn't make such things exist outside of collective human knowledge.
We can only hope. It's super early in the development of carbon capture, so hopefully there's still a couple 50% cost reductions ahead
"Unburning" CO2 takes energy. Where does your energy come from?
This seems like something to fix. Remote work imho is the inevitable future and it is going to get better and better as more people join the asynchronous work model and people build services around remote companies (there are very few things currently , compared to the mountain of tools and services available to the corporate office). I m obviously biased, but like others here i think once you go remote you can't go back. As for the lack of office socializing, we can be creative there, it doesnt have to stop at slack and skype. I think gaming is a good fit to replace the 'experience' of a colocated office. A virtual presence (like a second life but for companies) can not only gamify the experience and make it fun, but it can also act as a map of the company and help orient everyone and give a sense of presence.
>Citrix said in a later update on April 4 that the attack was likely a result of password spraying, which attackers use to breach accounts by brute-forcing from a list of commonly used passwords that aren’t protected with two-factor authentication.

Wow. This simply reinforces the fact that humans cannot, and should not, be trusted with actively maintaining security of a system especially if there could be significant economic consequences.

Would a password manager help in this? I don't know.

Probably a hardware token which controls all and any access to a system.

*Removed some ambiguous sentences.
It's more like your work giving you written permission for a free 1RU of space and 2 amps of power and a DIA feed described for a personal test/development/project server, and you turning around and starting a paid hosting service on it
I don’t know about Uber, but Apple has spoken about collecting similar data and they anonymize it by slicing the route into a bunch of little pieces, throwing out the beginning and end of the route, and anonymously uploading the bits in the middle.

See “Probe data and privacy” section here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...
They're virtually everywhere in NYC. I'd say maybe one out of every 6 or 8 people have them in their ears during midtown rush-hour commutes.
You mean like wind turbines do?
Strange, when did you first use Zbrush?

I haven't touched it in over 10 years, but back then it was super easy to get started with for a novice. Much easier than Mudbox. Though I had amazing Digital Tutors videos.
Just wanted to say thanks for creating the app! When I used it (the first one; I haven't used it for a while) it gave me a new perspective on my life that I hadn't seen previously--mostly focused on gratitude. That change in perspective helped me become a happier person.
The idiom (as noted on your link) is firing on all cylinders, not full cylinders.
How many refugees are there? I'd say that's a lower bound for you.
>We won't do the reg wall - hold me to it :>.

I'm sure it's possible to make this an actual required element of the company, isn't it, rather than just the say so of someone who might'n't be at the company in the future?
We do our best to verify the license but cannot 100% guarantee that the image is CC-licensed. We have custom scripts that we use to ingest content from each content provider. For Flickr, we use their API which contains license information for each work. If you click through to the source image, you can see that the user who uploaded the image did license it under CC BY-SA 2.0.

We don't yet have a way of dealing with content where the user incorrectly licensed it, I think we could add a "report image" function that would help us identify and remove this type of content. There's a disclaimer if you scroll down that says "Verify at the source: Flickr" with an explanation of why we can't guarantee the license, maybe we should make that more prominent.
The energy return on energy invested is going to be abysmal.

No more than 20% if that. That translates into synth gasoline at $30/gallon
This has a limit of 1000 keys, does not handle redriving failed requests and offers no report of the job.

What you could do is use s3's inventory report feature, give the manifest generated to batch operations and handle the delete logic in a lambda. A lifecycle policy with some tagging could also fit your needs here.
'Biodegradable' plastic bags survive three years in soil and sea
But Google completely failed at "hopping on the social train". Are they now irrelevant? It seems now that that "realization" was just wrong.
Probably too busy coming up with rad interview questions about red black trees and other useless shit.
Not sure why people are bashing Go because of it's choices.

Looking forward to shit storm once they introduce generics in near future. I am sure people will still complain that this is not how parametric polymorphism should be implemented.
We enjoyed Quebec and Montreal. The singular rude experience didn't diminish it. We're eager to introduce our daughter to both cities now that she's old enough to appreciate them.
Another important contributing factor is how well the manufacturers do at getting each generation of NAND to actually work. Samsung's 48L 3D NAND was a relative failure around the same time that their competitors were trying to get their first 3D NANDs working to overcome the limitations of planar NAND. That kicked off a serious shortage, so when almost everybody came out with successful, high-yield 64L 3D NAND around the same time, prices had a long way to fall. The current moves are attempts to ensure that the transition to 96L NAND doesn't continue the price drops.
Microsoft didn’t actually close at $1 T until today.
theses backdoors claims on a "new" brand that rivals in quality with apple... are suspicious..
why there is never a technical disclosure of the backdoors..
I'm not advocating, it's just a wee bit of advice based on actual experience. You have a choice to:

- Enjoy your 20s

- Reflect when you get to 30

Or jump on the grind at 18 or 19.

So here's the thing. What is it you want to do? Grind away at work, sat behind a desk, in your 20's, during the most possibly healthy and active part of your life (yeah I know smoking doobies and drinking beer isn't healthy - just do it in moderation).

Or you could be doing things such as mountain climbing, cycling, lots of other physical activities. I did all these things in my 20's and by god I'm so pleased I did because now in work I don't have as much time to engage in these things. My late 20's set a health baseline, sure you can't bank this, but at 47 when I had a full cardio check due to panic attacks, it seems those years between 17 and 30 have (so far) held me in good stead. No guarantees though.

But you know it's up to you, but don't be clouded (I'm sure there's a better word) by articles such as this as a panacea for success, both career-wise and in life.

> So why is their list bollocks and yours isn't?

Because the wrote this in hindsight. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, you can be really preachy about it. By god I've got a catalogue of hindsight, but do I regret apparently wasting my 20's, not at all.
Stealing this
Only?

Your loan from a bank is probably backed 15% or less by actual savings.

The US dollar itself is backed by nothing of value. 0%.
The why and how of this can be found here :

https://github.com/Microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Documentati...

Seems what drove this was a 90 build times of 90 hours for and end to end build of Office. What I can gather this has a means of capturing all read/write operations for a build step and placing it in a cache store to determine if a change necessitates the rebuild of a component. Since it can hook in at a lower level, it isn't sensitive to time stamps for building. Actually quite interesting
Twitter CEO called House Rep. after POTUS tweet sparked a flood of death threats
I once got a blood test in California. Nothing special, just a regular checkup recommended by my doctor. The blood testing company later sent me the bill. It was originally $950 and some pre-arranged deal between my health insurance and the testing company discounted most of it. My insurance covered part of the rest and I paid like $50. It's not like my insurance paid $900, they just had a pre-arranged deal with the testing company to have a huge discount, which makes me think the actual cost of the blood test is nowhere near $950. If I didn't have insurance I still would've had to pay the whole $950 out of my pocket.
average is 206 days