skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole attitude that receiving good healthcare is somehow a privilege that needs to be earned is really alien to most of the world.

Which has nothing whatsoever to do with my point that all the hand wringing, critique and analyses of the broken American medical system conveniently overlooks a piece of the picture that's fairly substantial and largely unquantified.

Without including that data, you have an incomplete picture. Period.

Also, I think you are romanticizing a bit how good that system actually is even for the military.

I'm certainly not one of its many naysayers.

Some of the assets of our Military Medical system:

The David Grant USAF Medical Center (DGMC) at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, is the U.S. Air Force’s largest medical center in the continental United States and serves military beneficiaries throughout eight western states. It is a fully accredited hospital with a National Quality Approval gold seal by the Joint Commission, and serves more than 500,000 Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System eligible beneficiaries in the immediate San Francisco-Sacramento vicinity from 17 counties covering 40,000 square miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grant_USAF_Medical_Cente...

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Official mandate: Basic and applied medical research supporting U.S. military operations is the focus of WRAIR leaders and scientists. Despite the focus on the military, however, the institute has historically also addressed and solved a variety of non-military medical problems prevalent in the United States and the wider world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Institute_of_...

DGMC is where I got the cutting edge diagnosis that helped save my life.

I seem to run into lots of homeless veterans when I go to the US; most of them with obvious health and mental issues; possibly directly connected to their activities for the military.

I happen to know a lot about homelessness. You see a lot of homeless veterans in part because military members know how to camp and tend to be less tied to a city or state than most civilians. They have a relationship to the federal government which helps make a lot of local stuff less relevant to their lives.

Of course, service to country chews up a lot of people. That's part of why the military has its own medical system: to honor its obligation to the soldiers who so often wind up maimed in the course of doing their duty.

Wars are not won with harsh language.

(That's an Aliens reference)
While it's basically more of a cafe, I really like that a Brownie-specialized place opened here in Kyiv, Ukraine (called "Veterano Brownie", a concept they took from "Veterano Pizza", where only war veterans or forced migrants are hired). Always nice to see that something that you previously perceived as a treat of one type can be developed into a whole mini-company with lots of care and a variety of forms and tastes.
the best thing is how the "company" (or corporation) is to blame.

so none of the actual individual humans who did this is at fault here. at worst they would be fired and go to work somewhere else. which is compeletely fine.

and with a fine like that, this is just a "cost of doing business" for the corporation.

maybe one day terribly criminal corporations should be forcefully disbanded as punishment.
This is basically a religious argument. Just figure out what works for you and, if a company is something you want to build, go build it.
Could you clarify who “we” are and what the tools you use are?
Nix does not have libraries in the dynamic linking library path, they are made available for linking by specifying the library's derivation as a dependency. There is no such thing as e.g. a global glibc or readline. E.g.:

% ldd $(which nc) | grep ssl
libtls.so.18 => /nix/store/s6j0yd68cnfb4mv76lyrb413qhhac57g-libressl-2.8.3/lib/libtls.so.18 (0x00007f8875f6d000)
libssl.so.46 => /nix/store/s6j0yd68cnfb4mv76lyrb413qhhac57g-libressl-2.8.3/lib/libssl.so.46 (0x00007f8875f1a000)
libcrypto.so.44 => /nix/store/s6j0yd68cnfb4mv76lyrb413qhhac57g-libressl-2.8.3/lib/libcrypto.so.44 (0x00007f8875d3b000)

A binary or library always links against a specific version of a library. This is why in Nix, you can have several versions of a library installed in parallel. The initial part of the path after /nix/store is the hash of the derivation used to build this version of libressl and all of its recursive dependencies. Furthermore, Nix can build packages in a sandbox (which is the default on NixOS) to avoid accidental dependencies.

Consequently, a Python derivation that depends on readline would have a different hash than one that does not depend on readline.
Exactly, I can't believe no one was sent to prison over this.
I mean, duh. You have to have suspension on the extra axle (well you technically don't but there would be some significant downsides to that approach) and just duplicating whatever the OEM did is the obvious way to go if practical. I'm not well versed in Citroen's hydraulic system of the era but I bet it would be only slightly more complex than adding a tag axle on airbags.
Seems a good use case for going serverless (I know about vendor lock in).
OT: I read your story on your personal web page and we have some eerie similarities there. I was a solo founder for 14 years when I sold most of my company (not out of obvious necessity, I had grown tired of it somewhat and a good offer was on the table). During the last few months I had developed some tingling / pressure sensations in my fingers and legs, which I first attributed to bad posture, discs etc.

It turned out that I had a tumor growing in the spinal cavity between C2 and C4 - luckily benign, but still causing stenosis effects and eventually leading to me becoming quadriplegic unless removed. I also had severe Vitamin D and Calcium deficiency (and nothing else) and was discharged after 10 days from hospital when I had surgery. My scar is naturally very similar to yours and I have 20 Titanium screws and 6 plates implanted. My day-to-day challenges are not flexibility issues though, it's chronic pain in the hands and much worse typing skills than before surgery.

Fortunately, I found an obvious successor (the most self-motivated and responsible one, not a trained manager) in my company when I left (we had 57 employees then) and he's doing great. Good luck with your company!
Private payrolls surge by 275,000 in April, blowing past estimates
It's whatever the courts decide. Very not helpful for individuals.
To be clear, you mean home brew as in beer, not the package manager, correct?
Negligence? That's outright fraud.
We wrote one in house, it works well and has useful features that nothing else has. Today I'd use conan.io, and add those useful features to that project. Our internal system works well so it is hard to find justification to tear it out, but the downside is no tool/IDE understands it, and so you can't use your favorite IDE unless your favorite IDE is the one obsolete version that we have modified to understand our tool.
There's an entire Debian project working on making Debian builds deterministic and/or reproducible. The fact that they had to devote a whole team to it and they've poured who knows how many hours into it kind of says that most software builds aren't reproducible (deterministic, theoretically, yes, cause in many cases it's just different timestamps).
I like your comment about commits spanning components. Having many repos forces my team to think about how to stage changes that span many repos.
Scientists Race to Beat the “Antibiotic Apocalypse”
Price insensitive customers. You can get away with a lot when the alternative to buying your product is pain, suffering and/or death.
S/He means writing his/her own video games/software for old consoles [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)
I used have because these businesses remain to be dead, there are not new ones in their place, only a group of shady businessmen that own all the properties and rents them to scam shops. I think that is an important distinction. Today no businesses would be destroyed by them of course, but there is also no business to destroy.
Well let's take frontend/backend separation in a classic webapp -- let's not think about React for now. This makes good concern separation as rendering HTML is something else than computing prices.

If you put frontend and backend into different repositories, you need to make two PRs for every new feature and -- for much worse -- you make integration testing much harder as you don't have atomic product merges to run automation against.

Don't laugh about this example, my corporation is doing stuff like this (backend only repo tightly coupled to frontend repo) all the time.

So maybe we can steelman the argument into "good vertical concern separation doesn't force you into doing multiple PR for single feature, as opposed to horizontal frontend/backend/repository splits."?

But I'm still not sure. Wide integration testing is necesity for reliable microservices. It's difficult to do that with dependencies being out of the scope of the change.
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#when-is-my-use-considered-a... might help somewhat.
That is a FANTASTIC idea.

The challenge, at least in my neck of the woods, is that all the independent ISPs got purchased by bigger players who aren't exactly in a rush to be innovative.
You didn't have to tip them. You just needed to get them to break traction on the inside wheel. You can do that without leaving the ground though leaving the ground is a pretty guaranteed way to accomplish that goal.
Amazon Launches in the United Arab Emirates
Sounds like you got burned by poor design choices and instead of fixing the problem just mandated manual fallbacks instead.

Seems kinda weak.
I wonder if Estonian ID card can be used for S/MIME? Anyone knows?

EDIT: Yep, Estonia gives every citizen an ID card that can in theory do S/MIME as well, though I haven't just seen any good implementations of that: https://eid.eesti.ee/index.php/EID_funktsioonide_l%C3%BChitu...
> There is a professor at Georgia State University who's primary research focus is on this topic if you're interested in reading more. http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslsal/cv.htm

Interesting and intriguing! Thanks!
Hospitals won’t tell you the costs of treatment ahead of time, even for easily predictable items like baby delivery. It’s impossible to shop around.

https://youtu.be/Tct38KwROdw
I am asking for a demonstrated fact not speculation. I know what the difference is in science.

It's not a scientific statement it's interpretation of ths science something very very different.

There are plenty of areas where I can point to specific facts which can be demonstrated to be true. So I am not asking for anything insane here. Just that we stop pretending speculated is the same as demonstrated.

As an example. Let's assume that human CO2 emissions have some effect on the climate.

Try and find the specific percentage that humans are demonstrated to be affecting climate. Not just speculated but demonstrated. I would even allow for a 10% margin.
The US is gradually weakening, may collapse and likely to enter an era tantamount to a Dark Age.
I probably should have mentioned that the Penn family offered to give a lump sum toward frontier defense in exchange for the Assembly acknowledging that it did not have the power to tax their lands.
Summary for those who can't be bothered to read: we had two repos and copy/pasted code that needed to be in both instead of adding more repos. That copy/paste had pain and we solved it by going to one repo.

They could have solved the pain by adding more repos as well. They never considered this as far as I can tell.
I remember comedians trying to turns airdrop into a comedy opportunity. They had to stop pretty quickly, for the same reason. Most of them now explicitly disable Airdrop before going on stage, if they have to work with iOS devices.

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, episode 18747401929283.
My collegues are constantly complaining their (mac) laptop keyboards are terrible, however aren't ballsy enough to say "F-U" to the corporate choice of a mac or a windows laptop.
How Mixcloud serves 15M users a month
He says there is a central server, so I guess not.
Yeah but then there's drug rebates, cash discounts for medical services, and costs negotiated down after services. The whole thing is a clusterfuck and 10 patients likely pay 10 different prices for the same thing.
Both of your assertions are exaggerations.

1) It is far from certain that the falsified test results "cause[d] a billion in damage." Press releases about settlements are not court judgments. At trial, the government would have to prove "but-for causation." For one of the failures, for example, the government would have to prove that the launch vehicle's faring would have opened fully had the aluminum met specifications. If the government cannot prove that, they recover zero. Even if the government proved that, if anything else went wrong in the launch too, it would have to rebut the defendant's case that some other component, not the out-of-spec aluminum, was the primary cause of the launch failure.

2) It's not typical for "kid[s]" to be put in prison for carrying "a few grams of weed." It might happen sometimes (in a country of 330 million people, everything that can happen will happen sometimes) but it's not typical.

The government settles cases for a reason. Often, it's because the case isn't a slam dunk for trial. Sometimes, it's because the company wouldn't be able to pay the judgment anyway. In government contracting, there is also the consideration that if you put a company out of business for something that was the fault of lower-level employees (as here), that reduces competition going forward. (There's probably not a ton of options for space-worthy aluminium fabrication.)

(Conversely, the government usually settles drug cases on very favorable terms because they're easy to prove at trial. You should see the police reports that accompany these plea agreements. "The accused tried to sell drugs to an undercover officer. After arrest, the officers searched his car and found more drugs. Then they searched his house and found still more drugs. A search of the accused's text messages revealed extensive records of drug sales." In such cases, the government has no need to put an expert on the witness stand to convince the jury what would have happened to a rocket launch in a counter-factual scenario.)
Solar panels take energy to produce, transport, and install. Mining the lithium needed to produce them is pretty harmful to the environment. Other parts of the process are pretty bad too. If your efficiency is too low, if you install a gigawatt power plant and produce a half gallon of gasoline a month, you will take way too long to get an emissions ROI. Just recapturing CO2 requires less energy than recapturing and reconstituting it as gasoline. Sure you can sell the gasoline and maybe make some $$ but will that actually in the end be a net negative for the atmospheric CO2? The answer will 100% depend on efficiency.
Personally, I think it should be the board + CEO who goes to prison when it is a corporation that does something like this. Don't trust someone enough? Don't hire!

Disclosure: My ulterior motive is that I think corporations are way too big and also I found the Sun Tzu story of killing a general very interesting.

> Sun Tzu said: "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame." So he started drilling them again, and this time gave the order "Left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst into fits of laughter. Sun Tzu: "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers."

> So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies to be beheaded. Now the king of Wu was watching the scene from the top of a raised pavilion; and when he saw that his favorite concubines were about to be executed, he was greatly alarmed and hurriedly sent down the following message: "We are now quite satisfied as to our general's ability to handle troops. If We are bereft of these two concubines, our meat and drink will lose their savor. It is our wish that they shall not be beheaded." Sun Tzu replied: "Having once received His Majesty's commission to be the general of his forces, there are certain commands of His Majesty which, acting in that capacity, I am unable to accept." Accordingly, he had the two leaders beheaded, and straightway installed the pair next in order as leaders in their place. When this had been done, the drum was sounded for the drill once more; and the girls went through all the evolutions, turning to the right or to the left, marching ahead or wheeling back, kneeling or standing, with perfect accuracy and precision, not venturing to utter a sound.
Personally I’d chalk the buzzwordiness up to upper management choosing the wrong people to talk with.

There are plenty of great technical people working in the national lab system, but it’s not clear that whoever put together this list even tried to get their input. For example, I’m a researcher working at NIST in one of the affected areas, and I haven’t seen any internal communication about this. Looking into whether we can respond to this in an official capacity...
Very flat
Yes, I'd say if there were clear connections to triggering very harmful behavior in people, you created the painting with full knowledge of its implications, and there is no other compelling reason to create the painting besides the triggering effect, then you should be held responsible.

What makes pictures special that absolutely everything should be allowed? Clearly some material has very harmful effects on people, and should be handled appropriately.
They are beautiful regions. Have you had the chance to visit?
Does this apply to already existing systems or just new stuff? Tech like expert systems and non deep learning rl have been around for years if not decades, are they suddenly going to be subject to export controls
So my understanding is he believes math is invented, and exists in a "neo-fictional" space where things can be both true and false. Because if it were pure fiction like Star Trek then Math's statements would be false.

To me this seems a bit off, but I'll assume that it's my understanding of what he is trying to say that is flawed.

Also, didn't we all use the unit circle in Calc?
To be honest, once you go the app route, the best approach would likely be ssid and MAC (or the phone ID). IP is way too volatile to be useful - what happens when the wifi network reassigns it to someone else?
I think that's why it was only $46m... Sure they agreed to take on responsibility for any prior debts and obligations as part of the purchase, but at this point you're not really punishing the people who were responsible for it, just those who were left holding the bag.

I'm not sure what legal recourse Hydro has against the prior owners, executives, managers, etc. that were actually responsible, but 19 years after the acquisition I'd be surprised if anything ever came of it.
Better article (despite taking 45s to load!): https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/new-brand

> We formed a task force to redesign it, bringing together people from different disciplines at Red Hat: graphic design, UX design, creative strategy, video, brand, product marketing, and more. And we worked with Paula Scher, a partner at design firm Pentagram, to help us focus. […] After 5 months of research, explorations, and brainstorming, the team found an elegant solution that still reflected Red Hat and could grow with us.
Serverless email servers! Serverless DNS servers! Serverless web servers!

I believe you should see a problem there.
I didn’t know Turing also bites a hat...
Please change the URL to the website. White logo on a white background doesn't make sense.
If you start putting used toilet brushes in the post, I will no longer accept any mail. Are you not confusing biodegradable with repair? Wooden brushes with bamboo bristles or something instead of poo post?
They just forgot ICOs, self-driving cars and human passenger-capable drones.
It is worse than a conspiracy really - it is emergent bullshit from groupthink which is all about rationalizations. A conspiracy at least serves a purpose.
>This is a request for public comment.

The page says comments closed 12/19/2018
The article is basically asking the public for comments which is the correct approach. The categories will not be banned completely they are just listing technologies they want to regulate or in the worst case ban for export.

This is no different form the EU’s dual use export restrictions. Here’s on example from Cisco for a couple products that have regulations on crypto. They even list each countries export office and associated license information.[1]

[1]https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/global-export-trad...
Ask HN: Is it okay to host mail and webserver on the same system
Is it okay to host mail and webserver on the same system. or should they be strictly divided
A lab supervisor did go to prison over this last year, and it looks like there were charges against someone else

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/08/company_supervis...
From what I’ve seen and heard, that place closed some time between 1999 and 2008, although the shopfront remains unchanged even now. I last went past it in March, dog walking with a friend — and he used to buy tapes there.
I thought it would be blue with letters IBM