skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the official blog post: https://creativecommons.org/2019/04/30/cc-search-images/

I've also seen the database :).
For those who needed to look it up like me, it stands for "Time to First Byte". #SavedYouAGoogle :)
Show me an example of a price ceiling that doesn’t raise prices.
I keep hearing this "negotiate" thing, but I tried it when I was billed $254 for a strep test (after being quoted $25 at the walk-in clinic), and the provider refused to negotiate. I appealed with my insurance, the appeal sort of disappeared (I received a letter saying it had failed the first round of review, and they were sending it elsewhere, and then I never heard back again) - and after fighting it for four months, I gave up and paid. Should I not have?
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What do you mean? As in some people aren't meant to work under others? Or that you shouldnt work somewhere just because you like your boss?
> As I understand it, you could exchange USDT for real USD at any participating exchange. Not being able to convert USDT would mean not being able to withdraw from any of those exchanges

That's selling Tether, not withdrawing Tether from the pool.

The point is, since it was already effectively impossible to withdraw any Tethers from the pool, does it really matter that the fund that backs those tethers can only support withdrawing 74% of the available USDT?

Currencies doesn't have to be backed to have value. Ours used to be backed by gold, but then we figured out that doesn't necessarily matter as long as people have to use it and the supply of it matches demand consistently enough.

So the interesting question is, will they be able to keep the price pegged to USD by selling and buying USDT in sufficient quantities to keep the price stable.

This is rather the point this comment is making:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19793326
According to whom? That's significantly above what fireeye says (71 until internally discovered):

https://content.fireeye.com/m-trends
Unfortunately this may not work at universities and other enterprise networks since each user is often given their own public IP for auditing purposes.
Jean Meslier (1664–1729) – a Catholic priest who didn't believe in god
It's much harder than you think. You have to truly be a good person and not just pretend to be for materialistic gain.
If there were realistic competitors for fossil fuels, we wouldn't be worrying about a climate crisis in the first place. Nothing is going to compete with pumping fuel out of the ground, and it never will.

Any realistic scenario starts with some kind of regulation on carbon extraction and then worries about the economics of replacements. And technologies like this one that claim to be within a factor of two seem very worth investigating.

Whether it works or not, who knows.
People would only interact with the Tether treasury when there's a net increase or decrease in outstanding Tethers. Otherwise people would just trade with each other.

Note that it does not work this way currently since normal people cannot buy/sell directly with the Tether treasury at all.
Worth pointing out that the Top Gear segment was faked, with differently sized wheels and weights in the door to "encourage" the car to roll.
Thanks for the feedback! Currently the search query parsing is pretty naive and some search terms work far better than others. A big chunk of our work over the next few months is going to be focused on improving search relevance.
Isn't this akin to complaining if people for access to tools for drawing, that there would be a lot of fruit bowls out there?
The fact is, cameras on cell phones have brought artistic tools to an incredibly large set of people, and of course there is to be expected alot of mimicry. But lots of originality can come through.
Browse through Dribbble sometimes. There can be plenty of creativity in remixes and covers of others work.
Ok, so that's funny :)
And it sounds like Citrix didn't even notice, it was the FBI who noticed then alerted Citrix.
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Honest question: why cant the US Fed go after the hospitals, insurance companies and pharma companies for price fixing/collusion/anti competitive pricing?

Seems to me that all of the warning signs are there, is it corruption in the regulatory agencies?

I don't buy that it's purely regulatory overhead. That you see this price gouging at supposed nonprofit hospitals as well, it can't be purely rampant unchecked capitalism when you have 15x markup from the pharmacy.

One of my pet peeves with US medical is how the billing is handled. Visit the ER? Get ready for an untold number of bills. One from the hospital, another for imaging, another from the pharmacy, yet more from specialists, radiology, etc. There's no one clear bill about what you owe. This is due to most of these technically being subcontractors. Yet, I dont know of any other industry where I have to pay subcontractors directly, rather than paying the contractor at once instead.
The problem is that those who need healthcare most (i.e. those that would be let to die) are those that are most opposed to universal healthcare!
Having worked with Citrix, I'm shocked. Shocked that they detected it at all...
With my HSA, auto payment is apparently a setting you can turn on or off. I highly recommend having this turned off if your HSA allows.
They should really roll the site back to its 2010-2013 iteration. It was much easier to search for content in your/your friend’s feeds, the UI was much less cluttered with sponsored content and news and the site actually felt like…social media.
We already have a system for that called the VA. Their track record over the last ten years in providing care is pretty abysmal. I am not confident your suggestion would result in a different outcome but I’m open to ideas.
I've a similar story or three of finance companies that in just ten years produced enormous amounts of legacy code. It's really not that hard. Solaris was enormous too, with just 2k devs for all the time I was there, and about 30-40 years of history, depending on how you count it. If your 1k developers each write 10Kloc/year on average, then after a decade you can expect to have 10Mloc, but since a lot of code will be forked external open source (or even not forked, but just imported to freeze at a particular version, or for some other reason) you might find your devs building and looking after many tens more Mloc than that. If you hire lots of 5x and 10x engineers, that too leads to a sizeable increment.

There are many many companies out there that have huge megarepos.
> I'm advocating don't get locked into work and this type of advice in your 20's and then suddenly you're 60 and where did life go?

Yes I fully agree with this. In Singapore where I'm currently based the academic focus is so strong that it ruins childhood. It also destroys creativity which makes people less employable despite their great theoretical base. There is a fine balance to aim for.
Thanks for the feedback! This is on our list to do soon, we've had other complaints.
Could you please follow the site guidelines and not take HN threads further into flamewar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The point about the desirability of a direct liquid fuel replacement for transportation is valid, but this logic doesn't work:

> The carbon costs of manufacturing a replacement fleet of cars is surely vast.

Cars have finite lifetimes. You don't replace the ones on the road, you replace the ones we'll buy in the future.

And this one... well...

> P.s. lithium is a conflict mineral now

citation REALLY needed
"We have been informed that" is lawyerspeak that has as an implication of "we don't actually believe the following and it almost certainly isn't true, but what we were told is..."
Whoever the author is, they are probably from a commonwealth country, based on their spelling of “prioritise” and “organisation”.
There's a Single Wheeled transport[1] in Iain Bank's "Against a Dark Background". [2], called a Monowheel. An impressive vehicle.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/IainMBa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_a_Dark_Background
> You could have been more forthright, is that to be interpreted as “As a working class Scot with the tall poppy lie down attitude we’re known for I think the author has a big head and should be dragged down unto the bucket with the rest of us crabs” or “As an upper class Scot I find this talking about how to be successful vulgar, one is supposed to be successful without talking about it unduly.”?

Um, no. Scots can be forthright regardless of class, which I imagine you're alluding to. You've no idea what my social background is, and for your insolent comment, I'm going to leave you guessing. Not that it mattered.

> abnormally

And there is the problem.

> This is all fine advice if you have no interest in making a big difference in the world.

Oh jesus.
But that’s exactly what the right to repair is all about: requiring apple to sell the manuals and tools needed to safely fix your devices.

If anyone should be lobbying against it, it should be ifixit...
Philip Morris IQOS device knows a lot about your smoking habit
Are you the author? Great job for the detailed writeup. Small nit, I noticed you misspelled the interpreter section, it should be .interp instead of .intrep
If you're on a Linux system, learn how to use Makefiles for building since they're generally useful for lots of things. Cmake is becoming more common and does some good things, but I find it very hard to use/debug (and you might find yourself debugging the Makefiles it generates anyway). It helps if you already know how to compile/link C programs...

How to incorporate external libraries depends on if they're header-only, shared libraries, or static libraries (do people still use static libraries?). pkg-config is your friend!
Those photos all look amazing. Now I want to replicate those shots and put them on Instagram.
I've seen this model in the US also mostly with small clinics.
As a victim you may be prosecuted if police discover something irrelevant to the case, yet still incriminating.

This seems to have the potential of severe abuse, if a rapist is aware of such matters they would feel protected to carry out their travesties.

What the actual f* indeed.
I can understand the sentiment...i.e.: It seems like we in the USA only are willing to fix that which is beyond broken, and I think it has gotten beyond the point of fixing honestly.

Honestly- don't even know how we could 'fix' this. The fact that we need study after study after study to tell us what we already know, it's gross.

Coupled with the fact that it seems impossible to communicate to people just how bad it is (only when they have to personally experience the horror of our medical system to become believers) - I'm personally terrified.
In Arizona you can order common tests (from Sonora Quest) without a doctor. Unfortunately I don't think that's the case in most other states. Would be nice to fix.
That is absolutely correct. Figuring out when the watch is in an upright position is trivial. Figuring out whether the user intended to actually get it to turn on is extremely hard, and it involves looking at the history of motion that preceded it, and making judgments based on a whole lot of user data.

The other problem is making the tradeoff between detecting this fast enough (to turn on all the systems that follow so that the screen can light up fast enough) and waiting long enough (so you can be extra sure that the user intended to look at the screen)

The garden path is easy. Making it work mostly unobtrusively is very hard.
Facebook announcing a focus on privacy in public while also asking for users email passwords on sign up is why I have little faith in anything they say or do.
The Senator; measures personal self worth using minutes of talk time.

The Inquisitor; dives into the minutiae of any topic.
As of April 30, 2019 the FDA permitted the sale of Philip Morris IQOS tobacco-heating device in the U.S. These devices are equipped with data-collection chips. “What they’re going to have is a mega database of how Americans smoke.”
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MelaFind did this 15 years ago, and had a database of 50k lesions. Its classifier did about as well as derms, and much better than GPs. It got FDA approval, but, by that time, they had run out of money.
Very true. The level of disconnect that we have in this nation around this is just unreal.
It would be nice to see the space get more federalized. Lots of different apps that do one thing really well.
I guess I just don't see how much easier it can get than to kill a process, start it, and test. These are all solutions to non-problems. My control-C + up arrow motion is hammered down after years of practice.
Interesting complaint. The common downside of price ceilings is that they prevent raising prices, leading to shortages.

Regardless, I am not proposing a price ceiling, I am proposing determining the price prior to rendering services.
Well to keep it positive, I'll just say that I find working with competent people to be quite pleasant.
Register latency is usually around 4ns (2.5-3.5 Ghz with a pipeline depth of 12-16). The article claims main memory latency is 7x more, which is around 24ns to 45ns. I tried to come up with plausible numbers that fix the 7x ratio they mention.

These days main memory latencies are more around 70-80ns (single sockets) and 80-100 ns (dual sockets).

Being off by so much does make me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article.
I understood you, my point is that you are sacrificing significant security with a one-factor approach, especially if that one factor is a password! You're open to attacks where the password is exposed in between the keyboard and the requestor, attacks on the distant end system, as well as attacks on the password device itself. Passwords make it tricky to audit if they've been duplicated.

Use 2fa everywhere. It's cheap, easy, and significantly more effective.

Consider the following attacks which your suggestion provides no coverage for:

- Http downgrade (both SSLstrip and export-grade downgrade)

- Spear-phish

- Key-logger

- Spear-phish

- Shoulder-surf

- Spear-phish

- Evil maid (borrows device and compromises passwords)

And last but not least, spear-phish
$100M in deposits is $5M/yr in returns on float, just as your bank and insurance companies do with your deposits and premiums. It's technically not risk-free (FDIC notwithstanding) but that doesn't stop anyone.
This is an emergency; it's well past time we started acting like it: https://rebellion.earth/
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An interesting and related story: European newspaper couriers used 6 wheeled Citroens to transport the paper across countries overnight at nearly 100 mph.

[1] https://petrolicious.com/articles/vintage-friday-when-overni...
Agreed. Even if Facebook was the most trustworthy tech company on the planet, asking people for their passwords from another service would still be a terrible precedent to set.
Cool! Did you steal this from TJ too?
This is not a new strategy[0] for Apple or in general.

“That is a reduction of 21 percent in shares outstanding since 2013. What’s that mean? It means all other things being equal, the company’s earnings per share are 21 percent higher than they would have been had it not done the buybacks.“

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/apple-has-been-a-buyback-mon...
Interesting point. Definitely worth noting that’s the apps’ fault: my primary banking app waits for me to trigger FaceID.
Negotiate with whom? I don’t think there’s anyone at the hospital you’ll have access to that can guarantee you a lower price (or can probably even tell you what the price will be). After you’ve had the treatment and finally given the bill you don’t have any negotiating power; you can only beg at that point.
Just gave you a wee upvote there. I agree. I'm very worried that the Singapore style of academic focus will infest our western education system - the UK Tories seem infatuated by it, I'm in agreement with you, it kills childhood.

There's a lot of things I could say about this such as the benefits of the Nordic style of educating kids, but I now need head to bed.
Facebook needs a good thought on the user, friends of Zuckerberg, before doing anything fruitful to their core app. More than minor cosmetic changes, what is required is the experience of staying in touch with 'friends' not advertisers throwing a net of posts for potential catches, likers! For that, people & their faces should be more visible on the screens rather than that big repost of the day, that is going viral.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09130
I'm 26 now, and I first got into Facebook 12 years ago as a Freshman in high school.

It was cool at first because I actually spent time with my "friends" on there, or at least saw them on a daily basis at my small high school. It's changed in a couple key ways over time:

1. Family joining Facebook. It used to be a funny place I could goof around with my friends, posting whatever I wanted. Now I have to filter everything I say because my grandparents can see it. I concede that that's probably not a concern for many people, but I noticed the "vibe" changed significantly when Facebook's popularity grew beyond high school/college age people.

2. Sharing. Virtually everything on my timeline came from pages that post short "viral" videos for people to share. No one was posting anything unique or interesting. It was like a heavily bastardized version of Reddit without any interesting content. Anecdotally, this content seems to appeal to older people, who don't know of ways to see more interesting content.

Privacy concerns aside, those are the main reasons that I no longer care about Facebook. I deleted mine 6 months ago and I don't miss it at all.
In Maths anyone and everyone are the same. When you start a proof you say - Let x a member of set Z be arbitrary
I was going to say the same thing, but it sounds like it was the FBI that noticed it:

> [T]he hackers had “intermittent access” to its internal network from October 13, 2018 until March 8, 2019, two days after the FBI alerted the company to the breach.
Thanks. I found it odd that the author didn’t include a link to the paper.
The "mindset" you're talking about is parent's second part of the sentence, "...and use those connections to land your first few jobs or investments."
Considering electric planes aren't feasible yet, how else do you plan to decarbonize airplanes?
Artificial synapse is fast, efficient, and durable
In first, Japan to develop computer virus to defend against cyberattacks
There are plenty of situations where the output of the build process is not deterministic on only the source.
Oh, this is gold, thank you. I'm sorry I missed it, but at least answers my very serious skepticism.
Ask HN: What do people think of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)?
And... How many times do we need to hear from these Medi* Recipients to keep the guvernment outta their medical plan.

I really think that we need to stop listening to attitude and perceptions' based studies, and focus on cold hard numbers ($).

People don't understand the system - not by a long mile and will swear up/down/sideways that they do...We need to take a more analytical approach and look at the numbers.
I’m not clear how that applies to Tether:

“[...] each tetherUSD in circulation represents one US dollar held in our reserves (i.e. a one­to­one ratio) which means the system is fully reserved when the sum of all tethers in existence (at any point in time) is exactly equal to the balance of USD held in our reserve.”

Where does the 5% come from?
About that - Facebook was leaching off Google's network graph by allowing cross-platform chats (initiated from Fb), but Google couldn't access Fb users from GTalk. IMO, it's a perfectly reasonable response in terms of game theory; the best course of action when the other party defects in a Prisoner's Dilemma scenario is to also defect.
Japan Has a New Emperor and a New Era, but a Dark Future
Or perhaps they want to use Linux for other reasons? The point is the article does not say what their motivation is, so GP comment is off topic at best.
It would take a number beyond reckoning, thousands to change our minds.

Tens of thousands.

But my lord there is no such force.

> looks at US uninsured death rate and medical bankruptcy rate.

> horn blows.

A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand.
Once you have audience _capture_, worse UX becomes a valuable dark pattern because it requires _investment_.

Have you ever seen a modern slot machine? There seems to be a pattern to winning, if only you study it a bit longer...just put in one more coin and the epiphany will come.
I was billed ~$4,600 for a $40 blood test. The reason given is the testing company was out of network. Even so, my insurance offered $400, but was refused.

I previously worked for a company owned by Quest Diagnostics, so have some insight into the parasitic nature of these lab companies. (The other titan in the USA is LabCorp.) Once a facility is up and running, they basically print money. Some wags even created "speedometer" dashboards to show real time revenue per minute.
According to Google search snippet I am totally ready to trust that FireEye estimate is much more accurate
Subscribed. Also found https://securereading.com/category/news/latest-hacks/
Pumping oil has some big advantages, but procuring & distributing refined gasoline, propane, etc from crude is not exactly trivial or free.

There might be political advantages to having a proven process with proven cost. $40/ton carbon tax is awfully arbitrary... Until carbon can be captured for $40/ton.
Would expect at least one game to accompany this, although it is probably naive to expect games from Valve anymore.
The problem is that MOST people never need that much health care; they will never have to live through one of the destructive trauma of one of these health disasters. Since it never effects them personally, they won't vote to change it.
Every single case of third-party screen replacement for iPhones I've personally ever heard of has resulted in disaster down the road for the person who got their screen replaced. And that was before the edge-to-edge iPhone X screen.

Apple uses highly specialized and expensive equipment for screen replacements (at least for the iPhone X screen). Even if third-party shops had the ability to buy the same equipment, I don't think they'd want to pay for it.
It's Citrix. That's how.
Which is exactly why equivocation is a logical fallacy.
Transaction costs for small payments on Bitcoin are much higher than the 1.5% a credit card processor takes.
Crypto has been nothing but dreams (and sadly lots of scams, as I had to personally witness)
It’s highly unlikely that those undefined securities will be something easily liquidated to cover costs. This is the company that “loaned” 900m to Bitfinex, a company run by the same personnel as Tether.
It's legal because when you tell people you know that this has happened to you - unless it happened to them personally as well, they will just assume that you don't know what you're talking about or confused.

And so this practice thrives.