skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The surprise in surprise billing is the issue here.

I'm a life long patient, so not my first rodeo (dozens of blood tests). I had no idea it was possible for a lab to "out of network", so would never have occurred to me to ask. But at some point the rules changed. And no one thought to tell me, as they're supposed to (eg verify insurance coverage before doing any work).

Surprise!
Ok but why not just use the zero carbon electricity, if you have so much of it?
A fractional reserve bank is only fractionally liquid, the rest is invested in a variety of interest bearing loans. Obviously there’s always a risk of many loans not being repaid or sudden rushes for withdrawal, hence all the regulation and the FDIC.

Tether is admitting that they only have enough cash and securities to cover 74% of the outstanding tether balance. This isn’t fractional reserve, this is just straight up insolvency. If your bank only has enough cash and mortgages to cover 74% of their deposits, then it’s time for the FDIC to step in.
Congratulations to the BuildXL team! Domino, incidentally, was/is the internal for BuildXL; there are a few papers published where the system is described under that name. I had the privilege to see it gradually rolled out in the Office codebase over the course of a year or two. It was a massive improvement, and the lengths to which the team went to see it through are really beyond description here.

I _have_ to wonder why we didn't just pick up Bazel, which is Google's open-source distributed build engine for large systems, which also happens to have been stable for years. Perhaps its Windows support wasn't up to snuff at the time, but it feels like that would have been easier to fix that than to build a whole new build system.

Regardless, congrats again! So cool to see this out in the open.
That's a really defeatist attitude. There are different levels of "value" and different levels of protection. Not everything is internet facing. Not everything is managed like a corp where turnover requires lots of access changes. Not everything allows you persistence in the network. And not all access is "access".

I really wish we moved past the "everybody's owned" idea. Your defence should be proportional to the value you can lose. You can monitor for the rest. And you can't guarantee the are hackers in my network. (Unless you're saying you're guilty of breaking in? ;-) )
You're almost there, keep going a little farther, and you'll have eliminated passwords and invented FIDO.

https://fidoalliance.org
It's more skewed by scientific computing vs not
Normally it would, if the guys behind Tether were trustworthy
Long before Eric, the SUN's CEO (Eric's previous employer) made a remark that privacy is an illusion and we need to get over it:

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

This stuff was going on for a long time, FAANG just perfected it.
Clearly, a passing fad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy
> He was a very effective leader (although not everybody agrees- some people think he's an arrogant asshole).

Those two are not at all in conflict, they're orthogonal.
Proper audit logs that are regularly checked.
The "spare" parts come from donor boards that are obtained via unsanctioned back channels. Authorized repair shops are generally not allowed to actually fix anything. Instead they tell you it can't be fixed, your data is gone, please buy a new device.
Same question. Looking at the views of the OP it seems that the market for this product might be Slack for office spaces, then having a way to access through desktop would be quite essential.
Thanks for the feedback! A big chunk of our upcoming work is going to be towards improving search relevance. We also plan to add content types other than images this year, starting with open textbooks and audio, so that will differentiate us.
Yes. I'm a power user and I find the constant captchas as of late absolutely terrible.
You got it backwards?

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-rules-help-block-ill...
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I dunno. Regular people found webboards often enough back in the beforetimes (and still now).
Thanks for the feedback. We're going to be working on improving accessibility next month and will address this.
I would assume that for most people, "spending time on your mental health" is not something you do in solitary as a 9-to-5 job. It is more likely to mean building friendships at work or elsewhere, working towards meaningful goals, and leaving time to rest your mind and body. If this precludes a 100% dedication to some startup idea, then that's just something to accept about onself. Everything else will just lead to nothing but burnout, which kills all capacity to contribute anyway. Stuff like having a positive influence on the people you meet can also be a contribution, and there can be personal value and gratification even outside of "contributions", such as simply learning something new (maybe even something without economic value). Personally, I feel like it's highly arguable whether yet another SV-style startup is likely to result in a net positive contribution to the world anyway. Often, the drive to optimize everything for productivity seems to stem more from a need to prove ones worth to oneself and a lottery player's fantasy of riches. I commend everyone that takes their inspiration from more than those things, in business or outside.
What's a good printer to get these days for regular home use?
It also means your blocking of google's trackers is better than average.
Why not just build electric trains?
It sure is! She applied, got accepted and finished all the pre-coursework.
We have politicians running on a platform of abolishing insurance companies. That is as close to a platform of fireing people as you can get.
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fear and panic do not make a strategy; taking the issue seriously is, from a risk-management perspective.
It should be noted that both those three wheeled motorcycles lean while turning, making them functionally very similar to two wheeled motorcycles in operation. This makes them much more stable compared to a non-leaning three wheeler.
I use conda for everything now, Linux included.
The idea that more than a vanishingly small number of regular troops are visiting so many environments in a year is hilarious.
does krogers have equivalent of aws to eat its losses?
A few months back, I designed a small background system requiring a flat key/value store for tracking large amounts of data (>10GB/day). I was hoping to use S3 as a cheap key/value store, but the lack of batch operations, requiring individual puts, made it performance-prohibitive, so I went with DynamoDB. It's worked out great but I'll always wonder what could have been with S3 if I had batch operations back then.
They're going after the use case of gasoline as energy storage, not gasoline as primary energy production.

The reason, today, that cars are powered by gasoline and not electricity is not the cost of the energy itself, but the cost of storing it.

Obviously it would be better to use the electricity directly. But it's hard to get that electricity to a moving car on the road (or a plane in the sky).
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We keep reading about how people have a median networth of $200k at retirement (including home equity). I've always wondered how true this is. Are people really struggling that much?
For the record, I think all this crypto currency stuff is plain dumb, and that tether is likely a fraud.

That said they don't state anything about what their reserve is. Wealthfront has a 2.3% savings account for us normal people. If I created a stable coin like tether is and had a billion dollars of investment; I could make 23 million dollars a year and tell people that I have a 1:1 backing without lying.

If I went to a bank with a billion dollars I could likely negotiate an even higher rate for such a savings account.
Ha. Perfect. That is exactly what I was imagining. Apologies for the long conversation.

Do you have any idea why this is not popular? Is it too hard to implement or is it just that business's do not see security as something to invest a lot in?
Windows support in Bazel is still far from perfect; to this day, you need Msys2 for many things to work. Still, things have been moving forward quite a bit recently, I think in part due to Angular. Honestly, it's still really nice to use imo, but I can see why it would be hard for Microsoft to adopt.

(I work at Google and have contributed a very tiny bit to improving Bazel on Windows, though it is not related to my actual work at Google.)
well, these guys tool a big personal risk - the vehicle might have blown up; so that I wouldn't judge them too much as a matter of principle.
Before asking for others to post personal information, how about telling us your own parents numbers?
You might have to just refuse to pay until someone calls you about it. Then you could offer to pay a portion. It may very well be a collections agency calling, and late payment could reflect poorly on your credit rating.
I think the reticence most people have with initially engaging with a lawyer is they're not only not free, but initially not cheap on account of the retainer fee.

Yes, you'll get anything not used back, but the last time I needed a strongly worded letter I had to pay the $1500 retainer and finding a lawyer under $200/hour in my area is extremely difficult. I got my remainder back the following month, but the strongly worded letter cost $400 and tied up $1500 for about five weeks.

The reality is the average person -- if we go off all the studies pointing out the large swathes of the population that can't meet a $500 emergency expense -- may not be in a position to tie up cash, even in markets where a lawyer is considerably cheaper. It's also a cost-benefit equation, and the value of that (regardless of the outcome) is different for everyone -- I'm someone who'll go tooth and nail to get $20 back on principle, but for some people that threshold might have to be $2000+ to care.
Whilst I can totally dig where you're going with this - love the idea of open API's... we know it aint a tech problem.

How did Europe do this with that whole payment services directive (I think that this is what I'm thinking about) - the one that forced all payment systems to have open APIs and such?...

How would we get something like this in the works? It would require a mandate from ??? Congress / the President / Bigfoot???

I can only imagine how these companies would not like this information out. Even if one were to explain that having this data would yield optimizations of their internal systems, saving them money, as the information would most likely make many within the organization look badly.
I've always wondered why the FDA can't work out a similar system. If the EU has approved a drug and done all of the studies and asked all of the questions surely we don't need to do all of the same studies and ask all of the same questions just so we can approve the drug a decade later.

The reason is thalidomide. The US was one of the few countries that chose not to approve it despite other countries doing so. Saved a lot of US children from birth defects.
For us, it was due to the relatively high PUT cost if you're storing a large number of small files. We ended up changing our approach and we now store blocks (~10MB archives) instead of individual files into S3. The S3 portion of our AWS bill was previously 50% PUT / 50% long-term storage charges. After the change, we managed to reduce the PUT aspect to nearly $0 and reduced our overall AWS bill by almost 30%, while still storing the same amount of data per month.

e.g. if you write 1 million 10KB files per day to S3, you're looking at $150/mo in PUT costs. If you instead write 1,000 10MB blocks, you're looking at $0.15/mo in PUT costs.

Due to S3's support of HTTP range requests, we can still request individual files without an intermediate layer (though our write layer did slightly increase in complexity) and our GET (and storage) costs are identical.
I can only support your comment anecdotally (perhaps actual figures have been published somewhere), but the majority of my circle has purchased airpods. They're the only Apple product I love. I don't know any current watch wearers, although many purchased one when initially released.
Its up to individual channel owners to enable it. If you don't know about it, that's probably because nobody you watch uses it.
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That would be fantastic. Also like to +1 the reverse image search support, finding CC images visually similar to a restricted license image would be really cool feature that Google does not seem to support.
They’re just plastic. They x-ray just fine.
Yeah, same as Ctrl-Shift-R in the browser for me. Even when I'm running a hot reloading server on my project I'll start off pretty much every manual test with a hard refresh because it's so trivial that it's easier than dealing with the 1/500 chance of something going weirdly wrong with the hot reloading and being difficult to debug.
Thanks for the answer, that is completely understandable. I guess the user just needs to do a bit of due diligence before running with it.
Recently I heard an interesting story on This American Life that speaks to this:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/589/tell-me-im-fat/act-two-...
I think the point this changed for me was when the facebook feed changed from a chronological feed, to weighted "interest" posts. (Top stories and all that guff).

It used to be a bizarro town-hall of people I knew posting comments, photos etc. with each new post jumping to the top of the queue for people to pay attention to in "real time". It felt involved.

Now it just seems to be (in between all the shared memes and dodgy news articles) the more "active" posts popping up as a priority, which makes it feel more static to me. I liked seeing the posts with no likes as much as the high activity ones even if I wasn't going to like or comment on it myself. I wan't to see everything in order.

It's not very dynamic anymore.

I know you can still change the feed to chronological, but if most aren't doing that, the point is moot.

I use it for events, otherwise I'd have deleted it years ago too.
A cover is essentially an envelope (it got it's name because it covers the contents), usually stamped and those stamps cancelled.

Here's some examples of fancy covers:

https://store.usps.com/store/results/collector-s-zone-first-...
Install Python from source with and without readline-devel in the ld library path.

Or any other piece of C software with macros that depend on the build environment. Same .c file in, different binary out.
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They are close to retirement and at $200k. They do have a pension plan though so I'm not that worried.
Are standardized tests obsolete yet? Or even tests in general?
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It’s not that hard. You can just charge the car inductively with wires in the road, or better yet, just lay tracks for electric trains.
> The benefit of a dependency injection framework is that you don't have to figure out the order of the dependency tree.

What! This is essential knowledge. Without it, how can you possibly build a coherent mental model of a program?! I’ve never heard this justification before, it’s bonkers.
However it does run the risk of being thoroughly compromised via rootkit or even bootkit if you are of sufficient interest to the target country.

We’re not the only ones who know about Thunderstrike.
He apparently wants both source/outgoing IP and SSID to the same for each channel. Browsers have no access to the SSID.

Not sure why he wants both.
The growth phase at Google when Eric was A CEO was very different than later when Larry took the helm.
> Branson

I'm just kinda pointing out that he didn't exactly come from the the "black stuff"[0]. I'd be curious to know how much his fairly well off father loaned/donated to his Student magazine. Also:

"His grandfather, the Right Honourable Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor. Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School, a prep school in Surrey, before briefly attending Cliff View House School in Sussex."

So, c'mon his family likely wasn't short of a bob or two.

> Sergey Brin’s parents arrived in the US when he was six, as penniless refugees.

Sure, but made pretty good due to financing by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They already by western standards had an academic prowess, and thus giving Sergey a fairly decent start in life educationally. By Soviet standards these were effectively middle class parents until the state caught wind of his father's intention to emigrate in 78 and by 79 they were in the US. Now I'm not suggesting this was an easy time for them, but they were hardly "penniless refugees" (and skill-less) upon arrival to the US.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_from_the_Blackstuff
"My local bank is also audited and heavily regulated. I sleep every night without ever worrying that my bank is suddenly going to lose all my money."

2008.... those "heavy regulations" and "audits" meant nothing.
>Once upon a time money was in producing stuff, now stuff and people are so much varied so that the main problem is that of pushing adds

No, this is a very misleading comparison. Schmidt (and others) have found a way to commodify your personal information and how to transfer ownership of your data, and as such wealth, from you to Google.

They're not the 21st equivalent of Henry Ford, they haven't unleashed new modes of production that suddenly unleash growth and drive down prices of material goods and services, they've figured out a way to turn attention into a mechanism to redistribute money upwards.
>And those places are a long ways away from electric cars and solar power plants. (Also, where would you put them in say India or Bangladesh?)

Huh? What does that mean? You mean there is so space in India or Bangladesh to put solar power plants?
... and if you don't have anything of value, they came, looked and left.
Do you have another source? The one you shared is light on details.

I'm not sure why TEVA would price at $14/dose at launch - most exclusive generics price at ~95% of the branded therapy, then drop once other generic entries happen. If the TEVA generic were to capture 50% of the market over 6 months, that's $600M+ in revenue, not $50M.
Most major SaaS apps support it, the major hardware provider I see recommended is yubikey although Google makes one as well. See also U2f. It's super easy to implement, try it out for yourself in Flask.

https://www.yubico.com/solutions/fido-u2f/

https://cloud.google.com/titan-security-key/

https://github.com/herrjemand/flask-fido-u2f
5% isn't possible, but you can make over 2% on treasury bills currently. The risk of the US government defaulting on loans can be essentially ignored.
You may be right but now I want to hear your story!
Extinction Rebellion has a message for the world: We've only just begun
Hi Rob. Why bother trying to extract CO2 out of "thin air" when there are far more concentrated sources available, for example exhaust of existing power plants (100,000 ppm CO2, instead of 400 ppm)?

There are even streams of pure CO2 being vented to the atmosphere, eg: https://thewest.com.au/business/energy/woodsides-browse-lng-...
Or just print a paper one when you arrive at the airport. You can check in online in app, and still reprint at a kiosk on arrival.

The idea of handing my phone to an agent of the government without physical compulsion is abhorrent to me, and is something I hope to never engage in. For this reason, mobile boarding passes are a non-starter. (see also: wireless keyboards)
My point was that if you're a certain level of paranoid then you might also be above average aware of your surroundings - so it wouldn't matter if a self driving system went awry, or someone was on their phone.
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To the meat:

> We estimate that abrupt permafrost thawing in lowland lakes and wetlands, together with that in upland hills, could release between 60 billion and 100 billion tonnes of carbon by 2300.
Didn’t he also scheme with Jobs and others not to poach employees from each other and faced class action lawsuit?
> People should use a password manager with an rng to generate and store passwords.

[...]

> Separately from this, people should use hardware 2fa tokens whose weakest link isn't the cell phone company support.

What would be better is to support certificate based authentication in combination with a username and password. Then you have 2FA without having to share the private key. You can even get 3FA if the private key requires a passphrase to decrypt it.

Using SMS or email based 2FA is not secure (or is only as secure as the email or cell phone account as you already pointed out). Using TOTP requires sharing a secret between the device and the server.
pushing adds is a service that means it is a 'product' that advertisers are buying. Of course google is also buying our data: its the price for using free products such as search, android and gmail; google is then reselling this data; this takes place either by reselling it directly or by using it as part of their service .
I imagine the goal is to use renewables for the energy required for capture.
Hydrocarbons are better energy stores than batteries. If we can “charge your car” by pumping hydrocarbons into it, that is better than lugging around heavy batteries (maybe.) so, in a way, co2 -> gasoline via solar power (or nuke) is an overall win.
The only sound, that I, the driver of a grey electric car, will tolerate, is the deep bass sounds of the Theme from Jaws.
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