skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American currently working with healthcare data, I’m familiar with the abundant failings of the US healthcare system. But I think it’s a mistake to think that it’s completely unavoidable and take a fatalistic attitude and feel like you always have a sword hanging over your head. As far as I can tell, it’s avoidable, but you need to get decent insurance before you’re sick, and to save up money to help you ride out times when you’re not making money (as well as pay the deductible/out of pocket portion). This is definitely expensive, and if you make no money, it can be difficult (though you'd then likely qualify for Medicaid). But many Americans do make quite a lot, and spend everything they make (and more) during the good times, even if they pull in >$100k/yr. Consumerism has a much stronger hold here than it does in Europe.

EDIT: A bit more, since I didn't really address your comment about out of network charges.

In the event that you get balance billed for some surprise out of network charge despite going to an in-network facility, you likely don't have to pay it, even though they're invoicing you. Contacting your insurer about it will likely take care of it. And if it turns out that you do need to pay it, hospitals are generally willing to accept $0.10-0.20 on the dollar for self-payers who can't pay, before they send it to collections. You don't have to pay the retail price, which is totally made up and has very little relation to what they'd accept. This is largely due to their adversarial relationship with the insurance companies, which force them to accept the lesser of their retail price and their contracted rate. Think of the high prices as the starting point in their negotiations.

I fully agree that the US healthcare system is very messed up, and that what I'm saying sounds insane and unnecessary. I wish we had a single-payer system in the US (with optional private insurance on the side). Fortunately, it seems like people are getting sick of this, and we're getting closer to getting that. I just wouldn't take the attitude that the world is totally fucked, so you should live for today.
Ask HN: What is your productivity workflow?
I finally got around to reading Getting Things Done by David Allen (Thanks CGPGrey) and while I'm only about half way in, I understand that the basic is to have a system you can trust and dump all your thoughts into said system and then apply its methodology.

But I also understand that it can't be the only method out there or how GTD method might not work for everyone.

So I'm curious to know, what is your productivity workflow like? Do you keep ideas in a separate app? A multiple of apps? How often do you (if ever) review?
Categorization of cause of death is an interesting issue, there are a lot of cases like this where there are multiple contributory factors, and how you decide which to list is not clear. For instance, people don’t really die of dementia, they die of medical problems secondary to dementia, malnutrition, lack of exercise, and so on. Lung-related deaths amongst miners are related to exposure to pollution, but also to genetic predispositions which massively increase risk. If you drink enough alcohol to raise your risk of liver failure a hundred times, and die of liver failure, that’s a fairly clear causal link, but what about if you drink a smaller amount, and only increase your risk five-fold, but still die of liver failure? Or if you drink a small amount, raise your risk 20%, but still die of liver failure?

There is no hard line between someone who has rolled the dice on bad odds and come off badly, and someone who has rolled the dice on moderate or good odds but still come out badly.

For this girl, there likely would have been genetic factors or simply bad luck which compounded air pollution, but it’s difficult to say that air pollution didn’t contribute significantly as one of the causes of her death. And that is important to know, to be able to reduce deaths and ongoing poor health in the future.

As electronic medical records become more prevalent, this is going to become more important. For instance, you could look back through patients with a cause of death like this, and pick out the frequency and timing of hospitalization as linked with local episodes of air pollution, that could then be used to inform advice to patients currently suffering from the same symptoms in the same pattern. You could essentially join together medical care, epidemiology and public health in a symbiosis which could be hugely beneficial.
Aw man. That sucks so hard.
Well, I disagree that it's a UX issue. The problem is they shouldn't be expiring local software at all. If it was trustworthy at the time of install, why should the calendar date matter?

If users don't want to stay up to date, that may be unwise, but that's there call.
Anyone know of something like this but with web technologies rather than a different stack? Vivaldi is the closest I can think of and while it is built with a similar concept it's structured in a way that makes it near impossible for you to modify substantially as a user (and you have to reapply your edits after every update).
You might be interested in Grammatical Framework[0]. You specify an abstract grammar, and then implement it for particular languages. The system automatically conjugates verbs based on context.

It's not terrible, though the documentation isn't great.

Used it at my research job to convert English sentences to modal logic formulae and it was an alright experience.

[0] https://www.grammaticalframework.org/
I have and it still infuriates me :-)

I also did a bunch of sketchy registry hacks to fix that. (I keep up to date, but I don't need microsoft restarting my system at random hours)
There is a whole section of buttons that in effect do nothing and are ignored like the windows buttons, but you as a user get the ilusion of choice and power and can busy yourself with this Fun Time Pop Up Farmyard Friends of Privacy.

All your entitlement to control your own machine is melting away.
> And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking?

Can you elaborate what's your concern with "studies"? By installing Firefox that updates automatically, the user is already giving control of the software and letting Mozilla decide what's the best. How is modifying software logic using studies different than modifying logic by updating the binary?
If it is, without requesting user authorisation, then that's an illegal act under the UK Computer Misuse Act (and the USA's CFAA I think too) - modification of a computer without authorisation.
Dont forget, pypy is fast.
I’ve never ridden a scooter but I ride a bike a fair amount. If a street is unsafe to ride on, I will ride on the sidewalk. A collision between a bike/scooter and a pedestrian is much less likely and much less dangerous than one between a bike/scooter and a car.

You’re complaining about someone going past you at 10mph who could bruise you if there was a collision. If they did what you wanted and rode on the streets they would have many more cars going by them at 30mph that would kill them instantly if there was a collision.

You are demanding that people risk their lives on unsafe infrastructure just because you’re cranky and entitled.

EDIT: fixing the infrastructure is also really easy: replace street parking with bike lanes. You demand that people risk their lives to give you free storage for your car and not startle your dog. It’s amazingly self centered.
Could you please post thoughtfully and informatively instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes.. the choice should be taken to the user- and the users choice should trump them all.
Is no discussion permitted except presentation of double-blind, appropriately sized studies?
I still see benchmarks from bilingual projects which show py2 being faster, such as http://falconframework.org/#sectionBenchmarks
Best chrome add there ever was.
It's already a mess. I disabled the signing/recompiled Firefox, and all my extensions were still force disabled with no UI to enable them. So there's some memory/extension state there already.

I had to go thorugh profile/extensions.json and set appDisabled to false to make my extensions enableable again.
You're right, he takes off from some observations about the Soviet union. Perhaps the main issue with that is pretty much everyone thought that was a terrible system and thus we are prepared to accept the viewpoint about happiness that he presents.

Free markets, as I prefer to call it, are different. There's a fair case that a lot of good has come from it, along with not so good things. Thus to present the case from a free markets point of view would require a fair bit more explanation:

- Why is it that you're not more happy being able to choose from 10 varieties of toothpaste than when you just buy the one that is there?

- People who work minimum wage jobs, why are they not happy there was at least that? They's be starving otherwise, right? Why aren't they all grateful?

- What is it about extreme specialization that's so unsatisfying? Even Adam Smith touched on this IIRC.

> I believe you are accidentally describing equanimity

Think I learned a new word today!
Separate Webview from Safari: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19824216
Yonatan Zunger's notion of "financial shock wealth" is the most novel and satisfying framing of this question I've seen in years.

...If $5,000 is something you could afford, ask yourself the same question again with $100,000 (fire burn down your house?), with $250,000 (cancer treatment and your health insurance kicked you off?). For everyone, there’s some number which is the largest size of a financial shock they could weather.

This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more? That number isn’t something easy to calculate; it depends on whether you have a family that can help you out, on your income, on whether that shock involves losing your job (and thus your health insurance, if you live in the US), on whether you have access to any other sources of security (including public assistance)....

https://shift.newco.co/2017/12/04/your-financial-shock-wealt...
This is ironic. College freshmen said the exact same thing when I started college. In 1978.

Social Security has always been eminently fixable by extremely modest changes in taxation. It is folks with attitudes like the one expressed above who have consistently put off making those changes.
Unrelated to cert problem: Yes, clicking on the link installs the plugin, but it is suprising to see that firefox claims that it is the news.ycombinator.com, not storage.googleapis.com, that wants to install plugin.
Could it be a security issue since if an attacker somehow manages the post/inject a link for a malicious plugin in a credible site, firefox will claim that plugin is from that site?
no perf issues ? laggy UX or else ?
>This was treated as a five-alarm fire.

I don't think it bothers me personally but it's funny you said that. Presumably you mean a "'no-alarm fire' because who has time to set off an alarm when there's a fire to fight"?!
I actually find the evolution of this blatant, shameless propaganda amusing.

You could actually observe, in real-time, the ramping up of accusations and headline hysterics in sequence:

1. 50k muslims detained

2. 100k muslims detained and put into re-education camps

3. 500k muslims arrested and put into concentration camps!

4. One million muslims torn out of homes and put into concentration camps and getting their organs harvested!

5. Three million muslims torn out of homes and put into concentration camps, getting organs harvested and being brutally tortured!

It's easy to see how Americans were so readily misled about Iraq.
I completely understand. My younger years were packed full of pretty intense experiences - D1 athletics, the military, building and selling a startup, building and test flying an experimental aircraft, etc, and not much feels new anymore, even though I'm relatively young.

I used to teach skydiving and watching the student's excitement during the first several jumps always brought back strong memories the initial joy. It was like reliving my first jumps.

I wonder if raising kids - sharing life experiences with a young person - has the effect of reliving the initial experience.
The South Circular Road is a major arterial road across Inner London which was not really "designed" as such (for a lot of its' length it is made up of a bunch of minor roads lined by terraced houses glued together).
Because if the cert is (for example) actively revoked, that probably means you should stop trusting things signed by it in the past.
You've mentioned PA, ALSA and macOS CoreAudio. That's Linux and Mac. Will Windows users be able to use this as well somehow?
Update - Container data is lost post addons recovery (I installed Nightly build). This is ridiculous.

My Firefox usage will be so unproductive for few days. I had around 6-8 containers for different purpose, and somehow I'm habitual to using shortcut to launch a container and open whatever I'm supposed to (e.g I've access to 3 different AWS account, and I tend to press shortcut key to launch the relevant container tab)
Sounds like a booby trap, which would carry some nasty liability here in the states.
That's a really interesting approach. I wonder if there are reading apps which have that dictionary integrated, but which still require a mouseover / tap to display it for a particular word (they are just using a translation language dictionary).
That article doesn't try to force such constraints, and should be in line with your thinking then.

And what forms of privilege vs others are we talking about? The article mentioned (1) race (2) sexuality (3) beauty.

So are you bothered the article discusses white privilege without discussing latino, black, or asian privilege? Are you bothered the article didn't mention enough about bisexual or gay privilege? Or that the article didn't mention privilege of ugly people?

Or was it the Jews, since you brought them up, and it looks like you want to engage seriously on Jewish privilege. Did you really just want to talk about Jewish privilege?
Thanks for replying! I'm Indian. I only have access to a laptop at the moment. I'm not sure that educational programs in data engineering are so accessible to me, so I was looking to go the self learning route.
that would be good news, how can I verify that the Normandy feature isn't available in the Debian build?

Has Mozilla provided instructions to manually fix the issue? if so where? (XORcat was helpful to provide a solution, but I refuse to apply it if it doesn't come from Mozilla itself...)
It seems like Mozilla distributes a special version that allows this. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

> The Nightly and Developer Edition versions of Firefox have a preference to disable signature enforcement. There are also be special unbranded versions of Release and Beta that have this preference, so that add-on developers can work on their add-ons without having to sign every build. To disable signature checks, you will need to set the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to "false".

Otherwise I guess there’s also IceWeasel if you’re on Linux?
Eh, I don't like this article. Of course the gulag makes seeking happiness absurd, but it destroys all belief systems. The gulag destroys a faith in human goodness too, or a faith in social justice, or in individual will. It destroys religious faith as easily as faith in political atheism. Using that to say a life based on maximizing happiness has issues really isn't helpful.

And to be honest, no, suffering does not making your life meaningful. That's one of the most absurd things there is. Even Jesus prayed the cup be taken from him, and wept tears of blood. The author confuses having to survive with suffering as giving meaning beyond simple self-interest, but a lot of suffering is just meaningless. the camp cruelties are meaningless, people torment others for pointless reasons.

Finally, I always am wary of "meaningful." A lot of times you can make meaning in dangerous things that harm others. Happiness...well, at least you end up limiting the damage you do to others; the revolutionary who focuses on transcendent causes may have a meaningful life, but birth a system that gives us the gulag.
This would be very cool. I've been pondering about how to do this every now and then (but never worked on any real time stuff, so...)

If you ever get around to adding this I will start building my el cheapo raspberry pi based sonos clone. ;-)
Fastest browser I've used so far (Went from IE > Firefox > Chrome > Firefox). No problems with UX either, I'm using the vertical tabs, the rest of the browser barely have any UX except for keyboard shortcuts and commands.
Sorry but the title still doesn't reflect the actual issue which per your link is : "Attackers Wiping GitHub and GitLab Repos, Leave Ransom Notes"
Someone I know had one of their private repos on GitHub replaced despite having 2FA enabled so it may have been from a leaked personal access token somewhere. What's odd was that this user has push access to multiple active private repos yet only one was hit with the ransom.
Waterfox?
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/209448/gitlab-a...
The lua api in luakit (https://luakit.github.io/docs/) is trusted, meaning it has similar capabilities to pre-57 Firefox, as opposed to webextensions (in modern FF and Chrome), which are treated as untrusted and thus are somewhat more limited in what they can do.
Cheddar, the so-called millennial CNBC, scooped up by Altice for $200M
The irony is that Poland was once the #1 or #2 power in Europe, but they were destroyed by unanimous voting. Want to raise taxes to build an army to repel foreign invasion? Everyone agrees, except that one person too far from Russia to care, and the taxes get vetoed, so Russia wins, thus Poland was destroyed. The Poles know how dangerous unanimity is.
Create an Array with a Single Hash Without the Curly Braces in Ruby
So why do you use a browser made by an ad company, that is all about analysing your browser history and targetting ads at you?
So you agree to go wherever the carrot of happiness and the stick of suffering lead you?

Part of what you sacrifice in doing this are freedom, self-determination, and dignity.
Bit of a shame and I agree (unfortunately!) in this case. Considering the funding that likely went into it, I'd hope for something more than this, like the 1000 things the researcher hopefully tried that didn't work out. Otherwise there just isn't much to show for it.
They don't have to know how any of it works, they just have to buy one on a chinese website and plug it into their 12v car port
If Mozilla Studies are implemented the way other "push" update systems are, then probably your browser has an ID that it hashes to get a bucket ID that it builds into a URL to check for updates, plus a cron time offset for running those checks. Then, the experiments are rolled out by walking up the bucket ID list and gradually adding the addon to said buckets.

Usually, this mechanism is explained as being helpful to ensure a rollout of an experimental update can be rolled back if it's failing. That's not so much a concern in this case, I think. But this mechanism has another effect: it works as a solution to the thundering-herd problem. Every browser updating at once is bad, not just for Mozilla's servers, but for every piece of Internet infrastructure that those browsers (and their arbitrary set of addons) talk to when they update/restart. Within the time budget you have for running a rolling update, you ideally want as few machines updating concurrently as possible, just because you don't want to generate mysterious correlated traffic bursts that make NOCs paranoid.
It's easy to accidentally shaky a baby too hard if you juggle it, especially when you are tired or frustrated so generally it's a safer bet to hold the baby pressed to your body, so any swinging the baby does is swinging your body is doing too (swiveling and bouncing), protecting your baby from shaking.
Debuggers are only really useful if you're trying to figure out why some object in your server doesn't do what you want it to.

I'd wager that almost no data scientists write object oriented code.. it's probably mostly done one calculation at a time. executed in the notebooks repl. So the value you get from ide debuggers is tiny, as you're already doing everything one step at a time.
Whatnyounsay is not true as a blanket statement: the overhead for transferring data to GPU memory is higher than accessing main memory from the CPU, so depending on what you do, the data transfer to the GPU might not result in a performance gain at all.
that's an interesting question: when we install add-ons or extensions, are these hosted on google servers? I'd rather not have google know what versions of which add-ons I am running...
56.0 (64-bit), Win 10
L7 Defense – Mitigating DDoS Attacks in Seconds
It appears to take several minutes for the studies to be downloaded and enabled. The process worked for me on two separate Windows 10 machines.
"4th trimester" is was Karp calls it.
Is it true, though? You are arguing that its baseless propaganda without refuting anything. Just that the evolution of the claims has gotten more severe. The best argument if so is just the truth. Link sources and publish things showing there really aren't 3 million people detained or that it's not a camp-style thing. The problem with Iraq is that Saddam simply could have told the truth and let UN inspectors in, but he often stonewalled and acted in a way that made it hard to not worry what he was doing...and oh, the whole invading another country thing.
Make and distribute an installable app. This project is to Lua what Electron is to Javascript.
This is compelling enough that I'm giving the app a try. Thank you and congratulations to your daughter.
oh wow! that's really bad
"LLVM and webassembly are eating JVM's cake,"

> webassembly is not eating any cake.

And C++ is still around, and one of the top choices, despite 25 years of other languages chipping away at it.

Java is very mature, it doesn't need to evolve a whole lot - and most everything you need is there.

Oracle is definitely a risk to this, but I don't see TS/JS/Node taking over.

Kotlin is a strategic choice by Google due to Oracle woes, otherwise it would be a very rare language: consider that it really hasn't made a big roar outside of Android, i.e. it's not really anywhere on server side.

Java isn't going anywhere for a while yet.

There will need to be some kind of tectonic shift for this to happen.

If Google or AWS for example fully embrace some new thing, that might do it - but I don't see what the candidate is.
why not? writing code can fall into one of a few bucket. one of them is play.
> Would it connect to 802.11m WiFi router?

Sure. It's using OS networking APIs. Or running in a virtual machine.

> Would you consider it secure enough to open your banking website on it?

If I'm running 20 year old software, it's probably to interact with a legacy system. There are still businesses that run on like 486's with Windows 3.1. This is more common than you think!

> The bar is whether the machine is usable (secure).

The bar is whatever I WANT it to be, it's my machine, and it's pretentious of a software developer to assume they know what I'm using the software for and what my best interests are. For all they know I'm using the software in a museum, 20 years from now, about this era of computing.
Well at least to me, the author and to some society, both are technically fact and both are technically correct.
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