skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you, although it could be argued that avoiding paying taxes is not really creating as much chaos to society as Facebook's privacy and disinformation problems.
It's around 10 dollars, but then I have less than 1 TB. I recently starting backing up my RAW files remotely, so this number is set to increase significantly (!) I am very interested in S3 alternatives. I haven't looked at the Amazon Glacier options either, but I suspect the retrieval times make it awkward to query/verify backups.
There used to be a rich history of one-man products maintained selflessly by their creators, even up until the early 2010's. Entrepreneurship and business assholes destroyed that -- we gave this up when we made tech so easy to use that every brother and their mother got on board. Now tech is too big, with too much money, that it cannot help but attract sharks that buy up these sorts of things and then destroy them
I think it really hinges on whether this is a "curbside consult" or an actual denial of service.

Based on the facts details in the post, it is at least arguable that the conversation between the NP and the doctor was merely a consultation on a diagnosis, which medical professionals do among themselves all the time, and not an actual denial of service.

Simon, the NP, described the symptoms to Dinter, the MD, and he gave his opinion -- which turned out to be a really bad opinion with deadly consequences.

But I think it could be argued that it is ultimately the responsibility of the NP or doc who is actually treating the patient, not any physician she might have consulted (and especially not one who has not actually seen the patient), to recognize when she's being given horrible advice. And it seems as if she did recognize that it was horrible advice, but wasn't willing to overrule it and send the patient to the ER against Dinter's advice.

The post says that Dinter implied, during his conversation with Simon, that it would be pointless to admit the patient. But does that mean he _refused_ to admit her? It seems to me that there's at least arguably a difference between the two, and that his conduct did not actually constitute a refusal of service.
In the space of the afternoon after reading this article, I removed SMS 2FA from all my accounts, installed Authy, added all my accounts to it, found out Authy is also insecure[0], reconfigured it to be less insecure, and basically despaired.

My solution going forward will be to spend all of my money each month so there's nothing to steal, and have a terrible reputation online that therefore can't be ruined.

[0] https://medium.com/p/1367f296ef4d#681f
The mainframe batch-processing computers might be efficient. I have no idea. I am taking about the "ACH system". It's supposedly automated but it shuts down during the weekends. There is no way to tell how long it will take for transaction will take to complete. If you listen to the NPR podcast, it took one of their transactions 8 days to complete. And why is "speed" not a measure of efficiency when it comes to transferring something?
They still ban your account without valid non-VOIP phone.
I think there is a real erosion to people's perception to the valley (more of a general term there) and tech companies in general. Move fast and break things seems to be a goal unto itself. Opaque privacy standards / no privacy standards. The Gig economy is just pushing risk onto customers and contractors.

It's not a good look and I worry it is poisoning the well for others in the future.
Uhhh, no thanks. I'd rather not wait for the US to fix its tax laws before we can start to address privacy issues.
The article did mention that their Facebook account was the only one that wasn't compromised.

> Through all of these hacks, it was interesting to find that Facebook was the one reliable and secure service under my control.

Perhaps their comment was attempting to provide some anecdotal data in an effort to explain why the author's Facebook account remained secure.

Though I agree with you in the sense that it's far more likely that they simply commented on the wrong article. :)
Thirded. No lens in pandoc (50k lines of haskell), darcs (40k), most hledger packages (15k).
Probably because it takes 6 months for them to start failing and get all mushy.
:) ok, how dense can it be?
Chrome 73 lets you install Progressive Web Apps natively on macOS
The main message of the article is more about how doctors routinely deny admission of patients to their hospitals without actually seeing them, and how this is a very strange practice that in this case might have lead to an avoidable death (and certainly to a more agonizing end as no palliative treatment was possible).

The title speaks only of the fairly common sense ruling that actively denying admission constitutes a clinical decision
Current Subaru models also have both included. Hopefully that's the norm, rather than a manufacturer choosing only CarPlay or only Android Auto.
Using Voronoi polygons to calculate fan catchments for English football clubs
> Not to mention that pegs always fail in the land of financial markets anyhow... In the context of Facebook being pegged to a basket of international currencies, the peg to each will need to be reevaluated frequently as the currencies fluctuate and arbitrage opportunities increasingly cost the peg-guarantor money to uphold the peg.

Assuming that Facebook is the sole issuer and redeemer of the coin, this is a nonissue. By backing the issued coin 1:1 with reserves according to the composition of the basket, Facebook can redeem any coins at face value. Hong Kong, for example, maintains a currency pegged to USD backed entirely with USD holdings.

As an aside, your source, armstrongeconomics.com, may not have the best credibility:

"In 1999, Japanese fraud investigators accused Armstrong of collecting money from Japanese investors, improperly commingling these funds with funds from other investors, and using the fresh money to cover losses he had incurred while trading. United States prosecutors called it a three-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme... Armstrong admitted to deceiving corporate investors and improperly commingling client funds—actions that according to prosecutors resulted in commodities losses of more than seven hundred million dollars—and was sentenced to five years in prison."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
I grew up in Westminster, MA where DEC had a facility. I'm disappointed we didn't have donated DEC systems in our school. My dad worked there so I had access to a lot of DEC stuff but it would have been cool to learn it in school.
It's not a trade off. It's an anti-competitive tactic. Always puzzling when developers defend this garbage. Shills normally do it.
> 2) Consider your phone number and SIM card insecure.

Your phone number is an obvious attack vector. I think having a dual sim phone with 2fa dedicated number that is not publicly associated with you, possibly with the carrier that has it's security in order, would decrease the odds of getting hacked.
Companies need to take responsibility for chaos they create.
FWIW a lot of people read HN Mon-Fri while at work, so it's not surprising that this was missed by many yesterday.
In order to do that, we're also going to need tens of thousands of dollars worth of additional hardware - high-end weatherproof sensors, and full-range actuators for all controls with enough authority to use all of the power the car has. Not to mention whatever pile of computers and software is needed. Changing out the UI so you can play games a little better seems like a sidenote beside that.
Just playing devil's advocate, the ICCID on file would also be different if they had managed to compromise your account and change the sim associated with it.
Stock market tickers are exchange dependent, especially across geographic boundaries, so to avoid confusion as to which stock is referred to, many finance sites include the exchange as a prefix to the ticker, i.e., NYSE:AAPL.

However, at least in the US, a company is not allowed to choose a stock ticker already in use by a company publicly traded on a US exchange.
To me, its a real shame he's not making more money from this, as they don't hold a patent because because at the time of invention (1979) it just wasn't common for software to be patented.
He would be crazy rich otherwise.
http://www.bricklin.com/patenting.htm
I'm European, I didn't even know automatic transmission existed before I was 30 :)

The gearstick is one control with a very limited set of never-changing options that you have to use all the time, basically the best you can get as muscle-memory goes. Despite all this, it's not used where hyper-attention on the road is really necessary, i.e. in racing. And where do we get gearshift controls in racing? On the wheel.
There was free and low cost education available overseas 20 years ago. I don’t buy your argument.
Well that would be true, the largest stock holders are board members so they tell the board to buy stocks, which they happen to have a large position to sell..
Just a thought: Have you considered narrowing the list of companies you are most interested in working for...? Let’s say someone in your top five list are interested in hiring you and then want you to spend four hours for the work test. Maybe then it would be worth it, even if the outcome is not certain?
Moreover, the Dr's argument that he was just "giving an opinion", but did not actually accept or prevent her admittance, absolutely does not pass the smell test. He was in a position of power, and from the description of the phone call with the nurse practitioner in the article it is extremely clear he wasn't just "offering an opinion", but was in fact denying admittance.

Honestly, I feel awful for the patient and her family, but I also feel awful for the NP who tried to do the right thing but was shot down by those with greater seniority than her. I hope her employer changes their training so that if something like this happens in the future that they just tell the patient to go directly to the ER.
> Vomiting after marathons and triathlons isn't uncommon

Those are long distance, race intensity efforts. Most workouts aren't going to be race pace and most runners for fitness aren't running marathon distances, esp. not for every workout. In my experience, the nausea quickly subsides once my heart rate drops below 190.

> Reactions to all sorts of training are largely individual I think.

Totally agree. I was talking about my personal experience (anecdotal).
William Langewiesche is a pilot himself, and has written many other articles over the last 2 decades detailing accident investigations (among other things). As much as the technical details, he often explains the organizational and political circumstances that are just as interesting. Some that stick with me: the late-90s ValuJet and EgyptAir crashes, and the Space Shuttle Columbia.

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/william-langewiesche

https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/william-langewiesche
Ask HN: Database-first vs. code-first approaches?
I inherited several legacy Python projects written with a database-first approach, i.e. the migrations are written in raw SQL then we update the SQLAlchemy models.

My issues with this approach so far:

- writing SQL migrations is a slow and error-prone process (people here are Python devs (mostly junior btw), not DB/SQL experts)

- reviewing SQL migrations is a slow and error-prone process (for the same reason)

- it's impossible to see the model diffs on Git (each migration is a new SQL file, so we can't compare before/after. I thought about generating schema diffs as text and committing them, allowing the reviewer to see the impacts of every migration, but the diffs are noisy, it's slow to generate, it's 1 more file to commit, and overall it just seems like a hack for patching a bad design choice)

- it's impossible to track the history of the model diffs (for the same reasons)

And I just don't see any benefits for us with the database-first approach.

Does anyone here had a similar experience? Did you move your projects to the other approach?

For context, we have 1 database/schema shared by multiple projects. So I guess we could create a new project handling the SQLAlchemy models/migrations and import it in the other projects.
Estimated 10k people in DC are spies
That was the whole premise of the article.
Sterman's "Business Dynamics" may be of interest to you, but it's pricey. You may be able to find a PDF online. Morecroft's "Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics" is available on Safari Books Online if you have a subscription.
Keep in mind that you could walk to England from the Netherlands 8,000 years ago. The climate will be changing, regardless of mankind. Should we allow it to or should we explore interventions in the feedback loops, towards climate stability?
Coiin – A cold storage cryptocurrency wallet for iOS
The issue might actually be that they didn't know. It's on the accuser to prove their part (which, it seems, they now have?).

It's not all that easy to verify supply chains. So, say two parties have exactly the same lyrics for a song, must one of them be copy of snother?
I believe Google does offer support to consumers via Google One (where available), it’s priced very reasonably too.

One of Google One’s selling points Google advertises is phone based access to Google experts.
Would you take advantage of the mortgage deduction that helps the middle class and the upper class that is part of the reason causing home prices to rise and helping cause the unaffordability of homes?

Do you take advantage of pretax savings that benefit the middle and upper class?

Is their any tax break that you don’t take advantage of that you are legally entitled to?
With the changes coming to Chrome, is there a most realistic option than network-level blocking?
There are stories of people taking undetectable microdoses of tranquilizers to beat the polygraph. Think of it as the placebo effect countering pseudoscience.
You mean by offering extended warranties?
The NYPost article is a bit light on details. The WSJ article mentioned explains more:

> Starting around 2016, Genius said, the company made a subtle change to some of the songs on its website, alternating the lyrics’ apostrophes between straight and curly single-quote marks in exactly the same sequence for every song.

> When the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words “Red Handed.”
> wanting a thing doesn’t make it so.

If enough people want it, yes it does.

> inherently requires examining the power relationships

Indeed, but no country exists in a vacuum, not even a superpower like China. The world has a role to play.
Tech should just be for tech people! Mothers and brothers be damed!

I get the frustration, but shouldn’t we be working towards models that allow for better compensation for creators rather than ... well I’m not exactly sure what you’re advocating for here ...
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Horriblehacker
http://archive.is/x8kNK
Ask HN: Is there a visual roadmap for software projects?
Hey HN, I'm a consultant working with a non-technical client. I'd like to show to them a visualization of what it takes to create a moderately complex web application, so they have a better understanding of the scope ahead.

A roadmap like this one: https://roadmap.sh/frontend (designed to show what it takes to become a front-end developer) but for more general software projects would be great! Any ideas if there's something online already for this?
> We pay for Google Drive, Google Fi, and Google Play Movies so I was hoping there would be some level of customer service for paying customers. There are no phone numbers available for customers who pay for services or those who only use free services.

I pay for Drive (now part of Google One) and they advertise free phone support with it. I've never used it, and it turns out it's not a phone number you can call, but rather you request a call from them:

https://support.google.com/googleone/contact/googleone_c2c?h...

So there is a level of support for paying customers... at least in theory. I haven't heard of anyone's experiences with it in practice, however.

Curious if anyone here has tried Google One support, and whether their reps have the ability to escalate issues, the way G Suite reps can?
I have been admitted 3 times this year without an ER visit. The other two times I was admitted via the ER but that was basically to speed up the process and getting priority to a room and bed.

I have an appointment tomorrow and as usual will be taking a bag, I'm expecting a 50/50 chance of being directly admitted or going home.
Here is a counter anecdote. Recently I moved from BMW (buttons and dials) to Tesla Model 3 (basically a big iPad bolted on to the dash). Both me, my wife, bunch of friends with Model 3, all vastly prefer the touch screen experience.
I don't make mistakes ether.
Have multiple keys/tokens?
Keep in mind that the latest generation of cargo ships can carry 20000 containers.
The curse of staggeringly slow code
As far as I can understand it, the recycling industry is a well-intentioned waste of resources. It would be much better for the environment for all this waste to be sequestered in a landfill than for people to pay to ship it around the world only for most of it to be dumped or rejected (which, even when the Asian countries in question do accept it, they are likely to do anyway). These materials (plastics) are so cheap to produce that it will probably never be economical to recycle them, unless recycling them entails cleaning them and reusing them in their original state.

I think a lot of people have undeservedly negative emotional reactions to the concept of sending waste to landfills. Waste in landfills is waste that won't find its way into the rest of the environment. Plastic not decomposing is bad in that it ties up resources for a very long time, but it's good in that it doesn't even produce methane waste in landfills. And I'm guessing it takes less CO2 to ship X kilos of plastic around the world and reprocess it than to dispose of the plastic close to its source and produce X new kilos of plastic.
Sure, people would complain. But they complain now when these issues happen. I'd rather a scenario where people complain but the problems are getting fixed. It's not completely unreasonable that Google offers low/no support for free products. It is unreasonable that they don't have any way to pay for help when there are serious problems.
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I noticed that too. Hit refresh and it was magically gone from the front page with 139 points while older submissions with fewer points remained.
> On your 4k monitor 96 pixels is more than likely not an inch (unless your monitor is slightly over 42 inches)

That's good to know. My 4k monitor, coincidentally, is about 40.5 inches, so CSS inches are displayed almost correctly.
It's misleading because the doctor did look at the blood test results and the patients history and then made a decision to refuse appropriate care.

What I think contrary to what a lot of doctors believe[1] the license comes with a large amount of duty.

[1] And definitely what the suits that run hospital chains believe.
Pennsylvania Bill Aims to Shift Water Clean-Up Costs from Residents to Polluters
I think it's worse than coin flipping. Flipping a coin cannot be interpreted however you want
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If by 'destroy lives' you mean duly punish those who willingly and materially support murder, torture, and lawlessness for the sake of their addiction, yes.

> If the problem is their illegality then perhaps legalising drugs will ergo stop funding them.

I used to believe this, but California's experience in Marijuana legalization and the subsequent wave of terror in Humuboldt county indicate that gangs are not interested in becoming legitimate businesses. Two things happen: real businesses set up and are threatened by gang violence and gangs set up seemingly legitimate fronts that continue to funnel money.

> Just crying 'illegal' means nothing if their very illegality is the problem, that the laws are unjust, such as the all-too-legal apartheid in south africa.

But the laws are not unjust, it is a well accepted legal reality that governments the world over have a right to control substances, especially drugs. There are many drugs you cannot receive without a prescription and most people believe this is not only ethically sound but ethically necessary.

Regardless, buying drugs from people who you know will use the money for drug wars (pretty much every illegal drug today) is still morally wrong, independent of the state of the law. If you chose to buy your hamburgers from drug lords, I'd think you guilty of the same thing.
> Just like talking to other people in the car

No that's not true, talking to other people int he car is not associated with reduced safety.

Probably because the other people in the car are also partially watching the road.
Why can't the US develop domestic waste-processing capabilities? We could be generating power from incineration plants.
> Dinter also implied that it would be pointless to admit the patient. But does that mean he _refused_ to admit her?

He said it in the context of someone explicitly asking him to admit a patient, of course it's a refusal! The most commons way to refuse to answer questions likewise doesn't explicitly involve shouting "I refuse" loudly.
I don't think the title here needs to be changed significantly, I was just pointing out that it implies something different from the article contents.

The title paints the court's decision as if it's about treatment while the decision is actually about assessment. Going by the title one could think anyone could sue a doctor despite never interacting with them, while the article explains that this decision allows you to sue if you are actively refused treatment based on a doctor's assessment (the implication being that the doctor was wrong when they refused to admit/treat you).

Perhaps a better title would be something like "Minnesota court decision means doctors can be sued by patients they refuse to treat".
Counter-counter point: I much prefer the BMW interface because I can find the volume and AC controls without taking my eyes off the road.
Can’t second this enough
> My solution going forward will be to spend all of my money each month so there's nothing to steal, and have a terrible reputation online that therefore can't be ruined.

Way ahead of you there buddy

(sorry, I know, no jokes..)
Replace with glass and aluminum, with what's left over burn it. That way it has no way of creating any other problems in the future. If you are efficient with burning it you could even capture the greenhouse gasses produced as a result and sequester those.
Performances can be copyrighted. All of Woodstock 99 is a performance under copyright. I only know because I went and tried to use some footage later.
There is textbook investment strategy (turtles) and indicator that trades exactly the strategy this article says "no textbook" recommends.
The text and the examples are good enough, but I'm sure just one example accompanied by some nice illustrations would be much more immediately illuminating.
He is my favorite author on the subject of aviation. Lots of great reads here. Two standouts for my money are "The Devil at 37,000 Feet" and "The Human Factor."

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/01/air_crash200901

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
But also, the US regulatory environment is very friendly towards individuals when it comes to fraudulent electronic transfers, regardless of how quickly they execute.
China won't allow Hong Kong leader to step down despite mass unrest: HK official
Thanks. That's pretty unfortunate. I guess I'll just be event more aggressive about denying permissions requests and uninstalling any app I don't have a good reason to keep now.
I vastly prefer my touchscreen to analog controls - how the heck would I control my map and nav and radio without an interface that can change at need?