skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People living in these country here. Thank you for pointing out these concerns. Besides currency manipulation, another issue with cryptocurrency is about responsibility and accountability. For traditional central bank, before a greedy bad policy made, local governors must carefully think about the aftermath like unrest and they might be held for account and get punished. In the worst scenario, people keep the choice to overthrow old bureaucracy to change the policy by force. But this is not the case for cryptocurrency. There might be no one punished for terribly wrong decision, just because the public have no idea who the decision maker is, or he/she is in another country and escapes the rule of law. Just like 1997 financial crisis for southeast asian people.
Every year we have celebrities helping raise millions for various medical research projects.

Maybe we need someone to set up a nonprofit pharmaceutical company to look at treatments (including vaccines) for chronic illnesses instead of treating customers as cash cows.

A partner like this funding university research would be amazing.
Wanted to bump this. I used 1Password for years on Mac. It is truly amazing.

I now use Linux about 60% of the time, and was worried about needing to switch password managers. But I was happy to learn that I can mostly rely on 1PasswordX in firefox on Linux. It is really good.
This privacy issue is no fun, but it pales in comparison to the horrors perpetrated by the pharma industry and oil companies like this... https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/2...
bit.ly, the service that is nominally in Libya, which is, in turn, subject to various sanctions?

This is hilarious.
Does this store in a format that can be pushed to any git repo? It isn't clear from the docs, or maybe I missed it.
Flight simulator X has a premade controller profile for xbox controllers as well as functional controls for using a mouse as a yoke.
Why? Because you picked a particularly bad one or because you have 200 open tabs? Usually the browser is running anyways so adding another open tab or window increases resource usage much less than another program shipping its own browser engine.
‘Dark patterns’ are steering many internet users into making bad decisions
Bitwarden has a free tier in its hosted version. And even the hosted version with a paid subscription is very cheap compared to 1Password. Like 1/5th the cost or lower, depending on the plan.
> They're also not going to partner with an international consortium to have them replaced with something they only partially control.

It seems that Libra is going to demonstrate exactly why only a decentralized design like Bitcoin’s or other similar cryptocurrencies has any chance of breaking that control. They will be much much harder to attack and shutdown once governments decide this competition in their monopoly of money is just not wanted.
Piccola, not picolla. Piccola means small, tiny, in Italian.
Your answer sure wouldn't work for my tiny startup's app's pinning and we followed a guide initially.
Hopefully they actually finish this at some point to be useful by showing utilization and not just quotas. For the handful of things I looked at, other than lambda which they use in their example, utilization just displays "-". I'm sure the current functionality helps some use cases, but I'm bit disappointed as this just adds another place I have to look to try to figure out quota madness.
It was somewhat limited. The ACA required hospitals to provide their charge-masters for their services online in “machine readable” format. These charge-master prices have limited relation to the prices faced by insurance companies or people seeking medical care.

https://pbghpa.org/blog/aca-price-transparency-results-in-st...
For one thing, "Please learn what irony is" is a personal swipe and you can't do that here.

More generally, can you please just not argue so aggressively on HN? It's not necessary, it invites worse from others, and it's a gigantic bummer.
I support this.

That being said, does Trump have that power? Executive Orders are very powerful because the executive branch is huge. But this is an EO compelling private companies to do a certain thing. That seems beyond the reach of EOs.

I'd be happily wrong here, as I said I do strongly support this. Can anyone explain why I am wrong?
This order is about disclosing the prices that consumer pay (co-pays/co-insurance), not the total price with insurance reimbursement. Essentially it would force every clinic to be like Kaiser and MinuteClinic who tell you upfront how much you need to pay for the visit so there's no hidden fees.
IANAL, but I think so. You're not charging "1 degree" for your trouble. That said, neither you nor the school would be able to charge $$$ to cover redistribution costs for a CD containing your project, which sounds incredibly easy to run afoul of.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. I absolutely care about prices and transparency.

Wait until op has a baby delivered and sees crap like:

* BP/READ $349

* OR/FOO $2090

* OR/BAR $1000

* OR/BAZ $2090

Not real codes, but they might as well be with the current system...
Lobbyists are a lot like genies. You ask for something that sounds perfectly reasonable, and when you get it you wish you'd never met them.
Anyone doubting you just needs to look at what happened in 2008. They got bailed out with criminal immunity to tune of around a trillion dollars. The government doesn't usually do that. Also, Wikileaks went down not by governments but by Mastercard, VISA, and PayPal. Assange threatened to leak on a big bank. Zap! They all cut him off simultaneously.

The mega banks and Goldman Sachs are the most powerful organizations in this country. Even Defense arguably served their interests in many cases.
We can. But its not realistic. You need purified water, media, etc to grow the strain, you need waste disposal for when you purify the harvest. And the biggest bug bear - maintaining sterility for all the pieces of equipment, and the environment to. I suppose you could design it to be a single use, closed system. But even then, the challenges are enormous. I work in pharma and producing vaccines in a clean-room is challenging enough. The FDA can shut you down for a single OOS/OOT. I would never in a million years inject myself or anyone I know with something made from a DIY kit like that.
If You Like Torque You'll Love Volatility (2018)
What about for OTCs? I would think most people can self-diagnose and self-treat everyday allergies, for example.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is, to this day, literally the only good thing Microsoft has ever done.
>Seventy years later, we are nowhere near insect-level intelligence.

While the insects have been getting smarter!

https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=7286

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/403924/spiders-...
Apple recruits high-profile marketing exec Nick Law
Export Control is a shared responsibility model between the government and exporters.

The enforcement is for CBP, but in order for shipping companies to effectively perform their job (safely and securely ship packages in a timely manner), they assume some of the responsibility placed on the exporter.

Total abdication of responsibility could result in CBP placing increased delays on FedEx packages as it ensures export control compliance.

As noted in another post, the federal government does not mess around with regards to export control laws.
>I really don't know why this isn't a larger part of this conversation.

That's been the elephant in the room ever since Satoshi published its paper more than a decade ago. When I discuss with cryptocurrency enthusiasts I often get the impression that they think that banks are this kind of useless parasite body that somehow appears like mosquitoes around a pond in summer. That they only serve to basically operate ATMs, send you your Visa card and crash the market every other decade or so.

This is of course a gross misunderstanding of what banks are, what they do, why they do it and where they come from. In particular the idea that "bitcoin is going to kill banks" (a very common sentiment in my experience in cryptocurrency circles) is about as meaningful as "this new type of snowboard is going to kill ski resorts!". No it won't, it might change some things about how they operate but after the transition period it'll be business as usual. Cryptocurrencies don't come even close to replacing most of the services offered by banks. Actually, they don't even come close to replacing most of the services offered by actual currency.

It's this weird cognitive dissonance that you encounter in conspiracy theory circles: the banking system is this hellish beast that steals money from the honest middle-class worker, operated from a global circle of elites acting from the shadows and that must be destroyed at all cost to save humanity. How do you do that? By replacing their currency by your own, they'll never see that coming, those idiots.
Citi credit cards (and maybe others) have a good feature where you can set a "virtual card number" with a specific credit limit and/or expiration date. Great way to ensure that your card can be charged once, then payment is denied when a company tries to auto-renew you.
Actually I haven't used plain Ubuntu since 14.04, so can't credibly say how close they are now.

For 16-18 I used Lubuntu. This required a bunch of little customizations and 3rd party apps to get it close to OSX (the standard for me).

Pop_os didnt require me writing scripts to get the touchbar or brighness keys to work. Plus, since it was bundled with nvidia drivers, it was by far the most seamless install experience. The defaults fit my workflow better than Lubuntu at a minimal cost. It's very slick without taking away functionality.
On the topic, why does it matter what physical hours you work? If the job is getting done, what does it matter?

This way of thinking seems like a holdout from the industrial revolution when physical tasks needed to be done in manufacturing and output was directly tied to time spent making the widgets.

Information work, or system administration work, is substantially different yet still follows the same model as though we are physically assembling things on a line.
But the point is that decay rate is almost entirely a function of temperature, so you have to pick... something. Unless you feel like log/log years/thermodynamic Beta is a better way to communicate decay than “it lasts as long as the universe has been around”. (Which they do! In the paper! Just not in the summary because nobody has a feel for what log/log beta/time is.)
The biggest dev-time factors in my professional work time are:

1. A (de-facto) standard toolchain, incl pkg management

2. A rich ecosystem of 3rd-party packages.

Which sadly rules out a number of languages that would otherwise be very interesting.

Without those 2, I can spend hours fighting with implementing code that I know could be done in a few minutes with a more widely-used language.
Government control over currency is a good thing.
Vive is very bad for this kind of stuff (as someone who owns one). However, the vive pro is adequate and a couple WMR headsets like the Samsung Odyssey+ or HP Reverb make text look great (and are cheaper than the vive as well). The tracking isn't as good, but for sims that's not an issue
I'd be all in favor of that, but it's not quite as easy as it sounds. A lot of labor relations has resulted in health care being used as part of the total compensation package, a carefully negotiated, hard-fought conclusion. To wipe that benefit away would be a step backwards for a lot of people.

It should be possible to reopen those negotiations and reach a fair conclusion, but there's going to be a lot of fighting on a case-by-case basis (with a lot of cases). I believe it would ultimately work out better for everybody, but the "ultimate" would be years -- if not decades -- away.
The point wasn't whether or not Cloudbleed was forgotten but rather acting with some civility towards other when these mistakes do happen. Your suggestion that "there's no good reason, other than sloppiness or laziness, that they wouldn't have such limits in place" is absurd. Misconfigurations and mistakes are a fact of life, they happen to everyone. To suggest that AS 701 which is old enough to have a 3 digit ASN, somehow doesn't use any ingress prefix filtering as a matter of course is disingenuous at best. The cause is quite likely that this was a misconfiguration on a single interface on a single router. I think you know this though.
I don't buy it. You're saying you work nearly 10 hours a day, every week and every single day including Saturdays and Sundays, and (per the OP's question) that doesn't include time "not-working" while at work (i.e., chatting, lunch, etc).

People who say they work 60, 70, 80, 100 hours a week are just doing bad math, or including a ton of downtime in there.
JavaScript on Chrome and Firefox will accept days up to 31, regardless of month--'9/31/2019' will be October 1. On the other hand, IE 11 really doesn't care how big the day is--100, 1000, it's all good. "new Date('6/1000/2019') is Feb 24 2022 as far as IE 11 is concerned.
Can we, as an industry, please stop pointing to some strawman "majority of users" to justify our poor decisions? I'm kind of sick of everything sucking too, but can we at least admit that they suck because of us?
"Be kind", for starters.
Actually, the US used to have any number of currencies in the 19th centuries and it was a mess.

Having a centralized currency is a reasonable thing, though the Fed is a private entity, it operates ultimately like other central banks.

The banks don't have any special power - if you want to open one, you can do that right now.

If they did have some special sauce, VC would be pouring it, and mostly, it's not.

Banks don't make their money or derive their power through the 'creation of money'.

FB's move into this arena is possibly more destabilizing than anything, hopefully, the opportunities will outweigh the risks.
>They will not say it is because drug company execs are selfish bastards.

Because that is a given. Dealing with a selfish bastard is ok as long as you can walk away from a transaction if it is not to your liking. People bargaining for their life don't really have that freedom.

I can buy a watermelon from a guy selling it out of the back of his pickup on the side of the road and be pretty confident that it won't kill me. You won't ever be able to say that of medicine. Many of the regulations are there for a reason.

There will never be as much competition in medicine as there is in food (unless it is in the 'Uh, oh, a handful of companies own all of the farms' direction). So, even if we eliminate all regulation it still wouldn't solve the problem of competition.

So, we will have few players in a market that is difficult if not impossible for your average consumer to understand selling items that are essential for people to continue to live no matter which direction we go. So the only question is: would the threat of government forces keep these players in line better or worse than self-policing under the fear of market punishment if what they do goes badly?

My thought is that the government is going to have the resources to effectively go after bad actors where the surviving relatives of individuals harmed will not. And there won't be enough market players in any case for those trying to make a decision based on what news they get of such bad market behavior to effectively stop them by spending their money elsewhere.

It's the difference between being able to pump the brakes on a bad situation or relying on coasting to a stop.
(4) buyers capable of making informed decisions (a) several nearby hospitals (b) enough expertise or impartial advice (c) not in an emergency situation, in pain, unconscious, intoxicated or otherwise unable to make good decisions (d) in a position where the price matters - not too poor, not too rich.

Since much of the above is not true in real life, a patient centered market for Healthcare does not work well.
Yeah but if you don’t balance it against the risk factors you blow out your pool... similar to why taxation wouldn’t be sustainable, you’d end up with a significant portion of the population eating the pool without contributing, and a very small minority being forced to cover them, effectively farming “consumer humans” and thus an ever growing tax rate.
I think perhaps a better way to phrase it is that people aren't able to meaningfully act on price information.
Opportunism: Regulators Don’t Enjoy CDS Games
fish is also not posix compliant, it would never ship as a default shell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48732986/why-how-fish-do...
The problem is when you work at a company that tells you, "we are different, we are not BS like the other A.I. companies"
Awesome feature that will likely unlock a bunch of services or service providers like Iceberg, Snort and Suricata to be able to capture and inspect traffic inside the cloud.
I seem to remember a comment on here complaining about $30 pacifiers. Why do pacifiers cost $30 when they’re post paid from a hospital and not when they’re bought literally anywhere else if not for the presence of market forces? I can assure you this effect is not just limited to pacifiers.
Pretty interesting. It's good to see a deeper analysis of this.

This part though:

> ...while its members — who again, are the validators — do control the Libra protocol, Facebook does not control the validators. Which, by extension, means that Facebook will not control Libra.

That's true, but from my point of view, that distinction isn't too important.

In either case, there are a relatively very small number of individuals who control Libra in an opaque way.

By spreading the control out a little, I think it reduces short-sighted and single-perspective thinking, which is good, but it's still going to be run in a self-interested way for the handful of companies that control it and the executives that control those companies.
Gold coins can be minted at multiple places, or admitted foreign, because their value is gold by weight.

Mass fiat money are no more than 2 centuries old, in most places less than 60 years (see Bretton-Woods). They have to be tightly controled by state.
Regarding a country’s ability to manipulate their own currency or execute monetary policy which is mostly in the direction of printing more: the end game of crypto seems to take this option off the table for all governments in the long term.

Why? Because assuming all other things being equal (convenience as medium of exchange etc.), an individual is always going to prefer holding currency that isn’t subject to inflation.

An individual is never going to generously allow their government to erode X% of their liquid cash voluntarily.

This future doesn’t require any crypto ‘dictating’ its money supply policy, it just requires at least one fixed supply crypto to exist in your country that is as convenient as existing cash / online payment to make governmental monetary policy useless.

The problem for governments is: the genie is out of the bottle regarding fixed supply.

Note that I’m not saying it’s good or bad that countries cannot effectively control money supply anymore but it seems inevitable they can’t in the long term.
Ah, I see. Well, moderation is orthogonal to comment voting. If a user is breaking the guidelines, it doesn't matter how many points the comment has. It's a bit like a constitutional democracy: the constitution part trumps the voting part.

When we post something like "if you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you," that's because the account has a pattern of posting unsubstantive comments or otherwise breaking the site guidelines. It's technically a reply to one comment, because we have to hang it somewhere, but it's really a response to a pattern.

That said, it's been a while since we had to warn you and your recent history looks ok other than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20126286, so I can see why my comment came as a surprise. But it would be good if you'd omit the really low-information comments and up the signal/noise ratio a bit.
Greed begets more greed... common sense tends to go out the window when all they could see are dollar signs.
Oligopolies do sometimes end when conditions change. People once thought that TV news, highly regulated by the government, would have an indefinite monopoly. Credit cards irritated incumbent banks in the 60s. It’s not inconceivable that banking’s control of money could end.
Symbiosis, not gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works
> But this is not the case for cryptocurrency. There might be no one punished for terribly wrong decision, just because the public have no idea who the decision maker is, or he/she is in another country and escapes the rule of law. Just like 1997 financial crisis for southeast asian people.

What kind of “decision” are you imagining? I thought part of the point of cryptocurrencies is to remove power to even have these “decisions”. So I’m not sure what the scenario you imagine is.

What if Gold was used as currency easily, is there a problem that would occur?
Sorry, to clarify, I meant prescription medication. OTCs are allowed to advertise as of 1997. [1]

[1] http://theconversation.com/drug-ads-leave-canadians-in-the-d...
The overall attitude expressed is consistently "I'm simply not going to pay for writing. If writers want a middle class income, they should get a real job."

There's more to trust than belief in the veracity (or lack thereof) of a statement. When you trust a writer, you not only trust their claims, you trust that the substance of their writing is worth your time. The attitude you highlight suggests to me that many people do not see a lot of writing as being worth their time.

Unfortunately, people's judgements of value can be strongly influenced by price. When the quantity of readily available, free writing increases dramatically, people's judgement of its value goes down. Simply put, they no longer trust in the institution of writers as a medium.
I share the same feeling. Since Deep Work, I work less and do more. I'm supposed to be 8 hours on my company, but since I do everything in much less time than anybody else (due to make an effort to don't get distracted), I usually spend 7, 7.5 hours at company and nobody complained yet.
I couldn't get a vitamin B12 injection, the materials cost of which is less than £1 with no negative side effects, more often than every 12 weeks from my doctor. Despite feeling awful at 8 weeks onwards, to the point of not being able to work, and better again every time I had the injection.

I didn't care if it was placebo (although why it would be placebo at 8 weeks but deemed not a placebo at 12 weeks I struggle to understand), I felt I needed it more often and eventually found a doctor willing to try it. For me, it works.

What got to me though, is while the doctor wasn't willing to try a vitamin slightly more frequently, he offered anti-depressants at the drop of a hat. He couldn't have been more forwards in offering them and didn't take the hint when I told him I didn't really want them - I had to give him a firm no in the end!
Yes, you can advertise Tylenol in Canada.

But not Oxycontin.
I feel like I do nothing, but people tell me I do a lot. Somewhere between 0 and 100%, I reckon.
> If the subsidy were eliminated and insurance untied to employer you would have a huge step in the direction of unleashing market forces.

That's exactly how things were in the 1930s. Healthcare was unaffordable to the degree of public outcry, which is why universal healthcare legislation was introduced repeatedly and stifled by the AMA every time. In fact, early health insurance programs were designed to bypass pay-as-you-go medical fees because they weren't meeting the needs of the hospital or patients. It wasn't a tenable system.

It seems we're regressing.
Isn't anecdotal evidence wonderful?