skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may make pricing more transparent but it isn't going to help anyone unless action comes from regulation or something. Martha may check which local hospital has the best pricing for an anticipated upcoming medical need but in the moment the ambulance will take her to the closest and she'll be charged bankruptcy levels for care because the system itself is broken.

It'll help further see how broken the system is, but this does nothing to actually change it. It'll be held up by lawsuits for a while then either dropped when politically viable or used to prop up a 2020 plank without anything to actually stand on.

If Trump wanted to do something positive he'd bring back the individual mandate and try to reverse the loss of insurance and cost spikes since he signed the 2017 tax bill and other legislation aimed at destabilizing the Us healthcare system. He won't, because the GOP won't, because their goal isn't to help Americans, just the wealthy and corporations like the for profit groups running the detention centers at the border for $750/kid per day sans soap and toothbrushes.
I'm also a big fan of Bitwarden. I use it on Linux, my wife uses it on macOS, and we both use it on iOS. It allows us to share passwords seamlessly across all platforms.

I also like the command-line app that I can integrate into dmenu and the fact that it allows self-hosting.
I haven’t found many “takes” on Libra talk about Calibra, which is FB’s Libra wallet and, if this thing takes off, would likely by default be the top wallet for Libra transactions.

Calibra would require full identity verification e.g. submitting SSN and a copy of your picture ID. Getting that info is way beyond what FB has about you now.
We're not supposed to say that stuff anymore! Microsoft is good now, because Linux.
That's a good point. And that could easily lead to a worse result. For instance, the cost of diesel in Germany is lower than in the UK but the price of electricity is significantly lower in the UK than in Germany, which basically punishes electric cars (which have significantly lower lifetime emissions per km than comparable diesel vehicles) in Germany while encouraging them in the UK.

This is one thing we need to pay attention to as more and more of global emissions are transportation related instead of electricity related: punishing electricity production without also properly tariffing liquid fuels could backfire by discouraging electrification of transport.
Running a distributed database cluster TiDB as a Demo.
Integer overflow is one type of bugs that can lead to catastrophic failures. Think billing systems that suddenly starts paying customers rather than charging them or rockets firing in the opposite direction. Therefore I think you can say that Python is safer because it prevents one class of bugs that these languages doesn't.

Another reason for saying so is because it's an example of performance meeting safety. Julia, Nim and Rust choose performance, ostensibly to score well on benchmarks which I think is irresponsible. Python choose safety which I prefer. In the future, these languages will again choose performance ("zero-cost abstractions") to preserve their benchmark rankings over essential safety and programmer ergonomics. Another area in which these languages make compromises for performance is in the legibility of stack traces.

It is true that Python doesn't do fractional arithmetic correctly which I think is a flaw. Newer languages should use rational arithmetic by default. 6/5 - 1 should evaluate to 1/5 not 0.19999999999999996.
This will do exactly jack squat to control prices, but it MIGHT make enough people that are not paying attention to start thinking about what's going on with healthcare in this country and why it's so expensive.

Every time I go to the doctor in the US I wonder WHY they are doing what they are doing, WHY they want to see me two weeks from now even if I have a chronic condition that's perfectly managed already and hasn't changed in years...

I never met so many unethical individuals like since I moved to the US and started going to the doctor.
Curious, how did you come to the decision to run pop_os on non-System76 hardware? I've found pop_os and ubuntu similar enough that they've proven interchangeable.

And how is the experience?
Disappointed Ben didn't add a paragraph or two about privacy concerns. The MC, Visa will float on top of libra unencumbered by bank fees, but our relationship with credit card firms and our privacy is regulated in the western world. The Calibra wallet logic is going to need greater privacy protections for the user or we will have a situation worse than the current platform monopolies, with only pea shooters like the EFF working for users
https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
We need new law like the US section 230 for personal rights and privacy as well as free speech
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
I do 90~95% of all work in less than 50% of the time, spend the rest of the time completing the remaining tasks, browsing HN or doing some side project that might be interesting for my team later on.
It used to be forbidden in the USA, too.
Interesting question! I've been in government contracting off and on for over a decade. I've spent the last 5 or so helping small businesses get contracts and grants. In my opinion, having a 2 sided business - 1 for commercial and 1 for government - is a very good business strategy. But it's hard finding the right people to join the team because we get snatched up by the big shot military contractors all the time.

To answer your question, it is a very common way to start a startup in big government contracting towns. I see that all the time around here (SE US). Government contracts have been spinning up new tech since I've been in the business. But there are high barriers to entry for new players, unfortunately. Most of them have already been discussed already.
Amazing. You must be 100 times more productive than the parent above whose mail app uses 2300 MB. You must be able to do soooo much more with such efficient tools.
The cruel reality appears to be that you ration health care without reducing spending, because medical administration and bureaucratic costs eat the savings and more.

Untying insurance from employment is a great idea, but it won't solve this. With HDHPs being so common the 'disconnect' between providers and patients is already not a real thing. Neither will single payer fix the underlying problem, although at least individuals will be better off.

At any rate, entrusting laymen to understand when they should and should not seek emergency medical attention means that people will die through entirely preventable causes in an attempt to ration their health care spending. Your cure sounds worse than the disease.

There are no effective market forces you can 'unleash' in the case of health care. It wouldn't matter if you removed all government regulation and subsidies tomorrow. Even in a world where it all somehow works out, do you want medical providers in a race to the bottom? In the absence of meaningful quality of care information (impossible), consumers are incredibly sensitive to one thing: price. What you will end up with is cheap(ish) providers providing incredibly substandard care by cutting corners and killing people.
You mean no one that has insurance pays that price. Those without insurance don't have anyone making these agreements and are SOL.
Wow, pretty blatant stuff here. Forged signatures! But some of this could have been prevented. For instance, one of the defrauded equity investors was apparently promised a guaranteed 8% annual return, and was asked to wire money in advance of deal documentation [0]... both of which should have immediately been red flags.

Raw press release here. [1]

[0] Jensen complaint: https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-wordpress-client-uploads/adn/wp...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-ceo-alaska-based...
1Password's Android app definitely has the password generator, it's the little gear next to the password field.
I worked at my uncle’s shoe store as a kid, and he was a huge believer in marking down prices below the recommended MSRP. He even refused to set up an online store so his vendors wouldn’t know what he was doing. The only thing was that there were never any discounts whatsoever.

We lived in a military community and I literally couldn’t count the number of times a customer would walk in and ask for a military discount. We were trained to politely explain our pricing and encourage shoppers to price-check our offerings against any place else. And often customers would demand to give us a discount because they served in $MILITARY_CONFLICT.

No matter how much we tried pointing out that our shoes were effectively on sale in perpetuity, they simply wouldn’t believe us. The psychology of the sale is real.
Maybe there should be a help group for people like us?
Everything but the inevitable AI winter to come. :)
Damn straight. Sane countries don't put up with this shit. I don't watch normal TV so when I do see these ads they never fail to remind me what an oligarchic dystopia my country has become.
Is it minimized? IIRC on Windows, when an application is minimized the working set is trimmed which can result in a significant reduction - but it jumps back up when you start using the application again.
Rolling Kafka Upgrades and Confluent Cloud Ft. Gwen Shapira [audio]
Its fine to use Fastmail, many people have been making this incorrect and unfair assessment of the company. If anything the company is clear on how it’s standing up for user rights.

From Fastmail:
“As we have stated in the past, Fastmail’s business is not directly affected by this legislation and we won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this act.

While we had a small number of customers tell us they were discontinuing service due to this legislation, as well as a handful of potential customers tell us it was impacting their evaluation of our services, the AABill did not have a material impact on our business. However, we shared these developments in our submission to Parliament as an example of the AABill’s potentially chilling effect on Australian businesses. Parliament deserves to know how the marketplace views their decisions.”

Ref: https://fastmail.blog/2019/02/28/aabill-and-fastmail/
I'm sick, I need to go to the doctor. In the USA, good luck figuring out how the price of anything in any way should affect the choices one makes at that moment.

Is there a difference between going to the CareNow clinic near my house or the Code3ER near my house? I have no idea. Should I go to a hospital instead? Is that cheaper or more expensive? I have no idea. Once I get there, are things going to cost me more or less depending on which arbitrary doctor I end up with? I have no idea. If they order further tests or a consult with someone else or some medicine I've never heard of, do I have the ability there to ask questions about price? No, I've tried. Doctors genuinely seem to have no idea whatsoever what things cost, by and large.

So at that scale, not the big picture but the individual scale, prices don't matter because if they did, I'd just stay home and hope I live through whatever ails me. Which is often what I do, in fact.

I hope forcing publication of prices makes a difference. I'm suspicious that companies will find a way to do so that protects their profits, but hey, I'm hopeful.
What is a U$S?
> We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts.

Do we though? In the current state of technology podcasts can be quite long and still consume less bandwidth than a HD movie trailer.
I moved from Dyn to cloudflare and have been really happy with the change. Cloudflares interface is much better, every time I wanted to add a record in Dyn I had to hunt around to figure out what service i was using and which admin interface to use.

The only issue Ive had with Cloudflare was that some of my records had the CDN setting enabled accidentally (orange cloud icon) which broke my reverse proxies. Once I figured out what the issue was it was a quick fix to disable on all domains.
Well now that I've seen the Furby Organ I'm not going to sleep tonight...
Oh! Where did my Pony (https://www.ponylang.io/) go? :)
Typo in headline - should be "...your job?"
Bitwarden on Amazon Lightsail server. It costs $3.50/mo to self-host which is very competitive comparing to paid password managers.

I use bitwarden_rs[0] server written in Rust which is much lighter implementation you can run on cheapest 512mb instance. Official bitwarden[1] server is using docker and mssql which requires a lot of RAM.

You can run it on Linux through Firefox extension as well as on any operating system, including iOS and Android (native app). iOS and Android apps have system Password Manager integration which allows you to skip running app manually in most cases.

[0]: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

[1]: https://github.com/bitwarden/server
I do the same thing with game footage to test my capture cards.
Even 2mb is disgusting for a bit of money-counting.

A 64kb Z80 computer is perfectly suitable for a few rows to balance. After all, they went to the moon with 16kb of RAM.
Bad AI will suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and overestimate its abilities, while good AI will suffer from Imposter Syndrome and underestimate its abilities.
I fully agree with you.

I'd also like to add something that I consider the elephant in the room. Haven't tech companies already proven themselves that they're willing to bend to governments' will in order to do business?

No authoritarian government will welcome Libra with open arms. If the currency won't bend to their will, then they will simply ban it and then it becomes (at best) a black market good.

There's also another issue: how do you value it so that it becomes useful to everyone? If I'm in Venezuela getting paid in bolivars then my money already has no power to begin with.

It will also be hard to manage for a lot of people. I doubt some average Joe in a poor country will want to complicate himself by buying something at 0.0000000231 Libra. It will require a lot of cognitive power to not get scammed.
That’s a killer idea. Raspberry pi to the rescue!
But given the system laid out in the white paper, what specifically gives Facebook the ability to exert this kind of control, even in the long run?

I think we all agree that Facebook is incentivized to behave in certain ways, but if self-limitation is baked into the system, how does that matter?

This is a genuine question for which I would love an answer.
There's an unsettling aspect to this story that is being glossed right over: This is, what should have been, a simple bit of congressional legislation that could/should have been drafted in the House or Senate and sent to the president for signing. Yet it had to be drafted as an executive order. Why is the legislative branch so willing to give up the power of the pen to the president? What the hell is going on? This feels like a huge breakdown in the responsibilities of the federal government.
I didn't know about this one, but looks perfect.

Thank you.
I'm not going to go so far as to say this is by design, but it's certainly a convenient state of affairs for certain actors.

For instance, it's long been known that fomenting racism is a great way to keep people busy/distracted while you implement whatever policy you want, or use said racism as a basis to justify that policy.

Keeping people in a state of distracted stupidity is often good business.
I think you missed the "use hash functions" part. it would be something like base64(H(salt||example.com:1)). The ":1" suffix is there for when you have to change your password, you can increment to ":2" because : is not valid in a domain name.

This doesn't solve all the other problems with this system, like what if there are multiple logins on the same domain? what if the site has esoteric password requirements? what if the requirements change? if your salt leaks you don't have a list of sites to know to go change your password. etc etc. Not my favorite solution for practical reasons, but it's cryptographically reasonable at least.
I've dabbled out of morbid curiosity in the space previously—but I'm in the same boat.

Out of all of the good-will projects they could spearhead if they want to turn the tides of FB's reputation, they decide to try and supplant money. To me it just screams that it's one more domain they want to assert some control in.

I find it depressing.
What is the point of that article?

Don't most EC sites make it possible to return the item no questions asked?

Will they one day write about how people manipulate e-commerce sites into selling things?

Or how guys manipulate girls (or vice versa) into falling in love with them?
Monero for the win....the only truly fully anonymous cryptocurrency. Even if it never takes off, the existence of privacy-oriented coins like it can help influence public awareness of the importance of financial and personal privacy.
Meanwhile joe weed dealer on the corner got 20 years in prison.

The next story we’ll be hearing about is how adderall and Ritalin made a generation of kids addicted to speed.
Some more info on Keystone and the goals behind it / open source secure enclaves: https://medium.com/oasislabs/towards-an-open-source-secure-e...
Bingo.

It's not unrealistically "techo optimistic" to point out that technical solutions are often much more effective and realistic to implement than trying to change deep-seated culture.

Imagine if we responded to ozone depletion by insisting people give up air conditioning and refrigerators instead of just developing non-depleting refrigerants like we did. That would've been a fast-track to public apathy or downright hostility toward fighting ozone depletion.
Two Sigma aims to unlock ‘unique ways to make money’ in China
RightPercent.com. Normally we manage the top marketing layer of paid ads, but if you have the budget we can manage everything. Normally we charge 15% of ad spend with a minimum fee of $6500 a month (but no minimum time commitment), which covers all ad stuff and assistance downfunnel. We would put another person on the project to manage all of your internal marketing work (landing pages, etc.) on an additional hourly basis.
Interestingly, one could view China's social credit score system as a way of dealing with this trust issue.

Note well: I am not advocating either a social credit score system, nor China's use of it. Instead, I am warning that any national-level attempt to solve the trust issue will likely be open to the same abuses as China's system.
I think it's quite possible that the majority of users are the moment have no idea how to recognize "native UI" and won't know the difference either way.

I do believe that a well-designed UI makes a difference, whether users realize it consciously or not.

I am not sure whether how much an app stick to OS "native" idioms is actually significant for a well-designed UI in 2019; I think users don't spend enough time off the web to be used to those idioms anyway.
Not relevant, but I'm really glad you started blogging again.
I would often point other people to your blog as a good resource for learning javascript.
I use rapidjson and iview
> is the condition/symptom negatively affecting your ability to go about your day-to-day life

I wonder though, is this even too broad? Perhaps people need to overcome some of this adversity. Not everything is painless in life nor should it be.
yes, I think you're probably right. And there are small business owners who'd love to eliminate Yelp or heavily regulate Yelp to make it behave quite differently. Oracle has a pretty mediocre product and a really old school, back-room style of doing sales, but at least there are some reasonable competitive alternatives (some are even free).

but, the call, from some corners of the national political scene, to focus on breaking up Google strongly suggests that Google is a much, much bigger problem than Yelp or Oracle. even a little bit of problematic, biased, anticompetitive or evil behavior by Google has a giant impact.
Does the last version of MS Flight Simulator work well on Wine?
There is no "the" problem of healthcare. There are many, many interlocking issues that combine to drive up prices at every step of the way in every corner of the industry.

This might help a little bit, but there is no silver bullet.
> However, the underlying engines on these platforms are suffering due to age.

Is X-Plane suffering? As far as I know, it's the only consumer flight sim that does rigorous physics calculations -- https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/how-x-plane-works/

Or did you mean rigorous simulation of plane systems, ATC, ILS/vectoring, etc.?
It’s crazy that a drug that prevents the spread of HIV (Truvada) is nearly $2000/month. Even if you had insurance with a high deductible plan you’d potentially need to pay $6-7k before having it covered.

The government should be giving this away for free.
I'm not sure you read what I wrote, but I have considered other alternatives: it's called "writing for magazines." If you'd like to support me without supporting Medium, you'll likely find me inside more than one bound collection of thinly-sliced dead tree at your nearest newsagent, supermarket, or bookseller.

I've even considered Brave. Hell, I've even tried Brave. According to my email archive, I signed up as a publisher in January 2018. Sadly, it's just not a sustainable model yet - which is why my piece is monetised by Medium, not Brave.
Flight simulator X was released in 2006
Homes the character cares mostly about the challenge, but compared to a "trickster" character like Loki, he is not subversive. He uses solves the crime, he doesn't commit it.
Just checked your profile and there isn't a email. I would like to hear more and share with you some of my ideas. Email: kpyang2414@gmail.com
You're back! I remember joining to help take care of the original plant, but I left when there was a big gap in coverage. Did you get a new plant? It seems that the name has changed.
facebook has also proposed some sort of quasi-independent regulatory body to oversee facebook in an attempt to stave off government regulation.[0] It seems they really are trying to turn the nation states of the world inside out and make them subservient to corporations.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/opinion/facebook-content-...
Standard issues with these derived password schemes:

* Are you sure your algorithm can't be reversed?

* What do you do if your normal username is taken?

* What do you do when the site's name changes?

* How do you handle forbidden and mandatory characters?

* How do you handle forced rotation?

* What about extraneous crap like security questions, phone PINs, emails, related sites, &c.?

* How do you access it on other devices?

* How can you track down old accounts to close them down?

If you go on listing the issues, you wind up writing the requirements document for a password manager.
Have you looked into the nootropics community? /r/nootropics is the one I frequent but there are other sites out there. They're pretty good at finding ways to order drugs and supplements not designed to be sold for human consumption, someone might know how to order it from another state or country.
They are there but you more than likely don’t know anyone personally that has done it. Most people have insurance via group plans and don’t get that sick, it is the outliers that have huge problems. That is what makes the problem so hard to get people fired up about.