skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug: We're developing the Boden Framework [0] which kind of shares that vision.

I like the idea of a protocol and that is pretty much what Boden attempts to achieve in the end. Having said that, the more I work on this project the more I come to believe that, at a certain point (level of detail), attempts at the unification of real native UX on different platforms become virtually impossible. To achieve real native cross-platform UX, you need to embrace and take care of the different aspects, behaviors, and quirks of each platform. Boden attempts to make that as easy as possible (and without forcing you to write JS).

[0] https://www.boden.io
Right, because the government official is corrupt so the private entity gets to be a bad actor. But if the private entity is instead also a corrupt politician owning a government controlled entity... why would that be different? (to be clear, I'm not arguing private is better or worse, I'm actually curious if there's any reason to believe it would be meaningfully different either way).
What's the counterargument to this?
The passmenu script for dmenu makes it even easier - just hit a keyboard shortcut, start typing “git”, hit enter and it’s on the clipboard.
> The developing world doesn’t care about the reputation Facebook has on HN

The developed world does: "based on an analysis of SimilarWeb Android data, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill found daily average users for core Facebook have declined in the U.S., U.K., Germany and France over the last 12 months—although he notes sequential user growth across geographies in April and May. In the U.S., time spent on core Facebook and its photo-and-video-sharing platform Instagram also has declined over the last 12 months, with users spending sequentially less time on both apps most recently" [1]. Antagonism to Facebook not a niche issue.

Autocracies won't cede power to Zuckerberg. Poor democracies have no incentive to sign up to a cartel without rich countries' wealth. Without at least some OECD support, the project is DOA.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-pricey-ad-spend-may-n...
>The real problem is that consumers don't care about the prices

Forgive my perhaps being out of touch, but isn't the primary complaint that healthcare can be _ruinously expensive_ and unaccountable?
Which companies do code generation for their projects?
The high deductible approach fails because then people have to weigh preventative care and eating or paying rent.
I used to use KeypassX. They Keypass switched to C# and mono, and I wasn't interested in running that on Linux. Then I found enpass. The Linux app is high quality, it syncs with my cloud of choice, and has Win/Mac and Android/iOS apps for a seamless cross platform experience. I can't recommend them enough.
Plus it's $10 per app with no other fees and no fee to upgrade to new versions. Much better than paying subscription fees, or a fee for each new major version.
This is why we can't have nice things.

I guess it's good news for Microsoft, though: people are aware of OneDrive!
European watchdogs demand detail on Facebook's cryptocurrency
How come you don't you add a field in the profile stating what they are there for like - need a cofounder, want to join a start up. Maybe an interest field too. Just some thoughts!
Wow! That's a heck of a rabbit hole I fell into there. Lots of cool stuff there.
What oriansj (as well as rain1 and others) are doing is both very impressive and important. The objective is to get us to bootstrappability and, for example, escape Trusting-Trust attacks; one reason it's profoundly important is the long-term archival problem. Media longevity is one crucial part of archival, but as we were discussing today in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20272557, there are plausible solutions to that problem.

Interpretability is another part of the problem: even if we recovered an executable copy of Ivan Sutherland's historically groundbreaking program SKETCHPAD, for example, we wouldn't be able to run it because we don't know the instruction set for the computer it was built for. Remember that the entire body of knowledge about Ancient Egyptian culture was lost in the 5th Century, when the Christian Dark Age closed the temples, and not regained for almost 1400 years — and then only due to the great good fortune of the Rosetta Stone.

A bootstrappable computing stack is a crucial part of the "Rosetta Stone" that will be needed to preserve 21st-century knowledge. One of the few papers tackling the interpretability problem in this form is http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf, "The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015", by Long Tien Nguyen and Alan Kay.

There's a more immediate necessity, though. As recent events make clear — Chrome's extension API kneecapping ad-blockers, the increasing effectiveness of Chinese censorship, and the shocking US$12 million award to Nintendo last November against ROM site operators for preserving classic video games, for example — the current political and economic system cannot be trusted to preserve our access to our cultural heritage, even during our lifetimes. That means that we need an autonomously-bootstrappable trustworthy free-software infrastructure that is viable without the massive economies of scale that fund mainstream platforms like Linux, Android, MacOS, Chrome, and even Firefox. If your personal archive of the Tank Man photo, the Arab Spring tweets, or the video of the murder of Philando Castile runs afoul of future malicious-content filters integrated into your operating system, there is no guarantee that it, or you, will survive.

So we're doing our best to get some green shoots established before the situation has any opportunity to get worse.
One of the first games I had was Flight Simulator II for the Amiga 1000.
Centralised systems like paypal can just un-transfer the money; for the other examples, you can usually get the account back through some out-of-band account recovery process.

For a decentralised system, you're on your own. It's not clear which one Libra really is.
The enormous quantum computer artificial intelligence augmented virtual reality blockchain at the center of the galaxy should be named "Deep Chopra".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORg1u2Hbqk
+1. I migrated to Bitwarden from LastPass last year and haven't looked back. The desktop apps and browser extensions are fantastic and the UX is wonderful.
HDHPs are rampant now. I have a $6500 deductible. It's absolutely miserable. I dump all the money I can into my HSA every year and inevitably I spend it all. The magic benefits of HSA as an investment vehicle for retirement or college are vastly overstated. Yes, if you basically never go to the doctor, it might work. Go to the ER or urgent care once a year and you're done. (Further, your investment options and the fees thereof are controlled by your employer's HSA servicer, and tend to suck.) Whenever I have a medical issue, I personally try to just suck it up and wait it out, because just to see a nurse practitioner to see is $150, let alone if they have to do anything. Every time my kids get sick I also have to make the same type of decision: is it worth it? This is an absolutely miserable place to be in, but this is exactly what HDHP proponents think is a great idea.

Meanwhile, my total annual premium cost is still > 20k.

I absolutely do care about prices (which doesn't matter right now, nobody will tell you what they are), and so does everyone I know, most of whom are on these same plans. The only people I know who aren't are unionized. But I have no way of finding out what they are beforehand. I don't even think this mandate will help. Yeah, sure, now the hospital posts the price - but what about the other dozen providers that involve themselves in a single procedure?

For example, my wife underwent a routine procedure a few months ago. I am still receiving bills from different providers. So far I'm at 7. Never mind trying to even audit them to see if they really did anything!

At the same time, do we really want health care to be under intense price pressures? I'm not so sure. I imagine the medical bureaucracy will continue to expand unimpeded while actual quality of care will go down. That's what I already see happening as a result of cost-cutting.
I understand you are upset but I ask you to please consider this briefly. If you change conditions to make a specific place more appealing to the rich this does not in any way hurt the poor in that area. If having rich people around was bad for the lower income citizens then people with low income in Monaco would be worse off than people with low income in Africa.
Why? Its a convertible coin. It doesn't matter.
A while back I used NoRoot Firewall on Android which works as a “local VPN” funnelling all web tragic through the app and you whitelist every outbound connection. Only thing is that you don’t always have enough context on each IP address for each app to make an informed decision.
See also module music. MIDI + SoundFonts would be a reasonable idea for music and sound effects, but it wouldn't be suitable for voice.

Something like Vocaloid parameters would be interesting, but the synthesis engine is probably pretty intensive.

(To be clear, I think this is an idea that's fun to think about as a novelty but probably a dead end otherwise.)
It calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a rule within two months that could require hospitals to publicize information on their negotiated rates with insurers for common procedures.

and

Lawsuits could be likely, meaning any action could be delayed until after the presidential election.

a great idea, but it sounds like the EO may not actually change anything for a long, long time, if ever.
Why would this article mention that?
What makes it better for teams than just pass?
pass is simple and kind of neat.
https://www.passwordstore.org/

or
passit looks kind of cool, but I haven't used it.
https://gitlab.com/passit
Terrorism, they stopped making FS after 9/11.
> there's a huge political push to try and get the "developing world" (with all the hand-waving that's been applied to this term) onto cryptocurrencies,

Is there? There's a lot of discussion around it. But I've never seen a legitimate push.
Tibet was not recognized (by China or any other country) as an independent country.

It was de facto independent because of the collapse of the Chinese central government during the 1911 revolution. But most of China was under the control of local warlords at that time. Both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China viewed Tibet as just one of many provinces that were temporarily beyond the central government's control.
That's awesome! Great job!
How to Write a Good Piece of Code
China has WeChat & Alipay.
India has PayTm & PhonePe (+others), the government also has a really good initiative called UPI.
South East Asia has a bunch of similar apps as well.

I think the developing world is ahead of US & EU in this regard, card & bank account usage is bound to decline in the long run.
The “tarnished brand” of Facebook is hugely overstated. Facebook is not losing users.

Libra is already “spun off”. FB only owns a tiny share.
It's running code as a serverless function,
On a cloud provider, not your browser.
Not just JavaScript, and it can be re-used later (saved in your provider account).
Hope this clarifies things!
Reminds me of https://floppyswop.co.uk: "a place for sharing any files small enough to fit on a conventional floppy disc (1.44meg high density), art, media, sound, noise, its up to you, all files are hosted here for taking and swopping..".
Thank you, I'm familiar with the book you are recommending - the righteous mind. It is discussed in Altruism and cited in its bibliography. [1]

I get the impression you've decided to take a stance on the book Altruism without reading it. The summary you provide for Rightous mind could work just as well as a summary for Altruism too. At this point, we aren't even disagreeing, we're just citing different sources, and I'm content to just drop it.

https://books.google.com/books?id=1k_2AwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
I would bet that the higher rates are about mental health issues becoming more widely known and less stigmatized.
Good first step
> Industry groups are mobilizing to fight back, saying any requirement that hospitals and insurers disclose negotiated rates would go too far.

This kind of effort is what is required in order to allow for comparison shopping to occur. Maybe this even enables consumers to shop better for their insurance plans depending on their common needs. That would likely allow folks with certain recurring conditions to shop for the best insurance plan for them (thus also raising the risk level for that insurer and changing prices?) but that's a bit more like how a market is supposed to work.

I can't speak specifically to whether the order just increases legal ambiguity or whether it will be enforced, but I'm happy to see any initiative toward price transparency in medicine that will allow the public to start making better decisions.

> But the order doesn’t say if hospitals would have to disclose the average of all rates they get from insurers or the specific rate they get from an individual’s insurer. That detail matters: The average rates would have a milder effect on local markets as insurers and hospitals still wouldn’t get clarity on rivals’ specific secret rates.

PRECISELY. If everybody understands the negotiated rate, then any size organization can argue for that rate. This would make it easier for smaller-scale companies to get the same rates as larger plans and also reduce some of the incentives for large insurer / care company mergers that seem to be really rent-seeking given the industry comment on this order.
Libra is not for the developed world; I didn’t mention the developed world in my message.

It remains to be seen what it will happen to it in the developing world, but the reputation of Facebook won’t be an obstacle.
Not every OS has a "provided webview", Linux doesn't, not sure if MacOS does.
Polish court blocks controversial coal-fired power plant
People complain about 20U$S copays on doctor visits that bill 400U$S to insurance. Thats the distortion in the market right now.

Of course when the insurance doesn't cover the procedure and see the 400U$S bill people flip out.
On a macro scale, healthcare prices are a huge issue. On a micro scale, healthcare prices are a non-issue.

Perhaps the latter is part of what leads to the former, and perhaps full disclosure will change things, but generally there has been no point in even trying to shop around based on price, since there are no good options and very little information about prices.
I'm submitting this for completely selfish reasons!

I've been a DynDNS user since 2012 and maybe earlier.

No offense to Oracle, but I'd rather not continue my dynamic DNS services with them. What's everyone else using?

Is it worth hosting my own? I have a VPS for web hosting, etc, and could put something there.
> along with a dmenu/rofi script.

You make it sound custom, so I wonder if you know that pass's source repository and at least Archlinux's package includes passmenu which lets you access your passwords with dmenu.
Minor typo possibly?

It says how to 'Went" not how to rent

https://www.mcpond.com/how-it-works
Funny enough, I just saw a blog post saying that the 1px does give some nice benefits:

https://blog.1password.com/why-i-switched-to-1password-x/
It's not a race to the bottom, for a number of reasons America is a good place already for international corporations to have headquarters. We have a strong and mostly fair legal system, and rule of law that many countries do not have. We have a world class workforce. But by having high corporate income tax you are driving away companies that would otherwise HQ here and bring money and taxes. I see benefits and no downsides to making the environment here even more appealing to corportations.
The real problem is that consumers don't care about the prices

Just out of curiosity you wouldn't happen to be a twenty-something in relatively good health would you? :)
It can kill too [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-k_YVkRKs
The use case is to quickly "harvest" snippets -
Create function, see if it works, without the need to copy-paste to your cloud providers UI.

After creation, the functions are saved in your provider account, so you can re-visit your growing snippet library at any time.
Sorry for a German's nitpicking, but it seems to be not a typo: The man's name is Wiener.
Patent ownership does nothing to encourage innovation. Most of the innovations are based on prior research, and most are done in publicly funded labs that would do the research regardless of the profit motive. Allow full competition to work or you end up with a corrupt version of capitalism.
> The largest leap will come last: Libra as a genuine currency, not simply a medium for transaction. This will be function of volume in the previous two use cases, and is understandably concerning to governments all over the world.

Well that's certainly an understatement.

This is literally the only mention of government through-out the entire article. The only mention of banks is in the previous paragraph stating there are no banks in the coalition.

Banks and governments go together like peas and carrots, they also control pretty much everything and have for hundreds and thousands of years. This control is derived from a few places, but primarily from a monopoly on the control of the currency and the monopoly on coercive force.

No government is going to let FB and any coalition do an end run around their national currency and their banking institutions. They're also not going to partner with an international consortium to have them replaced with something they only partially control.

I really don't know why this isn't a larger part of this conversation. I think people need to be cracking more history books and less William Gibson and Neil Stephenson novels.
That's not going to happen. As soon as it does, we'll be seeing a crackdown on a wider swathe than just banks. What scares the bejesus out of me is what happens when tooling to link up personal data from data aggregators plus sufficient tooling around blockchain analysis is built such that a realtime tracking system of financial to other activity becomes possible. A full public record of all financial transactions is a hell of a surveillance tool, and with enough ancillary data, transactions are trivially deanonymized (assuming Libra is structured in a pro-anonymity way, which it won't be, because otherwise, banks won't have a thing to do with it.
I am very sorry to hear that. My thoughts are with you and of his young children.
To me it feels like a similar (or is it reverse?) problem to deep space telescopes and that they used to 'image' that black hole. You need so many fractions of an arc-second in order to 'see' the distance object.

Only in this case you also have to arrange the other objects so they don't occlude the ones behind them.

Imagine trying to lay out a warehouse so you can do inventory without walking through the building. Just a binoculars and a gantry crane, or a bicycle to go around the perimeter.

How densely are you gonna be able to pack things, really?

I mean, there is one option I know of. The guy who discovered NiMH battery chemistry had an optical storage format he was pushing where you use one laser to excite phosphors in a 3d matrix and a second to read the state. The bits are all transparent until excited. But I think you're limited by how fast you can activate the cells, so linear scans would be the slowest.
Pink plane reasoning like this makes you dismiss bitcoin as not scalable. The blue idea is to scale off chain with smart contracts whether centralized or not.

Compare cos fighting this to those not like cash app which are building on top of bitcoin.
Summaries of the best things I have read (updated each month)
Not necessarily unpopular but kind of a hassle. If you need to go through all that trouble just to learn something you might end up not being interested in seems a tad much. Software is definitely the way to go for the vast majority.
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything

My Postmodern Adventure

by Chip Morningstar
chip@netcom.com
5-July-1993

"Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right."
- Donald Norman

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/decon.html
Great use of an executive order, the executive branch is so big that having no directives from the CEO is an odd way to run an organization that large

Overwhelming even

I dont think the constitution envisioned how big of an organization the executive branch is, all with independent sweeping rule making autonomy. Only industry enthusiasts know the specifics of one agency’s depth of rules. Someone elected by the people for totally unrelated reasons has no way of knowing everything these agencies are influencing
> it wants to be compensated for complying.

This will not scale. Next, industries will want to be compensated to add filters to not pollute rivers. Car makers will want to be compensated for doing safe cars. Supermarkets will want to be compensated for having to check customers age before selling alcohol or tobacco. Etc.

To follow the law is part of doing business. If the law is unreasonable or it is a problem with the law or it is a problem with the business model.
Some cruel reality: you need to ration healthcare to reduce spending significantly. The iron triangle of healthcare: Quality, Access, Cost.

That said, there are definite things that increase the cost disproportionately, and the way the government subsidizes insurance through an employer makes a major disconnect between patients and providers. If the subsidy were eliminated and insurance untied to employer you would have a huge step in the direction of unleashing market forces.
Each individual bar is not meant to add to 100%.

Its saying, for the selected quarters, what percentage of traffic was malicious.

Ex:

* In Q4 2018, less than 20% (out of 100%) of wetransfer's traffic was marked as malicious.

* In Q1 2019, over 60% (out of 100%) of OneDrive's traffic was marked as malicious.

Etc.
Oh no you stop with that nonsense.

The open source definition https://opensource.org/osd does not allow for discrimination of use for good reason.

You may take no issue with proprietary software but please don't try to weasel "source-readable" software into the wonderful world of free software.
I know that voice control is very popular in China, for text messages for example because writing on phones is much more cumbersome compared to latin alphabets.

Might be interesting to see whether voice control is going to take off much faster in China than in some other regions over the coming decade.
Some people would call “promised and under-delivered” a lie, especially when the “promises” were claims about what had already been achieved. Perhaps brazen fibbing is considered normal in the Silicon Valley startup community, but most people find it distasteful.
It's not relative at all. That's just awful.
A friend of mine is affected by this, combined with her innate hypochondriac tendencies it makes her life very difficult and her sense of self-worth and confidence very low.

However, I am at a loss as to how to approach her to help her. Trying to convey this to her would sound more like an accusation of hypochondria.
In the developer beta, existing users are moved to zsh on install.
Very hesitant that this is the actual problem of healthcare. What you care about is not how much the hospital bills, but how much is leftover after insurance. And that is unknown to all parties.
"Can't say I approve."

I just love the sense of entitlement on the Internet
/s

Awesome job by the OP - and as others said, it's a high volume piece of consumer kit. Now it's unique and special.

Very well done!