skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some inflated drug price on TV may shame drug companies to lower a "list price" which is in no way related to what it actually costs. I'm much more interested in getting real prices of various procedures, but to be perfectly honest if I had an expensive procedure that could be scheduled like a knee replacement, going to a foreign hospital that is cheaper, cleaner, and has less infections is certainly a better and safer deal than the typical US hospital.
RingCentral Meetings uses zoom.us engine but the local server runs on port 19424 instead.
I'm able to replicate the issue on it.

PoC: http://localhost:19424/launch?action=join&confno=3535353535
Screen sharing products seem to be finicky or massive out of control and hard to use apps.

Maybe there is a technical reason screen sharing is so wonky.
I think this works extremely well in custom applications, small family farms etc. - here's another beautiful example from a small Japanese cucumber farm

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-a-japanese-cu...
Cheers!

Apparently Conal Elliott[1] has reached out to the CQL folks so if they get together there should be some interesting and useful stuff emerging there. I told Wisnesky they should make a self-hosting CQL compiler in CQL. ;-D Maybe modeled on Arcfide's thing[2]. Categorical APL...

[1] http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797
Please, please, please don’t use a GUI toolkit like this, that draws its own widgets rather than using platform standard ones, when developing a plugin for a digital audio workstation (e.g. VST or Audio Unit), as this author is apparently doing. Unless someone puts in all the extra effort to implement platform-specific accessibility APIs for said toolkit. Inaccessible DAW plugins are a problem for blind musicians and audio engineers because of GUI toolkits like this one. Maybe screen readers will eventually use some kind of machine learning to provide access to otherwise inaccessible GUIs, but that’s probably still a long way off. So for now, we need application developers to do their part.

I don’t actually know what the best cross-platform solution is. Is wxWidgets fully functional in a context where it doesn’t own the event loop? I suspect not on Windows in particular. Yes, yes, I know it’s ugly 90s C++, but really, what’s more important, code aesthetics or usability?
If you had a sandbox, you wouldn't even need anyone to inspect it - since all the app's files would be contained in one place, uninstalling it would remove everything, and there wouldn't be a way to leave a server behind.
I think the Australian plug is great, with the only caveat that it would be basically perfect if the pins were just slightly thicker (they're just a little bit too easy to bend).

It's fairly compact, sockets always have ground, you can't plug it in upside down and swap live/neuteral with the two pin version (used for double insulated equipment), and it has a sensible scheme for 10, 15 and 20 amp sockets (the ground pin is bigger for 15 amps and all the pins bigger for 20 (I think) so you can plug a 10 amp plug into anything but can't put a 15 amp plug in a 10 amp socket or a 20 amp in a 15 amp socket).
Have you set your active hours for updates (to not be applied during)? Mine are pretty broad, like 7am to 9pm M-F and I think a bit later on the weekends. Also, I dont leave unsaved work outside of active hours. I'm on Pro at home, and I think Pro allows you to set longer active hours than Home.
Case in point: witches.live has code for handling the moon.

https://witches.live/@anna/102403392019217231
The judge ruled that the the Department of Health & Human Services exceeded its mandate. Additionally, drug companies argued that the new requirement violated their freedom of speech.

The U.S. Department of Transportation requires airlines to advertise only the final price customers pay including taxes and fees. This is to protect consumers and avoid deception.

I think it’s pretty easy to justify a requirement to disclose drug prices in ads following similar logic.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see this ruling overturned.
There was just a bipartisan bill passed to make it harder for the IRS to seize bank accounts that was signed by Trump that didn’t make the news but the North Korea visit did.

But I wonder how long it will take both parties to realize the ridiculousness of the current health care system the same way that they are both slowly turning back government overreach when it comes to being “tough on crime”.
NASA Will Open Pristine, Sealed Samples of Moon Rock
why not just unfollow everyone?

You can still message people but it isn't addictive because there will be nowhere to scroll outside of messages.
@astrojetson

You seem to be a snobby boater. You remind me of the "yacht club" commadore in new jersey who waited around for me to show up so he could tell me about all the things I couldn't do (that I hadn't even done)

I found this attitude only exists in the USA, New Zealand out of the 30 countries I sailed. All the other places people are more rational. Fortunately it's a small percentage even in these places.

The fact is, my boat is more seaworthy than many that cross the sea every year. All the really important things are sound. I do have a life jacket just so I can pass the coast guard inspection. Never used it.

The only thing you or anyone else manages to criticize me of are cosmetic issues. Saying my boat will likely sink is judging a book by it's cover. You can't tell if a boat is going to sink by looking at pictures of it!

The proposed "solutions" such as paint or scrubbing all consume resources and energy, and in some cases also cause pollution. So these are actually a negative impact for everyone.

If it becomes impossible to anchor somewhere from too many selfish people, I'm not sure why I would want to anchor in that place anyway. There are plenty of other places (and countries) where this will never happen.
I'll re-ask in this subtree. What does the "ladder of ideas" look like for ruby? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20388593
Save up and eject as soon as you can, and be realistic about what you are up against.

Thats been the MO for people at Big Oil, Big Pharma and Wall Street for a long time now. People are in deep denial about the state of affairs.

These are "too big to fail" systems with too much momentum built up behind them, for a trajectory change.
> At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that features regulated on and off ramps with proper know-your-customer (KYC) practices, combined with the ability for law enforcement and regulators to conduct their own analysis of on-chain activity, will be a big opportunity to increase the efficacy of financial crimes monitoring and enforcement.

I wonder how many people in the world can pass a KYC check right this moment.
Why would you want your compiler to give you error messages in code? That's like AutoCAD drawing you a picture when it can't complete a command.
It's diplomacy. It's a gesture. Not everything has to be transactional when it doesn't cost anything but a couple hours of time.
Looks like "freedom of speech" angle. Even congress will not be able to pass this law.
Build 3D net with 2D method, and run it on STM32-MCU
For anyone else that's curious Taliesin West is the winter home and architectural school of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

I just love how his buildings lay comfortably and organically on the landscape and Matterport's 3D rendering does a great job of showing this.
He tried to make it sort of undesirable...but didn't go far enough and just chose amusing.
>Ethereum is replacing proof-of-work with proof-of-stake in 2020, which should help with this.

I seem to remember that proof-of-stake has been coming 'next year' for about 3 years now.
The XLNet GitHub elaborates pretty well, no need to duplicate it here: https://github.com/zihangdai/xlnet
Speech has always been a slippery slope. For example, they could start ghosting and demonetising videos critical of governments/companies. What's the acceptable limit to speech on Youtube?

Will the users care?
Hey, nobody said it was perfect advice. :)
A pretty good example of the cobra effect. I'm not sure how the owner didn't see this as the likely outcome.
Yes, but blocking browser access to localhost from non localhost pages would stop the attack by simply visiting a webpage.

It’s as much the fault of browsers for leaving the hole as Zoom for doing a shady job exploiting it.

Very disappointed at Mozilla for their meh response.
I can't imagine selling bugs to the highest bidder ever becoming ethically acceptable. You can't pretend not to know that the high bidder is probably a cybercriminal. If you do this, your hat is clearly black.

Once upon a time, vulnerabilities were just nuisances and people could justify some gray-hat casuistry when the damage was just some sysadmin overtime to clean up. But now there are serious organized crime rings and rogue nation-states using vulnerabilities to steal and extort billions and ruin people's lives.

It's OK to choose not to work on products with no bug bounties, but if you do find a bug in one you must disclose it responsibly.
The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow,
based on the philosophy of Taoism and the Great Unification Theory,
In the computer field, for the first time,
it was realized that the unification of hardware engineering and
software engineering on the logical model.
It has been extended from `Lisp language-level code and data unification` to `system engineering-level software and hardware unification`.
Whether it is the appearance of the code or the runtime mechanism,
it is highly consistent with the integrated circuit system.
It has also been widely unified with other disciplines (such as management, large industrial assembly lines, water conservancy projects, power engineering, etc.).
It's also very simple and clear, and the support for concurrency, parallelism, and distribution is simple and natural.

There are only five basic components:

1. Pipeline (pure function)

2. Branch

3. Reflow (feedback, whirlpool, recursion)

4. Shunt (concurrent, parallel)

5. Confluence.

The whole system consists of five basic components.
It perfectly achieves unity and simplicity.It must be the ultimate programming methodology.

This method has been applied to 100,000 lines of code-level pure clojure project, which can prove the practicability of this method.

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
I work as a developer/consultant/system integrator and I consistently get a hard time for using macs. It’s antiquated thinking that began in the 90s. Usually the folks that are the most tribal about windows have little to no experience with Mac OS. Here’s the kicker- I use macOS and windows about equally. Each has its strong and weak points. I can’t hang who I am as a person on a bunch of bits. Prior to the butterfly keyboard debacle I found Mac hardware to be the best platform to run Windows, after getting my i9 MacBook Pro I am ready to sell it because of that garbage keyboard. Right now I’m looking for a decent cherry mx keyboard that will have the Mac layout and backlit keys. Anyone who knows of such a device please let me know. I would gladly pay 300 bucks for such a keyboard.
The freedom of speech angle seems odd here as there are plenty of regulations about disclosing pricing in various forms.
This is such utter nonsense. I've programmed professionally in both C++ and Erlang and while there are situations where Erlang might shine, there are issues where it completely loses to C++, namely, cases where you need a lower level of abstraction. I don't see people writing video and audio codecs in Erlang as there are no real abstractions for SIMD and no latency guarantees. Erlang supports concurrency in its virtual machine, but no support for real parallelism (e.g. you can't control when context switches occur, or finely control flow control in general). While I was programming in Erlang, I loved aspects of the language, but found Erlang apologists who didn't really understand native programming to be insufferable.
This sucker ate 3GB RAM in Firefox, and hung at 75%.

What's it supposed to do?

Edit: Oh, https://matterport.com/. Not the thing to load in a wimpy VM, using a high-latency uplink.
> The problem with asking permission is dialog fatigue and similar.

That’s why I suggested config option and permission. There’s no dialog fatigue if you never see the dialog.

That being said, there really ought to be a little menu of permissions that can be granted to a website such that the website cannot make it blink, flash, or otherwise draw attention to it. Crud like “allow push notifications” could go there. Granting push notification permission to a site is fine, but I don’t think sites should be able to ask for push notification permission.
World War II is the creepiest thing I can think of.

One morning you walk into a book store, everything is Hitler, except one book, and you are on the cover.

Then, at night, you look out your window, and the prisons are open, and all the garbage people are burning the masterpieces as a prelude to war.

I'm glad we killed the monsters of Europe. My only regret is we didn't have what we have now.

Just keep them alive, like in some borderline chemical coma, so they can watch their folly be destroyed first hand.

And no, nihilist, death and destruction is no escape. It NEVER ends. Not for you, not for me, not for anyone.

GROW UP LITTLE WILD FLOWER.
They usually don't know what the cost would be.

I once went to a walk-in clinic once for a cold, and they told me upfront the cost for the visit with co-pay (~$40 or something). Several months later, I hear from their collections office.

Apparently, as they told it, my insurance company declined to pay their part of the co-pay because they insurance company claimed it wasn't part of routine care. Absurd.

Anyways, the clinic's response was to retroactively increase the price they charged me. But because I paid in cash, they couldn't just take it from me. So they spammed an old mail address from when I was in college (poor student with the current PO box), and then called me on the phone. And the amount was only $10; far less than their staff time.

Zero part of that seems square with common law. When is it possible to change a price months after a transaction? None of this makes sense, but if they have beef with the insurer that's on them.

So if the hospital tells you the cost up front, and they're wrong, they stand to lose money if they can't swing the negotiations with the HMOs.

The US system just makes no sense.
I have considered Air. Only thing I don’t like about it is dual-core. I know ML use GPU, but come on... dual core...
Serverless Private NPM Registry
vim has that, and it drives me nuts. i use the mouse to select text in a terminal to copy it elsewhere outside of the terminal, but when vim is running that doesn't work, and i end up disabling mouse support every time because of that.
Sure, and it's objectively a diplomatic win for North Korea. But what diplomatic outcome is expected for the U.S. for visiting the DPRK for the first time?
GoToMeeting and Zoom are two things I always insist not to use. There are perfectly acceptable online-only counterparts that don't need to infect my computer.
Check out the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast- imho- it’s one of the best produced podcasts out there and worth listening to even if you have minimal interest in real estate investing.

They are also publishers and their books are great primers depending on where in RE you’re looking learn.
I think you'll find we're capable of making or reading any phrase as sarcastic :)

Less flippantly (but still true), knowing that there's at least two ways to interpret something and that at least one of them may be humorous helps me remember not to assume bad intent when I hear or read something I don't like. Often it's just their clumsiness or my over-sensitivity.

On the other hand, perhaps it also helps me hear more of the slights that are in there too! You can't win 'em all.
South Korea chipmakers and their suppliers seek to bypass Tokyo curbs
Mozilla is funding a way to support Julia in Firefox
Might I suggest: https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
> I often have this weird fear that I wont accomplish anything in my life like it is some sort of personal failure.

It's not a weird fear. It is rooted in the expressive individualism of our age, which strips us of tribal identity and tells us that we can be whoever we make ourselves. Both for better and for worse.

The worse of the latter is that if we do not make anything of ourselves, it is our fault. This is perhaps a little more true today than it was in ages past, but we feel it to be a near-absolute truth where it was barely thought of once.

I feel the same thing. It is neither strange nor unexplainable. It is one of the little-spoken downsides of modernity.
There are lots of experimental picking robots. Apples, especially. None are yet commercial technology, but several prototyepe apple-picking robots are getting reasonably close. The machinery is still too slow and too fragile for routine use.

Machine learning for weeding is in production. "Recognize weed, kill weed" targeted weeding is available from John Deere and others now. Picking, not yet.
Beyond just a prevailing "view", this duty to public safety is actually explicitly codified in the laws and regulations of most professional engineering organizations. To act otherwise would be a) unethical and subsequently b) grounds for loss of license to practice.
Surprised something of this magnitude seems to have 0 impact on stock price after hours.
Thank you for checking it out! And yes, the system analyses hundreds of different flight options but only shows the best ones based on different criteria.
I do not recommend Louis Rossman. Instead of learning, you’ll listen to endless hateful anti-Apple rants, deceitful personal attacks and unsubstantiated speculations of how terrible Apple engineers are - the whole community is cultish and they love listening to LR just about anything. I despise his channel and his popularity.
How to “Own It” on a Large, Distributed Team
That green lcd interface is so beautiful.
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-in-firefox/26156
A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses
That website wants me to sign up in order to view its "About" page.
Svelte Tutorial Recommendations
Tech Ingredients and Applied Science. Just phenomenal. Absolutely amazing.
Ah, yeah, the flow for when the app isn’t installed makes particular sense (at least as a motivation for why someone would implement something so awful). Thanks!
You create a compelling argument that's hard to beat. All of your points have been duly noted.
You've piqued my interest: What was it like bootstrapping a SaaS to $600k ARR with a fully remote team?
In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business?
The VCs I work with often use a statistical method to find TAM. The data out there is extremely lacking and often incorrect. They find it by searching Google for targets, making phone calls, gathering the correct questions to ask, asking them, then making statistical inferences about the total market in some area (big or small). They have a small army of analysts to complete the work.
It does seem like that, doesn't it? And there's a lot of money and potential for social good in agriculture.

Makes you wonder why there aren't already loads of commercial solutions like this, especially since self-driving cars are right around the corner.

I guess it could be because (iirc) there are products that already fill the niche, like combines that can navigate along GPS waypoints. But I bet it is also extremely difficult to get the last couple of 9s that you need for commercially-viable accuracy and precision in an ML model, even with ideal conditions.
Where does Libra claim it's transactions are non-reversible?

And by reversible I mean refundable.
Just to +1 the experiences here:

I have a surface pro 4. I enjoy the touchscreen for some things, but otherwise I roundly hate it, almost entirely due to Windows. Some things work in touchpad mode, some don't, sometimes a feature is crippled in one mode, the gestures are finicky and weird and the only reason I know how to use them is because I read a few blog posts, notifications that are undismissable for no reason, and sometimes the touchscreen keyboard doesn't come up for 30 seconds.

The very best thing I've done has been to mark every network as "metered" so it stops auto-installing (non-critical) updates and forcing lengthy shutdowns. The only downside (if you can call it that) is that now it seems update is half-broken most of the time, and it won't find updates for a month or two even if I say "check now". Sometimes it works for like a week or two and I can pull updates about every day like I'd expect, and on the day of their release, so it's pretty clear when it's broken. It's usually broken.

---

I have Elementary OS installed on it too. It's a much better experience, except for needing a custom kernel for touchscreen (a simple google + apt-get away, thankfully, which is about my limit to put up with), and I don't know how to get the on-screen keyboard to be available at login. There's just so much less nonsense though.
Compiled routes https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-routing-is-fast/17782
I tested the repro-steps and found that the ZoomHelper was not listening, although it was installed . In this case i was prompted to download zoom.pkg rather than activate video.

I'm guessing it was because I have MacOS firewall = strict (no listening ports)

Also, here's a nice tip to show all listening apps (good habit while cleaning up)

lsof -i -s tcp:listen |awk '{print $1 " "$8" " $9}'|sort|uniq
COMMAND NODE NAME
Google UDP *:mdns
SystemUIS UDP *:*
SystemUIS UDP *:53611
UserEvent UDP *:*
WiFiAgent UDP *:*
identitys UDP *:*
rapportd TCP *:49152
rapportd UDP *:*
sharingd UDP *:*
Just the usual stuff over federal/corporate overreach paid for by big pharma; the party of either the judge or the president is kinda irrelevant in this context. I'm surprised some higher up didn't lean on the judge to throw out the case however; the optics of this whole thing are horrendous for the Democrats considering all the noise Trump makes over the deep state and whatever
The `Lightness' subproject under LumberSharp does (among many other things) this: https://github.com/daeken/LumberSharp

I built this out to translate 3d models or signed distance fields to SVGs for pen plotting purposes. You can see an example here, generated from a few lines of distance field code: https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/9212f4c15cf30583...

And another generated from an STL I generated with OpenSCAD (part of an Egg sculpture series I did for 3d printing): https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d3fdf208c687551a...
> Honestly, this reads more like you're burnt out and would prefer not to have to keep apace of new developments to continue contributing.

Do you think that the patronising and confrontational tone of this comment and others here are effective at getting your points across, because I'm not finding any positive reasons to be interested in Perl 6 and its community in what you've said... or maybe in how you've said it.
Wouldn't much of this also be true of other kinds of phone-based payment, such as M-Pesa?
i used mutt for many years. i even used to hang out with mutts creator. but when i discovered sup with its tag based virtual folders and the ability to keep state in multiple buffers at once i never looked back. i'll look at aerc and meli once they support notmuch...
Is cancer a choice? What about other debilitating, chronic, expensive-to-treat illnesses?
What's meet? A web search turns up nothing.
I have no earthly idea, really, but I don't think we would have seen this on hacker news of they were suspending studies of pill bugs, or food packaging, or something boring like that.