skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My girlfriend had a surgery two years ago and she is still getting random new bills from providers we don’t even know. Often in the range of several 10000 dollar. It’s really infuriating. She had cleared everything with the insurance but she still has to spend hours and hours trying to clear this up. In my view dealing with the mafia is more transparent and easier to understand than what hospitals do. I have never seen such a clusterfuck in any other industry.

They believe they can charge whatever they want even years after the service. You can never be sure if you are really done with them.
If you introduce a new technology that creates all sorts of negative side effects, why are you not to blame?

Bring a whole load of scooters into public spaces without ensuring they are properly stored, and professionally collected, is irresponsible and should be illegal. The pavement and roads belong to people, not to corporations.
Taking an idea from cycling advocates, I encourage people to ask, when they encounter reckless or inconsiderate scooter use, "Do I want this jackass in a car instead, being just as inconsiderate or reckless?"

It's tough because people take cars for granted. They aren't ordinarily conscious of how big and dangerous cars are and how far we go out of our way to accommodate them, so it's hard to sell them on the value of mitigating that cost.
LISP is a notable exception. Btw, I do believe a compiler should be one of the examples of a new language.
Wholesale price is definitely not “zero”. It fluctuates wildly, and if a retailer is exposed to the real time market at the flow date, they can expect to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. RTM prices can easily spike from $50/MW to $8000/MW in an instant if a generator trips. So, retailers buy hedges to cover this risk, at price premiums that reflect the inherent exposure insurance.
I thought it might be an old story about Windows 95.
Management decisions did them no favors, but it was a fundamental shift no matter how well they would have executed. If they had made better cars they would have done better, but there was still no way to maintain their previous revenues when they had new competitors selling good cars for less money, and those revenues were what paid for those benefits.
How many companies would be left on the market if a default password or hardcoded account or sloppy programming was enough to put them out of business? If we treated them all the same.
Specialized ANGi is a Bluetooth hardware dongle that attaches to your helmet and will allow a contact to live track your ride (using Specialized’s app on your smartphone) and can also detect crashes and automatically send a text message to a contact. It’s available to purchase on its own or included with many Specialized helmets. I have one on a new MTB helmet after a recent crash on a trail.

https://www.specialized.com/us/en/angi
A lot of those people who are the worst offenders, routinely bouncing from the hospital, to the jail, to the streets, have problems that aren't solved by a house. They need a group-home that isn't jail but is capable of saying, "no, you aren't fit to go into public yet until you can meet these criteria." A lot of these people need others to make decisions for them, when to take medications, when to bathe, how to navigate the bureaucracy, etc. God knows it would save a lot of money and keep them off the streets. I feel like for a lot of people they'd find community and purpose in life, eventually solving the problem that created their circumstances to begin with. Jail doesn't work, the streets doesn't work, leniency doesn't work, just handing someone a house isn't realistic. We have to try something else.
New reactors are expensive because of current regulations. Tolerances in various areas can be reduced for reactor designs that can gracefully shut down with a loss of power.
Good links, thanks! The IBM was known as Phoenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(computer)

I spotted Maurice Wilkes (middle person in the top two of https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/pfl/photos/cambridge/...) and I might be wrong about David Wheeler (top of https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/pfl/photos/cambridge/...) and Roger Needham (top of https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/pfl/photos/cambridge/...)
GIMP: My understanding is that at some point the UI design brahmins at GNOME decided that GTK+ must not support MDI (as in the UI paradigm where you have a container window with subwindows floating around inside it), and moreover the same kind of user interface should be implemented at the top level because a good window manager should be able of keeping an application's windows together. Well, no such window manager ever emerged, and as a result using GIMP is a perpetual search for what workspace a particular tool window disappeared to, or having to fight with it deciding that the minimum size of particular windows (tall toolbars, large viewports) is greater than the 1366x768 of my laptop screen. This is frustrating to the point of unusability.

Krita: Constant random crashes, like seemingly every complex Qt application.

Inkscape: I grew up on CorelDraw so maybe I just have the wrong set of expectations, but the UX is full of papercuts and inexplicable choices. For just one example that annoyed me recently, it seemed completely impossible to get snapping to grids and guidelines to behave; some objects would just refuse to snap to certain targets (different set for each object), and generally the snapping seemed to be based on arbitrary "basepoints" (only one per object; can you change those?) rather than bounding boxes.

(Blender, brought up elsewhere: actually quite good (modulo maybe the confusing refcounting/resource management), once you get on top of the learning curve. I hope 2.8, which I haven't tried yet, hasn't changed this.)
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How do wheelchair and pram users feel about it? Elderly people navigating the sidewalk?
I've got some bad news for you about what's going to happen to the economy when we have 3° C of warming because we didn't do this fast enough.
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A bit late, but I did want to point out that I enjoyed the article and found it engaging. I was not trying to diminish from you in any way. My comment was much more a semantical argument over the comment than a logical disagreement with your article.

Anyways, thanks!
That’s just them hijacking DNS
Speaking of latency, one of the most bizarre experiences I can think of is when (on a certain cough substance beginning whose name is a type of broadband spelt backwards) one's reaction times double to about 500-600 ms and trying to do a reaction test. Really fascinating but also hilarious to watch someone else try.
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A few of the municipalities in LA have actively banned or reduced the amount they are allowed to operate. I haven't experienced it myself but I'm told they will shut down if you try to take them through Beverly Hills. Its too bad because I like them a lot.
One thing that you can do, is as a matter of policy, wipe all the machines on a fairly regular basis (maybe once a week). This gets people in the habit of expecting their machine to be ephemeral and to store their documents and other work in a central location that is backed up.
I wonder if there really is a reflection on the price of insurance that an individual pays as far as the prices at hospital, there are lots of steps between those two things.
It's probably difficult to estimate these benefits. You don't want to come off as making shady (sorry) promises when selling something that expensive.
Anosognosia[0] is a typical aspect of many mental illnesses. If they knew the delusions weren't real, they wouldn't really be delusions.

There is a fundamental hard problem here that many people who think there are easy solutions ignore: how do we as a society fairly determine who can have their autonomy taken from them? Where do we draw the line between personal responsibility, mental illness, and willful criminal intent?

In the past, the line was drawn too far towards the state and family and there were innumerable horror stories of "difficult" women being lobotomized and locked up in sanitoria for life because their family didn't want to deal with their rebellious ways.

The deinstitutionalization movement swung the pendulum the other way and said, basically, you're completely responsible for yourself all the way up until you commit an actual crime. Because criminality is now the line, it means the police end up dealing with the mentally ill more than they should.

The right point is somewhere between these, but drawing it fairly is hard and we don't have great social structures to support it. (In particular, how does society allow the medical infrastructure decide who should have autonomy in a country that doesn't even provide any right to medical access in the first place?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia
are pub-sub servers less of a server? also, a proxy server is itself a server.
> People think we're weird that we like it dark

I certainly don’t, I chose the office with no windows on the opposite side the building to everyone else with the lights out and the AC cranked to the max I’m happy.

I have a small led desk lamp so I don’t walk into things and that’s it.
From their perspective if they think you are far enough along for the core, you might be too good for the grant. I think the aim is to support those marginal companies that just need a bit of a push to become investment ready, not the companies that are already good enough to raise from YC.
3000 years of not worrying about energy by todays standards looks like a fantastic deal to me.
Saving this textbook to hypothetically read in the future.
Because being homeless does not mean that you are suffering from mental issues. It's also much harder to address the real problem of not addressing mental health, when you lump it all into the same category of homelessness.

I know it first hand because I used to be homeless (but not "visible homeless") at one point.
> While time spent alone is not necessarily associated with adverse effects, it can be used as a measure of social isolation, which in turn is linked with negative health outcomes among older adults. Medical experts suspect that lifestyle factors may explain some of this association – for instance, someone who is socially isolated may have less cognitive stimulation and more difficulty staying active or taking their medications. In some cases, social isolation may mean there is no one on hand to help in case of a medical emergency.

It's literally bad for you.
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A big hope of the UBI movement is that it will "pay" people to take care of one another in a way that our usual monetary transfer for services rendered simply can't handle well. That is, someone taking care of their parent is not going to be paid for that service in our economy, but with a UBI, it allows one to get that economic support without it being a usual "job". The work of maintaining genuine social relationships is not a source of income, but it is what humans are most designed to do and it would be good to have a mechanism that supports that rather than hinders it.

My personal hope is that a UBI leads to real communities where the old and the young have a place in our lives and they stop being seen as problems and as burdens on the middle-aged.

Andrew Yang talks about this a lot in terms of his wife taking care of their children, but the idea equally applies to people taking care of anyone else.
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It's pretty clear to even unskilled watchers that, for instance, Lebron James and Shaquille O'Neil are/were talented in a way that no players before or since were. Both players can move with the speed and agility of payers that weigh 50 lbs less. And if it's true that innate talent is the major differentiator at literally the pinnacle of the sport, why would one assume that it somehow ceases to be the case at the levels just below that? Especially when every single professional player has access to the same resources and hours in the day for the practice and training aspect of sports performance?

And, FWIW, Shaq was notorious for his poor work ethic. He never practiced basic skills (free throw shooting) and always started a new season overweight and out of shape. Then there's the fastest person who ever lived, Usain Bolt, who trains less than a motivated amateur cross fitter.
What state if you dont mind me asking?
> I suspect that the level of trust and compassion required to do this can only materialize in a family setting. I also find it ironic that the absence of a solid familial fabric is surely a significant contributor to mental illness to begin with.

Hard to imagine a familial fabric more solid than the Kennedy dynasty, and yet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
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No article seems to be discussing from a technical standpoint. I would like to know your opinion on this. Both from technical and business standpoints (political too?).

Thanks, Harish.
But what’s happening more and more now is that batteries are arbitraging those rate spike, and ultimately those spikes will disappear entirely.
But I read somewhere that the brain is able to adjust heart beats and breathing at a very fine frequency and and keeping it in sync requires good latency and all this is done without concurrency locks.

So does brain have massively parallel architecture where key things have their own core?
Most people don't do these things on their computers:

> journalctl, i3wm, xterm config, non-standard mouse configurations

The versatility of Linux is frequently touted as its best feature, a feature that 99% of humans don't care about, and would confuse that same 99% of people.

People are used to what Microsoft and Apple imposed on them. For better, or for worse, they honestly couldn't give a damn about being able to do stuff like that. Their style is the Apple style, or the Microsoft style and, most importantly, the no-terminal style.

Linux is the perfect desktop for developers. It hits all the wrong checkboxes for end-users.
While I generally agree with your points, I think that its a little strange to sum this up as a "really simple problem" and then declare the solution to be building institutions to specializer in the assistance and care of people with a wide variety of issues.

That isn't "simple" at all.
> seems to be some connection between Sci-Hub and the cyber underworld

What do you mean "some connection"? Scihub is the best cyber underground has to offer. I love their "brazen scheme to gather and redistribute scholarly content".
WinDBG's Time-Travel Debugging is another nice implementation of this.
"Inverted Vs. Direct Color Scheme" I had this problem when using IPhone and trying to type the password. I could not tell whether the caps-lock was down or up. It could have been either way.

Note that the problem does not really occur if you have 3 or more options. But even then the advise of the article is beneficial.
I'm looking into this thanks to all the recommendations from HN :)
exactly the point I wanted to make. I think there's a huge distinction between voluntary and involuntary as well.
Is it cheaper to pay the ransom to unencrypt your data or just buy a copy off the dark web?

I assume the malware fucks stole a copy to auction off.
They can redirect you as well (or you can put a non-image inside an image tag). Which means you have to make sure it's safe to merely navigate to a page/resource, otherwise you have a "Confused Deputy" vulnerability (i.e. CSRF).
> So it seems to me that this count is likely an undercount and it's an undercount entirely on purpose.

I would think it's easier and more accurate to count people in shelters than outdoors. Shelters presumably already keep track of usage, while it would take a small army of people to count homeless outdoors.
I love how Cloudflare turns an outage into a selling opportunity by explaining exactly why you need their product to a hungry audience waiting to read about it.
Token buyers in this offering are paying 1000x to 2000x more than what early insider investors paid.
Oracle appears to be ahead of IBM Cloud who poached almost nobody.
You're right. It's similar to Hyundai's offerings but more expensive. Still, VW made a promise for EV and it looks like they have results even though it's not impressive.
Where does this money go, out of curiosity? Does it go into the FTC's budget? Govt general fund?
In biology every single protein (or other biochemical entity) can be thought of as it's own core. It's parallel in an amazing and beautiful way. Or the most boring way possible. It just depends on if you are a computer scientist or biologist how you would see it.
$5B is peanuts for FB, just Mark personal wealth is ~$74B, he could pay the fine himself.

The should have fined FB on some % of their total revenue, like GRDP. I'd say 15/20% at least.
I'm part of a medical bill sharing plan. Its not insurance, but if I have a valid medical bill, I can submit it and in most cases I will be reimbursed from other members sending me checks directly.

It works pretty well, though I've never had to use it. There is a private forum for members to discuss tactics on getting the biggest discounts. A member will typically ask for a self pay discount as we don't have "insurance". In many cases that knocks 25%-50% of the bill off right there. But you are still dealing with the normal hospital or clinic billing department at that rate.

If you continue to decline this "discounted" rate and push to be transferred (in person or over phone) to the billing department's higher ups, you might even be able to get the bill lowered even more... but you must reject these as well. Eventually you will be turned over to a collections company, and right before they file against your credit score you will actually have the most bargaining power. Typically you will be able to knock another 50% off of the bill.

There are many testimonies on the forum of people getting heart surgery or chemo and having bills in the $100k-$150k range and yet in the end, and after lots of phone calls and added stress... they walk away with paying only $20-30k.

So basically, "insurance" does this bargaining for you.
What prevents an insider threat of a Mozilla employee signing malicious add-ons with a not out-of-date cert?
Both. The problem with PM jobs is that there’s a lot of variance in quality, as well as difference between the responsibilities across companies. Furthermore, since a lot of the job is often just management, it’s hard to filters for people who know to say the right things (Eg regurgitate a book or article) and those who’d do the right thing in dev.
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Strava has been a hobby business since day one. It used to be a spreadsheet, and they made it into a web app. Neither of the founders are involved in the day to day anymore. The lead product designer responsible for ~2010 to 2016, Alex Mather, also left to do his own thing.

I had been one of their biggest fans for years and had an offer from them on the table in 2010. I turned it down for many reasons, the greatest of which was that they viewed Garmin as a partner and not a competitor, and lacked the hunger to dominate. Here we are in 2019 and it shows, with confusing pricing plans (pay for privacy?) and users paying to advertise for free with limited edition strava cycling kits etc.

I still use it because a) there is no better way to find great running routes than following strong runners in my area and b) i enjoy celebrating the successes of my friends when i log my data. But I agree that it has fallen so far and lacks a vision now.

Sorry to any strava folks reading this. It's not personal. But I imagine none of this would surprise you.
the fact that they don't really exist yet?
Keepass with passhole in terminal, Keepass2Android on Android and Tusk extension in Chrome.

Keepass comunity solutions are strong and open source. And free.

https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

https://subdavis.com/Tusk/

https://github.com/Evidlo/passhole
from a complete rando: thanks for posting this — will listen to it later today.
> How do people living in a place like that not look inwards and wonder at what turn they committed a colossal fuckup that got them where they are now?

Drugs. It's pretty hard to get yourself out of a bad situation when literally the mechanism in your brain that rewards smart behavior has been taken over by heroin and meth.

Ultimately, we do what our brains chemically reward us for doing. If heroin feels better than getting off the street and living a decent life then being a homeless drug user is the best achievement you can have. Heroin is fucked up.
You realise “British hunting” isn’t egalitarian and the cigars and G&T aren’t going to the people driving game?

I also don’t think the person you replied to was doing down hunting as a social activity but that the movie makes it a stand in for anything done to avoid that social activity.
Perhaps something to look forward to in old age then. I get a lot done when I am left completely alone for about 5 days in a row. Having completed difficult tasks I am then relaxed and ready to socially interact and have a wonderful time, with more meaningful depth and connection than is possible when exhausted from the ordeal of interacting with others on a daily basis.
So how many of Mozilla's policies need to be appended with "unless we think it's important enough"? All of them? Just the ones violated this time?
How could that be harder to detect?
Same, all my favourite activities involve been alone, I don’t even like multiplayer gaming because there are a few too many dickheads, enough to ruin the experience.
Side question on this topic: has anyone running a non-tech startup attended this, and if so how useful was it? And what was the experience like?
LibGen has field-based search backed on Sci-Hub's archive, including author:

http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php
WINE will never work for these use cases because the professional software is purchased and licensed for Windows. Not on Windows? No support for you. And each one of these (let's call them "Professional Computing Niches") has its own ecosystem of plugins and extensions and scripts and nonsense that have been built up over decades and are essential to keep things running. As a business you'd be bonkers to "switch" a working system.
I actually know the people behind Dropshare. They are former colleagues of mine.

Maybe I can get you in touch?
TLA+ specs explore all state spaces of concurrent processes. Avoiding state explosions is something you need to be conscious of when building those. The modeling required also takes some learning investment. Curious if this can really pull off something like a TLA+ state exploration and invariant violation detection with real-world code.
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The top voted answer is assuming a neuron firing/not firing (once per refractory period) can be counted as a bit for the purpose of calculating bandwidth.

But I think the peripheral nerve system uses firing frequency to encode intensity, so I'm not sure you can really equate 1 firing with one bit.

For example, over 15 refractory periods there could be anywhere between 0 and 15 firings, thereby encoding 16 different possible intensities. That would effectively be only a 4 bit message per 15 periods, not 15 bit per 15 periods.
Where would you suggest for a starting point/keyword if I wanted to learn more about the 'usual and customary' system? I'd love to get a sense of what caused the transition out of that system.
https://bullet-train.io/ looks promising
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