skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
assuming you are in the USA (i am not) i believe you should not take the bill at face value. you can attempt to negotiate either a discount, or a delayed payment schedule, or both. various people on the internet can recommend tactics for this.

some clues here: https://ask.metafilter.com/161024/Hospital-bill-over-a-year-...

and here: https://ask.metafilter.com/307259/Best-way-to-pay-a-medical-...

apologies for not answering your actual question if this isn't news to you
I work in a field adjacent to all this. My org used to use the term "real time" to mean anything up to and including near-real time. We've recently switched to calling our work "in time" prediction to clarify that we're not referring to real-time in the RTOS sense. Digital twins are a hot topic in aerospace maintenance right now.
Completely agree there.

Some times that luxury doesn't exist though and you just have to get shit done and hope playing fast and loose doesn't come back to bite you.
Maybe, maybe not. In France all my information is in EMR in my Carte Vitale. The US I have to fill in a paper questionnaire every fucking time. They may have more data, most likely it's redundant.
Reading about that undo bug gave me a knot in my tummy. Damn.
It seems like there is some pitfall in making a recommendation algorithm that more and more people are falling in to.

I don't watch TV or have Netflix, but I listen to streaming music, and I noticed something weird. I used to listen to Pandora, and it recommended a lot of different artists that I liked on hearing them for the first time. It single-handedly gave me a taste for 21st century music. But there wasn't enough music in their catalog, so I switched to Spotify. Now Spotify will play more of the songs by people I already like, but very nearly everything it plays that I didn't find on Pandora I hate and it keep playing the same things over and over no matter how quickly and frequently I skip past them.

It's hard for me to believe that they could be this bad and unresponsive unwittingly, but I wonder if perhaps there is some kind of naive algorithm that is failing.

...you may say, why don't I explicitly mark songs "like" or "dislike", but I mostly listen in my car where I can't do that.

One alternative hypothesis is that different people use Pandora vs. Spotify and the ones on Pandora have better taste, but I can't believe that's all of it.
They are getting there with their auto-play functionality. The missing piece is themed “channels”.

P.s. Thanks for your kind words. I’m always open to feedback/suggestions for KeyDB. Feel free to open a GitHub issue at any time.
What caused me to cancel satellite was when the scifi channel (syfy) started with pop-up show advertisements (with sound!) during a show.
Would be nice if someone could build a site like https://twofactorauth.org/ for bringing more attention to this alarming and growing issue.

The goal to hopefully influence companies into providing such a fundamental ability.
Taking Malthus Seriously
I obtain the SHA1 hashes published by HIBP, load them into a bloom filter and use that for checks. It's super fast (constant time lookups) and avoids a network dependency/third party service. Here's working Go code:

https://github.com/w8rbt/bp

Edit: This is solely for password vetting during account creation and password reset (which will remain free/no-cost in the API).
Much more likely to unfold like https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/PUB1776_web.p...
Throwaway account, cool.

You're talking as if most, if not all, companies are engaging in R&D at the level of the Apollo 11 space mission. You don't need brilliant people in most cases, merely having honest, diligent, persistent normal human beings can get the job done.
Yes, I do mean that S3. The one with a link on how to utilize their API as a CLIENT. Notice it lacks any source code for setting up an S3 SERVER of any sort, which is why companies have had to reverse engineer it.

It's also why anytime a third party says they support S3 - you have to ask EXACTLY what they support. I've yet to run into anybody claiming to be 100% compatible as the "standard" is constantly changing.
What’s most interesting to me is the rise of YouTube. Increasingly for movies I just rent one, for TV shows again I just rent or buy a whole season unless it’s a show I’m really into, and for “open the app and try to find something randomly” moments I go to YouTube, not Netflix anymore.
Feedback loop. The more expensive healthcare gets, the more money you can get by scamming insurance companies, which in turn increases costs even more.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Well, time to pick up duolingo's Spanish course...

When life gives you lemons…
im pretty sure they removed it

edit: i could be mistaken though
Their customer base is millions of people across the globe now, not just the early adopters.
except if you publish it properly yourself, a company that would embrace torrents as distribution method and took care of putting it on the relevant site would effectively solve the trust problem that is inherent in choosing a torrent between many.
For my home servers I do everything I can to have as much redundancy and fault tolerance that I can afford and that means insisting on ECC ram to start. It’s not a server if it’s not toting ECC ram in my book.
NDT = Non Destructive Test
I think Netflix is the perfect example of where being data driven completely fails. If you listen to podcasts with important Netflix people everything you hear is about how they experiment and use data to decide what to do. Every decision is based on some data point.

At the end of the day, they just continue to add features that create short term payoffs and long term failures. Pennywise and pound foolish.

My wife and I recently cancelled Netflix. Partly because we felt content was disappearing and partly because it felt hostile to actually use Netflix. We got absolutely fed up with all of the autoplay crap, UI restrictions, and other BS that clearly drives "some" stat for them.
My wife and I are working towards financial independence so we can both stay home / work from home part time.
> I agree that if we are to maintain this opaque system where customers (patients) pay a flat rate for ludicrously overpriced insurance, and then have no insight into prices nor ability to reduce them because they don’t pay for the actual services, then universal healthcare is better.

How do you square free-market ideals in a price-inelastic market? If my life is on the line, do I really decline the $10k required treatment?

> However, universal healthcare is not a panacea as evidenced by many angry patients waiting for procedures in Canada and the UK - although they are leaps and bounds better off than many in the current USA system.

This needs a cite. Most folks I know in Canada and France are satisfied with a wait time for non-urgent procedures, knowing that at least they won't be potentially getting bankrupted like folks in the US for random billing.
Next to the thumbs up rating (they only have two possible ratings). It might be confusing as you sometimes (at least on iOS) have to click a thumbs up icon to be shown the actual options with the thumbs down?
What It’s Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom (Michael Pollan, 2018)
Yes, but so is SHA-384 and that is not relevant for the TLS context.
This post is about cut services.
I had him for 6.034 and knew him from working in the lab. He was a great scientist and a good person.

He had more patience for me than I deserved.
As long as Go stays small, relatively simple, and above all opinionated in how to do things (checking for errors explicitly in this case) then I’ll be all about it. Flexibility brings complexity.
We are moving from FAST to ES. Major pain.
RIP Professor
Best teacher I've ever had, he let me audit all his classes and took me/my ideas seriously at all times. And would grade my papers even though I was never an official student, or his his words "a paying customer."
First Minsky now Patrick. RIP and perhaps they are both back in touch. ;(
They raised the prices and then the news came out that they are removing two of their most popular shows. I was ok with the price increase. But now they removed stuff I watch, this new price on my monthly subscriptions has me asking “what am I paying for?”

They are double dipping to increase production of Netflix shows. More power to them. But don’t remove the things people are actually watching the most.
For the most part, I agree with you. But we need a fix and we need it yesterday. I think it is much more likely that we can implement Universal Healthcare than implement reforms that would bring transparency and other reforms that we'd need for a fully functional free market to the healthcare sector.

Also, I have serious concerns about whether a purely profit-driven market system can even work when people are negotiating agreements with their lives and physical well-being on the line.

I think the anomaly might be that the largely-free-market healthcare system in the US worked as well as it did for so long rather than the other way around.

Truly, I think we owe a debt of gratitude to the people running healthcare businesses for the last hundred years, and those still trying to today that let some form of ethics beyond how much profit they can extract from desperate people guide them. Unfortunately, they are working at a severe disadvantage.
Are box sets still batshit insane? It didn't make sense to me to pay $120 for a week of binge watching.
This kind of thinking is the problem though. Like YouTube they don't care about the quality of the experience you're having. Where Netflix might see a very satisfied customer others might see a depressed individual binging a show for the 10th time as a way to escape reality.
http://archive.is/7HC6e
Do yourself a favor and figure out how to bind caps lock to press for escape, hold for control. I use a programmable keyboard (web search for QMK if you're interested) but there are software options too. You'll never look back and you'll be baffled how you ever lived without it.
The auto-playing trailers truly baffle me. I can't think of any more user-hostile move they could make. What are they hoping to gain from this? Are there people who wanted this? Why isn't there at the very least a setting to turn it off?
Apples are not bred, but rather discovered. Most apples grown from seed are small and sour; fine for cider but bad for eating. Every so often a good eating variety pops up, and if humans are around, they'll keep a graft of it and then we have (essentially) clones of that one for evermore. Johnny Appleseed's plantations ahead of the frontier (for the purpose of cider) are responsible for many apple varieties that exist today, on account of the sheer number of trees grown from seed.

Edit: actually, as I just read from a link further down, it's a bit more complicated than the and there are breeding programs, but they are still much like discovery, but trying to wrest a little bit of control from a mostly random process.

I suspect that there are certain growing techniques (i.e. environmental controls) that are used to enhance size, sweetness, etc, but not really sure about that.
I try to keep it minimal as well, but some plugins are too good not to install for my daily work. TabNine, Auto Pairs, Vim Surround, Endwise, and CtrlP are a few that come to mind.
Notices by CCHEN, with images:

http://www.cchen.cl/?p=4546

https://twitter.com/cchen_gob/status/1152191271387222016
Top investment banks for biotech IPOs
Not really, because the computer meaning of the word branched off the literal meaning.
Netflix has gone 'woke' in a lot of their (new) shows. A lot of shows feel very activist now. Entertainment shouldn't be stuffed with identity politics and other progressive nonsense which only caters to a small minority.[1]

Examples: The new show 'Mr Iglesias' where the main character is a history teacher. In one of the first scenes the history of the US is summed up as 'oppression and slavery'. Many jokes about white people that would be considered racist had they been about any other race. And a whole episode about how the word latino is offensive and it should be changed to latinx.

In the children sitcom 'No good Nick' a female chef ignores feedback from her employee by accusing him of 'mansplaining'. The daughter accuses the white dad of 'cultural approriation' when he suggests taco Tuesday for the restaurant. And that was only the first minutes of one episode.

There are many more examples. I'm getting tired of it and leaning towards canceling netflix. I'm European, I want entertainment, not crazy US politics.

[1] https://twitter.com/yascha_mounk/status/1050033177077665795
Psychoanalyzing the Sexual Revolutionary
The best lecturer at MIT... this is so sad.
Manufacture on the same continent that the things will be used on. Then they can just use rail.
Some people watch the same show over and over.
Nice to see they get backroom deals for about 0.15% of the ip addresses on the internet, AND massive discounts.
I just read point 3 and had an awful moment of thinking, "sorry I can't drive in Toronto. I didn't get the DLC subscription for its map data and I never learned to drive."
> stranger things overly sexist men and the constant putting men down

Is this new to the third series? I haven't noticed it in the first two series after binging them over the last two days.
There’s also a public BigQuery dataset with all HN posts and comments from nearly all time you can write SQL queries against.
Everyone has plausible deniability that theirs follows a secure supply chain to the pharmacy. Its those other guys that can’t control their inventory.

Nobody has an incentive to audit their supply chains or doctor RXs to verify that of course.
I still (attempt to) follow his guidelines for writing. Patrick Henry Winston, z"l
I suspect they don't have it at all on their Roku channel :( I'll look again tonight, but if I can start downvoting these things, I can at least feel like I'm screaming "no" into the void, which is better than screaming "no" internally. Nobody wants to live through an "I have no mouth and I must scream" nightmare, after all.
I think more than server strain it could be meant to avoid the "mah, I looked for 20 minutes and found nothing, maybe I should just delete the subscription"
I experienced issues with the VS Code plugin as well, though not as severe as you described. If I had the same issues, I wouldn't use it as well. I haven't experienced any issues ever with IDEA vim. I haven't used XCode in a while, so I can't chime in on the current state of the plugin. My ranking for most stable to least stable plugins I've used would be the following (in case of multiple plugins, I don't recall the exact one, sorry):

- QT Editor
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Visual Studio
- VS Code
- XCode

At the moment I mainly use VS Code, and I'm still editing much faster, despite the issues (occasional undo hiccups and error messages).
Gotcha. Thanks for the writeup, I'll give it a go.
I don't do too much with Word, either, mainly Excel I suppose. Sometimes I'll write a script to output a CSV and want to visualize and play with the data. OpenOffice is awful, especially Calc. Last time I tried doing the above I couldn't even figure out how to sort. Not that it doesn't exist, but it sure wasn't obvious.

As for using Linux day to day, go for it! When I started, it wasn't easy. Mainly because you had a lot of SWF out there still, and everything say, like video calling, was an EXE. These days, with the rise of the web based everything, it's a cinch. As much as I despise Electron on principle, it's been amazing for the Linux community. Now we have VSCode, Slack, etc. Nothing requires an EXE anymore, even gotomeeting believe it or not. My biggest pain point was email. Evolution is OK, but not great. I just started using OWA and it gets me by.
There are two ways to deal with it, either universal healthcare which is a proven and working system in most of the western world or free market where every procedure has a price tag attached to it and people pay knowing what they pay in advance and for what exactly they pay, like a normal shop in a free market.

The weird hybrid system in the US is like communism, it doesn't work, we can see it doesn't work, it costs more than any other place on earth, both for the government and the people. The US should just scrape it and choose some working system. Until then leave us alone every second week with your horror stories, it is not interesting anymore.
Solar power from Australia to light up Singapore
A data dump isnt much use if you don't have the software to use said dump. Most SaaS providers don't run open source software...
No.

Because browser already contains Skia (or Direct2D). In native (most performant) form.

Why do you need to download and run Skia inside Skia?
shrug not trying to imply it is all bad. The nature of the information is important. Professional certification or licensing checks are obviously harmless.

What isn't harmless is gathering information about the private lives of people (even when done in the public eye) in ways that are difficult, labor intensive, or impossible without automation.
Are your sure it wasn't control? I know the ADM terminals were set up that way and they even had the arrows on HJKL.
On your last point, I feel like components this basic should really rather be addressed at the real theming level, i.e. in CSS.

Utility-first CSS frameworks are awesome if you get past your first impression. I've been using TailwindCSS [0] both at work and for all my personal projects ever since I read Adam Wathan's justification on it [1]. In TailwindCSS those constants are configured in one place and generated at build time (through Rollup/Webpack/PostCSS etc.). Consistency and theming for free basically.

Even Bootstrap has now a decent collection of them in v4.

[0] https://tailwindcss.com/
[1] https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
FaceApp isn't stealing your data (as far as we can tell)
I want syntax highlighting and correct tab behavior, though, and I use a language that not even Neovim has built-in syntax support for.
Having listened to podcasts with several important Netflix people as guests, I have picked up that they are unintentionally user hostile. They're so focused on data that it seems they completely forget about the intangible side of enjoying the user experience.

Seems like they can't see the forest for the trees.
Why urban planners should pay attention to restaurant-review sites
Rather than giving up, maybe you should see a therapist. This sounds like a problem that would be up their alley.

A good one might be able to help you deal with the things that are holding you back.

It might not work but it beats not trying.
> It's because the corporations aren't really interested in providing a better service to the viewer

I sold all of my Netflix stock (which wasn't a huge number anyway) the moment I saw that you could no longer see reviews of content on Netflix. It was a clear cut sign that they no longer "get it".
Of course people would rather pay $10 a month to access everything, but that's just not sustainable. Look at Netflix's own financials. They got into content creation and they're now deep in debt despite their massive subscriber base.

I also don't get why everyone is clamoring for one company to control all video entertainment distribution. Isn't that what we hated about cable? Didn't we beg for the ability to pick and choose what we actually want to pay for? Now we finally have that and people instantly want to go back? Why?

If Netflix doesn't make enough content that interests you then stop giving them money and give it to whoever does instead. I thought this is what we wanted.
A short explaination of monads in Haskell
This sounds, at best, ethically dubious and at worst illegal. Aaron Swartz was arrested and charged under hacking laws for doing exactly what you're describing.

Given that your run this division there is a good chance you are personally liable.
Make S3 bucket on a different account, grant it write privileges from your main one. Enable versioning and setup lifecycle to purge old versions in 90 cays. That’s it - no matter what your main account does, you will bave 3 months to undo it
Are you aware of how ridiculous some hygenic laws in hospitals are? Basically if you would follow the rules, your hands would be festering, open wounds within a week.

This unrealistic, human nature blind, algorithmic thinking which grinded the rules "ignoreable" in the first place, is what you need to solve.

The result may look stupid (japanes train conductor hand signs), and may even feel counterintuitive (UVW-Colour on all the doorhandles) and it might also need to acknowledge that some "basic equipment" - like rubbergloves, are for the wearer a health hazard.

https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/occupational-skin-disease/

Sorry if someone weights his own health higher then yours during his/her working hours. No surveilance in the world will encourage people to ruin there hands.
Prices are real. Value is imaginary until something changes hands.
Anyone can run, you just need to reset your expectations.

Backstory. I used to not like running at all. Every time I ran, my mind would count down either time left or distance left. It always felt easy in the beginning but very soon would be unattainable. But now I can run decent distances without getting mentally or physically exhausted.

So here are the lessons:

1. The first 1 mile is the hardest.

2. Second mile is hard but not nearly as hard as the first mile.

3. For the first few weeks do not run more than 1- 3 miles (based on your history) even if you can. There is no need to. The habit is more important than what you achieve on any given day.

4. Run slowly, lean forward and really reduce the impact on your knees. I started running one mile in 12 - 14 minutes, that is really slow.

5. Breathing. If you run slowly and let your body do it's thing, then your breathing will become rhythmic and in-sync with how much energy your body needs.

6. After a few weeks magic happens. You can run 8 miles in about one hour, not get bored, not think about it. You mind zones out and focuses on something productive.

I learnt more things, but wanted to share this.
A volume discount isn't a backroom deal. Unless you think for some reason the group that controls 44.0.0.0/8 is beholden to Amazon or big tech for some reason.
If it’s any consolation, Ctrl-R will redo those same fifteen changes, so you won’t lose any work. And the vim extension’s undo history is separate from the editor’s so you can’t really lose any work accidentally.
Accuracy of Google OCR vs Tesseract v4 (on books and web):
https://imgur.com/a/Tj0TASf
About a year ago, he shared that he had a draft of a new book on "Communication":

https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/favorites.html

Was this ever finished?
Or better yet: just don't watch them. There's plenty of entertaining content on YouTube, twitch, dailymotion etc.
It's a constant issue for people who run software like offlineimap across multiple machines: https://www.offlineimap.org/doc/FAQ.html#what-is-the-uid-val...
That is later Auden. He physically didn't age well. He was in his 60s but ravaged by a skin disease. Consider it a really well written ode to Get Off My Lawn.
RIP. I'm deeply saddened by this news.

How did he die?
Well it’s not too late, they only sold a /10 of the /8
No, but the deal itself is certainly extremely suspect and with a total lack of transparency for a supposedly public resource.
>If anyone's interested I can share it.

No thanks, I don't use Netflix.
I recently rewatched the Mission Impossible movies. The interface groups them together, so you only rate them as one. They get sent in the correct order.

I have not tried a "TV series" yet.
I only had a few hallway conversations with him, but they were always delightful and I always walked away having learned something new. He was a good scholar and an admirable human being. RIP.