skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling others stupid is insulting, no?

We don't ban people for that. HN hosts prolific discussion of topics like this one. The current submission is on the front page because moderators put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380).

YC is not invested in Palantir, but I suppose if you're going to make something like that up it makes sense to throw in "heavily" as well.

We moderate HN less, not more, when YC's interests are involved. That's the first principle of HN moderation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Edit: there's a good example on the front page now. NYT published a profile of Brex with a baity title that—no surprise—is dominating discussion in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20598025). Normally we'd change the title to indicate that the article is really a profile of a particular startup. But I've not done so because this is a YC-funded startup.
What is the new ship we should all be jumping to?
Sekey: Use (Touchbar) Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication
That makes a number of assumptions, such as:

1. It's irreversible.

2. Change is inherently bad.

3. Humans are incapable of adapting.

We don't need all of these assumptions to be wrong. If just one of them is wrong, then we aren't "doomed."

We have a long track record of being terrible at predicting the future. We also routinely predict negative outcomes and then move on to a new reason to hand wring when our prediction turns out to be wrong.

When the Kuwaiti oil wells were lit on fire, it was predicted they would burn for years and be a global environmental catastrophe. When crack teams converged on Kuwait, invented new techniques and put them out in six months, this was not celebrated. It was a minor footnote in more dramatic stories.

Y2K was supposed to cause a global financial meltdown. We look back on that and remember the folks who prepped for the Y2K Apocalypse as loonies. No one (but me)* gets up every day and goes "Thank God! We aren't living in the Y2K Post Apocalypse and my ATM still works!"

We certainly need to work on resolving some things. We also are working on it.

If you're scared, then give up your car, eat less meat, etc. You can be part of the problem or part of the solution. Your choice.

* Technically, not even me. I only do that occasionally, not daily.
The trade-off there is obviously due to logistics your pool of volunteers isn't going to be as representative of a global population so training data quality is going to be worse.
Thanks for this -- this is something that I keep meaning to do and keep forgetting to do w.r.t e.g. Shannon. I should apply it more generally.
(I'm part of the PartiQL effort.)
You are right about the challenge you point out and we are realistic about it. Thus this line in the charter:
{{{
While the adopting query engines generally may not support all features of PartiQL, a database engine that “supports PartiQL” is expected to be consistent with the PartiQL specification in the syntax subset it supports.
}}}
One thing I noticed in the new Apple maps is traffic lights and stop signs in the Bay Area. Really handy when navigating.
I don't see where you get the impression that it was hacking tools, from the article, which states,

> obviously-hacked data that was displayed, disclosed, and used on or by GitHub and its website, the Personal Information sat on GitHub.com for nearly three months,” the law firm alleged in its complaint against GitHub and Capital One.
What copyrights do Google and Amazon rely on to stay a monopoly?

Actually, it feels like with everything hosted server side these days there really isn't a lot of benefit to IP protection to tech companies. Media companies yes, tech companies not really.

Even if all of googles source code was stolen today, and it was legal for people to use it, would that really change anything for google?
Selling them cars and chips is fine, to a degree. That's different than transferring IP and giving them independent capability because you can stop selling to them if need be.
Digital Ocean droplet with LAMP stack. Lumen for the API and Web components with Polymer for the front-end
The resistance of slightly salty bathwater is much lower than air. While baths are not often plumbed with metal pipes these days, one can still expect some current flow to ground. It only takes milliamps of stray current to trip a GFCI.
I am not advocating this in the US or anywhere, but how would one disable a surveillance balloon as an act of civil disobedience if necessary (without ending up in jail)?
That brings up a question. Obviously a whole civ didn’t wake up one day and realize “huh, we must carry out sacrifice”. It must have grown from some small ritual that snowballed into these ghoulish things though some odd dynamic of accident and then took on a shape its own.
Lot of silt in that water! There has been some interesting debate recently on the efficacy of glacial erosion under the Greenland ice sheet -- and more broadly whether or not global average erosion rate has increased due to northern hemisphere glaciation over the past few million years. One recent estimate [1] suggests:

> We find that, although runoff from Greenland represents only 1.1% of the Earth’s freshwater flux, the Greenland ice sheet produces approximately 8% of the modern fluvial export of suspended sediment to the global ocean.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3046
Creative Fiction calls one in a thousand, but only a handful actually hear the calling
Even denuded of its emotive connotations like that, a culture's willingness to commit human sacrifice doesn't logically indicate desire; indeed, the evidence suggests most cultures that practiced sacrifice (in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas) believed they obtained some utility from the act.
The scariest thing about this article is it didn't contain the word "bubble"
Relatively routine outpatient surgery:

Doctor's fee $750
Anesthetician's fee ~$150
Hospital facility fee ~$24,000
Hospital facility fee, cash price ~$9,000
It’s because actually determining how often average people bathed is hard, requiring evidence from many different sources across a huge time span and geographic area.

Instead, he went for the secret knowledge approach. People tend to believe things more if you’re telling them everyone else is wrong. The f bombs make everyone else seem even more stupid for not knowing this secret knowledge.
I think most readers that decide reading books will lead to a better life are missing the point.

I keep on reading about people that feel so proud that they read 1 or 2 books a week. When it comes to books for self-improvement it's not the number of books you read but how you apply what you read. It's many times better to read fewer books and apply what you learn rather than to read so many that you barely remember what was read and never get a chance to apply it in life.
The margins on making and selling smartphones are razor thin. Nobody (except Apple, because of their efficient business model) is really making much money selling smartphone hardware.
OneNote which is part of MS office is great.

Also using MediaWiki for public facing wiki, ie as a cms
I understand the risks. I'm not concerned about voice assistants (specifically Google Assistant) because I already trust them with far more sensitive data: my search history and Gmail account. Those are a much bigger deal for me to worry about wrt. privacy concerns.
I wonder if Apple will release Apple Maps on Android.

The additional information can go a long way towards improving their mapping services (provide better traffic info, give them a better idea of what parts of the maps need improvements, allow them to offer a popular times feature, etc).
(I'm a member of the PartiQL team.)
The language spec source will be open-sourced, as well, early next week (week of Aug 5).
As I said above, to @ahl:
Overall, we look forward to a community effort and participants that are interested in making significant investments to achieve the project's goals. We invite diverse opinions and viewpoints.
As PartiQL grows towards a diverse community, we expect to add maintainers (for code and spec) that have non-Amazon affiliations and explore more formalized methods of governance.
This is reminiscent of some technology and technique learned and developed for operations in Iraq to go after IED planters. Basically once an event is alerted (ex truck stolen; someone abducted, etc) they backtrack or fwdtrack movements and see where perps came from or went to.
There are thousands and thousands of farmers in the US, and millions around the world. There are certainly more sources of food items than retail outlets.
Chapter List and Introduction
D'oh, sorry I sent you on a wild goose chase - you want invokedynamic. Invokedynamic and lambdas.
I think it's easy to blame the providers because 1) they are the "face" of the system and 2) they are relatively well-paid, but many times (especially in the emergency department) they don't even get a say in the price.

As another poster mentioned, physician salaries account for 8-10% of medical costs, but more importantly decreasing those salaries may not even decrease the cost that patients see.

Let's take the ED as an example... For the past several years, the average salary of an ED provider has been decreasing (due to the increase of physician assistants / nurse practitioners, who are paid less), but the cost-per-visit to an ED increased 235% between 2008-2017 even though ED utilization remained stable [1].

In the last decade, a lot of small physician-owned emergency medicine groups have been bought up by large corporations or health systems. As these large groups proliferate, they raise prices (to the tunes of 2x or more) [2, 3, 4], pay their employees the same or less, and take the rest as profit. So even if provider salaries go down (which these large groups often do anyways after a consolidation), little would change for the patient.

While some of these groups are led by a CEO with a MD, the physicians and other providers who actually see patients do not have a say in how things are run. In fact, some of these groups don't even show the providers how much they are billing for each patient, so it's really hard for them to do much about it [5].

But couldn't physicians/PAs/NPs protest, quit, or even start a competitor--shouldn't they? However, the larger markets (where the majority of patients are) are typically also the most concentrated, so sometimes it's the choice of one large group vs. another large group. I suppose one could move to a different town, but it's hard to uproot a family, and furthermore since these large areas are more desirable there's no shortage of folks who would take their place. And unfortunately for several specialties (EM included) it's very difficult to start a competitor, since one would also need to either secure a hospital contract (not happening if the competitors are health systems) or build their own facility ($$$$$).

None of this is meant to dismiss the issue, and I think physicians will continue to feel the brunt of the blame as long as prices remain high, but I hope it sheds a different perspective onto the issue.

Disclosure: Am in healthcare.

Sources:
1. https://www.healthcostinstitute.org/images/pdfs/ARM2019_ER_P...
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/upshot/the-company-behind...
3. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-unitedhealth-envision-hlt...
4. https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/02/20/2018%20Cost%...
5. https://www.aaem.org/resources/key-issues/corporate-practice...
You have some good points and I agree with most of this, but you're overestimating the capacity of a large, open internet forum to host intelligent angry discussion. This isn't about being prissy, it's about not dying a death of boredom. Flamewars get stupider and more tedious as they burn, and each one turns the site a bit more into hell. So we take a broken-windows-theory approach.

If you think otherwise, I'd like to see an example of an large, open internet forum having intelligent no-holds-barred political debate. In my opinion you're underestimating how dumb that gets, and how quickly. For the sort of conversation you're talking about to be high-quality, you need a community that is closed and vastly smaller. This has been the case with that sort of debate in the past—for example, exchanges in journals or between writers in opposing journals.
Huh, so it does exist! I had to scroll through an almost endless list of tiles, but I was able to find it. (I tried a second time to count how many, and it wasn't there that time.)

Turns out it's also possible to intentionally navigate to it: app menu (top left "hamburger" icon) -> "See All Programs" (under "Programs and Features" group in menu) -> "Your Dash Buttons". And the UI looks just like dash buttons. With buttons that say "Buy now" rather than adding to cart.

It'd be great to have the ability to somehow pin it in a more prominent / convenient location if I were seriously planning to use it.
> This is incredible: they're suggesting that, in the same way that YouTube has content moderators, GitHub should moderate every repository that has a 9-digit sequence

Youtube does not manually moderate content either, they just have some automated bots for their contentid and I would argue that's not working very well.

I don't see how Github would imitate that, surely the companies which are not on Github don't want to send their secrets to them to check if it's there, it makes no sense.
ASGs + Zookeeper is really easy, but you have to use https://github.com/soabase/exhibitor. It coordinates replacing downed ZK nodes using S3, and also provides a bunch of extra management tools.

I had a single Zookeeper ASG running under load for over three years without maintenance. I pinged my old co-founder to see if he's willing to open source the CloudFormation template.
That is a staggering volume of melted ice.

I am interested to know how this melt’s volume compares to other years/days on record though.
Maybe they can just convert a bunch of their contractors to fulltime and create new customers for their Pixel phones, Chrome laptops- like Ford did 100 years ago.
Given that Hollywood profits are at a two decade low[1], it’s not clear that’s true.

[1]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-...
I think the general direction we're moving in is towards a world where freemium and advertising supported services will be phased out and walled gardens are all that will remain on what was once a free web.
what if they're forecasting a recession? Would it not be good to have cash on hand to start spending when the bottom appears close?
Astronauts will bake cookies in space to see how they cook in zero gravity
Capital One could have been proactive by running a script to scrape every github account to see if they had data that was compromised. I’m sure a lot of governments, hackers and graduate student researchers knowingly or unknowingly collected this data.
Things must have changed lately. I returned a set of DVDs and forgot to include the cover and got dinged for over half the cost of the item almost as soon as it was received by the warehouse. I guess I got lucky since they could have charged me for the whole price. But now a guy is sending dirt and he gets full credit. Wow!
Frivolous. Throw it out.
Verifiable Delay Functions [pdf]
(PartiQL team member)
AWS Redshift Spectrum supports PartiQL on parquet since last year. Except that the language had not had a name yet and was referred to as "SQL extensions for nested data.
And like this disease, Syphillis was initially terrifying, with flesh falling off of victims' faces, before the disease "decided" that it was better to let its victims live with genital sores rather than die horrific deaths. For the disease, it could infect more people on a longer-living host.
Classical Mediterranean practices specified that, when two people made a contract with each other, each would swear to the gods he honored to abide by the terms of the contract.

Judaism, and its followers Christianity and Islam, innovated a different approach, the idea that someone who doesn't follow your god can't be trusted to adhere to an agreement. This made them antagonistic to other cultures, which worked out great for Christianity and Islam (the memes themselves, not the people carrying them).

Religious practices farther east, in India[1], China, and the central Asian steppes, were generally not exclusive in the same way. You were free to mix and match practices and avowed beliefs from several formal systems, and they didn't factionalize in the same way.

On the other hand, Chinese Confucianism, considered as a system of how society is organized (as opposed to a system of thought) was quite hostile to other modes of organization.

My take is that governments don't coexist easily, but philosophies do.

[1] Islam excepted.
It's a typical "how much we can pull to settle" lawsuit.
Tangentially, this reminds me of Github's (very useful) feature that auto-notifies you when your Gemfile contains a gem known to have security vulnerabilities. Maybe someone will someday sue Github for not forcing a repo owner to fix a vuln, thereby causing people to unwittingly clone and use the codebase in production.
Photo: Whaley Bridge dam collapsing, forcing many to leave their homes
I think this could be the tiles, if anyone else is curious: http://www.ice.org/tiles/
Super cool project! Would be fun to have a modern equivalent.
Nah... We're going towards a silly lawsuit being thrown out.
Trying to help you fight the down votes. You might be technically wrong because you forgot the most important part: the hill. Humans love high ground more than we love trees, for the reasons you cite. Treeless flatlands are terrifying.
There are probably several orders of magnitude less github repos than videos on youtube (almost anyone can record a video, few people know how to use git). It's also easier to review source code/text files than videos where you'd have to watch every frame.

I am not saying that github should be liable for content, but it just goes to show how hard of a problem this is.
The start of European colonialism marks the end of the Middle Ages. Abolitionism was about abolition in the Americas, not Europe where it was largely replaced by serfdom in the Middle Ages. Slavery continues to exist in some forms today.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
more like licebook
“it seems to be a spontaneous, meaningful event that goes well beyond the occasional “good days” most dementia patients experience. The period of clarity is brief, lasting minutes, hours or possibly a day. It seems to come in the hours, days or weeks before death”

Based on my understanding of “why we sleep” and seeing complicated things fail, I wonder if their brains reach a maximally deteriorated state that somehow cancels out the damage temporarily. It might be helpful to find out whether people in these episodes seem truly “in tact” and able to recall their memories across their whole lives. Or, if it tends to be some minute portion of their memories.

Don’t know, but I genuinely wish this disease to perish. How it took my family members was just evil.
fortune 500 top10 companies

5. McKesson the largest U.S. pharmaceutical distributor
6. UnitedHealth Group
7. CVS Health

Can't you tell why?
I am surprised that you are being downvoted. Apple is actively trying to lower cash holding by aggressively paying dividends and doing share repurchase. https://www.barrons.com/articles/alphabet-should-take-a-page...
I don't know how you can criticize a disaster as such, but honestly this wouldn't surprise me if it were being done.

My plausibility test for a conspiracy is: is there a sufficient motive, is the effort required commensurate with the motive, and how many people need to be on the take for it to work. This kind of thing passes all three.
Not sure i can agree with using the word “sacrifice” here. This could have been a voluntary trek into “some other world” - we simply don’t know what it was. When i hear sacrifice i think heads rolling.
My favorite part is the anti-NIMBY culture that usually dominates here is experiencing cognitive dissonance right now and they don't even know it.

Bring up housing in SF and the people complaining about no trees right now are suddenly shuffling everyone into tiny uniform boxes.
The aspect that no one is mentioning in this anecdote exchange: where their friends and family live.
Eh, I mean the silicate weathering feedback will definitely fix the CO2 issue on Myr timescales, but doesn't mean it mightn't be a bumpy ride.

Then there's the issue of above-background extinction rates -- not entirely a CO2 / climate change issue, but arguably already irreversible unless we're about to go all Jurassic-Park-style Pleistocene rewilding over here.
No. Not all hospitals are willing to offer discounts. Sometimes, the cash price is higher than the insurance rate (which is negotiated).

It's pretty hard to pull off an external company since many hospitals won't even tell you what their negotiated rates are (I have an HDHP where I'd think the point is to shop around, but can't because of the lack of price transparency).

For what it is worth, goodrx.com is doing a variant of this with drugs.
This is not a new battle. Essentially the same legal arguments justified the MegaVideo takedown, where the MPAA convinced US military to invade their servers/HQ in New Zealand -- a legal battle that is still ongoing. When something goes wrong, shoot the messenger. You can always claim they should have done more.

But I have faith in the legal team from Microsoft. Capital One though...
Vermont tackles a labor shortage by paying remote workers to relocate there
Ah ok I thought you meant using water as a medium for stimulation with gel electrodes. But yeah sadly I know exactly what you mean, I’ve had to clean a lot of gel electrodes.
I ran a bootstrapped company with $150k/mo of well-documented, above-board recurring revenue and Chase wouldn't give it a credit limit above $5k.

Entrusting my finances to another startup like Brex is scary, but damn is the pitch compelling compared to mainstream banks.
Perhaps so. But would I really want to do that?
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fortune 500 top10 companies

5. McKesson the largest U.S. pharmaceutical distributor

6. UnitedHealth Group

7. CVS Health

So you know why...
If you are the sort of person that can afford good health insurance in the US, then you are also the sort of person that can afford to go private for certain things in a country that has a good public system.

The existence of a public system keeps the prices for the private system in line. They can't get too ridiculous because there is always the free option available.

In NZ, I have found that diagnostic on the public system to be plenty fast enough. Then when it comes to treatment option you can weigh a quote of getting it done privately immediately vs waiting for a specified amount of time.

And due to the public system I wouldn't even think twice about going to the doctor as soon as I have any kind of issue at all.
In a gold rush the miners go broke but the hardware store makes boatloads of cash.
Except when they deliberately make their product obtuse and allow customers to expose their data to the entire world.
Sounds like a bad idea, no? Last ting you want is whole cluster going down because Kafka is misbehaving
My aunt's vision isn't so great any more, and quite often she'll brake for what she thinks is an animal or car, but is just a shadow. Other times, if the sun is low in the sky, she will not notice other vehicles that really are there.

I just make sure that when I'm a passenger in her car I have my hand resting on the emergency brake, so I'm ready to stop the car if I need to. It's much safer that way.
This is not true. ContentId filters copyrighted content.

YouTube also moderates content and demonetizes video with certain content. I am pretty sure at least part of that must be done manually.
I think this is a good example of a "Submarine"[0] article

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html