skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am strongly opposed to child labor and military conscription, a six year old can do a LOT of damage. I'd not want to face a squad of them on my best day.
> this does not mean that they cared specifically about item A or B since the negotiation was over the basket.

This explains why prices are some services surprisingly high, while others are more normal. We've all heard about the $100+ cup of Advil line item in a bill. I never had thought about health care pricing before in this context.

I'm sure both the hospital and the insurance come into the negotiation with existing datasets about the frequency of goods/services are billed for. The hospital knows what it will receive in aggregate from the hospital given a set of line item prices for all of its offered goods/services; conversely, the insurance company would have a rough sense of what they'd be paying.

You get the short end of the stick if you end up consuming a proportionally higher amount of goods/services that were negotiated arbitrarily high price end.
The Powerwall.
How about "must charge only published prices?"
I keep hearing this myth about how Java pre-5 used to be a pristine language, until it was touched by annotations and generics - and I doubt it, because I was there.

Before annotations, Java libraries were basically using gigantic XML files to configure things like dependency injection and routing. I don't like the way Java libraries use exceptions at all, but you can't seriously say you want to get to the early J2EE days. Look at the mess that was required to create an Employee entity:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97688_16/generic.903/a97677/ejb1...

Before generics, foreach and autoboxing Java was code was littered with ugly code like this:

List incrementIntList(List input) {
List result = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++) {
Object obj = input.get(i);
if (obj instance of Integer) {
Integer int = (Integer)obj;
int i = int.intValue() + 1;
obj = new Integer(i);
}
result.add(obj);
}
return result;
}

While in Java 5 you could finally write:

List<Integer> incrementIntList(List<Integer> input) {
List result = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (Integer i : input) {
result.add(i + 1);
}
return result;
}

with Java 8, we even got arguably better:

List<Integer> incrementIntList(List<Integer> input) {
return list.stream().map(i -> i + 1);
}

I fail to see how the first version is more readable. Yes, the Java compiler had to become more complex to accommodate this, but every other Java codebase in existence became considerably simpler. I can't see how this is not a win.

The forces pushing for the same kind of ergonomic improvements in Go are not outside forces, but very much the Go designers themselves. This draft your written by Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer and it looks like a complete overhaul of the contract mechanism proposed by Russ Cox. These people are part of the Go core team.
The court filing directly says "s3", so yeah, it's Amazon.
Because of the Electoral College, votes in California (with a large democratic surplus) are close to irrelevant, whereas Arizona is a swing state where every vote counts.
That's funny, because I've talked with doctors who oversee medically-managed weight loss programs professionally, and they made it very clear that even just doing 960Cal/day for 3+ days warranted medical supervision. This is also why stuff like Optifast requires a prescription, because it's not safe to do this kind of thing without oversight.

The fact that you've done it really has no bearing on whether it's actually healthy, and I'm going to go ahead and assume that the doctors you spoke to said the equivalent of "it won't kill you but I don't recommend it".
Deep drilling is actually a thing for deep geothermal. Still early days but can produce a lot of energy on its own, no solar required. Expensive to go that deep though

http://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/drilling-finlands-deepest-well...
Relativistic redshift of star orbiting Milky Way center supermassive black hole
Wasn't her name that the parent comment referenced originally posted in the news article? If that's the case, I would blame the news article and not the parent. Especially since they said "could" and not "yep, that's her".
Omg dude read about the ADA. You seem to have a deep misunderstand of things in the U.S.
Dropbox Transparency Reports
"Pick how much and what quality of medical care to receive"

Last time I was in an ambulance I was a bit too unconscious to really do my due diligence in checking that the hospital it was taking me to was in-network and didn't balance bill.
"ORDER APPOINTING FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER appointing Christopher Sanders for Paige A Thompson. On the basis of the defendant's sworn financial statement, the court finds that he/she is financially unable to retain counsel."

Oh, dear.
Good lord.

-Paige left code used in the "attack" on her GitHub.

-Paige left text files with unencrypted data there, too.

-Paige openly posted about it in an open (!!!) Slack channel and publicly named her VPN service of choice, which of course, matched access logs AND GitHub server logs. (Also tor, which the FBI agent was able to confirm and add yet another data point)

-Paige said "I have a leak proof IPredator router setup." nice.

Nice opsec there. Sheesh.

EDIT: Thanks for the PACER share, by the way.
Somewhat unrelated I saw a paper talking about using bacteria to partially reduce iron oxide.

And also people have been attempting bio-remediation of uranium/plutonium and other metal contaminated soils.
> You fill out some paperwork requesting a zoning variance and get your answer in a few weeks.

That may be true in some (many?) locales, but it's not for places like California, where the housing shortages are hurting most.

Here, even if you don't need a variance, and your plans are exactly up to code as-is, you should expect to spend 1-2 years fighting NIMBY landowners who don't want anything to change, and use various laws and community comment periods as blunt instruments to delay your building plans to the point that you run out of money while fighting and give up.
Rockstar North Ltd, developers of GTA5, paid £0 corporation tax on £5bn profit
Also agree! I learned a lot about how Python works from digging through the inner guts of the Django ORM. I’ve been pleasantly surprised, getting back into Django after about 5 years, that the codebase is just as comprehensible as I remember it to be, and the documentation equally as comprehensive.
They really do send out a whole lotta junk mail, even here in Canada. I don't see other banks doing that.
I think you’re right. I recall hearing about an exemplary case s few years back before ACA, Some guy was shopping around for, I think it was, hip surgery. It was opaque and took some effort but finally settled on some place in the south, possibly AL. It ended up being like a fifth of what his state’s hospitals would do if for.

So, the short is, yes, transparency would help.
Show HN: GIF-progress Attach progress bar to animated GIF
It was Experiment #626 inside Nintendo.
That’s a very slippery slope argument that could apply to almost anything. Fortunately, most people realise the benefits of generics - and it has nothing to do with dependency management (which is already a mess by the way).

I’m more worried about eccentricities in the implementation that we’ll get out of the golang team. Then again, maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Generally it's not a good idea to sabotage your employer's clients, but I wonder how many engineers across the Big 3 US cloud providers have the know-how to exploit holes in how Forture 500 companies use their platforms.
It always seemed likely to me that the U.S.'s relationship with Saudi Arabia was probably more corporatist than geopolitical. Then I watched a surreptitiously recorded documentary about life in Saudi Arabia where, among other things, children said they were taught in school that Christians should be beheaded. Geopolitical my ass.
price transparency critical for markets. however we get this done, let's do it. surgeon scorecards while we're at it.
Sorry to be pedantic, but this is merely a complaint. This is the initial document used to get an arrest warrant. An indictment is returned by a grand jury.

http://www.mololamken.com/news-knowledge-29.html
Delete that (or edit to to be blank if you can't). That's a common name, you have no idea if it's the same person.
"there are a lot of safeguards that these banks use to make sure that any data that touches the shared server persistent storage is encrypted. And when I say safeguards, I mean automation to make sure that this sort of scenario shouldn't ever happen."
ROTFLMAO....you have clearly never worked for a bank, no offense mate. Capital left this shit in plain text on an S3 bucket, I guarantee you
My point of view is that we need to make users aware of the risks and make them more responsible because things will not get any easier.

How has that been working for the last 30 years? Why would it start now?

Computers have been mainstream consumer appliances since the “multimedia PCs” were a thing in the mid 90s. Most people no more want to program computers than they want to fix their own cars.
Redis is widely used in production environments. The code quality matters.
Sure if what you lied about is a big deal. The polygraph room is purposefully sound-dampened. I remember being able to abnormally hear more of my body (heartbeat, saliva, etc) in the room. What I'm getting at is that during a polygraph, it's very doubtful you're going to be daydreaming while undergoing a 4-5hr long interview lol. If you want to know how to 'cheat' the polygraph - I'll tell you.

There's no magic to it, you just have to really not give a shit about anything really. In the context of the US government, they want workers that are first and foremost, resilient to manipulation. Historically, the biggest traitors in the country have been money-driven, hence the emphasis on identifying huge debt areas. Such debt can be leveraged against people easily. The other thing to consider is, do you think they want someone that's too honest? What about in the scenario that you're being interrogated by a foreign agency, you're telling the truth but you're sweating balls. A polygrapher can latch onto these signs and use them against you. And someone that's emotionless and doesn't really give a shit about anything good or bad? Pass the polygraph with flying colors, have fun swaying someone that can't be bought off nor exempts guilt.
> It’s either incompetence or maliciousness.

If it was incompetence, they'd occasionally err in his favor.
>thought process of these (terrible) people

Whoa that is some casually thrown-in hardcore judgement.
Why can’t the machines give us pretend jobs to make us happy? I ask this question genuinely not in jest.

And only slightly in jest: I think the majority of today’s jobs are bullshit jobs and they aren’t fooling anyone.
The impressive thing is that this is competitive even before we have a carbon market in place which would make all gas peaker plants too expensive if they had to pay a market rate for dumping/storing their carbon.
Nobody paid $600 for Office. A few large companies did, maybe, but nobody else. That's kind of the whole point of subscription software, right? To cut back on the insane 90%+ piracy rates of the good old days?
It says she posted on "social media" (Twitter) about it, claiming to have Capital One information, "and that she recognizes that she acted illegally".

Nothing about Opsec here. She basically asked them to arrest her. Probably had some of the usual motivations: "look at me I'm clever", "look at this stupid big company with bad security", or maybe used the opportunity for some political thing with banks. Not the sophisticated hacker type. But who knows.

Edit: originally I asked about her Github profile listed in the complaint as paigea(5x * characters)thompson but was iffy on whether that was okay on HN.
How many incidents have we seen where the ad blockers are the bad guys? I don’t recall seeing any third party ads when browsing with Safari on iOS with 1Blocker that uses this architecture.
So, in other words, you’re asking the government “what’s in your docket?”
Almost certainly deactivated/seized and part of evidence. With some googling you can find her Keybase and other pages aplenty if you like. Almost all her content is scrubbed from the Internet, however.

(this person's original comment was asking for her github profile)
>the information sharing site GitHub

I mean if that's what some legal news site calls it… :P
I guess this is how we all finally get paid for our data. Just continually file for our $125 check as every company that exists is hacked over the next decade.
I just opened up server.c in Redis (not familiar with Redis and never seen it before) and at first glance it seems... alright, but I'm not sure what's particularly outstanding about it, and it could definitely be better. Some of the logic seems questionable (exit() in a signal handler? [9] also what about thread safety?), and more superficially (but annoyingly) I see: names like "sdscatprintf" [1] which are a little cryptic, lack of attention to spacing (too little [2] or too much [3] or inconsistent [4] [8]), lack of braces for single-line blocks (which at least I consider bad) [5], irritatingly inconsistent line breaks [6], etc.

Overall it's still definitely on the more readable side compared to other C code I've seen, I like the thorough comments, and it's generally decent, but I'm not particularly coming away from it in awe like everyone else seems to have.

[1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[2] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[3] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[4] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[5] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[6] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[7] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[8] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...

[9] https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/server.c#...
B corps are allowed to prioritize specific values enumerated in their corporate charter, even at the expense financial gains. Regular corporations have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, which in recent decades has been interpreted as requiring companies to maximize short-term shareholder value
They've acquired a company called Maxwell Technologies which has some new dry electrode battery technology that should allow them to expand cell production with dramatically less Capex per unit of capacity
I think you're overreacting. Their name is public, and I didn't link to the public profile, nor did I say the public profile was the person in question. Only that if it is them, then having a work history of AWS adds an interesting dimension.
I think insurance should be turned around and should reimburse the patient, not the provider. Specifically, if I go to a hospital, I should get a bill from the hospital that does not depend on my insurance status. My insurance can pay some or all of it pursuant to the terms of the insurance. Whatever they don’t pay is my liability. If the insurer and hospital cooperate, the insurer can pay their share before my bill is due, and that’s all.

On top of this, medical providers must disclose the full cost structure of any non-emergency service up front and get my initials, just like auto mechanics. Emergency services should be strongly regulated.

The goal here is to have price transparency where it matters: with the patient, and to prevent insurance from corrupting the market.

Abusive medical consolidation like we have in the Bay Area won’t happen, since there would be no benefit for providers to merge to improve their insurance contracts.

As evidence that this could work, look at dentistry. Every dental provider I have ever encountered can tell you, in advance, exactly what they will charge. The prices are not insane the way non-dental medical prices are. And there are no surprise bills in dentistry.
I asked 12 APM companies about the future of APM, here’s what they said
"solar requires a massive amount of area"

This areas could be used, maybe(?):

http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/

(Has anyone ever calculated the size of radioactive contaminated areas in the US and how much power that areas could produce in solar?)
Uber has stalls in popular areas like shopping malls in all major cities. I see at least half a dozen Uber employees trying to sign people up to be drivers all the time. Considering the number of international markets they operate in and the nuances of each market, I don't think it's as that surprising.
$26 less. That really makes it a lot more affordable compared to a $200 Moto G.
A million times more than a KL-10 isn’t they much when compared to a 80 giganode machine with a 10^5 fanout, even if it runs at only 100 Hz.
Radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
It's a requirement to do so for ALL your accounts. Same for naturalisation applications, which I'm also doing.
Love that the FBI agent can't even spell the company's name correctly.
They never get recommended to anyone because I'm a smaller
channel, and then I never become big for that reason.

Have you considered doing anything to promote your videos?
Sounds like an opportunity for a classic class action lawsuit.
I wasn't suggesting that. It's just surprising that 1) given the "senseless urban violence" content of the game and 2) a recent increase in violence in the UK that they'd even be considered for this exemption.

However, a character like Soap MacTavish and the references to the SAS in the CoD series would be a worthy contender!
Localization is a big deal, or you're going to make an epic cultural faux-pas. What if "Uber" means something lewd or offensive in the local language? What if your marketing team cranks out English copy that doesn't translate well, or at all?
What they charge isn't what they eventually agree to settle though. Insurers still get _charged_ the full amount, AIUI, but have a negotiated settlement rate. Eg. "we will only pay 20% of your bill and you will consider the matter settled".
Generally having a screenshot of someone telling you "don't go to jail plz" in a criminal complaint against you is not ideal.
Let's say someone comes to you and says that if you don't change certain behaviors then they will cook your children. Like, literally cook them to death. And you (maybe not at first, but eventually) believe the threat is real. Then I would say that it is wholly compatible with human nature for you to change your behavior even with no other benefit to yourself, even if you are very attached to that behavior.

At the same time, you're right -- the 2 missing pieces are believing the threat is real, and thinking that you can get by if lots of other people change their behavior instead. Which they won't any more than you will, but that leads us back to human nature again.
According to the publicly released report, the woman that was arrested used to work for the "cloud computing company" that was involved.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7u5rxcdajuvw6t/19718675504.pdf?dl...
Engineers solve problems but we have to work within constraints - be it technological, economic, political etc. It's very rare (never in my career) that I've been given free reign to implement a "perfect" solution.

There is always, always trade offs involved in engineering. As for which trade offs are acceptable sometimes you have influence over that and sometimes it's out of your hands. Design thinking is a tool that can help but it is not a panacea.

For people that don't work in the field perhaps it's not obvious. A good friend of mine is a PHD chemist who works in research (I work as a Materials Engineer in industry) he is always winding me up about engineers doing a half-assed job. I've always thought that our interactions highlight one the key differences between science and engineering, scientists strive for perfection if you will and engineers want workable...
I wonder how much more energy this setup would store if they added cranes. Also it could be possible to make a circular vacuum maglev train out of these and add energy to it by accelerating.
Or you vote against any bill that has riders and make them bring the important bill back up as a clean bill without the riders.
> surgeon scorecards while we're at it.

Yelp reviews for cardiologists, I can see it now: "Well, I'm still alive, so that's a plus, but he told me very rudly to cut down on salt! One star!"
Pretty sure that information is wrong, because I was born in 1989...
> Where it's cheap/possible to build, you mean. It's very uneconomical if you don't have any appropriate geological formations nearby.

No, they don't need to be "nearby" anything, except for a high voltage transmission line. Pumped hydro reservoirs can be located anywhere there is adequate transmission. For example, the largest pumped storage facility in the U.S. stores energy for the entire PJM grid, which spans a dozen states.

> Ok, fine. "This term is used by evil people" doesn't change the problem of "we need cheap storage to completely switch away from carbon fuels, and we don't have cheap storage" or even "we need power on calm nights".

No, we actually do have cheap storage. Like I said, pumped hydro is cheap, and is currently available in quantities sufficient to render intermittent sources "dispatchable" in many regions. In addition, the price of battery storage is plummeting; large battery facilities are currently saving utilities millions of dollars just by regulating frequency. Many U.S. utilities are incorporating battery storage into major plans this year. This trend will accelerate.

> Pretty sure that "dispatchable" means "not wind or solar" [0] and generally simplifies to "carbon, nuclear or hydro"

You misunderstand the concept of dispatchability. It more usefully describes a system, rather than individual energy generators. For example, a nuclear power plant is pretty much the opposite of dispatchable, since it takes days or weeks to spin one up from idle. But pair it with a storage facility and the system gains the ability to sink surpluses and match loads. This works just the same with intermittent sources like wind.

The only truly dispatchable utility-scale generators are diesels and particular kinds of gas turbines, such as the GE 7HA, which will continue to be useful as peakers. However most gas plants take hours to spin up, and these are quickly becoming less economical than renewables+storage. For example, next year the Inland Empire power plant, a large gas plant in CA with at least two decades of life expectancy remaining, is going to be demolished because it has become uneconomical to operate. Guess what's replacing it?
> The 3.8 mile range figure is from the Experimental Toyota Prius article you linked.

Read the article again. You're confusing the small solar panel Toyota has as a current production option with the new experimental solar Prius which has much larger panels.

> I suspect the reason they claim so much more than Toyota is because it’s BS.

Based on what? The fact that the Lightyear One is being developed by members of Solar Team Eindhoven who have won the World Solar Challenge race three times? How many times have you won the World Solar Challenge?
That won’t work. The reason they have a low resale value is because the retail markets have a 100% markup. So, immediately after buying the diamond you cut its value in half. So you’re proposing buying diamonds at this price (wholesale price) and then selling them at a big mark up - who are you selling to??? Why would anyone buy a diamond from you instead of Zales? You can say “because mine are cheaper”, but how are you marketing? You may have noticed, those jewelry retailers have quite a marketing budget.

* there is no diamond cartel, this myth needs to die. DeBeers isn’t even the top diamond producer by volume any more