skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is interesting in the fact that it highlights several real issues, but completely fails to understand the true root causes.

"they pay more for hospitals and doctors so they can just raise premiums..."

What kind of crap is that? They can raise premiums without paying more to hospitals. In fact, that would raise their "fat cat" salaries even more.
What is the alternative for a private person? I understand that large companies can deal directly with hospitals in their region, but if you are not a large company what can you do?
Even in Europe we have health insurers, some are state owned (usually the worst), some are private. European model is considered better, how is that?
"merely requires you to know the death date of the author"

That's a pretty big merely!

I can't tell you whether some obscure book is PD just by looking at the book. At worst you're basically working out when and if someone died just based on their name. Quick is Joe Blogs alive or dead?

Then there's the question of who the author is. I believe theres been a court case over Anne Franks diaries and whether her father was an author.

Edit: Maybe not a court case https://solargeneral.org/anne-frank-diary-co-authored-by-her...
there are plenty of minetest servers if you don't want to run your own, check out a few and see how they are. several advertise a family friendly atmosphere. go inside play a while and monitor the chat to see how the moderators act. i found a great server right away, where my son and i are now happily building away without trouble.
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> Government is much better equipped, and the process would be more open.

Maybe - I tend to think governments have a harder time with rapidly changing scenarios, as in privacy issues in the tech world - but the flip side of that is there's little recourse if the process makes a bad decision. Both companies and government are susceptible to bad decisions.

I can switch CDN providers if one makes a stupid call. Switching governments is far less doable.
JFYI:

http://www.bottobistro.com/YELP.html
I think Google killing off SMS features is a direct results of Verizon adding an additional $0.0025 fee per SMS, which other carriers are sure to follow. The costs could quickly add up.
Open list of GDPR fines so far
I'm always amused when Mac people ask me why I don't use Macs and I tell them "I program CUDA for a living" and they respond "But you can jerry rig a PCIx slot in a box over a wonky cable plug it into your Thunderfire port" or something. As if that's a real solution.
Curious! I'm looking at it and don't see a duplicate review in the "not recommended" section. I do see one trend which matches my experience with "not recommended" that I mentioned in another comment: 10 out of 13 reviewers have no connections on yelp. It seems like the account's social network is one heavy factor in deciding whether to recommend a review or not.

There is one curious review that shows up in the normal sort that looks like a "follow up" review despite both version of it being identical.
My institution has Box, which I like, but no Linux desktop apps is annoying.
How would you feel about a 10-core Comet Lake?
Why is it harder to fake reviews on Yelp?
Rent seeking.

Literally getting paid to have a pile of money and sometimes pay part of people's medical care while skimming fat profits.
The alternative is universal single payer health care, paid for by taxation.
Copyright term has nothing to do with incentive for creativity. It isn't about new works. Copyright gets extended so that past works don't fall out of copyright. Google the "mickey mouse copyright extension" graph. The last thing Disney will ever accept is allowing any version of Mickey to become public domain. Next on the list are things like the early Elvis/Beatles recordings. Copyright is extended not to protect future works in the hands of creators, but to allow past works to be monetized by the descendants of those creators.
Wrong war. Iraq didn't invade Kuwait the second time around; we blamed him for arming terrorists and maintaining weapons in violation of the terms of the ceasefire ending the first Gulf War.
Regarding Lybia, the Western intervention just finished Khadafi's regime, the social and physical infrastructure were already well damaged from the existing conflict; without intervention, the conflict would have dragged on like in Syria. But now since there's a new war, the Western intervention seemed to have changed nothing, just with a new set of leaders.
That's not far off of how (Yelp's partner) Grubhub operates, where the default sort for restaurants is in descending order of the cut they give Grubhub.
OP here, just chiming in to say that you are exactly right on my point and what my objection would be to that study. There is a distinction between the Internet and specific sites like 4chan, 8chan, Reddit, Youtube, etc. You can accidentally stumble onto hate on those sites. The hate there is both normalized due to the presence of that other content and can be framed in an enticing and seemingly logical way. That isn't true for the Internet at large. To repeat myself, you can't really stumble on to the Daily Stormer or be accidentally recruited into their ranks. The NYT's article I linked to in my first post details how that type of accidental radicalization can happen on Youtube.

And like you said, there is nothing internet specific about this distinction. The same thing applies if white nationalists are recruiting in the physical world. There is a lot more potential for recruiting new members at the local bar than their is at a KKK rally. I think some of us just want the bar owner to stop allowing those white supremacists to use the bar as a recruiting ground because they are turning violent.
For box the file sync was the feature, not the product.
Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon
Why are those your options?
Easiest way to live past 100? Just say you did. 2nd easiest: use your grandfather's birth certificate.
The Iraq-Kuwait war was settled 20 years before the Iraq invasion. So to answer your question Iraq invaded Kuwait for the same reasons U.S invaded Iraq: oil. Thus the reason we have a U.S invasion of Iraq, not a U.S-Iraq war.

The pretext of invasions were different though. Busch said it was because Saddam was evil and had weapons of mass destruction. Saddam was more decent in its allegations and said Kuwait was stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling.

Btw Saddam Hussein regime was "created" by the US and the UK...
So government death panels with no opt-out?
This Rio Journal seems to pride itself on letting you publish non traditional papers. In this case, we have something that seems clearly marked as a hypothesis. I won’t comment on the value of such an approach. But I will say that it’s frustrating that such a publisher would take a speculative article like that, and pick a title like “recursive language and modern imagination were acquired 70k years ago”
Just like the dark ages, particularly in medicine, practitioners followed text from hundreds of years prior, without any perceptions without. Only memorizing and being SME on past thought was relevant.
This comment has nothing to do with de Atkine's essay, which I recommend you actually read.
I'm reminded of a couple of things.

"You don't hire people and motivate them, you hire motivated people" -- Peter Drucker

"You choose to be happy" -- a bunch of old people

The first quote applies to extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. And I think it also can relate to optimism and pessimism. If you are looking for extrinsic sources to make you optimistic, then it will be fleeting. Find the optimism and the belief that the future can be better than the now in yourself.

The second quote, I don't recall where I read it. But the tl;dr was that someone went around and asked a bunch of old folks the secret to being happy. The majority response? You choose it. It explains why you can find happy people in poverty or miserable people bathed in riches. I think the same applies to feeling optimistic: it is a choice.

Knowing that I can be happier than I am now (even though I consider myself doing pretty good in that department) gives me reason to be optimistic and to strive for that. There are things I want to see and experience. There is more to life than I have yet to experience. I also know that my world could come crashing down; but I've been low before, and I can do it again, and again, seek being better than I might find myself.

All the things that news that you find yourself surrounded by: One, know that it is _designed_ to rope you in and invoke a negative reaction. Two, can you do something about it? If so, and it is meaningful to you, then do your part to improve it. If not, then don't. No need to have the world pull you down. Besides, there is always political/economic instability, polarization, and extremism. Climate change might doom us all; it might not. World poverty is diminishing and standards of living are leaping higher every generation. I think Stephen Fry did a neat little video a while back (can't find it) that showed the different countries of the world and their economic condition over the last couple hundred years: it all got better.

There will always be negative things. Sadness, loss, disparity, suffering, and outright evil. People have endured it, survived, and continue to lead happy lives. I think that is amazing, and helps me be optimistic.
Mergers and acquisitions are also a problem, when companies grow large they have too much power and do much wrong. You cannot have competition if you allow mammoths to rule the market.
That's true in general now. Particularly in industries with high capital intensity, network effects, and/or monotonically increasing returns to scale. But that's a LOT of modern industries.

It wasn't always that way... or, at least, not for such a large proportion of the economy. The problem is that economic models and resulting policy is still based on assumptions that, due to technological change, no longer hold. The logic is usually sound, but the assumptions are ridiculous (see, e.g., abuse of the Coase Theorem).

It's far past time to re-evaluate this perspective, but we keep running into that Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
The worry would be them saying "we have evidence of your x-in-law stating you lied. Prove otherwise."
As an outside observer, sure, you don't strictly speaking need them in some theoretical America, but in the America I see there's a large group of people who do not believe government can or should do this work and will work very actively to make it happen. The last bit is crucial.

Suppose that you are disappointed that Obamacare did not contain a public option. Suppose that Obamacare did contain this provision in the law, it would most likely be implemented the way the cfpb was. The cfpb is great, except how good it is depends on how good the government in place is. If there's people in government that want it to fail it will simply fail. Thus merely incorporating the public option into law is not enough to have to have a dedicated political body that wants to make it work. I don't think that's the case in America.

I guess what I'm saying is, the specificity of the law doesn't seem to be as important as peoples dedication to making things work
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/05/fired_goo...

> "They made every excuse in the book to avoid taking down something that made Donald Trump look bad. And I saw a number of other incidents just like that...They thought Trump should have lost in 2016...They really want Trump to lose in 2020. That's their agenda."
Or they could bring them back to their port of departure on the South of the Mediterranean, so they can try to enter legally. (or better not at all.)
That's not fair. It's a fan subreddit, you need to be a supporter. You can go to /r/askThe_Donald if you want to have a debate.

As a conservative if I go to /r/politics, I'll get my head chewed off with talking points and downvoted to oblivion if I try to debate anything, noone wants to listen. /r/askThe_Donald is a great place to have debates though, I wonder if there's an equivalent sub to ask liberals questions.
Show HN: Trueface Visionbox
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We built the Trueface Visionbox to make computer vision accessible to all developers, regardless of talent level and skillset.

Now anyone can get started running our self-hosted computer vision solution with one command. There are no libraries or dependencies to install. The Trueface Visionbox is an enterprise-grade turnkey offline solution that can be deployed in minutes.

With the Trueface Visionbox, you can run face recognition, spoof detection, weapon detection, age detection and license plate recognition all on your own infrastructure. You have complete control over your data which never leaves your infrastructur
Checking a character's case in Go, the long way around (0's and 1's included)
I kinda wondered that looking at the paper. It's hard to know from eyeballing such low numbers relatively speaking, but it seems like there's not only a large peak in supercentenarians born shortly before the introduction of records (suggesting erroneously reported very old age), but maybe also a smaller peak after the records.

With name databases, there seems to have been a phenomenon where people retroactively created records when they were introduced (e.g., people registered for SSNs after the fact). Maybe there's something similar going on: people are overreporting their age when born with no records, but also are overreporting their age when they registered their birth after the fact.

It's a bit hard to explain in terms of underreporting age, and the trends are such that I think they still largely support the authors' hypotheses in terms of relative overreporting and underreporting. But I agree there's probably more fuzziness here.

The bigger issue for me that this raises are the perils of making inferences on outliers of any distribution. The further out you go on any characteristic, the more likely you are going to run into similar problems with errors, fraud, or unusual circumstances.
Where exactly in these two links is anything about Amazon in particular?
Oh, I dunno, lock people up and/or deport them anyway?

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180...
Ask HN: What to Do When a SaaS Product Changes/Shuts Down?
Specifically in small organizations who rely on business products from vendors but don’t have the money to write their own(E.g. small businesses/nonprofits using ecommerce, record keeping, other SAAS products that may have sudden feature changes or be turned off entirely), how have folks insulated against disaster? I am( and I assume devs and engineers in other orgs are) expected to be able to prevent or solve any problems resulting from tooling changes. How do you prepare when you think a service you rely on might shut down? Does anyone map/organize/document business complexity and keep it up to date? What pitfalls should one look out for and what best practices do you follow?
And who is dealing with the hospital fees? You need some organization to do this, this is how it works everywhere.
> The lawyer in me suggests removing that comment asap. But maybe you really hate your in-laws.

Yikes. Let's not overreact to a nondescript HN comment.
That is not evidence, it is hearsay.
Pretty much. I've never used Yelp nuch. I guess they never focused much on the world outside the US. I just checked my area in Berlin (which has loads of really nice places) and they have almost nothing for this area which means their data for Berlin is 95% incomplete. For reference, several of the top places for Berlin on Foursquare are in the same area. Yelp seems to have none of those.

From working on POI data in Nokia Maps back in the day, I remember that this is a tough market. A lot of sites from back in the day no longer exist. Yelp apparently bought qype at some point which used to have pretty decent coverage. I actually worked with their data at Nokia so I know. It seems all of that is missing in action in Berlin (where they used to have most restaurants covered). I guess that was more of an acquihire/competetitor eliminating move. Either way, their data was pretty bad as I recall but not this bad.

Google Maps typically has most places, even the really obscure/shitty ones. Foursquare is a bit less predictable depending on how many users they have locally but it's typically great in popular areas. Both have invested in great user feedback mechanisms to improve the accuracy of their data. E.g. knowing when a new place opens and an old one disappears or changes name is key. Between those two, you get a decent impression what is good in an area. The reviews in Google Maps are usually pretty helpful and I see little evidence of cheating (though that obviously happens).

I guess what happened is that Yelp used to be a cool hop user driven review website and then VC money took over and now the users are the product that they sell to their customers the restaurants.
It is not like EU is hosting most of the refugees. It’s just media coverage and some politicians talking more than anyone about it.

In fact countries hosting much more refugees aren’t complaining as much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil...
But the publicly funded ones educate an overwhelming majority of the electorate.
I wouldn't necessarily frame that as an inevitability of Dropbox as a product, as much as an inevitability of the traditional VC funding model.

It's likely you could build a very healthy business selling people file syncing — I personally use a tiny minimalist Dropbox competitor that seems to be doing just fine. The hypergrowth demanded by investors when you take on $1.7B in funding is what's the challenge.
Simple file sync is a plenty big enough market to sustain "a" company. Just not one with Dropbox's valuation. The lesson is about investor overreach, not whether or not there was an economic need being filled.
It's about percentages.

The law says they can keep a _percentage_ of the premium. If they charge you $1000 maybe they're allowed to keep $100 of that as profit. If they charge $900 they only get $90. So, provide a "better" service and charge $1500 then they get to keep $150.

The law used to let them keep whatever they could make, so you'd be right, they could buy $400 of healthcare, charge $1000 for and they've made $600 profit. But the percentage rules mean they'd be told to give you $560 back, they'd only be able to keep $40 in profit. So hence as the article says they choose to spend more so they make more money.
I cannot find that quote in the article. I'm also struggling to follow your post.

> They can raise premiums without paying more to hospitals.

No, they cannot. The ACA sets out an 80/20 split system. 80% of the premium must go towards medical services, leaving 20% of whatever the premium is for "admin" (e.g. salaries).

This has had the unintended consequences of insurance companies trying to raise the cost of medical services in order to increase their slice of the pie.
Very famous author. She won the pulitzer prize for fiction. Her books are both beautifully written and hard to read because of their often brutal depiction of the racism African-American's experience in the U.S.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
I like what the challenger banks are doing. A customer of several, including Monzo, there are some features that I think Monzo and similar could add or more broadly adopt.

Different PIN for app and ATM.

'Always on' app not being always on. By this I mean opening the app and instantly being logged - no password - in with balance, transaction history, access to funds, etc. Material concern if phone lost. N26 by comparison always request password.

Again, comparing to N26, no self-imposed limit on ATM or online transactions. In N26 this is set in the app/web interface. Monzo doesn't have this self-set limit feature.

No web interface. Using a phone for everything is annoying.

Monzo do have very responsive and knowledgable customer service. And a very distinctively coloured card.
The article states that Grubhub is recording the calls.
Who will double check a doctor’s orders? Voters clearly don’t want the government to do it. Do people have enough money to visit a second or third doctor to get opinions regarding decisions that costs tens of thousands of dollars?
And then those sold cars end up in Poland. Reuse, then recycle. ;)
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze

> You need to add "cost to repair" into your equation. At my old job we used to figure $300 to replace a drive

This is TOTALLY true, and Backblaze does add in the cost to repair. At our scale, we have full time datacenter technicians that are onsite 7 days a week for 12 hours a day (overlapping shifts) so that we can replace drives and repair equipment within a certain number of hours.

Every single day our monitoring systems kick out a list of about 10 drives that need to be replaced, and the data center techs try to make sure there are zero failed drives when their shift ends. (We leave failed drives alone for up to 12 hours at night as long as it is just one failed drive in a redundant group of 20.)

But if you are operating with FEWER than our 110,656 drives then you can't have full time repair people standing around paying their salary. So you are really going to need to pay much more (per drive) than we do.

One of the absolutely amazing things about "cloud services" like Amazon S3 or Backblaze B2 is that (hopefully) we can actually operate it at a lower cost and higher durability than you can operate yourself. That may not be true at either end of the spectrum - if you have fewer than 10 drives it may be cheaper for you to operate it yourself, and if you have more than 1,200 drives (the deployment size of one of our vaults) you might want to consider cutting out the middle-man (Backblaze) and saving yourself money. But I make the bold claim we can save you money in that sweet middle ground.

One of the factors to consider is the cost of electricity in your area. Backblaze pays about 9 cents/kWh which is "pretty good". Up in Oregon you can get deals for 2 cents/kWh and beat our operating costs, but in Hawaii you are at 50 cents/kWh and unless you have solar panels you pretty much better host data on the mainland. :-) I think TONS of people (mistakenly) think that after they purchase a hard drive, operating it is "free". Electricity is one of Backblaze's major costs in providing the service. Our electrical bill is more than $1 million per year right now.

Some people think we (Backblaze) get "magical good deals" by purchasing drives in bulk, and it isn't as good as you might think. Sure, we get some bulk discounts, but think 5% or 10% better than your retail price for 1 unit. And you can probably get THE SAME DEAL as Backblaze if you are purchasing 1,000 drives in one purchase order.
Also perhaps preventing human traffickers from loading people on boats that can't cross the sea, leading them to their death.
It's rumored that next year's phone in the iPhone X slot will be shrinking down to 5.4". Not quite as small as the SE's 4.9", but a definite step in the right direction.
"FWIW, I've been using Twilio as a Google Voice replacement. "

I did the same thing about 1.5 years ago. Haven't looked back.

I do almost all of my texting to friends and family from the UNIX command line using the 'sms' script I wrote. I can text from my phone number even if I don't have my phone. Even if it's off.

Please, please join me in pressuring twilio to add a 'email' verb to twiml ... there are so many simple use-cases that would be so trivial and easy if you could just call 'email' from inside a twiml bin.
Last I checked, governments are still organizations?
The basic principle behind Sistine is simple. Surfaces viewed from an angle tend to look shiny, and you can tell if a finger is touching the surface by checking if it’s touching its own reflection.

This is especially true of MacBook screens!