skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotta appreciate the hijack of the back button on techcrunch. Bounce rate too big?
A lot of the risk of this kind of thing could be greatly reduced if the law were changed so that for data that you should already have about yourself the company only has to tell you whether they have that data.

For example, I know my birth date. A company that also has my birth date should be able to just tell me that they have my birth date. They should not have to tell me the actual date.

Most of the data mentioned in the article is like this: credit card information, login and password information, social security number, stays in hotels, train journeys, high school grades, and maiden name.

Companies like credit reporting agencies that keep such data and share it with others would need to be an exception, so that you could check that they aren't giving out incorrect information about you.
But you have to look at why he used that particular phrasing–a clever bit of wordplay to quickly get the idea across to Russians in familiar terms. It's a Russian figure of speech in the first place.
I’m a personal fan of Fullers work and having discovered his expansive worldview during my teens he left a mark on me in terms of having confidence that better solutions can be designed for how our world operates.

I’m sure the 42 hours of screening would be worth my time and that of a number of friends around me.

My problem/challenge though is how to facilitate a structure that would get me through all the footage. I mean I can’t imagine binge watching for 3 days straight or maybe that’s the point, maybe I should just try that. Or maybe is weekly sesssions better like some sort of book club? I Need ideas.

How would you suggest to structure a small group screening?

Assuming you had some profound knowledge recorded from an earlier time that you needed to get a group to get through, how would you do it?
The rules of the forum you're reading this on literally say that workarounds are fine for paid content.
This is utterly terrifying.

Maybe the kids are used to this level of obsessive control? I’m not sure if this sounds more damaging for the kids or for the parents.

This also sounds only a _really_ small step away from just having cameras everywhere that the parents can watch 24/7.

I’d really like to hear a persuasive argument as to why this is at all reasonable.
That's right, the interconnectors are all bi-directional.

They move electricity where it's needed according to market demand: when the wholesale price is higher in Britain than in (for example) France, the UK imports electricity.

When the wholesale price is higher in France, which can happen during winter demand peaks as France has a lot of electric heating, the flow is reversed and the UK exports electricity.
> In my opinion, minorities in particular have reason to arm themselves and to be prepared to defend themselves if necessary.

That's an interesting take, since minorities commit - by very, very far - the greatest amount of violent crimes per capita in the USA.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
this seems reactionary. I mean if they didn't need to hire those engineers in the first place, why hire them?
States could decide to take away their medical licenses. I would hope politicians would choose to fix their mess of a system rather than punish doctors but perhaps that's overly optimistic of me.
If anything, what you'd be looking for is the _absence_ of language restricting claims to work done using the employer's facilities -- but whatever's there really needs to be read in context of the whole agreement, and the applicable state law. There's no phrase search yet that can substitute for a lawyer with relevant knowledge.
Thing is, you don't even need overly racist whoever for this to happen, a completely "neutral" neural net would happy take the same stroll down that particular primrose path without tightly controlling for self-reinforcing effects like this.
The Hanging Hair Test
Ah yah it’s a flashback and not in a good way.

I use and love TripIt but only like this:

0. Subscribe to my personal TripIt calendar feed.

1. Book flight, car, hotel, whatever.

2. Forward booking confirmation to plans@tripit.com.

3. Now all those details are in my calendar.

What’s particularly useful is how it handles time zones. Flights seem to ‘just work’, and in the notes for any appointment it’ll tell you the local arrival & departure times anyway.
The art of social engineering. The person doing this was a dab-hand at it or else they would not have done what they did.

You can have a plausible excuse for not having your passport - left at parent's house or accidentally in storage.

Driver's license - "I am a cyclist!"

Electricity bill - "My housemate pays all the bills!"

Bank statement - "I only do online banking!"

Electoral roll? - "Don't vote!"

But HR sent me a letter about an update to the company pension plan - will that do?

Yes! - sends through postmarked envelope picture. By that stage the confidence trick has succeeded so 'we know the guy and he is legit'.

You can get this far to get a mobile phone contract which counts as good as a utility bill in terms of supplementary proof of ID. This can then be used to get a deposit only bank account for 'savings'. This can then be just about enough ID to have almost created a person!!!

But with GDPR social engineering you can have it all so much easier.

There was so much panic about GDPR and purging every decent contact from the company newsletter list that no company thought through a thing about how to deal with GDPR information requests. Hubris at its finest.
There definitely is. The problem right is now is that a huge number of them are prohibitively expensive. I paid $2,000 for GDPR advising for a $7k/mo MRR app and was quoted $25,000 to advise/assist through the entire implementation (of which I'd still have to do myself). It sounded like it's also necessary to hire someone to receive data requests, which would probably cost more (but seems super possible to provide as a service to many companies).
On Purposely Getting Arrested to Get Life-Saving Surgery (2013)
1 year by contract for most employees.
I'm extremely enthusiastic about smartcards, even trying to build a startup around making it easier to deploy and build services around smartcard-based authentication and key management. I agree that in terms of overall security they're incomparable to the existing mess. But, fair point--I flubbed attempting to articulate a tangentially related concern.
I mean the captured photography of the chip. Most of the time it is not done with ultraviolet light or electron microscopes, just with normal visible light cameras ans some very good lenses.
Medicare for all is incredibly popular when you compare our system as a whole to others. The perception of loss, that people will suffer waiting in line or that their trusted doctor will be unavailable, has been the lynchpin in the campaign advocating for middlemen. Scare tactics are tried and true here in the U.S.
Healthcare has been a political football for decades, with massive interventions by government up and down the stack of services.

Think about the market's provision of grocery stores: plenty of competition. Most places they don't enjoy geographic monopolies like car dealerships do. They manage to get one of the most vital goods to a huge population spread across a huge area on time and at a great price, with local variations anticipating the specific desires of local consumers. There is no central coordinator or Department of Grocery Services. The market figures it out.

How can someone look at healthcare, with its absolutely absurd outcomes, and not understand that it is precisely because of government interference that nothing makes any sense? Costs keep rising unsustainably, which is the opposite of the way markets work. Paperwork and administrative staff balloons in proportion to patient care.

Once the state gets involved, now it becomes political. Do you think the current political climate in the US should be further embedded into healthcare? If the state controlled everything, then you'd get outcomes like red/blue states losing/gaining funding depending on the results of the most recent election. One could imagine more dystopian outcomes quite easily.
It's actually not that amazing- they bought out ITA Matrix and just iterated on top of it.
Yes, and if anything that supports my position. Minorities are statistically more likely to be both perpetrators and victims of violent crime. Members of those communities therefore are more likely than non-members to have a legitimate need to defend themselves.
Studies in Power: An Interview with Robert Caro (2018)
The first thing I do is update the BIOS, download the newest drivers and a copy of Firefox, and create install media. I would then perform a clean install. I liked doing this to make sure I was clear of any junkware (as a don't trust uninstallers) and to make sure my installation media worked.

After reinstalling I would create a new, regular, user account for normal use.
Sometimes I'm thinking I'd love to work in USA. But reading this stories is very scary. When you have an emergency situation, you shouldn't need to find out if the doctor/hospital is on some network. One commenter on the article complains she was charged 65k.. waw.

I'm glad for the nhs.
Should be okay, FCC Republicans say your ISP can regulate what they send you on the grounds of free speech, what's the difference with Facebook? You can at least pick an alternate social media platform. Most Americans don't have that option with ISPs
Haha. This is me—5s with an Otterbox and a _lanyard_! You know how gun slingers notch their Colt with how many men they’ve gunned down? My Otterbox has seven notches from how many fatal falls it took. Big love for the 5s
If that's the case, how is it possible that low energy photons absorbed by carbon nanotubes can generate high energy photons?
Climate change is a hoax to increase taxes. I always hear that we’re so screwed for a million reasons and if we dont act now we go into a “runaway” scenario we cannot recover from. If this is true why have we not already hit this runaway scenario. If we’re already in that state we’d be better of leaning into it and saving resources to deal with the changes.

Also the earth has natural feedback mechanisms to deal with higher temperatures - more clouds from increased water vapor.

Also is the runaway scenario purely a function of temperature ? If so why has the earth not locked into the runaway in the past when the earth was warmer than it is now ?

Also, all of this C02 used to be i the air ! “Fossil fuels” is compressed plant matter from millions of years ago that pulled C02 out of the air via photosynthesis, what wrong with releasing it back in? Plants are thriving all over the world due to the increased C02 levels - feedback mechanisms at work !

Obviously lets be smart and not ignore this but some people take their concerns on this issue way to far, and the cost increases are not justified let alone the fact solar panels are disposable and cost lots on energy to produce, same with batteries !
Close reading clears up a simple misunderstanding; "The only things we (Americans) allow our government to exercise that amount of control over are psychoactive drugs/plants and female reproductive rights..."
Ricin has nothing to do with female reproductive rights and isn't known to be psychoactive.
But, gun ownership clearly correlates with gun related violence (i.e. violent crime). Less guns, less violent crime.
"Have the data flow in one direction" is a good rule of thumb in writing clear Haskell code.

That said, your conversion away from $ changes the meaning here (in a way that doesn't typecheck, I think - remember that regular function application binds tightest whereas dollar binds loosest) and you still don't achieve your goal.

Instead, maybe

return . fromMaybe defaultPort $ readMaybe =<< maybeEnvPort

or even

return $ fromMaybe defaultPort $ readMaybe =<< maybeEnvPort

If you still don't like the dollar signs, we can parenthesize instead in two correct ways, although I don't find them more readable:

(return . fromMaybe defaultPort) (readMaybe =<< maybeEnvPort)

return (fromMaybe defaultPort (readMaybe =<< maybeEnvPort))
Nikkei Article from December 2016 mentioning 0.8 micron, while aiming for 0.35 micron in 2018. So that's it, i guess?

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Biotechnology/Minimal-fab-t...

According to wikipedia the following CPUs were built with that:

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350_nanometer

Which i think of as more than sufficient to finally being able to implement something like SCED, WAM, CHERI, Applecore, whatever in whichever way one is able to wrap his brains around it. Asynchronous, fully static?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_%26_Conway_revolution
(with MEMS(for sensing)) from scratch?

I want it all! I want it NOW!
Apple Blackballs Popular Crypto Podcast 'Off the Chain' Without Warning
its almost like the NSA designed all programming languages to insure that it would be impossible to make a perfect program
Binary means there can only be two answer. For example, yes or no, true or false, and truth or dare are binary questions. Thus, I think you meant either less binary or analog.
What on earth does "per capita square mile" mean?
I’m not sure I understand your point. The surgery was done in a private hospital and paid for by a private health insurance company. It certainly points out that care in the U.S. is too expensive, but I’m not sure how it indicates a single payer system is the best course of action. The doctor was also paid 3x the Medicare rate which sounds like a good thing to me. Am I missing something?
there's a group sex app? brilliant!
Speaking of which, does anyone know where (in the US) I can safely dispose of ferric chloride, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid? I used to etch my own boards years ago. And ever since then the spent stuff just sits in glass jars in a double plastic box in my garage. I don't etch anything anymore, and it's taking up space.
Ouch, it has been so long that I have forgot about this. Add this to your emacs init script somewhere:

(add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook 'turn-on-haskell-indentation)

It is also not compatible with older versions of intero and haskell-mode, so if you have old configuration there, you may want to remove it.

Honestly, it's even weird this isn't on by default.
I’ve seen this issue at many “engineering” focused companies where many people write their own DSLs. for CSS in particular there are many people who just hate it and come up with many ways to not write it.

CSS however is very much like drawing rather than engineering. Some aspects are just not scalable. You can draw many things in vector by conbining shapes for example but a pen or pencil is still very necessary for many parts of both exploratory creation as well as something polished.

The same goes for HTML and Javascript to an extent. While it’s great to build railroad tracks, you can’t take a train everywhere... any abstraction has to also have the ability to easily break out of it to handle edge cases. Clean and Pure abstractions almost never have the grittiness necessary to reflect a fractally complex problem.
It weighs around 400lbs. Pushing it over is not something most would be capable of. Were they successful, It has omni-directional vision, and undoubtedly that information is sent to the cloud almost immediately, so this seems like a bad strategy.
What? Just throwing in some "systems thinking buzzword" is not a real argument.

I'm not aware we have definitive evidence that Theranos was intended to be a scam all along. So if it wasn't then it was intended to make it, no? Naturally, you can say that there was a tipping point, when they started to do the scam more than anything else. But that's not exactly the fault of the investment model, nor the fact that there's a big push to get microscale labs, because currently there's no consensus about it's impossibility (quite the contrary, though it's obviously quite a big challenge), so it makes sens to invest into a company that tries to do it.

Now, being inside and compromising one's integrity for paychecks is a different matter. On the one hand there are people in hard situations that change their thinking - but it's unlikely that qualified people were stuck there against their better wishes. On the other hand trying to get investors to choose you when every other company is also doing their very best to convince the investors leads to the usual fucked up borderline-lies / overpromises / demos (see also ghettotesting, see also MagicLeap.

I'm not trying to advocate somehow "overlooking" Theranos' misdeeds. I'm simply stating the obvious, that there was a chance. (After all, they got the money, the people, the vision. I also don't condone how they got the money, even if, as I mentioned, it's hard to get money while honesty is not exactly rewarded.)
This is completely fucking insane. I'd like to say, "As a former camp counselor, I think this is completely fucking insane" but whatever authority I might have on the subject has nothing to do with it.
I promise you I am not trying to be absurd. Absurdum is flying you and your doctor 3000 miles away because the _ancillary_ cost savings make it a rational, no brainer decision.

I'm trying to look at the factors that build up this reality and see other ways to zag through it. My hypotheticals, properly evaluated, would take into consideration the expected quality of inmate care. You might notice by tone that I grabbed onto it as an idea more gingerly than enticing a doctor with waivers and cookies to cut me open in my living room.

Lawyers are the only thing that might possibly make that one not a winner in my way of grading. Prison requires a whole new calculus.

The situation is BAD. I have a vested interest in this. My consulting career was great for the people that live with me. Unfortunately, my abjectly poor father in-law needs a heart transplant, insulin, and much else.

Taking the system for granted, It's a shame I like him so much. Now I need to find a full time salaried position that's remote or in my area. My stochastic income can't be relied upon anymore, a life is on the line. I'm doing my best, but it makes me pretty angry to be in this position.

A remote position specifically would be great, then I could make sure this guy gets to spend his final years (months?) without financial stress living next to his daughter... I'll take any interview, I'm pretty good at most software engineering... React/Nodejs/C#/WPF/ASP/PHP/Python/Unity/GLSL/HSL/C++.

Fuck the U.S. healthcare system.
Because other wavelengths were probably already taken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
(Black is not a wavelength but rather the absence of visible light, e. g. it has all been absorbed)
Having had a number of surgeries in my life, I do care that my surgeon is well-trained. But I care even more about the anesthesiologist.
I don’t know why people find black mirror so interesting- isn’t it just a humdrum depiction of how things are these days?
The US doesn’t have a free market healthcare system, it has some corrupt charade where aspirin can cost $300 and seeing a doctor in an ER for 2 minutes can cost $3,000.
there's several UK power stations that are legally required to run at less than full capacity due to EU's large combustion plant directive (+ other later directives)

after leaving: in the event of a serious short term problem they can be spun up relatively easily until extra (better) capacity can be brought online
This reminded me of the classic xkcd story of the dedicated sysadmin: https://xkcd.com/705/
In Florida they have a boat that goes out to international water, drops anchor, and lets everybody gamble for the day.[1] Perhaps we aren't too far off from Norwegian Cruise Knee Surgery and Holland America Hip Replacements.

[1] https://victorycasinocruises.com/day-cruise-central-florida/
The New Lion King trailer style transformed to resemble the animated version
Maybe we could run it similarly to the government-run air traffic control system, which is superb.

“Government” doesn’t have to mean “incompetent and inefficient.”
In this case, the solution is easy. The user most likely already has an account, so just ask for the account password. If the users claims they lost the password, then do a classic password recovery via email.

Of course it's tricky for organizations storing data about users without an account. (eg. Facebook or Google, not sure how they could handle that at all, even with government ids)
That's cool, but your [1] seems to say that the machine uses a wafer 12.5 mm in diameter, which is is probably less area than any of the CPUs in your [2].
Cash is still lacking a calculator feature, and I've had some problems sending money to people where it just errors out with no explanation. I wouldn't call it flawless. You can mostly ignore Venmo's public feed if you want to.

This piece sounds like an advertorial, and these artists are almost definitely being paid to mention Cash App.
But you inadvertently reinforce the point I am trying to make.

There is no way to reason about the code without actually running it. You can not read the code and understand what it's going to do.
No, they were always accused of rape, murder or something substantial. Read the article I posted above. I suspect that in some cases, they were correct in their accusations. That being said, I don't believe in the death penalty for a lot of reasons, not least of which is this tendency of humans to seek "justice" with often little evidence at all.
Google says Assistant reminders are no longer supported for G Suite users
We have pretty good doctors down here too, why the need to fly one form the USA other than prejudice?
Is it a default setting that it's public or do you have to go out of the way to do that?
Only the last bit to your house or apartment is 110v. That doesn't make it more or less fragile, it just means you need more amps and correspondingly more wire in the final hop to the customer.
Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
I have noticed recently, after switching to Firefox, that a lot of Googles stuff doesn't work with Firefox. Most resent example is downloading attachments in Gmail. In FF clicking the download attachment button cause the Google servers to basically not respond for at least a few minutes before it would finally allow me to grab the file.

It strikes me that instead of the old motto of "Don't Be Evil" Google is now implementing the new motto of "Be Evil All The Time". Very disappointing.
How does one find any hope in a system like this?
Comparing urban and rural and using per-capita numbers is a fallacious argument. You must control for land area. For example a square mile that is labeled “urban” vs square mile labeled “rural” the numbers per-capita tilt homicides way in favor of urban areas... and its not even close.

https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-u...
> I think part of the reaction here is the very idea of a horse. A horse! On a plane.

I got the impression that people were glossing over the details and assuming that it's just an extreme example of airlines being required (if at all--lots of misconceptions abound) to unquestionably accept people's eccentric, ridiculous, and [arguably] illegitimate accommodation requests, such as the recent peacock incident that made the rounds.

Granted, the news reporting has done an exceptionally poor job at distinguishing service animals from therapy animals, and the sources of and justifications for various regulations and policies. But the ambiguity and seeming absurdity is precisely what caused me to dig further and discover that miniature horses are distinguishable. But that only leads to even more questions.
Unclear - c.f. Monkey and terry cloth mother studies.
If you’re gonna downvote, prove me wrong first !