skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"That's just the way things are"

Unfortunately, that's what it comes down to in practice.

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It really comes down to insurance companies. Some doctors are switching to private pay only (i.e. you pay out of pocket). This allows them to operate much more closely to a traditional business, like auto repair or general contracting. They have easily itemized costs for materials and a standard labor rate.

When insurance comes in, absolutely all of that goes out the window.

* Insurance never wants to commit to exact costs. Doing so removes their leverage to minimize bills.

* You remove the incentive for high efficiency (which simply becomes an issue in every aspect of health care).

* Patients never even attempt to shop around for costs.

* Patient satisfaction scores are completely at odds with billing efficiency. You either do too much to minimize visits or risk loosing money if you choose to tackle something iteratively.

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In general, I think the entire health system would be drastically better if health insurance took the approach of automotive insurance. Insurance is only for catastrophic events. Standard care and maintenance is an expected cost that comes out of pocket.
This seems a lot more like a complaint about your libc than about DoH. But the response to that complaint would likely be "give it time".
I don't understand how these people are supposed to re-integrate.

You commit a crime...cool, we are going to send you to a boarding school for criminals, where you are subjected to a ton of violent behaviour, that is heavily structured and limiting on your freedom...and in twenty years (or whatever), you are going to come out and be expected to be like everyone else...okay...

It would be interesting to ask how the behaviour of those who work in these institutions is effected by this environment...if this is the case then it is clearly non-rational to believe that people in that environment 24/7 are going to be fine after they come out.

(I don't have a solution to this either...just a chimp throwing peanuts from the gallery).
This has been my lived experience with DevOps since I was first subjected to it ~2014. In a word, depressing, yes.

I've been fighting to maintain full control over a few of my teams applications, because I refuse to let the juniors and intermediates, who weren't lucky enough to gain full-stack experience, live in a world where they don't understand how these applications and services, etc..., _actually_ operate in production environments. But I'm losing ground all of the time. Management, emphatically, _does not care_.
I thought this was total magic in high school until my college's intro to probability class discussed this before the midterm. I guess maths progression in college can be fast.
Maybe so, but my experience is that the "ops" people don't want to be "devs". As other posters have said they do want to be integrated with design choices that will affect them, and many times they do write non trivial code that keeps these complex systems on their feet.
Should I take this to mean it was light work? Lucky you.

But not the same as a janitor's.
Why would Google suffer? Google News runs no ads and makes no money.
Good, but your e-mail provider can still see it. And be forced to eavesdropping.

Back in '90s I used a nym e-mail to receive e-mails anonymously and with no traces.

In a few words - e-mails are encrypted with your PGP key and posted to Usenet groups, where you scan all messages and extract only those signed&encrypted with your key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonymous_remailer

Yep, there are 1000 and 1 method of communicating securely. Governments are just using this as an excuse to wiretap popular messaging services for general surveillance.

Unless they'll get away with making everyone dumber, they shall fail.
c02 emissions per captia (metric tons):

France 4.57

United Kingdom 6.50

Germany 8.89

USA 16.49

Brazil 2.59

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?view=map

>making environmentally sound decisions myself/encouraging others

It looks like the Brazilians are doing a better job at that than you are. All I'm trying to say here is we aren't really in a position to wag the finger at anyone. Least of all the people of Brazil.
> I don't think there is such a thing as a special exception to copyright law given to one website.

An example of an exception obtained by the internet archive:

https://archive.org/post/82097/internet-archive-helps-secure...
> * "Security Check" - Airport style security everywhere even on the subway.

Those were installed for the Olympics in 2008, I believe, when they feared terrorist attacks with foreign victims tarnishing their image. Nowadays they're still manned, but more security theater. I got all kinds of questionable stuff through the scanner, including an induction stove and a kitchen knife. No one ever bothered to take a closer look.

> * Cartoons - Authoritarianism was wrapped up and packaged with cute police cartoons

Police ≠ Authoritarianism. Most Chinese police officers are just doing completely ordinary police work.

> * Police everywhere. Literally everywhere

Sounds like you literally never left the touristy areas. China has fewer law enforcement personnel per inhabitant than most Western countries and heavy presence is limited to only a few important spots, like tourist attractions.

> * I saw a a mosque surrounded by security cameras. They didn't even hide its surveillance.

I've never seen a mosque without security cameras in Western Europe either. Mosques are prime targets for all kinds of hate crimes, so they're obviously going to use surveillance to protect themselves.

> * I was watched everywhere, except the great wall - but I was told cameras are being constructed there too. The feeling I had was like being in the forest of District 12 of the Hunger Games, I felt free there.

Next time you're in China, try taking the subway to somewhere out in the periphery and then just walk in a random direction for an hour or so. You're going to see a China that is much less surveilled, without police; a China that is dirtier, poorer and in a way more honest than what you see if you just tick off the famous tourist spots. You'll still be watched, of course; not by cameras, but by ordinary Chinese citizens who don't get to see a foreigner everyday.
This was a practice problem I remember from when I was studying for Exam 1/P, one of the qualifying exams for actuaries.

https://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-exam-p-detail.asp...

https://www.casact.org/admissions/syllabus/index.cfm?fa=1syl...
"Computer Janitor"
Supported ad networks:

https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-ad/#supported-a...
“Anti-Solar Panel” Could Generate Power from Darkness
> Unless they'll get away with making everyone dumber, they shall fail.

This is not how it works. As long as enough people are not bothered, they will succeed.
Replacing existing taxes on real estate with a Land Value Tax is probably the best way, tax-wise, to address the situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
It's a biological fact that's recognized in our having a separate system for juvenile and adult defendants. We can't leave it behind, it would be cruel and unusual.
Are you saying this out of theory or experience? Anecdotally as a user I can tell you that when I see a compelling snippet, I am more likely to click, not less.
No surveillance without a warrant.

If you do not know what you are specifically looking for you should not be looking.
The problem is that no one reviews what goes in the package registries. Unless someone spots the security issue it goes unnoticed and unfixed. Particularly true with new and not very popular packages.

To be fair to the author though this package won't take more than a couple of hours review quickly for potential back doors and if you just want one data structure it's at most in 3 files.
In reality what's happening is a conflict between the security goals of network operators and those of end-users. Vixie, who runs a company that provides security services based on passively observing DNS, believes DoH sacrifices the security of networks in favor of end-users, and he's right. But:

1. In most situations, the end-users are the ones that matter; the cart shouldn't drag the horse.

2. In situations where that doesn't hold, serious security teams already exert direct control (via MDM and endpoint security) over end-systems anyways; why should anybody give anything up to make things easier for enterprises who are just a bit concerned about security, but not enough to take responsibility for endpoint security?
Highly dependent upon context, I suppose. If you came forward to break an otherwise improbable or cold case, I could imagine that would warrant consideration.

Of course someone could sing to save their skin, and in doing so lie.

It’s a balance of incentives, I suppose? This is why we have a human system of law, not an algorithm.
Google Threatens with New Colonies
I think oh_sigh means capturing it when it is entered?
I'm not really into the jail breaking / free software / right to repair side of this issue. I'm more interested in jailbreaking iOS devices because I believe they are incredible alternative to Raspberry Pi. If you consider how cheaply you can find a used iPhone 4S and what it's capable of, vs. a Raspberry Pi (as much as I love them) the engineering of the iPhone SOC really becomes stark in comparison. I'd rather be writing Swift code and loading it onto an iPhone.

I believe an old iPhone could potentially make for a great DIY drone mainboard/controller.
The fight for power has this unavoidable conclusion. The saying that “knowledge is power” is more true than I think most people realize. He who knows the most holds all the power. It doesn’t matter who is in power or what their beliefs are - they would eventually have to resort to these tactics or risk losing their foothold. Those who don’t or can’t afford to will be overrun.

We dislike it even though we would be forced to do the same thing in their position. We dislike it because we aren’t the ones in power. Again, as it goes in the jungle, life isn’t always fair.
Land owners want to build higher density, increasing supply, lowering price. The government prevents high density, decreasing supply, increasing price.
The cartel comes from the fact of how much wealthy landlords control local governments, who then make it onerously difficult to build the amount of housing that is actually needed. I don't know if this is the case in Vancouver but it is absolutely the case in California, with its absurd cases of a run-down laundry mat being declared a "historical property" to block redevelopment.
My questions to people who say they have nothing to hide:

- what are the things you and your significant other are doing in the private of your house?

- which co-worker do fantasize about, be specific in what you like to do.

- As teenager what legal/illegal drugs did you consume. How often did you pass out, who where the people you consumed these drugs with?

- What are your political leanings?

- How much do earn, where are your savings invested in.

- Which illnesses do you currently have, which exist in your social circle.

- what private information was shared with you by other parties. Are you aware of any wrong doings/illegal activity by other people? Be specific esp. friends and family.

Be aware that I will share this information with anyone in your social group/work/volunteering work whenever I feel like it. I may also share this data with extremists groups on the other side of the spectrum, if helpful. Lastly I can use this data to fabricate "helpful" information about you if necessary. Thank you.
Another example is the Visual Artists Rights Act. You may own the painting, sculpture, etc., but you are not allowed to modify or destroy it.
Researchers question Census Bureau’s new approach to privacy
I have, and read, a book on awk (the AWK programming language, by guess-the-initials) and didn't see the point. If I need regexes I have emacs. For CSVs I use excel or LibreOffice.

It has been a while so could someone remind me why awk is so fab? Perhaps it's just I've never met the right use case to make me fall in love.

Sorry if it's a dumb question. TIA
Test files that were not shipped to customers...
Arrogance and Complacency Threaten America’s Superstar Cities
If MD's controlled billing, they'd absolutely be able to answer. You see this with doctors that have switched to entirely cash pay. They can provide quotes and estimates much like automotive maintenance or general contracting.
It's really about much more than just the dead baby. For me, the headline wasn't click bait. The obvious inference was "dead baby."

It's actually a really interesting Case Study in Serial Hidden Pregnancies.

There's a lot of data out there on hidden pregnancies. I've read a number of such stories.

My general impression is that they are typically a one time event for someone really young who comes from a conservative environment, such as a Catholic family. The event seems to frequently spur personal changes that prevent future incidents.

They make a break with the conservative social circle they come from; or they get educated about birth control; and/or they feel burned, stop drinking, stop sleeping around and become more conservative and preachy than anyone else.

What's very unusual here is she continued to successfully hide pregnancies, even after having a fallout with her Catholic family. She didn't become a serial killer either. She gave up at least two children for adoption.

It's a strange case because she basically is a woman who had many lovers over the years. That's much more typically male behavior.

Men fairly often pick up women randomly and may have no idea how many children they fathered on one-night stands. Women usually can't manage to get away with that or, if they do, it's because they are infertile and incapable of becoming pregnant.

This is one of the elements of Mae West's life. She couldn't have children.

My sister had serious fertility problems. I had my first baby unexpectedly at age 22 and never managed to have a real career. My sister ended up with a real career and finally had her only child in her mid thirties after years of intervention.

She read extensively on related topics. She concluded that infertility was a root cause of serious careers for some women, herself included. She once said if things had been different, she could see having four kids. But they weren't.

So what's strange here is this woman wasn't privileged. She didn't have the money to support a large brood. She took a long time to distance herself from her conservative family. She wasn't infertile.

Yet she kept drinking and sleeping around. And she sometimes successfully hid the resulting pregnancies.

Following her death, relatives are still trying to piece together the full story. There remains at least one hidden pregnancy unaccounted for according to the records they've been able to find.
I'm not sure what you mean by "delayed". Retrieving it from a web service might be delayed, but if you've got a radio receiver on the ground it's going to be pretty close to real-time. Plus, since they don't turn on a dime, doing motion prediction would be pretty straightforward.
Why does Google News exist? If it's to keep people using a Google property, that has value. If it's to build profiles of user interests, that has value. If it's for goodwill, that also has value.

Google believes it receives some sort of value out of their News service even if that value isn't directly in the form of advertising payments.
Narrow hm? In my experience as sre-swe I had to debug and write patches for kernel issues, networking issues (l3,l4 and l7), various OS issues (related to fs, cgroups, memory management), then there’s orchestration (scheduling, upgrades), safety/reliability and various configuration tooling which I had to write in Python, C++ and Go (not to mention half a dozen or so DSLs). Then there’s incident response skills for oncall.

It is much more broad than when I was an embedded dev with only one job - to make some driver work on a different architecture.
In what state(s) do governors decide parole? Typical parole boards exist for this purpose.
Not sure it applies to a disputed debt. Otherwise I could bankrupt any (non-billionaire) person by just claiming they owe me a billion dollars and then "forgive" them. And then I could get a billion-dollar tax write-off. I am pretty sure IRS is not that insane to fall for such a scheme. Though maybe with hospitals it works, it's a bizarro world there.
You mean GPL -> "Free, but..."
imho, a myriad of ios won't have the same Linux support which rasperry pi's enjoy.
Testing is basic in devops/SRE. How are you going to ensure reliability if you cannot test the shit out of it?

The issue is there’s no formal tool or practices for testing in ops. DSL languages are limited forcing you to use several for different kind of scenarios. At the end you need to rely in a real programming language to parse different format files and ensuring your variables are correct.
I think developing software for operations is exciting which is going to mature with time. Kubernetes(and its CRD) is a step forward
>I don't think it's unreasonable to say all participants in a crime that leads to a murder, even if the participant didn't personally kill someone, are equally guilty.

I do. A murder verdict requires action, effect, and malice. How can you prove murderous intent if the defendant didn't personally deliver a lethal blow? His actions might not have intended death. We punish different degrees of homicide differently because they presume differing threats to society.
There are really smart and empowered people just waiting for really dumb but empowered people to make the move that opens the path to constant mass surveillance.
Given that Priti Patel is involved it probably is nothing like what's being described. She's exactly the sort of politician who thinks that mathematics can be redefined by a policy statement on TV.
>DoH sacrifices the security of networks in favor of end-users

I agree, if you are considering the approach of just using an arbitrary DoH server. But I think it would be nice if people would at least acknowledge that this is not a fault of DoH. One could envision a future where local DNS servers could support DoH. I don't know how far away from reality this is, though.

If this is somehow a fault of DoH, I apologize for my misunderstanding. I admittedly haven't read the full standard.

>serious security teams already exert direct control (via MDM and endpoint security) over end-systems anyways

Thank you, this is precisely what I was thinking.
After having done a rotation in the dev ops world, I find their lack of design and architecture really disturbing. Services are implemented without edge cases considered. Their tools are some hacked together monster using flavor of the month and some old tech stacks. Unit and system tests aren't written, or if they are, they don't test any edge cases whatsoever. It's hard to test anything locally and most testing is done in test or even prod (Seriously). Documentation is almost non-existent and the implementations of services such as Chef don't follow chef documentation or best practices. Logging is usually non-descriptive and applications written by the ops teams will fail with cryptic errors which they know by heart but make no sense.

"Oh that nil pointer exception on line 53? Yeah that means you don't have IAM permissions".

In short, the ops world lacks what most software engineers would consider basic engineering practices. It really feels like that entire world is just a hackathon project. I know there are some very talented engineers on ops teams. It's just the impression I got from 6ish month rotation.

Rant over, this just touched a nerve.
There is a much simpler explanation for that, silver in water. I assume that all the case is environmentally, not genetically related, or that the history is just fake.
"Free market" is supposed to mean "free from rentiers", i.e. exactly what this does not describe.
Really, I always looked at it the other way around: Docker makes devs take responsibility for their dependencies, they can't say "well, it works on my machine."

Add one of the many decent Docker analysis tools and you even have the devs worrying about outdated packages and security vulns.
The Rust type system made me understand why you want to have one.

It boils down to beeing able to catch as many bugs as possible in compile time and a good type system allows you to move whole classes of rules into that space.

So when you try to use that variable wirh the wrong type in the wrong place it will notify you before deployment. This can be extremely reassuring and allows you to code more freely because it makes it harder to break things accidentally in a bad way.
Well, like most of what he's saying also applies to lots of places I felt safe and free in. Like Japan has police (non-threatening) everywhere, requires you to carry your passport with you, has cameras everywhere and yet I felt safe and free and generally anxiety free there. I was taking photos with a long lens of the subway trains! In the UK, you'd be questioned for that. In the US, I don't know. Could go any way.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak near the end was notably different. There'd be heavily armed soldiers everywhere in all black. Unexplainable trucks of soldiers going everywhere. Locals wouldn't talk about certain places. I haven't been to China myself but my parents have and we've all been to Egypt and their impression was that the big cities were pretty much like a big European city or something like New York.

If it gives you any faith that my opinion isn't some Chinabot, I still remember The Economist's Red Moon Rising issue as frightening. I just think they're probably very good at keeping the authoritarianism inconspicuous and therefore more terrifying.

I don't deny your experience but this could be one of those Rashomon like situations where we all look at the same thing and come away with a different picture. And if it wasn't actually in your face then it'll discredit any argument about China's authoritarianism when people go there and see a prosperous happy people instead.
I really hope that in the future gradual typing and dependent types can come together into an ergonomic to use system where we can let the compiler check/enforce proofs of correctness, but not require them. There's a ladder of correctness (simple type checks, unit tests, integration tests, proofs of different aspects of correctness) and each has a tradeoff vs effort. It would be really great to be about to be able to move around it without rewriting much code, but rather by adding more and more annotations as needed for your use.
The visuals look great, will play it in a bit. And wow 5000 hours-- incredible!
super cool, I second the other commentor
Also very true! My #1 choice of supervisor was pleasantly honest about that. He wasn't tenured, and after we'd met a few times to talk about maybe me starting a program with him in the fall, he told me "I've got bad news. There's a pretty good chance that I'm going to lose my position here due to funding cuts, and that would leave you without a supervisor in 8 months. We're looking at a pretty niche field, and there isn't really anyone else who could take over for the project we're talking about. Sorry, you should look elsewhere."

I still look back and would have loved to do that research, but I appreciate his honesty.
Obviously not here, but I don't care much if LE sees them.
Knowledge of encryption isn't what would be illegal, _using_ it to communicate would be illegal.
This. I run opsZero and the amount of CI/CD implementations I see in different infrastructures is crazy. Most code is not tested or overtly complex and every DevOps person seems to reinvent the wheel a hundred different ways.

Living in the world of Terraform, Kubernetes, and helm has been a godsend because it codifies deployments into a few buckets that removes a lot of this custom code. To be honest I’m thinking the days of DevOps may be numbered.