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Hospitals (and maybe urgent care facilities) will try very hard to prevent you from paying cash prices if you have insurance, because they will make less money. Some hospitals might even refuse to share their cash rates with you if you tell them you have insurance.

Even if you have shared your insurance with a health provider, you can pay cash prices, but you have to sign a document informing not to bill your insurance.

The best cash rates are in Los Angeles with a few hospitals that are the medicare reimbursement rates or the medicare rates plus 5%. There are also hospitals that cap surgical costs for self-payers in LA, which is can be an awesome deal. Sadly those kind of excellent cash deals do not exist in the Bay Area or San Diego.
I've always been a fan of his talks. His keynote at USENIX Security 2018 is by far the best summation of the dangers of ML that I've ever seen. It's hilarious too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
Yes, you have to set up billing for the thing with "Store" in the name. What annoys me (and the article mentions something close to it), if your card is ever declined, you can't update apps or download free stuff until you fix your card details or make sure your credit card is paid off enough to clear the declined purchase. That can be truly annoying when some apps require you update just to use them.

I am not sure this warrants it being called a "nightmare". I like the rest of it, personally.
The amount of carbohydrates you need in your diet to survive is exactly zero. They’re a non-essential macronutrient.

The amount of glucose you need in your blood stream to keep everything running smoothly is a very small amount easily produced by your body through a process called gluconeogenesis.

I went 60 days sans any calories and my body self regulated glucose just fine.
Maybe your brain function is sufficiently impaired that you can't find the studies?

Seriously, I had an accident in March that necessitated a brain operation and left me in the hospital for over a month. The most surprising after-effect is that I can't always predict or recognize the symptoms arising from that.
Ideally I'd like a compile-time error — but that's beyond the current level of technology, so the next best thing is a crash. Having code that does unintended things is the worst-case scenario IMO. (Obviously it's the programmer's fault for providing buggy code, but that's a fault that every programmer shares. Personally, I appreciate any help in guarding against it.)
Crash, so that I actually get a reasonably high chance to notice that there is a bug during testing?

The comparison being invalid is definitely a bug; if I didn't want sorted output, I wouldn't be sorting.
But they produce twice the total emissions which is what affects the climate. And it seems to be growing at an alarming rate, while US emissions seem to be level or shrinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I am sympathetic to claims that 2FA over SMS is better than nothing, because technically it is completely true. You're right.

However, as a user, I go back to the idea that I can't think of many companies I trust to only use my phone number as 2FA and not as identity verification. So I'm am skeptical that it is good to train users to trust SMS 2FA, because those same users will probably not be able to distinguish between 2FA and identity verification when they sign up for other services. It is better to teach users a simple rule (never give out your phone number) than a complex rule (only give out your number for this specific use-case).

The other big thing I just can't get past is that nearly everyone today has a smartphone that will run a 2FA app, and that even users who don't have a smartphone would be better served by getting codes delivered to their email. So sure, it's better than nothing. But there are even better options that exist that aren't that hard for us to switch to.

In practice, even if you know you're only going to use SMS for 2FA, I now lean towards saying you shouldn't use SMS at all. Treat email like the backup SMS option, and just get rid of phone numbers entirely.

Maybe the dynamics of that change for some developing countries? But Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon all know what country I live in. If they want to offer an SMS option for India because of some extenuating circumstance I can't think of, they should still have the good sense to at least discourage SMS verification for accounts that are based in the USA or Europe.
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> but live in our homes for three to five years

I have a wrt54g that's 10+ years old running at my grandma's house...and running dd-wrt because no one making APs 10 years ago, and even now, was that good at security and stability.

What's telling is that the hardware is the part that still works, and I bet part of it is that software fixes are easier than hardware, so you can get away with lower quality software.
Is source code covered by copyright at all if it's never published? I thought that was the bare minimum.

If they never release the source code at all, I think we're just screwed, legally anyway. The DRM was attached to your binary or stream (or book), not the original source material. We may not like it, but I don't think it's copyright you have to worry about when it comes to closed source code.
> Is this actually true?

It kinda depends on what exactly they mean. Is it true that if you had zero glucose available in your bloodstream at all
your brain would be unable to function? Yes. Is it true that if nothing you ate contained any glucose your brain would starve? No. There's a process called gluconeogenesis which produces more than enough glucose for your brain to function no matter how few carbs you eat.
Storage is cheap, just buy another couple of hard drives.
But the Chinese government only gets upset if some says something they don't like. If they say something positive, there's no issue. And when they get upset, they lash out.

Tyrant, bully, abusive - there are many terms for that sort of relationship. Is it any wonder that someone is upset about it, and advocating that the U.S. gets out of it?
> Hunting people down and killing them is the definition of danger to society.

There is no danger to "society" here—only to violent criminals who are themselves a danger to innocent civilians. The insane part is that he was punished with 12 years in prison for doing society a favor.
I do. I don’t want sporting events, conventions, etc. to become platforms for advocacy about controversial politics.

I support non-disruptive actions like kneeling at an anthem, but advocacy about a political issue during a post-match interview streamed by the event organizer certainly crosses the line.
Most of the time I want it to crash in development and give me unsorted output in production; debugging an unhandled exception is super easy compared to debugging sometimes incorrectly sorted output. In rare cases I would also want it to crash in production. I definitely don't want it to change between the two scenarios when I update my JVM.
This was a fantastic and enlightening read, thank you.

I'm always impressed when I read about the exploits of the US Digital Service. As I understand it, they have basically no direct power. They can walk in, say "I'm here from the White House," and anything beyond that is chutzpah, effort, and nightmare-difficulty cat herding. Getting whole departments to volunteer to try a different hiring program from that humble starting point is staggeringly impressive, and I think the author's underselling it.
NBA also invested in a training camp in Xinjiang.

https://nbaacademy.nba.com/location/xinjiang/

Meanwhile, millions of Uyghurs are being imprisoned nearby in concentration camps.
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Two things I can think of is gasoline powered motorcycles aren't that much more efficient than a Prius. And a Prius seats four. I suspect the same applies when you switch to electric[1].

The other one is the injuries per mile are much higher for motorcycles. One aught to account for that as well.

Side issue: Motorcycles are terrible from an emissions standpoint. Though of course an e-motorcycle would be better.

[1] Scaling factor vs size is highly positive.
You can be targeted just for ending up in a database leak.
When you say 'refused to use' it sounds like you're saying Monica insisted on the wrong pronoun. But my understanding is that the argument was around drafting to simply avoid the use of pronouns entirely.

I've never previously seen it described as rude to write text that simply didn't use pronouns, in and of itself.
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Introducing Hunchera (https://hunchera.com) to help people do Natural Language Processing and create ML models on their spreadsheets - without requiring a data scientist or a developer.

One can do support ticket classification, customer feedback classification and other internal things automatically with a spreadsheet.

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I don’t get it. How did they get access to his other transaction data when all they’d done was trigger a password reset request?
That's a nice theory and all, but if the NBA really believes that then its representatives should stop pretending to care about free speech.
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crash so i know what a fucking stupid mistake I made and thus I can fix it :)
Interestingly, the Golang standard library has a sort in it that claims to be a stable in-place O(N log N) mergesort.
chrash, noob. Then I can fix it
Yes if the fans still wants it.
FYI getting this when I go to https://hunchera.com/waitlist/index.html

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It's crazy to me that when Microsoft does this kind of thing (via Vista), it's considered terrible but when Apple does it, the thread fills with people saying it's the best way forward.
It seems we have, in China, finally found a common enemy that both sides of the aisle can agree on condemning. The question is what actual action will be taken at the Federal level against Chinese strong-arming of US companies. To date, the tariffs have often met with opposition by most Democrats and I'm not aware of much else in the way of things done by the US government that might actually hurt China enough to rethink these kinds of actions.
If you go back over the last few thousand years, you'll see that every dynasty was overthrown by peasant revolt. It is just a matter of time.
It sounds like it didn't break code, it just revealed that a lot of code was already broken. An invalid comparison function is a serious problem, and accepting unsorted output rather than fixing the damn bug is not a good workaround.
I successfully deleted mine earlier today and did not have to present any sort of ID. "Might" stands.
It seems way better to fail with a RuntimeException than to get possibly unsorted results that cause some hideous error deeper in your application.
Phew! Thanks, you saved me an iPad.
For DLink, you're out $20-$100. What happens when Tesla is gone?
I am similar but avoid rebasing entirely in favor of squashing. Squashing can also be used to turn a messy branch into a new branch full of nice clean independent commits.

I also don't bother appending (though my GUI lets me undo the last commit if I haven't pushed which is maybe the same thing.)

Most developers get way too fancy with Git and screw something up. I use GitHub Desktop and rarely touch the command line for Git. It has a great UI for being able to just pop over and see my current changes, and easily commit just a line or two from them to make commits other people can understand.
> Ford's technique seemed to consist mainly of stand still for a while and smiling.

> After a while an animal - a deer perhaps - would appear from out of the trees and watch him cautiously. Ford would continue to smile at it, his eyes would soften and shine, and he would seem to radiate a deep and universal love, a love which reached out to embrace all of creation. A wonderful quietness would decend on the surrounding countryside, peaceful and serene, eminating from this transfigured man. Slowly the dear would approch, step by step, until it was almost nuzzling him, whereupon Ford Prefect would reach out to it and break its neck.
Please read the site guidelines. Your comment has broken them badly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> at worst some sort of astroturfer or Chinese national

That's a slur. Did you really mean it that way? Chinese people, and people with a China-related background, are welcome here. What sort of site would this be if they weren't?

People whose first language isn't English are welcome here too. Please don't use HN to attack people who are foreign to you. It's deeply against the values we're trying to practice here.
If neovim is an option to you, nvim-gdb is excellent. It also supports pdb for python debugging.

https://github.com/sakhnik/nvim-gdb
These days most people moved on from Valgrind to ASan and other sanitizers, which provide much of the same functionality with lower performance penalty.
No, I don't think so. Not really relevant tbh.
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> with the book having more detail on each technique

Based on the excerpts you can see on Amazon, not really.
I think that's a great idea (I run openwrt)

However - I have to ask - have you upgraded her dd-wrt?
You'd be surprised how much support the government has in China, among Chinese people, even if they oppress some of their people. But just because they don't hold public elections doesn't mean they do not draw their legitimacy from the people. And furthermore, if they did not have a legitimate claim to power the people of China can overthrow them, not a foreigner. They don't need the US to install a leader for them.
Have you ever checked your blood sugar on a zero carb diet? It’s far from zero.

This medication is intended to block glucose transport to cancer cells while not blocking to non-cancer cells. Even if a zero carb diet would be a good idea for a cancer patient in general, there is absolutely no chance that a zero carb diet would be equivalent to the intended mechanism of this medication because people with a zero carb diet still have plenty of glucose.
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The way I estimate this is just assume about 2 tons of CO2 per ton of steel[1]. Based on that it's hard to see a normal car requiring more than 5-6 tons of CO2 to produce.

[1] Chemical reduction dominates everything. The energy required for forming and assembly would be much less.
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Practice, challenge yourself constantly, seek mentorship, humbly request feedback and act on it, and devote your life to the craft, not your wallet or your family. I think. Read Hamming.
Those laws need to be changed because those platforms are the de facto town square and they are a public space. The fact that this public space is maintained by a company is not different a a town square maintained by a private contractor.
The virtual public space didn't exist until social networks but now it does so it needs to be treated like any other public space, doesn't matter that some private company facilitate it.
Golang Brad Fitzpatrick being attacked on his support of Hong Kong
We would need stronger consumer protection laws and regulations around defective products. My car’s manufacturer just fixed my 10 year old airbag for free, presumably not out of the goodness of their hearts but because they are required to.
This is another thing I feel uneasy about, this is just a basketball league, why does it have to force people to pick a side?
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You went 60 days without eating?
> The metadata leaks alone should lead you to conclude that this isn't worth doing

I don't buy that argument. Every time I can remember where I've wanted to use email encryption has been a situation where I was fine with the metadata leaks. E.g., it was email to someone I regularly correspond with, on a subject we regularly correspond on, at a time when we would be expected to be corresponding on this subject. It only differed from our normal correspondence in that I had one or two things I wanted to include in the body that were more sensitive than normal.
I think the point was the NBA needs to take a stance on HK itself, in support of democracy.

"We support free speech" is a cop-out, because China is happy for you to support free speech, as long as you don't say anything they don't like. It would be a stronger stance to say, "Actually, we think Morey was right", especially if it's going to cost them money to do so.
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Yes and I'm saying it's presumptuous to say that the Chinese (people) do not support their own government and want them out as much as a foreigner who is not subject to the life outside the comforts of The United States (or whatever other Western democracy).
Are these supposed to be benefits?
So if a Westerner to criticize anything in China that needs improvement, they need the cops and minders to follow them around? Even stuff that Chinese themselves criticize, like the baby formula scandal, if done by a Westerner, sets off 'glass heart' feelings.
Yeah that seems bad. If you choose low contrast fonts, reduce the contrast of photographs to the background by making them darker, etc, it's just like turning down the brightness and contrast of your whole site. If the user thinks the content of your site is still too bright with dark mode on, maybe they should turn down the brightness of their device?

By making everything on your site dark and low-contrast, the implication is that the user wants to see other things on the screen in higher contrast alongside your site, like the UI chrome. That seems unlikely - your site is the most important content that they have on the screen at that time and it should probably have the highest brightness or contrast of anything on the screen, not the lowest.
Yes, unfortunately the re-upload will take some time, but hopefully you can increase threading and get the data uploaded quickly. Understand it's not ideal, but hopefully there's not too much of a time gap between backups.
"Choose" assumes we have a choice.
See also the Charter lawsuit where it was revealed that Charter was renting very old equipment to their customers for years and didn't care.
Sure, https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/10/02/starving-cancer-cutting...
Using Little Snitch is an explicit choice. It would be weird of Apple to assume that users want to see all those messages and peek into the clockwork at the first occasion.
Both tend to pick pretty well-understood and supported SoCs. Large consumer brands are more cost-conscious and use cheaper chips with more custom work to support them, and the custom work ends up being buggier. IIRC, Ubiquiti started out by being based on OpenWRT. Not sure if they still are.
You get out your Tesla shop manual, diagnose the problem, order 3rd party replacement parts and fix your car yourself.

(wakes up from dream)

crap.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased.

> supports client side encryption, making Blackblaze not really an option for me

Just to be clear, Backblaze Personal Backup encrypts all files on the client side, period. Now by default, Backblaze has the ability to decrypt those files, but you can set a "Private Encryption Key" and then if you forget that private encryption key nobody (including you, any Backblaze employees, the NSA) will EVER read those files, they are gone.

Some people point out that you have to supply your private encryption key in order to prepare a restore, and at that moment you have to hand it over to Backblaze (for 10 seconds). But look at the work flow and think about it:

1) If you never prepare a restore, your files are uncrackable by the NSA or Backblaze, period, end of story.

2) If Backblaze's datacenter is hacked for the 3 years before you prepare a restore, nobody can read your files because it simply isn't possible, you have never provided the private encryption key to Backblaze. This is most evident for any "zero day security breach" where the world goes haywire for 24 hours and hackers gain entry into all systems everywhere. If you avoid preparing a restore in those 24 hours, your data was safe before the hack, safe during the hack, and safe after it is all cleaned up and the systems are locked down again.

3) Ok, the day comes that you need a restore -> you hand over your private encryption keys, and our servers NEVER write that to disk! They keep it in RAM, which is pretty dang hard to hack. The restore is prepared, you download it, then you can manually delete the restore! Yes, technically this opened up a 10 second or more window of vulnerability where you were only protected by our hardened systems and all of our OTHER security measures. No human ever looked at your files. The systems are all automated and billions of files are flowing around. Honestly, you're pretty safe.

4) If you have something on your computer that you will go DIRECTLY TO JAIL if it is ever discovered, then I'd highly encourage you to encrypt that in a little encrypted file at rest on your computer anyway (regardless whether or not you use Backblaze). I mean, the FBI caught that guy that ran "The Silk Road" by distracting him in the library and sliding his laptop away from him before he could close it. As long as your file is pre-encrypted "at rest" on your laptop, Backblaze can back it up and no matter what even if you prepare a restore safely. Meanwhile we can keep all your photos and music and not illegal or overly private stuff backed up conveniently for you.
I just had this exact same experience / issue the last few days.

First, the whole annoying “Backups are broken! You must manually update” pop up every 30 mins. Any time an update requires some special procedure beyond clicking “Install now”, I view it as likely a dev failure. And providing zero context about WHY makes it worse.

Then, the stupid installer fails repeatedly. Just says “installation failed, contact support”. I do and they tell me to delve into /Library and delete the backblaze files there. Feels kludgy. Are they telling thousands of customers to do this? Or is something fucked with my install? Who knows?

Then, the stupid “inherit backup” thing stalls at 50% repeatedly for hours and uses 99% of my CPU. I finally just killed it and resolved to tackle all this mess later.

Honestly, it’s making me rethink using Backblaze at all. Who knows if my backup will even be there when I need it if this is how they run things? (And yes,
I know I need to test my backups. I don’t.) I went looking for alternatives today...
Shameless plug:

A couple years ago I wrote an article about where this O(n log n) bound comes from if anyone is interested:

"Comparison Sorting Algorithms and Mystery of NlogN complexity"

https://medium.com/@kamyarg/comparison-sorting-algorithms-an...
Allow me the opportunity to also plug Gorgonia (which this books is about) - it's Hacktoberfest right now and there are many issues in Gorgonia tagged Hacktoberfest: github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia

Its contributors are quite active on Github and quite helpful - Olivier, Darrell, Gareth, Nabil, etc.
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As an investor, why should I care?
No, radix sort is worst case O(n * k). In many common cases, k ~= log(n). IN certain specific cases, k < log(n), and specifically for cases where you have a very large n, but a bounded number of values (say, you're sorting 10 billion 4-bit ints), k can be considered a constant. But that is by no means generally true.
Their actions also go against deontological ethics as well.