skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to do what a bank does, legally, you have to either be a bank or work with banks. A lot of the pain and BS involved w/ banks are legal requirements such as Know-Your-Customer and Anti-Money-Laundering and if somehow activity moves away from banks, governments are going to apply those regulations to whatever replaces them. (e.g. you can't raise taxes in 2019, but you can collect taxes that people owe but not pay -- the pressures for controlling international payments are strong and increasing.)

I don't agree that retail banks are dying. Goldman Sachs is getting into consumer services such as the Apple Card, they have a savings account. I mostly bank at a vibrant regional credit union and I own stock in a regional bank which has done well financially me as an investor as well as for the community, investors, etc. There are many entrepreneurs in retail banking who are doing interesting things as well as large and non-traditional players. (e.g. Ally Bank, which used to be GM's car lending arm)
How does buying a vibrator make someone a victim?
No, it's Python 2 that thinks those are all text. Python 3 makes you explicitly say "convert this stream of bytes into a text encoded string", and from then on it's a str object.

Python 2 was happy to (try to) let you call text methods on a JPEG. Python 3 draws an appropriate distinction between the two.
> Google is getting everything, to use for purposes beyond the patient's immediate medical needs.

That claim was never made anywhere in this whistleblower account. Furthermore, it's illegal, and anyone working with health care records knows that. You can't use the records for anything other than what was covered by the business associate contract.

It's clear from the letter that the whistleblower literally has no idea at all what's going on, so they got frightened and yelled fire, in hopes that somebody who knows more than them will come and look for a fire.

If they did about 30 minutes of research, they'd know that any person whose records are covered by this agreement has the legal right to request from Google all information about how their medical records are being used. All they'd need to do is ask 8 random people to request records from Google, and one of them might be covered. They could then find out the answer, or at least have some kind of evidence of a lack of process or oversight. They have provided none.

Multiple times in the letter they mention that the public must consent to this. There is no law requiring this, so really the whistleblower is trying to assert their own opinions about public policy, and using the veiled threat of malfeasance to get press time.

I'd expect this anonymous source to out themselves soon so they can lead some kind of public demand for more visibility (hence more regulation). Which might be good, except the HHS (which actually regulates HIPAA claims) already doesn't enforce it much at all. So it's probably just going to be used as a political tool to gain votes without actually improving people's lives.
Pretty much exactly the path I took. I truly believed Google was set to change the world for the better. I had every Nexus device (and pre-Nexus with the Magic and Dream), watched every Google move with anticipation, etc. The 6P was the last Nexus I owned -- miserable battery life and poor experience that it brought -- though I held on with Android a bit longer with the Galaxy line.

I developed several apps on the platform with the motivation that I was helping a good product thrive.

The Pixel line has always been just a sad runner-up to Apple, but always with completely deluded prices. The oft talked about "Reality Distortion Field" best applies to Google's hardware products now, where they've created a succession of miserable entrants at bizarrely unrealistic prices.

Now I'm typing on a Macbook Pro with my iPhone 11 beside it. I use gmail out of legacy inertia, but aside from that Google just is not a compelling part of my life. I once truly believed they were a super innovative company that was trying to escape their ad revenue stream. Now I believe they're a very committed ad company desperately trying to push ads further afield.
I didn't know Craiglist determined your rates and claims to own the relationship between you and your clients.
I created this anon account because I don't want to lose my job.

I work at a major hospital/university as a research engineer and, 100%, the whole system is completely broken. Using our hospital and the 10 or so other major hospitals we work with as my source, I cannot come to any other conclusion.

HIPAA is constantly touted as the reason to push more and more CYA hurdles on to the staff's day to day interactions. One of the hospital I work with has an email system where you receive a notification (via email) that you have a message from xyz@majorhospital.com, in the body is a link you have to click through to reach a "secure" portal, then you 2FA, just to read an email someone sent _you_ (with no PII).

While the system that actually handle all the PII are basically rubber stamped with no real security reviews. Prototypes I've built that should never pass a security review, regularly do and get let out into the wild. I've been screaming from the top of a mountain for years and all I ever hear back is that it would cost too much, or prolong the dev cycle, or <enter reason here>. If I counter with "I can't believe this will pass HIPAA muster," the answer is always the same: "It passed the review and that is what matters."

When that something eventually happens, we can say we went through the proper vetting with the review team and that's it, next to no liability for building crap infrastructure. Of course the security review team will say, they used an analysis software that cleared everything so it's not their fault. Finally the company that made that software will say it's not perfect, but it got certified by XYZ, and just like that the whole thing blows over.

The hospital itself is what facilitates this shifting of responsibility, they pays millions upon millions of dollars for any software claiming to securely retain and protect PII, when all to often that software isn't even in beta, let all vetted and hardened. But hey, they got some certification that the hospital can point to and say "It wasn't us." Every year there is some new thing we are supposed to do that feign interest in security, but the weakest links just keep getting weaker. No one cares about your personal information, hospitals only care that they aren't liable when your personal information getting leaked.

I literally lie to my doctor, not because I don't trust her, but because I know that it's just a matter of time before my information is out there.
This is cool and very similar to something I started working on. Does it show anything useful for NAT'd connections when using linux as a router?
It is exactly that, a small library for ui, written in ocaml, ported to a scripting language with immense amount of work, and years and years of educating people with white lies :)
There's a standalone app (if you're not on Linux) and you can sync via dropbox / wifi / rsync / whatever you like.
I agree that Big Tech is getting into the Fintech space. Fintechs won't die though, it's actually a really good thing for Fintechs.

If you've developed anything innovative in Fintech where your product or service is used by banks or financial institutions, you need 1) connections in the banking industry and 2) a long runway rate as they're some of the worst customers out there.

Alternatively, Fintechs can now sell and work with Big Tech that are open to new ideas and efficiency. This can be either as customers or acquisition.

Banks have got to be shitting their pants right now, I imagine they'll be looking at acquisition to spur innovation (hopefully), but in either case, I welcome big tech into the Fintech arena.
Also, the jet colormap.
wow, what a great way to completely avoid the massive controversy they've been trying to sweep under the rug for a couple months now.
Spread out over how many years?
Amp Robotic's robots are helping to tackle the recycling crisis
I've noticed that "military, police/fire/prison" families and some church communities like to "support our own" and buy from "locally owned businesses". I think MLMs allow people to buy what they think is a locally owned business that they believe will return dividends to their own community.

Sadly the dividends that MLMs return are mostly negative (debt, friction of social bonds, etc).
How do you avoid any fraud? Reputation. Don't send money to sketchy people.

It should be noted that Europe runs on SEPA payment system that has irreversible transactions. It's not that much of a problem.
Jump integrates with your shell and learns about your navigational habits
Corellium Sued by Apple
Is there any reason someone couldn't make an sms client that gives the option of encryption assuming the person you are conversing with was using a client following the same encryption protocol? It would require a few automated texts to exchange keys but would allow encrypted communication over sms easily.

I'm guessing there just isn't a big enough market for it given that people are willing to create an account with WhatsApp to get the same thing.
How much commission did CL made from these gigs you did?
This would be a better link to have the article reference.
I wish I could "give you gold" or at least upvote your comment a thousand times!
Is that with or without energy storage you'd need for the wind turbines? Does the estimate account for the fact that building a large number of nuclear plants means dramatically cheaper unit cost?
In my experience, the biggest issue that I face is "what do you mean by Python 3?" I count 4 minor versions which aren't fundamentally broken, and I encounter them all on a regular basis.

A lot of my code is performance critical, and, for example, I'm still salty about dictionary operations taking O(log(n)). But the proliferation of active minor versions makes it very difficult to write portable, performant code.

It's become a sticky wicket. I want to migrate to Python 3 (and, by and large, I have in most of my projects). But what version do I target? Will my dependencies make the same choice? Or does "migration" turn into a sisyphean task? It's becoming burdensome enough that I'm contemplating abandoning the language for something more stable.
I am really curious how they arrived at any of the numbers in this article. Seriously, what other large employers make it to hundred plus million per year? Are they just up and deciding that anyone who did one trip is now an employee? Is there a source that shows how much each company pays per year in this state? who else is equivalent?

this isn't about protecting the drivers, this is about protecting the taxi industry and metropolitan mass transit unions both of which were under threat of better service being offered at lower costs both to tax payers as a whole as well as customers. you don't have to like Uber to understand what this is really about. It is protecting the current gravy train the politicians rely on to stay in office.

edit:

https://www.njbia.org/get-njbias-tax-changes-for-2019/

Unemployment Insurance, New Jersey Workforce Development and Health Care Subsidy Fund Taxes

> Employee and employer state Unemployment Insurance tax rates will apply to the first $34,400 of an employee’s earnings in 2019 (up from $33,700 in 2018).

> For 2019, employees are subject to a 0.0425% (.000425) Workforce Development Partnership Fund tax rate. The employee Unemployment Insurance tax rate remains at 0.3825% (.003825) of taxable payroll.
I mean, not with that attitude
This year I travelled for a few months working, here is the summary of every city I've been:

- Barcelona: Pricy, very modern, cool people, lots of events and things to do.

- Canary Islands (Las palmas gran Canaria / Santa Cruz Tenerife): Cheaper than Barcelona, cool people, fewer events but you can surf, dive and hike all in the same day. Don't know how English friendly it is since I also speak Spanish but there is a lot of ex-pat/tourist all year long.

- Zagreb: Average to cheap, nice city. I dint socialize a lot since I was working like mad at this time. People may be more distant than other places but nothing crazy you can still make friends. Reality English-friendly. Best public transportation of any Balkan city I've been.

- Sarajevo: Pretty cheap, don't even think about going here in winter unless you like -20 degrees Celcius. Small city, bad infrastructure but still nice, really walkable. If you go here go to the coworking HUB387 and tell them Elian from Argentina send you haha. In that coworking, I met so many people, the main reason why I would go back.

- Belgrade: Pretty cheap, nice city, like Sarajevo but bigger and with more stuff to do. Again don't even think of going here in winter. Good nightlife and hot girls (same in all Balkan countries)

Sofia: Pretty cheap, boring in my opinion. There are some things to do like, it has many huge parks, trampoline park rock climbing places, and some other stuff, maybe stay here for a few days, more than that.

- Istanbul: Really cheap (Kebab + chips + small coke = 1 to 1.5 USD, if you know were to look for), summer is pretty hot. People are good but some of them may try to trick you to sell something more expensive, but it's not a huge deal. Pretty safe also. Nice because it's pretty different, also you can meet a lot of people from some very strict Islamic countries (Marrocco/Irak/Iran) and talking to them and listening to their lack of freedom and stuff will make you appreciate a lot more your country. Prepare to walk a lot and with lots of ups and downs. It's very noisy and chaotic, personally would not like to live here but it still pretty nice. Not so English friendly, less than the other places I mentioned.

- Berlin: Expensive, still my favourite place, a million things to do, millions of historical thing happen there, people from all over the world, international events/conferences. Expensive but really really REALLY good and reliable public transport. Very English friendly, also bike-friendly.

- Dresden: Expensive, nice to see a more german city, since there are not so many immigrants/ex-pat. Do be scared of the news about nazi emergency or right-wing extremist, the media its been pretty alarmistic. The most bike-friendly city I've been to.

Hope you find it useful!
Well hang around long enough and you might see some of that ... but yeah broadly speaking the experience is a lot more stable; you cant take chances with your phone ...
I'm not sure why people think that drivers for Uber & Lyft shouldn't be treated as "contractors". I know I'm in the minority on this, but to me it seems that you can jump in and out of employment with Uber & Lyft quite easily, to the point that it does seem more like contract work.

As an anecdote, I took a Lyft to the airport with someone who had stopped driving for 6 months in order to get started with a new full time job, and had just started driving again to pick up a little more cash on the side. No full time employer would tolerate a 6 month break to start up another job, and then allow you to come back.
No problem, the tutorial was great and the code-surfer package looks great. Keep up the good work!
That seems silly and preposterous. There's no shortage of lithium. There is a shortage of manufacturing capacity of finished products. That's where the squeeze comes in. Batteries is the current limitation in production capacity. There's also not enough demand to be mining existing lithium supplies, just like there is not enough demand to do us mining of rare earth materials.

On the npr program I listened to about Bolivia this morning, it seemed to be the previous president had basically violated the constitution by running again. Which is separate from the process by which a new president is chosen.
Python has warts, but IMHO it's weird to identify valid design choices, with pros and cons on each side, as "warts".

If I were listing Python warts, I'd point to things like single-element tuples (1,), the `datetime` support (timezone-naive datetimes are an ambiguous disaster), or the cpython Global Interpreter Lock.
Ask HN: Refuges for Focus
I have a tradition that I do at least once (and ideally twice) a year.

I go somewhere far away where I have the ability actually code or write or whatever I need to focus on.

As an example, I am on my fourth trip right now to Spain, and specifically, to a very small town on the Atlantic called Conil de la Frontera. I have a AirBnB here that I love and that is super affordable out of season (like now: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19446417).

What makes this city and stay great for me is that 1) the place has great WiFi and is very comfortable (indoor and outdoor workspaces) so I am super productive, 2) the town has great and inexpensive food so I don't have to cook, and 3) it has kilometers and kilometers of beach, so when I get tired or face a hard design challenge, I go walk until I am ready to focus again or have solved the design challenge in my head.

I've done this with other folks and solo and both have been great. I am just amazed how much I can get done and how much higher quality my work is on these focus weeks.

Do other people have places like this that they'd like to share? Or alternative approaches to get to the same result?
Couldn't agree more -- I have limited time in my life, time I don't want to spend maintaining absolutely every service I use. Very happy to pay someone else to build good software and make the pain go away.
As far as the older androids I'm talking about I'm pretty sure that they didn't have the camera open 24/7 because the battery drain would have been even higher( based on my perception when taking a lot of photos), plus the camera used to overheat so I would have noticed. What I'm saying is that they are probably datamining and processing something. Not sure what that would be, but android at least is pretty pervasive with it's app permissions and used to be even more so so it could be anything on the phone really.
An interesting coincidence, because right now I'm reading Anti-Oedipus, where Deleuze & Guattari argue against (nowadays ubiquitous) neurotic dependency on professionals, against capitalist society based on segregation with exclusion, and in favor of reversing the relationship between man and its machines -- they call this process of reversal "desiring-revolution" and IIRC explicitly mention Illich's concept of "deschooling" as one of the inspirations.

The book itself is hard as nails to read, and at times either reeks with militaristic tones (from Guattari) or derails into fart jokes over psychoanalysis, but, all in all, is a very, very worthwhile and inspiring read (esp. then authors peruse concepts from dynamic systems theory, cybernetics and biology). I hope to finish it ASAP and move on to Thousand Plateaus, which, according to some comments, is a more thought-out and balanced (i.e. pure 50/50 hybrid between Deleuze and Guattari, instead of Guattari interspersed with Deleuze) version of Anti-Oedipus.

Maybe some of you will find this reference useful.
I use this project, but calling it 'fully functional' is quite a leap.
Forget building my own React, I want to build how you did the presentation! It’s a great concept!
That may be the case, looking into it again. I might have been mislead by Apple's proprietary marketing terms for their screen (what the hell is "retina" anyway?)

Not gonna lie, Apple's phone models confuse me.
I'm sure that for the right money you can find someone.

Don't forget that that person/organization would not only have to maintain python but also all the packages that you will be used.
I bought an RX 5700 XT almost immediately after launch, and I can't say that I've had had much luck with RDNA/Navi. I experienced freezes/crashes in Windows 10 while gaming, and the card's hot, loud, and still unsupported by ROCm for compute on Linux. There are rumours that ROCm won't ever support this generation of Navi and is waiting on Arcturus[1]. The drivers still aren't there and support is limited outside of some gaming use. Reviews also appear relatively mixed on Amazon.

That said, even though perf-per-watt isn't great and that's usually my #1 concern, I still buy primarily AMD GPUs and suffer with the issues, as the NV CUDA/DL monopoly needs a counterweight. I'm just sitting on Vega until Arcturus.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-R...
Google Assistant Relay
Yes, that was my take on the paper.
Most (?) of people brush before bed and after they wake up (before breakfast).

I also brush after breakfast, but this is kinda of common knowledge so I'm surprised you don't seem to know it.
It's almost impossible for Illinois to raise new taxes. People are already fleeing the state at an impressive rate, and any tax increase will only amplify the death spiral.

We will be leaving in approx six months after having lived here for all my 48 years.
The doc seems specific to Amway. Perhaps this clause:

> 72. Amway, the Direct Distributor or the sponsoring distributor will buy back any unused marketable products from a distributor whose inventory is not moving or who wishes to leave the business. (RX 331, p. 17­B to 18­B; CX 847; CX 1076) The buy­back rule has been in existence since Amway started. (CX 1041­ J) Amway enforces the buy­back rule. (CX 847; Brown, Tr. 5012­13; Bortnem, Tr. 686, 690; Soukup, Tr. 913)

In any case I would not be surprised in the least if your upstream told you to pound sand if you tried to return unsold product, regardless of legal precedent. You have to decide if it is worth your time and money to sue them.
Not really. The left tends to oppose government restrictions, as opposed to the center and center-left (liberals).
>JS manages to do that just fine

How do you define just fine? It's taken us many years to migrate EMCA versions only to have multiple incompatible runtimes.

And JS "The good parts" is like 1/10 of the full language so often it feels like a lot of pile on.

>as does Java

How are them generics?
It requires parallel testing to make sure the files you've "future-proofed" aren't accidentally un-future-proofed by later commits.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21529692
Most likely not but GP was asking about leakage so hence the links
How many times is this going to get posted on HN?
Just started using this last week. If you use terraform, it hooks in very nicely, too: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/guides/custom-se...
Welcome to America, where we neither practice true Capitalism nor true Democracy contrary to widespread opinion.
I was under the impression that bremsstrahlung losses were the main barrier to breakeven in fusor-like devices. Is this not susceptible to that?
Are there porn-friendly payroll providers?
If Racket had a declarative UI DSL, I'd be using that, but they don't.
A Slower Speed of Light (2013)
The article lists a lot of MLM companies that started on the coasts and worked inward, including pretty much every snake-oil "wellness" product supplier.
Thanks!

I'd encourage you to try Git LFS, it's a very simple extension to Git. It only takes a couple of minutes to set up if you use GitHub, and I suspect other platforms are similar :)
At a guess, people are less likely to make a fuss about fraud when they're embarrassed to admit they were trying to buy such things.
Define "mentally stable"? Deviance is a core part of the human identity, isn't it?
FWIW, I wish 'this' were explicit in C++.
The fact that they went through all that trouble makes me even more convinced that they're considering a bigger entry into search. They're dipping their toes in the water.