skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is possible and AWS has both proven that and demonstrated strategies that work well. The strong separation of regions (i.e. no automated system that manage multiple regions) is a simple technique that is very effective at reducing blast radius. There are other high availability tricks like shuffle sharding that I assume/hope GCP is already using heavily. AWS also has different tiers of services with different uptime expectations and their Tier 1 services have generally had exceptional uptime whereas the last two major GCP outages seem to have been problems in their Tier 1 services (too early to say for sure on this outage, but the widespread downstream effects make it seem likely that the failure occurred in a foundation-level service).

Although I am loathe to judge technical quality/decisions from the outside, it feels like there might be a deeper problem at play here. AWS does an excellent job of aligning development priorities with business requirements by watching availability metrics religiously (the CEO looks at availability metrics every single week) and having a pager culture where if you built it you maintain it so you're properly incentivized to build fundamentally reliable services/features. My understanding is that GCP relies on the SRE model and I question whether that is as effective as the incentive structure is far more complex.
Oracle is also attempting to solve the same problem with VirtualBox, but it's not there yet.
The updates around that time were the hardest ones send out

The people who don't want to have those hard discussions are the ones that have their startup die. People who don't reply to emails are often people who are having negative feelings they don't want to deal with.

Maybe they don't have answers and are afraid to give a status report that includes an admission that they simply don't know. Maybe they don't want to be the harbinger of bad news and are waiting until things get better.

Neither of those is a constructive response. Neither of those fixes the problem.

Avoidance tactics are usually about emotional reactions. They usually aren't actually tactical choices for effectively addressing a problem.

There are exceptions. There are times when silence is golden or when it is the least worst option. I doubt that ever applies to dealing with an ongoing relationship with your investors.

(I'm not someone with startup experience. I just know something about people.)
If they printed the mail in the end anyway, that still required paper. I'm guessing they sourced the paper locally.
You could do it all passive-aggressive like Krita: https://krita.org/en/item/first-notarized-macos-build-of-kri...

A developer who doesn't want to put any effort into gaining trust doesn't sound like someone I should allow to run non-sandboxed code on my machine anyway.
Eh, sorry, I guess we're using different definitions here. I'm not saying "Democrats aren't far to the left of where they were 25 years ago" (nor is twic saying that, I suspect).

"Far-left", at least everywhere I've seen the term used, is not relative to a previous position the same population held, but relative to the overall political spectrum. It's essentially "in the subset farthest to the left one can possibly be".

Who exactly fits into the far-left is arguable, but generally abolition of large-scale private property tends to be a requisite.
China going all-in with online university courses
I see a lot of trolling based on this rule, e.g. Amy Schumer's face being replaced would fall under this exception
CR reviews cars as appliances. Their target market is the mainstream buyer. If you're looking for a enthusiast review, they're the wrong publication.

What they do, they do well. Their reviews are consistently: "what my mom would say if she drove it".

Consumer Reports is not Car and Driver.
Two friends wanted to by a cheaper car, so their loan is now 66K?

Looks like WSJ is skirting around the issue of subprime loans made to rideshare (Uber/Lyft) drivers. lost track of the number of unhappy uber/lyft drivers I have chatted, because of the predatory nature of the incentives and car loans.

The drivers think they bought a new Camry, and while making a nice profit in the first few months. Then the incentives dry up, while principle due has barely moved. Now the predatory lender has a captive slave to make the monthly payment by giving ride, because there's a loss aversion mindset that prevents the driver from walking away.

At some point though, the drivers will realize it's not worth slaving it out for a car they don't own. With Uber losses continuing to pile up, at some point incentives will go to zero, their retention costs will go up, drivers will get fewer $$$ per mile.

If this happens on a large scale, there has to be some kind of a crisis with these subprime loans. There'll be glut of used cars, killing new car sales, thus affecting those car manufacturers/sales.
I agree that it must be battery powered, but keep in mind that human players eat snacks during long matches.
Also, even keeping the 'separate folders with generated files' gimmick, it could do exactly that without permissions checks by putting the stuff in `$HOME/Library/Application Support/AppNameGoesHere` and opening the folders under there for the user.
They can access individual claims because they themselves are the insurer. Claims have medical codes that map to treatments, diseases, prescriptions, doctor visits, etc. That’s what I mean by visibility.
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I'm very skeptical about numer.ai. I participated in their contests for quite some time (made a significant chunk of change), but I have huge doubts that any of our predictions are actually useful to them, for a multitude of reasons.
If they had planned ahead, they could have had a system to lift a bunch of satellites off together, then take off/replace the bad one, and then put all the rest back again.
You can get a verbal explanation by toggling "show video" at the top.
They say you can vote with your pocket book but that doesn't apply to monoplies with hundred billion dollar war chests that can coast for a decade without making any profit what-so-ever.

Our vote applies immediately, not to mention there are term limits, so I trust the government much more also.
I'll put it this way: if you are able to regularly and productively work 48 hours straight of your own volition, you already meet a lot of the criteria for hypomania.
>> Sweep a physical occluder across the lens, measure abatement?

> So you want your lens covered 99.9% of the time, just in case someone points a laser at it?

Don't some missile seekers already work that way?

https://www.ausairpower.net/TE-Sidewinder-94.html:

> The Sidewinder's seeker used an ingeniously clever optical arrangement, with a Cassegrainian mirror fitted with a tilted secondary mirror. The secondary mirror rotated in unison with a reticle, projecting the whole instantaneous field of view of the mirror through the reticle onto a filter/detector assembly. Because the mirror secondary was tilted, rotating it about the missile's axis swept the cone of the mirror's field of view about the missile's axis in a fashion analogous to a conical scanning radar seeker (see diagram).
This is not what the parent is talking about. "Corps that self insure" is corporations that are so large that it's more effective for them to use a large bank account as the insurance plan for their employees than to buy a corporate policy from an actual health insurance company.

Huge companies like SAP or Microsoft or Oracle will do this, even though they may also hire a traditional branded health insurer to "manage" this large-bank-account health plan (i.e. give out cards, negotiate with hospitals, etc.). But the bank account (brokerage account, really) remains in control of the corporation, and the traditional plan premiums are not paid to the health insurance company named on the card. Fees for managing the plan are paid separately. Doctors and hospitals get paid from the corporation's account. This is what the parent means when they say that the corporation has visibility into employees' healthcare usage.
When N is fixed, all algorithms become O(1). That's why they appear the same.

If you do these calculations by hand, the complexity will be more obvious because each operation will be smaller.
Regarding the 32-bit thing, wouldn't it be in any game developers interest to create additional x-bit options to rebuild the game in higher bit systems? I would want my game to be amenable to historical preservation, which is the reason I do my own engines in lower level languages.
Self insured is definitely the norm for large companies in the US.
Can you show a screen shot of the page that the “what does annual income include?” text links to? Otherwise we are just debating the semantics of the word annual in this context.
Why not just revert the rework? If no one has any context you're probably better off sticking with what you had even if the rework had good intentions.
> Anyone else find it strange in the US with the self-insured health care plans (the norm with large companies) your company has complete visibility into every health care interaction you have while employed through claims data?

Self-insured plans means that the companies underwrite their own plans, but they almost never manage their own claims. That would be cost-prohibitive and absurdly disadvantageous. The employer never touches raw claims data at all.

Companies have access to aggregate claims data, but they absolutely do not have "complete visibility into every health care interaction you have while employed".
Capitalism is the reason that regulations exist. Apartments cost less than single family homes. Makes total sense for developers to get regulations passed that prevent that sort of competition.
What's the source on this information? I haven't seen anything that says one was dead.
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I don't think the point isn't about you or me - we're perfectly capable of bypassing this (for now).

The point is a) about Apple's hostility b) what to expect from your average macOS user as a developer (most will have no idea what SIP even is, and then telling them to disable SIP is borderline irresponsible).
Apple's product is launched commercially. Google's alleged product is still in the research phase. Neither company touts its research projects that aren't out in public yet.

Google's launched healthcare products are here: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/healthcare/

It's hard to say what's going on in the WSJ article, since it has no details.
The moral panic around deepfakes is hilarious to me.

Especially on a platform like Twitter where a tweet of a screenshot of a headline with no source (that possible has no source) will have thousands of upvotes and angry responses which is much more alarming and something that already exists today.

For example, every once in a while on r/PoliticalHumor you'll see a screenshot of a tweet that Trump didn't even write, yet everyone responding will take it at face value. Deepfakes are a red herring and a distraction from a ubiquitous phenomenon we might never solve.

Requiring deepfakes to have a disclaimer to me is like training people that it's safe to insert their credit card info on a website as long as they see the https lock icon in the navbar. Instead, people should be trained to be eternally vigilant and to be skeptical even if there is no "this is fake" disclaimer.

We're long past screwed.
They do not have access to claims data. They know your plan and your dependents, but that's it.
>Additionally, what are some ways to use a math / CS skill-set to impact my community in a positive way?

You could volunteer at a code camp for underprivileged kids, or maybe tutor math for free for people who cannot afford it.
> If it's a "self-insured" plan[1], your employer potentially has access to all insurance claims because they are the insurer. That's not the same as access to complete healthcare records but it's pretty telling information.

No, companies almost never manage the claims themselves. They underwrite the plans, but managing claims is cost-prohibitive, as it's outside the core competency of most large companies.
> Apple lets you run your own applications you just have to right click the program and then select run.

The iPhone and Apple's slow and steady OS convergence would like to have a word with you.
Some! Unless I'm mistaken, POP/IMAP/SMTP are all non-HTTP-based protocols.
Like a noise canceling speaker I could place on the table to eliminate the music from that area?
Between this and the memory complaints, I have to ask: Has anyone tried closing Slack?
The linked JAMA study does not show the opioid reduction was 75%.

In fact, to quote, “ The findings suggest that MBTs are associated with moderate improvements in pain and small reductions in opioid dose and may be associated with therapeutic benefits for opioid-related problems, such as opioid craving and misuse. Future studies should carefully quantify opioid dosing variables to determine the association of mind-body therapies with opioid-related outcomes.”

I will dig into this more this evening - chronic pain management is my area - but on first glance, this is a bullshit clickbait headline.
I don't think I can get behind that sentiment. The USA is in another league from third world countries in most of those categories (except maybe gun violence and incarceration).

Ignoring Super-PACs for a second, we don't need to grease some palms to get things done in this country. USA does not rank that high in corruption. It's not that big a part of day to day government compared to countries that have a serious problem. We have effective government institutaions. Fox news is not state run, it panders to one political party that happens to be in power.

The metric system is not the best example or even a good one. I'm not going to defend the decision, but it's simply a tough thing to handle politically. Depite the issues that it causes, it's not a good indicator of living conditions in a country. It's a costly nuisance more than anything.

I can definitely agree we have our issues. Specifically, high incarceration rates, medicare, and infrastructure. These are issues I'm very upset about. That doesn't make us a third world country though. Just below average (amoung developed countries). You have to be delutional or out of touch if you think living in the USA is like living in a third world country.
They use your location data to serve ads. Why wouldn't they use your health care data?
Is this a satire comment?
Google dipped out of rolling their own fiber because all the other ISPs started doing it, so there was no need anymore.
This format comes with its own metaphorical Rosetta Stone.
Then it becomes a tautology. If you manage to avoid not getting rich, you get rich.
Having lived in Japan for a significant portion of my life, I would really disagree with you on all of this.

I lived in a very expensive, up scale apartment in Japan, and everything in it was very poor quality in comparison to the quality of my (not mcmansion) house in the US. My doors are good quality, plumbing works fine, furniture is much nicer and less expensive by an order of magnitude.

I do most of my grocery shopping at Aldis, and certainly you can get fresh fish more easily at the corner grocery in Japan, but otherwise the selection is better even at Aldis than at most groceries in Japan. There's nothing like a Wegmans or a Harris Teeter in Japan at all that I ever saw -- maybe somewhere upscale in Tokyo or something.
But notarizing apps for macOS is free?
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The chat carriage idea actually sounds really cool. Like, there are some days where I feel like I would love to use it, but there are definitely others when I just need to rest in some piece. But given that we are all in the same space on the bus right now (without this chat carriage idea implemented), I always default to being as silent as possible to give other people the opportunity to not be bothered. Hell, I even reject all phone calls I receive while on the bus.
Google Health is finally opening up about its plans and they're all about search
Thanks for explaining patiently.
Tautologically, you've described every organization in the health tech space. Having a surveillance company secretly start transacting patient health information for their own profit isn't a solution in search of any problem I want solved.
> your doctor gives a few DICOM studies to GE because they are going to concert on modifying the settings on a CT scanner

Is that actually allowed without patient consent?
Also, Eccentric Euler’s one-liner:

> '𝑒'.uniname
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL E
> say 𝑒
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So much truth...
Twitter is trying to attack the Meme's in their definition of "Deep Fake". This is political interference.

When are we going to do something to stop tech tyranny from destroying free speech.
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Awesome! We are on the same page on a lot of things.

> It is your data and shouldn't belong to the provider.

Agreed! What do you think of the concept of the "Copy/Paste Test"? The idea is a good EHR should allow you to copy/paste your entire medical history into an email in a non-fragile way. If it can't do that, it's not a good EHR. We think this one dimension encompasses a lot of sub dimensions of what goes into a well designed EHR system.

> It would require an institutional body/government to standardize the EMR and centralize it

We're thinking the opposite: decentralized, git backed, concatenative grammars. You eventually probably would indeed have one grammar rise to the top, but the idea is to allow anyone to view, suggest edits, and fork the collection of grammars. Here is the current collection of Pau Grammar files: https://github.com/treenotation/pau/tree/master/grams. Note: this isn't even v1 yet, but the core ideas are there.
“Eventually” is the problem. I have a 35-minute commute if I wait out rush hour, but it's two hours by bus. Each way. If I get lucky with both transfers. Average speed: 11 MPH.
s/marketers/machine learning researchers and healthcare software designers.
On the bright side, it's absolutely relevant to the discussion and useful for comparison.
If my employer has the data - the government can subpoena it if it really wants to. It's effectively accessible to both entities. If only the government has it, at least my employer doesn't have it.

Edit: More damningly, if my employer has it multiple governments potentially have access to it. Companies generally aren't willing to stand up to requests from, for example, China.
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While I agree, I think there's an important caveat that is missing. To me, digital art needs to be self-contained. Digital art, unlike physical art, doesn't really rely on anything else for it to present itself. It's why digital media has standards. A .jpg should, in theory, be self-contained and only require a device to view. A game presenting itself as digital art, however, needs to be tied to a specific platform and software that may not potentially run in the future for any number of reasons. It needs to be feature-locked and self-contained so that it can be archived. To try and compare modern/older art to modern/older digital art isn't fair or equivalent, in my opinion.
Lately I've been spending a lot of my working-with-a-laptop-at-a-cafe time at places that have outdoor seating. And another chunk of that time has been sitting outside at a very nice park I live nearby.

There is no music except for occasional snatches of it from passing cars. Instead there is the wind in the trees, various birds having their conversations, and perhaps kids playing if I'm near the playground. It's really kind of wonderful.

I find myself thinking that a cafe whose playlist is nothing but natural ambient sounds - maybe you walk in and the playlist is "jungle fauna", or "rainstorm", or "tranquil beach" - would be really cool, but I also know that running a small cafe is a ton of work and a great way to probably lose a ton of money. Maybe I'll suggest that at one of the cafes I work inside of on a regular basis.
One of the huge differences between Facebook and Google is that Google took care to never use that 2nd-factor for anything except account recovery.
GM knew of an issue with ignition key switches that killed 124 people and required a recall of over 30 million vehicles. Tesla definitely has fault, but legacy automakers have faired far worse in safety standards.

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

Ford has had to recall over a million trucks due to engine block heaters that would cause your engine block to catch fire.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ford+engine+block+recall

Disclaimer: TSLA investor and owner, opted out of arbitration and have yellow banding on my MCU screens. Compromise is inevitable.
Yes they do if they are self insured, meaning they are literally the insurance company taking on the risk. This is the norm for large companies.
Openstreetmap has lot's of work and challenges for (also) tech types. If you like maps :-)
Where does it say your gmail can be closed. The terms listed only say they can terminate your account access to the service, aka Youtube.
This Futuro adapts very well to the environment. I thought it was strange rock formation or army bunker. https://youtu.be/GxwrKjhMe5o?t=92
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Good to know that Heathrow T2 is an exception, I may use that knowledge next time I fly to the UK. We mostly fly in & out of Gatwick (proximity to family, and it's an EasyJet hub) but I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets the feeling it's artificially designed to be the most stressful experience possible.
It is not very good advice for creative writing either, though. The general advice given by agencies and professional authors is to write "to the final version" and roughly edit after every writing session or before the next one. (I'm also talking from personal experience, have written eight novels in German and didn't follow this advice in the beginning.)
Among professional authors, John Scalzi has said many times that he edits as he goes along[1].

For shorter academic and work pieces (and back when I blogged) I’ve done this as well, but I do an outline for longer papers first, and then edit as I go. Of course I wasn’t anywhere near nickjj’s level of output.

[1] https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fanta...
What problem? Please tell me, what is this "solving" besides providing user data without consent to google?
It’s actually pretty shocking how few people seem to realize this about large employers...this is clearly not well understood at all.
The easy solution is to measure the performance of this declarative API and inform the user if it causes slowdowns. But don't limit it to 30k entries.
I'm very curious why you're getting downvoted by a large enough number of people to be de-emphasized but no one has responded to you.
Is it your claim that only a trivial portion of the $billions in healthcare spending is being spent on healthcare for the average insured people?
> They definitely do if they’re self insured.

Self-insured doesn't mean they manage claims themselves. For most companies, managing claims would be cost-prohibitive and an absurdly wasteful use of resources.