skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the original WSJ article...

> Staffers across Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent, have access to the patient information, documents show, including some employees of Google Brain, a research science division credited with some of the company’s biggest breakthroughs.

I'm struck by the wide access of those within Alphabet to health information that's not anonymous.

Is this how other healthcare companies are doing it?
Saying that $370 is not a lot of money shows just how far removed the tech bubble is from the rest of the world.

"Four in 10 adults in 2017 would either borrow, sell something, or not be able pay if faced with a $400 emergency expense." https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2017-repor..., page 21. That's a lump sum expense, not paid over time, but I think it illustrates quite well that $370 is a lot of money for something most people don't even know they need.
GitHub: Speed47/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying
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How is that a single point of failure? You have downloaded copies on all your devices and the database is encrypted with your own master key, so even if 1Password is hacked there isn’t really a problem, just like LastPass hasn’t died when it had one.
But why would good game AI have to make the characters better than the player? The focus on NPC AI should be to make them interesting, not necessarily really tough opponents.
I'm kinda curious about the second screen. The author was wondering if it was a new Android feature or a Motorola feature. I'm wondering if it's driven by a separate processor running Android Wear.
Then you should blame the industry rather than a newcomer to the industry who tries to follow the industry standard?
Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric vehicle era
Consider the odds that no one at an engineering meeting brought this up.

If we assume someone did (which is a safe assumption), now imagine what kind of company culture would reject something as obviously desirable to the user as E2E.
Instagram tests hiding Like counts globally
My suspicion is very rural drivers will be out of luck in any mass shift to electric vehicles. Even though they could keep using the internal combustion engine prices will increase substantially if the majority has moved to EV’s.
Because of one of Clarke's laws:

> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The mostly tech illiterate boses and the unthinking masses can't really parse the deep fake story. For most, there's simply no basis of comparison even they wanted to expend the energy on system 2 thinking.

But talk about voice actors and everyone knows someone who does imitations. So they will base their anecdotal experiences in judging the possibility of what happened. This also mostly comes from system 1 thinking, which is pleasant to do, since it removes uncertainty from the world.

Edit: when thinking of deep fakes, it applies to me too. I don't know how advanced they CAN be. I'm sure some military has some amazing ones that aren't open to the public. It's a point that goes beyond my imagination and into a world of uncertainty.
As far as I know, the US Army still teaches land navigation using a paper map, protractor, pencil, and compass. At least they did when I was in (early 2000s).

Getting caught with a GPS-capable device on the land nav course was considered cheating.
They might have great software - I don't know. But personally I absolutely refuse to use a paid option for a service of this type. There's just too much risk. What happens if my credit card expires and I forget to update/pay? Or I get hospitalized suddenly and there's a similar payment issue? Is my account just closed and everything deleted?

Then there's the risk of me putting everything in there and them jacking up the price. I'd either have to eat it or manually migrate everything.

There are other concerns as well. And I'm not saying I think they are dishonest. But when there are open source methods that are free and battle-tested for security, I see no reason to go with a paid option.
I understand the confusion, I am just not sure if either of this stuff (location/nationality of workforce/location of offices) matters as long as they keep honoring the policies /contractual obligations of docker enterprise and are law abiding entity.
"Billed your own gram a chequer"
You misunderstand. "Infosec" is a shopping list item on govt requirements. "We need this, this, this, and it needs to be secure!" They assume security is just this additional ingredient that can be purchased, mixed in, and boom; project is secure, like mixing in chili to anything will make it hot. The infosec companies do everything they can to encourage this assumption.

It's all bullshit, and these people are pure scum.
Probably not. Most of that cost is having a professional sort out the specifics of your particular installation, plus paying the dudes to scramble around on your roof and actually do the work (plus the associated liability).

And even once it's all done, you take an efficiency hit because no one's roof will be at the ideal angle the way panels installed at ground level can be.
Worse than that not being a keyword, `self` isn't special at all, it's a naming convention that can be freely broken. Python codebases using `this` instead of `self` exist. Codebases that mix the two depending on who wrote which method in a class exist. I believe I saw `it` used once somewhere as the name for that parameter. I'm sure there are codebases with even crazier horrors for first argument names in class methods out there in the depths of corporate machines.
Outside of the most well-executed instances, facadism does one of two things. It either highlights how terrible the new building behind it is, or it highlights how terrible the old facade is in front of the new building. I think the true legacy of Facadism will be that it illuminates the ridiculousness of indiscriminate preservationism, much in the same way that Brutalism and International Style illuminated the ridiculousness of trend chasing.

You can take any survey of the most beautiful cities in the world and they will all have something in common: they were beautiful long before urban planning, historical preservation committees, or design review boards existed. Their beauty is of one of evolution...the slow process of tearing old ugly things down and building new things in their place, some of which may also be ugly, but others which will become iconic to the point where nobody wants to tear them down. Democratic ideals shoved into beautification and preservation processes will only ever result in the preservation of things that shouldn't be preserved, and the construction of the lowest common denominator of putrid architecture.
Am I the only one who considers this a good thing?

Why do you see this as a good thing - what good will come of it for you? You’re describing a tool which already does what you want;

With this investment, 1Password need to squeeze half a billion extra dollars out of you just to give to investors. What is it that their tool doesn’t do for you, which needs that kind of trade for them to be able to build it?
One reading of this is that it's a cross-departmental collaboration, rather than just a single division.
We've changed the URL to that from http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/temp/cityspeak.pdf. Thanks!
Coal plant closure settlement approved as model for helping impacted communities
To the best of my knowledge, the BAA has not been published, so we have no idea what it says.

But what seems clear is that a ton of complete medical data, including names and other identifying data, has been handed to Google for its use in what sounds like training an ML system.

That we don't know what restrictions are in place (if any) is a large part of why this is so alarming.
Quantum physics: Our study suggests objective reality doesn't exist
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I think quantum mechanics needs either a paradigm shift or another Feynmann who can come along and make this stuff more grokkable. Every explanation I read about entanglement or teleportation or whatever is always amazingly long and complex, no matter what.

I'm able to understand other physics concepts like relativity, but quantum mechanics seems too entrenched in mathematics at this point in time. I have a very hard time visualizing what is going on.
It's still fans but in arrays. Note that i'm no engineer, i just saw this somewhere and thought they'd fit nicely under Solar roofs.
>My understanding is that patient consent is not necessary for things like research, which Google's AI efforts could be argued to fall under.

HIPAA allows for entities to share data with other entities which provide a service to the original entity. For example, Hospitals may share data to a billing provider or a claims analytics provider. It’s almost certain that Google is following the letter of the law.
Title changes made to meet HN title limits.
Wha..? I'm totally not following, iCloud syncing is completely transparent and built-in to 1Password. There's 0 extra work to support it (outside of finding how to turn it on, because it's buried in the UI), there's literally less work than 1Password's own subscription service, because that requires setting up an account whereas iCloud doesn't.
Max spec KDE with ALL batteries included on a 12 year old laptop computer with a new cheap Crucial SSD even with the old UDMA-6 is ultra low latency and very snappy.

KDE is an excellent Mac replacement for power users.
AIUI the next round of UK offshore auctions are expected to do better than onshore, along with being cheaper than already existing gas plants. That's based on the current state of the art 300m high 15MW turbines - and there's no sign scaling up is stopping yet.
The submitted pdf was http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/temp/cityspeak.pdf.

We switched to the link wool_gather mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536491.
A couple of weeks ago AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile announced that they had started working on their cross-provider RCS implementation - https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs...

Does Google doing this essentially mean they've gotten sick of waiting for the carriers and decided to bypass them entirely? If so, the carriers can't be happy about that.
No one should be excused for unethical behavior just because it’s standard industry practice.
The person's icloud account was hacked. Pretty simple explanation.
>Hermès’s $640 Clic H Bracelet is one of those luxury baubles that’s financially out of reach for most shoppers. So how is it that Amazon shoppers could recently search for the Hermès piece by name and find a bracelet for just $24.99 on the e-commerce giant’s website?

I think this is why I've never received anything fake from Amazon.

I'm not stupid enough to think I can get something priced at $640 for $25.

>Still, Philip Thomas recently bought a counterfeit Novel Duffle bag from Herschel Supply Co., which generally retails for $85. The New York-based tech executive didn’t care much about color as he browsed, so he scrolled through the various options to pick a black version available for $45.10, even though it meant waiting three weeks for delivery.

I also am not stupid enough to think that I can get something priced at $85 for $45 and I know that three weeks means a "China ePacket" full of shit.

Even the people who complain about getting fake SD cards must know that a 256GB "not eligible for prime", 2-3 week delivery time, SD card that only cost them $9.99 has got to be a scam, right?

Right?!??

I must either be using Amazon wrong or have some magical superpower that causes me to be able to comprehend what is going on around me.
Perhaps the author should have done both: a handwritten NB followed by the sklearn implementation.

It’s good to know how to create these algorithms from scratch (especially to demystify them) but at the same time you’re probably better off using sklearn and using your time instead to manage your data (unless there are significant customizations needed to fit the problem that sklearn can’t provide).
This is a GSMA developed standard that was started in 2007. It wasn't an unusual choice then.

If they tried to add it now, it would push wide adoption even further back.
THT v0.6.1 – a language that fixes everything wrong with PHP
The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps
>there is a significant hassle in getting a file sharing service (gdrive, icloud, dropbox) etc onto every possible device they have.

What is this "significant hassle"? Surely it's not that much harder to install [sync app] + [password app] than it is to install [password app]?

>Many do, many don't.

I suspect the intersection between "people who don't know how to manipulate files" and "people who care enough about passwords and are willing to fork over $36/yr" isn't big.
Lots of people drink fresh OJ as part of breakfast.
The State of Business Intelligence in 2019
It isn’t more secure, unless you’re asserting Dropbox cloud is more secure than 1Password. 1Password still encrypts it on the client side.
Fewer pieces in the technology stack is better, because each piece is operationally expensive (it is its own set of work in maintenance, upgrades, migrations, etc). There are also the mentioned costs (you can't atomically do things across divergent pieces of infrastructure, at least not very easily at all).

Fighting the tendency of everyone wanting to draw in each new interesting bit of technology is important.

Every piece of complexity you incur should be proven as required, and you should build things to just somewhat larger than near term projected scale... and not expect that you are a temporarily embarrassed unicorn with loads of unexpected demand showing up.

If you run out of performance, you have some headroom from tuning; from that point, you can then choose whether it makes sense to retrofit to a higher scale technology or throw larger hardware at the problem (or both).
Here you go[1]. 12-15 years

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/9770...
solid! made my remixing life just easier.
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Looks like a single fission plant costs around 6 to 9 billion and construction costs tend to go up. There's not a lot of room for iteration and learning from experience; you have to get it right the first time.

Compare that with a competitive industry that's manufacturing in bulk and improving every year. Where do the lines cross?
What makes the (lack of a) dynamic DNS a safety issue?
People are using phones for longer than they used to and at least anecdotally screen cracks are a popular reason for finally upgrading. If I walk around the city it also seems to be a popular service based on the number of shops using their advertisement space for it.
Thanks James, if you have any feedback, let me know!
I like the intent, but I would prefer ruggedizing them to the extent that neither of them breaks. Many automotive connectors, for example, are both inexpensive and extremely difficult to break either.
Try panning and zooming on a piece of paper... that's the benchmark here. I've had the pleasure of toting along a couple of kilos of maps of all the roads in Europe for years, I would not part with my TomTom for the best set of maps and the most elegant of night lights.
Nah, I'm a 40-hour-a-weeker myself, I'm not sure it's strongly correlated with that.

Some folks, you say "do you think you can do [thing you're basically familiar with] in [language and platform you're not]?" and get a "yeah, probably lemme check it out... cool, compiler and language support's installed, see a couple tutorials here, I'll poke around and get something doing [subset of thing you need] then get back to you on timeline" and very likely it works out fine.

Others, you get "uh, I do (Java, .net), I don't... I don't understand what this is, is it a JVM language? Is there a jar for it?" and it's not really worth pushing any harder. And maybe some of them are deflecting because they just can't be bothered (mad respect), but most seem genuinely nervous and out-of-their-element at the mere suggestion of doing anything but their Java or .net thing (usually it's one of those) they're used to.

Though, again, the latter seem to get along just fine, career-wise. It's just a different sort of path, I guess. Seems really weird to me, but there it is.
I've been running a website on a Raspberry Pi 3. It's cheap, consumes almost no electricity, and it does the job.
Recently was wishing this myself. I’ve been using rq, which although I hear is much faster than an rdbms is also another dependency and service to worry about failing. Trying to keep things simple is nice, I am already having trouble trying to grok what kind of weird state I can have in my application if Redis goes down, or my dB goes down but Redis remains
In a decent job queue you know when jobs get completed, whether the worker died, and whether they're otherwise stuck.
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
A single HIPPA violation for a single record alone is costly. There was a Ask HN post a few weeks back where someone posted a medical record horror story. They later deleted the post after pointing out that even programmers are criminally liable.
Just wanted to thank you for this. When I was a lost and confused junior, I had no one more experienced around to ask for advice. I stumbled across this and it answered so many questions that I had, and it still very much applies many years later.
The recent thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21514952
Would you want future employers, romantic partners, loan officers, and/or family members to know your medical history?

What if you were HIV+ or taking Viagra? What if you were just sick and didn’t want to be discriminated against?

There are life and death implications in medical privacy in most countries. Stigma is real, as are insurance risk algorithms.
See the RHEL release schedule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Versi...

RHEL 6/7 and Centos 6/7 will support Python 2 until at least mid-2024.
Local-first software development[1][2] could also be a force for decentralization, since you don't need a coordination server to hold the authoritative version of a document. The relevant protocol for discussion is the CRDT (conflict-free, replicated data type).

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478 (6 months ago)
Maybe chanks recalls differently; but I think the backstory was he saw / was interested in this - but wanted to use newer features that came out in Postgres. QueueClassic's first release was early 2011; it wasn't fast support newer Postgres stuff, mostly as it was being used a lot (inside Heroku) and wanted to maintain support for users. I think (might recall wrong) that Chris ended up writing Que ~2013 because of QC was too slow to update / didn't want to do these features!
I also had a cat that went absolutely bananas for (especially ripe) cantaloupe. She could smell it across the house, would aggressively beg for it, and would purr the whole time she was eating it.
I suppose this is a rhetorical question?

* With a free service, the data is the asset which the company obtains by offering the service.

* With whatever service, the company may receive a subpoena, an NSL, etc. It's easier to comply when you have the data than to prove that you can't comply because you only transfer the encrypted packets, and have no way to bug the client devices, too.

If you want end-to-end encryption, run your own Signal server, or something, and hope that you're flying below radars.
True. And that's the price of Alberta heavy oil in Alberta. The difference between that and the benchmark West Texas Intermediate price is mostly shipping.
Right, and wind constitutes less than 5% of total energy production. I'm not anti-wind, but we can't pretend massive growth in wind production will have no impact.
> The only real killer feature of Python3 is the async programming model.

I understand that this is one of the major features, but I personally never saw the appeal, given that gevent exists and in my experience works well most of the time. It also allows me to multiplex IO operations and doesn't rely on new syntax. I'm probably missing something?
The 2to3 tool should add .decode(‘utf-8’) to every string manipulation, even better Python 3 should have a flag to make that the behaviour and even better that should default to on.

So much effort wasted doing this in a large codebase. And what do you get for it? It’s just not worth it. Nobody actually needs Python 3, it was foisted on them by the developers. What everyone really wanted was Python 2.8.
You are utterly wrong.

The real problem is that there is a vast need for professionals and the lack of them calls a lot of smoke-sellers. And for a lot of people is hard to tell wether they are legit.

Just look at the Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence industry. Also "fraudulent" if you apply the same logic.
Not for iOS users sending messages to Android users.
The canonical Prolog book is now available for free (open access).

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition

Beware that the 2nd edition has some typos.
I guess you've read "for one year" as "in one year", but that's not what "for" means, and anyway, I'm sure it took a lot more than a year to install 100GW worth of turbines.
> You only need to record the neural inputs to a fly’s brain.

I don't think that's true. As soon as your simulated fly's behavior diverges from the actual fly's, all of the recorded input after that point is invalid/useless because it will not match the simulated fly's position/orientation/whatever.

Also, how many dollar of investment and years into the future do you think we are from being able to record all of a fly's neural input while it is moving freely?
Knowing someone's phone number means you can reach them on WhatsApp. At least, that's true for 2B (out of 5B) of phone numbers, which is likely to be 1,000 times the number of RCS users.

The second and most important advantage of WhatsApp is that you don't have to maintain an address book anymore. People change phone numbers and the new number is automatically reflected in WhatsApp. It's quite likely that address books on phones are outdated and thus stale.
> This is like "blowing the whistle" because your dentist sent your dental impression to a company to create a crown for you.

I see a huge difference here, though. the company making my crown doesn't get my complete medical records. They get what is necessary to make the crown.

Google is getting everything, to use for purposes beyond the patient's immediate medical needs.

> That's literally what HIPAA was created to address.

That HIPAA allows this sort of thing to happen is a great reason to pressure lawmakers to improve HIPAA.