skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If entering into a BAA under HIPAA for work involving PHI is “harvest”, and you're worried that this reaches “millions” for Google, you probably don't want to think about the deals public and private firms in the healthcare and health insurance/payments space have with Amazon and Microsoft.

From the news article (I don't have time to review the source leak indepently) there doesn't seem to be anything really concerning here. The closest to an indication of anything wrong seems to be that someone raised an issue about the risk of improper employee use of data and a need for training around that in an internal meeting on the project and has not received a formal specific response on that issue from corporate leadership. Having spent a long time in HIPAA-related work, that neither that issue being raised in regard to a new project or the fact that it was raised being merely one of many inputs into a policy generating process that makes general adjustments considering a wide range of concerns, legal parameters, and other issues but not receiving a specific direct response seems...pretty typical. And HIPAA does not require notification or opt-in (or even opt-out opportunity) for data sharing between a covered entityand Business Associate, as BA’s are (while under HITECH independently subject to HIPAA privacy and security rules) basically considered institutional agents of the covered entity to which the covered entity’s authority to have and use data is delegated under the Business Associate agreement.

I don't know if there is really nothing of concern in the dump or the journalists covering it don't have enough understanding of the domain to even distinguish things that would indicate a problem, but what it looks like from the news article is a “whistleblower” making accusations and dumping docs, but nothing substantial and concrete in the docs supporting the thrust of the “whistleblower’s” accusations of wrongdoing.
OK - so if it is so obvious that you can't scale from 0 to 100 on launch day, why not anticipate that?

Ticket sales platforms for major sports events and concerts don't try to do it - they plan for it by having customers queue.

Did Disney not attempt this?
In a way, it’s improved over the past 2 decades because nobody uses Frames anymore.
> If I had a nickel for every time a tech giant outright lied about how they handle data, I'd be able to afford SV rent.

Maybe we can get them to pay when they lie?
As someone that doesn't use Insta, can you explain the appeal? It reminds me a lot of what television was like in Idiocracy.
This article posted to HN yesterday is better IMO: https://popular.info/p/facebooks-top-news-executive-has

It points out Brown is friends with Betsy DeVos.

It points out that Eric Owens, a far-right regular writer for the Daily Caller, has written 11 articles for The 74.

I agree that the part about Warren is grasping at straws a bit. I think it's more interesting that Brown is right leaning, yet she's in charge of FB News. So far, FB News is showing many signs it will be right biased. This just adds more evidence.

The other evidence is the inclusion of Breitbart, but no leftist publications. Also, the fact that Zuckerberg has been having dinners with far-right figures, but no leftists.
By the same token; on average, more intelligent and less sheltered people tend to be more gullible.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060523072353.h...

Careful with that word "gullible" - I do not think it means what you think it means.
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A simple comparison between Babylon Bee and The Onion suggests to me that an overwhelming majority of comedy writers lean liberal.

In any case, it would surely suffice to replace the red X or green check with a comedy mask icon captioned "Satire". Then they can explain the joke, and deconstruct the comedic theory behind it. This is very important, because for a lot of that Babylon Bee stuff, I have no clue why anyone would think it's funny.

":) Satire

"This was published by JokeyMcFakenews, a known purveyor of satirical articles. The text is templated from an inside-joke format known as a 'copypasta', but substituting Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for the male duck in the original, reproduced here for context: [quote block].

"The humor arises from callback to the already-familiar humor of the inside joke, combined with Mnuchin being an actual Bond villain instead of common waterfowl, and presumably having a far more sinister attitude towards bread crumbs."
I wouldnt claim that fat satiation causes someone to eat fewer calories either.

But I disagree that the quote you presented somehow claims that a person can lose weight while not being in a deficit. It's physically impossible. That doesn't mean other processes aren't going on, or that you shouldn't consider other things like macronutrients and micronutrients when trying to construct a "healthy" diet.
Simple DB is having issues for me
Interesting! Is that written up somewhere public?
Measles leave the body prone to future infections
Not to mention with how much productivity has climbed while wages stagnated we fairly should only be working 4 day weeks.
A nit to pick: 1 pound of fat is commonly regarded as 3,500 (kilo) calories.
> "ambulance chaser" is a colloquial term for a reason.

What's the reason, and does that reason contravene legal/judicial ethics?

I am suspicious of slang terms like "ambulance chaser" and "jaywalking" that tend to bias the listener in favor of well-funded corporate interests over individual citizens.
Lots of errors for different services. Looks like it's related to Disney+ launch failure.
I don't keep up on things, what has Snopes done to damage their credibility?
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Most smartphones are easy to take apart and remove the camera.
Disney owns most of Hulu and has control. Comcast has agreed to eventually sell its remaining stake back to Disney.
... this project prevents others from executing arbitrary malicious code on your computer.

If you want to fiddle with your own computer, you can write your own code to do exactly that
Why not try a charitable interpretation of 'school choice'? People I know that support vouchers and charter schools do so because they genuinely care about quality education. Maybe they are misguided, but they certainly aren't doing it to create EVIL profit for the EVIL billionaire class.

As a general principle, decentralization is good.
Fairness bad.
Killing those companies is the point. You may as well object that bug spray is bad because it kills cockroaches.
I'm an NLP scientist trying to implement a software that take english as input and parse it into a queryable data structure that has zero semantic loss.
I'm aware more than anybody on this thread, of the challenges of coreference resolution, word sense disambiguation, semantic parsing, etc...
I didn't say that usual language is free of ambiguity.
I just said humans are perfectly able to output clear, unambiguous English in a systematic manner.
I just needs a little more mental energy.
Telegram is great for group chats and I actually see it being a potential replacement for twitter in some specialized domains thanks to the Channels feature.

Signal is great for when you want to talk about things that governments have decided shouldn't be talked about.
Similar sorts of title issues can happen in the US, but we do a pretty good job of mitigating those before a sale is completed. Do you not have title searches and title insurance in Ireland?

It is standard practice in the US to hire a company to research any potential title problems before sale, and additionally, buy insurance to protect against potential issues that might not have been found.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_insurance
Really, people are going to hang her on this issue? Most people have some family lore that isn't 100% verified -- oh, really, your great grandfather was hero in the civil war? maybe, maybe not.

There isn't a pattern of deceit on her part, this "debacle" wasn't a sin of great consequence, all the while it is pushed over and over by someone whose entire life is built on manufacturing falsehoods. "Both sides do it" doesn't apply here. It is like saying I can't be critical of a murderer because I too broke the law by speeding.
It is possible to share memory in wasm today, yes (we use that to optimize wasm/JS interaction, and wasm/wasm dynamic linking) - and that won't go away, it's a core feature of wasm, you're right. But the specific approach in this article disallows that.

The article does mention a possible future extension of multiple wasm modules in a single nanoprocess (the section with "allowing native-style dynamic linking"), and JoshTriplett mentions in another comment some future ideas of sharing parts of memory but not all. Those things will compromise the strict initial requirement of no shared memory, and improve performance.

Those are the interesting questions for me - is not sharing memory too much overhead, and if it is, is there a way to relax that which preserves enough security with enough performance.
I used to use Lucid a lot, since the early betas and for about 10 years.

Things I liked were that I could have a quick collaborative diagram with a friend for some bs project and not pay for it, and I could have a reasonable SAAS offering for a commercial team that wasn't expensive enough I got pushback. It was always a bit slow, and sometime quirky about connection placements but the diagrams were acceptable quality. Early on it was a lot less polished but you could make it work. And it was never a tool I'd use every day or realistically even every month, so it needed to be fairly low cost but I was happy to pay for when I did need it.

Now it is effectively impractical without a subscription so I can't use it for the former case. And the team offering are more enterprise-y and about double the price without adding any functionality I care about, so I tend not to do that either.

At some point I moved companies and didn't suggest a new team subscription, where previously I was usually the advocate for it. And the upsell messages and limitations of the free tier led me to find draw.io, which meets my needs for one-offs and little side projects as well as Lucid Chart ever did.

I'd say functionally they are mostly on par currently for my usages ... but that's the crux of your problem as a 10/month/head subscription.

Oh, and fwiw I use the offline version of draw.io most of the time, it's very responsive and also I like to work sometimes offline.
It makes some sense if it's the user onboarding that's failing. That's the one part that should see much less traffic in normal operation.
I think you’re being downvoted because Devos, like most education free market pushers, isn’t looking to profit on school choice. People really think free markets are better. Similar to UBI, people like the idea of freedom.
That's how it works today. A party can claim legal expenses.
As long as you don’t type « g » « news.ycombinator.com » and then Lynx thinks you’re trying to access a Usenet service via NNTP.

Gotta put in https:// always.
The National Review has a right wing bias, and has been called the “bible of American conservatism”. Since “school choice” is a conservative policy, it’s unsurprising that the NR ran an article that purports that it’s a popular policy. If we look at the source for the polls the article is based on, they cite polls from a lobbyist group specifically built to push policy on “school choice”.

This doesn’t seem like a reputable source for making the argument that voters actually support this policy.
Digital Windows
My takeaway from that article was they do pay for the postage, but there's cost difference between a heavy item and a piece of paper. However, they are charged.
Some of it; see https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type... for the starting point that this will be based on.
much better at serving pinterest pages and stock image sites ... maybe
When you say "out of pocket" you're only semi-correct as to the situation on the ground. If you don't have access to funds for a variety of reasons but are pursuing a lawsuit that a firm thinks is highly likely to succeed, then that firm may eat the costs of the trial and negotiate with you to divide proceeds. Additionally that particular case would probably be a great source of PR for the law firm representing the doctor - sometimes big banner cases, especially representing small fish against large corporations, can be worth more to the firm in the long run as a way to attract wealthy clients.
And which judges and juries can mete out punishments for violating, like every law.
It's very easy to explain to someone why blowing a hole in their bedroom wall to put an extension cord through it is a bad idea. On the other hand, try explaining to your product team that building a certain feature in 2 weeks will require doing the equivalent of that, and they won't see any issues with it.

This is the problem with building software. It's intangible and non-developers have a very hard time understanding the tradeoff of doing something "hacky" vs doing it right.
Is ZFS more solid than in Linux?

Yes, considering ZFS was originally developed by Sun for Solaris. It's been 8 years since I've been a Solaris admin, but we ran production DB workloads on JBODs with ZFS with no problems.

Though I've not run ZFS on linux myself, I've heard that many of its issues stemmed around the fact that due to CDDL/GPL incompatibilities, they couldn't have ZFS in the kernel until very recently.
Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
SPLC is not an authority on what’s white supremacy and what’s not. They’ve been known to cast a wide net.
An open society isn't going to work if people can't tolerate disagreement.
https://twitter.com/5kl/status/1194287830970834944/photo/1
Thanks, I must have misremembered the number from somewhere. I updated my post. It's still a larger deficit than seems reasonable.
Recursive descent is theory. If you put someone new to parsing on the job, you'd get a mess, not RD.
If you don't like what John Wayne Gacy does to kids, don't hire Patches the Clown for your kid's birthday party.

Hyperbolic, but simply boycotting the products isn't enough here.
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Yes, they did and they even wrote a blog post about it:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-s...
Not sure any of those are specifically - but Buzzfeed.news, People, Business Insider etc are listed on the landing page as a sources.
Tripadvisor's problem isn't SEO, it's Tripadvisor.

They used to have a clean, easy to use site that was useful. As they've optimized and metricized the site to death, it's impossible to use. Harder to use == shittier reviews == lower visits.

Then they started engaging with you afterward. I was on vacation and looked for a restaurant near some I-95 town, and ended up getting spam emails about "Rate your stay in Stony Creek, VA!", "how was McDonald's in Lumberton, NC". Then I stopped using the app.
> I can reasonably extend the benefit of the doubt to Elizabeth Warren that she didn't know if she was actually some fraction Native American or not until the DNA test.

But she didn't claim to be 'some fraction Native American'. She said her race was 'Native American', just full-on 'Native American', on an official form.

And she claimed to be Cherokee in a book. That's even more bizarre of a thing to claim. No matter what anyone told her, she must have known she wasn't part of the tribe?

People say she's apologised, but she hasn't really said 'I'm sorry that I...' except that she's caused distress. What does she now admit she did? Lied? Stretched the truth? What does she see it as? What was going through her head. What would lead her to make such obviously ludicrous claims? Even if she did have one recent ancestor, which it turns out she probably didn't, it's still a nonsense claim that she is Native American and Cherokee.

Does she still think she's Native American? Will she describe herself as the first Native American president? If she doesn't, what does she say is the difference between now and when she filled out that form? That's what I'm missing - her explanation.
If they stayed with urban legends and non-political hoaxes, they'd probably be now an example of rare trustworthy factchecking site without a political spin. But getting into politics was too juicy a piece of traffic to resist. So now they're just one of the pack.
> How would an independent creator even go about sourcing ads to show on their independent site? Do they want to put in the effort?

I'm pretty sure networks on Youtube are able to provide alternative ads on channels part of their networks already.

Any Youtuber can also put bake ads directly in their videos too, all the big ones already do that either in sponsorship, or literally as ads (see Linus Tech Tips as a reference).

So essentially PeerTube doesn't add anything in revenue, it only remove Youtube ads network (which can provide quite a bit of money without any effort in ads).
> A pound of fat is about 6000 calories.

Where did you get that number from? Pure fat is approximately 9 calories per gram, which is 9000 calories per kilogram or ~4090 calories per pound. Body fat is around 87% pure fat, meaning a pound of body fat is roughly 3600 calories. Thus, the necessary deficit for 10 pounds in two weeks is about 2571. Still pretty high, but well under Olympic training levels.
So you guys basically wrote your own Ceph?
I know that Latin American successor states then went on to do the same and worse.

The Chilean Congress only this year acknowledged the genocide of the peoples in Tierra del Fuego, perpetrated by mercenaries of settlers of various nationalities with total impunity from the Chilean state.

Do look up the Wikipedia article on the War of Arauco for accounts of the cruelty of Pizarro and Pedro de Valdivia. As I said, the enforcement of the various laws regarding the indigenous populations were... lacking in enforcement.
I use this all the time for basic schematics, especially hackathon projects to explain app architecture to newcomers. Never new it was open source!
Tell that to the kids going to schools with massive gang problems. Even if they want to succeed it's a constant battle. My wife teaches at one of these schools and she has no problem understanding why kids would want out.
The Google Maps app.
It’s an ‘embarrassingly parallel’ problem. They could use a test load of a 1000 accounts, design a service for that, buy a sufficient proxy host and multiply. Scaling is hard when the problem is difficult to scale, browsing and streaming media is not a hard class of problem to scale, unlike an MMO say where real-time content updates occur in intricate patterns of locality and game logic.
Anyone who’s used their old streaming service Disney Life will be very, very, very unsurprised by this.
Zuckerburg has already danced with the left.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/why-are...

https://reason.com/2018/03/23/cambridge-analytics-dust-up-re...
Yes, all those things. ("Symbiotic" doesn't quite get at it because it doesn't imply this kind of equality on both sides.)

Based on my personal experience and observations of others so far, I think a large fraction of programmers experience unit tests as

(a) taking more time to write than the code under test;

(b) requiring much more code than the code under test; and

(c) relied upon to be correct much more than the code under test.

(To be clear, I'm talking about unit tests, not integration or system tests.)

In order to understand what you meant by TDD, I needed to unlearn all these things, and I suspect others will need to as well.
"We further noticed the issue only occurs if you have given the Facebook app access to your camera." Are there any good reasons for FB to be asking for this, or for people to grant it?
I logged in early this morning and nothing was working but it was up an running within maybe an hour. It's almost more impressive that they had an unintended service interruption so quickly and recovered right away.
"Safe" and "idempotent" have defined meanings in the HTTP standards, that's why I used those terms, and provided the RFC section that explains for anyone who cares to read more.
What technical issues/deficiencies have you seen with Hulu?
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It could, but only if the law allowed them to choose where to point to but it could just as easily allow the agency to dictate the canonical website to point to.
My expectation is that Debian is going to go whole-hog into systemd out of necessity as applications increasingly depend on systemd features.

This is why I'm leaving the Linux world entirely. I can't think of any other realistic way to avoid systemd in the long term.
> social media brought down the attention span to zero

> people just no longer critically process information, and move on to the next thing

Sadly I don't even think this is true. I think "people" in general have always been like this, and social media hasn't really changed that. You mentioned the barrier to entry dropping to zero. I think most of these issues are almost solely a result of that. The intellectual bias that used to be present in "the discourse" has been erased. The politicians/CEOs no longer have doubts, there's no reason to hedge. They know exactly how easy it is to manipulate the populace.
Fascinating! I live relatively near there and had no idea the history of the region. The Black Dirt Bourbon they mention is quite tasty, too, and I high recommend Black Dirt Red (surprisingly not a blend - but one of the best Baco Noir wines around - grown no place else but the hudson valley!)
I love these kinds of apps, but I haven't seen any with support for self-hosted cloud storage (Nextcloud). Is there a technical limitation behind that, or is it just lack of interest?
Well, you should really read it as "eliminating certain class(es) of vulnerabilities".
For me the frustration is often the opposite. I show up to places in person because I'd rather talk to human beings and fill out paper forms than use their shitty website. Yet more and more often once I show up I'm told to use one of their computers to access their website. I could have done that from home!
Just because overall energy balance will determine whether you're generally losing or gaining weight doesn't mean hormones aren't important, or that macro/micros aren't also important. I'm not sure what you're basing the fact that energy balance hasn't "stood the test of time". It's been well researched for decades.
Since I have found, Keybase is my favorite for this kind of situations. https://keybase.io
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> People really think free markets are better.

Sure - despite being proven that charter schools (ie, free choice) have worse or equivalent scores to public schools [1]. There is not agreement here, there is controversy and the facts are not on the so-called "free markets" side.

[1] http://www.nea.org/home/33177.htm
> Does anybody enforce this or do we just take Google at their word?

Yes, the DHHS Office of Civil Rights enforces HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. That enforcement is reactive of there is no independent regular compliance certification or monitoring required, however, which is a weakness, but the fact that detection of violation can lead to personal as well as institutional penalties, and that those penalties are criminal as well as civil, means it's not a risk that decision-makers tend to be willing to take on just because it would (so long as undetected) provide a business opportunity.
Interesting question, honestly I don't know.

BTW I can see that you are French ^^