skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: Googler here, my opinions are my own.

I have no non-public knowledge of this topic besides these two Guardian reports, and the Google public blog post on the same subject[1].

I do, however, have nearly a decade in non-Google work experience working in clinical documentation technologies for a company who had BAAs with literally dozens of health companies.

I simply do not understand the objection this whistle-blower is raising. As far as I understand it, the controversy is simply because Google is involved.

> Above all: why was the information being handed over in a form that had not been “de-identified"

DeID is typically used at the edges of an IT system, and is tailored to the rights of certain users accessing the system. If you have a system that says, "A ha! There's a patient with a 5mm AAA with no evidence of follow-up! They need a procedure STAT!", you obviously need to have the original documentation to know who to contact.

There are ways to keep PHI (identifying info) separated from documentation, but if Google is both the cloud storage provider and doing R&D, both sides of that system would fall on the Google side of the fence.

The bulk transfer of documents was almost certainly done via HL7v2 messages which, IIRC, don't have any built-in mechanism for redacting PHI, and if it did usually health systems lack the expertise do this consistently between all BAAs they contract with.

> I was worried too about the security aspect of placing vast amounts of medical data in the digital cloud.

I mean, yeah, this is an important set of data. In previous years the issues were people walking out of the health system with their laptop and it getting stolen with 1ks of records on it. Cloudification has certainly reduced the vectors to steal large quantities of data.

> data potentially being handed on to third parties;

Their BAA specifically prevents this.

> adverts one day being targeted at patients according to their medical histories.

Again, the law specifically prevents this use. These are all hypothetical scenarios.

> Full HIPAA compliance must be enforced, and boundaries must be put in place to prevent third parties gaining access to the data without public consent.

There simply is no evidence that full HIPAA compliance isn't being followed.

> Employees at big tech companies having access to personal information

Thousands of employees at Ascension have this level of access. I personally had access to millions of health care records. BUT! There were auditing systems in place. If you attempted to use that access outside of the scope of your job, you're fired, no second chance.

> To quote one of my role models, Luke Skywalker: “May the force be with you”.

Are you kidding me? Is this satire?

> In short, patients and the public have a right to know what’s happening to their personal health information at every step along the way.

In short, the concerns here are all hypothetical. There's no basis of any wrong doing. There is no proposal to actually address these concerns in a practical way.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...
Sure pays to be at the top of that pyramid.
"Workflow" is such a loaded/broad/bifurcated term.

In this case we seem to be talking about "Scientific Computing Workflow" or some sort of data pipeline. (As opposed to some sort of "Enterprise" workflow)
Most don't require cooling, but will have better clocks. The 4 itself throttles under heat (above 60C and heavily over 80C), and seems to have good enough behavior even if not actively cooled.
Some of these worries would go away if Tesla did two easy things: (a) delete recordings in a few minutes if nothing bad was detected and (b) ensure these recordings aren't uploaded to the internet (similar to SD-backed dash cams).
Surprised it's including pip, if it's really this old or tightly coupled, it's common to not have pip at all, or the old pip version simply can't run.

If it can help you. The trick I use is to install a normal python 2.7 interpreter with pip. Then you can use it to install software to any directory, including the one from the other application. There are flags to specify what to install, from where to where, internet or not, something like

pip install packagename --target=/to/app/lib
Altered name of story, actually:”Paypall pulls out of Pornhub”
"Failed to compile Chrome" is a pretty huge caveat in which, I guess, your readers might take an interest.
A somewhat relevant read from the author: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...
The famous trick they do which I know that they've talked about is "Shadows" -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJH9iFOji_A

In the interview I saw, they don't talk about how they actually do it, but they've talked about the ways they could do it, or have done it in the past, but don't anymore -- and why.

Good luck finding that interview. I found it extremely interesting, but can't dig it up at the moment.
Is hard to take this last paragraph seriously when most of what the reviewer has said up to that point sounds grumpy and reluctant:

“...risking his reputation on cranky ideas, for revising masterpieces and making them worse, for alienating friends and abandoning family.”

“...self-destructive impulses led Graves to think he could safely inhabit a household comprising himself, his wife Nancy, his lover Laura Riding, his wife’s lover Geoffrey Taylor, and several children. Their “quadrilateral” ended poorly, with Graves hurling himself from a third-story window in pursuit and imitation of Riding, who had just thrown herself from the fourth floor.”

“Perhaps he expected that someone, someday would do for him what he had once done for the Roman emperor Claudius...”

“...a few on the esoteric and occult fringes still agree with him.”

“... Graves, never humble, characterized the “inspiration” that descended upon him...”

“Can we read Graves without looking to the moon?”

“When writing fiction, he almost invariably constructs so sturdy a framework of fact, theory, conjecture, and supposition that the conventional pleasures of fiction are elided.”

“Perhaps Nausicaa is Graves’s self-portrait as ruthless artist.”

“Graves is a great accumulator of incidental detail and memorable anecdotes but, as ever, he’s an indifferent analyst of character.”

“Dozens of Graves’s books have little hope of emerging from the lead casket of obscurity.”
Show HN: New Social Media for Animations and Digital Art
Agree, as a game engine this might power some high-end Stadia games with crazy physics, but the real value is in high-complexity environments for virtual agents.

Interestingly companies like SideFX are also doing really interesting work in distributed simulations. (e.g. Houdini)
But we can't classify them as employees and have Uber's current driver experience, they would have to regulate their drivers more like a normal taxi service due to minimum wage laws and fixed overhead per employee.
How to crush the whiteboard coding interview and get an offer (by a manager)
All of it is designed hijack your attention against your own interests. What you call "positive emotional response" is only positive from the point of view of the advertiser.

From the point of view of the victims, it as intrusion on their thoughts of attention, and almost always an attempt to implant a desire into their mind.

Ads are art to the same degree that cannibalism is gastronomy.
> You can't just come in here with "the literature has shown" in $current_year.

Read the book. Every chapter covers an idea on how to best use one's monetary resources to increase happiness, and there are dozens of endnotes to studies for each chapter.

This is literally the book author's field of study. If you have a problem with the claims, talk to her: I'm just the messenger and will bow to the experts.
Agreed. d3.js really is the answer here
The buying power of $1 USD has diminished massively over time and continues to do so. Every year the money in your wallet is worth at least 1.8% less. Over your lifetime that becomes a substantial loss in buying power.
geeky nitpick -- do not use `while [ true ]; do ..`

It's not doing what you think; `true` here is just a non-zero length string. `while [ false ]; do ..` does the exact same thing!

Use `while true; do ...`. Or better `while :; do ...`

Even better, depending on the context, is

while sudo sudo /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp; do
sleep 2
done

PS. why two sudos?
To avoid the FT paywall http://archive.is/qJrfr
RCE in Cisco VoIP Adapters
> so drivers would be forced to give up $6 per ride extra in taxes.

how is this different than anyone else who has to work in the state? You can replace drivers with almost any other job. Why should uber drivers get special treatment when its comes to paying taxes?
Oh, I'm sending it back to be looked at. The hat that comes with the picade doesn't have space for a heatsink or fan under it (as the instructions are put together to assemble it) so I'm also suspecting that its early doors for the Pi4 and picade still.
I think something like Sandstorm/Cloudron is the way forward with decentralization. I'm more than happy to pay someone else to manage all my services for me. But I see where my apps are hosted as the least interesting question. The important issue for me is lock-in. How easy would it be to switch if Cloudron does something I don't like, or if they outright ban me for some reason? If it's easy to switch, that keeps incentives aligned and fosters competition and progress. Does Cloudron do anything to mitigate lock-in?
Except that nowhere in my post do I explicitly say travels. Travelling is not the only way to create experiences. (I personally have no interest in it.)
Sorry, but how is that a proof?

It's not clear whether there is a number A with decimal expansion (a_1 a_2 ... a_k ) such that there doesn't exist a positive number X for which

X ! = (a_{1} a_{2} ... a_{k} x_{k+1} x_{k+1} ... x_{s} )

for some arbitrary length s in the decimal expansion of X! .
I didn't say it wouldn't affect google. If everyone who uses the internet suddenly realized the joy of ad free browsing, then that would be something of a paradigm shift in my opinion.
U.S. wants Marshall Islands nuclear waste dome to be graffiti free
Could be really interesting to add cheap cameras and OpenCV to this concept!
I want Facebook and similar companies to stop doing things that are causing significant harm to society.

Your approach seems unnecessarily complicated and prone to failure, I prefer we instead pass legislation and solve the problem quickly and with largely guaranteed success. Will this cause disproportionate harm to a relatively small number of mostly wealthy people in the process? I imagine, but sometimes life's not fair. Roll around crying tears in your piles of money.

Or, recognize that tempers are rising and mass torch construction planning is underway, and adjust your business practices accordingly. No one is forcing them to do anything, yet. They might not be so lucky if someone like a Bernie Sanders was somehow able to slip through the political filters like Trump managed to.
Not zero.
It’s perfectly representative of the point, which is that the analogy is simply wrong.
Doubt. Porn is one thing, but, to take a moral public stand in the same year of the Chef/Github/ICE controversy seems risky.
What about what the other commenter mentioned - physical constants? There is no room for exponential growth there (or any sort of growth, for that matter).
Their second layer network (lightning) is still very early, but it really does solve a lot of the slowness issues. I use it for purchases a few times a week, and rarely run into issues.

If you have a few minutes and a few dollars in bitcoin, install Breez wallet, and try it with a few sites like yalls.org.

Note: This obviously doesn't solve the value fluctuation problem.
> Let's be honest though, travelling is becoming less fun in the era of mass travel.

Traveling is not the only way to create experiences. I (the person you replied to) have no interest in it. I'd rather spend time/money on a local motorcycle racetrack staring at the upcoming corner and figuring out the best line.
Walking around my neighborhood in NYC, I wonder how human life expectancy got beyond thirty-five years before the arrival of CBD based on the claims being made in shop windows and on sandwich boards obstructing sidewalk traffic.
Linux Kernel would probably be good. WSL could probably do it without much trouble though I don't know how WSL affects performance compared to native Linux.

Compiling Visual Studio Code Typescript could be an interesting target too.

There should be a large open-source C# and/or Java project out there that can be compiled as well.
The reason GPUs exist is because CPUs don't scale.
>Who could possibly threaten a bank over handling financial transactions for sex workers? And what could they possibly threaten the bank with?

The SESTA/FOSTA for banking seems to be coming:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-sex-workers-are-wary-of-el...

"Warren’s joint effort with Florida Senator Marco Rubio in 2017 to introduce legislation that would enable banks to discriminate against sex worker, known as the “End Banking for Human Traffickers Act.” (Despite bipartisan support Warren and Rubio’s initiative was never voted on by the Senate, but the same bill has been reintroduced this year as H.R.295 - End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2019 and just passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March.) "
The old world. Europe.
Why is self.foo more elegant? It's very rare that you'll call a given method as self.foo, and there's a slew of complications that come with such a syntax (the declaration grammar is more complex, `self` is now special, etc.)

It's true that languages are abstractions, but not all abstractions are useful.
Zipf’s Law is related, but not quite the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law
Ibsen's Soulcraft
This movie is available on Amazon Prime.

It's not bad, but my recommendation is to go into it with the expectation of a Black Mirror episode rather than something you might pay to see in the cinema.
I know there's an economic element to networks, but in the context of what we're talking about, more people having a telephone is a measure of the products quality, not supply. Capacity of the network would equal supply. Right?

Unless I'm grossly missing something.
>The use of medallions was actually to protect the public

Imagine believing this.

https://slate.com/business/2012/06/taxi-medallions-how-new-y...

>The public hasn’t fared much better. Deep-pocketed medallion owners have hijacked public policy through lobbying and legal challenges. Just last week medallion owners won a legal victory blocking Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to create a fleet of “green cabs” to serve New York’s outer boroughs, and last year medallion owners successfully stymied New York’s attempt to shift to hybrid taxis.

Just one example in the article of the great protection medallions offered.
History note: The US was tear-gassing universities over 50 years ago. From helicopters.
I bet the founding team took half of the 200M and put it in their personal bank accounts.

This is called a secondary.

After so many years I am happy for them. But some people think this practice is a sketchy

WDYT?
> I'm sure you and many other HNers will hate that answer, but I stand by it.

I don't "hate" it; I just don't think it's worth anything. It's incredibly foolish to think that your own experiences qualify you to make sweeping statements about something as weird and subtle as human sexuality.

> As to your second point, if shallow and transactional sexual relationships becoming more common does not seem to you like a downside, I doubt we will ever see eye to eye on this.

Probably not. They're not my cup of tea personally, just because I am who I am, but again I don't consider that a basis for making a value judgment. I would love to hear you clearly articulate why you do attach a negative value judgment to this hypothetical increase in casual sex. Maybe you will change my mind—I am a reasonable person.

> google "consequences of extreme sexual liberation" and find any number of articles

The results of this were laughable. Nothing but more opinion and editorializing (that seems to be a theme here).

> I'm unwilling to go into more detail as sharing my opinions on topics less controversial than this has resulted in real life threats more than once.

Well, this is the internet and I'm not going to threaten you. If you can't produce a cogent argument, that's on you.
> Porn is legal if everybody involved is above age and gives consent and is capable of giving consent at the time and that consent is properly recorded and the resulting content is not judged criminally "obscene" by some judge in a hick town. Which is way too many ifs for most banks, particularly given the meager returns on offer.

By why is the bank on the hook here? Is the ISP on the hook for serving the content? If the bank followed the regulations around KYC why would they be liable?
most apple users here would disagree

plus i m not sure if you re aware how extreme your position is

Most of our beautiful classical art was advertisements for the Church

most graffiti is uglier than ads
Does anyone know of any solutions to this?

Are there any payment options that have so far been immune to this issue?

Maybe it's worth setting up alternative payment methods, even if the percent they charge per transaction is much higher, just to ensure stability of access to funds.
At least on mobile (also with the "desktop version" feature in chrome) it was a real pain in the ass to compare the pricing plans, everything has the same color/font and nothing stands out (like the numbers for example). I think one of these pricing tables with the plans on the x and the features on the y axis would be a good idea. :)
The great American tax haven
Banking is a citizen right. Well, at least it should be.

In Germany every bank is obliged to offer everyone (including homeless, overindebted, asylum seekers, etc.) a so-called base account, which offers a way to receive payments and pay the bills and get a basic debit card. However, the law has a mistake: The price of the base account is not regulated. And many banks charge more than for a "normal" account.

Germany is still a cash country in many aspects. It's worse in Sweden in Finland, where you often cannot buy a train ticket without a debit (or credit) card, cash is no longer accepted.
Why don't Microsoft Lawyers know this?

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/

Nor Oracle?

https://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html

Nor Google?
https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9028757?hl=en

The actual reason is that Amazon doesn't want anyone making a buck of Amazon's name. They are ruthless about capturing all the value in a relationship. Amazon does things like require 1+yr free trials of enterprise software and charging for the privilege of not being under NDA.
Great, now Facebook has yet another channel of data to mine your pictures for…
Live in an adult dorm? Starcity thinks you would, for the right price [video]
> Good. There should never be a single source that you trust to always tell you the truth.

Society develops by relying on building trust and reputation. Information coming from a trustworthy source with good reputation is generally more valuable than information coming from someone who's known to be a liar. Current trend shifts the values in a way, where more engaging information produces more revenue. If you extrapolate it further, you get into a situation where society is reduced the level of cavemen when there's no way to share information because there's no trust and the only way to learn something is to experience is first-hand.
I hate the idea of ads:

When you get around to the concept of using ad-supported media for "free", you know where you left off. For instance, if you were willing to give up on ads, you'd make an explicit change to ban people from social media. It may not hurt them in the long run, but it's certainly useful for people and probably also for advertisers.

This way, advertisers get more value out of advertising, and they don't have a need for ads on other platforms.

The big problem is not that you don't own all the content that you don't own, but that many of your content is being used. That is not the same as blocking adverts.
It shows {fracPart(log10(n!))} is dense.
Wouldn't leaving a persistent flaw in Google search results which could be avoided by using a vertical search engine be an example of Google assisting vertical-search start-ups?
greendot.com
Thanks! It's been quite nice having more platforms using it, and it's a nice mix between human-readable output and machine-readable markup.

I've found it useful because when I want to create an RSVP for an event, I can parse the event's data automagically, and then generate an [iCalendar feed for these RSVPs](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/27/rsvp-calendar/)
Try dropping a neodymium magnet down a length of copper pipe sometime. I would think that sensation would be quite disturbing from something hugging a tooth.
Wouldn't that still require some kind of cooperation from banks or credit card companies? If someone knows a way that doesn't require cooperation from these, that would be great.

(I suppose one way would be to set up some sort of "western union" where you could deposit cash and someone at the "bank" would change the number in your account balance accordingly... But maybe there are regulations about this?)
Enums are technically defined with a metaclass, as are abstract base classes and most other weird special classes (but in all cases you access the metaclass by subclassing something). Dataclasses are the one exception, and they do this for pragmatic reasons: multiple metaclasses are tricky. So a decorator allows the existence of an abstract dataclass, for example.
That's essentially what the movie Middle Men was about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Men_(film)
>my boys would still need some model of what it is to lead a good life as a man

I'm bothered by how this article insists that boys need some kind of model to imitate. Are people incapable of thinking for themselves? I grew up without a father figure or any kind of role model and I'm significantly more successful than the average person my age.
I’ve always wondered why the food vendor wanted to sell him less food and make less money.
The people that advertisers are trying to reach are the people who would pay for an ad free experience. Billionaires are not using Facebook or instagram except in a curated fashion.
Apple sometimes makes mistakes, but their trackpads are not one of those. Exponentially better than what Lenovo uses for ThinkPads.
When we're talking about prices of goods, an increase in demand increases the monetary price of the goods. Price itself is a ratio, as William Stanley Jevons noted, of currency per unit of good.

When we're talking about demand for money, an increase in demand for money means that it is valued more highly than goods or services. The price of money in this context, is ... goods and services. That is, a higher demand for money means a (comparatively) lower demand for goods and services.

Which is to say, a propensity to offer a smaller amount of money for a given unit of goods and services.

An increased demand for money === a decrease in nominal prices. By supply/demand logic.
Ok, is it just cynical of me to say "Ok, here is their 'one time expense' for this quarter to show why they aren't profitable yet?

That said, the company has so much regulatory risk associated with it. It has the feel that the "system" is working very hard to punish the "disrupter" in a fatal way to discourage other such disrupters.
"nobody" is a figure of speech of course. It's easy to settle the question with a poll: ask people worldwide if you 'd pay $40/year for FB. My bet would be it's < 5%
it's mostly about ill-conceived laws intended to protect vulnerable people, which in fact harm those exact people
“NSA has stopped breaking the law and violating the constitution”