skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The requirements were not changed. Supervisors of almost every working class position already wear different clothes to begin with. Heck, even doctors wear different clothing than nurses, teachers than students, coaches from athletes, etc.

The general point is to capitalize on preexisting information than to do the "true" solution which is error prone and even a human might not have 100% accuracy at, due to the fact that in certain settings (such as this hypothetical) the perfected solution cannot be accomplished without constraints.
Don't have to put money into R&D.

Between the MRC and NIHR, the UK's NHS puts at least a couple of billions (Sterling) into clinical research each year, making them the largest clinical research funder in Europe. They're not researching generics. Oh and they were one of the original funders of PubMed Europe.

I can think of lots of things the government does better than the private sector, although admittedly outside the US.
I honestly don't understand where the perception comes from that this technology is only useful for laundering and speculation. Certainly it is currently being used for those purposes. But to say there is no imaginable use outside of that seems unwarranted.

I've commented in the past here that the use of public blockchains to automate the functions of clearinghouses and escrow services will be a huge cost reduction for many industries such as finance. The technology as of today is not ready to handle that use case, but with the developments currently in the pipeline for Ethereum v2, progress is being made in that direction.

If you look at what MakerDAO is doing with the Dai stablecoin, they've proven that it's possible to create a synthetic asset closely pegged to the dollar purely through financial incentives, and they did it all just using Ethereum v1. A holder of Dai can earn 4% APY through a Dai Savings Account, and a vote is currently in place to raise the rate to 6%.

I personally find it incredible that an asset exists on the blockchain that's equivalent in value to USD, with a higher APY than you can get from any US bank. And because everything is on the blockchain, there's a public ledger of exactly how much is being collected in interest from those who are collateralizing their Ether for a Dai loan, how much of that interest is being paid to savings account holders, and how much is being collected by the system as surplus. It's the closest thing we have right now to a decentralized bank.

Whether or not you buy into the technology, it's improving by the day and more and more use cases and applications are being tried out and built. If all you see in blockchain is money laundering and speculation, you haven't been paying attention.
> As has been remarked over and over again, they don't solve any above board problem more efficiently or with lower expense than existing technologies.

If you mean by that, it's possible to have a fiat currency with no dilution, that is true.

Crypto currencies are fundamentally a political innovation; it is much more politically expensive to force dilution onto a crypto-currency than a fiat one. Whether that's valuable enough, I suppose we'll see.
As the scarcity increase would they become more valuable or less valuable?
I remember people assuming bitcoin will just keep doubling in price forever. Oh wait, they are still right here.
Explanatory video

https://youtu.be/_T8cn2J13-4
I’d much rather see a practical and modern replacement for physical cash that doesn’t impose a multiple percentage point revenue hit on businesses than a $200k bitcoin.
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Sure, that sounds reasonable to me.
To be fair, that doesn't make it good! :-)
> Consider the source, right? How many people without a large vested interest in the propagation and uptake of cryptocurrency consider further growth likely?

I agree with you in general, but also: The reason it's not that many is because the ones who see further growth, gets a interest into it, maybe even vested interest. So, not a good argument.
If American consumers stop subsidizing health care R&D costs, what will happen to the R&D? Will it decrease? Will health care costs in other countries increase as they start to bear some of it?
They offer financial assistance as well as a limited access model which removes access to their mobile offerings and other value-add items.

https://www.onemedical.com/faq/membership-fee-alternatives/
I haven't used it in maybe 3 years or so, so some of this could be misremembered a bit, but I didn't have a great experience with fluentd.

Trying to do much customization was kind of painful, the config file structure is kind of confusing and the docs were sparse and differ depending on the plugin you're using, and there's no validation of the config so if you have any of the arguments slightly wrong it'll fail silently.

The modularity of routing and filtering logs seems like it would be great, but it turns out not to be all that flexible, you really have to follow the framework's preconceived idea of how the processing pipeline should work. I forget the details but we were trying to do some processing on the logs, like ensuring they're valid json and adding a few fields to them based on other metadata source, and it would have required writing our own plugin. In other ways it felt too modular for its own good, like it's up to individual plugins to implement anything they need and the core doesn't seem to provide you with much. Even things like an error handling or retry framework are not built in, so if a plugin throws an unexpected exception it's not handled gracefully. One plugin we were using would just stop sending logs until we restarted the fluentd process if it ever got an http failure from being temporarily unable to connect to the api, because they hadn't built in their own retry/recovering mechanism. Granted this was for a pretty new logging SAAS service we were trying out, if you're sticking with the basics like files and syslog it's probably more robust, but at that point you also might not need the flexibility promised by a tool like fluentd.
It's COMPLETELY optional. If you want to see a doctor there via insurance, paying a co-pay, you are not obligated to pay the annual fee.
The warlord part was at the very end of their post.
> anonymity/privacy

Nope. Bitcoin and others don't solve this at all. They're a literal permanent ledger of every single transaction you've ever made. Other coins might be better at anonymity, but BTC and its derivatives are certainly not.
Your anecdotes of falling without hitting your head aren't very relevant. And if you had such an accident, you might not be capable of posting here.
s/systematic/systemic/
Command & Conquer had several Marauders
By itself it is just stupid. Standard defines "EqualityComparable" property and which parts of STL require it to be satisfied. There even some places where it notes that EqualityComparable property isn't required. It is much easier to get UB by having bad < operator.
>But he underestimated the progression of hardware, as the problem has been solved earlier than expected.

>He used a bog standard PC with an Intel Core i7-6700 processor

So it was mainly just raw hardware and patience rather than any novel math technique? The title is slightly misleading then.
Those online competitive team games are pretty unfriendly, though. If you try something new or fail to keep up with the latest flavor-of-the-month playstyle, people will flip out on you. You're suddenly preventing this guy from realizing his life goals of climbing to the top of the ladder and becoming a world-renowned player.

I love MOBAs, but I can't bring myself to try out LoL or DotA2 again since I don't want to deal with angry teammates
The next decade will be the decade of survelliance. Nearly dust size receivers will cost nothing and will be generously used everywhere: from concrete blocks to clothes. The US will come up with a clever use case so people will buy this themselves (finding a matching pair of socks will finally become a trackable problem, thanks to receivers in all socks), while authoritarian countries will implant these chips in lieu of passports and credit cards. Paired with 5G, this will be a perfect always online monitoring system.

I don't think there will be any notable advancements in science: we won't create AI, we won't cure cancer and we won't switch to electric cars.
It can be funny sometimes depending on the cheater (and the cheats) but more often than not it's some preteen edgelord just ruining the game for everyone.

Air dropping a platoon of parachute equipped cows over Cherno during the zombie apocalypse? Pretty funny.

Teleporting behind the enemy team as they spawn and instantly headhotting everyone in 1/2 a second during a competitive FPS? Not fun.

When you have a couple of hours a week to play your favourite game only to have it ruined by cheaters for your entire play time it is the definition of not fun.

I have zero problem with people cheating in single player games but when you start negatively affecting others experiences that's where the line should be drawn.
Maybe it’s reacting with something in the uniforms? That way the uniforms by themselves would still pass toxicology testing
Cryptocurrency can't have widespread adoption right now, because it's not scalable enough. Various projects are working hard on fixing that.
Just remembered the puck building[1] has these on the sidewalks surrounding the Houston street side, if you go into the Eastern Mountain Sports store and down the stairs you can see them from below.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_Building
B2B is different from B2C. With that being said, just checked their B2C site - for example a commodity like women jeans is $25-35 on the low end. The Land's End manufacturing seems to be mostly China, India, Mexico. It is hard to be cheapest than that.
Looks like usually less than $1000 (https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/wall-charger-installat...).

Plus you don't need 240v, you can charge slowly on 110 which could make sense depending on how much you drive.

Plus you can charge elsewhere.

But yes the incentive number is silly on their pricing page.
Police use Apple Watch data to disprove attack claims
The most important challenge cryptocurrencies face is capturing real world value. The ICO craze turned out to create basically 0 value on any crypto platform, and the more recent wave of tokenized securities will be very slow because there are lots and lots of regulations that need to be addressed by token issuers (for good reason).

The value of our public goods however is not being captured by any financial asset, and is a huge market that can be addressed by cryptocurrencies. This is something I'm quite passionate about and have put a lot of time into thinking through how they might work (see link below). As an example, AirCarbon (https://www.aircarbon.co) is a Singapore exchange being built on an Ethereum token and will tokenize CORSIA-certified carbon credits for the airline industry. This is a fantastic example of a huge market ($100+ billion) that is right now extremely inefficient, and will benefit greatly from moving onto a globally accessible and permissionless ledger. It'll provide everyone in the world the ability to invest in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, and even better, since the tokens also work as stores of value, investors can sell their tokens in the future.

This type of financial asset has enormous potential.

"Tokenized Goods - A New Store of Value": https://medium.com/@tpgwhitepaper/tokenized-public-goods-a-n...
Still concerned about getting clipped by a careless driver of a 5000lb. machine. It's unfortunate.
This, totally this.

A weird situation though is that socially we're closer to the 1920's-30's, whereas geopolitically it's much more like the 1900's-10's. Weird how history repeats itself, never quite the same, and I won't fall for numerology, and yet. Here we are.
Plenty up north too. Don't ever remember seeing a purple one though, pretty much always the green you'd expect of very thick glass.
We run on GCP and I have to say that Stackdriver Logging with the google fluentd agent is actually pretty good and relatively cheap. I don't like Stackdriver's metrics at all, but Logging feels more like part of GCP. Fluentd has given me far fewer problems than logstash or filebeat did when we were running an ELK setup. The search UI is obviously nowhere near as nice as something like Kibana, but it gets the job done. If you aren't on GCP, it's not worth it, but if you are, the whole setup is "good enough" that you might not need to set something more sophisticated up (I'm still looking at Loki though because I can't help myself).
This is not bad, but once in this territory, why not just add some tracking beacon to a badge?
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It is, but approximately 100% of startups (ICOs) formed around it have failed right?

That's not to say there are none, but a fuck ton of people have tried to come up with cool ideas and approximately zero worked out, like at all.
Don't miss the link at the bottom of the article to CPU utilization numbers. tl;dr: Flutter and React Native are dramatically easier to develop for than native toolkits and Flutter CPU utilization is better than native toolkits. That... is not what I was expecting.
Matamachines [pdf]
Yes, absolutely, that is what I am arguing. I was trying to establish that running healthcare as a business isn't the only problem with healthcare.
> If you look at what MakerDAO is doing with the Dai stablecoin, they've proven that it's possible to create a synthetic asset closely pegged to the dollar purely through financial incentives, and they did it all just using Ethereum v1. A holder of Dai can earn 4% APY through a Dai Savings Account, and a vote is currently in place to raise the rate to 6%.
>I personally find it incredible that an asset exists on the blockchain that's equivalent in value to USD, with a higher APY than you can get from any US bank.

I also find this “incredible”, but in the old sense of the meaning as “not believable”.
Why do people use One Medical vs just having a doctor?

Been thinking about my current medical care and wondering the advantages
I wish more people would think like this. Javascript only gains you in latency if you handle things locally - which nobody does. That means that server-side rendering beats pretty much all SPA's, and somehow nobody cares. And if a client action results in 5 requests, as it often does, then server-side rendering is a lot faster.

Or to put it directly: craigslist is faster than amazon.com. And, frankly, more fun to use.
Hahaha, good point
It's a perfectly legitimate question. You present yourself as someone who knows what is going on in the country, so what do you think? My guess is you avoided answering the question because you know it has screwed up badly, and don't want to admit it.
Exactly. It has been 10+ years since the Bitcoin paper. No cryptocurrency has significant consumer adoption. [1], [2] Except for light financial crime (ransomware, money laundering, gambling, theft, etc), it has no demonstrated advantage over alternative technologies. I don't think it will go away, any more than Ponzi and Make Money Fast schemes have gone away. But like you, I expect it will fade into the background as "that weird old thing" as governmental KYC and AML efforts make it ever harder to convert it into real money.

I also expect that the fashion for it in VC investment, already waning, will totally fade by the end of the 2020s. And that regulators like the SEC will have ended the various its-not-equity equity investments, cutting off the other major source of funds.

[1] E.g.: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/nyregion/new-york-today-l...

[2] For "significant" contrast it with M-PESA, which is also digital money and launched around the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
Avoid peeping toms.
I have used sumologic, your servers send the logs to sumo and you can setup your alerts/monitoring/dashboards etc on their side.
Stupid question: Wouldn't the snow cover the vault lights? (I know, they could clear them by clearing the sidewalks...)
Is that actually a thing that happens routinely?
I walk past these all the time thinking they're just interesting design patterns on the floor...how dumb of me. Insightful article and fun read.
I grew up in Seattle. I still need to do the tour some day when I visit. So many cities have underground tours and I've heard great things about them.
Thanks for the kind words! That's fair, Minihack is a good app too! Personally I wanted more customizations in my experience and that's why I built HACK.
> Most new drugs come out of the US

How true is this though?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866602/

> Objectives. We explored whether the United States, which does not regulate pharmaceutical prices, is responsible for the development of a disproportionate share of the new molecular entities (NMEs; a drug that does not contain an active moiety previously approved by the Food and Drug Administration) produced worldwide.

[...]

> Conclusions. Higher prescription drug spending in the United States does not disproportionately privilege domestic innovation, and many countries with drug price regulation were significant contributors to pharmaceutical innovation.

And

> In the United Kingdom, the pharmaceutical industry invests more of its revenues from domestic sales in research and development than do companies in the United States.

The US pays a lot for medication, but a lot of that money is used for things that are not innovation (eg advertising). Countries that have better free markets for medications don't see less spending on innovation, they see more spending on innovation.
They're usually rootkits that are auto-installed by the game. They end up in Services and while they typically don't auto-start (i.e. the game starts the service and stops it at shutdown) they basically have full kernel-mode access to your PC for the stated purpose of "catching cheaters"

In the past these anti-cheat modules have caused compatibility issues or had security vulnerabilities, which is fun. DRM packages tended to be similar.

If I check my Services pane right now, I have Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye listed which are both anti-cheat services installed by steam/etc video games that run with System level permissions. IIRC PunkBuster also uses a system service.

Because these are system services, they stay installed even after you remove the game. There are ways to manually remove them of course but the moment you launch a game that uses them, they'll get reinstalled.
c# has been adding pattern matching capabilities to the switch statement and I think it's created a mess. Both syntax wise and possible bug prone. Switch went from choosing a distinct case to matching multiple cases. I'm sure Mads knows more than me though, so it's probably a safe change.
Having worked with AIM a lot over the years, I'm also very curious about this. In my experience, the people who work at AIM fulltime are very professional and experienced at putting together high quality grant proposals, and already receive substantial NSF funding. I'm thus optimistic that they can survive longterm without the direct support of John Fry.
Pretty cool! Any plans for some aggregate product metrics like rides completed per day etc
Most nicotine users can't just "not consume nicotine for a couple of weeks" without physical side effects. Most of the ones who can, already have given it up.
Presumably you're running your service as a container, and presumably you only run one master process per container. Print your logs to stdout/stderr, and then you can use any log-capturing mechanism (fluent bit?) to stream them to any log-indexing system.

Tweak your system so you can selectively turn on log collection, and collect useful metrics 24/7. Logs almost never matter until you're diagnosing an active problem, anyway, and then only a few logs will be necessary. Differentiating the type and quality of particular log messages is also very useful.
> "You have no idea of how much a votekick system will get abused."

Votekick systems used to work great for many games. They don't work in games with global ranking systems because those ranking systems create toxic incentives. Once games become "serious business" instead of casual fun, the knives come out.
The attacker wouldn't use that one in that case though.

https://uk.co.ee/billing-update-jan02.info
https://uk.co.ee-billing-update-jan02/info

Would be more likely.

Perhaps an animation showing both would help.
I have never heard of this before. Very interesting
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Quite easily solved. There are plenty of services that will put your coin through an anonymizer, much like a VPN, or Tor.
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At least one large tech company has a one medical office onsite in its big campuses, and gives employees a free membership. Didn’t think the $200/mo was worth it otherwise but it was great having the doctor there at work and other offices available if needed.
How would you do it if, instead of the E-mail address, you had the customer's phone number? You probably wouldn't call them out of the blue and ask them to do something, since that seems scammy. So why should a security-minded user treat an identical conversation over E-mail differently?

Is this need real though? I can't think of a legit example where out of nowhere (i.e. not in the context of some transaction I'm currently doing with them), a company would suddenly need me to fix something, do something for them, or provide them information.
Oh interesting. I wonder what the workflow actually is for that then.

I guess it’s not open source. :(
Have you asked your account manager? I find they are often pretty open with information about forthcoming features (including giving you early access).
Yes, a hundred times yes. Addiction is a learned behavior and it is very difficult to unlearn. Once the brain is wired for pleasure seeking, free will is a joke.

Our environment is changing far faster than we can adapt. It will be interesting to see the long-term impact.

Iceland has used a data-driven approach to improve kids health. Youth drug use rates have plummeted. If I had kids, I'd be following their model. This graph[0] is very impressive.

[0] https://www.icenews.is/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GetAsset.a...
JavaScript will last. There's no question there at all.
What is the important feature in 12 that you need?

I've usually run PG outside of RDS on i3 instances as I didn't want to rely that heavily on EBS due to past cascading outages with it.
yes, the segway's innovation was essentially a consequence of moore's law: consumer-oriented computers and sensors were small enough, fast enough, robust enough, and power-efficient enough to calculate dynamic stability for locomotion in real-time (my field of study in grad school).

it was awe-inspiring and admirable from an engineering standpoint, but painfully misapplied and dorky from a societal one.

kamen could have used this technological advance on any number of (existing) personal transport machines, but he chose to invent his own, as inventors are wont to do.