skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the wrong takeaway.

The article states pretty clearly from the interview with Senator Mark Warner:

> “To my knowledge, Health and Human Services has done nothing about it,” Warner told TechCrunch. “As Health and Human Services aggressively pushes to permit a wider range of parties to have access to the sensitive health information of American patients without traditional privacy protections attached to that information, HHS’s inattention to this particular incident becomes even more troubling,” he added.

It's not that they're doing nothing, they're supposedly making it worse.

They're also underfunded. OCR budget dropped to 10% of its previous budget between 2017 and 2018:

https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2018/budget-in-brief/ocr/...

So, when you ask "why would these companies care?", I think the current federal government is trying to say "these companies _should not_ care."
Maybe the implication is that it’s a weak product because it depends on a third party platform to continue functioning. If chrome eliminated extensions tomorrow, or changed its TOS so honey would be in violation, what would honey do?
Frankly, you are reading subtexts in the original post that are clearly not there. The sensible interpretation is that Parisians don't look like the stereotype that non-French have: https://www.google.com/search?q=stereotypical+frenchman&tbm=...
[OP here] no, quite a lot came from American VC firms who wanted "crypto exposure" in late 2017.

Funnily enough, actual crypto VCs thought Grams were nonsense and stayed the hell away.

So in the US at least, Telegram skinned only and precisely the most deserving suckers!

The Russian investors were who I was thinking of with "a robust response to perceived shenanigans." Messing them around is likely unwise, no matter what the sales agreement says.
> I'd expect the driver to stop the meter

That’s not allowed in most jurisdictions - the driver would lose their licence. They have to drive on the meter and can't barter separately unless it's outside the region.

> If not, what'd be the point in getting a quote?

There isn’t one! That's what I was saying!
And Sony made him gave that with pennies.
The fact that there's no wireless in it may make it simpler, but being an eol niche product may mean that there are only single digit potential users. It may all come down to whether an existing generic for the processor family will work on it.
A lot of people eat food grown with recycled sewage and don't even know it.

Every excretion flushed in the city of Chicago ends up as fertilizer on midwest farms. Mostly soybeans, IIRC.

A lot of zoos sell their surplus animal dung in big bags called "zoo poo." It's used in home gardens and small scale community farms.
Using the data we what have would already be a big gain. I think that's AI's biggest contribution.
I've seen a lot of time and complexity go into improving functionality beat by someone who wrote code to track what actions were taken, and adjust based on frequency of use.
The first option is needed if you have no data and cannot gather the data, the second is great because it can adjust itself over time.

This is where I see the SRE (site reliability engineers) role. The developers making changes are put into a position where they measure the cost impact of a decision.

It's these feedback loops, and the practices they instill, that I believe we need. New programmers can help break the mold, but without good feedback they'll fall into the same traps.
I think this is an argument against the "we live in a simulator" idea - the amount of detail is just too much.
The SEC's case says "refund the investors." The money may have been spent, however. (That's what the last para, about bank records, is about.)
> Also, are you sure Rust has "a C compiler built in?[1]"

It depends on how you look at it I guess. Rust can represent C FFI directly in the language and has many great tools for incorporating C into the language elegantly, like bindgen, which you allude to. I'm not sure I would call this a gap having worked with incorporating Rust into C projects and also C into Rust projects.
Uber has more cash to spend pushing the other side of that narrative, how much better off drivers were prior to AB 5. The gambit for Uber is, if they don’t flat reverse this law in CA, NY then WA will adopt it, followed by all Blue States. And then it’s game over for them. They will cost more than a taxi. And taxis will cost more due to the same contractor to employee conversion.
> I'm not a fanboy of pg

Predictably there are many fanboys of PG. Very generally a negative comment about PG that is not packaged correctly and with care will get a certain amount of backlash on HN vs. the same about an unknown or lesser known person. It's as if the 'fanboys' feel it is their duty to defend the person (PG or otherwise). And (per my comment elsewhere) it's that love that drives the haters. It feels (to the hater) undeserved.

The ironic part of all of this is survival wise the non fanboy (what PG would call 'hater' but don't agree with that wording but will go with it) is way more likely to engage and interact with others vs. the famous person. For example if someone were to write to you 'codingdave' most likely you would interact, engage or help (and if you didn't my guess is most others similar to you would). The fanboy who has defended the famous person won't get the time of day from that person (or a trivial interaction at best). The fanboy doesn't even exist in the eyes of the famous person.

I've had similar experiences with my own family. At a dinner with relatives they will totally get up in arms over some person who they don't know, that doesn't care about them, that doesn't know they even exist. They will get into a fight (with a person close to them) defending that person. And what they will do is burn a bridge with a person that is of direct relationship (and 'value') that survival wise would make more sense not to 'piss off' (for lack of a better way to put it).
They want to be able to spend money in the first-world financial system. They touch the US. A US monetary judgement is widely enforceable. The idea that Telegram can just go "US lol" is not the case.
It really applies to every industry -- people push back against things that they see as impediments to their work. Many/most HN visitors are software developers, and if you've worked in a Fortune 500 virtually all of us have gone to war with IT. "Don't they understand that we're special and we need special rights and privileges" etc. And often we have legitimate grievances because often arbitrary, counter-productive, productivity-sapping restrictions weigh us down. Often they're illusions of security.

And I'm sure on some IT admin board they talk about all of those entitled developers and this one time this one developer did something really stupid, ergo all developers are god-complex dummies.
I agree. "SMS is not 2FA-secure" implies SMS is not suitable for 2FA at all. In reality, SMS 2FA is still very valuable to most people, even though it's not secure enough.
https://openwrt.org/feed.php?mode=list&ns= does list 19.07.
This times a thousand.

Im constantly torn between 'new highs for years' vs 'but we had 2 bubbles see how those went?'
Packed Bed
Being unfit for human consumption is actually a feature not a draw back. We need to trigger growth and get humans off the sand so that nature can do her thing.

I met someone once who after sinking tons of his own money into projects argued you need poop and some kind of toxins to keep people and their goats away for at least 30-50 years. His experience was that people destroying everything scales much faster than constructive effort. You turn your back and everything is gone.

Of course something is to be said for economically viable greening but if you just want to restore nature you should aim to do just that.

I don't have the numbers here but I found calculating how many large trees you need to sustain 1 human vs how much electrolysis it would take pretty mind boggling.
Creating a private/public key pair on Ubuntu
how long until google shuts down their health service apps
> They are older than flat earthers

Umm, no. Flat earthers have been around since long before we’ve even had chemo or known what cancer is...
Fun experiment: use google maps API to search a major US metro area for medical practices. Pick out any websites that don't use TLS. Crawl them for HTML forms that include common PHI keywords. You'll find a lot. Those same practices are usually going to have a whole mess of more serious HIPAA issues.
Create a Forest in UE4 in 1 Hour (2017)
This is a topic that really interests me, but I couldn't read the article -- either a paywall, ad-wall, or some other reader-hostile blocker incongruent with the foundation of the Internet prevents usability. Ah well. I'll join the conversation regardless.

For all the programmers out there -- _how do we do this?_. I came into programming through Matlab and Python in Economics and Data Science. I don't have formal training in software engineering. I know some C, some Fortran, and have a journeryman's understanding of how my tools interact with the hardware they run on.

Where can I learn how to be extremely efficient and treat my operating environment always as resource constrained? Am I correct in seeing the rise of point-and-click cloud configuration hell-sites like AWS are masking the problem by distributing inefficiently? (sorry if unrelated, spent hours debugging Amazon Glue code last night and struck me as related).

In other words -- how can we tell what is the path forward?
We need about 1% of people to grow the food and perhaps 9% of the people to make stuff we need.

The other 90% then have to convince the 10% that do the actual work that they are worth the time to produce a surplus for. IP barriers are one way of doing that. Even farmers like pop songs.
Perhaps dealing with flaky or inconsistent feeds was a problem? Particularly in a "why is your browser broken and unable to read this feed?" situation where it turns out the feed is a mess. If you don't support the feature, you don't get blamed for not handling all the weird edge cases.
Gabapentin has an off-label use as a mood stabilizer for those with bipolar disorder and other mood disorders. I've seen it turn manic lives into successful lives.
A Few Contronyms
Some people would like to deny the idea that the French are in any sense a 'race', or deny them the privilege of being classified as 'native' to their country.

They may employ tactical nihilism in order to do this ("what even is French", "French is just a social construct", "this war from hundreds of years ago and this movement of people prove that France was never French", etc.) in a fashion that some call "cultural erasure", even though that concept is generally only employed _against_ people like the French when they try to practice their own culture.

This effect in turn serves to dismantle the old, original culture of the country over time, as it loses any ability to assert itself publicly, which is obviously critical to meaningful cultural propagation.

It is replaced instead by a genericized, consumer-focused, global culture of international brands and experiences that can be had in every major city. What remains of the old culture might be better thought of as just a large scale museum, at some point; if you visited Notre Dame before the fire you'll know this, as it's full of people selling junk and even vending machines inside, and you're shuffled through like you're on an assembly line. There's no authenticity at all to the experience; rather, it seems like something those who built it originally would have been disgusted by.

You are expected to be okay with this. If you are not, and like hundreds of thousands of French you perhaps spent every weekend of 2019 out protesting for someone, anyone to find a non-violent solution to the replacement of your culture by external parties, you will be decried as a racist and have the main thrust of your argument denied reasonable media coverage at all.

Any attempt to discuss the issue frankly will be met with comparisons to Nazis immediately, no matter what related hardships and problems you can point to with evidence in your own communities, no matter how carefully you try to distance yourself from this, no matter how many of your ancestors were in the Resistance, etc.

The issue will be framed as your people against the newcomers, denying you any chance of the correct framing, which should be your people against those who allowed the newcomers in. This forces you to look like an exclusionary, hateful person rather than someone who wanted to protect and safeguard what made their community and city great. You're forced into a corner where there's no way out, as long as you allow the castigation of the term "racist" to cow you. You're left fighting proxy wars that go nowhere, like complaining about taxation

Of course, this entire dynamic only applies to European-derived countries; if you're Japanese or Israeli or hail from any number of other single-ethnicity states, you're totally A-OK to advocate for all of the same things the French want in their nation, without any accusations at all.

So there's the dogwhistle for you, I guess.
Outside of emergency surgeries, I imagine anything scheduled that isn't of immediate risk surgeons have a reasonable amount of control over, given of course the magnitude and distribution of surgeries that need performed.

I can't imagine they don't look at their schedules regularly and talk to whomever does scheduling to make their lives more bearable.

When they're on ER rotation, surgeons of course really have no possible way to manage this. My question would be: what's the ratio of emergency to planned/scheduled operations?
Cerner just wanted cloud storage. Google gave them a good offer, seemingly to harvest patient data for their own project.

You can use archive.is to read some paywalled content: http://archive.is/RcG5b
> Is there anything about it that would discourage its use for a standard desktop GUI app?

Complete lack of accessibility support, particularly for blind users via screen readers, in the included GUI toolkit. Please don't use this for any application that people will be required to use in their job or education.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I can't imagine what else, other than race, "People are absolutely not what you’d expect french to look like ( and i’m not talking about size)" refers to exactly. Misuse of the term does not preclude the actual presence elsewhere.
From one perspective, this looks like economically useless activity. And it could be. But it isn't necessarily so.

Historically, content creation and distribution were bundled. Distribution further bundled the content per se and performances. This was all an artefact of the up-front cost of manufacturing and distributing physical media.

With digitization, there is no reason a content creator shouldn't be able to essentially freelance. Make good content. Get paid for it. No requirement to promote yourself on social media, no need to perform for audiences. One could still do that. But it would be a vertical play, not the default.

A financial vector such as this one, which identifies good content, buys it, and then works out distribution, is one way to solve this problem.
One stop shop? Even with an assumed "unified system" there is absolutely no way that even an incompetent group of IT engineers would be able to construct a single unified network with a single doorway into it to make a "one stop shop experience." It would still be "breaking into a thousand homes", but at least the difference is -- given a unified set of controls -- that reconciliation of a breach could be automated.
That's actually why it makes sense for them to join PayPal which has a lot more influence.
Passion often drives success and creativity. It would actually be likely that someone who is a hater is able to use that to their advantage and get ahead vs. someone who has no emotion and is not driven. Anecdote wise have heard stories of people who have achieved things as a result of adversity which is driven by perhaps 'hate' of what others have.

> There are innumerable examples of toxic people turning things around in a different situation.

Could also say in a different way that PG has zero data on whether this is true or not. It's an essay and an opinion and is as likely to be correct as my first paragraph.
Nobody forced the French to colonize a significant portion of the world, by the way.
Even if the software only needs to respond at a certain speed, scale will quickly make you either pay through the nose for better hardware or optimize the software so that it can respond in a small fraction of the original speed.

The trick, as always, is finding balance between paying for hardware and paying developers.
This is why I think people should still learn their job through hands-on apprenticeship, as opposed to a lot of book-learning in the classroom. In fact I think people do still learn their jobs that way. It's just delayed by several years of book-learning that has little return on investment. When you finally land your job, your first few months are when you really start learning enough to become useful.

Disclaimer: I am biased. I am biased toward book learning! In school I made A's and loved book learning.

Clarification: I think book learning is useful. It's just that the order is wrong. Nothing I read in a book sticks until I have tried my hand at it for a few weeks. But an experienced programmer (or plumber for that matter) would probably get even better after reading a few good books.
Feudalism is one of the standard memes of history, as per David Brin.[1] The essay is well worth reading, as well as the thesis that a new meme ("otherness") arose within Western Liberalism. In my mind Otherness is a saddle point, and worth investing in to protect.[2]

[1] http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I think it's harder to get to this point with e.g. writing, but it is possible. There have been more than a couple times I've thought to myself (while writing), "wow, this is actually what I had imagined in my head." Which is not to say that anyone else would be impressed with it. But there is definitely a certain satisfaction (and even in the moment, not just afterwards when you read it) in being able to tell your story instead of endlessly reading others' stories.

I'm not sure it's enough to keep me going by itself (honestly, I still like to think someone else may be able to enjoy it, eventually, even if this is probably unrealistic). But it's definitely a factor.
Killer robots reconsidered: Could AI weapons cut collateral damage?
Yes, because I am a lurker that was moved to post by the degree to which I disagreed with the article. Please restrict yourself to actually arguing with the content of my posts, and not going ad hominem. It's both against the rules of HN, and just shitty.

You say "pushed a stagnant industry", I say "hostility to small practices." Large hospitals were already moving onto EMR to better handle the volume of their data, if not already having done so. It's small practices that couldn't afford things like EPIC, and were forced to move onto free, ad-revenue-driven crap like PracticeFusion that just made everything slower and worse, without improving shit for patients.

Are some patients better off for it? I think so. I appreciate web portals, which wouldn't have existed otherwise. I don't appreciate the death of small practices, the majority of whom are now selling out at cost to large hospital chains.
I don't know how you feel about somebody else secretly watching your screen without telling you, but I think that's something I would not be ok with, even if I don't conduct personal business on the device.

Apart from that, there are plenty of companies requiring you to install their MDM profile on your personal device if you want to read corporate emails on it (guess how I know).
That interpretation would only make sense, charitably, if OP for whatever reason thought that people look like those images anywhere else in France (unless you're joking, and I'm missing out on the irony).
Obviously that's because you'd have to be doing it after spending your primary energy in your current 40-60hr job and plus you don't have money to hire professional editors and screenwriters. I guess we'll never know if you lacked the talent or not.
Why are the motives to Karma farming-- is it the fuzzy feeling of internet points? Or is it people wishing to gain a reputation with a community, and then leverage the account to share their world view / interests / etc. I suppose it could be a matter of both, but since points take a more minimal role on HN, it's tough to say why Karma farming would make more sense here versus other platforms.
I was referring to T1's ability to guarantee a particular stack size for the whole program (if I understand correctly), not individual functions.
As per the article: And then Cerner got skeptical of Google's real intent with its Cloud business model and went with AWS instead.
>that financials did not seem to be adding up for Enron or that Holmes's promised device would require significant breakthroughs in analysis that they thought she did not achieve given her evasiveness on technical questions

This is always obvious in hindsight.

But there are companies for which the "haters" are doing this sort of analysis right now, and they are regularly dismissed because "this time it's different" or because "they are on <insert lobby>'s payroll".
Why do you dislike perforce? I’ve used them all and git is the worst, in my opinion, of the ones that aren’t dead and buried (like cvs). Perforce is my fave.

Internal research at google suggested that ‘git5’ users were objectively less productive than average, but there’s some friction around ‘git5’ so that doesn’t necessarily implicate git itself.
That book is so hard.
Is this strictly code written at Google or dependency loc included as well?
> no real ROI to be seen from it.

I just did a brief Google, and the situation seems to be the same as always - there isn’t a clear win financially when a PACS is installed. They are expensive to buy, to run and to maintain and the gains are often hard to measure financially.
Having a minimum wage worker sort old films and carry them to where they are needed was cheap compared to the wages and hardware a large hospital needs to pay for when a large PACS goes in.

The number of people who miss hard copy film must be very small however, that world was archaic.
"Sequence of events", to me, doesn't capture the relationship between subsequent states of either the brain or the mind. Also, "states of mind" have an explanatory power that "states of the brain" don't have, even though the former are theoretically reducable to the latter.
Capitals tend to attrack most inmigration. As an anecdote, my son's primary class in Madrid had more than a third of inmigrant parents, including Russia, Iran, South America (most) and Morocco.

The question, at least for me, is not where you come from, but how well can you integrate. Latins have it easier because we share the language.
There's an easy solution to this, of course, which is to simply pretend there was never any such thing as Parisian culture, or alternately, rebrand it as inherently evil and worthy of destruction. Isn't Paris so much cleaner, safer, and better now that all of the oppression of the past is over?
DCSS isn't commercially successful, but I think it has the potential to be if it went that direction. The tiles version is probably most popular though:

https://crawl.develz.org/download.htm