skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I have low expectations of government solutions to high healthcare costs. How about a radical experiment in price transparency like we have with every other commodity? Rather than the US healthcare system becoming more like the UK's NHS, the opposite is happening[1]. The crony capitalists are winning and they are hoping we give their government buddies more control over our lives.

[1]Episode 105 of a podcast called the Accad and Koka Report.
As long as corporate welfare is there to bail them out, I feel like we're at least partly to blame for expecting something different.
The web is truly a horrible user experience.
Thankfully the its dying and native apps will prosper.
Floridian here! I've been taking cold showers as well for the past few years and I can certainly say it makes a difference in the way you feel afterwards compared to a normal hot shower and regardless of the weather of the day as well, obviously it's more enjoyable when it is a warmer day or after some physical activity and exercise.

As some mentioned I think it has more to do with the shock put on your body which releases endorphins and other chemicals beneficial for brain function, it has shown to also be beneficial for some suffering from depression and such [1][2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17993252

[2] https://www.lifehack.org/448180/how-cold-showers-can-change-...
Offline is still a thing.
IANAL, but isn't this straight up fraud? They have copy pasted a signature for something else onto another contract.
Dot variations in Gmail all belong to you by default. That's a Gmail thing not a Facebook thing.
If I pick a relatively obscure subreddit like dataengineering, then the results are noisy. May increase the distance/decrease the charge between nodes as the number of children increases on a node?
Meanwhile Shopify's CEO. [1]

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/tobi/status/1222551057798090752
I can appreciate this, but the fund decay actually has nothing to do with leverage.

All "leveraged" ETFs (to the best of my knowledge) are synthetic - they achieve their "leverage" using derivatives, not by borrowing. These derivatives are not free, and like an option, can expire worthless. That's how the value in these ETFs evaporates over time, regardless of how the market performs.
Deep Learning NLP Tokenizers: How Machines Read
Why do they use RN for Android but not for iOS?
"your earlier book, “Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All” "

yeah, nah.
I for one am not casting any doubt on the idea that health care in the US could be much cheaper without any cost to research. I'm casting doubt on the proposals I've seen because the root cause (in my opinion) is not being addressed. When I have to buy the insurance my boss selects for me it is impossible for me to improve the system. (in theory I can buy elsewhere, but I lose the large subsidy my boss provides)
From what I understand it is very loose and can mean "you accessed our systems legitmately but we didn't want you to".

I think it was last year that facebook went after fake likes / fake followers companies who were logging via the login page and they liking / following. Companies in China / New Zealand and I think NY? got threatened with the CFAA (unsure if it went further) but it made the tech news at the time.

I don't think anyone hear would call writing a bot that logged in with actual details and performed an action (the same a real person could) as hacking, but facebook were saying as it broke the TOS, it was unauthorised, thus hacking laws apply. With their budget, I guess they get to decide what hacking is
Actually they are ineffective.

Tons of drugs have been approved, only to be later pulled off the shelves. So despite the massive cost, delays, etc. the process has failed at least 35 (!) times:

https://prescriptiondrugs.procon.org/fda-approved-prescripti...
We're moving away from react native at Papa. Too brittle, too cumborsome to iterate with, feels slow and every build required a prayer and small sacrifice to Cthulhu.

We're using Ionic 4 now with capacitor, the dev workflow is much better, literally testing on the browser with autoreloads when code changes. Couldn't be simpler. So far I like it a lot. We're using React so it's just like writing a SPA, only Ionic has a ton of UI elements out of the box like tab navigation.
Funny to think the Romans were doing this thousands of years ago (and probably civilizations before them as well), and here we are just now coming around again to the idea of heating/cooling via cistern storage.
You can heat the bathroom too...
People who are looking to launder significant amounts of money would gladly sign up to be the "sucker" in this hypothetical scenario.
The CFAA is overreaching, and used often as a catch all. 'Reply All' has a good episode which explores this. This is actually what was used against Aaron Swartz when he was charged for downloading academic journals from MIT, and why his charges were unjustly severe.

Reply All - #43 The Law That Sticks
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/rnhoxb
No, you can't, actually. Go grab two sticks, rub them together, and see if you can get a coal. Chances are this exercise is a total failure. You need specific materials for this method to be effective. At least that's what I was taught. You have to use the correct types of wood, which might vary by region (obviously, dry kindling is needed too).

I'm not trying to nitpick here, it's just something that's worth pointing out. This was news to me when I found out, and relevant information if you were the end up in a "state of nature"
This ruling has left open a big question of how much you need to spend to support scrapers and where the line between scraping and a DoS attack lies - and that's going to be a weird line. If my site is producing a big report off of data that changes quarterly then re-downloading that report every 20 minutes is possibly excessive and might wander into the realm of an attack - while if we looked at the same frequency with twitter it seems a lot more reasonable - maybe even a bit on the slow side.
> JS can be awkward and confusing.

> JavaScript developers are cheap to hire

There’s your problem. Go hire JS devs that know what they’re doing.
It is interesting that React's detractors have seemingly abandoned technical arguments, and now it's all about how evil Facebook is. A while back, the argument was about how the license for React was scary and evil and they would steal all your patents, but they changed the license. So now I guess it has to be just FB = evil
If mobile was important enough for them, they would have invested in proper mobile development. Clearly it is not.
What rights are being violated here?
You say that like writing plugins is hard or undesirable.
This would still (often) be strictly better than having those same users complain that there are no clients that do what they want.

It's also an easily solveable problem if the APIs are actually open. If Apple put out three music clients, you would definitely get people complaining that they weren't unified. If Apple shipped an open iOS API that covered everything in their official client(s), somebody in the community would just build one client that did everything a complaining demographic wanted, and then sell it for $4.99 on the app store.

When you see large groups of people complaining about current tech offerings for sustained periods of time, that usually means that the legal and/or technical barriers to entry to build alternatives are too high.
>Literally all of them could be implemented as responsive pages with acceptable performance.

Speaking personally I like the division between highly sandboxed websites (no GPS access, no notifications, etc...) and trusted apps.
Out of all activities you listed, just 3rd party Cookie blocking and using any "login with Facebook" buttons would give the same result for Web. I don't think any of the activities you listed would prevent the data collected through apps though.
Ok but that really doesn't work in this situation. Buffet would foreclose on the loan, retake ownership and then sell it again?
This was the most shocking for me. How is Blind getting my FB info from the app? Is there a way to prevent this on Android?
I like this as a single aggregate measurement to base scores on. Some of the difficulty comes from displaying this score as the simulation runs through the day. At first the average might look great (a change helps the bus in the early AM), but then rush hour hits, and the change actually makes things worse. Or maybe a re-timed traffic signal helps buses going northbound in one spot, but hurts the southbound buses, so also seeing the change between each pair of stops is important. https://imgur.com/Fk1GfKG is what I've got for this so far, but I think a different way to visualize this is necessary. :)
Good for you Shopify, but I fully expect you’ll switch to some new hotness in a year or two.
Interesting! This way of structuring & evaluating a program seems analogous to how spreadsheets work, but with a hierarchical instead of a tabular data model. I could see it being helpful to new programmers for building intuition about how code works.

And translating a program's execution into sound and being able to hear changes sounds really fun.
It would be interesting if there was a way to inform people about effective options that are not profitable enough to receive much attention in our current system.
everyone tearing their hair out over this: the effect of the law is just that insurance overall will be somewhat more expensive in Illinois. There won't be any effect on research or innovation or anything else. Everyone will have to chip in a bit to make sure people with diabetes don't go without insulin. I don't see this is as a big disaster. Illinois has much bigger problems than this.

If people foregoing insulin because of out of pocket cost is a problem in Illinois, fixing it could have positive effects, including positive fiscal effects. So net cost is probably quite small.
A large part of the audience here wants to get money from pg and people like him and find articles like this useful for trying to make money from SV vcs.
Just to make a note: my energy bill here in Germany was always high! Srsly before Germany did a lot for renewable it was high.
Why the media is so polarized – and how it polarizes us
Why is this a surprise? They do show advertisements so how do you think they gather target data ?
my well water varies between 4C and 10C from the ground, and I don't full-cold shower, but I do finish my shower cold, with as cold as it can go. It is bracing, but as the parent says, mentally fantastic. I find that it works as a quick meditative reboot (I can't follow any thought threads while the cold water is full on, so it interrupts my main mental loops). It is easier to achieve a "new day" state where it feels like you have permission to begin again. Now, that's just an illusion, just as the particular day of a new year is an illusion, but the "new day" effect is very powerful for behavior modification.
If you scrape, you can still be held liable for trespass to chattel (Ebay v. Bidder’s Edge), breach of contract (Southwest Airlines Co. v. Roundpipe), copyright infringement (Associated Press v. Meltwater), misappropriation, unjust enrichment, conversion, , or breach of privacy etc..

Also, the Ninth Circuit ruling largely only applies to the states in the ninth circuit, other circuits have read CFAA with a broader interpretation.
It's interesting that many tech/product blogs do not easily link back to the parent site.

For instance, I didn't know what RStudio was, so I have to go to the address bar and remove the blog portion of the subdomain and the trailing url just to find out what the parent site is, instead of a simple link.
Why, do they worship the Waltons of today? Or do they focus on Sam Walton and Walmart itself?
This isn't a great analogy here - getting the data delivered via API is simply more useful than having to re-assemble that data out of fragments parsed off of different web calls.

Could I suggest:

"Why buy the cheese when you get the milk for free?"
Disagree. It’s very important for people feeling like “noobs” to realize that it’s okay, even desired. PG is a legend and have him clearly state so is refreshing, and necessary.
Not really Alpine's problem that there aren't upstream wheels for your dependencies. I think you're being realistic with your suggestion but you're barking at the wrong tree.
Yay! Thank you for sharing the links and thank you for your kind words!

I see you are doing something with quantum tensors, which is very impressive! I'm still struggling with concept of regular tensors, and would love to have a good intuition/visualization for them - do you have any pointers?
> I wonder how he thought he would get away with it?

Simple. Most institutions simply do not CHECK. Think about how you'd detect that this is happening. You'd need to somehow gain evidence that they hold a bank account that is receiving funds originating from China.

Not easy. In fact, damn near impossible.

So let's look at this case...

> Lieber was also awarded more than $1.5 million by WUT and the Chinese government to establish a research lab and conduct research at Wuhan University of Technology.

> For a large part of the time frame in question, Lieber was also the principal investigator on at least six U.S. Defense Department research grants

...ah ha. So the DoD caught him because he was being so blatant.
Perhaps the main distinguishing app-like thing is distracting notifications.
It's unusable on Firefox Focus though. Trying to expand anything completely breaks scrolling on the page.
The Muzak issue is what actually caused me to switch from Spotify to Apple Music.

My discovery playlists started replacing mainstream songs with muzak and there was no way at the time to block an artist or specific songs.

I can only listen to terrible chiptunes of In the hall of the Mountain King so many times.
> Your setup won't save you from e.g. bad cables silently corrupting data, or drives simply returning bad data, etc. etc.

I thought this was what RAID was designed to prevent. I don't know what a cable failure would look like in my setup in practice, but I would think the disk would start failing parity checks against the rest of the array and be flagged as bad.
On the last round of zpool scrubs of the 13PB-used set of zfs filesystems here (raidz3, mostly SAS drives, all hosts with ECC RAM), 50MB of data was repaired.

50MB isn't much compared with 13PB, but silent corruption is a real thing.
I have a much more simpler (not based on any evidence) theory which kind of explains the founders' alignment with Russian interests.

Most of medaillon's returns are made with insider trading from hacking. The data science part is just come up with explanations that are complex enough and not easily disproven (e.g. find a correlating variable and explain that you had a magic algo that derived prediction from that correlating variable after the fact).

It's a perfect crime, but you would need to setup crazy incentive structures for all the team members and their immediate family to keep it secret... and that's what they are doing.

I would guess they used Russian hackers for the job, given that the fund is heavily funding Russian political interests in western countries.

I would recommend the SEC to dive really deep with appropriate expertise into this magic fund and double-check this simple theory of mine. Just for national security reasons alone.

(note again: this is a conspiracy theory and not evidence or fact-based)
So, I'm building a language with linq and the solution to this is how data is represented and if the trade off between memory and cpu is expressible via indexing. It seems that linq in c# is simply syntactic sugar rather than deploying a static analysis to extract optimizations.
I wish holographic discs would finally hit the market, but it seems stuck in R&D at that one british university.
Thank you! I'm very happy to hear this!
> People will take pure water if you tell them it works.

To be fair, if you tell them it works, people will take pure water and show noticable improvments over non-treatment. Personally I just take the placebo effect directly though.
I don't think it's the "billionaire bit", it's celebrity in general, and specifically celebrity in fields that HN readers find interesting.
He literally had an operational lab in Wuhan at WUT, WHILE working on US DoD contracts.

...I mean, how blatant can you get?
Hi, This was a post I worked on to better understand how tokenizers are used in the latest Deep learning models such as BERT and what impact they have on how those models learn. It was a really interesting and difficult topic to research so would love any thoughts or feedback on it
realizing this is a bit tongue in cheek, but technically one can make a pretty solid argument that a true buddhist shouldn't own anything either..
> What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality?

Performance.

> Literally all of them could be implemented as responsive pages with acceptable performance

But not with great performance. A user feels the slight stutters, glitches and slow-downs.
Show HN: A fork of puma-dev that runs docker-compose apps
I have both Spotify and Apple Music but somehow the Spotify interface to me seems just simple enough that I can play what I want and the interface gets out of the way. With Apple it’s almost like they want you to listen to what they want you to listen and not what you want to listen to. This is what basically companies trying to push their content do over what content you prefer and it almost always ends up in bad interfaces.
Importantly, he was working on multiple US DoD grants at the same time.
Online Calculators
There is something about seeing any kind of surveillance camera move that unnerves me.

At least here in Northern Ireland the traffic cameras can be viewed by the public with either a live video feed or regularly updating images.
You're right. This is terrible. Here's an excerpt from the bill:

> Provides that insurers that provide coverage for prescription insulin drugs must limit the total amount an insured is required to pay for a covered prescription insulin drug to $100

This will create way more problems than it solves. It continues to hide the true cost from the consumer. This doesn't affect the pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies at all. What it will due is just make the insurance companies charge everyone a little more. The corporations are not affected whatsoever.
Yes it is. (ianal either).
I concur with this completely. Disclosure: I was a contract IT worker at FDA.
What are they talking about? Rentech went into the dumpster.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3300183-rentech-to-delist-from...
Ah, so disappointing that I need a Facebook account to read this. The joy of missing out.
OH TIL that. That's good, showing up on the Play Store was kinda random benchmark I was looking for.
No but it would be great if they'd stop profiting off lies.

Facebook claims to care about climate change:
https://sustainability.fb.com/

But if they are taking money to help people deny it, then the incentives don't line up. This can't be good, right?
Doh - I filed an issue on our internal tracker to fix this
There are third-party music players for iOS that hook into Apple Music -- Soor and Marvis, for instance -- and take different approaches to their UX. (Disclaimer: I haven't used them and can't speak to their particular advantages and disadvantages; while I don't love the iOS 13 music player, I can deal with it, and I routinely use features like "Radio" and "For You" that the original poster was complaining about.)

But, yeah, I'd definitely like to see more services offer full-featured APIs and actively support, if not necessarily promote, third-party clients. Watching what Twitter did to their ecosystem was supremely frustrating.
Lyft Said to Plan Restructuring and Job Cuts
Except there's a cycle - you get 3% back on Apple purchases. Notice I said "free" with air quotes - sure, you are spending money, but you are also being rewarded for staying in the Apple walled garden. So back to my point - why pay $9-$15/mo for Spotify when if you play the game, Apple has a "good enough" product and is incentivizing you monetarily to the point that their services become "included" rather than a separate line item in your monthly budget. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but to a wide swath in middle America it does.
The underlying assumption here is that he was conducting research funded by the DoD and replicating it at his lab in China.

So.... espionage.
Yeah I really liked MS's support that way.
I would have more faith in the concept of "public benefit corporations" if it meant that e.g. Kickerstarter was prevented by its charter from suppressing the self-organizing of its workers.
> I also think supply of nuclear fuel can be an issue, although there are some concepts for other types than uranium.

There are 3 fission fuels occurring in nature: Th232, U235, U238

Actually, our reserves of Uranium are greater (by energy available to generate) than all of our Coal, Oil and Natural Gas reserves combined.

Our Thorium reserves are even greater than those.

In fact, Thorium is extracted as a byproduct of Rare Earth Metal extraction, and so we currently mine enough Th232 per year to replace the entire global energy and fuel industry
even though there is no demand for Th232 extraction. Kind of mind blowing.

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> [fission] it is expensive in deployment

I don't see where this idea comes from - in real life, regions which are powered by more fission have significantly cheaper electricity than those who are powered by less.

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> the problem with nuclear waste

I genuinely don't think there is a problem with nuclear waste, and that this concern is a myth / misunderstanding based on a mix of fear-mongering via conflation with nuclear weapons and a lack of comparison.

Consider the following: all energy sources have waste products - nothing is 100% efficient.

Fossil fuels pump literally billions of tonnes of toxic gas into the air as their waste product. It moves around, we can't store it, and it is responsible for the deaths of millions of people each year through air pollution.

Renewables production has the same issue (although different gases), and also tends to pollute the water and local environment with other toxic chemicals and metals.

Nuclear fission produces the most dense, least amount of waste of any source, which is solid and easy to manage. We know where quite literally all of it is, and it doesn't hurt anybody or negatively affect the environment in any way as long as you keep it store somewhere.

As far as I'm concerned, nuclear energy does not have a waste problem, it has a waste solution. Global warming is the problem with energy waste, more specifically it is the problem with hydrocarbon waste.

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> Another example is Norway that uses 98% hydro power. Sure, they have topological advantages not available everywhere. But technologies like this could open up more possibilities.

Agree with you. Renewables tend to vary in effectiveness based on location - in those locations which are well-suited for them, I think they should be used! Though I'm not sure what you mean by "could open up more possibilities" - we've had hydro power for thousands of years.

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> I doubt that Germany closing plants was a terrible decision.

Note the following excerpt from Mike Shellenberger on Twitter:

Germany’s renewables experiment is over.

By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make
electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x
more carbon-intensive than France’s.

The reason renewables can’t power modern
civilization is because they were never
meant to.

A major new study of Germany's nuclear
phase-out finds

- it imposes "an annual cost of
roughly $12B/year"

- "over 70% of the cost is from the 1,100
excess deaths/year from air pollution
from coal plants operating in place of
the shutdown nuclear plants"