skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is how health insurance works in New Zealand.

If you want private health insurance for say $50 a month[1], then insurance gives access to procedures more quickly and the rooms are much nicer than the public health care system. It may give access to rare but expensive procedures.

If you don’t want insurance, then the default is the public healthcare system, which is paid for by taxes. You will usually be in a ward with other patients. You pay small amounts on use (to prevent abuse, and even those amounts are reduced to nearly free if you are poor). The level of care is reasonable, but can be slow for non-urgent elective surgery, and extremely expensive procedures are not available. The public healthcare system handles ongoing chronic conditions much better than a private system could.

[1] You can see a quote from https://www.southerncross.co.nz/ if you give your age, gender and tick whether you smoke. Note that Southern Cross is a nonprofit co-op, most premiums get returned to members (on average, less an approx 10% administrative overhead).
Is this in standard safe Rust? If so, how is the heap and GC handled?
Deferring decision making from experts to the common people is exactly what "common sense" is.

And it's a pretty bad idea to use common sense to solve a problem that zero people alive today have ever encountered. None of have endured an unvaccinatable pandemic.
I only meant we rushed it out as fast as we could in light of the emergency. It's not very produced or "professional" sounding or anything like that.

Sam has invested in a metric ton of COVID relief efforts and startups. I think we'd all be better off if more people followed his example in this respect.
i think the point they're making is that many learners in a given field (e.g., undergrads) don't typically critique the textbooks for those subjects. it's as if all the knowledge therein is complete and accurate, and research happens at some amorphous fringe beyond the textbook knowledge. it's intellectually "dead" to those learners, not that the subjects themselves are dead.
A number of others you might encounter in your embedded devices: 68k, AVR, Z80. (CISC, RISC, CISC, if you’re curious.)
Worldwide digital games market: March 2020
Your cynicism is probably well-earned but in this case misplaced. OOTC doesn't make any money.
Correct. If you fetch mail, you're vulnerable (at least that's my understanding).

You can use third-party apps, or Safari if it's a webmail.
ICANN Boss on Mitigating Covid-19-Related DNS Abuse
"whether by disrupting online influence campaigns, securing critical infrastructure or requiring paper trails and risk-limiting audits at the ballot box"

If we really want to stop election interference, we should have voter ID laws in all states. This is one point of security failure that would make it very easy for foreign countries or anyone else to commit voter fraud.

If certain groups of people don't have ID, let's spend money on fixing that.

"Online influence campaigns" are meaningless. Do we know that they actually worked?

Unless we can track exact voter choice back to a fake ad on Facebook posted by a foreign enemy, I'm not really convinced it did much of anything.

Our time and money would be better spent educating the public on spotting fake ads, because it will always be a cat and mouse game.

I'm also curious why we aren't focusing more on China in terms of interference? They have been on a buying spree for the last few years and have major stakes in many media companies, including Reddit.
One of the first things I grep for in dmesg ;)
Zoom Hits Milestone on 90-Day Security Plan, Releases Zoom 5.0
I agree. I’ve tried learning a ton of times but I always hit something I don’t understand and struggle to find help except asking. I think because it’s such a niche language still. With Rails there aren’t a lot of questions left to ask. They’ve already been asked and answered. That’s not the case with Elixir and especially Phoenix.
Very cool that this is possible. I wish it gave some numbers about best-case and typical latencies that are added by using this.
Could reduced deaths from driving etc. also be significant in this analysis?
I think there's a big difference between the game downloading a DLL straight from the game developers (not all that different from an update) and a game downloading a DLL from a random server you join (that could be run by anyone that you have no reason to trust and that you don't realize you're giving them full read-write access to your computer).
I agree, I have the pixel 3a and it is the best phone I have ever had (I have switched between Android and iPhone). For me it's the size, battery life, and it just works.
Magic Leap <==> Theranos

But I've said it for years, if I shorted it 2+ years ago I would have lost money!

Not sure what that means.

They are clearly pivoting off Covid-19 for more VC money, something I wouldn't have predicted last year. I guess if not Covid-19 it would be something else.

How do you predict when they will fall off the end of the graph I guess is the question?
Before even reading the article... battery "revolution" claims have been made every month or so for the past 10 years or so, and we rarely see the claims materialize into actual technological leaps. Is this one of those claims?
I feel like Google needs it most. They killed Daydream and don't have an alternative and Apple is moving towards a wearable AR device.

Edit: I'm ready for Apple to pull a rabbit out of a hat again in a year with an AR wearable- I think the iPhone SE was strategic because AR glasses and an expensive phone and a watch is a tough sell. Cheap but powerful phone in pocket and a wearable makes more sense to me.
My only objection to voter ID is that every serious proposal I've seen for it has huge, intentionally-chosen voids designed to prevent certain groups from voting. Any voter ID requirement has to come with a federal mandate to issue each registered voter an acceptable ID, or it's just more election interference.
Sweden unfortunately got a rather large injection of cases from tourists visiting northern italy in just the wrong week. NZ doesn't have the same close traffic with any early covid hotspot.
The level of brutality in your critique made me smile. Thank you for your vigilance and clarity.
It’s nice until you get to its annoying and fairly irrelevant pipelining model.
Some debates are just not worth having. Trump supporters don't believe in objective reality, they believe in authoritative reality: to them, reality is whatever the person with the power says it is.
What a bizarrely callous calculus.

Or course it matters. And the sum total of all that suffering, disruption, destruction is quite a lot to get your head around.

Weddings canceled in the US leading to massive supply line disruptions, and ultimately, starving families in Africa.

I think it all matters a bit. That you can think of a worse problem is hardly consoling.
Also, Microchip’s PIC32 microcontrollers, which are still around, have a 32bit MIPS ISA.
The fact we have access to tools like this (and many, many others) is so damn motivating. I am working through some structured course material in preparation for net-sec baseline `$vendor-$certification` exams, and there are so many complexities and rabbit holes that it's easy to be overwhelmed. Some nights are harder than others to see forest for the trees when it feels I'm trying to understand how to pick up a single pine cone to study.

Then I see projects like this, or Jaeger/OpenZipkin, or Chaos Monkey, and I'm simply inspired. Much like listening to a killer record.

I don't spend time feeling sorry for myself because an ancient, somewhat esoteric proper noun was used to describe the project.
Proven in a double blind study is not the only method of proof. You can also use model organisms. So you throw goats out of airplanes with and without automatically opening parachute ave see what happens. Or you can have an extremely good grasp on the mechanism of action of what you’re doing. Somewhere on Earth today a complicated piece of machinery is being fabricated and assembled that has never existed before and is going to be 90% as good as the final production version.

Multiple methods of proof of varying reliabilities exist.
Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?

I'd wager that throughout history, most great ideas and optimizations came from people who were either seeking profit or other kinds of status (eg recognition from peers).
I’m pretty sure the PowerPC port of Windows NT was the least used. It was the first to be discontinued, at least.
Hong Kong had 300 deaths from SARS, they had over 600 suicides above the average during the same period.

This time around they are keeping businesses open
$449 doesn't seem particularly expensive for something that will last 3+ years. That is $12.50/month (or less). Your data service is easily 3x or 4x the cost of the phone.

The value that you get from that device is extraordinary compared to the cost.
The planes were probably too small and far away to set off the detectors.
Platform to launch apps quickly and retain ownership
> Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times, federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination of the tests and their uninterpretable results.

I can't imagine the impact of doing tests with unreliable results in the beginning of such pandemy. Specially how it took so long to identify where the problem was and implementing better practices.
Labradoodle breeder tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force
This is it. Everyone knew that it was a hedge to get in on the ground floor in case the technology blew up faster than anyone could predict. Nobody wants to be the person who missed out on the next Google or Facebook, especially Google or Facebook.
Ultrasonics with Temperature Control
The government actually did give themself increased authority to enact short term measures as needed. Parliament only demanded that any such measures are passed through parliament for approval within two days of execution, and I think maximum extent of such measure are three months.

But wrt to debate I think the general sentiment is that current measures are working fine. People are getting a bit restless with the spring coming, but besides that most internal debates right now is why there is not more action taken against restaurant owners and such. The municipal authorities are allowed to close down any such business that don’t take suitable measures to limit infection. And a apparently there’s some places that people aren’t too happy with.
The other side of that coin is the huge amount of unmaintained risk in the Ruby community. When you delegate business logic to someone else's efforts you taking on the risk that the library will be maintained and patched for the lifespan of your application.

As someone else already pointed out, many of the solutions in Elixir are significantly more simple to just "roll your own" rather than have to worry about pulling 50 gems.
I hate it when "opinion" pieces get passed off as legitimate articles (hence the almost-fine-print-sized section title at the top of the page).

P.S. Not blaming the poster for submitting this - only the WP for publishing it.
Very good point about peak wattage.
We need to go back and discuss whether Bitcoin is a viable form of money. :) That's a long discussion. There's plenty of material on the web. I do think Bitcoin is a viable form of money. It's not complete. I don't think it can replace fiat. But it's a good option for people to store their money.

Short-term, Bitcoin is a Speculative Asset.
Long-term, Bitcoin is a Store of Value.

These two concepts are contradictory. But I think in this case, they are valid. Money is contradictory. It does not really make sense when you reason it from a single point of view.

Although Bitflate has unlimited supply in the long-term, it's still limited by the 7% inflation rate in the short-term. I work out the reward schedule below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tdRWdqc0I9uMASXp-zY8...

If we take the fiat base and inflate 7%, that is a lot. But with a new crypto, we start from 0. It'll take:

- 10 years to mine 30 million coins

- 28 years to mine 100 million coins

- 100 years to mine 14 billion coins

Many people tell me they rather use fiat with unknown inflation than a crypto with a fixed inflation rate. I think that's absurd.
Of course they don't. Most people are willing to spend their valuable time watching said content, however only superfans pay the monthly subscriber fee to be "the first ones" or get at content that is never going to be distributed anywhere but the patreon channel and on piratebay.
I do like the concept, and we have struggled internally to document things. I am interested in it but the biggest thing missing for me is documentation. I can't really tell how to do it, so for me I am not really willing to try and connect and just figure out.

I do wish you luck and I think you are in the ballpark of something good here.
Advice for tech people in non-tech cities
> I do wonder what issues come from storing multiples of the same amount of energy in the same space

If it makes you feel any better, gasoline stores 12,888.9 Wh/kg according to Wikipedia. So if you're worried energy density in car crashes, it's still much lower than the status quo.
They've had custom games with the workshop that can serve most of what you request here, might be worth checking out
What was the choice? Wasn’t he sentenced to death?
True, but there is a multi-core benchmark. Makes the claims in the headline and article presented here suspect.
Strange statement to make about the iPad regardless. The iPad is an incredible success; the only way it doesn't seem like one is in comparison to the iPhone.
As a parent, I can tell you with 100% certainty that kids can get this kind of concept.
Hi, thank you for contributing! I have gotten into the functional programming paradigm conceptually from working with react/redux. We do all of our development work using TypeScript, rather than JavaScript. Typescript isn’t really static typing, but more like type assertions on top of a dynamic language, but hot reloading works fine and is a core component of the workflow, especially with the ability to maintain state in between loads. I’m new to this world and haven’t yet tried Elixir, but what is it about the type system that prevents hot reloading? Is it because the underlying execution system is using types for something? Could a typescript-style language be built on top of Elixir and BEAM that would allow hot reloading and type assertions together?
What does Animal Crossing run on?
If I have 2 hours of work to do a day, I could sell 90% of my servers, the racks, the networking hardware, one of the air conditioning units, backup generators, and battery backups, lay off some of my IT staff, and just let the thing run 23 hours a day.

What people are trying to tell you is you can’t make having a glut of equipment work out for any reason, let alone environmental. It costs you a dozen times over to have most of you hardware not doing anything at all most of the day. You are overprovisioned.

You are so overprovisioned in fact that someone will steal your promotion by pointing this out to your boss, which is also a pretty big cost.
The ubiquitous delay slots in MIPS are one instruction-set feature that has aged really badly. RISC-V actively got rid of it in their design because it ends up being such a hindrance to, e.g. out-of-order implementations.
> it breaks down when you're suddenly facing a one in a hundred years pandemic

What if you're not actually facing such a thing and you only think you are because the initial non-scientific estimates from government "scientists" are 2 orders of magnitude off the mark, just like the last few times? https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/1252824592453742598...
Perhaps they should be taught about capitalism.

If there is demand for private healthcare affordable to the middle class, the demand will be met with supply.

And if that fails, they should be taught about democracy.

That if it turns out that socialised healthcare doesn't work for most Americans most of the time, then the country can revert to the system it currently has.
> In the United States, sparks burst out of telegraph equipment, sometimes starting fires.

> Should such an event happen today—when our lives our so intricately linked to technology—the results could be catastrophic, causing mass power losses and disruptions to GPS and satellite communications.

I wonder what would be affected if this was to happen today. Would it only be power distribution, or telecoms as well?
I meant the literal ploughing in of salt crystals seems not to have happened. The destruction doesn’t seem to be disputed. You have given me a new angle to think on though as maybe that is what was meant? Presumably the concept of salting came from somewhere, but short of breaching sea dykes, I can’t see how it could be done easily.
Those are really starting to be eaten by ARM over the past few years.
Keep in mind that this shows CONGESTION, not traffic. Zero congestion does not mean that no one is on the road; It just means that there is excess capacity compared to usage.
I don’t understand; bad battery = phone replacement.

Bad battery = battery replacement
Why not judge people by the result of their work, instead of their age?
Some feedback on the page. I think I'm squarely in the target audience. I'm familiar with Heroku Buildpacks. I wrote my own tool to generically build projects by detecting languages, build tools, etc. I based the detection of Heroku Buildpacks. And I packaged the tool into builder images.

But reading this page, I can't tell what Paketo Buildpacks do, when I'd use them, or how I'd use them. Usage examples would probably help. Some clear call out of "You want to do X, we solve that".

For examples of why this page is hard to understand, see these sections:

- What are Buildpacks? - Basically says "CNCF Buildpacks are an evolution of buildpacks"

- What are Paketo Buildpacks? - Basically says "they use Cloud Native Buildpacks"

- Why Paketo Buildpacks? - Basically says "unlike other buildpacks, we are better buildpacks"

Even knowing what buildpacks are in general, and building container build automating for a living, I can't tell if I have a use for Paketo Buildpacks.
Actually most countries in the world do immunize against TB. And developing countries in particular overwhelmingly do. The US doesn't mandate and most European countries have stopped.

http://www.bcgatlas.org/
i learnt how cpu work on spim
Hi! Sorry we did not have a better CTA. Here's a one-minute form to help you get onboard: https://bit.ly/3aoFAZO

There's actually no need for documentation - we have a one-click integration to Github, where you'll click the repo and the documentation gets auto-generated. Excited to let you try it!
I think Griddy is a cool idea but only if you have something to automatically cut your usage when the price spikes to $9 per kWh like it did last summer.
Lots of people are spending many hours a week on their phones. And that time is noticeably more enjoyable with a better-functioning phone. I think it’s rational to compare the cost of phone to the cost of something like a car, appliance, or couch and consider how much value you get out of it for how many years when deciding whether the price tag is worth it. Personally, I’d pay at least a dollar an hour to always use a nicer phone, and that pays for a higher end phone every few years.

Consider the case of someone who is upgrading from the iPhone SE they bought four years ago. $100/year seems like a pretty good deal for their next phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
AMD and Penguin Computing Upgrade Corona Supercomputer to Fight Covid-19
usercheto21351 posted a magnet link that appears to be legitimate, but which is now [dead] for some reason. Do we really want to read speculative blogspam while rejecting the original material?
During protests in Iran you could see blocked traffic on Google Maps.

There is some interesting data out there I'm sure is being mined, but I'm sure could be mined more. I still don't even see good traffic weather maps. Are people watching for traffic jams outside of submarine facilities?

As I guess expected Wuhan doe not have traffic on Google maps.

I'd be more worried about the factory cities than the hot spot really -

https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/guangzhou-traffic...
I torrented it the last few times. I have a licence and am unclear if this is a breach of TOS.
Ask HN: How to prove that my app does not upload personal data to servers?
I am trying to build a mobile app that's gonna handle a lot of private information. I am trying to address my superior protection of user's privacy on landing page. What's the best way to prove/show it?
The term is "Central Tolerance".

The Thymus (Which someone else mentioned) effectively checks the following:

(1) Does the cell react to an antigen (Foreign particle) [β-selection]

(2) Does the cell still work with the immune system (Can it bind to the cells it needs to bind to once it finds the antigen) [Positive Selection]

(3) Does the cell recognize only foreign particles and not the body itself [Central Tolerance / Negative Selection]
That's a very interesting presentation (the youtube video), I'm glad someone is working in this space.

Somewhat related, the presentation has a lot of math, which illustrates some of the points made in the recent HN discussion of the impact and effects of math instruction in Russia (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941144). Some comments pointed out how French schools rely on math for entrance exams, and this video a clear demonstration of a software startup having a math background. In fact, the startup probably wouldn't exist or even be conceived without the math and modeling of the data they provide.
It's not a solution for iOS, but Fair Email is an open source Android mail client that fits this description. It can work as a text only client for sending and receiving, and defaults to pretty much everything being safe. Links are hyperlinks, but bring a pop-up dialogue which shows you the destination, and will even unmangle common trackers from links, or MS Outlook advanced protection mangled URLs.

It pretty much defaults to being this "reduced attack surface", and I wish more apps were like this. It's probably one of the more complex settings UIs you'll ever find in a mobile app, but that's because almost everything is able to be enabled or disabled... Want it to check and validate DKIM locally? That's a toggle switch. Want it to auto remove tracking pixels from html emails? That's a toggle. Want to view email from trusted contacts in html view? Pretty sure that's a toggle too.

No connection, just a happy user of a nice open source email client.
I agree, and that's unfortunate, but I value it far less than I value the integrity of my computer and the data on it.

Steam itself has an interesting "Linux runtime" option for games, but it is unclear if that isolates things more than the status quo.

I don't know what I could do, short of replacing every executable in the steam directory with something that uses a mount namespace or a similar restrictive mechanism before launching the actual executable. Inject a modified libc to perform this on steam's exec call? I think the ball is in Valve's camp to improve this.
Linking to a Twitter that just links to SE seems like very poor form. dang, can the link be swapped out?
War, obviously. Volcanic eruptions are another.

> Climate change is too predictable

This isn't true.

Climate change can increase the frequency of once-rare, massive natural disasters, like hurricanes, fires, and droughts. It also contributes to the spread of certain diseases, such as mosquito-born diseases.

If you or anyone you know can predict the effects of climate change, you can make millions in the insurance or real estate industries.