skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making it illegal for health insurance companies to discriminate based on employment status would be a good first step. This includes not being allowed to giving rebates to company plans. Such a law would have popular support, but probably will never be done since politicians are friends with the insurance companies who needs the costs to be opaque.
I find it very strange too, but I find it even stranger that management mostly continues to tolerate it. A business has the right to refuse service. If someone is abusing your staff, why not kick them out and ban them immediately? Public shame is the best cure for bad behavior, and staff will be loyal a manager who has their back. Instead of that, assholes mostly seem to be allowed to keep on being assholes until they get to the point of physical violence.
Care to share the flaw instead of being vague?
I think you must have misunderstood the point the parent comment was trying to make. Memory-safety issues are responsible for a majority of real-world vulnerabilities. They are probably the most prevalent extant threat in the entire software ecosystem.
> Obviously everybody (Branson/Bezos) is entitled to spend their cash in whatever way they want.

straight up, no. they're using your tax dollars because they aren't taxed
It's a big stretch to say only government could make such a blunder. These rules were not blunders in the sense you make them out to be. They were the best option available given the reticence of roughly 50% of the population toward a single payer solution or other universal healthcare option. The designers of the ACA knew about these shortcomings but decided to kick the can down the road so to speak. Their goal was primarily to get far more people into the healthcare system and to get Americans used to the idea that pretty much everyone deserves access to healthcare. They achieved both goals.
My understanding is that "Wave function collapse" is an artifact of one of the many possible ways of describing quantum mechanics mathematically. There's really nothing to remove, is there?
Yeah but you're mixing up denominators. The question is how you factor in 25% of a hospital's budget to the per capita cost of healthcare provision in the link that I included, which includes all other costs. Those other costs are so high that that even zeroing out the administrative cost doesn't do much to bridge the gap.

I'll try to describe it in a different way. In the link that I provided, the US pays (on average) $8,021 per capita on non-admin costs, while peer countries pay $3,602 per capita on non-admin costs. Even accounting for the fact that 25% of a hospital's revenue is administrative, it 1) is not at all the case that admin costs are in the same ballpark as the difference between the two ($4,500 per person), 2) doesn't do much to bridge the non-admin gap, which forms the lion's share of the cost difference, since if you zero out the admin costs, even the costs that provider offices pay (25% of their total revenue), you're still left with the fact that the US pays over 2x peer countries.

Keep in mind that the "in-patient and outpatient costs" and prescription drug costs do NOT include provider office costs either.
looks good now!
Someone else copied GPL’s termination clause above…it’s practical.
How Taco Bell stole the taco from Mitla Cafe
I've got ADHD and 7 minutes of guided mediation in the mornings changed my life. I didnt believe it would when a doctor suggested it. But it did. I cant really explain it but I sure wish I knew about it earlier in my life.
When you drill down, laws against murder are really just outlawing moving various atoms around in specific ways.
nope but if you want to actually convert your crypto into any good or service or currency that doesn't happen to be crypto, you're going to be rendered legible.

And that alone is going to make tax evasion or laundering a lot harder, and probably makes it a way less attractive asset for criminals.
> Rather than an error budget, you'd have some sort of bug budget, where you tracked what sort of bugs were caused by what sort of constructs, and design your program in such a way to minimize their chance of being introduced.

Aren't we more or less doing that at the language level? C had lots of memory bugs, so C++ tried to fix it with collections, iterators, and smart pointers. It was still hard, so Java came along with GC and null ref exceptions. The situation was less bad, but multithreading became popular and Java didn't help as much as we would like so the Rust people gave it a go.

Though I really do suggest trying it yourself. If you want to be a better programmer, developing a style that minimizes bugs you write is pretty much pure win.
This amounts to little more than trivial obfuscation in practice.

The UTXO "privacy" model of Bitcoin has never worked out, and more modern cryptocurrencies aren‘t even attempting anything like it anymore.
Common or not, I regularly see stories about this in the newspaper. The students change, the stories are the same "but nobody told me I couldn't get a decent job in this major, look at all the debt I have now."
For periods of time varying from two to ten decades maybe...
Quant with some NLP experience here. Impressive business traction so quickly, good stuff. Who do you see as competitors in this space? I'm wondering whether you think that footnoted* (https://footnoted.com) offers something similar, or might your products be complimentary in some way? Thanks.
Waterfall development is still pervasive in a lot of industries and companies.
They did go into a Russian child care where they learned basic reading/writing.

But after they went into US elementary school, we didn’t want to interfere with their English learning, so without practice they have lost reading/writing skills, but still can speak.
"It works by enabling attackers to misuse the alloca() function in a way that would result in memory corruption. "

I thought alloca() had been banned? Well, the man page says "[..] Otherwise, its use is discouraged."
(also, I suppose, due to its "interesting" consequences when used in functions which themselves are being in-lined)
This argument would be okish if FireFox removing FTP was like burning it down, but it's not. A browser removing FTP protocol isn't the end of FTP. There's a myriad of FTP clients you can still use.
This sounds a bit more involved than "on the side" though, particularly everything leading up to licensing.
Wordpress 5.8 Tatum Release (IE11 Support Dropped)
It's not the meditation that is destabilising. It's the weed:

> I spent my last day in Los Angeles riding on a Segway, buying legal marijuana and staring at some turtles in an on-campus pond at UCLA.

What's left unsaid is that the majority of this "practice" goes hand-in-hand with "recreational" use of weed. Scare quotes because once you start reading revelatory texts under the influence, and probably meditating under the influence, the road to psychosis is just a few turns away.

I've had friends who went mad reading the bible or The Eagle's Gift, or The Tenth Insight, while smoking weed. I can't explain the mechanism, but smoking weed and opening yourself up to all the enlightened bullshit of the New Age, or the Old Religions, can tear a hole in your mental health, big enough for a truck to drive through.

People who believe in the supernatural are already half-mad. The weed comes along and closes the deal.

Without weed, meditation is as woo-woo bullshit for California yuppies as you thought originally.
Isn't this distinction exactly what the article is about? By saying ahead of time, "one ball is red, the other is blue", you're describing a hidden-variables theory of entanglement. It may be unknowable (before measurement) which color the ball in your left hand is, but it has a color.

But Bell's theorem provides a very measureable counterexample to this type of explanation of entanglement. Sure, in the article they talk about electron spins instead of ball colors, but the analogy is that there isn't a well defined "color of the ball" before it's measured.

Of course, the analogy breaks down a bit: electron spin can be measured in multiple axes with somewhat complicated interactions.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
I'm aware that full ledger visibility is a fundamental part of Bitcoin. I'm actually more concerned that the governments and central banks of the world will push for near total traceability with their own currencies. Whether that comes in the form of "GovCoins" or reporting requirements, I do not know. But I think it is practically inevitable.
I have worked on pretty large Clojure projects, and found Leiningen to be perfectly adequate.
For all we know it could be Sonia keeping tabs on her son.

The way he has been helping Modi win election after election, I would not be surprised if he was working for Modi.
Awesome Computer vision: Spatially varying blur detection
My search for the descent stage of the Apollo 10 Lunar Module (2020)
You're equivocating on the meaning of the word "difficulty." It's impossibly difficult for anybody but me to be exactly me, but that doesn't mean it's hard work for me to be me.

I've worked in a factory as a machine operator, and in a company as a programmer, and they're not comparable in either difficulty or compensation.
Meanwhile, the biggest state-level actors are developing offensive capabilities at the scale of "we can wipe out everything on the enemy's entire domestic network" which includes thousands of businesses of unknown value. The same way strategic nuclear weapons atomize plenty of civilian infrastructure.

Sure, in that kind of event, an org might be more concerned with flat out survival. But you never know if you'll be roadkill. And once that capability is developed, there is no telling how some state-level actors are connected to black markets and hackers who are happy to have more ransomware targets. Some states are hurting for cash.
> This has been tried many times, you are ignoring the reasons it did not work. The employees hate it because they make less money, forcing the restaurant to go back to tipping.

Yup. A couple of restaurants in the Seattle area tried this. "20% price increase, no more tipping".

Over time, their employees left, saying they were being paid less.

Remember this the next time you hear the "if you tip 15% or less I'm literally paying to serve you!" (which is also BS. The IRS, if you don't disclose tipped income, assesses a standard rate. If you're truly earning less than that in tips, you can document it and pay less. But almost no-one wants to do that because the IRS is behind the times, and almost all servers make more in tips than that standard rate).
timing the market is everything. Consider this the 'first mover disadvantage'. If you price yourself at the higher end of the market before the rest of the market moves, the lower price competitors will absorb your clientele.

In addition, type of food matters a lot. A place that sells 'cheap slop on a plate' has lot less price flexibility than a boutique that sells fancy sushi.
Despite the enforcement mechanisms against murders (which work less than 2/3s of the time), you see many places that implement preventive security measures to make killing people more difficult.

I think it is wholey reasonable to work on both preventive and punitive approaches. For online crimes, jurisdictional issues are major hurdles for the punitive approach.
Yes agreed. I hate cooking but I decided to bite the bullet during covid and learnt to make simple meals. The whole chore of cutting, cooking, cleaning up, dishes and utensils still seems like a burden to me but I enjoy eating home cooked meals and have improved overtime to modify internet recipes to my liking. Eating out now seems expensive and unhealthy in most cases and I often doubt the quality of ingredients too.
Clear Street Is Hiring for Senior Platform Engineers (NYC/Chicago)
Clear Street is a rapidly growing fintech startup based in NYC. Our mission is to simplify market access for institutional traders by building a revolutionary, high tech brokerage from scratch.

Engineers on our platform team grapple with challenges inherent to large distributed systems, real-time streaming, and product serving APIs.

Interested in meeting our team and learning more? Check out the link down below!

https://www.beforeyouapply.com/team/platform-engineering-at-clear-street
The trick is that they don't just need the FCC for the orbit clearances the FCC also deals with spectrum management in the US and Starlink needs similar approval to have (legal) nodes in any country they want to have customers in.
I don't know if there's been case law behind it, and I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to try it, but I feel like there's a strong argument to be made that tips are gifts from the consumer to the wait staff.

That said, gifts totaling under $15,000 are non-taxable.
Louvre Calls in Lawyers over Pornhub’s Hardcore Re-Enactments
"A shortage, in economic terms, is a condition where the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied at the market price." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortage.asp sounds like it fits the situation to me.
What pain points are those? Last I checked, doing cljs on Clojure Tools wasn't even possible. If that's still the case, then that's not a valid comparison (complex vs impossible).

Also, that's the master version of project.clj, which is a superset of all possible features lein supports. Nobody's project.clj file looks like that, though I suspect you know this. Should we compare that complexity to a monster build.clj and this master deps.edn:

https://github.com/seancorfield/dot-clojure/blob/master/deps...

Lein is also a singular tool vs. a murky interaction between a suite of tools (tools.deps with deps.edn, Clojure CLI, and tools.build).
And the hours are often longer off the books, since things like cleanup are sometimes not counted as worked hours.
I don't deny that under certain conditions it can appear in images. But these conditions need to be weighed in while discussing the merits on this issue. And the article is silent on this.
> even the security part seems to be about HTTPS, right?

No, I mean that a lot of FTP servers by default want you to do password authentication (yes, in cleartext); by default they grant access to your whole filesystem; and a minimal FTP server is significantly more complicated than a minimal HTTP server, and so it's more likely to contain vulnerabilities. Also, by default, most FTP servers support writing to files, and HTTP servers don't. I'm not talking about eavesdropping on the protocol itself or packet spoofing, which I agree are equally easy with FTP and unencrypted HTTP.

This HTTP server I wrote is, I think, 324 instructions of machine code, and it doesn't use any libraries: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s. I think it's plausible that it contains no security vulnerabilities, other than a DoS by flooding it with connections. I have a fair bit of confidence that it doesn't have an exploitable RCE vulnerability. I'm not sure if there's ever been an FTP server we could say that about.

But none of that is relevant to whether we should break functionality that has been core to the WWW project for 31 years.
Would this be correct:

You take a marble out of the bag without looking and give the bag to your friend. Your friend also take a marble out of the bag without looking. Both you and your friend now look at your marbles and they will both be the same colour every time.

You can't send information this way because you don't know the colour until your friend has already taken a marble too. You cannot do anything with the fact that they are both the same colour unless you can control or know the colour in advance, which you can't. When you look at your marble and see that its red, your friend looks at their marble and sees that its red, all you know is you both have red marbles.

The only way to send information would be if you took multiple marbles, looked at them until you found one that's blue (say, the third) and then told your friend to look at the third marble. But since you can't tell your friend to do that without using traditional information sending, you may as well just tell them that the third marble is blue and forego the marbles altogether, you're not sending faster than light information anymore anyway.
> you are not even allowed to establish a new hospital

Depending on the state, this also goes for surgery centers, and other types of procedure rooms for minor outpatient surgery.

As soon as you go to a hospital, the hospital tacks on a giant facility fee which may be the single largest expense. This, despite the hospital regularly owning half the practices involved in providing care too!

Those "nonprofit" executives with their multimillion dollar salaries, and the legion of nonclinical administrators have to come from somewhere. It is on the back of the clinical doctors.

This is highly detrimental to the high volume, low dollar value medical practices where we want to increase volume, and reduce costs, such as opthamologists & dermatologists. This, because our aging population has increased needs for ocular and skin care.
GP’s joke, I suspect, was that in practice every bit of money they get from the lawsuit, whether it is labeled “attorney fees” or not, is likely to go towards compensating the legal team, and not to the actual injured party. Which does not contradict your statement.

(Part of the point of having a legal fee schedule is, I suppose, to put a damper on the prices of legal help, because, like in medicine, the demand is otherwise extremely inelastic: when you need it, you really need it. That does not appear to work. I wonder if there is an approach that would work.)
The general human in 2021 who buys IoT gear puts it on their Wifi and goes back to other things.

Fallacy of the "general human" aside...how do you configure it? How do you configure your Wifi in the first place?

The app- and service-centric world that people have been forced into by the laziness of developers, the desire for surveillance data, and the deprecation of browser features, is the worst of all possible worlds.

Devices have full network connectivity, so that security camera you bought becomes part of a botnet, hacks your laptop, and installs ransomware or steals your financial info/bitcoin wallet. Companies control your house and your data, so when they disappear, or when Nest pushes out a bad firmware update, your devices (and your thermostat!) stop working.

Technology is realizing only a small fraction of its promise, and rather than empowering people, is acting as just another set of shackles that binds people to the whims of the powerful. The best instruments for changing that, namely web browsers and truly independent, user-owned devices, are being destroyed one small step at a time.

So, in 2021, the question stands, and you've made no attempt to answer it -- how is any device supposed to break out of this sinkhole and restore the power of technology, if browsers block local devices' UIs, and users can't even configure the device without the blessing of Google or Apple?
I'm no expert in how economists use the term, but I suppose it could certainly be called a shortage if there is some systemic reason why restaurants can't (or at least think they can't) raise prices in the short term. Personally I don't find that likely, at least based in my region where restaurants have indeed raised prices and many seem to be thriving (although many others failed in 2020).
> Our planet will only last so long until the Sun becomes a Red Giant.

In, what, five billion years? I’m not sure we need Bezos to be focusing all his money on that timeframe.
The situation isn't quite so bad as requiring a space elevator, since we can apparently use interferometry to combine the power of several smaller telescopes. However as I understand it, we lack the capability to do this on satellites at present and there are unique challenges to address.
deps is extremely simple, which means very little time spent debugging, and it never breaks
> My understanding is that "Wave function collapse" is an artifact of one of the many possible ways of describing quantum mechanics mathematically.

The contention seems to be that the Copenhagen interpretation elevates wave function collapse from mathematical artifact to real phenomenon.
What can I say? You're wrong. The math shows that you're wrong (as does the elementary argument presented in the paper). Find a physicist and ask them if you don't believe me.
Yes usually the backing account is in the end user's name in these schemes.
It's important to set expectations. Meditation won't make you happy - and that's not the point of it. What it can do is let you be more present of mind, less prone to flights of fancy or worries. It teaches you a practice where you look into yourself and actually face what's going on in there, and gives you some gentle coping mechanisms to help lay to rest intrusive thoughts and feelings that have started "looping" in you. So the goal of becoming "enlightened" should probably be read more as "unburdened" or even "undistracted" - it's freedom to experience the moment you are in more clearly with fewer distractions and "ticks". What you do with that freedom is up to you. And it's not a state you achieve once and for all, it's something you do again and again, both to wipe the slate clean, and to train your ability to do so. It's more like taking out the trash, or daily stretches to stay limber, and less like a religious awakening (those who claim otherwise are hallucinating or having a mental breakdown like the author of the post).
>"mainly concerned with companies that deal with cryptocurrencies."

For now. I guarantee you future legislation will be drafted to apply to individual citizens.
I had the same kind of thought when I saw the requirement for deployment. It's such a random stack and definitely not the right abstraction for a flexible deployment (for smaller communities as you mentioned). It seems also expensive to host it.
Fucking disgusting
Thanks. Yeah, it was MAPS originally, but HN automatically changes words in the title from all caps to just having the first letter in the word capitalized.

Usually I notice when it does this to my submissions and manually fix it, but this time I just submitted it and forgot to proofread the title afterwards.

I wish HN just had a hands-off policy to titles and submissions, but they've never listened to me.
You can pick your teachers…
> The problem that companies like Apple need to solve is not preventing exploits forever, but a much simpler one: they need to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation.

On the one hand, sure, make it too expensive to do this. On the other hand, how much more expensive is too expensive? When the first SHA1 collision attack was found, it was considered a problem, and SHA1 was declared unsuitable for security purposes, but now it's cheap.
-Wconversion will catch this
HTTPS can be MITM'd, but absolutely not trivially, unlike FTP.
Same. I don't want to spend time learning build tools and configuring builds - I want to Get Shit Done.

Lieningen gets out of my way and lets me do the things that really matter, and I'm not switching till I see some clear advantages of the new tooling.
Active struggle to change restrictive norms.
But how is the simulation hypothesis not positing a "god" of some sort (some kind of super-intelligence that they claim is behind it all)? It seems like the simulation hypothesis is a theistic hypothesis. Or do they assume the simulation just evolved?

Also, why the assumption that post-humans are running the simulations (as in the paper)? Couldn't it be any ultra-advanced civilization that's playing with an evolutionary simulation?