skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is an audiologist, so I admit to being a bit biased, but it seems like most of the comments are missing one of the main drivers of hearing aid cost.

Traditionally, audiology offices undercharge dramatically for their initial consultation and testing, then provide full service for the lifetime of the device. And not just normal electronics service. Often patients will come back every week or two for months to get the fit just right or to get some coaching relearning how to hear conversations or just having the nice lady in the white coat show them how to replace a battery for the fifth time. A lot of clinics will even throw in "free" batteries for life. The cost of all that service ends up getting rolled into the initial purchase price for the hearing aids.

This is dumb. Most audiologists that I know think it's dumb, but it is the status quo. There's a move in the industry toward "unbundled" billing (i.e. charging an hourly rate for services and selling the aids at a much more standard retail markup) that I hope catches on, but it's a hard sell to charge for services that the clinic down the road is providing for "free", even if the total cost of ownership is
the same.
This is important to note.

He is the main and, it can be argued, the only developer of the bitcoin segwit2x attack/upgrade (depending on which propaganda do you prefer).

https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commits/segwit2x
I saw a TV programme about this last week, it was named after Charles Darwin’s ship - H.M.S. Beagle.

A bit of interesting reading here http://www.beagle2.com/author/beagle2/
That's a dumb joke. You might have one of those conditions, and proper diagnosis and understanding of how your mind works can be a gateway to therapy that helps you achieve your life goals with less frustration.

High IQ doesn't make you have low EQ. Some people have both high or both low or one of each.
I interviewed with them a couple of years ago and I was horrified that their code was as bad as it was in such a short period of time.
Very few code bases get better over time, and they were already at spaghetti code level. You have to sacrifice quality over quantity as soon as you begin or you are lost.
Another ongoing example: suppression of research into male birth control due to fears of cutting into profits from the cash cow that is female birth control.
...or all of the universities that contributed a wealth of research to modern computing.
Kind of a hard argument to make when there are plenty of examples of contributions to computing that weren't bankrolled by monopolies. Just think about how much, especially in the early days, came out of academia alone. And I'm not sure where you get that the modern web has been bankrolled by Google and Apple when there are many, many other contributors.

IMO, innovation is usually fueled by competition. Where there's lots of competition, the need to innovate is the necessity for survival. I mean, how innovative was Microsoft in the 90's when they essentially had a monopoly on desktop computing? That's how we got stuck with IE 6 for so long...
At least it's honest.

Most ICO "whitepapers" are just PR kits.
The truth here is actually a bit more nuanced. Dietary cholesterol isn't universally bad/ok. Some people have defective cholesterol metabolism, and dietary cholesterol can cause them issues. Most people have a cholesterol metabolism that achieves homeostasis even in the presence of dietary cholesterol. As a result, you can create a study where dietary cholesterol looks bad/good just by tweaking your study population.

For reference, dietary cholesterol is most often a problem for people of certain African, south Asian, Mesoamerican and Mediterranean populations that historically consumed limited animal products, or low fat animal products such as warm-water fish. People of central/northern European/Asian descent are typically fine.
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I find myself thinking how much technology has had an influence on polarisation of viewpoints, particularly political ones (conservative vs liberal).

There is a correlation between young adults coming of age in the era of "Recommended for you" playlists and "People who bought this also bought" recommendations. I feel that these algorithms followed for long enough cause you to end up in one extreme or another.

We have young students who are exposed to a single viewpoint for such a long time that it becomes part of their identity. Either for the right or the left.

Now at university these two sides sometimes clash. Neither side is willing to hear the other argument as listening to them will invalidate a core part of their identity.

This all seems to be a side effect of technology companies trying to maximise profit. The longer a user stays on the site the more money they make (ads, products, etc).

As techies, how can we be socially responsible while also profiting? Is it possible as a public company?
Unclear how his solution improves on Lightning Network: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/atomic-swaps-how-the-li...
It's convenient there (and probably not accidental!) that Unix usernames are usually lowercase, so if you want to run a command like

~otheruser/bin/cat

it won't conflict with an ssh escape sequence (although you won't see the ~ appear until you've typed ~o).

On the other hand,

~Randomuser/bin/cat

would be impossible to type immediately at a new command prompt over an ssh connection (though of course it's possible to run such a command by typing anything such as "x<Backspace>" first).
There's a lawsuit b/c Lyft feels they can show that Uber actually caused monetary damages (and violated their TOS). If Knotel could do the same, they would also have a case. That's how civil law works. AFAIK, Uber wasn't accused of committing a crime in those instances.
I want to try cooking with this grain!

Also, Birchwood Cafe is great! Worth a visit if you are ever in the Minneapolis area!
Not for 6S. It has some issues and Apple still lets users downgrade.
Ensure is extremely sweet. Living off Ensure, you'd either have to get the zero carb version, or you'll have 2x the sugars of Soylent. It's also just disgusting to drink more than 3 of something so sugary before needing something else. The original Soylent flavor I can have for weeks before feeling like I need a change.

If a cheaper competitor emerges that doesn't taste like a milk shake, I'd switch to that. But so far no one has offered a reasonable alternative.
> The ability for companies to vertically integrate and essentially make smaller businesses non-competitive can only occur when you don't have to pay the taxes your smaller competitors have to pay and don't have to obey the same laws your competitors have to obey.

That sounds a little too extreme. Has vertical integration never occurred without the help of tax law?
It's pretty alarming and sad that Scientific American is publishing politicized op-eds these days.
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Safari on the desktop is very, very bad about doing this. The browser benchmark tests really should include this metric: the average time to ready after navigating back. Showing a cached image but registering a click on a different image just seems like such an obvious thing to avoid.
Cancer patients are making their own DIY immunotherapy treatments
There's an old "ha ha, only serious" joke. If you go to a Linux forum and ask for help fixing your WiFi driver, everyone will ignore you. If, instead, you say "Linux sucks, you can't even get a f&$ing WiFi driver working!" thousands of people will solve the problem for you.*

This is 100% accurate. There is no better way to get assistance with HiDPI tweaking on a Linux desktop than to go onto a subreddit and bash your DE of choice, complaining about its lack of HiDPI support.
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Link to thesis on Scribd in case helpful: https://www.scribd.com/document/362484322/Stephen-Hawking-Ph...
The OP wasn't necessarily agreeing with Thiel, just highlighting something of a counter-opinion. Your reply was a bit uncivil and didn't really add anything.
Yup.

Amazon receiving 238 bids of localities falling over themselves to handover tax credits and other goodies is the example I've been thinking about recently.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-headquarters/a...

How to fix it though?
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Pretty much. If Soylent were marketed as a sometimes meal replacement for when you’re too busy to eat a proper meal as an alternative to grabbing fast food or a bag of potato chips it would be utterly unobjectionable. Instead it plays like a parody of all things SV.
From personal experience, the French have little regard for native writing or pronunciation of names.
I wonder how many folks using this will obey the robots.txt as explained nicely within the article:

"Robots

Web scraping is powerful, but with great power comes great responsibility. When you are scraping somebody’s website, you should be mindful of not sending too many requests. Most websites have a “robots.txt” which shows the rules that your web scraper should obey (which URLs are allowed to be scraped, which ones are not, the rate of requests you can send, etc.)."
The stamp on the papers say it was marked unclassified in 1980-82, which would have been ~40yrs after most of the papers dates (and his death). Was it really only released a year ago?
"Balanced liquid nutrition for medical needs" is not exactly what comes to mind when Soylent is mentioned.
I didn't say to ignore his "valid points." I intentionally didn't mention the content. I was trying to point out that, if, as you read the piece, you correctly inferred metadata about the author, (a) it's funny because (b) it means there might be more to the theories he is dissmissing out of hand.
Exactly. The article starts out fairly well-supported, citing other works and building an argument. Then it all unravels with that outlandish, unsupported statement.
Currently not much, that will be one of the challenges. Later on – gamification, how well are you at predicting upcoming trends in certain cities/categories.
Then you should run the risky operations in a different process. It will not only protect you from the operation crashing your main program, but also from data corruption if you use readonly access for the shared data.
It seems the only thing that Eth devs do is create smart contracts to fund Eth devs.
You can control of the queue, but not the entries. You can pass the whole queue/socket around via sendmsg(), but not single entries in the queue. This is hard to solve well in user space.
I think it goes a step deeper. Imho the issue starts with the fundamental distrust of government. Lacking the ability to see government as a valid leader, Americans turn to corporations and billionaires. They really do believe that Apple and Dow chemical can do a better job leading the country than any elected politician. They are not worried about the monopolies. They should be, any economist would agree that monopolies are not good for consumers, but the average person is not a rational economist. I don't think Americans believe lobbying is bad. They want to be led by corporations and see lobbying as the legitimate means for them to lead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars#Postmodernism
You also can probably afford enough memory that the kernel can schedule your game entirely on one half of the CPU, but I don't know if that sort of scheduling (and defragmentation) is commonly used yet.
the problem is that "animal" was not the most common food anyway, overshadowed by plants, not that it doesn't contain enough fat.

EDIT: I'm also not sure about this western culture bias you're talking about, I am italian and we eat innards, blood and marrow.
I am fairly sure every culture in europe does.
IMO, making it easier to drive will increase the number of people who commute. There isn’t enough space to add extra lanes to facilitate the increase in traffic these vehicles will cause. I think we should be working on other transportation problems.
> Nobody says that Soylent is the only thing a person is permitted to eat.

But it's supposed to be able to be used that way, if one wants. AFAIK it doesn't warn to get omega-3 from time to time.
If you read the link these rules only apply to labeling for anything marked as a "Meal Replacement" product, like soylent.
Don’t abuse language features
Prop 13 is pretty well baked into the state’s politics and any reform would have to start there. Most likely reforms are letting a home’s taxable value increase by more than 1% a year, especially if you are under 65.
Eh, conservatives have been making this complaint for ages. It’s really not new. Take the Vietnam war and civil rights protests of the 60s and 70s for example. Tech has changed some dynamics, but in this case, it hasn’t introduced something completely new.
Can I ask why you were thinking about what race/gender/ethnicity etc. he was while reading the article?
Maybe when it comes back to Canada they can do something about their ridiculous Canadian pricing system where the same product for a Canadian shipment is charged more in USD than a US shipment. 'Free Shipping' though (-__-)
Note that Git commit graph isn't really a tree, but a directed acyclic graph, in which nodes (commits) points to actual Merkle trees (trees/blobs).

(Also, git keeps the full data, not only diffs)
First thought is academic proof of work. Or to protect readers of news by alerting if text was modified. Thats what i know about. Its active research. Mostly anti-forgery tech.

I ought to read into the ether world better myself though. So take my words with a grain of salt.

A musing would be defending against malicious code injection ?
Nice straightforward UX. My first thought was to search for some trends about weather (everyone's talking about how hot it's going to be in southern california today) - but I didn't see that category.

So I'd suggest to consider including a section about weather/natural phenomena.
The number of 256-bit hashes you would have to generate in order to have a 50% that there's a duplicate in there is ~4*10^38. If we had a billion machines each generating a billion new hashes a second, it would take over 12 million years to get that many.
That blog is the perfect example of how to create content that provides compelling value for your target market, and establishes credibility for your product. Great stuff!

Have you tried publishing a column in newspapers and the like that farmers typically read? I bet it would be popular and a powerful source of leads.
Soylent has had multiple, well publicized problems with mold and at least one instance of journalists finding rats running around the factory floor.
https://www.google.com/search?q=soylent+moldy

https://www.google.com/search?q=soylent+rats
(Oh, Don Hopkins answering. I read you so often on TUHS!)

Didn’t know that, seems useful. Especially because another comment in this thread since mentioned that they often kill their ssh sessions because of runaway processes.

Overall, it seems to me that a lot was lost when giving up telnet.
Is there any study that shows any adverse effects of dietary cholesterol in a ketogenic diet?
Could you clarify what the complaint is they're making? I'm confused.
My take is that he's basically saying capitalism doesn't work (edit: at least there's big problems within it) and if you want to get rich you should know how to play the system because just providing large amounts of social value isn't sufficient. I'm not sure that's his intended message though, since he often presents himself as a libertarian with the implicit message that capitalism and getting rich is a sign of providing social value.
The tutorials on Github, https://github.com/adkelley/javascript-to-purescript
divide and conquer that is
1. Promote.

2. Convert 20% into assets at the peak.

3. Hide in Uruguay.
I think OP probably just doesn't understand how ad tech works.
Few of my co-workers went partially or fully on it, and they all look less healthy. But that's just a small random sample. Idk, who am I to tell them what to eat and that they actually need way more finer to dodge potential colon cancer/other nasty stuff.
Sure. But that’s an inherent feature of the animation. In this case the “never” rule doesn’t apply. If animations are a side effect, you want to treat them as such.
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I don't agree. I think it's just tradition from back when academic journals had a much smaller circulation - and were physical things that needed to be printed and shipped - which justified this state of affairs.

The vast majority of scientists never receive any of these prizes. A lot work in fields where no such prizes exists.
unfortunetly you would have to radically reform the entire political system and take a lot of powers away from states eg single sales tax, a single set of employment law.

Unfortunately the states are not turkeys voting for Christmas
My insurance would cover a hearing aid for the ear that needs a hearing aid. Whether the hearing aid supports bluetooth doesn't come into the equation.

Since I only need one hearing aid, the bluetooth feature was of minimal interest. I've not heard of any hearing aids that have a microphone that is useful for the bluetooth headset profile. The microphones for this use tend to be an add-on device which may or may not come with a pair of hearing aids. Admittedly, I've not researched this area much.
Now them's fighting words.
Grandparent isn't trying to condone the practice of berating employees but to demonstrate how Apple under Steve Jobs would've been much more likely to catch these kinds of screwups before production and much less likely to tolerate them once they occurred. The means of correction are less important than the standard of quality which was effectively enforced.
It's the "brownshirts vs the redshirts" all over again. Yes, one side are literally waving Nazi flags and that's terrible. The other side are literally waving Socialist flags and the only reason that's not just as terrible if not worse is that for some reason the intellectual left got away with going to ground rather than admitting defeat. And if you think that's hyperbole because of Bush-Jr-era nonsense, I refer you to Christopher Hitchens who used to lead labor strikes and visit glorious people's work camps in South America before he finally realized the horrors of all the socialist regimes he'd been supporting.

You're also ignoring the times that went against your mantra, like when the liberal antifa supporter was handing out bike locks and brained a kid on camera. Antifa have also regularly been tossing explosives into crowds, beating people, lighting property and police on fire, etc. It's a wonder more haven't been injured.

I don't have any sympathy at all for Nazis.

I also don't have any sympathy at all for Socialists.

Not having any sympathy for Socialists, doesn't make me a supporter of Nazis.

Not having sympathy for either side, doesn't mean I support the other side.

I'd like for us to go back to rationality and working together.

That starts by reforming education. And yes, education is that bad. One quick example from my own time back at college a few years ago is that I had a professor teaching the university-required ethics course who taught ethics only through the lens of Feminist Care Ethics. If you wrote a paper dealing only with the issues at hand (Locke and Hobbes mostly), you failed. If you wrote a paper attacking white men and denying rationality as a positive basis for morality, you got an A. I just discovered my papers a few days ago, and yes it's all in there.

On the other hand, I also had a conservative department chair professor who taught me that white people only started to accept black people after slavery because black people were so good at entertainment and sports... so I'm all for generalized reform, and not just in this one politicized direction.
That’s not “getting ready for”, it’s “experimenting with”.

Also, cities (mostly) shouldn’t have to “get ready” for self-driving cars; self-driving cars should start self-driving in current cities.
Only one of his supporters fired shots at the protesters, and many of those protesters are people who support preemptive self defense, shooting at them is valid and defensible by their own logic.
Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" (1958), p14 in my copy:

"I remember once, when the money baskey was empty, Dad told Mother that "a royalty was due." I hung around that day because I had never seen a king (I was eight) and when a visitor showed up I was disappointed because he didn't wear a crown. There was money in the basket the next day so I decided that he had been incognito (I was reading The Little Lame Prince) and had tossed Dad a purse of gold-it was at least a year before I found out that a "royalty" could be money from a patent or a book or business stock, and some of the glamour went out of life."
Well, I have iOS 11 on multiple devices and have friends with iOS 11 and I’m seeing (and hearing about) launch lag and the calculator button problem but not your other issues. So this isn’t simply an iOS 11 problem you can do nothing about besides complain on the internet.

I mean, if that’s what you prefer to do, be my guest. I don’t mind at all. I’m just pointing out you might be able to do something about some of the problems.

Also, I didn’t say it was your fault. I get that you’re frustrated, but it doesn’t help to get angry, especially with people who are trying to help you.
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Just a minor clarification to your point. In "industry" towns like the Bay Area, Detroit, and Chicago - corporations are definitely the powerful non-state actors.

Outside of those though, their are many cities of considerable size where local developers hold the most sway. These local developers behave and are motivated by different things then the mega corps.
Add some async JavaScript to onclick, onchange, etc. events.
The author should tread carefully... I think the crisis of irreproducibility and the publishing bubble extends to the heart of scientific disciplines as well.

Like a lot of things in life, reality is probably more complex than the postmodern humanities scholars or the realist scientific scholars would suggest. There is some level of reality underlying discourse, but it's also filtered through social processes at every step.
Ottawa just became the first Canadian city to have a self-driving car actually on the road. It should be on the list.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/driverless-car-test-ott...
A bit off topic to your question, but this reminds me. Where are we exactly progress wise with P vs. NP problem? I've not thought to track the millennium problems in a while. I'm sure I would have heard if something substantial had arisen though. I used to work with it at some point on specific variation of the problem with was the dorm room housing problem [1]. That particular scenario always stood out to me as something that should be relatively easy to solve and I worked on it for a few years. Anyways, I'm way off topic now.

[1] http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/p-vs-np-problem
Softbank's version of the next 30 years