skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the worst UI ever invented would have to be the 3D tool known as ZBrush.

It is the least intuitive thing imaginable.

I think there is a certain logic to it, but it is a complicated logic, like learning Haskell or something.

The funny thing is a lot of artists seem to like it.
SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris
Also given their profits are capped, the only way to make more money (which is their primary function sadly) is to inflate prices and premiums.
I feel like there could be a lot of real numbers that are much bigger than 3% but still devastatingly low. 10%? 30%? 45%?

Also, do they break down the composition of that backing between "cash" and "short-term securities" anywhere, and how many of those "short-term securities" are real assets like T-bills, and how many are unsecured debt that there isn't the money to repay?

74% could be a "real" number ... but it could still be the case that there is only cash to cover 10% of the existing Tethers, and the remaining 64% is loans to companies that can only repay that ten cents on the dollar.
A Short-Lived Airline That Shuttled Sightseers to America's National Parks
Perfect - just followed on Spotify. Thanks for sharing!
Get a judgement, send it to collection. What's so hard?
It was an unintentionally exposed API. You didn't need to be an expert.
“This S3 request rate performance increase removes any previous guidance to randomize object prefixes to achieve faster performance. That means you can now use logical or sequential naming patterns in S3 object naming without any performance implications.”

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3...
Apple cares for the consumers so long as it's in alignment with profit. Never solely for the happiness of the consumer, but for profit.
The best thing I can possibly recommend is doing user research. Nothing uncovers UX issues more effectively. And it’ll be painful to watch (and not guide) if it needs fixing.
Unfortunately, every medical "support group" I have ever belonged to bent over so far backwards to not "blame the victim" that you absolutely couldn't talk about what worked because, inevitably, the sickest people with the worst war stories were the same ones who smoked, actively dismissed the idea that replacing carpeting with wood and tile floors might make a difference, etc. No, it absolutely wasn't socially acceptable to suggest that there was some correlation between the folks being proactive and having positive outcomes and the people shit-talking such approaches and their horrendous prognoses.

It creates an atmosphere where we can't realistically even try to investigate or develop a mental model for what actually works. So we just pretend that success or failure is some random number generator outcome. That always has me wanting to pointedly ask "So, why go to a doctor at all if it is basically totally random?" But I know how well that will go over, so I usually bite my tongue.
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Netflix did.
A bit of perspective. When you were young growing up in Scotland (if it was anything like my experience 2 decades later in Ireland) being a bit of a shit was cool amongst your peers. Playing in bands was cool. Smoking doobies and getting wasted on Buckfast was cool. I've moved away from the Anglo-sphere culture as an adult, so my perspective may be a little off, but my observation is that 90s cool is now very uncool. What's cool today is tech. Having a startup is the new band for kids.

Honestly I prefer it this way. I think growing up in the destructive cool environment stunted my personal growth a bit even though it was fun for a time. Whilst I certainly had fun I do regret not studying harder in maths and science in school (though I partially blame the teaching methods here). Now that I'm in my 30s I love studying and applying calculus etc and wish I was much further down the road with these topics. By most peoples standards I'm doing quite well for myself however I have some ideas I'd like to execute that are currently way out of reach due to a knowledge gap. This is hard to close when also working full time with a family. I would have preferred to have better (and more relate-able) role models, more optimistic support, better career guidance and have personally understood and practiced compartmentalisation better as a teen and 20 something. I think I could have had both some destructive fun and also had better personal growth.
Crypto scammers made off with more than $1.2B in Q1 2019 alone
It won’t happen. If you visit different cities in the US, not the big 5, look around at the buildings in the central business district.

Usually you’ll see a couple of regional banks, the local big bank outpost, and insurance companies. That’s lots of money and lots of jobs, lots of votes.

Unlike banking, the arcane processes actually created more middle class jobs while banks nuked jobs over the last 30 years. If Clinton couldn’t push universal care in the 90s, nobody is going to do it in the foreseeable future.
I'm always stunned by these sorts of stories. Was the opinion that the scale of code was, low, high, or appropriate given the problems being tackled?
I'm not entirely sure what your objection is. Forgive me if it seems like I'm talking past you; that's not my intent, but I don't really know how to address your argument head on.

But I think that advice is very good advice. It's worked for me at least. About a year ago I started dressing significantly better. T shirt and jeans to dress shirt and slacks. It has made a substantial improvement on my quality of life. People are much nicer to me, which is nice, but the thing that surprised me the most was the extent to which people take my ideas at work more seriously. If I prose something, people are much more likely to go along with it.

My confidence has gone up as well. After having gone from getting blown off when I propose ideas (and then having someone else "come up with" them and getting credit for it later) to having those same ideas get taken seriously and implemented had made me a lot more likely to propose things. It's not as if my company's corporate culture values these things either. Dress code is basically no flipflops.

Has my objective merit gotten any better? Are my ideas or execution any better than they used to be? Absolutely not. But I'm more successful, and more importantly happier than I used to be.

It's a very small thing which has made an outsized improvement. That's his point I think, not that you need to do these things to be successful, or that the little things are more important than the big things, but pick the low hanging fruit before you start stretching for the things which are out of reach. Sometimes the things that have the highest ROI are the things with minimal investment and mediocre return. String ten of those little things together and you might find you've got what you need out of your nine to five.
I imagine they don't x-ray well. Also, you probably get all kinds of attention from theives - they would expect camera equipment, not clothes.

Of course, it would all lead to memorable international travel experiences!
During my PhD I built a graphical “IDE” for performing scientific experiments and controlling lab equipment using Python. It features a Matlab/ Jupyter-like code editor and various graphical frontends for lab equipment and data acquisition.

It was my first large Python project and far from perfect but it has “spread” to several research labs and my former colleagues keep improving it, so I’m happy having created it :)

An old version can be found here:

https://github.com/adewes/pyview
The footer suggests it was built by an agency with 3000 other auto dealer customers. Show HN is going to get pretty busy if agencies start posting all their work.
Then perhaps mention that. And also why they got the job. We don't need identifying details, but at least the article should expand on that. I'm not having a go, but if you're going to give advice demonstrate how this advice works.
Instagram to remove number of likes on photos and videos in Canada
Yea I hear you. Not one I recommend watching!
That depends entirely on how much they are paid to delay. A successful pay to delay settlement can be more profitable for the generic than entering the market. That is to say, it is more profitable to share revenue from a monopoly than race to the bottom.

A classic example is GSK and TEVA with Lamictal. GSK priced the original drug at $465/dose with $1.5 billion in sales. Teva's Generic was $14/dose. TEVA happily agreed to be paid by GSK because if TEVA had won in court, entered the market, and captured 100%, they would only bring in 50 million a year

https://www.fiercepharma.com/regulatory/more-scotus-fallout-...
I'd imagine that 24-wheel limo needing a special track just to get from A to B. That thing probably can't make a right or left turn on a typical two-lane road.
China put 28 million cars on the road in 2018. 95% were ICE. China put over 1 million heavy trucks on the road in 2018. Almost all were ICE. By 2025, the government aims to get it down to 80% ICE. That’s at least another 100 million new ICE vehicles on the road in the next half decade, plus the 300 million existing vehicles (which in developing nations are retired very slowly). Compared to maybe 20 million EVs if the government meets its target. China is currently building new coal fired capacity equal to the total amount of US coal generation capacity—and many times the renewables capacity it has added in the last year. Power plants are long term investments. These plants will be in service for decades to come.

Again, we need to cut 19 gigatons in the next decade. If “going crazy for electric cars” means that 80% of new cars—forget existing cars, and new trucks, etc.—will still be ICE half a decade from now, emissions reduction is not going to work.
As someone who aggressively uses conda, I do think one of its downsides is how heavy it is. I agree that it's a good one-stop-shop if you want to get an environment up and running with no issues. But if you're not doing any scientific computing for a given project, it might help to use something more lightweight.
Some of the 6-wheelers are pretty handsome.
loosely related, but here is an amazing project by Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom (20 years in the making) that explores the topic of 'homogeneity':
https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/20-years-of-photos-sh...

(the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714867152)
The government never should have let mutual insurance privatize. That was the tipping point that started this whole mess. Rather, there should be incentives for for-profit insurance to switch a mutual ownership model.
I don't know about you, but I often do side-projects to learn things. It try apply my knowledge into something to understand it.
Maybe you have the same reason and you can say it's for improving or maintaining your competence.

Also, perhaps you shouldn't think too muchs about how to justify things you do to others.
Hey Thomas, love what you are building.
Last time I checked, many tech billionaires did not take huge risks. Zuck and Gates were already at Harvard, and they could always return there if FB/Microsoft failed (with upper-middle class families to fund their education). Page and Brin were similarly Ph.D candidates at Stanford. They almost certainly would not have died/faced destitution if Google had failed.

If your startup failing really meant death or destitution, why don’t we ever hear about the high death rates of YC founders who fail (or startup founders in general)?
If you take this further, and can compile any of the "C" code (open source), then you can link that existing code as one single binary - e.g. "python" - basically python with all compiled code needed, thus:
- You no longer need .dll, .so, etc. to go along, you can package the rest of the .py files into a .zip and slap it at the end of the now "fat" python binary, hence effectively having one executable - a bit of a "go" style releasing...
- This can even have smaller sizes, but careful (with FFI) - because only the code that is exposed to be used from Python would get linked in the fat "python" binary.. that is - with "FFI" is more tricky, as you have to force symbol to be kept
- You can obviously do that with other runtimes - java - e.g. your whole "java" can be down to one executable really

But to get there, you need sane build system, in order to explain these dependencies outside of python/java/whatever... And obviously the source code (although precompiled static libs should work in this scheme too)...

The goal again - just to have one thing, and most importantly no .so, .dll, .dylib lying around,
FedEx is awful, but not "hunt me down wherever I'm at, kidnap me, and beat me until I type in a passphrase for a laptop I shipped via Next Day Air" awful.
> The reason for that is very simple; revolution is a bad idea and incrementalism has a proven track record of working.

Is there any empirical evidence to back this up? There are enough successful examples of revolution and incrementalism from around the world, but I can't find stats.
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Small claims court if it's less than the relevant small claims amount.
Otherwise, a strongly worded letter from a cheap lawyer.

The legal system is often abused. But it sounds like you've got an actual legit issue, which is what the legal system is there for. Why not use it?

If you don't want to pay for a lawyer, you can write your own strongly worded letter. Just be sure to stick to facts, and keep very good records. In your letter, explain the issue briefly but clearly. Explain how you've attempted to resolve the issue. Explain how if the issue is not resolved, you will be forced to take action.

Address it to the hospital CEO, or whoever is in charge. Post it using registered mail.

Your local library may have a subscription to LexisNexis or a similar legal database. This will have form letters and chunks of legal text that you can copy and paste.

HN user patio11 wrote a thing about writing letters on this website that I can't just find. But find it, and read it. It also has helpful advice.
Apple disrupted itself at least twice.

macOS are the Apple II series
iPhone clobbered the iPod.
I am not saying nor implying that what the Big 4-5 are doing is illegal. I'm merely noting that these companies have an outsized influence and the ability to force the markets to behave in specific ways, not all of which are beneficial to society.

There doesn't have to be a law, for an individual or organisation, to notice and opine that these companies DO have an impact which would be very hard to achieve in free and fair markets. Law usually follows disruptive innovation and capitalism and capitalists generally try to run circles around policy making.
It's probably strange more due to his strong relationship with Obama and those campaigns. It's exactly the sort of thing you don't want to see in that sort of dominant company.

He doesn't come off very well in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" either.

edit: as guessed, I got down voted for an Obama reference. Here's a quote from the book:

"First, Google demonstrated that the same predictive knowledge derived from behavioral surplus that had made the surveillance capitalists wealthy could also help candidates win elections. To make the point, Google was ready to apply its magic to the red-hot core of twenty-first-century campaigning, beginning with the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. Schmidt had a leading role in organizing teams and guiding the implementation of cutting-edge data strategies
that would eclipse the traditional political arts with the science of behavioral prediction"
That's the most succinct explanation of privacy I've seen. I'm going to have to crib that line.
Might be of interest to you: https://fmma.org/shophealth/

Good luck trying to figure out what inpatient services are gonna cost ahead of time though. I work in a hospital, and a doctor asked me for data two weeks ago about what a sample set of ten of his patients were getting charged, as well as what his clinic was getting reimbursed. Took an email chain eight people long before we found someone who could actually pull the right info. Ridiculous.
> while the market price is re-converging to parity

Given the "market price" of most crypto is based in USDT not USD it kinda makes you wonder how legit any of the "market price" figures really are? Plus given there is absolutely no auditing for any of the exchanges in the market, for all you know "market price" could be determined by nothing more that scripts that just SQL INSERT fake transactions in their database (assuming they are using SQL.... which given this is crypto is suspect.... I wouldn't be surprised to learn many of these people are using things like mongo to handle their financial transactions)

> Your local bank has a much, much lower reserve ratio than this.

My local bank is also audited and heavily regulated. I sleep every night without ever worrying that my bank is suddenly going to lose all my money.

Also, given that bitcoin's ethos is all about being anti-fed and "no printing money" it is rather funny to hear somebody defend tether being anything less than 100% backed by some "real" asset.
Or he could have said that net income dropped...
The old-style three-wheelers (that they haven't been allowed to sell for decades) didn't have a differential in the back, so you had to tip them to the outside in order to turn sharply. Yes this was dangerous.
If you want to frame it like that, you also have to ask how many people you are willing to let die in the meantime.
As an Australian living and working in the US with a wife who has a chronic medical condition that costs our insurance company on the order of $100k/yr for her regular treatments, all I can say is "Almost $1k" sounds like a gross underestimate.

An anecdote I like to share with friends back home is related to a routine blood test that she has every few months. The price the provider bills varies significantly, but one time they billed $2900. Our insurance paid them $27 like they usually do and the remainder was written off.

Imagine being sick, having no insurance, maybe no job, and receiving that bill in the mail with absolutely no way for you to know that they would probably accept over 100x less than billed. I can understand why medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy in this country.
The revolution could be the government bitting the bullet, and spending a fortune on bootstrapping a public health system that undermines insurance and private health.

Or, uh, "Medicare for all", since medicare is an existing, functional single payer system (not actual "public health system" but still, there, works already for a significant fraction of the population, is an existing proposal.

We just need to give up on the sunk cost fallacy and go with proven models.

This, definitely. It's worth saying "sunk cost" arguments often go more with entrenched interests than any actual benefit. Unfortunately, this doesn't make them easier to counter.
I didn't say you were advocating your life. But you are advocating your own list, it's just shorter

- Enjoy your 20s

- Reflect when you get to 30

I'm sure this worked out to your satisfaction, but then again so (probably) did the list in the article to the person who wrote it. So why is their list bollocks and yours isn't?

> Well sometimes some folk just get it lucky and the timing is right for their thing.

Maybe, but how do you know that's all there is to it?
Customs at Basel airport was convinced I was hiding stuff I owed duty on

Sure, if you owe duty on three weeks of dirty clothes?
I'm a 23 y/o Kiwi and have recently been self reflecting about my drinking habbits and what I want to make from my life. I drink heavily 2 or 3 nights a week and the problem i have with it is it totally aborbs my weekends. I end up spending my Saturday/Sunday days in bed hungover. The thing I find difficult about taking breaks from drinking is I live with 5 of my best friends and one of them wanting to drink usually convinces the rest of the household. Adding to the fact that there is always MDMA and other drugs floating around makes this harder on my body.
The further down the page you get, the more they look like a poorly trained NN's idea of a car.
"in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 incident, a video of the encounter was shared and viewed widely by members aboard the Princeton and Nimitz via an internal military email system"

I hadn't realized that the US navy possessed wireless email capable of handling video back in 2004. Seriously though, what's this UFO waffle doing on a respectable tech blog such as HN.
...and even more amazing one by Ari Versluis (also Dutch):
http://www.exactitudes.com
The solution is simple and I've posted it here many times. Rates for services need to be fixed by the provider and the same price charged to all payers including insurance companies. Posting those prices is a bonus, but the insurance companies alone will force competition among providers.
Making Sandspiel
But would a batch delete by any other name smell just as sweet?
There are _a lot_ of CC licensed images coming up through Flickr search that are nowhere to be found in CC Search and since the vast majority of CC Search's images come from Flickr, you would be better off just searching on Flickr...
I agree, safety is very important but so is actually getting the drugs to people at prices they can afford. Perfect drugs are still useless if no one can buy them.

An international certification, recognized by all the major countries, could work very well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car

Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion car had three wheels.
Chrome Extension to add top news stories to Facebook Town Hall feature
I recently discovered the Facebook Town Hall feature and thought it was super useful to see what politicians and local government bodies represent my area. I got to thinking about how it might be improved and I settled on a service to see the top 5 news articles pertaining to each entry in the Town Hall directory. Since Facebook, to my knowledge, does not open the Town Hall functionality up to their API I built a Chrome extension that inserts the news articles beneath each entry. The code for the extension can be found here for anyone curious how it works https://github.com/Static-Flow/townhall-news-extension and the url for the extension in the Chrome store is here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-town-hall-news-a/cnmgmhnjjoofngkkmlbflpekokahgegj
In my state, movers are regulated like this. The result? Everything has a 30% error margin.

That approach is why the $10 test costs $400. Medicaid mandates $10.01 payment, and selling it to someone for less than that is a crime (fraud). Everyone else gets a percent off of list.
Whoops, I misread your comment! Sorry about that.
Where is it claimed there 300M photos? Would love a source before claiming that in my design slack channel
This comment should move to the top. You see the success stories because they have succeeded. You never hear the failures. And they are everywhere.
I'm surprised this isn't a common thing with some big company/startup doing precisely this. All these tests that don't need specialized equipment at the point of the test (i.e., blood or other fluids as opposed to fancy imaging) can be easily outsourced to pretty much anywhere else in the world. Is there some law preventing this ?
You'd be right.

Reliant Robin:

https://youtu.be/8KjdfuYanbQ?t=36

Slingshot:

https://youtu.be/1FNO3BlyHEc
> As a fat person, I know anti-fat bias is bulls hit;

Can you explain why you feel like this? I can definitely see why the opposite is true (visibly not taking care of yourself means your subconscious is more powerful than your conscious mind which doesn't breed trust) but find it hard to see any redeeming qualities in being overweight.