skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy seeing successful examples like your project. Many of the successful products started simple like you did, while there are tones of over-engineered MVPs that never launched.

Cheers!
I've had this idea floating in my head for a while. Provide free annual full body MRIs to people, including being read by a radiologist, which they can take to anyone they want (doctor, lawyer, whatever). In exchange, they agree to send the org a copy of all their past and future medical records. The records are anonymized and tied to the MRIs.

The MRIs and medical data is then pumped through machine learning algorithms to attempt to identify early signs of disease. The data of course would be most useful to future people, because we won't know someone has something until a doctor diagnoses it, but if the AI model can look at the MRI from five years ago on everyone with disease X and find a common early warning sign, then we could apply it to future cases where it might be possible someone has X and catch X much earlier.

Basically, I want to create a charity that gives free full body MRIs in exchange for a bunch of medical data for training an AI.
How come you decided to take the Google offer? :)
My guess is that during your visit you never left the Tier 1 cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.
It's not necessarily about doing extra. It's about doing what you want to do, and in particular doing what you want your next job to be about. And it's not outdated; it still works; see my reply to the grandparent comment.
Strongly agree. I'd like to point out that his Spec House project is only one of many things he's involved with. The blacksmithing, woodworking, and other videos are equally great. One video in particular is ostensibly about construction work ethic, but I like to think applies quite well to software development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1AmDRhoas
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In a general tech recession you wouldn't be any worse off than any other tech worker though, right?
Maybe in the paywalled paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1128-0
You're understating the costs.

Determining whether something is (non) malignant isn't trivial. It often requires a more invasive test (e.g., biopsy, exploratory surgery). We try to avoid those procedures not just because we're cheap or afraid, but because they have a real risk of harming us 'squishy humans'.

For example, detecting prostate cancer a few months earlier is often not a huge win on its own. It is even less of a success if doing so requires that four people have allergic reactions to the anesthetic and two others acquire some kind of infection at the biopsy site.

It's certainly possible that more data would eventually let us avoid most invasive followups, that's nowhere near certain. Even if it were, the ethical calculus is still pretty tricky.
You also need to consider that there is difference between a a check box saying opt out and that check box actually opting you out.
I used this to unfollow everyone and everything: https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28

Then I added back the few that were actually important. Huge quality of life improvement.
I have seen a number of critical systems with frankly masturbatory code. Well designed and structured code is a rarity.
That doesn’t change the legality much
Yes, it is promising. I am sorry to hear about your wife. Hopeful it gets fast tracked to clinical trials.
Global warming is not lethal in itself. The biggest threat in it is destabilisation of societies and resulting wars - but for a war to start, somebody has to press that metaphorical button. It is not inevitable.
Congrats. I'm pretty outside of anything YC will ever be interested in, but I've heard lots of positive things about Startup School.
Nativism [1] pitched specifically to appeal to whites?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
RITEway for Jest (React Native)
I don't think that's too much to ask that you derive some pleasure from your work. It does take effort, and 8hr is 50% of your waking hours a given day, and if you work for a hedge chances are you are working till at least 6 and weekends during busy season if you are <5 years out of school. That really is a huge chunk of your life and if you think its bullshit, it can really way you down.
Because it's not a natural interface?

Given there are is no touch feedback when you feel surfaces in VR and that just holding your arms up in the arm for long periods of times is tiring, I honestly don't see why it's any better than pointing on a 2D surface.

People wanted to do Minority Report-style UIs when they saw them, but we generally don't interact with computers in those ways for the same reason. Keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) is going to be hard to improve upon.
In a general tech recession sure, but I can almost certainly guarantee that my total compensation at Google will still be much higher than the compensation at any startup or other second tier company.

People have been saying "this won't last, good luck keeping this going!" for a decade now, and rather than reciting the same motto like a broken record in an attempt to justify my lower compensation, I decided a few years ago to join the bandwagon and milk the good times as long as they last. I'm saving like crazy while doing so, and there's no apparent sign of stopping.
Incidental Findings on Brain MRI in the General Population
Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group
Pester, AppVeyor Et Continous Integration (French)
>If one thing the last 50 years has taught us is that whatever the US can do an Asian competitor can do as well.

Generalized, I think it's safe to assume any developed country willing to invest in manufacturing is capable of doing what any other country can do [in manufacturing] as well.
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I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso file and put the file to my usb flash derive. Then I inserted the usb to my new freedos computer. Nothing happened!!!

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If it's anecdata we're looking for here, I'm about to be hired "whenever I'm ready" (i.e. whenever I get sick of being on vacation... probably another couple weeks) and get a $20K-$30K raise (still under negotiation), because of skills I accumulated at my last job that had nothing to do with my job description. And the contact I made who pushed for them to hire me (to in fact create a job posting based almost verbatim on my resume, so that they could hire me) is someone whom I went out of my way to help and impress at the last job.

The goal isn't necessarily to get a raise or promotion within the same company. And it doesn't even necessarily require you to work more than 40 hours. The idea is to do the things you want to do, which is for you and makes you "better"; and to prove yourself awesome at learning and doing, which makes you the object of somebody's desire, somewhere. It doesn't matter if they're within the same company (promotion scenario, which you are correct is less likely) or elsewhere.

Demanding that the world adjusts to suit me hasn't worked out as well, so it would be bad faith for me to promulgate that advice.
"the university’s president ... touted that the Apple CEO ... 'represents the kind of success we hope all of our graduates can attain.'"

... to become the CEO of one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world? I mean, aim high I guess.
Made me think about Bruce Sterling's comments in this year's WELL State Of The World about the current depressive mood making headway among the world's richest people. Here's him riffing on Gates -

>"Here in 2019, there are more Americans alive over 60 than Americans who are under 18. So for a brisk, road-ahead, forward-looking viewpoint, it might be time for us to check in with that widely-noted retired guy, Bill Gates.

>Despite his advancing years, Mr Gates hardcore grinds it out more in a week than I ever do in a year. And, although he's not a facile TED-talk optimist, he's always got his eye on the deliverable. That's why it's a little weird to see him tacitly admitting so much defeat in his recent screed.

>To begin, Bill quotes his best pal Warren Buffett, claiming that the bottom line of human good behavior is "Do the people you care about love you back?" This seems an odd scheme to promote, considering the Sage of Omaha's polygamous lifestyle. Buffett's motto should have been, "If your wife leaves for California and sends her best friend over instead, go for that." Let's hope they were all happier.

>Then there's this prediction: "software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better." Something downright ominous here, because obviously Gates is tacitly conceding that it's not your nearest and dearest but rather the software that ought to be caring about you and loving you back.

>First, I don't think that's ever gonna work. Second, I'm getting concerned about Bill's mood. Is he so personally unhappy now that he would want to digitally monitor his own mental state?"...

>..."finally, "Melinda and I are working on our next Annual Letter. The theme is a surprise, though it is safe to say we’ll be sharing some positive trends that make us optimistic about the future."

>Why does Bill even have to say that bullshit? It's because he's got nothing that he's genuinely enthusiastic about, that's why he says it. Whenever people are truly positive, they never whine about how, just any minute now, they're gonna lift their sorry heads and say something positive. "I'm not gonna be depressed about it, I'm gonna say something really upbeat here," that never works! It's like a poker tell, something Bill ought to get since he plays so much poker.

>You can't scold yourself about not talking properly, you have to take action in some aspect of life that actually makes you enthusiastic. Then you don't have to tell people that you and the wife will be cheerful any minute now. If you're really making any headway, people will show up on their own. You'll have to chase 'em off with a stick.

>In any case, this new-dark malaise I was talking about earlier? He's got it. Yeah, even him."

https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of...
Try to solve an aerospace problem with this "simple" approach. No, you don't get to add strength willy-nilly, or just swap materials on a hunch. You're working with safety factors which sometimes are less than 1 (come back for references), and those physical properties of materials are notoriously stubborn to changes. You know, some Richard Feynman once quipped "nature can't be fooled, dammit" - that extends to "water boils at 273.16K full stop (standard conditions), no, you're not going to change that".

Yes, you can often do more complex design. Sometimes though it costs you centuries to choose a good combination of existing physical properties (architecture), and sometimes it's "just" decades (Gravity Probe B). Wanna propose similar approach to software? :)
That's why I posted about Workona, wanted people interested to know about good alternative. I am glad you enjoy it as well as I
I was inspired to spin-this out from a different post about full-body MRI scans.

This paper is asking the question, "If I scan the brains of 2000 people, what can I expect to find?" The findings more or less recapitulate the natural incidence of diseases. They found some brain changes related to aging, a few aneurysms, some benign brain tumors, and even a malignant brain tumor.

I'd like to focus purely on the emotional and economic implications, moving away from the case-by-case medical management side of things. Here are some of the implications of this study:

1) Congratulations -- your full body scan found a brain aneurysm. Being diagnosed with a brain aneurysm is scary and anxiety producing. Thankfully, there is pretty good literature to suggest when one should and shouldn't have their aneurysm treated by their surgeon (or neuroradiologist). After an expensive consult with a subspecialist, your surgeon would like you to have yearly checkups and repeat scans, and possibly even some invasive dye tests. Your new aneurysm may affect your ability to get insurance. It may result in you changing your lifestyle (not going on climbing trips, diving, buying more expensive disability insurance etc.). If may scare you into having the rest of your family getting screening exams for brain aneurysms. None of these outcomes are benign.

2) The kind of benign brain tumor reported from this study are meningiomas. On autopsy series, 1-2% of the population have meningiomas, and they are blissfully unaware of their presence. Finding one means an unnecessary trip to your local friendly neurosurgeon, committing to serial radiographic investigations, and also having insurance implications.

3) The study did discover a malignant brain tumor. I suppose one could make the argument that doing a full body scan is worth it to find a malignant tumor; yet brain tumors affect 1:10000 people, whereas the aforementioned (largely, but not always) benign conditions affect 1-2:100 people.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa070972
>that just means a single mother today working the same job would be able to afford fewer things than 20 years ago.

That's a pretty bad indictment of our economic structures!
That will entirely depend on the knock-on effects of Trump. Wars are flashy, undermining the norms that keep the government running less so.
This is a well-studied concept in labor and migration economics, but it's not about the "do or die conditions". It has more to do with tax competition and relatively lower wages, which tend to attract entrepreneurship, among other things. That's the prevailing theory, anyway.
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I think people should have a sense of ownership over their jobs.
Uber's Undoing
>capitalism, which brings prosperity, innovation and peace to the world

I am not sure this assertion holds up under historical inquiry but that's my opinion.
Maybe do nothing. I mean as in sit or lay down and stare at the wall or the window or the ceiling or something. Just stay like that for a while until you lose whatever urges you have. Keep your mind blank. Be comfortable doing nothing.

I find that doing nothing helps me to reset myself and allow me to chose what activity I'm going to put my attention to.

Once you're free of your urges, chose your side project, and just do it. Get moving.

While you're working, you have to resist the urge to play games or do some other activity like watching TV or mindlessly browsing the web. You might give yourself the excuse that you're only doing it to resist the temptation to play games, but you're just replacing one addiction with another.

Also, focus is an ability you need to exercise, so the better you resist those urges, the better you'll be able to focus with time.

If you get stuck in your project, I refer you to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19955830

Just continue by working on smaller problems at a time. When you slow down, look to accelerate. You can't go from 0 to 60 mph suddenly, but you can accelerate. It's better to move slowly than to not move at all.

If you suddenly find yourself back to playing games or otherwise wasting your own time, repeat from the start, and do nothing once more.

If the above doesn't work (probably if your gaming addiction doesn't come from procrastinating on your project), realize that gaming is a form of escapism. We use escapism to avoid facing something (or multiple things) in our lives. Something that, for lack of a better word, scares us. Everything that scares is so because we lack knowledge of it, especially how to deal with it. You need to figure out what that is and face it as best you can. By facing it, you learn about it, and by learning about it, it ceases to be scary. You don't need to deal with it perfectly, but often not dealing with it is worse than doing a poor job of doing so. Once you've done your best at dealing with it, realize that "your best" means you couldn't have done better. By definition, you gave it your all, so there's nothing to regret in how you dealt with it. By your ability when you dealt with the problem, it was impossible to do better. You can now move on from that problem and, hopefully, your need for escapism.
It's pretty humbling to be constantly reminded of how lucky your circumstances really are. I bet there's a couple of those homeless people who could have been in your very shoes had a coin flipped differently.
> what is and is not within the boundaries of nutritional theories that have been studied

I don’t think this is clear to the average person at all.
> 2 adults, 3 children and 2 dogs in a 1200 square foot

gah! I now feel very spoiled / wasteful american stero type. I'm single (1 dog) and would really not enjoy having less than 2000sqft, currently in 2900+. I have hobbies that need space and I enjoy having dedicated rooms (office, painting, tv/reading/palor, sleeping)
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> As someone who has worked on large scale saas, I say: there is zero, 0, ZERO, 0.00 chance of that data every actually being deleted

Unless that is built by design. I happen to also work on a large scale SaaS where we take this stuff very seriously and I can say it is possible to protect this data. However I will agree that this adds considerable complexity, but for some organizations, that is totally worth it.

> need to retain data to fulfill government requests

That's a choice, not a requirement. If you encrypt the data and purposely don't store the keys yourself but instead have the customer store them, then you don't have anything of value for the government.

> internal auditing

Personally Identifiable Info is not something we want to peruse. In fact we purposely don't want to see it because that eliminates a potential for mishandling.

> it's all backed up in some "data lake" somewhere to do internal ml or analytics on

That kind of application shouldn't give carte blanche to disregard retention policies. You can run those applications against replicated shards of the original data; and when the original gets reclaimed, so does the replica.

> hundreds of copies in database backups from different times

Storing useless data forever is not cheap, especially at scale. Better store what needs to be stored and free up what can be freed when retention policies kick in (or user requests it).

> internal logs that contain the data

That's ground for failing certain compliance audits. Logs should never contain PII in the first place, that's an operational failure.

> it's already been analyzed and aggregated into learning products and models that aren't going to be recomputed

That's a tricky one, but if those are actual models instead of giant lookup tables, one could assume the data is not reconstructible. However, that needs to be a design consideration of the models themselves, to prevent user data from persisting.
Fine for me, same exact version, Win7. Gorgeous and silky smooth at 1920x1080 on my 8-year-old laptop's crappy Intel GPU.

This is really beautiful work.
Yes, many modern UIs are anti-UX dark-patterns of past.
Anecdotal, but I don't think I've ever thought anything specific about the owners of cars I think are cool. If I see someone driving a nice car, I think "That's a nice car".
Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)
What law did the phone company break? Breech of contract? I wouldn't be surprised if they indemnified themselves in the TOS for your phone plan.
Depending on how you look at it, the employer is and isn't taking advantage of the employee, or the reverse, the employee taking advantage of the employer. But thinking too much about this is not healthy, it's good to just be aware of it. Thinking too much may make you jump ship and move around to other companies and potentially make more money but in the long run, i don't think this necessarily translates into happiness, productivity, etc.. The trick is to find the balance.
> Chrome ads on the google.com landing page

And the best way to fight this is with a browser that ships with the OS that takes you to Bing instead of Google.

Either way, this seems orthogonal to the question at hand. Google will push Chrome in all those places regardless of the engine Microsoft chooses to use. Having complete parity with Chrome rendering seems at worst neutral, and at best competitive as Google now needs to rely entirely on marketing (or on features present exclusively in Chrome and not Chromium). I'm not saying Google doesn't have many cards left to play here, but this move is absolutely a net positive for Microsoft in this fight.
Don't be distressed one bit.

There are tons of great applicants to YC, moroever, as you hint, it's going to be pretty hard to really evaluate these entities on a case by case basis.

Though I've never been on the finance side of days-long pitches, I have however done this for hiring, and I always felt bad in those situations wherein I was very tired and had some smart people in front of me, and I had to make a decision that was barely going to affect my life, but would definitely affect theirs quite dramatically; and one has very little information to go off of.

It's inherently noisy channel.

Just do your thing, and try not to worry about it.

I'll bet that anyone who makes it to any stage of interviewing has pretty good chops on some level.

(Easier said than done of course)
It's surprising to hear that this happened in Playa del Carmen (which has always been a popular area for tourists).
I agree. Complaining about the popular vote in presidential elections is like complaining that the NBA Finals were won by the team that won the most games, but had a lower total score across those games. Winning 2 games by 5 points each, is better than winning a single game by 30 points. So, winning more states even by close margins, is better than running up the score in a few states.
It came down to choosing the best team for my skills, and since then I've received generous stock refreshers, a promotion to L5 and the stock also appreciated a lot, so compensation is not an issue.
I think FB goes to great lenghts to never erase data. Including using Blue-ray discs to store stale data:

https://datacenterfrontier.com/inside-facebooks-blu-ray-cold...
I'm amused that chrome on Win10 does not pass their simple red logo test.
Thanks, I genuinely wasn’t able to see that interpretation until I saw this, and instead took it in the literal sense you’re giving here.
> So that's a pretty weak strawman

I'm not trying to argue, just trying to understand what you said.

> I believe that a society should openly welcome people who are not members of the majority, should emphasize that its public administration be mindful that it operates for its constituents, and where, when citizens need help, they can get help.

You honestly believe that other parts of the country do not believe that? I feel some travel would get rid of such notions, but oh well.

> --and, tbh, I've seen your posts before, I thought about ignoring you because I get a troll whiff out of them

Probably a good idea not to engage if you're uninterested in engagement.
It's just really bad marketing. We aren't a cheer team, this is honest feedback and discussion.

The feedback allows companies to better their product.
> I'm not sure there have even been any mainstream OSes that used [x86 segmentation] for process isolation.

AFAIU OpenBSD uses it for W^X (aka DEP) on i386. Linux may, too.
I negotiated, but not too much. Those are very standard offers.
But why can't they go the other way? Oh, you had bacteria in your urine, do you feel a burning or have a fever? You'd have to find a way to ask that doesn't incite a false response, but it still seems like it would be useful.