skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even for PoS cryptos where you require 51% of the currency to control the network, it would become prohibitively expensive to buy up 51% of the circulating supply due to market dynamics. PoS is arguably more secure than PoW. Arguably.
Wow, I've seen those little chat assistants that live in the corners of web pages before, but this is the first one that plays a continuously looping animation with flashing lights while I try to read an article. Sadly, the bot doesn't understand the command "go away"... it just asks for my email address so a real person can follow up later.

Anyways, the performance improvements for resuming after an ungraceful shutdown sound nice.
How about “citizens may sue lawmakers for damages suffered under any law that is ruled unconstitutional”
AI can't solve extremism issue, experts tell Congressional panel
One of the bars I go to, every other month or so seems to have a fundraiser for a regular at the bar.

I almost never donate unless I'm there the day of the fundraiser, or there's food involved. $10 spagetti dinner for instance.

I understand this person needs help. But in almost every case, I know this person. I know how much $$$ they spend on acohol a week. I know how they got fired from their job for not showing up. I know they blew their tax return in a week. I'm not a cold hearted person but I don't understand why others have to bail them out.
I wonder if you would want to add a link to that page about setting up Cloudflare dynamic DNS on a Synology NAS? That's my use case, and I found a script[1] and a page[2] where people were having some success using it.

[1] https://github.com/joshuaavalon/SynologyCloudflareDDNS
[2] https://luvis.se/tipstricks/set-up-dynamic-dns-with-cloudfla...
Making 90% of healthcare situations better, using transparent prices, is still a very good thing, even if it doesn't help with the 10% of edge cases.
I wonder how rental car companies deal with this. The setup there seem very similar, but somehow not returning a rental car (beyond some grace period) DOES seem to be treated as theft. What's the difference between the scenarios? Politically better connected victims?
Unless it's a corporation or other "legal person" and then they MUST have a lawyer (or principal in some states) from the company to answer the court.

When they have to hire a lawyer and you don't but you know the balance of facts are on your side, it's an advantage.

The goal is to get them to the table and choose a less painful resolution. Don't let them off the hook. SUE!
I know flight simulator with the Piper Cherokee Archer from the C64, coded by SubLogic laggy as hell with 3 secs input delays
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2016161174

This is their comparison point for actual radiologists. Citation number 6. It doesn't look comparable, though. Radiologists are around 90% specificity and sensitivity, which varies a good amount from the model's 77.3% and 87%, respectively.
I know what KitSplit will tell you. We provide value by connecting people and allowing payments. Gee, I can give someone my number and accept cash on Craigslist too. If I'm paying 22% of the transaction to you, there'd better be some assurances.
From your comment above:
"It’s not possible for a seller to know every single other seller’s price so I don’t see how anyone has a reasonable expectation to that in the first place."

So if the seller can't be expected to know their competitors prices how can the consumer be expected to keep track of all that information for all the products they buy? Additionally, sellers evaluate competitors' prices and compare them to their own all the time.
I’ve been getting free Truvada since Obama was president. Nobody pays for Truvada - Gilead reimburses you if your insurance doesn’t cover it. Sounds like just another example of Trump claiming credit for something that was already happening.
Right. The real solution is to be more like the rest of the modern world. Let drug prices be negotiated in bulk by your government, so that you can focus on being healthy.

I just don't believe the U.S. is capable of such significant change. So maybe one thing at a time.
There isn't really such thing as free healthcare as long as staff need education and training, doctors have to be paid, hospitals need to be administrated, and treatments have material costs, etc. If it's being paid for by the taxpayer, it's not coming at no cost to them, they're paying for it in a pretty direct way.
Given that the market price of the electricity when the wind is blowing is usually below €20/MWh (see time series on pfbach.dk), I hope they are expecting to reduce the price even more because it is still too expensive for the current market.

There is a linear dependency between the wind production (and solar production) and the market price: the more intermittent energy is available on the market, the lower the price.
As a company they would need someone to represent them though, right? Would that not be a lawyer working for the company?
From KitSplit Q&A post [1]:

> "they appreciate the peace of mind they get because KitSplit vets everyone who joins, and assures that everything on the platform is covered."

> However, we know that sometimes things go wrong, and we’re not taking any chances with expensive camera gear. That’s why we vet everyone on the platform to make sure they are who they say they are, and make sure that every piece of gear rented via KitSplit is fully insured.

[1] - https://medium.com/@VeriduHQ/a-short-q-a-with-kitsplit-and-s...
The problem is one of accountability. If you're taking public funds, then there should be checks and balances and make sure that it's going to good use. History has clearly shown that humans are not to be trusted otherwise, because bad actors are way too common, especially we think no one is watching.
The core problem seems to be false advertising. It would be great for the author to take the company to small claims court and try to address that.

However, a class-action lawsuit to address all the wronged people would probably just bankrupt the company. The hurt people would not receive restitution. The founders would not receive any punishment. They would just lose the easy stream of future income they currently enjoy. Stopping a bad company from doing further harm is worthwhile though.

Calling out is exactly what's needed here. Our society and technology are at a point where it is easy for bad actors to cause damage, relocate, and repeat. Exposing them and shutting down their future opportunities is exactly what's necessary. Back in the days of small villages, everyone knew everyone's reputation and that provided a barrier against fraud. Unfortunately, our current legal framework prevents any company from offering a reputation platform because they would get sued out of existence with libel claims.

Investors aren't very interested in the morality (or even legal technicalities) of the products in which they invest, as long as they make some money on their investments. Calling the founder out will slow her down in any future grey-zone endeavors but won't stop her completely.
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I think it's an insurance term that separates out two different risk profiles. Random theft (breaking into a car, pick pocketing, etc.) is a fairly low and known risk. It's therefore easy to ensure.

But if you rent your camera out every day, eventually some fraudster will steal it by not returning it. And the risk of that happening likely depends on how well the renter is screening prospective renters. That makes it tough to insure. KikSplit says its a 1/1000 occurrence, but you can't just charge a .1% premium because if KikSplit does a shitty job of keeping out fraudsters, then it might be 2/100. Things that are tough to insure are expensive to insure.
>It's digital colonialism.

Opposed to the European-originated paper trading system

Libra isn't colonialism, it is competition.
The purpose of advertisement is to increase sales for a given product. Consumers are not qualified to decide what prescription drugs they need and can easily be tricked. Doctors are the only people qualified to make those decisions. And the advertisements are not targeted at doctors.

If an advertisement convinces someone to take a drug that they don't need, the best case outcome is that a company is enriched at someone's monetary expense. The worst case is that there are adverse side effects, impacting the user's health for no reason. So in this case, a company is profiting by poisoning someone and eroding the stability of society.

It's not many steps removed from selling radium water.
Taking that number at face value, it means that total revenue for renting 3500 USD worth of gear for 70 bucks a pop 1000 times is, statistically, 7000 USD. If KitSplit takes 22%, that leaves 5850 USD, and since the expectation is to lose the gear, that leaves 2350 USD in expected profit. Which is, I think, rather less than their users expect.

Edit: whoops, total revenue should be 70 k. Kind of a different result.
The funny thing is that Safari works really great blocking all this kind of stuff on websites. So I want what Safari does, in all of my apps _unless I opt-in_.
I did a quick search and wasn't able to find anything even close to the price of the UBEC we used: http://www.banggood.com/External-Brushless-BEC-UBEC-3A-5V2-5...

However, I cannot state enough that the price of this small component was simply not where the costs accumulated on this project. We geeks have a nasty tendency to over-optimize things that just don't matter in the big picture. You totally nailed it when you mentioned that this device is a packaged (and QA'd) product. The fact that it just slips right onto a Pi's GPIO pins without requiring any further modification is what makes this such a win. If you have to do anything to [70 units of] a component to make it work, you're blowing up any miniscule price arbitrage anyhow.
Awesome post! Next up -- what's MuleSoft? That's another big one where I'm not really sure what problems they're really solving.
Not so much "writing should be free", but "I dont trust and consume a specific source enough to justify subscription" with the adendum that "ads are evil". At least for me.

Edit: having read the "hand licking incident" I believe it did give me value and I would be willing to pay 1 dollar or so as thanks (not implying that I got only 1 dollar value, or even that I got as much as 1 dollar value. Just a number that seems reasonable).

There is the matter of how: to do it I would probably have to spend much more than 1 dollar in effort.

And there is the matter of scale: I want to pay you for your work in giving me an interesting insight. But if we started to do that massively, people would optimize for "things that seems insights" not for insights... (see https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)
The parting is part of a sub-transaction within the overall transaction. In the in-person meeting where the parting happened, the parting it was voluntary. Within the context of the whole transaction, it wasn't voluntary. That context is eliminated when deciding whether it's robbery or voluntary parting, because that's just about the one in-person interaction.
How so? When you tax energy consumption more, poor people won't be able to afford driving a car. It doesn't affect the upper and upper middle classes, that's very true, but if i.e. transport of goods is taxed by travel distance, or flying is taxed more heavily, that will just mean that the lower classes can't fly and can't afford tropical fruits.
How would this work for businesses? The owner or CEO gets dragged in? Seems unlikely, otherwise you could just DoS a business by keeping their leadership embroiled in small claims issues.

I imagine you can't have outside counsel represent you, but the business can probably send their own lawyer and delegate authority to them.
200K in the bay area is not exactly wealthy. It's a solid middle to upper-middle class wage. Taking a 50K hit for something you did nothing to deserve, just because you love your parent is stupid. I would hate it if my daughter tried to do that for me.
Not only the risk it would happen, but this intermediary should take responsibility and should have insurance for these situations.

The way it should be structured is, you let the item out to intermediary (who takes legal possession if not physical) and they in turn are on the hook for any loss, when re-let to a third party, at which point they would do a better job of betting at insuring themselves.

The NY state attorney general should be looking at these unfair and asymmetrical arrangements (especially when they are basically EULAs)
> They could've also used AGPL for that. A popular option.

That's not even close in intent.

Under A/GPL terms anyone can take a project as is, slap a logo on it, make a binary and start selling it, provided that they make sources available. That's exactly the case that the Commons Clause prohibits, so AGPL does an absolute zilch here.
I'd be more interested if wireguard is an option, and how it performs. Since they're already on linux/oss.
If this ever translates into reality then it is great, and I really dislike Trump both politically, and as a person. Willing to give credit where it is due, even though I strongly suspect that it is a political stunt that will get lost in committee. Would be delighted to be proved wrong however.
There are now decentralized systems that have monetary policy baked in, where the system can't become under-collateralized, see MakerDAO.
I have invested in a quality pair of earbuds that double as foam earplugs.

This passive sound isolation means I can set some music at low volume and be completely isolated from the outside world.

Active isolation is rubbish because it lets voices through.

Here is what I use : Shure SE215 - https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/shure/se215#compar...

I consider that with those, I can work as well as I can alone at home. Otherwise, I also suffer from a very noisy office with constant laughter, anecdotes, movie and TV show reviews, people reading emails out loud to team mates etc. and can't ever enter the flow.

I am also a big fan of using fake babble noise to mask surrounding chatter. After about 5 minutes, the brain ignores all of it including the real chatter that is around you. Namely this https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/babbleNoiseGenerator.php or this https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat....
Strawman. I never said there was anything wrong or untrue about the claims in the paper. I'm just trying to put that into perspective. You're not new to HN. You must know that people here mostly see "360TB super-durable media" and immediately jump to thinking about how they'll put their private copy of the npm repository on it tomorrow. Or their transient ML training data. Or their porn stash. Pretending perspective is irrelevant so you can score some internet points is - to borrow your own phrase - childish.
VCV rack is free. Also look for the demo Nord Modular software, which has a few modules disabled and is limited to one voice but still insanely powerful. Synth Secrets is probably the best written tutorial on synthesis you'll find anywhere.

https://www.soundonsound.com/search/articles/%22Synth%20Secr...
Turning on FaceTime remotely to see what’s in front of the computer has saved me a few times, and made me wish that my screen was angled differently many more.
"Additionally, a lawyer friend of mine has pointed out that the terms of use that we’ve agreed upon with KitSplit is a contract set up to devoid them of liability for serious potential crimes, like theft."

Do you really need a lawyer to tell you that ToS are designed to absolve the service of liability?
The Rosetta Project disks have a much shorter expected lifespan and weigh more, so they're less practical.

Since I've been talking about the Rosetta Project and related initiatives for about 15 years, long before Elon Musk was involved, you're also mistaken to assert that "we're [not] talking about it here for any other reason." I mean, I'll take your word that it's true of you, but it's not true of me. Maybe you've got a mouse in your pocket?
How do you maintain the blacklist? Is there a good community project around dns blacklists?
Lawyers are not typically present in small claims court - but they’re a corporation so I guess they have in-house council?
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That threw me off right from the start, but I did follow down the rest of the way and enjoyed the knowledge transfer.
The EU already applied a similar law with Microsoft's "browser ballot" screen. The requirement is fairness, not any specific presentation detail. Something like "whenever you request permission for something, you must offer the chance to refuse permission equally prominently".
Just skimmed your article but you showed a screenshot of Dynamics 365 as a CRM system and then went on to talk about Salesforce as much more than just CRM.

Pretty much anything that Salesforce does, Dynamics 365 does too, so perhaps not the best screenshot of a bread and butter CRM system.
Maybe you're right, I don't know much about this particular machine, but espresso machines (especially levers) are simple machines that are frequently hand-built, yet very serviceable and high quality. See for example the Londinium R, which has a lot of fans and is basically designed and built by 1 guy AFAICT: https://londiniumespresso.com/store/londinium-r

In contrast, consider the Breville espresso machines. They make great coffee reportedly, but I understand they're next to impossible to service or fix yourself. I heard that a technician is required to merely clean it, much less repair it (maybe a machine owner can chime in).

So I guess you gain some and lose some with economies of scale and espresso machines.
I use Simple (bank) and really like it. Seems like a lot of overlap with Monzo.
Would Checkr be a possible solution to "Vet" people that join.

I just joined on a whim, and the verification process is a joke. I'm already "verified" with the fancy check logo next to my name, INSTANTLY.
The problem with HTML/CSS is the meteoric levels of baggage they bring. If Electron was based around a super lightweight web engine that outright dropped support for anything older than HTML5, CSS3, and latest versions of JS it would be a dramatically better solution than it is now.
It takes like 5 minutes, max, to shop around for a pizza. You can easily pull up prices, reviews, and so on.

If price transparency and quality comparison were made easily accessible, and one could actually choose options regardless of considerations like "in-network," then it would be entirely conceivable that the majority of medical procedures would involve price shopping.

And such shopping around based on price and quality would improve things even for those who do not price shop. Feeling the pressure of market discipline would force providers to compete on quality and price.

There are sites that try to be like yelp for healthcare, but you ultimately don't have any price transparency, not every doctor is listed, and you have to navigate a maze of insurance categories. In a saner world, we would have better transparency in healthcare than pizza delivery.
Sure, the contract is clear, but according to the blogger the marketing site intentionally misleads by answering a specific question about voluntary parting by conflating the issue with rare damage so they can finish by indicating that they will "work with insurance companies to promptly fix or replace your item"

There's literally no reason other than intent to deceive customers to answer the question in this way
Do we even know if they modified the ToS after the complaint?
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It's more common than you think. A lot of software don't last long. In fact a lot of software never actually get used.

Consider startups. Each successive group of new joiners will be adding a lot of new code and regularly throw anything that's already there. The churn is massive.

Have you worked with or for contracting company like Accenture? They assign developers to work on a project for a defined period of time, then disappear. It's not systematic that the software will reach a well working state, be handed over to the client and be actually used.

Another case. Things done with independent contractors. They are regularly hired to do nothing, well, maybe pretend to work and show a demo once in a while. If they produce something, it's not uncommon that the company didn't bother to hold the source code or build scripts.

Don't get me wrong. I fully agree with you. There is definitely more work available in maintenance than in new projects. However I also think there is enough work for a developer to make a career in either.
You don't need no dynamic DNS service. Cloudflare is free for this with way more cool features. Here is a little command line script for the Cloudflare REST API which you can use to update A records for domains at Cloudflare: https://github.com/kissgyorgy/cloudflare-dyndns
> Do we choose the cheapest doctor, or the doctor with the best reputation?

Most people in the US have never had a way of knowing who the 'cheapest' doctor is until after the bill comes.
This is a thing? It seems to be solving the wrong problem. I think my sheltered world is quite nice.
you should mention that this is just for people on the FREE plan. If you are a paying customer (the PRO version), you are NOT affected.
He means that neural networks are applied statistics in that they solve a statistical regression problem. It's not conceptually different from classical methods of regression like least squares. The phrase "statistically optimized" is certainly a funky one, but regression is certainly as much a part of statistics as the two problems you mentioned.
It is getting easier to scale deep learning in difficult domains. It'll likely be some combo of pretrained semi- or self-supervised models that are transferred and fine-tuned. You mention large data, but we also have the knobs of inductive bias and training objectives. Once we crack inductive biases for CT scans, perhaps by analyzing a model trained on large amounts of data, then scaling gets easier. I don't think the situation is too dire, it's just a very difficult and high-risk domain. It could also get a lot easier once we figure out better training objectives, but just like inductive biases, those are pretty domain specific so they take some time to discover.
There are also some technical barriers on the path to a permissionless network. The consensus algorithm Libra is using currently requires full connectivity between validators and is only robust so long as 2/3 of the validators can be trusted. Much has been made of the risk of a "51% attack" against Bitcoin, but one need only control 1/3 of the validator nodes to disrupt Libra, which is a far lower threshold than 51% of computation capacity. Your standard botnet isn't much of a threat to Bitcoin since the participating devices aren't optimized for mining, but Libra would be an entirely different matter.
Making a "free" market operate like one? What a novel idea!
It should be called "everythingforce" instead of Salesforce. The features have grown so wide and deep that even CRM is just a small sliver of what Salesforce is. It has its own server side language ( APEX ), a front end framework (Lightning), a community builder/site hosting thingy ( Community Cloud ), and "custom objects" and relationships (think a user defined schema ). If you wanted to you could use Salesforce as a hosting platform for any web application.
I would rather the government move fast and break things than let things slide and provide a good argument for keeping things the way they are.