skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is it. Imho, you essentially have two populations of patients: those with good enough jobs to have good enough insurance that their fairly price insensitive in most cases, and those who are under-employed and/or under-insured who know going in they can't afford to pay for service regardless. Neither of these groups are particularly invested in effecting change to the status quo. On the flip side, though, there is a large population in the middle where price matters a lot ... but imho these voters are overwhelmed in their PR efforts by the big spenders at the top, and the under-insured are effectively disenfranchised anyway, so their voice doesn't matter much (Medicare/Medicaid & VA services are the exception here).
>I hate dark patterns and wish they didn't exist. But I'm not sure that putting the government in charge of policing them is a good idea.

I think after about 30 years of deregulation and "I'm not sure that putting the government in charge of policing them is a good idea", it's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.

Yes that means there may be bad regulations and/or enforcement, but nothing is written in stone. Those things can be fixed as they come up.

Relevant: https://twitter.com/camerondare/status/1143538064402157568
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I wouldn't recommend shouting. :-) Also, we don't expect an exact price, just as we don't expect an exact price from a building contractor. We expect rough estimates so we can tell the difference between a $500 procedure and a $5000 procedure.
See also, Stigler's Law.

Or Poe's law, thus named in 2005, but based on a phenomenon that was well known by the time of Godwin's law.
What a waste of a company.

Worse than a waste - their wording gives a false sense of security where none should exist.
Wow this is so misleading.
For my use case (almost entirely static content), I think the bottleneck is SD card IO. I can handle at least a dozen hits per second no problem though
"Bottom 150" governments ability to borrow and issue money weakens, as Libra could often be more stable. When you citizens do not need or want your money the governments ability to control, e.g. tax, quickly diminishes.

See usage of USD in developing nations.
I have never seen a group of less mentally-healthy people in my life. Mentally healthy people don't drink that much.

The whole stiff upper lip nonsense is the problem. Neglecting and suppressing emotions for long periods of time cause mental health issues.

The problem is that we don't have a clue about mental health in general, the blind are leading the blind.

Antidepressants don't cure depression. In fact, they can make it harder to process emotions. They reduce the symptoms and make it easier to ignore the environmental issues that are causing it.

Actually treating depression requires understanding and addressing the true cause. And the true cause is not a chemical imbalance or people not being tough enough.

Self-pity or using issues as a crutch does not help, but it is also not the cause.
I think you misunderstand shoppable. This just means that if anyone WOULD give you the prices you would be able to choose. Contrast with emergencies or procedures where there is only one specialist in the area etc.
If you don't launch it into space, it will be destroyed when the sun engulfs the earth in only six billion years, if not earlier. There's a dismayingly large chance that the only thing surviving from our entire culture in only a few million years will be a mass extinction in the fossil record, a halo of geosynchronous metal debris, and whatever data is encoded in such stable forms as these glass discs.

In that context, describing it as "a publicity stunt" seems short-sighted to the point of self-parody, like a small child who thinks that the main distinguishing feature of money is that you can buy candy with it. In a very short time, it is likely that the only things humanity has done that are even detectable are the launching of satellites, a mass extinction, and the launching of such archival media.
They didn't buy it in order to offer dynamic dns.
>You are ignoring general and subjective western morals and ethics in your comparison.

And are you assuming what those morals and ethics are? Considering 67% of Americans think abortion should be legal in "all" or "most" cases?
And these laws need to include the following:

"Citizens may sue at up to $2000 plus incidental fees or costs carried due to dark patterns in a user interface. A lawsuit of this manner is not subject, and supersedes any prior agreements of 'Arbitration' or other means intending a deviation from a court."
This is the point of transparent pricing. It's impossible to do so right now, even with insurance. If they can even give a ball park number for a particular procedure or test (average, or min-max range, or SOME number) it would help with shopping around.
I agree that it's not a solution to the healthcare nightmare we face in the USA... but do you think it's a step in the right direction?
Tell me another function for which this property holds, but that isn't exponential.
I factory reset my phone yesterday and during the setup process Google asked me to enable location & web tracking. There was a thick, blue button that said "Turn On" at the bottom. But until I scrolled the arbitrarily extended page all the way to the bottom, the option to keep it off (with no button background, just text) didn't appear.

That should be straight up illegal, hands down. When we are talking about user privacy these details matter and should be regulated. We don't need to regulate presentation elements but we need to regulate equivalency of options and what some defaults should be.
https://medium.com/p/4530d0062e60/responses/show

Read the CEO's comment above. She states their assessment has been effective at blocking 99.99% of bad actors and stopping millions of dollars of theft on the platform

She's almost surely exaggerating and pulling those numbers out of thin air.
I'm a happy user of Afraid's FreeDNS: https://freedns.afraid.org

Edit: I'm not affiliatted with the service, I just really like it.
Exactly. It's an excellent way to validate your idea.
Ask HN: How to become a successful CTO in an IT service organization?
Hi,

I am a senior technical(coding for last 16 years) guy in my organization. Last week my CEO offered me to become a CTO. He has given me few weeks to think over it.

I am with this organization for last 5 years and have seen two CTOs leaving the job because they got frustrated of attending sales meetings whole day.

I am inclined to take this role as I feel I have hit limit in a service organization. To grow vertically I have to change role.

I am looking for advice on

1. How to become a successful CTO in a service organization?
2. How you keep a balance between technical and people management aspects of the job?
3. How you scale your engineering organizations with good developers? Service organizations are comparatively less exciting than product organizations for most software developers.

Thanks
I’m further frustrated that fraud resulting in theft is called “voluntary parting” at best it’s involuntary parting or fraudulent parting. It actually sounds like a euphemism for a crime.
What a sad world that you need javascript to scroll down a page now.
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But it must be programmed for the next gen hardware. I have a dual card setup with i7 8-core processor and can't run FSX at full settings (around 10 fps for three monitors). Monitoring shows that graphics cards and processor are far from saturated.

The same for X-Plane 11. You can get some decent performance if you let run separate process for each monitor though.

Both indicate to me that the problem lies in software. They also have in common that performance gets abysmal when you add more moving objects.
I don't think this is true for non immediate care though. If you had something that needed to be done in a number of weeks would you be willing to to to a different hospital to save.. a couple hundred? A couple thousand?
What I've done in the past is to have an identifier in a cookie or localStorage that isn't cleared on logout. A new device would be one that doesn't have that identifier.
All of this describes my Chromecast nicely. There are others that do it too. Forcing this traffic through the Pihole isn’t always helpful though, as blocking it entirely breaks the Chromecast (which is used mainly for playing local media).
I call Oracle the Black Thumb. Everything they touch, aside from their flagship database, dies. Java. Sun. BerkleyDB. Mysql. Taleo. Larry Ellison might be the 4th horseman - he dresses the part.
The doctors won't know how much the insurance company will reimburse until they receive the reimbursement(except Medicare). They are essentially working in the dark as well. The transparency has to start at the insurance level.
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Who has been arrested for failing to return a rental?
I agree with most of this but I find the analogy with a car crash quite misleading. There will be no specific point in time in the future when we will fall off a cliff. It will just get progressively worse. What we can do is slow the worsening down and give ourselves and future generations more time to adapt.
You're best bet would be to work with local law enforcement.

In the US Justice system, two wrongs don't make a right.
If the radiologist has to look at and double check every scan that algo looked at, then what is the point of the algo? Seems like a useless middleman that get in the way.
We saw what happened to airlines when they allowed 'comparison shopping' and internet search engines did that for us. Ugh. I'd much rather not have the same thing happen with hospitals. For that matter, i'd much rather remove it back for airlines too, as would every middle class passenger (someone who isn't bothered by extra $30 in ticket price, but can't yet afford a private jet).

I already see people thrown out of ER room handcuffed because someone with a loyalty card of a higher priority level called in :)
In Thinking, Fast and Slow -- the author details a double blind trial where the did this. It was worse with humans and AI than with just AI. Humans think they can use AI as a guide and move it in the right direction. But the movements they made, on average, were bad.
That’s a fantastic choice! Glad I could help you save a few (dozen) bucks.
>...but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop. Emergencies make it impossible, but even a relatively common illness makes comparison shopping unrealistic.

I disagree. Almost all out-patient medical procedures are pre-planned and it would be possible to comparison shop if there was actual pricing info. Even in terms of hospitals, an estimate is that about 1/2 of the patients are admitted through the ER. Obviously there are emergencies and you aren't going to be doing price comparisons if you are in an ambulance after a car crash, but that isn't the majority of medical care.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/half-of-hospital...

>...The system is broken and until the insurance industry's grip is broken,

I don't think there is a simple magic bullet that will solve all of the problems with health care in this country.
They're not lying though, at least if you're talking about a hospital. It's not an accident either, there's a strong norm in medicine about ignoring costs. Doctors aren't supposed to take cost into consideration when making medical decisions, to the point where they have no idea what anything costs and they fight to keep it that way.

Things are changing... very slowly.
The 1000 Libras question is if a currency basket backed asset is a security, commodity and such - is such a bearer note allowed? Then you might be in the domain of securities transfer agents, not money transmitters. You would need to pay capital gains tax on every transaction.
Renting is a profession. Strange world nowadays, where everybody thinks he can make anything, just because "There is an application for that".
This is what small claims court is for.

The contract might not be enforceable if they have other text on their website saying otherwise. Worth trying to get a judge to agree with you for $3500.
1. 99% > 95%, or whatever the radiologist's accuracy is.
2. Combine both systems for obvious gains.
That’s why I have a standing only desk, didn’t want to give myself the allure of putting it in sitting mode and never putting it back up.

If I sit, it will be somewhere public, so if I focus I have to stand. (Took like 1.5 years to get used to in terms of strength issues etc.)
I'm in Las Vegas and followed it fairly closely because I have friends in the DA's office.

It was even worse than that, OJ is truly beyond redemption. Every effort has been made to protect him from the system and his brain just can't process decisions correctly.

I'd bet everything I own that his autopsy will show serious CTE issues, and that he will be back in prison within the year.
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Exactly. This whole narrative here sounds like "walking was invented billions of years ago, and was free. Why are cars so expensive today then?".
The thing is, I'd be amazed if it had no medical effectiveness, but that's not because I'm some blown-out hippy who thinks it is a magical cure-all, but because I know researchers who specialise in the mammalian endocannabinoid system -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system

I also know people who run medical drug trials and they are often busy running cannabis trials these days.

Here's a quick search for registered Sativex trials -

https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search?quer...

And here's an overview of evidence and research, hosted by the British Medical Journal -

https://www.bmj.com/sites/default/files/response_attachments...
$50M means a valuation at least north of $150M I just don't see how this gets to that sum.

How is this a sustainable business at the kind of scale needed to 10x a $50M investment?

Especially by KP?

#Bubblesignal
> "but its not like they won't just upload that data once you flip wifi back on..."
> Owners: rest assured that we require renters to purchase insurance, a damage waiver, or leave a full deposit.

I'm sure they have their loopholes in order, but damn this is deceptive.
https://setexasrecord.com/stories/511403204-physician-s-suit...

https://6abc.com/business/hertz-customers-arrested-after-veh...
No net change for you, but net benefit for a large section of the population.

What's your argument against it?
To add to what others have said re: AirBNB, there have also been at least a few cases where renters refuse to leave the property and turn a mid-term rental into a sort of "squatting" situation, creating tremendous legal hassle for the owner. (Though I'm not aware of any cases where the squatter has actually managed to wrest ownership from the actual owner!)
Whenever I see these I tend to think that the people who have the best story will get the most money and not the ones who need it. It's pretty much a market for self-promoters and scammers, not necessarily people who need help. I also believe that in a civilized, developed, wealthy country this should not be necessary.
>then what is the point of the algo?

The point is that the algorithm can improve results. This isn't ad placement, it's peoples' lives. Checking and double checking should be the norm.
I guess with a high profile link from HN to Medium indexed by Google, and future owner will see the red flags from a mile away... KitSplit is as good as dead right now.
Great work Tyler. Been waiting for it quite sometime. Just wanted to know how computational heavy it becomes rather than a normal ggplot?
Well I was playing MS Flight Sim 3.0 on 80286 :) Though I assume the simulation had to be look up table based and nowadays you can physics modelling?
Restated:
78% of adults work.
58% of workers are "wage earners" (paid hourly, not salary)
2.3% of wage earners earn minimum wage.

Therefore 0.0230.580.78 = 0.0104, or just over 1% of adults earn minimum wage.
The light grey button with white text makes me smolder, and it's getting a little hotter every time I encounter it.
The more disconcerting problem is, even if it's a trend and not a fad ... there are still valuation problems with this.
The two synths were called "solo star" and "hovering machine". They come standard with the default installation.
No, I'm annoyed by it as well. To me it makes it harder not to think of KitSplit as acting in bad faith. When the company that's supposed to deal with bad actors is itself a bad actor, how likely are they to deal with bad actors effectively?
By a delightful coincidence, there's another article on the front page of HN today that is relevant to the interpretability problem you're alluding to; see the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848
You wouldn't be surprised if KitSplit was a criminal enterprise from the bottom up???
The person in that thread was compensated, hopefully that happens here too.
ffmpeg right? can you elaborate a little more on your setup please?
I have an acquaintance who is working in a top Bay Area tech company with a total compensation of close to $200k.

Her parents visited her and sadly her Dad had a cardiac episode and had to be taken to ER.

They stabilized him and thankfully he managed to go back to his home country and get proper treatment.

The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with the hospital or fight it with the insurance.

She managed to raise $15k.

After seeing that I am reluctant to donate any money to GoFundMe campaigns.
I can believe it, Google pestered me to review a bubble tea place I drive by every day. I've never stopped there and never will but I continued to get the popup until I finally gave the place a 1-star rating just to shut Google up. Not really fair to the business but I was sick of seeing that notification.
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No that's just disruption.
Why use your own money to scale when you can use someone else's?
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-not-retur...
Without an explicit license from the celebrity that likely would infringe on image or likeness of the celebrity and not be protected by fair use.
You could put in a set amount per day (or week), choices weighted by the votes since last time, and get some of the benefits of dollar cost averaging, plus more reason for continued engagement.

Maybe introduce sales after it's been around for a year. (Though I'm not sure which mechanism, DCA doesn't work in reverse.)
I seriously don't recommended using it (at least without doing some researches first).

Many UPS units are optimized for 50%-80% load. If you put a very light load on an office UPS, like a lamp, a modem or a Raspberry Pi, some UPS's inverter will drain itself quicker before the load even drains battery. Some UPS have a light-load powersave feature, they don't even activate themselves when there's little load. Also, most office UPS is designed for short loss of power, not as a longterm battery-backup, so it will keep beeping until it's dead. Depending on what the OP is trying to do, this may be unacceptable.

Due to the above problems. If I chose to use a 110/220 V UPS, I would at least try finding one designed to supply backup power to routers and modems to ensure that they don't have this problem.
Look up JC Penny sales. Their CEO got rid of sales and marked the products down so the normal cost was the sale price. They almost went out of business.
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Don't forget incompetence in local government with regards to EU grants, too. Often there could be less paperwork than there is...
I don't understand how anyone (of course, besides Big Healthcare/Big Insurance, who is scalping the common man and lining their pockets with cash with these practices)
could not see this as a good thing
I think Cameo a really cool business idea.For me it would mostly be a gag gift, but I definitely think it's sustainable. It gets creators in front of their fans, and lets their fans send money directly to them. I see comparisons between Cameo, YouTube, Patreon, and Twitch.
It's not theft, it's 'voluntary parting'. Lawyer speak probably.
Unfortunately unlikely. This exact scenario has happened before, except on a prominent photography publication instead of Medium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332918
This is why double accounting (?) was created. Too keep track of All the directions money flows. Your example is right, but only half-right (there are at the same time two debts to account for).
Always felt homeless photo diaries could be funded
That makes it, what, .01%? I haven't read the web via emacs since the 1990s.
The government (federal/state) and our legislators (senate and house of representative) don't always work for us or in our favor. Our political system is not strong enough to overcome the strong lobby/interest of few. We can however design our economy around solving these problems. Make it profitable to solve health-care problems. We would willingly pay a 'prime' membership if such an organization/corporation exist. And if we have more subscribers, then we will have more payer into the system.
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“It’s a new way for people to connect and the delight generated from this platform is unparalleled,” Galanis said.

This is interesting; I would think the wow-effect wears off the more celebrity cameos someone receives. Clever way to make money using internet technology and access to celebrities/influencers.

I could see a deepfake shadow business arising whose customers are the celebrities -- now the celebrity can do many more unique Cameos a day
In the article it says that “(...) [Kitsplit] worked with the NYPD and law enforcement authorities to recover stolen and missing gear in cases where the equipment value is $200,000 or more”. Maybe it varies between different police departments, but I’m quite sure many departments won’t spend time investigating someone with a faked identity that steals a single computer and similar.
One thing I forgot was a Glucagon injection to revive someone who has passed out.
I don't understand why competitors don't enter the market with older versions of insulin that don't require biologic methods to create.
Most people visiting the US have travel insurance which can cover most or all related costs for about $1/day.
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These kinds of sites are exactly that: niche Craigslists. Since they are marketplaces, they see their job as connecting two groups that want to engage with each other (in this case, camera owners and people who want to rent a camera), and anything beyond connecting people has nothing to do with them.

It's best to think of these kind of sites as digital telephone poles with flyers and act accordingly, but it's hard when, in an attempt to grow their user base, they exaggerate the value they offer and make people think they're safer or getting more out of them than they really offer. Those kind of tactics deserve to be called out
The silicon valley of today is nothing more than a haven for fly-by-night, under-regulated capitalism. Usually there's a bit of software sprinkled on top. Most of these companies aren't innovating in technology at all, they're innovating in gaming the economy for their own enrichment.
Had a similar problem ages ago, and ended up adding a "blindingly obvious tumor" detector pass before the regular pipeline, just to avoid this cognitive dissonance.

This is one of the (many) reasons that practical classification systems, as against research systems, tend to become Frankenstein's monsterish over time. It's naive to think that a single approach and pipeline will cover your domain well.