skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I’ve been using the decibel X app on my phone to measure environments. Started wearing earplugs on some flights as a result, and bought some reuseable ones for my keychain in case of a sudden loud environment. (Eg being pulled into a club by friends)

Am excited for ios 13, as it will bring noise detection to all apple watch and headphones. I think this will lead to more noise complaints in chronically loud environments, esp by workers.

For headphones, a decent test is seeing whether you can still hear yourself talk.
Salesforce is essentially a database as a service with some fancy admin panels and prebuilt web interfaces.

The tech is proprietary, and not that fun to work with. [0]

As someone who has worked extensively with Salesforce, the cult like fanbase is annoying. I'll be the first to admit the tech is underwhelming and in many cases nowhere near other modern technology.[1][2][3]

But, I still 100% recommend Salesforce to companies when they ask about it. Why? Data liability. Yes Salesforce is expensive - but you are outsourcing the responsibility of dealing with sensitive data to Salesforce. This is something that they should market more heavily in imo. (at least to sw engineers and CTOs) Realistically many companies are not properly equipped to deal with data, let alone sensitive data. Salesforce may have started out as a CRM, but now it is a solution to that problem. CTO's now have someone to point the finger at if shit hits the fan on an Equifax level. This alone is worth big $$$.

[0] - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#most-loved-dr...

[1] - https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.m...

[2] - https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2018/05/summer18-reth...

[3] - https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Multi_Tenant_Architect...

[4] - https://trust.salesforce.com/en/
> Emergency room visits happen quite often enough.

Many ER visits often happen because people can't afford insurance and preventative care. If this alleviates some of that by permitting more competition due to price transparency, then it will become even more rare.
But that's giving housing, often with counseling attached, not money.
Except that if you were actually in the voluntary parting insurance business, you'd find: fraud is a lot more than 0.1%, and fraud to take advantage of your insurance would be very real (Bill and Dave are buddies, Bill claims Dave didn't return his camera, Bill and Dave end up with the reimbursement AND the camera). You'd have to do a ton of legwork to try to keep your fraud losses low, and your insurance would be expensive as hell.

I mean, what's the proper premium charge for a $1000 camera loaned out to "random Craigslist guy", a premium where, overall, you end up making money exceeding your losses due to payouts? $500? $999? At least one in a thousand transactions WON'T be fraudulent, right?
So how does one go about uploading, say, a PDF for someone to access with the browser?

Very cool btw
You seem to be assuming that introducing universal healthcare in the US would bring down costs. I've never seen any evidence whatsoever to support that claim.
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Getting downvoted by kids too young to remember that gen-x era slogan from toys r us marketing materials.

Which is in a way, is also a subversive commentary on the value of brands. Billions spent on advertising in the 80s is worth nothing more than a downvote on HN today, despite endless claims of the immense value of sunk cost in marketing.
There's no doubt that Toys 'R' Us could've been vastly improved, but it was a great idea in its time. It just got left behind as tastes and technology advanced. For many parents (such as myself) with fond memories of Toys 'R' Us, I would gladly take my child to a 2019 version of the idea.
The real problem here is when the society will allow a machine to diagnose them and if the society is ready to believe that most diagnostics are probabilistically made.

Up to date we allow humans to be at a 70% error level without problems, but we ask machines to be 100% effective.

The very same happens with autopilot, the big numbers say they drive better than humans but...
In reality, we can never know the full impacts of new legislation until it's released into the wild. You said yourself that "legislate first, fix later" makes you incredulous because you feel it is never fixed later.

I am suggesting that the perfect bill which requires no future fixes is non-existent. Thus, advocating for this solution is the equivalent of advocating for nothing. Just as building a product and showing it to nobody is functionally the same as not building a product from the rest-of-the-world's perspective.
> It is not that expensive.

It's prohibitively expensive for a wide range of people not in perfect health.
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The essay says nothing about oppression. Or Korea.

I.M. Pei immigrated from pre-Communist China, and as a member of the 'upper echelons of society' (quoting Wikipedia), it does not seem that oppression motivated his choice to go to college in the US.

So, are you really responding to this letter? Or are you responding to something you read between the lines?

FWIW, who is best able to decide if it's appropriate or continue to suffer oppression? You, making this statement, or the person being oppressed?

The lack of open immigration policies for Jews during Nazi Germany didn't help prevent their oppression, so that seems like a good counter-point.

The metaphor for oxygen is that, just like how MIT "is refreshed by a new tide of students" every fall, "immigration is a kind of oxygen, each fresh wave reenergizing the body as a whole."

Under this metaphor, emigration - eg, a US citizen moving to China - would also be like oxygen, invigorating China.

(The metaphor then breaks down, as what is the CO2, and where does it get breathed out?)
Old news from a major source of AI hype.

Here's some previous results
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/11/ai-outperform...
While this was 90% VC based, I will say that this is one of the good situations to show that competition isn't really that good for the consumer. Amazon's loss leading methods (helps) kill other companies whereas the companies killed might have filled important roles that are not directly filled by others. Another good example is tablets. Amazon pushed the tablet game down to $49.99 which created a nightmarish expectation in customers as to what the price of a tablet should be while at the same time showing customers a low quality product, thus throwing customers to neither pay for a high end product and believing that tablets are low quality, killing all competitor's sales.
Completely agree, ngrok is totally hassle free and it helps speeden my development workflow.
> What about being born to a parent with HIV?

I believe its use is for pre-exposure? Anyway its not about passing judgements about lifestyles, but since there is a much cheaper alternative, people won't be persuaded to subsidize the expensive stuff.
I finish a lot. Although there are degrees of finished. There's having the song recorded where the track is basically complete. Then a version which is basically pollish (accents, fills, tweaks here and there, putting stems through various hardware to make it harmonically more interesting, etc). Then final mix down version. And then mastered.

I have several albums worth of the first stage, doing the pollishing is my weakest stage, the rest is easy.

The hardware actually makes it easier for me to finish tracks because I can usually jam out a whole track on the modular and do a lot of modulation manually or with CV that I would normally find tedious in-the-box. I will sometimes jam out for an hour or so and then find interesting sections to lay out. It's remarkably creative.

Modular is especially good for programmers I think, it's a very systematic way of thinking and it's quite easy to lose yourself in the process of what-if. As soon as something starts sounding repetetive it's trivial to patch in something that modulates it away. Creating self generating patches is especially rewarding, where the system is self modulating and creating controlled randomness.

The sound design aspect of it is fun for its own sake. So, I don't always fire it up just to make music. It will often lead onto me making a track, but it's just fun to see what happens.

For what it's worth I have a few bits (in various stages of completeness) on soundcloud [1]

[1] https://soundcloud.com/paullouth
Probably not. Looks like the contents is loaded from Firebase after the main page loads. Not taking sides on whether this is a good/bad thing, just answering the question.
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It has its uses in enterprise environments but it takes a special kind of business-y person to setup, configure and maintain.

I worked at a small startup with at its peak 30 people (of which 10 in sales/marketing) and we implemented Netsuite which is a similar ERP suite bought by Oracle.

It took 2 expensive consultants a couple months to setup and I believe it did CRM, invoicing, accounting, taxes, prospecting, email signups and newsletters, customer support, inventory tracking and probably a few more things. Every time we wanted to change some process we had to bring the consultants back in. In my eyes it was too expensive and too early in the startup process to be implementing something like that.
Ask HN: How do you internationalize an app?
I recently watched this old video from Computerphile on internationalization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY

It explains some of the complications of internationalization.

How do you handle different languages when you internationalize your app? Do you remove all strings from your code that might be displayed to the user and instead reference a separate language file containing all application text? Is this stored in a database? Or as a plain text file (e.g. XML)?

And how do you handle the common situation when sentences do not map one-to-one across languages due to plural or numeric rules? (Example: language A uses a sentence with a single form to express a message. Language B requires two or more forms of a sentence to convey the same meaning.)

If you have implemented internationalization before, any tips, advice (or war stories!) would be much appreciated.
> since “retail investors destroy value when trading” is about as citation-needed as “smoking causes lung cancer” at this point

I mean, it could be a confounding variable that’s causing cancer in smokers. We haven’t exactly run randomized control trials in humans to clearly show causation.

The correlation sure is strong though.
> congress will probably take up a similar initiative so as not to appear ineffective.

It would be nice if it worked that way, actually.
Had to look up internalizer (was a bit unclear): https://jwg-it.eu/defining-systematic-internaliser-under-mif...
but otherwise a good read.
>This should be your doctor's job when you go for annual checkups.

How would you know to ask the doctor about it during your annual check-up, if you aren't aware of the existence of the drug? As others have mentioned already, doctors do not tend to track every single new medication for every possible little condition that their patients could have. And even if they physically could do that (not sure if it is actually possible), do you think they would, just like every web developer would keep track of every new little framework/tool that gets released and could potentially serve their needs better?
If only it was just genetics. I broke my right leg (femur) when I was 4 years old. After it healed, I never had a single problem with it. Played basketball, baseball, and I still lift weights today. I'm not in great shape, but probably better than average. My right knee started giving me problems. Meniscus tear. Didn't need a surgical solution just PT. Insurance denied paying for my PT because of "strain on the ligaments caused by prior break to femur". 39 years later? Maybe. But to deny PT sessions over that? That's stretching it.
View-source and executing JS in your head, because the content is loaded dynamically :)
Some of your opinion seems dependent on the economic or social class you lived in growing up. My memory of Toys 'R' Us is in reading the front/back of every single "Seal of Nintendo" game available. As I kid I didn't know better options existed, and indeed probably did not exist where I grew up.
I work in biotech/pharma, and not all of us are greedy sacks of shit as some people seem to think. I'm not an exec and cant speak to their ethics broadly, but like any industry where people make big bucks you have greedy asshole-y people here too. But coming back to regulation, the FDA's primary mandate is the safety of the populace, its not to create economic incentives or disincentives. The FDA has been slowly increasing the standard required for compliance, which in turn raises the operational cost to ensure safety/efficacy/reliability/etc (obviously a very good thing IMO) but that in turn has also increased both the incidence and the cost of failure. When one product that sucked up a cool 10-50M of capital fails, the company has to recoup the cost elsewhere. Of course nobody wants to take a haircut themselves, so they just bump up the prices. I think a lot of this has to do with the ways companies in general pretty much have to absorb market risk to give a false sense of stability to their workforce. Maybe if our corporate system were structured where it was OK to fail, people might be less inclined to mask the failure on the balance sheet to please Wall Street.

>Alternatively, have a purely nationalized "company" that's funded by taxpayers and "sells" generics at cost. I think the value to society of cheap, readily available generics make this worth it even if it's not something that could survive in the market.

Well, maybe.. I'll keep an open mind but when has the government done anything cheaply or efficiently? They will have to sub-contract at-least some parts of it out just like they do with weapons or infrastructure or other projects. Government contractors are going to milk the system with their '$100 screwdriver' invoices.
> The government has no money. So you're saying the tax payers should be paying $2000/mo/recipient.

The government is able to achieve economies of scale that the private sector can't. I think you know damn well "the government should be giving this away for free" is just a simplified way to describe the economics.

> You could argue this is for my/public good, but you didn't ask me, you didn't get a representative vote from me. In your scenario you've just decided how to spend my money.

Right, you got yours, so you're rationalizing away your part of the cost burden.

You're participating in a society. The consent is implied. If you don't like the terms of the contract, feel free to stop enjoying all the fruits of civilization.
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It strikes me that, as they imported satellite data, they could also provide relatively accurate models of airport interiors ...
I've recently gotten into backpacking and learned that the most effective way of dealing with mosquitoes and ticks in nature is Permetherin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin.

It is intended for clothing and not the skin. The best way to apply it is to soak your clothes and let it dry. Spray on applicators are also available. Once it is dry, it is very stable and safe. It does breakdown with UV and washes, so it will need more applications. It is also available for sale and the pre-treated clothing does last through more washes.

Note: Permetherin is harmful to cats when it is wet so if you have cats at home, please read up more on it. Once it is dry, it is safe around cats.
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> The locations will also have more experiences, like play areas

This is how you compete with Amazon.
Honestly most people who haven't dealt with the healthcare system before wouldn't even consider that negotiating your freaking hospital bill is an option. No sane person would (especially if they grew up in another country).
The difference being that KickSplit's insurance would cover that loss.

It's more likely KickSplit doesn't want to introduce friction for potential renters. $3,500 is a large deposit for someone who just wants to pay $75 rent on a few hours of use.
You are browsing stuff that is hosted on Bitcoin

Check this out: https://c.bitdb.network/
I'd kick such a consultancy out of the door on the first instance of such an advice. For this kind of stuff some tech strategy consultancies are required,not the ones that implement it. I'd stay away from the big ones(i.e. Accenture), irrespectively of the company size. Salesforce is great but it is definitely not for everything.
The first thing I noticed was the small tell tale artifacting from lidar scans in the city areas, which actually gave me a lot of hope that this will be pretty damn awesome to fly in.

Another thing that I noticed was some rock clusters that accidentally covered roads on the terrain, which makes me think there will be a lot of proceduraly generated content to add details into to the big open areas.

Those two things combined I believe will make it possible to do the entire globe to levels of fidelity that will be incredible to fly in. Some areas might be a bit more "imagination" than reality, but hundreds if not thousands of cities have really great lidar scans they could incorporate. It's going to be an insane leap forward, and as they're scans it will be like flying over the real thing. In theory, I could fly over my own house in the city and actually see it.

I guess we'll see what kinds of concessions they've had to make to fit it into a realistic game package, but I'm pretty hopeful as is probably evident.
You clearly evaluate doctors and treatments based on multiple variables, depending on the situation.

Many people, perhaps not you, but many, would like price to be able to be one of those variables, as it is with nearly everything else in our society.
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The MicroCenter in my area (Central Ohio) does carry those and more.
> A great example is when Henry Moore saw Michelangelo and started to cry and confessed the only reason he makes such statues is because he knows "he will never be able to create anything as beautiful as that"

Interesting. Citation?

I personally love this epic ownage: Normal Rockwell painted a Jackson Pollack inside of his own realistic painting. https://triviahappy.com/articles/norman-rockwell-made-fun-of...
Sadly, 90% can be considered a lot nowadays. It's not uncommon for me to find websites who manage to cover more than 50% of their layout with useless shit. Sigh.
I read about this issue in a runners World article. Most people assume that the tics jump from trees down onto people. But that's not how they said it goes.

They said that the tics which spread Lyme disease get spread onto runners from Tall Grass that people run through as you make contact with the grass they get onto you.
VERY cool. It reminds me a bit of this project, which has some of the same concepts and uses the Ethereum blockchain: https://ethsites.io/

ethsites TLDR: host unstoppable censorship resistance websites that can be accessed anywhere in the world (as long as you can remember a small JS snippet or print it on a tshirt or something)
I took the argument to mean that it is better to regulate bad things in a way that might be ham-fisted, but allow for future improvements than to do nothing about a known problem.

The idea people seem to be repeating is that this will be ineffective. It seems to me that GDPR provides a pretty strong framework to learn from and build off. Europe effectively launched version 1.0, so now we can implement the best parts and eliminate or improve the weakest parts. We aren't starting from scratch or searching in the dark.
Create a competitor to Digital Combat Simulator with this engine and watch the fanbase jump.
Charge a new credit card sign-up fee, which is then refunded after a couple weeks. Only allow rentals on cards that have gone through this process with no charge-backs or fraud complaints.

Only allow renters to bypass this process for a new card if they have an established and positive rental record.
> This is because the renter is the client who purchases the policy and the insurance company can not file a claim against its client, the renter. That would force the insurance company to file a claim against itself, which is not how insurance works.

just a pile of incoherent absurd BS. Looks like that CEO has no idea what she is talking about. How for example does she think auto accidents are handled when both participants have the same insurance company?
I agree governments will try to ban fixed supply currencies but I don't believe they will succeed.

China still can't stop its citizens accessing the open internet on VPN. North Korea still can't stop its citizens smuggling wikipedia into the country on USB sticks. Governments won't be able to stop citizens storing their wealth in fixed supply currencies.

> Bitcoin currently is actually heavily manipulated/moved by Tether

[citation needed]
A vpn won’t help you with inbound, since any packets marked as destination port 123 are simply dropped. That time server is simply for my own purposes now and can’t contribute to the pools.
And this: https://b.bitdb.network/
>but never saw it on onedrive.

I have. It hasn't been what you suggest.

You're not wrong you could host somewhere encrypted and escape detection. But that means you still need to point to a scam site to execute the package.

But the way this works is that you're sent an email with a legit Microsoft domain. Sometimes even a legit Microsoft Share email that points to a onedrive stored file.

The whole point is that your payload is hosted on a legit service that Apple, Dropbox, Microsoft, etc really do own. So that if you're trained to look at the URL, you see something legit, not share.filez-mikrozoft.kom

I've had to instruct my employees to look at the context, not just the hosting link. Do you know this person? Where you expecting a file? If you aren't sure can you contact them via some other form than email?
It arises from the belief that parties should have the freedom to contract as they see fit. Of course, that's just the theoretical underpinning and it doesn't take into account situations where there exists a disproportionate imbalance in negotiating power.
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Honest question that I don't know the answer to: This is the approach Disney took with their stores, how did that work out for them?
"Practicality wasn't the point. Publicity was."

The real issues involved here are the Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy and 'Glass' (Crystals) being the the most stable state of matter in the universe. All of these indicate that such longevity is possible (see my main post).

Clearly, the reason that '13.8 Gy' is used here is that it's a well known time interval and it puts the longevity of this technology into perspective in ways that many will understand.

If actually achieved in practical terms then we ought to be hailing this work as a remarkable effort—not quibbling about trivia and silly incidentals.
>These are people who have found loopholes in the law and have grossly crossed any imaginable ethical boundaries.

I think in my country there are laws against (translation: "racketeering"). It is selling goods/services to people in distress/danger for an unreasonable high price. There is no death sentence here, but also no loophole.