skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious at what point it makes sense for them to just pay out the $3430 difference to make this story have a happy ending. I'm a photographer that would love to make a little extra cash or to rent a lens from someone else through this service but I never will because of how poorly they handled this whereas if they had owned up and made it right instead of hiding behind legalese I probably would be more likely to use it.

At what point it how many lost users like me does it take to make paying out cheaper than loss of business?
As the other comments mentioned, I meant purging trackers from iOS apps.

There's a privacy reason to do it but also a business reason. Apple shouldn't have apps on their platform with dependencies to major competitors like Google and Facebook. And it's probably going to be ruled illegal anyway after the GDPR cases get litigated, so it's better to get ahead of it.
The Washington Post’s guide to manipulated video
Because the scan check by the radiologist becomes a _double_ check.
I know what you're saying, but I think there's something here that isn't just BS or an admission of defeat.

What if the way most people use their computers/devices now, sticking to a standard "OS native" design language simply doesn't benefit them.

Then if it takes you more time/money to do so, that is time/money spent without actually helping anyone, when you could have been working on something that did. I'm not even talking about "helping your startup succeed", I mean literally, helping the users.

Design matters, I'm a big believer in that. But you've got to design for your actual users in the actual world they are in, designing for the world you wish you had with the users behaving how you wished they behave... is the programmer's fallacy.

I think it's a legitimate question, does an app "behaving native" (as far as UI/UX elements and the OS design patterns) actually help the users? Or do we just imagine/wish it would? Does it actually matter? Does it actually benefit real people users in the actual world?

Maybe. I'm not sure it doesn't. But I'm suspicious enough to ask.
I think the worst part is, even reading all the legalese, one can come under the impression it’s a legit company that tried to cover their users and will genuinely help in case of trouble.
What a throwback. It's great to see that their service is still trucking along.
So if KitSplit explicitly absolves itself from liability, what is the benefit of that platform over Craigslist? At least with CL you wouldn't have to pay KitSplit a fee.

Their fees certainly aren't going towards liability insurance or fraud detection, so what are they doing with those fees?

I bet the fraud rate at KitSplit is going to go up after this post. Now you have a list of people that will wake up at 7am to hand over $4k of gear to you, knowing that KitSplit won't do anything and neither will law enforcement. Just remember to cancel your credit card and you'll make a quick $2k!

In all seriousness, if KitSplit wanted to stop this just charge renters a hefty deposit (the approximate cost of resell) and it should nip this in the bud. Obviously, someone in their "Growth" team will point out that this will hurt their KPIs and their VCs might not like it, so they won't do it.
Radiologists are really bad at detection, even after many years of study. That's quite often due to coarse level of details of scans when only large tumors can be observed or recognized with some certainty. Surpassing humans there is not so difficult, but improving accuracy from e.g. 32% to 34% doesn't really sound like a win :(
Productive output by what measure? Probably the most immediately obvious choice would be GDP, but upon closer examination I don't think that works.

By that measure, using a given amount of emissions running a factory that builds expensive, fossil fuel burning luxury boats for rich playboys is better than using that same emissions to provide winter heat for public schools.

Another problem with using a measure of productive output is that it screws developing counties. As I said earlier, the atmosphere does not care about arbitrary political boundaries.

There is some global maximum emissions per year that we can allow if we want to keep climate change from getting out of hand. If we make each country's share of that global pool proportional to their productive output, we are in effect saying that the rich countries get to continue to take advantage of cheap high emission things (like coal), and the poor counties have to forego that for clean but more expensive things, because there is a pretty good correlation between the wealth of a country and its productivity.

Since the rich countries are, to a large extent, rich because they exploited those cheap but dirty resources before we knew how harmful that was, it seems to make more moral sense for the rich countries to have to clean up first and/or subsidize the costs to poor countries of going clean.

Probably what would be better would be to figure out the total worldwide emissions allowed per year, allocate that among countries on an equal per capita basis, and allow countries to trade their shares.
It seems the distinction of "voluntary parting" completely diffuses the responsibility of theft from KitSplit, since every exchange is voluntary through their service. My question is why they haven't received a cease and desist from legal enforcement since their platform is aiding and abetting crime...
https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...
Cool, thanks. I've seen that sampler on my Nord installation disk but I assumed that there would be some level of loss of quality? Or can the output from the sample engine interpolate cleverly and recreate a faithful (or, at least, high quality) representation?
I somehow got both messages - I need to migrate to Oracle's new platform and also "no action is required". I expect the DynDNS hostnames I had constituted part of the free service despite needing a Pro account to create them.
I’m always incredulous about legislation ala carte because lived experience has shown me that the “fix later” part of “legislate first fix later” so rarely happens because of all sorts of forces from political to social mixed with the passage of time.

But maybe I’m a bit bias in my incredulity residing in a state where legislative sessions happen every two years resulting in sometimes two year waits to come back and address a bit of policy that probably could have been deliberated on more in committee.
And not give up any equity!
Screening is hard work and tedious, so even trained professionals regularly miss things. TP incidence rate is under 1% in the screening population.

There have been studies showing significant improvement from double-reading mammo, for example (i.e. two radiologists, independently). Using an ML approach is trying to give you some or all of this benefit without the cost of redundant reads.
Band together with your new friend to take both parties to small claims court.

Argue the representations made on their website were misleading and induced you into using the service. That due to the unequal bargaining power, any ambiguities in their Terms must be resolved in your favor. Research precedent, including anything judges have said about click-wrap vs browse-wrap agreements in your jurisdiction.

Maybe you can find a sympathetic lawyer from a prestigious firm who's willing to write them on your behalf on their firm's letterhead. All this might simply scare them into settling - it's far cheaper for them than paying a lawyer to litigate (and less toxic publicity), and eliminates the risk that if you manage to win (small-claims is a bit more unpredictable than big-boy court) it sets a precedent that could come back and bite their business model.
Ok, duly noted. I should have said “that isn’t irony”. I’ll refrain from asking people to learn the meaning of the words they use in future.
Why?

There is overwhelming evidence that homeless is primarily a mental health problem, not a financial one.
> So now you are going to define what 'a business' is and further saying that a domain name can only be used for 'a business' and not by a person? Or are you going to extend this to what you think are 'legit' personal uses of domains?

There is no need to get into any of that because you can't sell a person. It's only a problem for a business because you can sell a business and thereby try to use a sham business sale to de facto sell a domain name.

> What you are trying to say is that you don't think that someone should be allowed to be 'in the business of selling domain names and we know it when we see it', right?

This is not actually that hard. You shouldn't be able to sell a domain name by itself nor sell "other thing that includes a domain name" for more than the fair market value of the other thing by itself.

Sometimes determining the fair market value of something is non-trivial, but that doesn't stop us from doing it in any other case, e.g. when you receive non-monetary compensation from your employer and it has to have a market value assigned for tax purposes.

> So you are now going to take away all of the property that someone 'in the business of selling domain names' has and then what are you going to do with that exactly? Setup a system to then decide what an appropriate use of those domains are?

Without the ability to sell them, they would presumably no longer be inclined to keep paying the annual fees to uselessly hoard them and they would become unregistered names again.
You forgot a number of additional tips:

- Hire a C++ programmer

- Learn C++

- Adapt knowledge in your current language of choice to C++/Python

- Find a designer who can use Qt

- Adapt common tools normally found in npm to C++

- Rewrite your application logic to run in C++

Should be simple for any dev to do considering the pay off is lower RAM and "native" look and feel
From the reply:

> I want to be clear that there are no insurance providers or rental platforms that we know of that do offer coverage for voluntary parting.

It takes some guts to put this in the reply when the article specifically mentions the insurance solution of their competitor. It's like they didn't even read the piece they're replying to.
“This is not a coherent position. By this logic, every single person who is _not_ making insulin (people like you and me) are also guilty of committing mass murder.”

This is ridiculous. Pharma companies, unlike you and me, have the ability/equipment/expertise to manufacture insulin. Many people need insulin to survive. These companies could make insulin for relatively cheap and still be massively profitable, but they choose not to, and people suffer because many people who need insulin can’t afford the artificially high prices.

Acting like this price-gouging is caused by anything other than corporate greed is naive and misleading.
https://www.darkpatterns.org/
The Winning Startup Team Structure You Should Use Today
USA also does a huge majority of the research and development for most drugs and developing new drugs is insanely expensive. The profit is the reason why there is incentive to do this research and there also won't be any money left to research and develop new ones. If there was no profit to be made, there would be no reason to develop new drugs.
I would not be so sure. This is not the first KitSplit story posted to HN. The last one was less than a year ago and was for an even more expensive camera.

Also, the co-founder of KitSplit has an account here as well.
How many defrauded owners to we need to start a class-action lawsuit?
Seems borderline fraudulent on kitsplits part. Clearly they know this is a major issue and are putting people’s livelihood at risk yet they continue anyway.
Being able to store data densely on a commodity material such as quartz is great for archival storage (e.g. Amazon Glacier). If the storage media is cheap, then it tends not to matter if it can be reused.

For random access, rapidly created and destroyed data, SSD and HDDs will continue to dominate. But for the growing use case of hoarding data forever, this is a good fit.
Yes. But you usually have to fight it to get it. They will very often try to play the “pre-existing condition” card, as they did in this case.
And according to Wiki they've been around for 5 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KitSplit
> hope this blows up on them

It didn't last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332918 (7 months ago). It's the exact same story, except the victim there got his story published at a major photography site and roused enough rabble that KitSplit ended up reimbursing him for the low low cost of an endorsement at the end.
It wasn't a publicity stunt by the University. Preserving knowledge over extreme periods of time is the whole point of the Arch organization (which is not for profit). It's weird, maybe not practical, but it's the whole point.

Also, such rockets often just use a mass simulator (i.e. block of concrete or metal) on inaugural flights, so there's nothing wrong with giving it a shot.
I think the idea was that the author of the post voluntarily handed it to the scumbag. They use the term parting because it doesn't carry the connotations that lended or gave do. However, nothing appeared to be amiss until he didn't return it, so until he didn't return it, it was voluntary. Since that was long past the in-person interaction, the parting during the in-person interaction could be considered voluntary.

It would be interesting if someone stole for the first time like this. They could decide first to take the chance to steal it, and once they have the potentially stolen goods, decide whether or not to return it. Then the moment where they became a thief would be a fuzzy period of time between the time it was agreed to return it to the time he sold the equipment to a third party.
> the SFPD filed my police report but explained to me that they would not investigate the matter or help me recover my stolen property since this is a civil dispute — meaning I needed to find the thief and negotiate with him in a civilized manner.
Doctors will be some of the first to be replaced by AI. My physicians walk around with a computer already checking all the boxes for symptoms and seeing what it says. I wish I could find one with a true intuition for medicine
That's the key, isn't it? Doctors tend to believe their services improve quality of life regardless of expenses. They need to be more aware of the long term reduction of quality of life caused by expenses.
One of the least enviable things I've ever witnessed in my life was a pair of co-workers who bonded over their medical problems.

It was a really strange thing to notice, and at first, it just seemed like small talk or polite conversation. But then it kept going, and while there was nothing particularly repugnant about the details, the undertones that developed were unsavory.

It was like they relished being sad about their invalidity, like it was one big sick day that gave them an excuse to stay home from school. As if to say, "thank god my body is failing me again, and everyone is powerless to make demands of me."

They would bond over the similar things their doctors would put them through, about the noises of MRI machines, about side effects and being incapacitated by medicines, about being laid up for extended periods of time. Bad news was greeted with a sort of malign enthusiasm, like getting to take the ride again. "Oh yeah, my doctor just told me my tests are bad again."

You had to wonder if they were harming themselves to get back on the radar. These two individuals weren't stupid, and it seemed within the realm of believability that they'd try to maximize all the physical therapy and weird attention that a medical problem would garner them.

Their problems were distinct and different, but with the way they locked in on each other, sharing tips and tricks as it were, it seemed like maybe without any other reason to talk to one another, the way they enjoyed such discussions bordered on perverse.

The tone of each, finding excitement in the other's words, lent an uncanny color to the details I learned by being a fly on the wall. Like hot pink syringes and neon green day glow catheter crazy straws.

On second thought, maybe the bigger problem was the open office floor plan, and the fact that I was forced to listen to conversations that I just didn't want to hear.
Kitsplit grossed $19 on this $3500 piece of equipment. Presumably their profit margins are relatively high given the nature of their service, so say they netted.. $9? Or less? If 0.1% of rentals result in voluntary parting, that works out to $3.50, a significant chunk of their profit margin. (If they're even being honest about the 0.1%.)
Yes, the AI part is marketing/fluff
I would welcome a correction! My impression is if anyone has 51% of all bitcoin they can write whatever they’d like on the blockchain and validate it at will. Is this wrong?
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Yes. Completely okay. That's completely in line with my opinion that the organizers of a site have the freedom to associate with whomever they wish - and reject whom they don't wish.

Why's that a problem?

And, most assuredly, I am on the left.

Edit: and an example comment of mine from 2 years ago where I assert that the right to reject people/speech from a private group is just as important as the right to free speech https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15420491 .
Enforcing upfront price transparency in markets with few suppliers and significant geographic restrictions can result in higher prices through "collusion". This isn't theoretical, it has already happened.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-6451.0...
That alone has been something that keeps on Monzo. I once had someone try to buy a flight with my card - I immediately got a notification, froze my card to prevent further payments, and had the whole thing resolved within 20 minutes of the first payment. With a conventional account likely the first I’d have known of it was when I tried to make a payment and it was declined, and I’d then have to unpick everything.

I’ll also admit I have on occasions gone through my transaction history the morning after to work out which bar I ended up in.
Exactly. The modern aspect of bank cards is much more present on Europe than in the US (chip, contactless,...)

I would say however (from personal experience which may be biaised) that cards in Germany are less welcome than in other EU countries (for historical privacy reasons)
Among a lot of other kinds of music, I like ambient electronic music.

I go through periods where I just get an okay sound going, and then play with it for 5-10 minutes, and record the stereo bus.

So after a period of this, I usually get 10-12 recordings.

I mean, it's not great. It's not the same as learning a bluegrass tune on banjo and polishing it till I can play it super fast, but I like the results enough to share them with people. So, in this context all the noodling _is_ the completed work.

Here's the result of the last period:
https://westtexasjohn.com/category/synth-diary/
If the goal was to have an online-only tool, wouldn't that have been developed from the get-go?
Right or wrong, that sends out a pretty strong message from the authorities that if you rent things out you better be prepared to lose them. If one can’t get that stuff insured at a reasonable price I would be wary of renting out expensive stuff since there is apparently no good recourse when ”voluntary parting” occurs.
Move fast and break things is bad policy for companies, I don't think it would be any better for the government.
Um, what makes one form of dishonesty acceptable and loot box dishonesty unacceptable?

Personally I lean on the "I am the final arbiter of my purchasing decisions" side, but surely this principle would have to be applied consistently (and what this looks like is I have bought almost nothing online ever)
What a tone-deaf response from the cofounder!

The article paints in painful detail how the website claims one thing and the contractual terms do the opposite, resulting in the user being suckered by fine print. Literally, this is a problem of false advertising.

Instead of proper fixes to the problem, they will add more fine print and more reasons to rub it in your face when your gear gets stolen.
Well, why was it drafted? For the good of consumers? Or as part of a re-election campaign, a promise to "do something" in the face of the hard reality that the GOP has pretty much nothing to show on the health care front, either in terms of legislation, or a plan more ambitious than "Kill Obamacare".

The healthcare cost problem is one of the top issues (maybe THE top issue) for voters in 2020, and Democrats have real, substantial proposals. What's the Trump response? I'm guessing it's this.
This. The argument was never to replace doctors. These are valuable tools that augment what doctors can do.
What if the owner and rentee were in kahootz? Or the owner just decides to report the the rentee has stolen the item?

Maybe the latter is covered by business logic, maybe not.
Even if the pharmacy doesn't accept GoodRx coupons (some don't) - you can ask if the pharmacy has any discounts for uninsured persons.... if they do, it's often even cheaper than the coupon would have been.
Facebook uses BluRay RW Disc for Cold Storage ( Not sure if that is still the case ).

The question is nearly 4 years later are they anywhere close to production?
> We have 6 different FAQs that warn KitSplit users about the risk of voluntary parting.

Ouch, so this isn't the first person to get bit by this on KitSplit, just the first one to get traction. These companies need to get called out way more.
> generic in almost all other parts of the world outside the US.

in rich countries it s subsidized by generous healthcare contributions
rare

adjective

(of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often.

I'd say 6% fits that definition. You're also ignoring the fact that, for various reasons, people show up in an ER when they really didn't need to.

This helps in the vast majority of cases and you're being needlessly argumentative.
Given how this has been received, interspersed HN headlines will have to be added.
Yes true, this is why I “dropped out of it” then eventually came back to it. The fact that I have Venezuelan friends who started hoarding it to avoid capital controls in their country convinced me of its usefulness and long-term viability.
You're welcome, enjoy! Finding practice material it is best to look for midi files that are already split into two channels and tracks for left and right hand. Otherwise you have to split them yourself which can be quite a bit of work.
Google has moved to boost sites with high rank. This gives few 'bad' results, but leads to less authoritative and complete results from the long tail of internet sources. I think this is a response to Black Hat SEO.
Nim and cython are not analogous. Most notably, nim is statically typed, and identifiers are statically determinable. I don't say nim is as fast as (those other languages) because it compiles to c, but rather because that's what benchmarks show.
Can a medical bill follow you back to your home country?