skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either way you're reducing carbon emissions, which is good. Ideally you do both! It doesn't matter how many solar panels you have - if you're driving an ICE car you're always emitting carbon.
Every now and then they solicit crowdfunding.

You buy a beneficial interest in a fraction of an allotment of shares owned by a crowdfunding platform through the Monzo app.
Yup, that's the difference between bootstrapped and venture-backed businesses. Bootstrapping takes time because you (largely) have to make money before you can invest that money in the business.
Heck, even post facto, if you're in an emergency and you end up stuck at a hospital that charges $50K for a procedure, and then while recovering you find a nearby hospital that does it for $10K, you're not necessarily without options. It's not hard to go to the provider who actually gave you service and say "You know, they charge 20% what you do... what's the odds I can cause $40K's worth of stink in the local news if you don't cut my price down now?"

(You may want to consult with a lawyer friend a bit before making quite such a naked statement; that may constitute blackmail in your jurisdiction. But there will still be "ways" of phrasing things in your jurisdiction. Talking to a lawyer may not be all bad anyhow, whatever it is you have to say will sound more credible with some lawyer's letterhead on top. Hospitals hear a lot of amateur lawyers expound their novel legal theories every day.)

I'm not going to deny the relationship in that situation is still lopsided in the direction of the first hospital, but the situation is not necessarily 100% in their favor.
That's really weird that the internet doesn't work with JavaScript disabled in 2019.
Your definition is interesting. Unfortunately, we were discussing the definition used by the rest of humanity. Which is complete gibberish.
> What would be the point for Facebook to create a promote such a currency if they can't control it at some level?

It gives them their a payment processor they can put into WhatsApp to compete with WeChat in China. They know they can't do "Facebook Coin", so they are doing the nearest thing they can, a consortium.
A button which when clicked launches an unexpected full-screen video is an unwelcome development in web dev.
If you asked me what the 4 best documents regarding bootstrapping are i'd say:

* Egg of the Phoenix (Blog post) - http://canonical.org/~kragen/eotf/

* The Cuniform Tablets of 2015 (Blue-sky academic research) - http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf

* Preventing The Collapse of Civilization (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

* Coding Machines (scifi story about trusting-trust attack) - https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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Yeah, that's really what this is all about- Zuck probably keeps asking stuff "can't we just have a payment button right here in an FB baby shower announcement?" and his legal departments says "you can't do that for lots of regulatory reasons, including KYC" and so Libra was born.
My Prius has a solar panel on the roof. It provides enough power to run a fan while the car is turned off, keeping the heat from being overwhelming on sunny days. It doesn't provide enough power to run the fan all the time, just periodically.
I'm curious why with $20K MRR it will take a Kickstarter to create a mobile app.
Small change, big effects: An overview of payment systems
I have fond memories of both FS9 (2004) and FS X. One of my favourite trips was to take off from Hong Kong and land in Macau in a Learjet - they are pretty close by, you need to make a sharp 90 degree turn, the runway is a narrow strip with the ocean on both sides, and the Learjet 45 is not easy to handle over short distances. All combined to make it a similar to playing a violin piece that you keep on fine tuning the tough parts until it all flows together.
> maybe if you could check the price ahead of time, you could've checked that they wrote down the correct test?

maybe you could. I couldn't. My knowledge of the difference between various unpronounceable enzymes is not adequate.

Even if I had an app that could tell me the exact costs, how would I know what the Doctor actually intended?
In addition to what @jgrahamc said, another good option for some services is to use a Cloudflare Argo Tunnel. Spin it up on your local machine, and web traffic will be routed to it without having to open your firewall, DMZ, etc. It also has a free tier now: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-free-argo-tunnel-for-your-next...
I worked on one of those systems. For some screening tasks, it has been at or beating average-radiologist performance since the mid or late 90s.

There are a number of issues, but it's true that raw algorithmic performance is a small part of the whole picture.
And all the staff at every specialist’s office dedicated to navigating the insurance & provider bureaucracy. Or every party having their own crappy payment & client portal - often created from scratch!

I think everyone here recognizes the insane inefficiencies of US healthcare. Maybe single payer could help streamline things. Or what if this price disclosure requirement could be wrapped into a more comprehensive system that allows all parties choice and visibility and interoperability?
>The government should be giving this away for free.

The government has no money. So you're saying the tax payers should be paying $2000/mo/recipient.

In this scenario you've made nothing cheaper. You've only externalized the costs on to us. 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. I hope you understand you've only just made the problem worse because nothing has preventing it from being $4000/mo now that they know the gov will buy an unlimited supply.

edit: To be clear since posts below don't seem to get it... You're missing a step. You've done nothing to solve the $2000/mo problem, just shifted the costs to everyone. This is the issue with healthcare, the off the cuff solutions don't actually fix the root problems.
Vote for Linux support in Actual here:

https://trello.com/c/A7XzJgJX
As I mention to a number of other comments...it simply depends on the accounting method.

It can be waived (not treated as income at all as you say) or it can be treated as income (taxes paid) and the loss carried forward for future deduction.
I mean it depends on the context, right? I just mean that generally speaking, when there is nothing forcing people to be decent, it is clearly not simply enough for "wow this is morally reprehensible" to be a deterrent.

For profiteering off generic medication, I think some sort of subsidized natural monopoly producing and selling generics would work. Clearly, there isn't enough profit in the generics to make money off them without acting in a malicious anti-competitive manner, so incentivizing it otherwise must be necessary in a market system.

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.
My sister suddenly needed a few surgeries and seems to now owe an effectively infinite amount of money.

I work for a startup without funding. Health care costs was one of the reasons I decided to move to Mexico. Some of the medicine is still kind of expensive to me, but for those ones it's still literally 10X less than across the border.
...having a possible broken arm...Nothing stops you from looking at a few places before treatment

Except that you're laying on the ground writhing in pain, not the easiest time to pull out your phone and pull up pricewatch.com before you call 911 to find out which hospital has the best deal on x-rays today.
Then enable JavaScript.
So like, a sociopath, then? I guess we do know that those can exist.
it wouldn't be hard to create another company to do this either.
Since you are willing to have an honest conversation on the topic, I highly recommend Tim Pool's content on these issues.

https://youtu.be/RrX_CnKFYlA

This particular video discusses how all of these individual issues (such as Jen Gennai's comments) point to a growing and worsening trend of the collapse of civil discourse in America, and where that could potentially lead us.
"I disabled one of the core technologies of the modern web and it breaks things."
Theres basically nothing that can run X-Plane well at higher settings, especially in bigger aircraft. Your best bet is a overclocked high end Intel consumer CPU.
I’ve been learning Python and Flask in my downtime to build some home automation and data collection APIs for my home sensors using Raspberry Pi’s.
Happy to answer any specific questions about the tech that I'm able to answer. I was not responsible for the proprietary algorithms that generated the avatar.
Sure, Quake comes with a premade keyboard-only profile as well.
My thoughts exactly. Oracle's loss is Cloudflare's gain...
> During the boom, it acted like a double-pyramid-scheme: the only way to invest in ICOs was to buy Ethereum first

One could compare this to a situation where there is a global economy but a given type of asset or financial instrument only exists in one exchange in one country. Presumably the exchange rate of that country's currency will rise as people buy into its currency to use in investing in that new instrument/asset class.
Can confirm... grew up there. A drink 75% of the time meant sweet tea.

Also, we said "Coke" for any type of soda. For example, you would say, "Do you want a Coke?" and someone would say "What do you have?" and we would answer "Pepsi, RC Cola, Dr. Pepper..."
On the contrary, it is actually impressive compared to many startups... the ones you usually don't hear about on here.
People love to bash Electron, but what is the alternative?

Is there any other platform that provides:

- Support for the 3 major desktop platforms from one code-base;

- A decent choice of high-level programming languages (there are excellent compile-to-JS options now);

- Reasonable tooling and community support;

- MIT (or similar) license
Google Warns Staff About Protests During Official Pride Events
So I guess this car can't be garage kept?
No, it doesn't matter if everyone thinks of it as 'the Facebook money thing' if that's not what it is. The only thing that people's perception effects is whether or not governments influenced by said perception allow Facebook to build a wallet in with their service in those regions. Libra the currency will be a thing regardless.
I'm not referring to jobs that require complex automation systems, but jobs that just... Aren't needed for a company to function. No consultant needed, no outsourced labor needed.

A simple example would be the receptionist at a non-customer facing business. At least where I work, we have zero walk-ins and maybe 5 phone calls a day. We pay someone well above minimum wage to simply answer to phone - despite our VOIP provider offering (for free) an automated system to route calls.
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Removing the C++ interfaces? This would completely break a decent chunk of the compilers of D, no?

betterC, UFCS are both opt in so what's the rationale for breaking a huge amount of library code?
The hate for Electron is strong in this thread.

For Electron haters, here are the alternatives: OpenJFX (some people hate Java), Qt5 (it can be pricey in some situations), wxWidgets (not popular enough?).

However, I have a lot of hope for Flutter in desktop. I hope the developers of Flutter framework can pull off the challenge.

In my case, for opensource projects, I definitely use Qt5 (using PySide2). But for proprietary projects, I have to admit that most likely I will choose Electron.
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ha no, i don't think so :-) All these devices didn't exist when the floppy drive went out of vogue. I'm not sure if there even are USB floppydisk drivers for Android or iOS. Technically Android is linux (and iOS bsd) so I suppose there is a /dev/fd0 capability somewhere.
I meant that LPCnet is really awesome, but when I would distribute a podcast in this format (floppy or rss) I would like it to be able to be played on devices and OS's with support for it - otherwise the audience can't play it.
It's about time. Finally, IDS/Session monitoring that is external to the hosts one is monitoring.
It was an internal process purely to minimize customer issues. Which means that I never dealt with the consequences if something did get stopped at customs, so I don't know any details of how such things played out.
Yes, I was assuming cash accounting. I updated my comment to mention the difference between cash and accrual accounting, thanks for noticing that.
FP = system (or person) flags this as true when it is not

TP = ... flags as true and it is

FN = ... flags as false but it is true

TN = ... flags as false and it is false

To turn these into rates, you normalize them.

e.g. TPR = TP/P = TP/(TP + FN) = 1 - FNR

etc.

These are characteristics of a classification system

You will also hear sensitivity (TPR) vs. specificity (TNR) often, particularly in medical contexts. In other contexts you'll hear Type I (FP) vs. Type II (FN) error.

In most cases you a set of trade offs in your algorithm, and will need to pick a balance between sensitivity and specificity.

c.f. ROC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
I don't know if this is the case here, but I think even if you don't really "need" the money, using Kickstarter can be a great way to get more exposure for a project as well as pre-selling/validating a product which reduces the risk of investing development time.
So... after 8 hours I would get my entire commute. Sounds great, actually.
>>the same classifier will be much worse in the same task on images from a different hospital (or even from a different department in the same hospital).

Has anybody figured out why this is the case? Could it be socioeconomic factors? Or the presence of different toxic pollutants across different communities?
There's this claim on the site:

> In fact, our solar cells provide about 20% more energy than traditional ones.

The numbers they provide are best-case. There's also this:

> Someone driving the national average of 20,000 km/year in the cloudy Netherlands would get about 40% of their mileage from solar energy.

They've clearly thought about this. I agree that solar roof on a car, as it stands today, is a gimmick at best, but the fact that your envelope calculation actually _confirms_ that solar charging is possible is enough for me to not dismiss them out of hand. This isn't utter bunk, at very least.

Edit to add: we're probably doing ourselves a disservice thinking about solar charging in terms of range; instead, consider that parking the car in the sun for a day could offset the cost of running climate control for the next 3-4 days. Someone needs to try it, sometime, so I'm glad they are.
Android does have the FULL_INTERNET_ACCESS permission, but the UI hides it pretty well, to discourage people from rejecting apps with advertising.
He prefaced to let OP know that he doesn’t intend to be disparaging and only wants to offer feedback. Not every critique is a personal attack...
There's ways to subdue the symptoms, like listening to music, using a nice mechanical keyboard, running Linux so you can always tinker with it, or making conversation with work friends if that's allowed (it's not where I work).

But to fix the root cause, you need to have activities outside of work, that you do with friends you don't know from work, that you're excited to get started on when you're done for the day - music production and lifting are what I do. Working remotely is another way to fix it, but your company might know about this and ban it like mine did.
I looked into the idea of solar panels on cars, to figure out why they don't do that.

Turns out it would add only a trivial amount of energy, and thus is just a gimmick.

>Although the energy from the solar panel might seem like a large value, it's only 2 percent of the total battery energy.

https://www.wired.com/story/could-tesla-power-its-electric-t...
The only thing drug companies are incentivized to do is make money and you’re giving them a side channel to an uninformed audience, then they go and whack the trained professionals over the head with this data and risk they don’t understand because TV told them.
I saw that website after the fact :'(

If anyone is up for a good laugh you can check out reviews here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071WYNY6N/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i...
Someone once told me that U of Chicago's business school used this classic to describe banking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkJH6BT7dM
> Does anyone know a resource which explains the theoretical limit for retrievable, durable, information storage?

From an old ZFS weblog post on why they chose 128 bits for their data structures:

> Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 10^51 operations per second on at most 10^31 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2^128 blocks = 2^137 bytes = 2^140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2^140 bits) / (10^31 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.

* https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-hi...
Reminds of this paragraph of Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism:

"I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of tress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The 'mental health plague' in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high".
Adding the words blockchain and cryptocurrency to this new Facebook initiative gives it an air of "innovation", the sort that reacts to criticism with "this is too new and innovative for you to understand", and "stogy governments don't like to innovate like we do, so they want to stop us with old timey regulation (and consumer protections)".

Libra is essentially an ETF. It's a vehicle that will take deposits from customers and invest them in interest-yielding securities and currencies. Unlike a bank, customers forfeit their right to gain interest from their deposits and it will instead service operating costs (and any money left over goes to founder members). Libra is effectively planing to receive deposits, manage money and process transactions, despite not even attempting to meet regulatory requirements (though they plan to "shape the regulatory environment"--their words). What's so innovative about this venture is its potential for further data harvesting and potential income streams. Facebook isn't going to harvest any data produced from this venture--that is unless the customer willingly gives it to them. Why would a customer willingly provide this access to Facebook? I think anyone using FB for the past decade can answer that question--those regular TOS updates are hard to follow.

Libra isn't so much a subversion of the existing order, as it as an act of financial engineering to service a social media company. What it "could be" doesn't justify what it already is.
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So, nobody can offer criticism unless they are producing better results?

How many NBA coaches can dunk hit a 3-pointer? Yet, the players still listen to their advice and perform better.

Just because someone can't do it themselves doesn't mean they can't offer meaningful insight.
Pretty sure it's not a coincidence that the academic edition is sold at video game pricing.
At this point, the "native currency for making payments" seems to be moving to 'wrapped ETH' or something like it, since all the higher-level infrastructure being built for security tokens et al, assumes contracts on both sides of the transaction.
The Cost of JavaScript in 2019
Indeed; I'm an extremely introverted person, but that's only because people don't actually want to talk business 100% of the time. If that's what we're doing, I am very much extroverted.
I'm a writer. Some of my writing hits the front page of HN. This piece did fairly well on the front page in terms of both karma count and discussion: https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...

It also got copied and reblogged, sometimes legitimately with my permission and sometimes not. For me, it is the first hit if you google the expression "the hand licking incident." It seems plenty of people found the piece worth reading.

It made not one thin dime.

I spent around two weeks on that piece. It's at least my third attempt at a parenting blog. I get paid for freelance writing, have years of experience blogging, about six years of college and if karma count is anything to judge by I'm a "respected member of the community." (My old account has 25k karma and this one currently has 19k karma. If it was all under one account, I would be decently high on the leader board.)

It has no ads on it in part because I would rather not be a shill for god-knows-what. I would rather be paid for my writing. But it also has no ads in part because I know how much the internet in general and HN in specific hate ads these days. It is supported via tips and Patreon.

I'm quite open about how much I struggle financially and that I make my living as a writer in part because I'm medically handicapped and can't do a lot of so-called "real jobs." Given that we have worse economic inequality than in The Gilded Age, "get a real job" is a specious argument anyway.

The reality is that the current attitude is that writing simply should be slave labor. Period. If you don't like it, go do something else. Not our problem that you are literally homeless and going hungry, bitch.

Meanwhile, five million monthly visitors to HN expect the front page to be filled daily with good writing and they bitch and moan about how there isn't enough good stuff on HN and the front page moves too slow and on and on.

I don't particularly care to continue this discussion further. It's not likely worth my time.

(Edit: Not currently homeless, but I was for nearly six years. I still struggle with food insecurity and general poverty.)
I can't agree with this at all.

Our family has four people in it. We've spent plenty of time and money on medical care in the past 18 years. Almost everything we've done medically, we could have made use of price transparency, if we had it.

Yes, there are scenarios where the most important thing is to get emergency care as soon as possible. These are the exception--the rare exception--not the rule.
Bills of exchange were privately issued by banks since the high middles ages in Europe and functioned a lot like dollars when convertability was still a thing. It's only relatively recently that they've been tightly controlled. they weren't in mass use like metal coinage was but they were essential to the re-establishment of long-range trade.
I think that says more about Austin Meyer's insane hacker mentality than X-Plane's deficiencies. Of course he'd allow setting maximum detail/frame levels that are far above what modern desktop machines can deliver -- maybe someone with a 64-core Xeon and paired top-end NVIDIA cards wants to max out such a system :)
We have no clue what his costs are. For all we know he loses money each month. There's no faster way to get me to stop listening than to tell me your revenues and omit your costs.