skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t that give cause to sue every single advertiser who attempts to target and manipulate potential customers?

Aka all of them? I agree this is despicable, but I’m curious how you make this illegal and not all of advertising.
This is a point often missed by people not afflicted by AD(H)D, it is not that people affected by it are incapable of focusing on things, its that they are incapable of controlling what they do, or don't pay attention to, and for how long, or how intensely.
If physicians are not going to get on board with solving the problem, then I'm not too sympathetic when it doesn't work out well for them.

Physicians who see patients while out-of-network without asking permission are outrageously unethical.

And if someone is unconscious or dying, then you can't ask permission.
During that time period FB’s growth was meteoric and unprecedented. That’s the only reason Google likely took so long as to launch when FB is at 800M users. Because at beginning of decade they were at half that. Go back to beginning of 2009 and they are close to a third from beginning of decade.

They weren’t small in terms of users. But they were small in that just a few years prior, their user amounts were a fraction of what they were during Google+‘s launch. With Friendster, Mysapce, and all the me too social networks losing, there was no way to know for sure Facebook would win out and last as a huge company in the early 00s.

In early 00s, their revenue and profits hadn’t caught up to user growth either. The mobile explosion hadn’t fully happened yet. As well as Instagram now being a key part of their growth and solid part of their revenue and profit.
Yes, you can refuse testing that you
recognize as superfluous, but, well, I'm not a doctor, they are. More often it goes the other way - eg most of the time I request a test that WebMD has convinced me will tell me that I don't have, well, cancer, and doctors are willing to oblige, but only at my behest. Serina Williams famously almost died because her doctor didn't think a test was warranted. Her advocate had to lobby the doctor to run a test which led to a diagnosis that saved her life. (A combination of racism and sexism certainly played a part there.)

The problem is that the profit motive is hard to deny, simply because healthcare is run as a profit seeking venture, which makes money on the difference between the cost of running a test and the price a patient's insurance will pay. Pharmaceutical companies bribing doctors to prescribe specific medication doesn't help.
It's interesting you picked grocery shopping as your 2nd example because I do think it's a perfect example. In both cases you are trusting someone with something very very important and in both cases if the person is a lunatic they likely won't get harmed (vs Uber where if they do something crazy like drive off a bridge they run the risk of dying too).

Honestly, I don't think massive platforms are the way to go for such intimate things like dog walking and grocery shopping. I don't have a dog right now but I've had pets in the past. They are your family. Trusting them to a random person on a massive platform seems almost impossibly irresponsible. The same goes with letting a complete stranger shop for your food.

Funny enough I walk around my neighborhood without a dog for a bit of exercise, and have been doing this for years. A number of people who I've talked to over the years have asked me if I would walk their dog for them. I said no simply because I really enjoy not having a schedule for when I walk and I didn't want to be tied into a commitment. But my point is, I think things like dog walking and grocery shopping needs to be a small scale operation where you have a real human connection and trust level with the person doing the work. They have to be a legit friend.
I’m curious what a proposed solution is? USCIS is funded by service fees, and social media analysis started under Obama with support across the aisle. Raising fees to pay for better translation services is one way I suppose.
This gets into some murky areas as well though. For example, infectious disease physicians struggle a lot under pay for procedure-based schemes because so much of their work is supplementing existing teams and consults, rather than "Did Thing X".
> But what can we do?

If only there were a way of approaching these problems in a clever and playful manner.

You can almost imagine a forum full of such problem solvers helping each other work around the seeming limitations of our physical hardware.

Almost.
You're essentially describing QUIC.
Would it be fair to read his argument as saying that companies that exaggerate their prospects sell at higher IPO prices than companies that are more conservative in their marketing? Since the company's goal is to raise as much money as possible at the IPO while selling off as little of the company as possible, this would indicate that exaggeration is a good strategy, and one might predict that this trend of hyper-hyping is going to continue for a while. Sure, over the long term the company still needs to succeed, but if you are an pre-IPO investor who is holding for the long-term, as long as the IPO is successful, you'd probably prefer for the company to have more money in the bank over seeing a large post-IPO jump.
Currently rates are set via negotiation between providers and insurers. Roughly, when the provider and insurer can't agree on a price, then the provider will be out of network for that insurer.

Let's say we remove this, and now we have a doctor who wants to charge $200 and an insurer that wants to pay $100. How should it be resolved?
Wow, yeah, this is fantastic, thank you for sharing - I love seeing the development of early polygonal 3D, such as Virtua Racing and Starfox, but I’d never seen this! Very cool.
Yes, self-insured employer plans are exempt from state law under ERISA. It sucks but the big multi-state corporate lobby doesn't want to have to deal with the patchwork of state laws.

I believe the DOL could fix this via regulation, but doubt they will.

S 1895 Lower Healthcare Costs Act would fix this nationally https://www.natlawreview.com/article/beyond-surprise-billing...
Doesn't this only search through titles and commentaries? What I am looking for is NOT under the news.ycombinator.com domain.

For example lets open the main page, there is a "Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study" title on it. Click on it and you'll get to the https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplasti... page. Within the article text it mentions "major national brands across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas". In this example I would like to search for "Africa" (which is not mentioned in the commentaries) and find this article as one of articles posted on HN and mentioning Africa.
I was thinking of this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797919

The whole downstream/upstream model with different parts of the OS kernel / filesystem / userland moving out of sync with each other through multiple levels of backporting is not a positive one for reliability. FreeBSD is FreeBSD and the buck stops there. Responsibility is too diffuse in the Linux model to get the kind of reliability that FreeBSD has enjoyed.

I realize that I'm being a bit of a fuddy-duddy but it really didn't take too long at all for the ZoL team to start making dumb mistakes that cause data loss. Hopefully it's a learning experience and didn't happen again.

I myself have a dataset that I can't send from a FreeBSD system to my Ubuntu 16.04/ZoL backup server. It worked at one point, as of about a year ago it no longer does.
When the send is finished, the client machine just spins forever. I've tried everything short of formatting and reinstalling the backup server. I tried incremental sends, I tried re-sending the whole thing, I tried killing the pool, updating everything and re-creating the pool, I tried messing with microcode in case it was a wayward regression from Spectre, etc etc. ZoL just won't receive that dataset anymore.

Best of luck to the ZoL guys but I guess FreeBSD is working well enough as a data storage layer for me. Too much weird shit going on with ZoL.
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Thanks for the feedback.

We are trying to solve some of the pain points that you addressed for Audio Social Networks by adding some additional features such as short titles, speech-to-text, and voice commands (the last 2 very soon).

With respect to your concern with longer audios, we understand that Podcasts will be a huge part of Audlist, and we will provide them a way to interact more closely with their audience. We think ourselves as a Youtube/Twitter of Audio. So we will help Podcasters by being the host, player and discovery place for audio content, as well as, a place to interact with users. Additionally, for content creators like podcasters, we will add more value trying to give them more information about their content regarding metrics (like when users stopped listening, demographics, among others) something that other types of content such as video already have but most Podcasters don't.

Finally, Let me give you another example of a type of content that is Uploaded to Youtube that I think that is a great fit for Audlist - A guy looks at a camera with no great shots and a bad camera and talks for 30 mins about a random subject and gets 15-100k views. That's a regular on a lot of youtube videos. While driving I find myself listening to a lot of those contents as well as Podcasts, but Youtube is not really made for hands-free usage and so its usually a painful experience for me.

Oh, and we will have "Voice Stories" (15 seconds audios) very soon! :)
Phones are replaced about every 3-4 years. mainly because of camera upgrades. I am not a great user of apps, as I find them a waste of time and not particularly useful.

I try to change my laptops due to increases in travel convenience. However, I find that my 10-year old Lenovo T410S keeps being most useful overall, even though I have bought several other laptops since I bought the Lenovo.

I bought an Asus X31 ultrabook because it was lighter and its SSD 'disk' was more resistant to shocks. But the miniscule size of the SSD meant that it was not much use as it could only store about a tenth of what the Lenovo could, with its upgraded 2TB HDD. Also the ultrabook's keyboard wasn't as good as the Lenovo's, apart from it not having a DVD reader, and it required adapters for ethernet, etc, instead of those connectors being built-in.

I also bought a Acer unit, but I 'killed' it. Can't remember the model, or what I did to kill it.
nuclear thermal propulsion should start right here on planet earth with the shipping industry. biggest low hanging fruit EVER when it comes to reducing oil useage AND reducing cost of refueling AND reducing particulates, sulfate n02 and c02 emissions. oh yea, and it's cheaper!!! .
I wouldn't say it's wrong, but I do think often protectionists or just those critical of globalism are often unfairly criticized because they don't like what the end result will be.

The way I've put it in conversation is this: while the equalization will balance out in many ways, pulling "third-world" countries up closer to "first-world" standards of living, the reality is it is highly likely that first-world standards will actually decrease... for the first time in quite a long time. Now, one can argue this is a good thing because we first-worlders are overconsumers, polluters, and many other reasons, but I don't think it's fair to hate on people wanting to protect their own standard of living.

I have theorized, perhaps wrongly, that this is part of the real, behind closed doors, push for brexit in the UK, especially seeing as currency is the great entangler and now that Europe are all on the Euro, the UK wants to get out before the Euro starts having major issues, and they probably saw that coming which is why they never left the pound. So ignoring the more unsavory reasons being touted for brexit, I think it shows a certain amount of people intuitively understand globalism might reduce their standard of living which is why we are seeing an increase in protectionism in much of the first-world.

Note: I hate the terms first-world and third-world... any better suggestions on that are welcome.
Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon.
This is not the first time that security patches have caused eBPF to behave oddly: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ebpf-cant-count/ is an amazing anecdote about how side-channel mitigations + a bug in the BPF verifier caused arithmetic bugs to appear.

I hope that by the time things begin to hit mainline, Cloudflare's engineers will chime in with ideas that allow (e)BPF to continue to run, as they seem to use it widely internally.
I'd divided the world into more than that. For me most of the world is superstitious (I realize that's my judgement). In my experience 95% of the people I meet believe in homeopathy, acupuncture, aroma therapy (not just that things smell nice but they they have strong medicinal benefits), spirits, ghosts, astrology, blood type personality, supreme beings, MSG causing headache, changes in weather causing colds, airconditioning making people sick, blowing fans causing sudden death, and a million other discredited things. Some of those people overlap with the type of skeptics you mention but most are not
start with nuclear thermal here on earth----tiem to overhaul the shipping industry with nuclear thermal powered cargo and container ships.

it's the biggest low hanging fruit EVER when it comes to reducing fuel consumption, cost, emissions, etc....
Looks nice! MMO RTS nonetheless!

A word of advice: if you want to make an easy immense graphical update, add shadows to your vehicles. Even just a dumb, circular flat alpha gradient under each vehicle. You would not believe the amount of immersion this adds.
I don’t think that’s true. When you have $100B and are hoping to earn a 10x return, your options are limited. $100B is only about 2.5 the size of Harvard University’s endowment, IIRC. You could manage that $100B like an oversized hedge fund and still make money, but probably not 10x returns.
It's easy to be "on the cusp" of major advancements, discoveries, etc. It's something else entirely to actually deliver on them. Everyone believes they'll be the one to discover that new thing that radically changes the world when realistically, no one can plan or estimate when breakthroughs will occur and how they will be applied.

It's the equivalent of the software developers' "I'm 90% done, I just have to.."
Making things like medical records actually anonymous, especially in the face of bad actors, is an unsolved problem.
I don't agree that's simple, nor (strictly) price discrimination.

The most obvious added value is faster delivery: ship today instead of in X days/weeks when the auction ends.

It also has weird value if you for some reason believe the BIN price is undervaluing the item, i.e. you can short-circuit the auction before anyone else realises.
I have not commented anything that time. And I can't remember if it was 3 or much more months ago. I'll get too much of irrelevant comments if I search for "signal" or "filter" in comments on HN.
Flying over water can be dangerous, as it is often impossible to judge distance to the surface, even for experienced pilots,
> 50% of the children will be strictly superior (carriers)

Is that domain nomenclature? Because I wouldn't call having to be careful who procreate with otherwise risk losing 25% of my children from that relationship as "strictly superior"...
Whaaa? This, good sir, is fascinating! I am a huge fan of PalmOS and still use my Palm every day. I would love to make a custom Palm with a custom PalmOS but never even considered the plausibility or possibility. I’m gonna read through this now.
Cost of a pizza in a normal pizza restaurant in San Francisco: $18. (if not higher in some of the fancier places)

Oh, wait! We need to add:

1) sales tax (9.75%) = $1.75

2) tip (20%) = $3.60

3) S.F. Mandates (4 to 6% depending on restaurant, let's say 5%): $0.90

Total? $24.25, or roughly 35% higher. Unbelievable, and ridiculous.

I wish all restaurants would advertise the FINAL price.
I asked this question of myself about 15 years ago and decided to only invest in laptops or systems running laptop parts.

One of the things missing is that some LCDs burn a lot of watts so should be turned off too.
true. seed-to-sale tracking would allow us to back track tainted lots, in conjunction with asking this question though.
So let's pretend there's three types of trees we want to study: Oak, Maple and Aspen, which we code as 0, 1, and 2 for reasons (there are some good reasons to do this).

Statistically, if you treat them as a continuous variable, the estimates you get will act like there's an ordering there, and give you the effect of a one unit increase in tree. So it will tell you the effect of Oak vs. Maple and Maple vs. Aspen, assuming those are proportional and that Oak vs. Aspen will be twice that.

This is...nonsense, for most categorical variables. They don't have a nice, ordinal stepping like that.
I have a good friend who is a cancer researcher and they're 5 years in and think they might be able to commercialize something in another 3. Realistically, they're assuming it will be closer to five.

While I have massive respect for the people with the insight, patience, and understanding to tackle biotech, I can't imagine spending 8-10 years for the hope that maybe you've done something useful.. and then figure out if you can sell it.
I think you’ve got a strong value proposition, especially in a GDPR/CCPA world. Have you figured out a channel and integration partner strategy yet? That’s probably the hill that you’re going to need to fight on.
Without accurate an available information, there is no free market. Just lots of betting.

"I'm going to buy this great new car. I wonder if it will cost me $15k or $45k? Can't wait to find out!" Said no market participant ever.
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> 1000 times more valuable than the work those workers do

With a salary of $23M, Boeing's CEO is paid ~1000x what a worker is paid, which is how I read it.
Then let me suggest as an alternative you give a description here of what you recall and see if you can get lucky and have someone go "That sounds like this link".
I want to push back on your assertion that vulnerability is inherently equivalent to weakness. Our society currently says it is, but I could equally imagine a future in which being vulnerable and honest about your feelings is seen as a feat of strength and courage -- because it DOES take a lot of courage, and even confidence, to be open and honest about your feelings.
I can say that: fusion is objectively better than fossil fuels because it’s a sustainable source of energy that doesn’t destroy future generations’ prospects for a decent life. If you were to calculate the real costs of fossil fuels, including the effects on climate, I’m sure fusion comes out ahead. We don’t consider those costs typically, so we’re effectively externalizing them onto future generations.
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Just use something like DroidWall and only allow the apps you actually need (like the browser and the messenger). Block some system processes and the OS won't even know it's on-line (so the connection indicator would show no Internet despite the browser working just fine), let alone update anything.
In Canada, the province sets the rate.
Would be interesting to have a web shop with a repeatable "Solve this captcha for an X% chance of decreasing your price by $0.YY", where it doesn't let you go past a price floor and X and Y decreases as price approaches floor. Discount expires in an hour or few.

Ideally, you'd use a functional captcha, but even without, it seems it would be as useful to society as most current price discrimination techniques.

I'd imagine people would be much more likely to make a purchase if they have already invested 20 minutes solving captchas to save a few bucks.
Why do small to medium businesses have different hiring questions than corporations or competitive startups?
Ask HN: Is there software way to disable Nvidia Graphics card?
I don't turn off my PC because of Plex and UniFi Network Controller Software. So most of the time my GTX 1080 is simply wasting power.
Money costs money.
Guess away.
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Alexandra Elbakyan is probably one of the individuals who did the most for science in the recent years. And she is considered a criminal. We live in a crazy timeline.
The insurance company could do their freaking job and crunch the numbers to figure out what the average price is going to be at the providers their customers go to and set their premiums accordingly so they can cover what they expect to pay.

Some of their customers will go to a doctor where a procedure costs $200, some where it costs $50, some where it costs $100. If the prices were published patients could actually make a choice based on that information.
Also if Google translate was good enough it would hurt their employment opportunities.
You could just use companies that have been public for more than 1 year. And you absolutely could survey 50 people about the mission/business alignment and get a useful number that would actually examine the point he's making. The main point is that he wants to make a certain point, but not back it with any kind of data beyond cherry-picking to make it.
What will happen is a new class system augmentation, where the elite will be the sysadmins, devs, and other people who know how to control their systems and data and care about privacy will have a certain class. (the care part being the most important, I know what too many "hackers" who have google home or alexa in the home and I think they are crazy.) The rich will hire these people to augment their legal ways of privacy via trusts and shell games also. So each caste in the class system will have either privacy or no-privacy addendums.

Some people have been saying privacy will be the new celebrity.
No. I don't think we even understand the problem :) You mean, it would be hard to work with all the 200 or so 3rd party providers segment integrates with without having 1-1 relationships with them?
The author responded to you, but I think this deserves emphasis. True privacy is not about additional features or promises made by a cloud provider. It's not private unless you handle the data yourself, period point blank. This should be obvious.
> Wag looked like tech's next Big Thing

Uhh, what? No, it didn't. Even the bull case never imagined it as anything like a "next big thing."
See also The Manager FAQ by Peter Seebach, 2001:

http://www.seebs.net/faqs/manager.html
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Except sometimes you’re wrong and the market is right.
Since when did YC have hundreds of managers?
This book [1], written by a renowned scholar of executivology describes exactly what an executive does.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7177278-how-to-relax-wit...
> Translate "patronize" and it will give you "patrocinar", which means "to sponsor”.

That translation is pretty accurate for at least one of the senses of patronise, though. Word-sense disambiguation is what’s failing Google Translate in that case.