skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof. The site was practically named after WebMD, and the founder didn't do any market research on that competitor to gauge how viable the business was before quitting their job? This person probably should have known that their main competitor made $0.50/user before they quit their job. Also:

>It had been a bit of a working assumption of mine over the past few weeks that if you could improve the health of the patients then, you know, the doctors or the hospitals or whatever would pay for that.

This person uses the "X% of Americans" line, so they live in the United States, right? The one in North America that views healthcare as a business to wring money out of? They definitely should have done more market research if they could type that with a straight face.

But hey, hindsight is 2020 and they only spent $40k on some very valuable firsthand experience. Sounds like a win if they're planning to run businesses in the future, but for ideas without a clear path to making enough money to sustain themselves, try to use other peoples' money next time :)
Somewhat surprised a search engine wouldn't want it for the perceived value of improved "snippets". Or some company like WebMD.
It’s absolutely something you should be in complete control over. I should at least be able to offline the car unilaterally.
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Probably typical short-sighted "these fires haven't been too bad, so lets save some money here by cutting this obvious waste" type of thinking.

Preventative maintenance looks like a waste of resources until you don't do it.
Perhaps you gave up too soon, your startup journey is shared by most (all?) startups i.e. where they end up finding PMF is often very different from where they started. It's a matter of sticking with it and if it's worth the opp. cost.

Admittedly, this is Survivorship Bias, since the overwhelming majority of startups fail. As PG said: "startups don't fail, founders give up"
The case that secondhand smoke (outside of enclosed places where the smoke accumulates) is harmful to nonallergic others is weak at best. The case that thirdhand smoke is harmful is essentially unsupportable.
Very nice write up! I can easily see my own biases leading me down some of the paths you mention, so thanks for sharing. A more optimistic way to look at this situation is that you spent $40k to get to the front page of hacker news!
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I hate that HN is a place where the ignorant simply flaunt their ignorance instead of trying to inform themselves.

"According to the Velofollies survey as well as other sources last year’s [2018] e-bike sales stood at slightly over a quarter million units; some 251,500 to be more precise. This accounts for a big 14.3 percent growth compared to the total of the year before. It makes electric bicycles by far the biggest category of the Belgian market with a market share that stands at close to 50 percent."

https://www.bike-eu.com/sales-trends/nieuws/2019/07/market-r...
Thanks! Good point.
None, yet. But I don't see why it would be completely impossible.

Also, Apple is what, 20% of market share? Less? Why compromise for 80% of users because 20% use a locked down ecosystem (read: jail) voluntarily?
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Just curious; is this the Yubico guide you're referring to?

macOS Logon Tool Configuration Guide https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...

Unfortunately, it's not currently compatible with Catalina.

Here are a few more resources for macOS users:

Simple Daemon for lock and unlock macOS with Yubikey https://podtynnyi.com/2017/03/07/simple-daemon-for-lock-and-...

Locking macOS to a Yubikey 4 with PIV and PAM https://www.richard-purves.com/2017/02/13/locking-macos-with...

HOW to lock and unlock screen upon removal and insertion of Yubikey on macOS https://confluence.panio.info/display/PUBL/HOW+to+lock+and+u...
If I were to try and make accurate predictions they would be necessarily pessimistic, so instead I'm going to list some of my hopes for the 2020s:

- Zig [0] will rise to prominence as a C replacement after its 1.0.0 release.

- Someone will finally put together a good FOSS desktop OS, probably based on the Linux kernel but with a small, stable, and coherent userland base-system, and portable self-contained and sandboxed-by-deftault AppImage-like applications.

- The ad pushing and data siphoning economy collapses and consequently software returns to focusing on user empowerment, responsiveness, and efficiency.

- The US finally gets healthcare reform that doesn't make us the laughing stock of the rest of the civilized world.

[0] https://ziglang.org/
Can you call it a good idea in hindsight if you acknowledged it was a waste?
Yes and no.

I'd say if you have a set of features and a toolchain which enables you to build them then ofc go for it.

However that's not my usual experience with any of my projects even personal ones.

The thing is I don't know what I'm going to build, in the contrary, I am aware it will take several iterations to figure it out. Because of that I have to check out what is "out there" in the ecosystem to make sure I can change directions sometimes if I want to. I want to maximize my freedom in that niche. Because of that every time I have some additional information about the whole project (in which features come and go) it's an option to step back and reevulate existing possible solutions in my mind and go do some further research when necessary.

My experience is when parts are not thought out in a project then they will slow the entire workflow down over and over again.

Just build or just not to build: I think this is a wrong question. When start to build & how/what to research are much better I think - and with real examples its much more useful I think.

Eg.: I'm totally done with relational and document databases. To me it seems both suck hard so lately I am investigating graph dbs. No, I won't start a new project until stupid rigid schemas / migration problems / schemaless weaknesses (dupe) won't just go away.

Maintaining old shit is enough for me I really don't want a new broken system as technical/real life debt.

Ofc you can go out and build pages with jquery which do generate tons of money for you, but others will be able to do the same when they've figured stuff out. What then?
i got mine as a present. i also sometimes use it with overdrive to take stuff out from the library which is super easy
Is it absolutely proven that the causality isn’t the other way around, and that smoking doesn’t cause mental illness? Because that would be my assumption with a standout stat like that.
It'll be shy of apocalyptic. There'll be 3-5 years of chaos in loans, credit cards, insurance etc.

Mortgages and business loans will be less affected because real people actually go out and inspect those things. I think we'll have to get used to speaking face to face with real people again when we want any kind of long term financial product.
Could you try to sell it to insurance companies? They might find value in providing it for free to clinicians because they might save money with better outcomes / preventing follow up visits.
Those game companies could always exit the company-hosted company-moderated multiplayer space and go back to either privately-hosted servers or single-player games.

If you can't accept the costs of central servers, don't make them an essential part of your business model.
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This thread is already essentially 100% Tesla marketing, both for the cars and for the stock, but maybe you'll read this comment and acknowledge there's nothing false in it. Thanks in advance to the Tesla cult for the downvotes!

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/sudden-loss-of-range...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/17892/tesla-driver-slams...

[3] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/back-to-the-old-ping...

> Every time I get a software update I'm a kid on Christmas morning. It is just such a fun experience, and for those of you who love to be on the bleeding edge, you'd probably love it too.

Same! I too get giddily excited when my $100,000 car gets software updates from an $80B company that can't design batteries properly and has to remotely reduce their capacities by 30% and charge rates by 40% (without my permission!) to prevent the car from catching on fire in my garage! [1] /s

It's so encouraging to see my self-driving car get frequent half-baked updates making it drive into highway barriers and firetrucks [2] and ping-pong between lane lines like a drunk driver! [3] /s

I just wish Apple could do the same downgrade to my phone's CPU and battery performance whenever they feel like it! It'd bring tears to my eyes, in awe of their power over me. /s
Oh yes it is. I've done both for a long time (C++ since early 1990s, have known committee members, written a lang proposal, Haskell since '07).

The difference is that the C++ complexity is mostly from fitting abstraction into the legacy compat/efficiency constraints, while on Haskell it's learning more math/theory.
I bet in the next few years we'll see GM toss out an electric Colorado for all their municipal fleet customers that need something cheap to run from 9-5 and can be plugged in every evening and Ford will probably offer an EV F150 of some sort.

If you're waiting for either of the brands that start with T and end with A (which, let's be honest here are the only brands most people here will buy a truck from, because reasons) to make a traditional style pickup that happens to be electric you'll be waiting a long time because one has gone all in on being unconventional with their trucks and the other is allergic to new technology.
> I am very allergic to smoke, cigarette smoke in particular.

That's highly unlikely, as tobacco smoke is not an allergen: https://www.healthline.com/health/allergic-to-cigarette-smok...

Rather, you dislike tobacco smoke. That's fine: we all dislike many things. I, for example, hate rap music and the smell of eggs. Unlike you, however, I do not support banning the things I dislike.
Just reading through these comments, I had no idea the current state of PC gaming. Just so I have this right, you pay for a game, but you are running the entire thing locally, so your machine knows everything. Like, people behind walls, it can auto aim at people who aren't, etc. So, now you are also forced to install these spyware-like sidecars to the game that monitor you and try to figure out if you are doing any of this?

What a nightmare. I have huge cleanliness issues with my machines. I don't even like using anything that needs an installer to run, and tend to run things I don't totally understand and trust in VMs. I don't think I could do this.
I’ve started using Uber’s Jump bikes in London to avoid changing tubes (sometimes this is possible) and the experience is revelatory. Cycling on the road by e-bike is quieter, easier and more effortless compared to changing tubes at a busy junction. For my journey the time is also identical. The benefits of course include getting fresher air and exercise (e-bikes still require your own energy)
Cybertruck and Rivian are both very interesting, but pick-ups are not that common in northern Europe. I wonder if those will even be available here. Taycan obviously is interesting too, but like you said, it's quite expensive. And with a quick googling, Porsche doesn't seem to be updating the software that much.

I know this starts to sound like I'm obsessing about the software but the thing is that I'm very much intrigued by the idea that a car manufacturer would actually continue developing features to a car you already own. There's even rumors about an SDK being released by Tesla at some point of application developers. I'm using Android Auto daily and I quite like it, but I live as I live in Finland it's not even officially released here so I need to side-load the app to get it installed and upgraded. Android 10 changes that as it's built-in, though. Still there are not that many applications that support Android Auto. I'm using Spotify, Google Music, Google Podcasts, TuneIn and Waze. All of those are usable, but for example starting a navigation with Waze means I need to stop to do so remember to start navigation before leaving. Yes, it supports voice commands, but pronouncing Finnish street names in English is quite challenging. And yes, it supports Finnish for voice commands too and navigation would be easier, but then I lose the possibility use Spotify with voice commands as artist/band names are not understood if I have Finnish as the language (#FirstWorldProblems).

Anyway based on Tesla's record so far, if they would release an SDK and build up an ecosystem for it, I'm pretty sure they would succeed with it too.
Frankly, EA and its games are pretty shit for the industry.

I'm even surprised linux folks play battlefield.There are a lot of good games with communities that don't take such a shitty approach towards a whole platform.
seriously? like, even if i'm heading out after dinner, i just leave the leftover box in the car. if it goes bad, then it goes bad, if it doesn't, great! lunch for next day.

and not sure how your food goes bad, if it's good in the restaurant... usually food doesn't go bad so quickly, but maybe you are one of those people who have some irrational aversion to leftovers (nothing wrong with that, my girlfriend is like that too) even though it's perfectly fine. right now i'm literally having reheated leftover pasta from a fine dining restaurant dinner last night, and i'm thoroughly enjoying it.
At first I thought this was satire. Here's this guy, who uses a pretty straightforward analysis without any prior healthcare domain experience, thinks he's found the holy grail after a few weeks of work, and then spends all of his money (without first talking to actual domain experts) before he gives up, because Healthcare.
> That their anti-cheat software is able to detect this is a good thing.

No, it's not a good thing. If a website did it we would call it invasive tracking. And you didn't even pay for a website, unlike the game.
They are but get promptly reverse engineered by modders and hack developers. Many of the core techniques remain the same.
Yes. I didn't know that until right this second.
You don't have to worry about that if you use GTK or SDL. They support both. The other really important thing in the age of console ports is support for game controllers, and that isn't handled by the display server at all. It has a separate API, which SDL provides a nice high-level interface for.
Seems a case of someone not understanding the economics of the vertical they're entering and not wanting to put the effort (ie: time/money) to learn. Doctors generally don't directly make money by having patients get more healthy. Other entities however do. Insurance companies may, self-insured employers definitely do, and hospital chains may (if they're getting bundled payments for procedures). These entities however have very long sale cycles and are old school (ie: won't listen to some 20 year old). Still, there's a whole massive ecosystem of companies in this space so it's far from impossible. Possible to also partner with one of those companies as a sub-vendor.
You still haven’t provided a reason why this is a bad thing. Ok, so there are unsuspecting users taking photos of the local YMCA facilities. What you’re talking about is similar to the social graph but on a much smaller scale. The only reasonable use is for advertising. The world’s not going to end.
Here I am thinking this article would be about a restaurant reusing the food they haven't sold to help solve the problem of food waste.

Instead the problem being solved is packaging waste, and they solve it by putting the onus on their vendors (bakers, butchers, etc) to deliver in reusable containers.

Commendable, but isn't the larger problem the amount of food being wasted by kitchen across the country? Sure, they compost any left over food that can be processed, but that food could have fed hungry communities.
You should market this to insurance companies, not individual doctors.

At their scale, they can use the data to drive their costs down, and can build a business case for paying you something.
That is not abuse. The vote kick feature is not an "anti-cheat" mechanism only, it is a general self-admin. If the rest of the players feel that someone's presence is not fun, they will vote kick that someone. It could be because they are a cheater, it could be because they are much more skilled and outplay everyone else or it could be the opposite where they are unskilled and burden the team they end up on.

A really good player can find a server where they can compete at their skill level instead of repeatedly noob-stomping others. A new player can find a server with other low skill players where they can compete at their skill level without being a dead weight.
I guess you'll have to get a prescription for cigarettes then.
> it’s not working class food

Seems exactly like simple working-class food to me - preserved fish and vegetables, pickled eggs, pies, breads.

If a pickled egg if your idea of fancy then I'm perplexed.
I think Digg/Slashdot/Myspace/Friendster show that on the Internet you're never too big to fail. If someone comes along that does it better right as you make some big blunder (redesigns that primarily cater to advertisers are a common issue) you can lose your userbase seemingly overnight.
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Well, that statement may or not be right. I guess only the future will answer that one, but;

How do you really value a company like Tesla?

According to skeptics the company should've been dead 10 times over already. But if you actually do some research, you find that the technology is sound, the execution is there, and not at least the vision of an electric future is there.
Further more its CEO has stated that 'We're going to do these other things also.' - Referring to Full Self Driving and production rates. It has a track record of delivering; 'maybe not on time - but we get it done.' There's no real reason to doubt that they are serious, go watch autonomy day and you'd get the idea.

The vision isn't just automotive, it's solar for homes and grid batteries as well. a decentralized power grid for the future.

Meanwhile all the promised competition and Tesla killers have proven to be vaporware. And that's before you start looking at the logistics of making an electric car. With electric cars you need batteries and lot's of them. No other car manufacturer has access to enough volume to even begin to compete with Tesla, these battery factories haven't even been built. And the electric motors of competitor are less efficient by a large margin, meaning they need larger batteries for the same range, and higher charging speed to be able to charge the same distance in time as a Tesla.

Buying tsla is right now like buying a part of the future, and no other company is close.

Is the share price ridiculously high? Yes, but which other company in the world right now is stumping the competition as badly as Tesla. The only real comparison is Apple after the release of the iPhone. But while apple got real competition after 4-5 years. Tesla still rules all the important metrics regarding electric cars wh/km, accel, charging speed.

And apple still keeps most of the profits in the mobile market, even tough they have a small market share.

So maybe it is rational pricing that you are seeing, the markets are trying to value more than just cars produced. After all the CEO is landing rockets on barges as well so who knows :)
Huh? I think it's one of the major upsides with an EV. Your "tank" is always full in the morning. No "Dang it, need to go and fuel up" first thing when leaving.
>Sometimes people Smart Summon their cars into posts. Sometimes people on AP smash into fire trucks. "Well, you're holding it wrong" is Tesla's answer when that happens

This morning I was driving my car at 65 miles per hour in a straight line. I could have killed anyone around me with nothing more than a turn of the steering wheel. For better or worse, society has accepted that when you're in control of a vehicle, you better hold it right.
> Allow users to votekick and voteban.

This is usually just a band aid and can be pretty ineffective in a game like Battlefield where there are a large number of players in a single match. Specifically, a cheater has to be really obvious for enough people to notice and actually care enough to cast a vote.
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That was a good reading. Thank you.

Funny affirmation: If nobody could be bothered with the math, then I was no better than Gwenyth Paltrow hawking vagina eggs.
Insurance companies don't care about outcomes - most are structured in a cost plus model where they make the "plus" - so if anything, something that costs more is better for them.
Isn't that just the F-Pace?
> When it's on the basis of race, everyone understands that's due to systematic racism...

Only modern leftists "understand" this. Others recognize that attributing all unfavorable statistics to generic yeah-but-they're-oppressed-ism is quite a leap.
It's like a brief diploma-less MBA program, like a Montessori MBA.
How is this checklist supposed to be used?
"In the end [linux users] accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related)."
-- https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

Vulkan would plausibly help the driver instability issues, but I'd imagine the Linux support costs will still be higher just given how little consistency there is between distributions.
This would correspond with the rumors that Google is quietly pulling engineering resources from Android and ChromeOS to work on Fuchsia which is supposed to replace both and be the Google IoT operating system of the future. It's rather open that Pixelbooks support the current builds of Fuchsia; what's less published but not hidden if you ask the Nest engineers that the Google Home runs on Fuchsia with its apps written in Flutter. Fuchsia's browser is Chrome and has an Android compatibility layer which allows running Android apps on Fuchsia (how long they keep that in is another question).
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The evidence in favor of wearing a helmet while in a car is just as strong, but nobody is up here advocating for that.

By the way, helmets on bicyclists tend to make car drivers behave like even bigger jackholes than usual. https://psyarxiv.com/nxw2k "... public health research might be best served by shifting focus to risk elimination rather than harm mitigation."