skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was using a typical doctor it would take me at least a month to get an appointment. But OneMedical I can get super fast response times. The staff is fast to reply to questions you text using the app. Recently I had a problem that was urgent, and I got a quick appointment with doctor at a OneMedical office. Their staff then got me a same day appt with a hospital for an ultrasound (through what sounds like calling someone they have a personal relationship with in a scheduling department). So just a nice touch I'm not used to with the normal doctors office routine. OneMedical docs are on-time, spend time with you, and super personable. It's been a nice change.
It is fairly trivial to to follow a BTC transaction trail and deduce the owner of a wallet.

Other options such as Monero are better for this.
Hey HN!

This is a game I originally wrote as a training tool for my friend who was going to appear on a TV talent show.

I’ve written an accompanying blog post that tells that story. Read it here:
http://blog.danieljanus.pl/2020/01/03/word-champions/
If you consume more calories than you use, you gain weight. Fat accumulation or loss is simple physics. Caffeine may have some small impact as do other stimulants, but often you see people consuming caffeine with large amounts of sugar or carbohydrates and rarely do you see those same people immediately jumping rope for 3 hours to burn off the equivalent excess calories.
e.g. keeping them cleared of snow. So if you are traveling and there's a snowstorm you're basically responsible for finding someone who will clear it for you.
Great recommendations all, been a while since I’ve been on the Economist. Thanks for the reply!
Could it be that they might be adding cream/milk/sugar to their coffee?
Would have been nice to benchmarck ionic, especially since it has react support.
Why be “passionate” when you can be a “thought leader”
Every developer for themselves because the devops guy.
The game is supported on Windows not on Linux. I would wager their anti-cheat stuff detects "their OS looks weird, they are probably doing odd stuff so they are likely to be cheaters".

If you want to play the game you should be running it on a supported operating system. If the software doesn't work (which is what is really happening here) with an unsupported configuration then that is on you not EA.

Also buying games that aren't supported on your OS and jumping through the hoops is just telling companies like EA that they will get the Linux sales because the customer will do the effort of getting it working for them.
Bitcoin is not anonymous and is subject to flow analysis. Zcash and monero have solved this in different ways with really intriguing primitives.

ZCash uses zksnarks which are a pseudo homomorphic encryption strategy to hide payments whereas monero is using linkable ring signatures.

Generally speaking, the blockchain community has really advanced the crypto field
Switch is used pretty often when UI needs to look different based on certain application states (consider any 3+ state button). I was curious if I used it recently, and, in fact, here it is in some code I wrote a few months ago[1]. It's also used all the time (also happens to be fairly idiomatic) when dealing with Redux, MobX, etc.

[1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/blob/master/src/renderer/compone...
Hah! Everything is a ponzi scheme while in growth mode in the venture space if it's not profitable. There is most certainly a universe where the We brand isnt stained by greed, goes pubic, loses 15% early, but survives long enough to innovate survival.

The fault was that they killed the big story with Neumanns greed and it cratered confidence of the public markets and press.
Most predictions of the future are wrong
I scanned through your two articles (part 1 and part 2) and wanted to read more about scope. Although I do find your experiments interesting, scope is really the question. At small scale (single developer with a few view controllers and models), your experiments might make sense but when talking about scaling, I don't think your UI and performance results are relavent. How does a project with hundreds of views, models and libraries scale with Flutter vs. native iOS vs. React Native? How easy is the codebase to browse and learn from 0 to 100? Sure, one can use Flutter when they're playing with a project but when you scale towards 5-20 mobile developers, does it make sense? That's more of an interesting question to me...
There are certainly black swan scenarios, such as the value of Ether dropping largely overnight, that would test the system and possibly lead to a decoupling of the peg. The bubble bursting in early 2018 tested this aspect of the system and the peg was able to be maintained.

The 6% Dai savings rate is not static. Overtime, both the interest rate charged to those taking loans and the savings interest rate will need to be adjusted in response to economic conditions in order to maintain the peg. These adjustments have occurred many times and are part of the normal operation of the system.

That being said, MakerDAO has considered these scenarios and in the event that the peg can't be maintained, an emergency shutdown procedure occurs that gracefully shuts down the system. There's a separate token called MKR, and holders of the MKR token are the lenders of last resort. In the event of an emergency shutdown, MKR token is printed and auctioned off to settle debts in the system, devaluing the MKR token. Similarly, when a loan holder pays off their debts to the system, they pay that in MKR token and the MKR they paid is burned, creating scarcity of the token to reward MKR holders.
Have people found Dart to be a useful programming language for purposes other than Flutter? Does it provide a benefit over existing languages for other kinds of tasks?

I like a lot of what Flutter offers for cross-platform development, but it's hard for me to justify the cost of learning a separate language just for one tool, versus (for example) React Native which uses a multipurpose language with a massive ecosystem of existing libraries and tooling.
Thanks. I do remember people started moving over to reddit back then or at least starting to look around. I know I certainly did. But I just want to using traditional forums.
To get a sense of the scale and throughput difference in the infrastructure and technology all we have to do is compare gas station statistics vs. charger stations.

There are about 10,000 gas stations in CA and approximately 1,200 Tesla Supercharger stations in the State.

How long does it take to load-up with a 300 mile range with each technology?

Gasoline, about 5 minutes plus another 5 for the transaction (in and out of the car, paying, etc.)

Tesla (can't do 300 miles but let's just call it topping off), about 80 minutes.

Round numbers:

One gas pump can service approximately 144 vehicles per day.

A Supercharger station charger can do about 18 vehicles per day.

That's basically a factor of 10 difference in throughput. Which, during an emergency or holiday/high-travel-volume event is an absolutely MASSIVE difference.

If we assume 10 gas pumps per station and 10 chargers per Tesla location, the total number of vehicles that can be serviced per day in CA is:

Gas stations: 14 million cars per day

Tesla Superchargers: 216,000 vehicles per day

That, right there, is the difference. The infrastructure isn't anywhere near the ubiquity, availability and performance of the IC engine fuel delivery infrastructure.

We can deny this all we want, but reality hits you hard when things deviate from the ideal.

I mean, the army could go down neighborhoods distributing gasoline to people in worse case scenarios. What are they going to do, park massive diesel generators to charge electric cars? Not going to happen.

My educated guess is that we need a better energy delivery mechanism for electric cars. It has to be something you can pump into a tank in 5 or 10 minutes. Pushing electrons into a battery, without fundamental advances in technology, seems like a bad long term plan.

I mean, Tesla doesn't have that many cars in the Southern California region in comparison to conventional vehicles and their Supercharger network flops with holiday travel and becomes a liability during emergencies. That's not a good long-term plan. The cost of adding a million EV's will require an absolutely massive investment in the charging network. Ten million and the numbers become almost unthinkable. A hundred million feels like a joke to even consider.
> Dilution / inflation is a feature not a bug. Money should be put to work doing productive stuff in the economy, not hoarded.

There are few people who are interested in crypto-currency and have not heard this argument in many forms. Crypto-currency fans generally either don't care or don't think it's true.
Venture Capital for Charter Cities
I feel like drag and drop would be more intuitive. Maybe slower though.
Who says SaaS needs to be a startup? In the stockmarket we can find similar trends, with existing companies that switched to a SaaS model.

- Adobe (dominates DTP, can squeeze companies worldwide, small and large after switching to a subscription model)

- SAP (investors were overall pleased with their SaaS offerings)

- Microsoft (don't know the revenue stake Office 365 represents, but it's currently enough to subdue Slacks Post-IPO performance)

- Slack

But also mid- to small-cap companies like RIB Software, which offers SaaS for real-estate related industries.

Of course, thouse examples don't mean that their balance sheets provide evidence – but rather that stock market participants see SaaS-models as a path for constant high-margin low-volatilty growth.
How does your list not include climate change as a thing of current importance? It wasn't mentioned much in the original either - though i saw one comment calling it "FUD" - but they were making forecasts ;)
My assumption is that those customers are not individuals but organizations that offer One Medical as a perk to employees.
There's a Microcenter just a couple of miles from my house, but I haven't ventured inside in roughly 15 years.

Do they still do the RadioShack-style hounding you for a phone number when you checkout? Or did they finally wise up and stop doing that?

The last time I was shopping there, they were AGGRESSIVE about it. Actually got mad when I said my number was unlisted and refused to give it to them. I was so turned off, I just took my shopping online and never looked back.
If it's small, text files that you rotate per day and delete after 1-3 month(s).

If it's big, Graylog is great.

If it's too big, /dev/null, best logs gathering since 1971.
Could you please expand "REITs"? (no clue what a REIT is)
I like One Medical a lot, I hope they find some way to be profitable. Their doctors are far less rushed than any other GP doctor office I've been to, and their app is well done too.

I've been confused how they're able to do this and not charge more than they do (only $200 a year).
In this comment thread.

dman 1 day ago [-]

Any examples of how a retail investor would play this?

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xwowsersx 1 day ago [-]

Buy TSN, SAFM, HRL...but it's probably too late at this point. We were placing bets on this 18 months ago.

"Buy TSN, SAFM, HRL" sounds like an investment advice. Not only that your top level comment is investment advice as well, even if it doesn't directly mention an instrument or stock to invest in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink)
This is a legitimate point to bring up, but seeing as how the community rejected a second fork in order to fix a bug in a smart contract that destroyed millions of dollars worth of Ether [1], I feel confident at this point saying that another similar hard fork will not occur.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/accidental-bug-may-have-froz...
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It looks that way.

Something very strange is happening in retail now. As mega-stores like Fry's, not to mention mom and pop shops, wither up and die, people are left with fewer local store options.

So even if you want to continue supporting local business and an old favorite chain, you're left with at least a 50-50 chance you'll make the effort only to return home empty handed.

Wasting an hour or more of your life on an attempt to source an item from a local store isn't worth it to most people. So they go with Amazon, where they find exactly what they're looking for, at a rock-bottom price, often delivered within a day.

With each iteration, another layer of soil gets thrown on the coffin of local retail.

That said, I'm not entirely sure this is a bad thing. Driving around burns a politically and environmentally harmful resource. Freeway congestion is a blight on on cities everywhere. Big box retailers and shopping malls destroy wildlife habitat and pervert the local tax base.
Soory for necro.
Editors should know how to code. Lots of editing tools are extensible in Python pretty easily. Sadly, those parts of my career didn't intersect.
Having been an executive myself (in the past), my theory is the "clear" part of this is the root cause of ageism in tech. On anything more complex than Minesweeper, unless you've done it a couple of times in the past you won't be "clear" on anything when you lead people. You can create the _impression_ of clarity, but it'll be clear as mud to you all the same. Younger people don't see through this facade, so they take your bullshit at face value. Older people for whom it's not the first rodeo see right through it and most "leaders" feel really insecure in this situation.

When I was younger myself, I sort of assumed competence on the part of everyone. The older I get the more I see that people around me (as well as myself) don't really know much about anything and don't care to know. This includes "leadership" and, as painful as it is to say, myself.

Coincidentally, the article doesn't mention "honesty" even once. I've found honesty to be the best policy. I can't _always_ be honest when I lead (everyone would quit and go into depression if I were perfectly honest), but I try to minimize the blind spots and somewhat accurately give people a sense of difficulties and tradeoffs without making the situation look as hopeless as it usually looks to me when running "hard" projects. That way, if they care at all, they'll steer things in the right direction on their own, and focus on the right things.

I'm in my mid-40's though, so I sort of assume (knowingly incorrectly) people around me think like I do, and bullshit doesn't work in the long term.
I’m not a huge fan of Dart (too OOP for my tastes), but if you know JavaScript or Java it is really easy to pick up. The only thing I struggled with are the required semi colons!

I have spoken to people who have used it for backend code, though that is rare.
Sorry guys. Calories in / calories out. Caffeine ain’t gonna help.
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Garbage collected languages are not really native languages.

I don't see good enough alternatives to C++, which have enough support, not a steep learning curve, good backward compatibility with existing ecosystems, not owned by a single company, etc.
It sounds like "customer" here is defined as "corporation paying for a bunch of its employees", and not "one poor person who had lots of doctors visits".

Elsewhere in the S-1:

"In 2017, 2018 and the nine months ended September 30, 2019, our top customers accounted for 42%, 37% and 36% of our net revenue, respectively. These customers included Google Inc., which accounted for 10% of our net revenue for 2018 and the nine months ended September 30, 2019."

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, and they do pay for my One Medical membership.)
The government runs a lot of things better than the private sector. Even in the US, the government loosely or strongly manages Police, National Defense, Garbage Disposal, Water managenemt, Power Management, Internet infrastructure, Education, Telephone, Mail and many more. Any service that every citizen needs to live a healthy life is better and more cost effectively run by the government.
Just incase anyone wonders why I wear a helmet when I think they’re as useless as “anti-volcano spray”, it’s because they make my head a more aerodynamic shape.

A quick look a Strava’s stats will show you that even weak club cyclists like me, living somewhere pretty flattish, can already cruise about at over 20mph pretty easily.

Pedal assist ebikes just expand that ability to a wider number of people.

Just look at the number of people who regularly crash in amateur crit races.

We generally survive non-vehicle related crashes at these speeds pretty well and people on ebikes will too.
Thank you, the last link shows it was utterly wrong to use autism as an example.
It's hard to find any -afinil legally and without a prescription that isn't hard on the liver, though.
From a quick Googling it looks like birds' nest-building techniques can differ by individual and can be learned/shared among social peers. So, yeah, it seems like they maybe should be classified as tools.

Contrast this with "fixed action patterns" like the way cats try to bury their shit and piss even to the point of pawing at the smooth floor next to their litterboxes. Superficially it seems like a fairly sophisticated behavior, but it's really a hardwired compulsion.

Nest-building might be somewhere in the middle. I don't know if a bird raised with zero socialization is typically capable of building a nest.
> There are very few 'conservative' languages like C

Go is a simple language, no?

It's higher-level than C, but no historical baggage, so probable comes out to the same complexity to fully understand the language.
LogDNA is best and it's cheap enough you don't have to worry about it.
If these books are science fiction, then some of the projects we see here on HN might be considered fan fiction.
Maybe they should, but considering nests as such probably make it harder to find animals that don't use tools than those that do. Even many species of fish create nests. Also, I wonder where you'd draw the line. Are borrows a kind of nest? That seems fair, but then are earth worms creating nests when they burrow? Are they using the earth itself as a tool, to conceal themselves from hungry birds? Probably not, that seems like a stretch.. but ants surely create nests. There is also the matter of animals that don't dig their own burrows but do use those dug by other animals. Snakes do this a lot I think, should that be considered tool use? Are the parasitic mites that inhabit unhealthy bee nests using tools? Then there is the matter of animals that create structures using material their own body creates. Are web weaving spiders tool users? What about snails? Or crabs that live in deceased snail shells?
For CSGO it's about 80MB/hour at 32Hz (apparently the current OW rate). Many servers run at 128Hz.

Logging a rolling week's activity at that higher rate requires 53GB but you could dramatically reduce the burden by only keeping things with in-game reports and then deleting recordings after the last issue was dealt with.

My point is it's not nothing, but it's nothing by modern standards if you've got more than two brain cells to rub together.
With native toolkits being around for so long, why do they still suck to build with?
Totally agree. For people who are proactive, I’ve found One Medical is excellent.

However, if you’re not keeping your own tabs on your, or someone you love’s, health, it’s easy to fall through the cracks. I wish they would improve on actual active management of subscribers‘ health. I’ve had or discussed many experiences where people expect follow ups that never come. Have an uncommon condition? Make sure you keep bugging someone to schedule the visits and lab work you need to maintain good health. With a $200/yr subscription on top of any insurance you pay I feel like these type of maintenance tasks should be handled for you. It feels more like each visit is an IT ticket/case which gets resolved shortly after your visit. It would be nice if it felt more like One Medical were managing a personalized care plan for your health profile.
But a lot harder to address (probably effectively impossible). This is actually one of the best comparisons I’ve seen.
What's your source, and point?
They aren't that bad, but they work on commission and will try and put little stickers with their barcode on whatever products you are holding in your hand. If you tell them to buzz off they will.
OOOf.

Those eMachines chugged badly out of the box even.
The article text seems to be more saying "learning a task involves the areas of the brain that are involved in performing the task", which makes way more sense (to the point of sounding obvious) than "learning a task involves the whole brain".

In the example with mice grabbing the food through the bars, the task isn't "move hand", it's "visually identify food, decide to acquire food, formulate motion plan to acquire food using hand, move body according to motion plan." I'd expect every part of the brain involved in the whole task to be learning to some degree during the whole process.
And by the way, your mistake was that you forgot 3 very important letters - MVP.
Most medical billing is far LESS transparent than a $200/year annual fee. Seriously, if you break your leg call around and try to get quotes for cost for a diagnosis and standard set and cast. You literally in most cases WILL NOT be able to talk to ANYONE who will give you this info or is willing to spend time quoting you.

Even worse, you will get a random set of bills from random providers - making it VERY hard to track what ties to what where.

Basically - if you are cash payor - you will show up and pay what they surprise you with at the end. A lot of folks going to one medical have insurance - they just find one medical MORE transparent.
My comment was not made in a vacuum. It was intended to address the concern raised by jbeam that emergency situation in healthcare completely preclude the use of market dynamics. My point is that emergencies are only a small part of healthcare, and by themselves are not enough to derail the idea of bringing markets back to healthcare.
Well said.

pegged decentralized synthetic digital bearer assets.

That's a mouthful. Each word has a purpose and together they describe a hugely innovative and valuable technology. It is my belief that there are very, very few people who have an understanding of how important this innovation is.

And too few people understand the importance of the more simple digital bearer asset, of which bitcoin is the prime example. This still surprises me, especially amongst HN readers, who are certainly more insightful than the average bear when it comes to most existing and emerging technologies...

Surprises me. but also gives me hope.

There is so much room to grow. Long road. Massive upside.
This performance analysis is not very useful. How taxing an app is on the CPU is not a user-visible metric, unlike, for example, the time it takes from tapping on an app to it being responsive. The taxing of the CPU is only valuable to think about when thinking when analyzing battery impact (and it takes a lot more analysis than what was given). I’d be much more interested to see:

- startup time

- time to transition between screens (and ideally with more views on each screen, eg make two copies of each view)

- differences in network performance, if any
Apperantly, "Google builds many critical web apps using the Dart language, often with AngularDart." [1]

I have never heard this from anyone else though.

[1]https://dart.dev/web
The economies of scale actually favour the game makers. People build cheats for profit, every person that buys a cheat is also buying the game (and rebuying) the cheat makers are in competition, and further the number of people that cheat is generally a lot smaller than the game playing population. Because they are sold for profit the most popular cheats are easy to find and detect. As long as companies can keep cheating at a tolerable level for their audience they win as do a small number of cheat makers able to make a living in the space.