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Original discussion from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919129
Because they carry around 10+ versions of compatibility debt
Which school shootings in France and Norway have been worse than any in the USA?
I think it’s more that I’ve had better, more attentive, care without the $200/yr (and certainly not 1800-30k/yr as the sibling comment suggests). But that was when I lived in the less dense Midwest. Personally I’m fine and I take time to research and followup myself if needed. I’ve seen friends struggle to make sense of their own health and because they didn’t get a followup weren’t aware they needed to continually monitor or schedule specialist visits etc. It makes sense to me if they need to prioritize other things first. I hope that one of the advancements they can make is better management of cases because technology should make that possible.
Would you rather they Google your symptoms behind your back? It's happening either way...
Seems like an industry ripe for disruption (:

I probably assumed OneMedical did more of this than it intends to based on previous experiences and the subscription fee. Like I’ve had good care, nice offices, etc. in the past why should it now cost $200/yr?
Beta means prerelease testing, not EOL.
> Basically, SoftBank has taken the money of some very unsavory characters (people who are literally willing to cut your body into little pieces) promising big gain

So has pretty much every major company and every major industry around the world. The saudis are some of the largest investors in pretty much everything - including the tech world.

> and has lost a significant chunk of it.

They haven't lost anything yet. They have made investments. Whether it pans out will take time. Even WeWork is still an investment. And last I heard, their first vision fund actually grew in value rather than declined.

> hoping that they can make up the lost money by high risk strategies.

It is the world's largest venture capital fund. The entire fund exists to invest in high risk companies. What are you talking about?

The fact that you think "This almost seems like the plot of the James Bond story Casino Royale." should tell you your assumptions and conclusions might require re-evaluating.

If what you said was true, softbank wouldn't have been able to create a second vision fund.

https://group.softbank/en/corp/news/press/sb/2019/20190726_0...

Instead of parroting news ( which hypes clickbait nonsense about things they don't understand ) and then mixing that with hollywood fantasy, why not look at the data, facts and what is really happening.
Why GoatCounter Ignores Do Not Track
we dont have big akihabara tech marts like japan does and frys was the closest but there are still some good local shops

for computer stuff and some consumer electronics there are a bunch of central computers and in the south bay theres anchor for electronic components and excess for surplus
about how the government apparently has exclusive access to MY mailbox, which is a big surprise to me.

Enforced where I am.
Abandoned Places Near Tulsa?
Interesting. I don’t have a degree and sometimes think I maybe should have got one.

Could you explain why completing your masters degree was ‘bad’ ?
Zao (Chinese) deepfake face swap app in action:
https://twitter.com/AllanXia/status/1168049059413643265

That looks good enough to make some people confused if it stopped doing beautification.

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, such apps getting popular might start a debate on what constitutes as evidence and people should rethink before they believe anything online but majority won't have the involuntary stop and verify reaction, I don't think we even have time to do that with those infinite feed of content dominated by influencers, media and corporations. No one has any incentive, be it social media, [1] you, companies or politicians to make you immune to this.

On the platform side, if politicians decided to offload the blame and work to them. I can see ton of shit show, censorship and basically private companies having more permission to determine what is truth and what isn't. Even if they remove it from bigger platforms, what about smaller ones? What about links? Do those have to be blacklisted after reporting? Maybe Twitter will need to become a publisher... with every platform following. I can't think of any reasonable way government will tackle it given its history and the incentives.

What are our options? How do you make people verify the truth? How do you go against the flow?

1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/upshot/biased-news-media-...
Ash HN: Best Bank for an Early-Stage Startup: Chase vs. SVB vs. Brex vs. Merc.?
What has your experience been?

PS I know that Chase is more of an SMB bank that doesn't seem to tailor their services specifically to startups but I like the fact that it consistently ranks high on customer satisfaction rankings — while others aren't even on the list. E.g. https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2019-us-retail-banking-satisfaction-study
Long-time customer here and totally agree -- they are awesome on timing. I think they do this by virtue of having a system. They seem to have a systematic effort thru the entire office of abiding by schedule appt times. Some of that is systematic scheduling to prevent overbookings, etc.

I one time showed up 2min late and they sent me back home, that is when I knew they were the real deal. I'm so glad they did, because 1. I was never late again, and 2. I know they wouldn't be late for me in the future.

I think many times when doctors are late, it is often because

0. They have a cascade of latenesses with really just a single early appt that is actually late causing the domino of late starts and hence ends.

1. They have a patient come in late or w/o appt, cater to them or "squeeze them in"

One thing OMG has going for them is the generally professional clientele -- many of the clients dont want to arrive/leave later either, so that is good for everyone.
still around

they have handful of store around the bay
The context of this thread is Enterprise, where G+ was not killed.
I was only familiar with it in engineering terms, like “signal attenuation” over a long wire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuation
Haha I wasn’t thinking straight! Good thing I used 320 in both examples
I'm mostly agreeing with you, but I think you may be going slightly too far.

If you absorb more calories than your metabolism burns, then you gain weight. Variables are:

- Calorie content of food.

- Ability of your body to absorb those calories. This includes what form the calories are in (petrol, obviously, doesn't work), but also may include your gut biome, and perhaps other person-specific issues.

- Your activity level (not just exercise, but non-exercise physical movement as well).

- What your food does to your metabolism.

Sure, if you eat too much of the wrong things, it hurts. If you exercise, it helps. But it's much more complicated than that.
It's also hard to supplement this with a Garmin or similar, because Google/Apple maps are perpetually up to date. And their UX doesn't completely suck.
Occasionally, some anti-cheat software gets dissected and the analysis posted publicly. Here is an analysis of BattlEye with some information on its development history: https://vmcall.blog/battleye-anticheat-analysis-and-mitigati...

Typically, anti-cheat is separated into a frontend and a backend. The frontend becomes active at an enumerated set of events/criteria and collects data (screenshots, keystrokes, directory listings, process lists, results of memory scans, if instructed by the backend also memory contents or file contents) to the backend for further analysis.

These criteria are often ad-hoc (such as "if processes are running out of a user directory, capture them") and usually accumulate over time.
To be fair, those are only descriptive through our familiarity. If you look just at etymology that combination could be plenty ambiguous:

Pleistocene = “most new” in Greek.

pan- = “all” in Greek.

Asia = “northwest Anatolia” in Hittite.

Hominid = “human-looking” in Latin/Greek mashup.
Texting in Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs: What Unicode Will Make Possible (2018)
Desert Combat was fantastic. I don't think it would be an overstatement to say that mod set the course of the subsequent Battlefield series. If I recall correctly, EA even hired its developers to work on BF2.
I've heard Americans defend it saying that Americans don't trust the government to do it for them, even on Hacker News.

I don't really understand that argument as you can just do your taxes the same as you currently do to see if they are overcharging or whatever.
REITs are "real estate investment trusts." Basically they are stocks in companies that own tons of property, bring in large amounts of rental income, and have to pay out a percentage as dividends. Many people like them for that guaranteed dividend.
Lots in London, and many very old - but I've never spotted purple ones.
Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices
Ants are interesting in that their use of agriculture predates humans. Somewhat humbling to think that ants with their insignificant insect brains had that figured out for millions of years before our ancestors did.
Enterprise products are not ad financed.
It's not a tradeoff between manufacturing restrictions and licensing restrictions.
There's another: too much caffeine raises cortisol levels which can interfere with sleep quality
Very nice. It's a fun game. I like the word choice: "ascii" "anime" "linux". You find patterns to exploit pretty quickly. For example, if a word starts with "W", that means a vowel comes next ;)
Eh, bitcoin is still a cool proof-of-concept. It's just that as it often happens, people took it to production when they shouldn't.
Things Found Between the Pages of Old Books (2018)
Not on sidewalks. Pedestrians can and do change direction on a dime, and on a sidewalk, they always have the right of way.

Adding high-speed (i.e., greater than five mph) vehicles to that mix is a recipe for disaster.
Fascinating. What prompted all the travel? Writing a book :)
Because it’s become common practice to add a pound of sugar and cream for whatever reason. Probably worse than a soda after doing that.
May want to mention php in headline
Well they should've known the risks involved in private equity. I'm not sure movie villains care about silly things like risk.
Up to means you don’t really do anything and set the brightness low.

The trend is actually to have smaller batteries. So if you do anything that uses the cpu 19 hours can become 3 pretty quick.
That’s just Deluxe Paint being slow. A HAM image is no slower than an EHB image, it’s the same amount of bytes.
Because of so many reasons:

1. When I was a crazy-busy and overbooked professional, I could simply not afford lateness in my schedule. With OMG, I can leave my office at X:52, be at their office at X:59, be seen between X+1:00 and X+1:15 and be back at my desk by X+1:23, and be confident of making my next meeting.

When the chief variability is how long an elevator takes to arrive, you know this is a serious operation!

2. Because many doctors front desk booking services tend to become authoritarian and making booking way harder than required. I can do everything electronically w/ OMG.

3. Because they do everything electronically, which saves everyone time -- including them

4. Because they provide detailed records of everything for FSA/HSA purposes as well as for your records.

5. Because they offer multi-tier service (NPC, PA, MD // video/email/inperson) so you can save everyone's time for minor things.

6. Because they do lots of things in one place (vaccinations, bloodwork, etc.) rather than you having to go to many places
This is a bit of a rant, so apologies in advance, but I just... don't care. After nearly 40 years on Earth I've learned that, if you consumer in moderation and mostly avoid the bad stuff (simple sugars/carbs) you'll be fine.

I'm not saying we shouldn't study this stuff. I'm not saying it isn't valuable. I understand why it's a difficult field to experiment in.

But I still don't care. I ignore health news like the plague. I'm 36, fit, Lowe body far, can lift a fair bit of weight. Moderation and a little common sense really does work here.
it's so bad that some players are recording lives with a camera pointing to their controls to show that they are not using it (they all require cable)
Also only texting, not WhatsApp or other messaging platforms.
Cortisol is a catabolic hormone - it helps the body break down tissue for easier access to energy. It just also provokes the hunger impulse, and if you're not paying attention to it, you can overeat in response. If you don't alter your intake, on the net, increased cortisol should increase weight loss. Additionally, caffeine itself is an appetite suppressant, and is slightly thermogenic, for even more fat burning power.
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I love the idea, but I'm sad that the author focused on doctors, and not ordinary people that he mentioned at the very beginning. This could be a great application used by everyone, including Google, to provide better search results, at the same time providing more and more traffic. Mentioned ad revenue could also work, but not only this.

If the author reads this, do not be like Google, don't give up, just pivot. Yes, I think it's Brilliant Startup Idea that could be back in a few months better than last time. :)
>> Probably why they are cheap.

I'm not sure why you think they are cheap. They charge insurance just as any other doctor. The annual fee is on top of that.
OP needs to look outside of the US where this kind of data will be used for the benefit of patients, and primary healthcare isn’t run like a business.
I have worked on some server-side anti-cheat detection for a game recently. Competence is not a problem, it's actually very difficult to even do detection some would think is "easy".
There are some issues here and there (JSX is not a language!) but this is definitely a very good comparison. It is indeed a little bit too shallow (give animations! Full app navigation stack management!) but gives practical insights.

Props to the author.
Men Who Believe They’re ‘Addicted’ to Being Broke
I'm not sure what the cores actually are, but the PEZY chips have 1024 and 2048 cores, end Epiphany V taped out at 1024. There are others, at least Kalray and Sunway (Taihulight), with 256 cores. They may not be sufficiently general-purpose -- Taihulight is imbalanced against memory bandwidth -- but can clearly do well on the right sort of problem.
As far as I know it's not like this in Ottawa. For example, you can get a pretty big fine if you cut out a section of curb to widen your driveway entrance.
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Predictably Successful Ideas
Take a look at some of the "universal catastrophic coverage" proposals. The ideas is to BOTH socialize and increase market competition for healthcare at the same time. Universal care if you get cancer or for other chronic/terminal conditions. Then have a real market and competition for everything else. Regulate safety but not pricing or delivery. (Many of these plans also call for universal preventative services that drive down costs for the whole system). The Dutch have something closer to this in practice with "universal long-term care insurance" separated from the basic/primary insurance, but I've heard mixed reviews of how this works in practice.
In my opinion leadership is a mental disorder. If you look at people most of them are not interested in making others do their bidding.

But there are people so useless on their own they need to develop the skills to get others to do what they can't. The really good ones we all know the names of.
“Existing ‘PoS’ blockchains don't have the same decentralization goals as Ethereum.”

What makes you think this?
Yep, that is what everyone thinks at the top. The smart money is in cash and will buy out the "long-term/trend to infinity" crowd at the bottom.
They also tested with synthetic caffeine and coffee-extracted caffeine, but didn't find much difference. Page 6 of the study has a graph, and this excerpt:

> 3.2. Caffeine, independently of its origin, abrogated lipid accumulation via regulation of lipogenic genes in vitro

> Mate tea and fractionated caffeine and decaffeinated samples were assayed for their anti-adipogenic potential in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (Fig. 3). Synthetic caffeine (SC) and caffeine extracted (CO2 super-critical extraction) from coffee (CC) were also evaluated. All samples but DM [decaffeinated mate] significantly (p < 0.05) reduced lipid accumulation (from 20.6 to 40.7%) (Fig. 3A).

We already knew caffeine had various effects on fat metabolism, so the most interesting part of the study is probably the "but not other phytochemicals in mate tea" part.
Research mudflood to go way down this rabbit hole.
speaking of the French, I bet the effects for nicotine are similar if not amplified. Say what you will about premature aging, but those coffee-and-cigarettes types cut a lean profile.
Seconding Papertrail. I don't love it but it works and it's cheap enough and I don't need to love every tool I use.

I do constantly wonder if there's a logging/searching solution small and lightweight enough to fit on the cheapest DO droplet. $7/gb/mo on Papertrail vs $5/mo with a 25GB SSD? That'd be a no-brainer, but ELK and Graylog won't run with that low of hardware.
$350 ? really?
The way one medical records all phone calls creeps me out
I wonder where this is heading. The original light phone (version 1 if I remember correctly) was simply for calling and very minimalistic.
To that I am a bit disappointed that they are adding more features instead of cutting prices.
I guess that depends on where you are.
For example: https://godbolt.org/z/m3xSse
> chance of being beaten by spouse is not on there, chance of being sexually assaulted

It is quite sad that those are not in there since the answer usually surprise people. The chance (risk?) of a woman being physically abused by a spouse is identical to a man. In study after study, both men and women report similar rate of physical abuse from partners. Domestic violence rate is also independent or household occupants, meaning that it doesn't matter if its woman-woman, man-man or man-woman. Were there is a difference is in rate of domestic abuse that ends up in hospital or have a fatal outcome.

Chance of being sexually assaulted is also interesting when shown next to the chance of being assaulted. For some reason those numbers tend to be almost a mirror match.
> Even many species of fish create nests.

There are certainly examples of fish using tools in more 'sophisticated' ways than mere nest-building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnOYpuKV4H4
Yes, it is now their asset. After they built a stake and gained control.

Even the common takeover trope of relationship building between an insider and the acquirer happened here. All Vision Fund's dealings with WeWork seemed to go directly to Adam Neumann. And to be frank, he seemed to be out of control, he was going manic, and it seems as though this was encouraged by Vision Fund.

Neumann did very well out of the deal. What happened to the other co-founder?
So what? They also compile to native code
I'm curious to see what would happen if someone made a simple phone that behaved as an access point. Hook up my watch, my tablet, bluetooth headphones, let it stay in my pocket most of the time.
Splunk is great but very expensive, like you mentioned. They're actively getting disrupted by Sentinel and Backstory and Elastic though, so either pricing will change or the recommendation will change.
If it had texting, Uber and maps I’d buy it. Really unfortunate
True but also to remember that vendors build the chips the industry demands. So if they need to provide 1MB they will - it will just mean a larger BOM unless the chip package needs to grow. The size is going to be the biggest bottleneck there.
Yes, that's a decent simplistic viewpoint.

However, reality is rarely simplistic.
Those are two different problems: scalability and finality.

Obviously every transaction can not be processed and stored by everyone. That much is clear even to casual observers. There has been two or three main ways people have tried to achieve this during the past decade.

The obvious thing to try would be to shard the blockchain like you would a database. This turns out to be hard to do in a trustless way since shards would need to interact. This realization and the contracts required to securely swap assets between otherwise separate chains leads naturally to:

Full on separate blockchains that run in parallel to the main one, checkpointing when needed (rootstock, drivechains). These are not limited by the main chain and can be specialized for custom use cases. The parallel chains are only interoperable by way of the main chain and need not know about each other, which helps scaling out.

Payment channels by the way of time locked contracts. Satoshi sketched out an initial implementation that turned out to be flawed. This has since been improved on and made bidirectional and made into a standard which is now the Lightning network. It has a number of real world limitations but the general idea is that only the parties involved in a transaction needs to know about it. An added benefit of this is that finality among these parties is immediate.

There have also been some work squashing a large number of transactions into a large transaction. This has the added benefit of obfuscating the flow of individual transactions, which otherwise makes everyone's holdings transparent (mimblewimble, grin). This requires new signature schemes and is hard to retrofit to existing blockchains and make security guarantees about.

There used to be ideas about Chaum like schemes on top of blockchains, but most of that interest probably went on into separate blockchain schemes.

Those are some of the ideas that have been tried, most have shown some promise but are more or less still at the research stage. Don't expect radical changes overnight.
I didn't see maps mentioned, but there is a cycling screenshot of various apps halfway down the page that does show an app for getting directions.
One issue I have with this is that the CO2 extraction is not only going to pull caffeine out, but many other potential compounds. Their decaff mate probably doesn't have caffeine, but is most likely missing many other organic compounds.