skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because to get to the same level of care and to emulate zero copay, I’d need better insurance or more savings allocated for health bills. Also cost of living is MUCH higher near many tech jobs in the US.
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Reddit is the flavor of the month. It's been a long month, but before Reddit there was digg, kuro5hin, plastic, something awful, slashdot.

Myspace was the flavor of the month. Now it is facebook/imgur/snapchat. But before it was friendster, AIM, MSN, ICQ etc. Maybe next it will be Discord or Son Of Discord.

The wheel continues to turn. I have zero faith Reddit will command the market share it does today, in 2030.
If you mean by return value like function call, actor actually can send reply message back to the caller provided the called actor knows the caller address
FWIW, when you see a username next to TODO() or NOTE() in Google-developed code, it's not the assignee, it's the author of the TODO comment. The idea is that every TODO should have a person you can check with to see what the history behind that TODO is and whether it's still relevant. The assignee is often whoever wants to work on cleaning up the code - it's intentionally left unspecified so that a.) people don't feel guilty or overwhelmed about leaving TODOs b.) the work can be load-balanced among different engineers at a later date and c.) the comments are (semi-)robust against people leaving the project.
I agree, it's quite annoying to see American style numbering everywhere.

An Intel driver program crashed at me because it stored its Window size American style while the system was set to a different locale.

This can easily be fixed by specifying the input and output locale in your code, which I'd something you should always do anyway if you're selling software to more than one country. There's more differences in internationalisation than just decimal separators and date formats. Using proper locale code will fix all of those for you so you don't have to deal with calls from customers.
> It's not working that well in software, one company has 90% of the desktop market.

Because the company uses quite a lot of administrative pressure (patent trolling, vendor's bullying etc etc), hence the market is not competitive.

You are talking about competitive markets here, not information asymmetry. I see no evidence that monopolies are the outcome of asymmetry of knowledge, but rather that they are the outcomes of significant administrative measures like license-bullying or patent-trolling.

The only markets that have the problem of information asymmetry are lemon markets.

> And these are industries where it's reasonably easy to pick and choose compared to trying to switch hospitals or doctors part way through your treatment.

It's way easier to change a doctor than to change a car. There are only few conditions which restrain one from bargaining: heart attacks and other severe conditions, and these should be treated differently.

But in case of the vast majority of diseases from common cold to Epstein-Barr changing the doctor and bargaining is even simpler than in most other markets.

But again, bargaining power has nothing to do with information asymmetry as well.
> Have surgical masks really shown to be effective in reducing the spread of disease when worn by people who are not yet infected?

> China has close to 100% usage of masks in public

You know, 100% usage in public is an excellent way to ensure that people who are infected wear the masks.
I've heard of bluetooth enabled pacemakers as well. The functionality is obviously not tied to the bluetooth, but rather it's just a form of data collection to provide doctors with a more complete picture. Interfering with this picture unnecessarily seems like a bad idea.
To be fair, data would be safer if MongoDB didn’t exist. Then again maybe it’s better to have all the people working on it in one place so they can be avoided all together.
Well, 3D printers does far better with quality parts, dry PLA and in expert hands, and thus people are stupid, except it works so they are not.
> There is a huge misconception about crowd-shipping firms

It was the first question I asked myself about as well. The answer is somewhere in the general FAQ, boiling down to "Paying customs duties and fees is the traveler’s responsibility." I think it should be mentioned on https://www.tuuree.com/travel-with-tuuree because not all travelers might be aware.
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We're looking at a selling price of $59 currently however there's a lot of scope to improve further. Looking at crowdfunding and other options for funding.

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This story is about India and China already has heavy censorship. That's already ~2B people just there.

Too big a market to ignore.
Digg was once a force in the internet.

Reddit is not exempt from this, no one is.
That site is absolute garbage. Only a third of the screen is actually used to display content. The rest is a (non-compliant) GDPR “consent” prompt and then a shit-letter signup prompt.
any visitor to our house has to put their phone into a key box next to the entrence which is shielded. it is both annoying and confusing for them the first time they visit. but I guess for them it is also a bit exciting ("what kind of a looney place did we agree to come to") ... but it makes for great conversation ... the purpose for us is less security/privacy but a way to teach my environment about these problems. It also makes for interesting conversations around screen addiction, anxiety and spending time in the moment.

We still use wireless/laptop ofc and when we are among ourselves we have a rule that the phone goes in the box from 18:00 - 06:00. but for visitors there is no cell-phone in my house (this is perfect for us because we can pretty much rule out microphones/cameras being used).

I understand this might sound very strange for most people here, and it is strange. But how would you feel if say in the 80ies and 90ies you invite somebody for dinner and they show up with a big camera/flash around their neck and a microphone and tape recorder.

bienvenue chez moi!

also my partner does use a mobile phone for work, or on the go. I don't own one.
WaveShare supplied code only allows full resolution full refresh with half tones and everything.

IIRC someone figured how to expedite it but that someone had to.
I don't think sentient is the right word to use here.

Cat's are probably sentient, but they won't be building Dyson Swarms any time soon. On the other hand a non-sentient artificial super-intelligence might well be able to build them.
The app was also garbage when I used it.
I disagree on the fundamental point that this was misrepresentation. They had every right to enforce a claim, they were just stupid to assume others wouldn't have their own claims.
I agree. But other countries have no significant community spread besides not much mask usage.
They didn't just ask. They threatened the author of the photograph with court action for "unlicensed distribution".
I haven't seen conclusive evidence that they're better than nothing.
correlation != causation

It does however provide a data point that masks are likely not very effective at preventing the spread of the virus.
Thank you (and the grandparent poster). We (or at least I) love seeing more HN participation from insightful professionals from outside the tech industry!
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'documented evidence that you are failing to perform your job'. It's the same where i live. But here (nl) it basically means that you can be fired at will anyways. employers will write down their version to set up a case. lawyers dont really try these cases because their rates are high enough employees cant afford a court case. They prefer settling these cases, so you get fired, but you typically get some money. after i found that out, i did not really bother with the whole permanent contract thing at all anymore.
Why not just have similar device adjacent to the device that you're worried might eavesdrop on you?
Sharing state is what actor model tries to eliminate, it has a very strong locality concept. Singleton in OOP (which you have to implement atomic and thread safety often by yourself) can be easily implemented as an actor. Erlang has gen_server for this exact scenario. About isolation, you can actually impose class isolation in OO languages by declaring all variables as private. Public variable can never happen in actor model
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Having spent a lot of time recently digging around memory dumps, I'm getting pretty good at hexadecimal mental arithmetic, and it certainly seems like a superior system.
> I suspect you eventually go to jail on fraud charges

You don't. At most you get slapped with a 1.5 million dollar fine. Getty's revenue is ~1 billion dollars. This gets written of as minor expense.

In all other cases you team of lawyers gets the court to dismiss the case.
Red River? Do you mean Yellow River (Huang He?)
I really like the ambient nature of e-ink displays. I don’t want something emitting light and dragging my attention to it, but I do want to be able to glance at the clock or the bus schedule etc.

This looks like a product well-suited to that sort of use case.
What is the expected retail price? The information is not present on the page but it’s a really important one.

Edit: $59 mentioned lower in the thread.
See https://github.com/PlazaRoute for a preprocessing solution that is routing engine agnostic.
Or a 2 ft radius in wherever bezos happens to be.
> So, anyone care to make a new fork of FF with all commercial elements ripped out? Lots of fame in it for you.

Sounds like you're volunteering ;)
why not have any eavesdropping devices in the first place. when somebody invites me around, I usually ask if they own one of these things and I regretfully decline the offer if that's the case and instead invite them to my home.
Most people are indeed afraid of the law.

Let’s not forget Getty is the reason we no longer have the “View image” button on image search.
Right, so I think there are actually two separate issues here. One is federation, which is similar between email and ActivityPub as you point out.

The other is user identity. That's the part where email appears to be more flexible by relying on DNS to seperate user identity from email hosting (for the small minority of users who own their domain name).

Section 3.1 of the ActivityPub spec says that objects (I think this includes users) are identified by "publicly dereferencable URIs, such as HTTPS URIs, with their authority belonging to that of their originating server" [1].

Now, I wonder if an "originating server" is actually required or if it's sufficient to control the domain to which this URI belongs. It seems to me that it should be rather simple for ActivityPub implementations to support a mechanism similar to MX records. For instance, TXT records could be used to achieve the same thing.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/#obj-id
> We approached getty on the client’s behalf, as they were just bewildered and didn’t know where to even begin.
It took about two months to sort out - we had to repeatedly explain the situation, while they argued that they owned the images

They weren't bewildered. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Once there was no possibility of extracting money from your client, they relented.
You're _honestly_ saying that fears over school shootings in the US are overblown because it makes for good news?
I don’t think they are going to be phased out, since including lifetime specifiers is a means of documenting intent (they are part of a function’s public interface). Removing them would mean that seemingly irrelevant internal changes to functions would cause mysterious compiler errors elsewhere.
Poster here, the list is far from artificial.

I've documented the whole process on my blog.

I also explained why I put some affiliate links.
Yeah that's a fair point, thanks for the feedback!
It is not straight forward but look into the Second-Digit Benford's Law (2BL-test).
Astronauts?
I used to do this a long time ago but now I find that picking books like this, semi-randomly, isn't a good use of time. Reading a book takes time and there is already more interesting content than I can consume. This means if I choose carefully I can spend all my reading time reading the most interesting/useful books possible, instead of being constrained to whatever the thrift store happens to have at this moment.
This is not so unusual around Europe I think, I'm off 3 days a week for 7 months for parental leave (in Germany).
4. Aesthetics

Some of us just prefer the look of e-ink displays.
No one in this thread mentioned the federal emergency stockpile of 100mio masks. It seems this is at least in principle the solution to this issue? If a 4 week stockpile turns out to be insufficient, make it a 8 week stockpile, problem solved.
Upright MRI's are sometimes used for that (claustrophobia). Some might be available nearby. They are not quite common but not that rare either. Depends on the scan as not everything can be done as far as I know due to lower magnetic fields.
Not quite sure I get the reasoning in that link.

Sure, it's not likely to decrease your direct infection risk.

But it does decrease the risk of you infecting others.

At any given time you can't really know if you're infected or not if the virus is widespread.

Also the mask would presumably be more effective than coughing into your elbow or a tissue, which they do recommend.

So why not wear them? Why recommend them for healthcare workers but not the general public?

I'm wondering if the unstated reasoning is that widespread mask usage freaks people out and increases the chance of large scale panic.
What did you lose exactly?

How can we feel in love again with Org?
I ain’t feeling so special now!
How about energy usage generally?

Reduction seems to be an important trend considering drives to try to reduce green house gas emissions.
The combination of the cost and accessibility look like a game changer for me, a lay-ish person.

With such a device, do you need a Radiologist or other rare super specialist to actually read the images? Or can they be used by generalists?

Will this turn brain MRIs into a tool comparable to the X-Ray scanner my dentist uses or the Ultrasound used by the midwives a dozen times during pregnancy?

If so it looks like a game changer - something which will become a fixture in A&E departments everywhere.
There are quite a few in planes and up mountains.
How does the first step work, legally? What does it mean to 'vacuum up' (web scrape?) images and claim ownership... I mean, is this a fundamentally false precedent that you are describing, or is there some legal basis for 'claiming' images that you (meaning, a business) previously have no connection to, but simply want to 'own'?
> If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses.

Ok, I verified on 10 000 tosses, it works, but I cannot see why. Can somebody explain?

Edit: nevermind, it can be found in the previous discussion.
As long as we're talking about what 'used to be', there didn't used to be 4 year olds getting Leukemia. And there didn't used to be this idea that 40% of the entire population will be diagnosed with cancer at some point. (!)

As far as I can tell, the article is full of facts, obvious stuff really, and the naysayers simply don't want to face the harsh reality that cancer 'research' is total bullshit and always has been.

What's causing all of this cancer? Are we just not praying hard enough, is that it?

Wait, I know--how about all of the CARCINOGENS that are everywhere, in everything, and are EPA and FDA approved also, with the revolving door always swinging as suits pass from government to big business and back again on their merry way?

No...?

OK then, maybe we just need to go buy more pink ribbons and 'race for the cure.' Get Usain Bolt in there. He'll turn things around. (Why hasn't anyone hired this guy yet?)

And if that doesn't help, maybe try a little prayer also, perhaps.
> Surely sexy primes are more common than twin primes, so at least for primes that are near each other there should be a higher probability for certain sequences of final digits.

I think that's conjectural, but prime constellations are also conjectured to be a negligible fraction of primes as a whole, much as primes are a negligible fraction of integers (asymptotically). I think twin primes are conjectured to be distributed as n / (log n) ^2, while primes are n / (log n).

Besides, even if (p, p + 6) is significantly more common than (p, p + 2), if the final digit of p is uniformly distributed among 1, 3, 7, and 9, I don't think the statistics as a whole are affected.
yeah I agree. my question was, more completely, "if you have one of these things, why carry the countermeasure around instead of putting it next to the device?"
> At any given time you can't really know if you're infected or not if the virus is widespread.

Unless you're in China, the virus is not widespread. I imagine they would change their recommendation if it was.

> So why not wear them? Why recommend them for healthcare workers but not the general public?

The chance that a healthcare worker who is treating a suspected CoV case is in close contact with an infected patient is close to 100%. On the other hand, the chance that a member of the general public outside of mainland China comes into close contact with someone who is infected, whether they're in the rest of Asia or not, is within a few orders of magnitude of 0.00001%.
I would assume the intent is to use the fact that most numbers use the same prime factors as the encoding advantage. As in, you're transforming a list of dissimilar numbers into a list of similar ones.
The problem is when the cost of the electricity is higher than gasoline, sometimes far higher. This is bizarre in Canada where the gasoline taxes are very high.
I have a hybrid, so I use the cheapest option, but I also see high priced chargers sitting idle.

The pricing methodology is all over the map. A new problem is the practice of free level 2 charging and charging money for fast chargers. The fast chargers sit idle and the free L2 chargers are all in use. Personally, I would pay, but my car only supports L1&L2.
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That shouldn't be surprising. Distances longer than a few kilometers are measured in miles.
The average is just one week a year (two weeks a year past 15 years of work), well below world average.
If you want a vote that actual changes things, vote with your feet.

That vote has an enormous impact on your own life. Bigger than any ballot box.

But it also has a comparatively big impact on the place you leave behind and the place you are joining. Just your tax revenue alone will be so much more impactful than your marginal vote was.

> As in you did you personally do well financially or what have you? So you're voting as the ethical equivalent of a four year old?

Yes. But that's not because I think it's a particularly good way to vote; I just think that it would be an improvement on what people are doing de facto. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
This article was written by Mike Godwin, the creator of "Godwin's Law", which you've just helpfully illustrated.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
The government could tax it to prevent that.
gotcha! that would make more sense yeah.

Maybe they trying to pitch it as a fashion thing - like a social/personal statement. All these mitigations seems strange to me since mitigations are always an attack surface too.
>This is solved by adding more questions into Leetcode. 1000+ and counting.

I know people who did 500 LC problems and couldn't get in google and people who did 20 and got in. The problem set on LC is too large for memorization to work. Google will be giving you problems that aren't on LC and they are actively testing for raw intelligence.

>You missed the point entirely. My argument is that many interviews are not designed for problem solving but practicing and memorization. And this is exactly why Leetcode ensures you to repeat these template 100 times effectively.

No you missed my point. I've talked to those google interviewers, they are not testing your memorization skills that is not their intent. The amount of algorithm problems available in the universe far exceeds that which is available on Leetcode. When you interview at google the questions are designed so that you've never seen any of them before. Get it?
I read this as the client being bewildered, not Getty.
In Italy, my mother did a few months ago a contrast MRI (spine), directly paid in a private laboratory (outside the national service) for around 300 Euro.

Which makes sense if the machine cost is around 1,000,000, appointments were every half an hour, so, let's say they make 15 scans per day at 300 each, it makes 4500 Euro/day by 220 days/year that is around one million Euro/year.

You take out of it - say:

250,000 Euro for the machine (for 5 years)

250,000 Euro for personnel

250,000 Euro for maintenance, power, other costs

50,000 Euro for something else I don't know

And you are still ahead for 200,000 Euro/year, i.e. roughly 20% of your investment.
The real question is how much the speed up is due to the low quality of the initial implementation. I’ve seen speed ups of 100-1000x on the same hardware. Academic simulation code is often bad.
It also shows how unrigged the whole google interview process is.

A whiteboard interview is a "Political connection agnostic" interview.
The larger the value of N is, the more the experiments agree with the Benford's law.
Can I ask what your startup does? (also located in Sweden, so curious about the kinds of companies started here)
Really nice piece of work.

The key patent makes for interesting reading [1]. They use neodymium permanent magnetic rings. I wonder if building a crude version of Hyperfine’s machine is within the realms of a DIY project.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...