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Show HN: GoldenCircle – New Social 2.0 for entrepreneurs and impact makers
Hi HN, I'd like to get your feedback on my new app GoldenCircle. GoldenCircle is an invite only social platform designed for entrepreneurs & senior leaders. GoldenCircle follows social 2.0 principles.

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That's exactly the kind of thinking that makes this discussion interesting.

Why do you hold that view?
I’m curious if your preference for environment variables is only for writing programs or for using programs as well. From a user’s perspective, would you prefer that common commands use environment variables to get options? For example, would you prefer a “find” command that uses environment variables instead of command line options?
I would strongly recommend to use conda because:

- It would work the same way on Windows, Linux and macOS

- Most importantly (!), it is not a Python package manager. That is, if a package needs BLAS or MKL or HDF5 or whatever else, you won't be crossing fingers and hoping your system-installed version would work for all your venvs; instead, those binary libraries are properly managed per environment.

Pro tip: use mamba instead of conda to get a free 4x speed boost.
Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
Ask HN: What information or data do you scrape for?
If you do not personally scrape, what publicly available information would be worth scraping and presenting in a consumable(user-friendly) format?
No, I just need to get off my butt and push it!
Fine, over 20-30 years. I'll be too old in 20-30 years to enjoy that money. I'd rather swing trade and buy myself a new couch. :-)
Dividends are left-pocket right-pocket. Dividends can help you psychologically, but in a way, it’s like forced selling once per year or per quarter.

Edit: if it helps you to invest, by all means, do it. But since dividends are mostly psychological, there is no point in limiting your stock picks to companies with a high dividend.
He might mean debt monetization. When the Fed buys treasuries. I think the video didn't touch on that.
M2 money supply changes nicely correlate with S&P500 performance. So there is truth to his statement.

I'd also throw out the assumption that the Fed will reduce the balance sheet eventually.
They tried and failed in 2019.
It's not going to happen.
They are in fact "spending" (through the Treasury and their bond-buying programs), even though Powell likes to say that the Fed doesn't have spending power, but has lending powers.
The FM and IFM exams of the Society of Actuaries.
Musk: August 28th Update to Further Detail Neuralink's Brain-Computer Interface
That's not the only reason they want to ban it.

I'm amazed how people can just ignore John Locke and the primitives of Western Civilization, and ignore the threat of China, Saudi Arabia or the European Union -- all of whom deny natural rights and are antithetical to the US.

Perhaps you're not American but the European Enlightenment is fundamental to modern society. It is the reason we are talking via handheld computers. Let's not ignore its decimation.
When getting insurance quotes, there was a disclosure that a credit check had been conducted, listed the top 4 items affecting my Risk Score, and gave a link for questions. I found the guide to all the possible reasons and was amazed at some of the elements. [1]

* They prefer 84 years of credit history to put you in a lower risk category. Having 2 lines of credit paid every month versus 1 would make a huge difference in this regard.

* Oil company credit cards are seen as very high risk, and even having 1 is seen as a negative.

* Department store credit cards are also viewed negatively.

The weightings and mixing of variables is the secret sauce...but reading through it all made me very happy with my decision to turn down an offer from one of the major reporting agencies.

[1] PDF Warning

https://consumer-solutions.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/29038...
Wow, that's insane, thanks for sharing this.

When I had nvidia hardware, I never tried nouveau, so I never ran into this.
Also, don't add salt until the process is finished, as that also makes it more starchy
I think you meant to say ByteDance, the private company that owns and controls TikTok.

Conflating the CCP owning and controlling a private company's platform is the propaganda that seems to be spun out this situation.

It's also what is causing people to see the app as a threat, ergo, highlighting exceptionalism and a tiny bit of xenophobia.
Tangent: tell us about your dungeon! How does it work, are you happy with it etc? Links you can share?

Show HN of course!
Thank you for sharing this quote, I learned about this a long time ago and have been looking for a compelling way to make the case. People are often surprised at how ineffective early and frequent screenings can be -- depending on the disease of course. The risk of unnecessary exploratory surgery and other adverse effects of a false positive can actually add to aggregate patient risk, not reduce it.
(oh dear)
China's strength was never cheap labour.

1. Educated people (most former communist countries have fewer analphabets than the US)

2. Tons of people

3. Infrastructure and clustering.

4. The political will to move forward.

You won't see this in Africa. India is possible but unlikely.
If you can build a huge viral app, you’re already a billionaire.
Check out the 'Threads' app. It's an app for Instagram ( made by the Instagram team, not some third party)

Zero ads, just chat with your friends, send pictures, and look at their stories. Only friends in the 'Close Friends List' you can make on Instagram

You can add any follower to the Close Friends list. So add the people you want
You certainly highlight the difficulty of making an early and correct diagnosis in a patient group where that diagnosis is extremely rare. The real question is how much of this is cognitive bias, and how much is a reasonable balance between the harms of overtesting and the harms of misdiagnosis and late diagnosis.

The first is absolutely the responsibility of the medical profession, and we need to improve that. And if it was obvious malpractice, the family should sue the doctor or the healthcare organization that employs them - unfortunately I think there do still exist some healthcare organizations where the only way to get them to do the right thing in future is a risk of (another) massive lawsuit.

On the other hand, it's also a good doctor's responsibility to prevent harm from overtesting https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-... . And the US is probably worse in this regard than other countries. In fact, a quote front hat article specifically refers to back pain:
"The researchers called it 'low-value care.' But, really, it was no-value care. They studied how often people received one of twenty-six tests or treatments that scientific and professional organizations have consistently determined to have no benefit or to be outright harmful. Their list included doing an EEG for an uncomplicated headache (EEGs are for diagnosing seizure disorders, not headaches), or doing a CT or MRI scan for low-back pain in patients without any signs of a neurological problem (studies consistently show that scanning such patients adds nothing except cost)".

But sometimes it's just bad luck, that a particular patient has a complaint that on average would not benefit from an MRI, but in their particular case, they probably would have.

Unfortunately, the only way for a non-medical person to tell if a particular patient's situation lies in the first group or the second is by suing the doctor (assuming that actually asking the doctor why they didn't do the test failed to provide a satisfactory answer). Most medical malpractice lawyers are "no win, no fee", so you can usually get a free consultation with a law firm that specialises in medical malpractice cases, and if they think there is a case there, they will take on the case. If they don't take on the case, it's usually because the care was reasonable (and therefore defensible), even though there was a terrible outcome.

None of that takes away from the pain suffered by patients and families in this kind of situations, but sometimes knowing there is a way to find out more and maybe address a specific injustice can be helpful.
I would say, Lean to code.

Divide your SaaS project in small unit of task, explore each section unit by some video tutorial at first-good for first. try on youtube, freecodecamp or udemy. gain knowledge of subject and make small function to demonstrate the part of your saas products capability. Explore and learn, you can later hire some dev, co-founder or CTO of tech background.

For coding, I would say put your efforts in some nice language Eco-system. Python is just fine no offense, but If I were at your place I would use PHP or node. My reasoning: PHP is language of my personal preference. For node, Its basically javascript at server-side, so It requires you to learn just a single language, its features and tooling. if you are writing web app you can share codebase of many part of frontend and backend.
The EU?
Some really good points here. I suspect the downvotes are due to the “China coverup” part where people are assuming you are talking about conspiracy theories related to the Wuhan lab, rather than the more general initial coverup where the CCP decided to arrest doctors for telling people about the virus.
Kilo: A Multi-Cloud Network Overlay Built on WireGuard
Rite Aid Used Facial Recognition in Stores for Nearly a Decade
>Personally I don't find the fact, that a corporation built something out of their own interest surprising at all.

It's not surprising, but it is concerning given that Google is the steward of the joint interests of all Go users.
That's a matter of opinion, wrong mindset. I bought gold miners that ballooned, and swing traded pharma. This turned into money that I can use to buy things like computers and furniture. Or buy even more of the fabled broad index funds.
> 3 years later, it’s grown like crazy because it’s the latest fad and would be smart for them to cash out before the next new thing hits

That's exactly the thoughts I had in 2010 about Facebook's 10 billion valuation.
I only encounter this in Rust when doing anything web-related. There's quite a lot of prominent authors who go out of their way to reduce their dependencies by any means necessary (e.g. https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/1324 , which is a notably extreme case).
Yet there is no visible shift in cause of death distribution. Cancer is still up there, successfully competing with cardiovascular diseases for #1 spot.
> U.S. Society is delivering on these.

It simply isn't because of the cost of care is not appropriately distributed. Much of the population can't actually afford the wonderful care you espouse, and if you read down you'll see the US isn't necessarily actually better. More screenings and more diagnostic tests don't necessarily lead to better outcomes -- prostate tests are a great example of this -- but do increase the 5-year survival rates (in that the front end is extended but the back end isn't). What they don't do, though, is increase the cure rates.

In no small part because patients are being "sold" medicine, testing and treatments, and are profited off of. Similarly, doctors are getting sued senselessly. The lawsuits aren't just a nuisance, they're part of the reason these unnecessary tests are carried out in many cases; not doing so would create a liability.

I mean, OP got hit with $40,000 in bills with insurance -- you can't look at me with a straight face and call that world-class.

That's a deep and utter failure of society for allowing this to happen.
It's common for mods to game the system and resubmit stories they believe are good.
The incentive for all parties (except the patients) is to increase revenue, rather than decrease costs. Insurance companies may want to reduce costs on a case by case basis, but on a macro level they want to spend more, since they are required to spend 80% of premiums received on treatment. More treatment means higher premiums, which means the 20% not spent on treatment is higher. Hospitals have similar incentives,
since a higher top line means a higher bottom line. We need some sort of patient focused agent that is incentivized to minimize long term costs and maximize patient outcomes. Single payer government healthcare systems seem to do a decent job in this role in many countries. If there's a better method I'm open to it, but nothing will change until the economic incentives change or patient bargaining power increases.
Having never used Instagram, I thank you for the high-level description. Your comment is vastly better then the submitted web page (the OP).
No. Someone using the old version can continue using it, completely unaware of the fact that anything changed.
And not even good ones at that. They never take negative re-enforcement, you can't tell them what they just did was wrong or report a problem. You can't say "Good Bot" and let it know that the response it gave was what you expected and to continue to return results similar. Hell, if it was just 'stupid' you could keep programming new features into it and new ways to get to the same features with slightly different wording. But no. We don't even get that. Just this awful black box that "sometimes does what it's asked" and can barely reference previous incantations. Uhg.
Globally diversified low-cost index funds. Meaning not just US, S&P500 etc, but also Europe, developing markets, Nordics, «small cap» (ish) companies.

That’s the portfolio I’m using, anyway. No currency hedging and slightly underweight (but not majorly so) wrt. the US.

Some US-based index fund strategies include only the US, but that leaves you less diversified. Though with better returns, historically.

Not sure why you’re leaving index funds so underweight in your strategy; curious what options you’re considering. There aren’t a lot unless your strategy is more along the lines of wealth preservation.
I think the Feb raise by Tesla was probably done because they (Musk) thought that COVID-19 would hit the US and cause a lot problems, unlike most people at the time. Diluting his holdings to put $2 billion in the bank for Tesla to get through the COVID problems seemed like a good idea. Now it looks like Tesla is not going to be hit as hard as he predicted and Musk would like to keep his percent ownership in Tesla as high as possible. He has said that when he needs personal cash he borrows against his stock holdings rather than selling them(at the tune of about $1 billion at the moment, iirc).

Musk has also said that growth in his companies are mostly people constrained and not capital constrained. His companies can raise capital any time they decide it is a good idea.
The more important point (in addition to your point I mean) is that DHH is not in any particular position vs. a random smart internet person to come up with these thoughts. But when people read what he says (similar to when people read what any notable or internet celeb thinks (say PG as one example)) is becomes 100x more believable (to some people) important or noteworthy.

I see this now with Bill Gates opining about covid (on CNN on what appears to be a regular basis). Now yes Bill has done work with vaccines and has a great deal to say but the main reason CNN puts him on (as opposed to others) is that he is Bill Gates the Billionaire and somehow they feel his take on things is more significant. Or in reality it will get people to watch CNN so they can sell advertising. He is not the most important or credible person in these areas (the people with actual education and working experience who Bill talks to are, right?) but he is presented on TV as being all knowing about solving the problems (which he could be correct about).
Vectorization in .NET APIs
Remember, Go is MIT-licensed. If things become too bound to Google, it can and will be forked. People thought it was the end of the world when multiple Java SDKs arose didn't they? (Not to say that didn't hurt Java, but the language survived).
It's easy to create those apps when there is no external competition. China created every major internet service U.S has. EU can easily do the same.
The point is FB pay tax to US, and a EU-based FB will pay tax to EU. EU actually want to copy GFW , see https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
Because Badget/Bolt are key/value stores and MongoDB is a document store.

I can't imagine how anyone can model even moderately complex use cases on a key/value store. Even with some sort of ORM filtering and manipulation would be very cumbersome.
> Is the landscape of 1991 the same as the landscape of 2020, with its 10% of the s&p in just a few companies

Yes, it is the same:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/07/the-nifty-fifty-and...

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/11/26/the-nifty-fifty...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty

* https://etfdb.com/history-of-the-s-and-p-500/

* https://www.qad.com/blog/2019/10/sp-500-companies-over-time

That's the definition of the S&P 500: the largest five hundred companies publicly traded companies.

> with money printing,

I do not think this actually does what you thinks it does:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lP3BhvnSo

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/109

> […] Talk shows about stocks and news algorithms pumping stocks to the masses?

Please see the 1990s and "irrational exuberance". I live in Canada: ask anyone here above a certain age (40s) about Nortel and Bre-X.

> Are fund managers (who have clients) compared to the likes of you and me ?

Fund managers have more resources than you and me, and thus probably have better information to base decisions on. Unless, of course, you are using satellite imagery in your investing workflow:

> Currie’s prediction proved correct. As word spread that satellite images were a reliable predictor of corporate profits, a range of investment funds began buying retail-traffic data from RS Metrics. In the following years, the company expanded, tracking not just parked cars but solar-panel installations, lumber inventory at sawmills, and the mining of metals worldwide.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...
Go -options sound like what X11 uses.
Huh. Never thought about it from that point of view, thanks for bringing it up.

What I hoped for is that FHE would usher in the era of more end-user control over the data, not less off it. That's because it would allow to decouple and isolate storage from compute, in such a way that I could invite company's code to process my data, encrypted by me, at the location of my choosing, and the code would have no way to exfiltrate the data. At the same time, I would have no way to get at the service company's software. I somehow never realized it would be easier for software providers to just skip the "my data at my location" part, and just force us to use their FHE software while also owning the data entered into it.
> or the European Union -- all of whom deny natural rights and are antithetical to the US

Excuse me, what?
Any fallout from this will be interesting. It can be easily argued that this is a case of the US President (not the US Government) using arbitrary emergency powers-—or the threat of their use—-to interfere with a business deal on behalf of a US company. Even ignoring suits from Facebooks’s competitors, effect on existing trade deals, and justification for foreign government interventions against US companies, one wonders if this is the start of a new trade war with China or just a warning to other social media companies (“nice market penetration you got there, shame if something were to happen to it“).
The interesting thing is that US has bigger problems than TikTok right now.
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I don't understand what this comment is saying about Hacker News or Drew DeVault. Are the points any less valid just because they do not praise Google? And just because something is unsurprising does not mean that it is good or acceptable, or that we should not urge them to do better.
> If they didn't, you could practice your own medicine.

Which most people do.
A one-time[1] $99 fee for all of their icons is not greedy. If you had to do that work yourself you would spend a lot more just in your time alone.

[1] The Standard Pro License is perpetual, meaning that you'll still have a license if you don't renew your paid plan. You'll retain access to the last version available when your plan was active.
I will not use my debit card at anything other than an ATM.

If someone steals my credit card (happens on average once a year), the missing money is the banks problem.

If someone steals my debit card, the missing money is my problem.

Oh can’t pay my mortgage because my checking got drained? Sucks to be me...
"who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda" -- though I found this comment somewhat disrespectful, HE would be the kind of person finding this amusing.
SonicBoom is an open source Risc V core that is clock for clock competitive with the best from ARM. There is still the issue of matching clock speed and tweaking for a given process.

Foundries actually have an interest in helping to optimize an open core for their process as a selling point since it can be reused by multiple customers.
> No, the geometry is fundamental, and the rest is just bookkeeping.

I'd push back on this, but I think it's probably a foundational disagreement (perhaps between pure and applied mathematicians). For example, a key behavior of number systems as we move up in dimensionality is the loss of "nice" properties†: when going from the reals to the complex numbers, we lose total ordering. I've seen proofs of this done visually[1], and some are pretty clever, but it's much easier to simply "do the algebra" and end up with a contradiction. Getting to 1 ≺ 0 ≺ 1 is literally a two-line proof, while geometrically you might have various intuitions that would prove to be wrong: for example, why can't we use a spiral[2] to achieve total ordering on a plane?

Not to mention that going to the quaternions, we lose commutativity of multiplication -- I don't think anyone even bothers trying to prove this visually because it would probably end up looking like spaghetti.

† This is, right off the bat, not very intuitive: why would more degrees of freedom minimize nice properties? This is in the same vein as the volume of an n-dimensional ball tending to zero as n tends to infinity. To see why this happens, you need to put away the shapes, and look at the math.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/487997/total-orderi...

[2] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RationalSpiral.html
Fama and French determined that higher exposure to their size factor led to outperformance. Equal weighting increases your portfolios size exposure. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fama%E2%80%93French_three-fa...
One other minor correction is that Amazon walked back on banning TikTok explicitly on their company devices.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/10/21320196/amazon-employees...
Like reddit, the website is made awful to encourage you to use the app; you can pinch-zoom images on the app. Or, like us, DOM inspector -> delete empty element over image -> right-click open in new window.
Python PyPi downloads are also tracked https://pypistats.org/. The data is public, nothing wrong with that IMO.
What third party app do you use, if you don't mind sharing?
I'd advise you to stay liquid for a sizeable fraction of that for the next 12-18 months. The world is changing rapidly and access to a sizeable chunk of cash could make all the difference once the smoke clears and it is clear what to do. Also: you could go bargain hunting.
VTI/VTSAX is 80% S&P 500 by market cap. You get slightly better diversification into mid- and small-cap stocks, but at minuscule weights that don't make much of a dent in the performance of the fund. In practice, there's little difference between holding VTI/VTSAX and, say, VOO/VFIAX.

(VTSMX is closed to new investors. VTSAX is the current fund.)