skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He had a problem - how to choose a medicine - and built a product to solve that problem.

No, he didn't have a problem.

He proposes that OTC is the target. The reality is, the problem is not very deep here. Without access to prescription medications, you basically have a handful of options that are more of less the same. It's like walking onto a rental car lot. You need to know what category you need, but everything in that category is pretty much the same.

He isn't solving anything for the physician market. His recommendations are very naive and lack the clinical backing to support actual usage. A physician isn't going to buck their go-to's because a random tool suggests something else. This tool needs to provide scientific backing for it's recommendations and why that recommendation is better.
We are all in the same boat, but sadly people at power still play geopolitics and see every action in the light of their re-electability
My experience with this software is primarily from using it myself. I don’t know if “relics of that earlier era” is accurate, and I’m not sure what era we’re talking about here. Why do you say that they’re relics of an earlier era?

> I'm curious how they were funded.

The story of Dorico is pretty simple. Avid bought Sibelius back in 2006 because they needed a good score writing solution—Avid presumably wanted to provide a “complete solution”—but Avid closed the office, and the same team of developers then made Dorico which was bought by Steinberg for presumably the same reasons that Avid bought Sibelius.

Take a look at film/TV scoring, which is where a big chunk of the money is for working composers. There are three main DAWs in use: Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic Pro. It makes a ton of sense that you’d want to have a score writing program to sell alongside your DAW, so Avid and Steinberg did that by acquiring existing software. Logic Pro can… sort of… already edit scores. Logic is not nearly on the level of a proper score writing program but it’s still fairly solid and works for composition.

> The general trend with these creative fields is that the labor force is oversaturated and made more liquid with the gig economy, so better productivity is no longer economically motivated.

This doesn’t follow at all. If you’re a freelance composer or transcriber, then even marginal improvements in productivity can more or less be thought of as pay raises or additional free time. If you’re doing a proper TV or film production, then you might have something like 10% of your entire budget set aside for music.

Composers aren’t really interchangeable anyway—if you want someone to make a decent score for your TV show, then you can’t find them on Fiverr.

My general impression is that when you meet someone who is a professional in a particular field—even if that field is not highly paid—then a $600 business expense that improves productivity is not hard to justify.
When it’s really obvious it won’t work, it’s worth considering when forming your opinion of the person who said it.
it would also be better for society if everyone was grown in a vat and fed a nutrient brine like ants.

Might not be fair to the ants tho. Also given that most of the viruses are spread via city center, centralizing everything like that might not be a viable long term solution for the survival of the human species.

What you have to consider is that there are risk/reward trade offs that are involved in creating economic centers, and most of our history the city has been the place where more people died than were born.

Better not to force it so the norms around this will evolve naturally as people select into the Schelling point naturally.

I for one welcome our new borg hivemind overlords promulgated on back of the concepts of a breakaway society.
Some explanation, in a coup the countries security forces pull back to allow the protesters into the main government buildings so they can deal with the current officials.

The security forces then get rid of the protesters and the new set of officials move in.

It's just how it works.
Don't forget, Subscribe and Save. Prime Pantry had a subscription service too, so people were very confused about what to do - Prime Pantry or Subscribe and Save - and what saves the most money. Also, with Subscribe and Save, it was and still is* confusing as to WHO the product is bought from. On low-profit price-flucting products (e.g. Case of Redbull), the price will differ AND sometimes it will be unavialable via the subscibed listing but if you searched for the item, you'd find it Prime from Amazon. The opposite also happens, when Amazon.com is clearly out of an item, yet somehow your subscribtion still makes it on time.

Honestly, just typing all that made me very confused.

At the end of the day, I don't care from who (as long as they're reputable) or how, just get me my product, in this price range, this many times per period.

*: I still use Subscribe and Safe for the 15% discount - a nice discount if 5 subscriptions are due in the same month.
If you're still so far apart that you can't see your neighbors it's still "empty". The amount of space available in the United States boggles the mind when you actually go out there and drive for hours seeing almost no one. The damage to nature comes from large industrial activities like farming (fields or trees) or strip mining. Simply living there would actually help preserve that wilderness.
Supreme Court is [merely] ratifying what the majority of Americans will accept.

If this were true then we wouldn't need a Supreme Court at all, and/or it wouldn't matter who gets appointed.

You used the word "wrong". The SC doesn't decide right and wrong. The SC decides what the MO of the government will be, until Congress or a future SC changes it. It's a statement of position, a very powerful one, but not a statement of correctness. The history of the SC makes clear that treating what they say as "right" and everyone else as "wrong" won't lead to any consistent sense of right or wrong.

It's a fundamental principle of the US that people can hold opinions that differ from the current law of the land.
Native Mail client for Android still retries aggressively on an incorrect password, locking out accounts.

The native iOS mail client stopped the endless retry behavior a few releases ago (so sad it only took a decade to fix),
There are differences in How and Why of software engineering. The author attempts to answer Why of software engineering by answering some aspect of How of software engineering.

Learning is part of the How of software engineering. The Why of software engineering is to develop and deliver solutions to business problems.
Interesting competing narratives:

“Telegram says it ‘shut down hundreds of public calls for violence’ in US last week”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829448
You're responding to a sentiment that was never expressed. No one said they should be "let off".

Even if Pence had been killed, American democracy would not be in danger. Presidents have been killed and democracy survived intact.
> yet we almost never talk about how pitiful the rewards are

We almost always talk about how pitiful the rewards are, every time someone discloses a pitiful reward. Your post is doing exactly that.
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Papalote burritos can easily cost $15 inc tax if you order them super. They even have a $20 burrito on the menu, before tax. Although they're all amazing
Honestly, I’m all for irresponsible disclosure if corporations pay irresponsibly low bounties.

We need to disabuse corporations of the idea that they deserve responsible disclosure when they pay paltry sums for serious bugs.
It might be better for society if you gave me your shoes and jacket in an orderly fashion.

Did that sound like a threat? After all, I didn't provide any reason why it might be good, and you don't want to do it.
+1 for Wendover. Haven't seen the Amazon video myself yet, but the channel in general has a lot of videos that I think HN users would find interesting.
Apparently Jim Reekes said he didn't remember how he obtained the original sound, but left the possibility open that it might (?) have been sampled from the game Crystal Quest.

Having just listened to a bunch of Mac OS system beeps on youtube, I wonder whether the Indigo sound was sampled from the SGI Indigo workstation.
Not necessarily. As an anecdote, I don’t think of myself as a person with a specific name. If I look at the mirror and try to say my name it just does not sound like it fits the person in the mirror. Also I can tell different names to baristas in Starbucks etc. It’s not that I dislike my name either, I think it’s a great name overall.

I never gave it particular thought so maybe I’m in the tiny minority though.
Sweet. I've been looking for something like this for a while — will definitely give it a try. Wish there was like a $10-for-7-day-trial sort of thing so I could _fully_ try it out before paying $24 / $149, but it seems worth it for me at the moment so I'll go ahead and start with $24 :)
You're ascribing intent to my words where there is none. I have no interest in arguing my opinion here.

I am interested in reading other people's thoughtfully formed opinions. Using words like "lots of" without clarifying further seems likely to lead to people talking past each other. That's why I commented.
> Because politicians trying to have their political opponents harmed or killed is basically all one needs to have fake democracy.

I don't follow this logic. Assume for the sake of argument that politician A attempts to have politician B killed (also not a historian, but I feel there has to be at least one instance of this happening somewhere, at some point in US history). Based on this event, we now conclude that the entire democracy is fake? How? All of the votes for all other politicians are now invalid? The electoral process (largely out of the control of any single politician) just ... goes away? How do you figure? What's the cause and effect mechanism there?
There’s no definition of democracy that does not include free speech.
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>Do you realize that numerous times throughout history people have successfully killed the actual president and it didn't end democracy?

How many times in the history of the US, has the president asked his supporters to bring violence against his political opponents?

>What these people did was a serious crime and it should absolutely be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but no it was never going to destroy the country or end democracy. This is hyperbole people are using to grab and consolidate power.

If half of the population believes that elections are not fair, it will absolutely, positively destroy democracy. The very foundation of democracy is fair elections.

>Democracy is not a single person that can be killed and taken over. It's all of us acting in concert to uphold those values. It doesn't end by this person or that person being killed, it ends by all of us collectively agreeing to give up the values that make it work. That's the real threat here.

shouldn't be. People should use critical thinking skills, and not be persuaded by charlatans. All of that depends on them actively seeking the truth, and we've seen first hand that a large portion of the US population isn't interested in actively seeking the truth, they're looking to have their beliefs reaffirmed. When Rudy Giuliani gets on TV and proclaims fraudulent elections, then goes into a court room and admits there's no fraud (because he'd go to prison for lying to the court), but 50% of the population only ever bothers to listen to what he says on TV we've got serious problems.

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/18/judge-cancels-fraud-evidenc...
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For some reason, people seem to have evolved to consider nicotine products (for instance) more opposed to the abstract mission of a drugstore than homeopathic products.

I have never smoked or vaped or anything, but it's the homeopathic OTC meds that viscerally upset me, that they should be allowed on the shelves.
I call it the "What's the earliest date you can't prove you won't be finished by?" management question.
I think what's telling is that the only body camera footage released was the officer outside of the house that didn't show the officer aiming up the stairs at all. There were 4 officers that entered the building so are we just supposed to assume that the only one with a body camera was the only one who didn't get any footage of inside the house?

They released the body camera footage supposedly as proof that the raid was proper, but they don't even have any footage of what they're disputing. Had there been any real sense of danger or concern about officer safety why would they all just stand around out in the open for 13 minutes where anyone inside with a gun could just start taking pot shots at officers with plenty of cover for themselves but none for officers?
Not allowing an insurance company to negotiate for the price of a drug or service is precisely why medicare and medicaid have ballooned up to 39% of US federal spending while not even approaching "universal" coverage.
I had initial thoughts, but I read the article and noticed the author is an academic.

The author mixes up How and Why of software engineering. Learning is part of the How of software engineering. The Why of software engineering is to develop and deliver solutions to business clients. Most business client don't care if you learn something or not, they expect results.
Minimum notice is pretty common by law, for one thing.
There are examples of federal systems where things that can be agreed upon are shared at the federal level, and things where disagreements cannot be reconciled are managed at the state level.

One of the ways we've gone wrong as a society recently is thinking that there can only be one way, and everyone has to adhere to it. People need to be allowed to disagree, because everyone will find themselves on the side of "wrong" (i.e. less optimal for achieving one's goals) at some point.
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I actually crossed paths early in my career with Steve Burg VP of Engineering at PKSoft and quoted in this story. It was in the early 2000s shortly after Phil’s death. He had taken it very hard and had gotten really into fitness as part of his coping mechanism. Ended up starting a chain of really top of the line gyms in Dayton Ohio. I actually worked out of the back office of one of the gyms for a while working for one of Steve’s buddies.

I wouldn’t characterize Phil as having no friends, at least from the little I knew of Steve.
It did actually.
They were a few feet away from having the entirety of this nations legislative branch at their mercy (which they made clear they didn’t have much of) and the Vice President. People downplaying this aren’t just doing a dangerous thing, they clearly have ulterior motives.
Great tip, but just fyi, Medium is not owned by Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)
This is such an absolutely perfect quote.
I am reminded of this by some of the seemingly bad results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
Also https://www.amazon.com/Software-Capital-Economic-Perspective...
To be fair (at the time) AT&T's Bell Labs division was the one producing those prototypes. So it may not be AT&T that is wholly responsible for it, but Bell Labs did kickstart most of these. Well, except the phone booths :)

(Also, the alternate interpretation is that AT&T is providing the interconnection necessary to power these innovations, for one the iPhone was introduced by AT&T (mainly because they were the only willing ones to allow Apple to update them independently) so in a more pragmatic sense AT&T did deliver the future. But on the flipside, some might consider it to be cheating.)
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Where I live is not exactly a country tied together in that way. And yet, we have plenty of immigrants, first and second generation in politics. We also have the backlash against that, roughly equivalent to the position the Republican party in the USA takes.

But that doesn't mean that the USA needs to have a fact-free Republican party, it could easily change if it really wanted to, at the expense of not being in power for a couple of decades. It's the difference between John McCain and Donald Trump, the one a principled politician who believed lots of things that I would not subscribe to but who was fundamentally a decent human being. Trump is not a decent human being, never was and never will be and his legacy has the power to utterly divide and destroy the United States.

Coalition governments are a lot safer in that that respect because they take away the insane power of the small fraction that decides who is king in the USA. There also is a real problem with the president having as much power as they do.

I see the USA - as one of the oldest democracies - as deeply flawed, with a thin critical path to fixing itself. If it doesn't then one day maybe sooner, maybe later, it will fall apart in either two or maybe even three countries (2x coastal, mid). That will cause a lot of grief so better to avoid that fate, which will require some major overhauling of the constitution and some power removed from the states.
Time will tell, for all my friends alive in the USA right now I sincerely hope that this can be postponed long enough that the country can first heal from the last attempt at splitting it.
The president's full speech before the protest is here: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr...

Can you point to a place where he specifically encouraged trespassing or violence in a way that is more egregious than the ways in which various Congresspeople encouraged violence in Kenosha or Minneapolis?
it's worth remembering that somewhere, someone or a team:

- had a whiteboard/design/brainstorming session

- decided or was told to develop a feature involving data hoovering, with whatever justification

- not enough of the team said "no", or were replaced by those that said "yes", that the feature made it to production

- decided to sell/buy/run analyses over said data to increase profits (ostensibly)

now, if there were a handful of companies doing this consistently, that'd be one thing. however, if all these apps, web sites, etc. are engaging in this, then it's clear there's just zero fundamental ethical force to stop data hoovering, and we ought to expect that the data collection will increase up to and until government regulation of this stuff.

anyway, from where i sit, the engineers, vendors and data scientists involved in surveillance capitalism must share some of the blame, if not a lion's share.
Video of South African presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_tLG8CLAc
Ahahah, well for at least a year now they had dropped the whole box filling aspects, which made it more or less identical to shopping for anything else. Honestly the only difference then is how it was shipped and what items were available.

That said, I do miss the "Buy 6 items in this category for $6 off" discounts, especially the few times that there were items for less than a dollar in that category. A couple years back I scored absurd amount of Spaghetti Os this way, paying effectively negative money. The only downside is I ended up with a lot of Spaghetti Os :'(
Ugh, no, gold is used in electronics, aerospace materials, even to treat arthritis. Even if no one ever used it as currency it would still have properties that make it useful.

This is not true of Bitcoin.
Reversal/conversion on long dated options.

Not a pure ARB bc of dividend and interest rate risk, but it's close.
Have you ever used a mulcher to chop up some yard waste, only to accidentally put in some dog shit, and then the whole thing stinks to high heaven?

In all seriousness, with meta-analyses it's still "garbage in, garbage out". It only takes one or a few egregiously bad studies to throw off your results if that study has a large sample size but something fundamentally wrong with its methodology or implementation.
To the Capitol? Or are you spewing fake news?
The plan is to continue creating escalating chaos, and grasp whatever advantage is available in the aftermath while people who care about things like laws and constitutions throw their hands on the air and declare their shock and dismay. This is how autocrats work. Actually responding effectively and shutting this shit down is how you keep a constitutional government from sliding directly into an autocracy. Hemming and hawing about did he or didn't he mean to be smart enough to circumvent the constitution, while the situation continues to escalate, is how you end up in, say, Pinochet's Chile.

Remember Trump is already commander in chief, so has power 'by default.' He just needs to create a situation where that status quo remains, either by creating a situation whereby the right people are willing to disregard the election results /or/ the constitution directly.
If you can, please use servos and not steppers. Steppers are cheap and ridiculously easy to interface and get good positional control out of. As long as they don't skip steps. And they always do. So you end up running at 1/10th of the speed your tool could move at to avoid that, and even then you'll end up tossing workpieces because you lost synchronization somewhere along the line.

For 3D printers they work fine because there is no pushback ('loading') from the extruder. But for anything that cuts servos are the way to go if you want half decent speed and quality cuts, as well as long tool life.
It's not the protesters that made it a coup, it's the fact the security forces of the country allowed it to happen.

Angry protesters are a dime a dozen, it's the letting them into the main government building that makes it a coup.
Apologies for a second reply.

> forget court cases, Parler - what its doing etc.

So we'll just pretend we can rewind to back prior to the Capitol riot & clown show. Got it.

> So far, one looked as AWS as infrastructure just like your electric, phone or gas company - going forward, there will be a re-think here.

If we "forget about Parler", why would a tech CTO think any differently this week than they did the prior week?

Take away Parler and all of your hypothetical CTO's concerns about Amazon melt away.
I just wanted to jump in and say as a sufferer of KC with pretty nasty scarring, scleral lenses were a life changer.
^ Exactly. There are lots of unclear and open to interpretation areas of law but this isn't one of them.

We have a well-established process with clear steps which apply in good times and bad times, whether any of the players like them at the moment or not.

It's not tough but people have to discard their conspiracy theories in favor of facts, laws, and reason.
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Prime Pantry was great... if all you care about is processed food

Every time I tried to use it I couldn't find enough stuff to fill the box with. The bulky stuff (like canned sodas) were more expensive than costco, and I can only eat so many boxes of Cheez-its and Belvita bars