skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to go into all the reasons why a multi-cloud solution probably isn't and why multi-cloud is stupendously difficult (and expensive as you move all that data around) for a scaling business.

But in a situation like this, a company that's likely to be deplatformed, is likely to be deplatformed everywhere. I've seen a screenshot recently of Parler's hardware requirements (when searching new vendors) and it's somewhere in the vicinity of 15,000 cores with more than 400Gbps (sustained) of internal and 100Gbps of external bandwidth (from memory).

The big cloud providers are the only place you can move to when you have those types of requirements (and are still actively growing).
Very few decisions don't have some undesirable consequences.
Other countries have that too, you know.

Fact is, United States is pretty shit when it comes to income inequality.
Yeah, I was going to chime in and say "I bet Doppelganger would make more money than GlacierMD." Cynical content warning: Precisely because it's not geared toward helping others, which no one gives a shit about, and is all about your photo of yourself which everybody obsesses over.
I never heard of java devs playing around with java, IDEs et al. in their free time either. I'm sure they exist, but sounds entirely foreign (hello Apache!).
>> “Plants grow and live; Animals grow, live and feel.”

>

> Even this gets complicated as we learn more. Some plants like Venus fly traps obviously feel. The fresh-cut grass smell is a signal to other plants that the grass is in distress, and people are theorizing trees communicate through roots.

This quote, as noted in the beginning of the article, is attributed to Carl Linnaeus, and subsequently invalidated. As far as I can tell, the author was not attempting to defend this point-of-view, as it's been superseded by modern taxonomic classifications.
Yeah, that's my prior.

Rather difficult to measure and put into an RCT though, unfortunately.
Do you mean like when Kathy Griffin was holding up the presidents bloody head with no recourse? Or the summer riots which were heavily coordinated on Twitter? Twitter is still in the app stores. Extremism is on Twitter, Facebook, and all platforms, yet they came together like a mob and eliminated the one they didnt like.
As a researcher interested in improving evidence synthesis, I would have loved to use this. Can't this still continue as a volunteer service/non-profit/research project? It reminds me of Examine (https://examine.com/) with broader application potential...
Of note, Typescript is a heavy lift to add to, really port, an existing codebase. Flow can be sprinkled into an existing codebase easier if that's your goal. Once you understand the way the types work (in particular Generics) they're somewhat interchangeable.

New codebases for us use Typescript, extending existing work we use Flow that can be backported in easier.
Databricks recently rebuilt Spark in C++ in a project called "Delta Engine" to overcome the JVM limitations you're pointing out. You're right, Rust is a great way to sidestep the dreaded JVM GC pauses.
Good luck getting your 100Gbps+ sustained (from their actual requirements) of bandwidth in a non-extradition country to your primary audience in the USA.
I like the creativity on the play button; haha. Very cute to have the cursor be a play button that swaps whenever hoving over an element that is playable ;)
I don't think he had the correct buyer either. While medical professionals may be the user, for this type of service you need to be selling into hospitals or health systems. They have the incentive for their providers, collectively, to improve the quality of care.

I doubt UpToDate makes their bones off individual subscriptions. The real money to keep a company afloat is from b2b enterprise contracts.
What is your contact information?
My first instinct is to think, that you never believed in free speech in the first place, however I'd like to hear some examples of what shook you to the core.
I only see one comment giving out about it, and it reveals an absolutely touching faith in peer-review practices.
No need to tell us again about your lack of reading comprehension.
I think the idea is good. Something like AI suggested drugs. But I guess that is hard to do the right way. On the other hand if I really care for the a new drug I take. Just using google scholar and quite often you have some summery studies which compare different meds.
They can have their own servers (and this is probably what they are doing right now)
It’s not even just the visibility, it’s the direct harm the actions of these people cause. Whether it’s to their own personal relationships or nation states. QAnon should make a lot of people nervous about the state of unfettered free speech and the idea that the counter to bad ideas is more speech.
>What is "a credible existential threat to civilization" to you? The recent riots seem to be more than adequately handled through existing law enforcement procedures.

The crowd (who had previously been chanting "hang Mike Pence") came within about 30 seconds of being face to face with Vice President Pence and some large fraction of Congress (source [0]). They came very close to being overrun before the building was evacuated.

We can't know what would have happened. But we know what might have happened. And it very nearly could have happened.

I'm not ready to call that "more than adequately handled".

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-rioters-capito...
There is no entity that would pay anywhere near that amount of money for this. This is useless to black hats, and of course no legitimate service could pay to exploit this flaw. The last remotely plausible actor is like, various espionage agencies but good luck with that one.
Healthcare is tough. There are few markets with more inertia and misaligned incentives than this.

With respect to pitching the product directly to clinicians, OP may have misunderstood his target market or overestimated the value proposition.

It seems like a very big request to ask a doctor to deviate from a treatment with which they already have a high level of experience.
What’s important at the end of the day is to improve and not stagnate.
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege
When a company uses software estimation, it suggests strong distrust towards the software people and is looking for justification of those huge costs.
Most often it means some shitshow happened or is still going on in there.
Yeah I agree that’s the point of the article. I think what I wrote would still be a reason even if it is rationalised differently.

The argument that “patients won’t know the difference so I can just do whatever” must break down at some point (hopefully before malpractice) but I think an argument of “I’ll just keep doing what I did before, it’s worked fine so far” doesn’t encourage worsening treatment or paying for more experimentation.
It's pretty baffling how people all of a sudden expect Fortune 500 companies to not act "politically correct" when bad actors are breaking their TOSes. Was there ever a medium backed by a large corporation where you could post calls to violence against politicians without getting booted off?
> China created a technosolutionist fix.

China runs on an authoritarian regime. Whatever success they can claim against the pandemic is less about technology and more about the ability to enforce draconian rules.
See the Monero team's response here: https://www.getmonero.org/2018/03/29/response-to-an-empirica...

Full original paper here: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/popets/2018/3/arti...
Not sure if this is hyperbole, but usually bugs are caught elsewhere in the design spiral. If caught early enough, this results in a chewing out at worst (I had a bad first job). If caught late enough, this results in a law suit. (Seen it happen from afar)

If you try to hide your bugs, paper over them, and somebody gets killed... that's where the crime comes in... Looking at you Boeing.
Is America obsessed with Russia? I hear them brought up a lot, but I imagine the flip-side isn’t true in Russian households.

e.g. it reminds of me of what I have heard from Indians: Indian households obsessed with China and their relationship/relative importance, but almost no discussion of India in China (who is more obsessed with America and how they stack up).
> Can any single person turn off the internet or prevent everyone else from using their phones/screens for hours every day?

Google "ICANN"

https://deadline.com/2020/07/internet-down-outage-cloudflare...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-serv...
Agreed. I was just looking at the positive aspect of it.
No. I know that most counties won't let you adopt those orphans though because of how hard it is to be sure they really are.
This is a very misleading statement. The area off the coast of California constitutes the California Coastal National Monument. The actual land mass involved there is a mere 8800 acres and nobody lives there. The other national monuments in California add up to 2.5 million acres. BLM's total holdings in California are about 15 million acres, of the state's 105 million acres. Most of what the BLM holds aside from national monuments are grazing lands that they lease out.
Based on the response he got, it was the right question, actually. People aren't Internet-style insecure in real-life, especially those who have high social cred (like doctors). Even accounting for the humorous exaggeration, the kind of question asked from a professional doctor is less likely to cause them to be offended and more likely for them to just tell you why not. They're not going to be "How dare you question my decades of experience?!". They'll answer like they did in the OP.

In The Mom Test, he suggests getting right to the core of a customer's pain points. This is just corollary to that.
yeah - the guardian remainer newspaper- lets put some non-stories together for a lost cause.
Toynbee you lost get over it
That was my reaction too. It seems like GlacierMD might have been successful if it had focused on SEO. Whenever someone types "what is the best headache medicine", GlacierMD should have been at the top of the results. The landing page would show the results of the studies for free, but would also let the user sign up so they can enter allergy and preference info and customize the results to them. Nearby doctors would advertise on the site.

So, in essence, before spending any money, I would go out and interview doctors to see if they're willing to pay for a channel of new customers. I would also try to gauge how many customers would be willing to sign up and enter their info so local doctors could advertise to them. And, of course, I would check with a lawyer to ensure I'm not bumping into HIPAA.
> Do they have such fragile egos that they can't have someone showing them the "new Google for doctors" without feeling offended?

It's very hard to understand their thinking without being yourself a patient or doctor.

TLDR: You need to spend 1K hours as a doctor, or shadowing, or something similar.

When you are responsible for people with psychosis your perspective changes. Can't play nosql games with people's lives.
"Anything that (1) fits into a refrigerator and (2) is edible."

I keep batteries in my refrigerator.
Sounds like this might work to offer it to doctors as a white label phone app or pwa, that each customer (doctor or group or clinic or hospital etc) skins and gives to their own customers or sticks on their own website.

It has the recommendation engine and the doctors marketing looks and some forms of low-friction way to contact the doctor (generate billable service) from email to video chat.

Doctor pays for the startup skinning, any feature changes or updates, and a subscription which pays for ongoing development of the engine and the datasets, maybe some related hosting.

Doctor maybe gives the app to tge users free, maybe charges if they think they can pull it off, and generates sales from the in-app "help me" buttons.

Could have a few quasi-generic versions geared to different kinds of practises that smaller practices could share.
I thought it's obvious from the context, but examples include denying the holocaust being a crime.
Sigh. I am unbelievably tired of people setting this up as "pro free speech" vs "anti free speech". It's inflammatory (who proudly calls themselves "anti-free speech"? It's bad faith just to say that. Anyway.) and it's misleading.

Most critically, almost everyone fundamentally agrees that censorship is a good thing, in principle. Even the most extreme "free speech" oriented websites remove spam, illegal pornography, and deliberate impersonation. Therefore, we both agree with the proposition that sometimes website operators should exercise their discretion and remove content. We are now discussing what should be in the set of things it is acceptable to remove and what is not. But we are not having a disagreement about the concept of censorship.

Another thing to think about: Is a website operator that uses their discretion to remove content not, by that action, exercising their free speech? Would you have the government require website operators to host content they don't want to host? Because that is definitely a First Amendment violation.
There are also services in non-us countries like "How to treat" https://www.ausdoc.com.au/howtotreat Which are relatively popular and used by doctors. Although it's already edited rather than raw data.
I remember when I used to work for Oracle, and Oracle's internal home-grown bugtracker (BugDB) had both bugs and enhancement requests logged in it going back to the 1980s. (I actually tried to find the oldest record... the oldest one I could find was from something like 1984 or 1985, if I remember right.)

And I know the PMs actually went through the enhancement requests the customers logged (I think it was once per a release cycle), and evaluated whether any of them were worthwhile to implement or not.

So, in proprietary software, using a bug tracker to track feature requests is a lot older than Mozilla/Bugzilla.
> No idea what any of those shows you listed are ... My interests are science, history, computing, polictics

Well I don't know what to say apart from that absolutely astounds me. They're the background noise of many British homes and you're severely missing out if these are your interests.

For example, In Our Time alone is 900 45-minute episodes each about an individual topic of science, history, maths, politics, art, culture, religion, etc, sometimes even computing, with genuine experts coming to discuss and debate it starting with a basic introduction anyone can follow and then going into the details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes

I think literally nobody else in the world produces this kind of super-high-quality and enduring intelligent spoken-word content. Even the NPR in the US is very poor in comparison.

And have you really never heard of the Today Programme or are you exaggerating for effect? It really sets the national daily political agenda in the UK like nothing else. I can't practically understand how you can follow politics and never had heard anyone say 'they said on the Today Programme...'

> I felt it wasn't worth paying £120 to the BBC every year

...but you don't have to, for radio.
We saw Trump coming why didn't you?
First of all, you are completely wrong about me creating multiple accounts. This is the second account I've ever created on HN. Second, you know what's really bizarre? a new company in a stacked market of very big and reputable companies as well as countless FOSS projects doing the very same thing with a proprietary product offering nothing new and an open-source component that works behind paywall on github having barely 3k stars (mostly due to marketing) is systemically promoted on hacker news more than revolutionary technologies and FOSS projects with 50k stars that are used by millions of people. This post got completely weird upvote number by any HN standards within the first 5 minutes right after submission and went immediately to the homepage. The founders were surprisingly replying even though the post wasn't submitted by them and the same accounts promoting for them also replied within the first minutes. You can check the upvotes timestamps and users and see for yourself.
> But in fact everyone gave me some version of Susan's answer. "We just can't justify the cost," a pediatrician told me. "I'm not sure it's in the budget," said a primary care physician. "It's awesome," said a hospitalist. "You should try to sell this!" Ugh.

In B2B People pay either to reduce costs or drive sales. It’s as easy as that.
> I don’t have direct experience with the Swiss system, but from everything I’ve read, conversations, etc., it’s a slightly cheaper version of the US system. You buy leveled insurance, you have to pay some out of pocket, etc.

I moved from the US to Switzerland so maybe I can offer some anecdotes here. You're basically right in that it's a slightly cheaper version of the US system. However, some things that I didn't have to pay for in the US such as calling am ambulance without riding in it or seasonal flu shots do cost money here ($500+ for an ambulance to show up in the middle of a large city...), but I think these small lapses are overshadowed by expensive inpatient treatment being essentially completely covered minus some reasonable deductibles as well as outpatient treatment that is usually partially covered depending on the insurance plan.

The positives compared to the US largely revolve around necessary and typically expensive treatment being far more likely to be covered under insurance with relatively low copays and deductibles. The downsides in common with the US are the administrative hassles of dealing with an insurance company and its own billing middlemen (e.g. a COVID test was improperly billed to me which needed to be sorted out), the large monthly premiums for most people (~$250 is typical except for those who qualify for subsidies), and the lack of clarity over what and how much of anything is covered even when the billing is done correctly.

Do I call an ambulance? Do I go in to see a doctor? Will I end up with a massive charge? I'd prefer a single-payer or completely comprehensive system for this last point alone.
Thanks! :) I commented about the US because of the difference in salaries. It is much cheaper to run a SaaS start-up in Poland, which is why we are doing well. Probably for the team in the US, it would be too small revenue to build a four-person team in-house (without, e.g., VC funding).
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551

Weird that the blog post is dated Oct 2020 but was apparently discussed on HN in Jan 2020...
> Also if I didn’t know you personally, I’d probably conclude that you are someone in power trying to keep the status quo and maintain power.

Ha, I'm broke because of serious chronic+acute illnesses that have bankrupted me, and not currently working. So I'd love to see a better medical system. But I've also worked in a conflict/post-conflict zone (several decades ago) so I know how much worse things can get - and that's where we're heading right now unless we can turn things around.

And tons of institutions need reform. But mostly not because of corruption, but rather poor incentives and archaic and poorly-thought-out laws. Our system is far from insalvageable.

But way to ad hominem, not engaging any further with you.
You’re both wrong. 100k visitors per month ≠ 100k unique users per month. Very different things!
Might be interesting to check how much "Medical Tourism" happens between US and other countries. This might be an interesting industry to get into. If I remember well there was a health insurance company that was promoting Medical Tourism for their clients
Ask HN: Should startup founders with 25%+ ownership report it to US Treasury?
I saw a blog today that says:

"Corporations, limited liability companies, and other similar entities formed in the U.S. or foreign entities registered to do business in the U.S. must now report their beneficial owners (any U.S. or foreign individual who owns 25% or more equity interest in a U.S. legal entity) to the U.S. Department of the Treasury." [1]

Is this true?

[1] https://blog.armaninollp.com/tax/2021/01/12/new-law-requires-small-companies-to-report-25-owners-us-or-foreign/
Strangely, I almost never allow YouTube embeds (or for that matter any embeds) using uMatrix. I click the pop out link that appears in its place.
It's always been like this, ever since our ancestors figured out how to use stones to smash things. Technology solves problems and reveals or creates new ones. Which are to be solved with more technology.

It's somewhat obvious point if one looks at what the word means - "the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes".
WooCommerce, the popular E-Commerce plugin for WordPress also asks for Stripe keys.
i think well run teams in general have a lot in common. Not just sales or engineering but all well run teams.
Do our robots use or emit oxygen?
I miss how websites used to work with the original iPhone. Websites looked like normal desktop sites, and you could double-tap on a block of text and the browser would zoom into that area.

I just want normal websites, none of this mobile f*kery we have today.
Don’t you lose the value of cross browser compatibility?
And what of the lies which led us into the Gulf War and the Iraq War? Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of those lies, and they were broadcast from coast to coast by every credible news media organisation in existence. The same organisations now being lauded as the bearers of ultimate truth.

When the next set of lies is rolled out to land us in another unending conflict, I would quite like the internet to be a place where information can freely flow. My fear of governments is far greater than my fear of kooky people on the internet.
Subscriptions are rife with dark patterns. Confusing language, hidden unsubscribe buttons, requiring extraordinary actions (such as phone calls), unexpected price increases - you'll see these popping up every day across social media (including HN).

And, in my opinion, a subscription is inherently a dark pattern no matter how good the intentions may be, since their very nature encourages people to forget about them and keep paying long past the point of usefulness. Throw in CC auto-update for subscriptions, and there's no natural event that would ever cause the subscription to end (short of death, and even that's questionable).

Desktop software is not the place for subscriptions. Such recurring revenue may be great for your business, but that literally comes at the expense of your customers.

As an addendum, pinky promises of continued access to your own media aren't worth the bytes they're stored in these days. Feel free to blame your corporate predecessors.
> But now it's team-status-quo vs team-revolution,

Both Team Red and Team Blue have their revolutionary wings.
wat a wast of tim
It was a stupid gesture on her part and she paid a step price for that act, so it wasn't so free.

When talking about the riots that happened it important to acknowledge all the players. Most of the protesters against police brutality were peaceful and exercising first amendment rights of the first degree -- complaining about government abuses.

There are recorded cases of agents provocateur, e.g., https://www.startribune.com/police-umbrella-man-was-a-white-...

And the police themselves were not passive in these regards, at least in the case when the protesters were not about white nationalism.
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