skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So in July 2018, nine months and $40K after starting GlacierMD, I shut it down. [...] The idea is that if you build something truly awesome [...] Where did I go wrong?

$40k and 9 months is not that much. Either you gave up just before you figure out how to make the business work or maybe GlacierMD wasn't that revolutionary.

Why not open sourcing and publishing all that work? You can still recoup some money via ad money even if it's not the millions you were expecting and at least you have something to show off.
I'm curious if you're familiar with the stromal stem cell research for regenerating deeper corneal tissues?

Research from University of Pittsburgh, successful on mice/rat models, was taken to India for human clinical trials with pretty great success healing severe chemical burns and scarring to the cornea. Here's video of them talking about their effort to get it FDA approved (will take 5 years), I linked it to where it shows the before and after results: https://youtu.be/q_obgXSeLaU?t=1586
If you are to proud to visit stackoverflow or Google to search for best practices you're not a very good developer. Sounds like the same rule should apply to a doctor or psychiatrist.

Do they have such fragile egos that they can't have someone showing them the "new Google for doctors" without feeling offended?

(Sorry if that came out a bit edgy. But this hole story irks me. It's frustrating when value can't be delivered because of cash flow issues.)
Israel had similar fee for many years. (The public television was deeply inspired by the bbc).

But here they solved it by a much easier way.

* once you got married, you were automatically assumed to have a TV set.

* any tv that was sold were reported to the communication ministry.

* a car owner would pay by default. Assumption was all cars would have and use a radio.

* to show you don’t have a TV set or it’s not receiving any over-the-air broadcasts you were suppose to wait for random check ups. Once finally someone came, they can decide if you don’t need to pay.

But the most interesting story any Israeli know is the “mehikon” (Eraser in Hebrew) and its counterpart (anti-mehikon).

Back in the days, the countrie’s manifest at least was socialism. It wasn’t “fair” someone would have a color tv while others can’t. So the communication ministry required the broadcasters to wipe colors. So even color tv was shown as b&w.
in order to “fix” that, The anti-mehikon was made. A device to “restore” the faulty tv signal and get the colors back.
The worst-case scenario is the end of democracy in the USA in the next 15 years.

If one side stays convinced the elections were fraudulent and Trump is a victim , it will cause a permanent shift in how Americans see their own democratic elections.

Historically, since democracy has existed, that vacuum is always filled by an authoritarian leader.
The reason to do it is because while HTTPS is not perfect (especially when it comes to certificates), the attacks against unencrypted and unauthenticated plaintext HTTP (as I outlined in my other post) are incredibly trivial in comparison. The main point of HTTPS-only is to make the attacks significantly harder and more costly to execute and easier to detect when they do happen. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Are you comfortable with ISPs injecting ads into your blog? [1][2]

> FWIW, my phone is 10 years old.

I'm curious, which phone is this and what do you use it for?

The oldest phones I keep in somewhat regular use are a Moto X (8 years old) and a Moto E (6 years old) which I maintain service on using free service providers (which require I use their service at least once each month or my service will be discontinued). When I turn those phones on each month to place a call with them, they take at least an hour to download and install app updates before I can even start using them. On the Moto E I've had to uninstall most apps because the internal storage has been nearly exhausted just by installing the latest updates for the bundled apps. On both phones even just bringing up the keyboard after I select a text field takes multiple seconds and any kind of multitasking is out of the question. I could not imagine trying to use either of those phones on a daily basis.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-a-banner-ad-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/8ry1k4/does_your_isp...
Is this because they operate radio stations or some other licensing deal?
I've done some work with Buckman Hardy in the UK, they developed and sold a handheld detector to the BBC. They're a legitimate engineering company, I doubt they would admit to being in on the gag if this was fake.

http://www.buckman-hardy.co.uk/portfolio/television-detectio...
Hey, we exist for two years right now and doing very well :) Our revenue is growing 13% month to month (bootstrapped). We are based in Poland, so different rates apply here (I'm guessing you're writing from the US)
>There's almost certainly some third factor between Vit-D and health

A healthy balanced diet and (outdoor) life/exercise?

Regardless it seems that a lack of vitamin D is bad for you, so even if it doesn't directly help with Covid taking suplements seems a nobrainer to me.
Uh oh, all right, alright, so I learned two things here today :-)

Thanks!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/all-right-or-a...
Avoiding Waste in Digital Advertising
> But watching the events of the past few years unfold I am no longer convinced that this would really make the world a better place.

One hard truth: it would have been enough to look at European laws made after WWII, and adopt them in the US as well in the first place.
Natual isomorphisms with FDHilb are very difficult to get here: Different flavors of Petri nets present different flavors of FREE monoidal categories. "Free" here means that we have categories that satisfy exactly the equations that are needed to be (symmetric, commutative) monoidal, nothing more. Instead, FDHilb is compact closed, and even more, hypergraph. This means that it has a lot more structure beyond monoidality: It has products (that are actually biproducts), cups and caps (because it is compact closed), etc. So there is no way to generate this kind of stuff from one of our nets: FDHilb has waaay more equations than just a monoidal cat. What you can get, tho, is functors from our categories to FDHilb. This is what "freeness" means. :)
In https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05988 we were able to tweak the definition of Petri net a bit to let it generate free compact closed categories, and I feel this is the best we can do.

The kind of graphical gadget that generates FDHilb (in the sense that the graphical calculus is sound and complete wrt FDHilb) is called ZX calculus (or one of its equivalent variants, such as ZW). It took roughly 10 years to prove that ZX is complete wrt FDHilb! In any case, a string diagram in ZX calculus looks like a hypegraph with extra properties and equations. But you lose the dynamic interpretation of tokens moving in the net, there are no tokens in ZX!
Thanks :) We will add support for Vue and Vuetify in a few weeks
We do have some limits on lies. There are libel/slander laws.

These limits are usually very weak, though. They vary from place to place, but tend to have a high bar, are expensive to pursue, and have many exceptions.
It sounds like GlacierMD not only presented results from meta-analyses, they made a platform to make them easier to do and did their own but didn't publish them. If you built a platform to make doing meta-analysis easier, you could collaborate with medical researchers and institutions who are publishing meta-analyses. Maybe give it to them for free at first, maybe get an author credit, some PR, and more sales leads. Researchers can probably use grant money to buy access to your platform and still save money on paying analysts to do things manually.
I think this is the basis of the "Cat Detector Van" skit on Monty Python's Flying Circus
> Podcasts, which IMHO blows any radio out of the water

Can you please share which breathtaking podcasts you're listening to, because I've never found anything even close to as good as landmark BBC radio shows like Today, PM, Today in Parliament, In Our Time, The Moral Maze, Blood, Sex, and Money, From Our Own Correspondent, The Essay, and Night Tracks.
TBH I don't know, it seems to be mostly tech and tech policy people, but the hype with people mentioning it on LinkedIn et a. has gotten to the point where mainstream media is covering it.

One thing I've noticed: If one of my contacts signs up for the waitlist, I can give them access w/o using up one of my two invites, so it might be that they just relaxed the exclusiveness on that front to push it.
> Sure, babies don't start out with years of trauma. So what?

I think that you should look up what trauma and dysfunctional early setup does with kids. Because it can be very hard on caregiver and test all their abilities including self control. The adoption agencies themselves are quite open about these issues - they do not want people to adopt and then be unable to handle things.

Which are all euphemisms mind you. Basically, there are issues with violence, inability to create relationship or even inability that relationship can be "true". Which causes whole other bunch of behavioral problems. Like, the eagerness to "test" caregiver by really going out of way to create trouble. And if caregiver fails, result is basically abuse. And the kid can't help itself, but adults should.

And adults when they see they don't have time and resources and patience to deal with above, do better to adopt baby.

> People are willing to take classes and things and learn, are they not? It just isn't the same as babies.

What did that even means?
It looks like I made a good investment ;)
Just because you get a phonebook doesn't mean everyone does...
> Make something people want __and stuff it with ads__

That's a business.
This is great; very valuable content. Thanks for sharing!
Peter from The Pirate Bay recently commented on the Parler situation.

TLDR: what a bunch of lightweight crybabies...

https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1348194329005875203
> The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a licence for the privilege.

I know at least three countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) which do the same (edit: according the Wikipedia [0], such a fee exists in basically every European country, Japan, Israel, South Korea and Namibia). In Germany, the situation changed a few years ago, every household has to pay now, even if they don't own a television or radio. When I was a freshman student 10 years ago, things were a little bit different: an inspector (the "GEZ man") came by my apartment a few months after I moved in. He wanted to have a look inside. I declined. He came back a few times, but I didn't open the door. I never paid the fee (and I didn't have to, because I received BAföG [1]). Even if I would have had to, there was just no way for them to prove I was actually owning a television. Here, those "detector vans" have been an urban legend for 60 years. I am pretty sure I read somewhere that they never existed and where basically "created" to fear people into paying the fees.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundfunkabgabe

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesausbildungsf%C3%B6rderun...
Remember when the US government made sure Snowden couldn't travel to any other country, let alone return to the US, then used the fact that he stayed in russia as evidence for his russian ties? This is just as cynical.
I believe HN is unique in this regard. I myself have been both scolded and graciously questioned by HN users on my writing, and it is always done in such a concise and well-written way. I am honestly completely new to writing anything online, and consider myself fortunate that there is a community of highly intellectual people willing to take the time to give my writing succinct criticism, without feeling the need to attack me personally.

It has also made me aware of how well-researched many HN user's opinions are on both sides. My opinions have largely been formed in conversations with young people of the liberal city I live in. They will cheer at anything that attacks whoever they see as their opponents, regardless of the research quality or partisan tone behind them. I have received a far greater range of perspective from brilliant HN users on both sides, which has prompted me to take a step back and re-evaluate how I am writing about this incendiary topic.
We use it internally ourselves. It’s from That Mitchell and Webb Look.
same experience level, similar formula. Take your gut estimate, double it, double that new value, then add another "increment".

e.g. say you think it will take a day, so 2 days, 4 days, add another day, likely estimate is 5 days.

My pet theory is that when we estimate, we typically think of how long it will take to figure out a working solution to the problem, but forget about how long it takes to debug it, add tests, rework for changed requirements and unexpected nuances, and then roll it out and do any training, etc.
Edit: If you read the following as "vote with your feet" and not "go live in a tent" you will have better results.

It is written: 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 "𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓶𝓮" / 𝓓𝓾𝓶𝓫 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓼
[For screen readers: They "trust me" / Dumb fucks]

It's a problem, for sure, but I don't think we're totally helpless... yet... and it frustrates me to see this level of learned helplessness, and mistaking convenience for necessity. Being used to using your phone for everything, doesn't mean you cannot do something else. It's inconvenient, and not impossible, to go to a library[0] instead of Google and BabyCenter.com for answers to your questions. It's inconvenient, and not impossible, to momentarily disappoint your kids to protect their data forever (which is the kind of long-term concern that you understand and they don't, because you're the adult, which in turn is why you, and not they, are in charge).

[0] RE libraries & books, that's the method most people used up to and past the 80s when PCs started appearing in many homes. That's the method by which enough knowledge was transmitted through millennia to enable the invention of smartphones. You don't even have to borrow the book; you can read it on-premises. But if you need to borrow it, you should still real-quick make sure the library isn't selling you out to anybody either. Most libraries have enough money and are pretty popular when it comes time to levy a tax or issue a bond. But some are just strapped enough that they "could really use the extra cash" that comes from providing borrower data to somebody who has convinced them it will be "anonymized."
For example, the Hunter Biden story was actively suppressed on both Twitter and Facebook, essentially confirming long-held beliefs that social media platforms curate based on political ideology.

I don’t think anyone can in good faith deny that if Don Trump Jr had allegedly done one-tenth of what Hunter Biden is accused of, the media would have it on 24/7 rotation.
Thank you @gabrielsroka!

1. Good idea!
2. Thanks, will look it over.
3. I limited it on purpose, not to overload html.
4. Didn’t think of it. Good idea!
5. Yes, you should be able to query it by SELECT profile->firstName

Thanks for great feedback!
loving a difficult child is hard! but there are varying degree's of difficult, violent difficult i can understand that is an immense challenge and i definitely don't recommend people to take that on unless they are prepared and sometimes you don't know, yes this situation really sucks!

I don't know what there is to regret about having kids, yep its difficult but everything worth doing is difficult! Adoption is definitely very difficult, especially the kind I did, international adoption of special needs children. My family didn't understand, many people in the public don't understand, and if they somewhat do they ask why I didn't adopt an american child, to me a child is a child.

I will say any ounce of love you can give these kids is better than what they have, seriously, the things I've seen.. picture your life from age 1 - 16, tied to a crib, malnourished, not educated, treated like a feral animal weighing under 100 lbs now, and all kinds of spine issues because you were not ever allowed to walk! Or if you are lucky enough to be in a place you can develop a bit, but then you are molested and abused but still have the intellect of a feral animal.

Many of these kids don't know what bonds of love are, but they can still form even tiny bits of it, and there will be times you think ..why the hell did i do this, but there are times when you think i am so happy i did this, you push through those hard times, get support from friends etc and the life of that kid will be a million times better than the life they would have had.

I think people don't give themselves enough credit, and somewhere inside i know they could do it, I never thought I could do it. One thing I do know is, if we all sit around questioning what we can't do we never will know what we could do and in the meantime children are suffering. I'm actually internally battling the want to adopt a third child vs being at limit!

Oh also adopting is an expensive venture, i went into debts to do this so i recommend to anyone get familiar with the community of adoptive parents and let them help fund raise.

But yes overall I think it's a huge problem that gets little attention, and once and awhile you will see a super sad advertisement on TV and hear everyone whine about how bad it made them feel and how they shouldn't show those kinds of ads. Big disappointment to me when i hear that, I feel like its more rug sweeping under

ah well
The current ideology of needing to go big fast kills a lot of decent ideas.

Everyone thinks there are two modes for a service: dead or worth $1B+.

Not to like bash you while you are down but you may have been able to do this while working and not spending $40k on contractors.

Not everyone needs to raise $10M, get a flashy office, employ 200 people and have all of the trappings of a "successful" startup founder; if anything, that's antithetical to what you should be doing.

No MVP, no testing their model, just straight to "Next Best Thing". It definitely hurts, I've been there too for my first "next big thing" and I doubt you'll be the last to get burnt by the image VC firms sell.
The situation was (is) the same in Germany: There is a fee of about 20EUR/month per household in order to fund the public service broadcasting. And in the last century, these "TV detector vans" also have been a thing in Germany.

While the detecting technology can work in theory, it will perform poorly in practice. Think of any dense settling, such as apartment blocks. It will be kind of impossible to determine the exact source of radio signals from the street, at least in the frequency domain and signal strength in question.
> fire up a mob and incite them to attempt to violently take over the seat of government of a country with nuclear weapons

You know the buttons/switches/etc to launch missiles (nuclear or not) are not at the Speaker's podium in the House, right?

In fact, "taking over the seat of government" here was literally just that.. a physical seat. The US government applies authority in people via roles not via seating position.

Were they a bunch of assholes? Yes and they should be prosecuted as such.

Was it a "violent take over"? Not a chance.
If Facebook has 35,000 people working on safety and security, and knows it is now under scrutiny, yet still shits the bed like clockwork, what solution is going to fix this to our satisfaction?

I'm not really sure there is a viable prevention strategy here. The problem of social networks is the problem of human nature multiplied by technology, and the regulatory fixes we're likely to try seem either quaint or dystopian.

The level of oversight and regulation the nuclear, auto, and food industries operate under would be considered crippling in a consumer-facing social network space. Batya Friedman (whose opinion I already respected) alludes to this in the article. If these companies need an impact study to be done and an appointed panel to sign off on new features, they'll just lose out to competing foreign products without that oversight. My government can prevent me from buying an unsafe foreign car, but at present they don't generally stop me from signing up for unsafe foreign social networks. I'm sure I don't want them to get into that practice, either.

I ask myself whether I would want the Trump administration overseeing social networks, and by extension do I want an indeterminate future administration to have that role either? Probably not, nor do I believe any committee or panel would be truly above the reach of politics.

In any case, risk management begins by assuming risks are not entirely preventable, so quick and effective mitigation should be part of any robust solution. Though it may prevent some disasters, I'm skeptical whether more bureaucratic oversight helps quickly address them when they arise. There's even reason for me to think that social media is complex and unique enough from nuclear, auto, and food that the existing oversight model may not even be useful if extended into this space.

In short, I am not confident in the government's ability to come up with something new and brilliant enough to regulate this space effectively.

I think this is the quote that sums up the problem for me:

> “We may decide we’re not wise enough for certain kinds of tools, or certain kinds of companies"
> To encourage compliance, TV Licencing regularly sends sternly worded letters to those who have let their licence lapse or have not purchased one.

This is an understatement. It would be fairer to say they constantly spam you with scare mail.

> In the event this fails, they may arrange a visit from enforcement officers.

That's what they want you to think. In practice it never really happens. Too expensive. Hence the spam.

> These officers aren’t empowered to forcibly enter homes, so in the event a homeowner declines to cooperate with an investigation, TV Licencing will apply for a search warrant.

I would be quite surprised if this has actually ever happened.

It's pretty obvious they don't do any fancy detection these days (if they ever really did). It's just way too expensive.
Thanks! i will check it out
> you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.

That doesn't really capture the conversation though. Susan specifically said (as you quoted) that it was possible she would use the recommendations of the app. If she took a recommendation that means she agreed it was a better treatment. His question was not whether his algorithm was better than her default prescriptions - because they both agreed that was the case at least some of the time - it was whether it was better enough to be financially worthwhile.
Well written - that was an entertaining read.
That’s shocking to me. They have subscriptions? Why is someone subscribing to an app like this?

Looked at things on the App Store. It’s not clear what a subscription gets you but they’re charging $4.99 a week for the premium features.