skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. But people seemed to not be able to entertain the thought that doctors were aware something was happening back in October. In their minds, I think, if the big media did not have an article on it, then it doesn't exist. This is a grievous state of affairs for discussions, because it means NYT and others are effectively the Ministry of Truth for HN.
> Part of this is a Python problem

Yeah it is kind of annoying that the language that's going to be best for instructing kids/beginners has such a terrible ecosystem that will put kids in such frustrating PITA positions getting the environment right.
The professionals have the same attitude about their trade as we do about (from your post) python. EG... no matter what required work is, I'm 99.9999% confident I can have it working in very little time. It's all that experience/confidence in the field that let's a good engineer give the warm-and-fuzzy feeling to a client. The client _knows_ you are going to knock it out of the park, because that's your level of familiarity and the confidence you project.

A professional tradesmen _knows_ he can show up to your home/business and fix your problem(s) with 99.999% certainty.
HSA is legally yours, and no one can make you lose it. What you are referring to is a health FSA, which have no reason to exist anymore.

Any employer that does not offer HSA eligible plans is shafting their employees. An HSA is a 401K, but better, since you can withdraw without penalty at any time for any healthcare expenses you had at any time in the past. And you can invest it into anything you want (just rollover your funds to a Fidelity HSA every year).
Not at their beginning they weren't. Google wasn't better than AV after their first investment.

FB wasn't even public at first, but School/University only.
I wonder if there is any law here that protects consumers ? It is atrocious that a hospital/doctor/clinic can send you any absurd bill/amount and then it is on YOU to fight and prove that it was incorrect. I have done it many times myself.
Back in the 80s I took a summer school class offered by the district in 'computer programming' which was about half logo half applesoft basic. The school even had a little 'turtlebot' driving pen plotter bot, tethered to one of the //e's by what I assume was a serial cable.

If your logo program was particularly cool the teacher would print your program out on the little dot matrix printer and project it up on a screen using an opaque projector and step through it line by line while the little robot drew it out on a piece of butcher paper.

Probably one of the early experiences that made me love pen plotters.
You say that like it’s always a bad thing, but sometimes we actually do want to use our phones to find out our location, and GPS is often slow or doesn’t always work.

The issue here is having control over when your phone looks up your location, not the existence of a database that makes it work.
The effect doesn't go away, you just start expecting more of yourself. Without medication I was really happy if I could focus 30 minutes in a day, that would have been like a once a month event. On medication I feel like shit if I just got 4 productive hours on a day. So sure not every day is like the first days after you start, but it never goes down to even close the level you are at without medication.
Yeah, I think that was harder to predict. the initial drop wasn't though.
Is there any answer possible short of "it's god" that would satisfy you?

I'm asking because you are giving the impression that whatever answer you get, you will reply to with "but why?" and "that's just passing the buck down".

A fundamental thing about science is that we'll likely never have all the answers. You can always ask "but why?". That's not gatekeeping but the difference to religions which often times claims to have the final answer. (Ironically there is a lot of gatekeeping in religion since not everybody is permitted to interpret scripture as they wish.)
If you are struggling financially who cares if you are paying an extra $10 a month to rent-to-own an $800 phone? That sort of shit is just more judgemental dog whistling.
I think there is some guy in Europe that made an OS some years ago - Linus or something.
So there is at least one with some imagination.
Might I ask any details about how taxes work in that situation and what cities are good etc.
> if you try to sit down and try to start the work and just CANNOT emotionally bring yourself to do the work or get your brain to engage, then it's probably something more than just normal procrastination

I've had so many problems with this in high school and college, it's unreal. I've only started to fully comprehend my problems with anxiety this past semester but reading all of this makes me wonder if there's something more to it than just that.
IMO these two things are compatible. Their mesh network is incredibly gross but it's not a privacy violation, it's bad in other ways.
Is it any different from Linux users pushing software that depends on Linux syscalls to function and scoffing at Microsoft's attempts to achieve platform parity with WSL? I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone in computing say "just use linux!" instead of attempting to solve whatever problem a user is having with their current hardware and OS. We all want to believe that our personal choices are the best ones anyone can make for themselves.
I want a Kindle for DRM free epubs
Yea and that's also part of the problem. Most of us ignore this stuff because we have insurance but this is why the racket keeps going. But ultimately, someone pays for it somewhere.
Your neighbors are currently monitoring your wifi network. That is how wifi works -- we all monitor each other's transmissions to avoid interfering with each other's networks. Most wifi APs will also monitor the ISM bands to find the least-congested channel to use, and will typically do so continuously and change to a different channel as needed. You may also have noticed that when you connect to a new network you start with a list of nearby SSIDs that you can choose from -- do you think looking at that list is a violation of privacy?

Moreover, there are companies that operate large numbers of APs across a broad geographic region, and they may have a centralized system for managing those APs -- which means that they are collecting information about all nearby wifi stations (including client devices) across a broad region in a single place. Do you have a problem with that practice or view that as a violation of privacy?

Radio is not private (except, possibly, cellular services, which may be treated as phone services with legal restrictions on wiretapping), especially when you are talking about unlicensed operation.
It depends on what kind of company you start. One with limited liability often requires more upfront investment.
That’s all correct. The point is it’s incredibly hard to get to the specialist at times. I was trying to get an appointment in Belgium, they could only offer April 2022.
Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (2018)
That wasn't an HSA, that was an FSA (or an HRA or something else).

FSAs (other than LPFSAs) cannot be used with HDHPs, which are the plans that allow HSAs.

An actual HSA is your money. If you don't spend it on medical care, you can withdraw it when you are elderly as normal money.
Do you regret your decision?
I've had much more luck with VRBO/HomeAway and smaller regional sites (e.g. https://www.seashorevacations.com) than with AirBnB. Also looking forward to trying the Marriott vacation rentals as an option.

Feels like you get a more "traditional" type of vacation rental owner. More professional? More likely to outsource all the management to a professional management company? I've been scammed on AirBnB, never through any other site.

(The AirBnB scam was fortunately "only" the one where they switch you to a property in a different building because the one in the pictures is "under repairs". I didn't make too much of a stink about it because we had been traveling for a long time. But it's still fraud.)
At this point, can we safely suspect every important system is compromised at one point or another?
I worked in health care IT (insurance / provider side) during ACA's implementation.

My takeaway is that Congress is technically ignorant of how ossified these backend systems are, but the enforcement agencies (e.g. CMS) are the grease between law and implementation.

F.ex. ACA language and guidance being tweaked right up until the supposed "must be compliant by" date.

Generally speaking, it works about as well as one might hope. All the stakeholders get together, hash out a reasonable schedule for actual implementation, and then everyone generally works towards that.

It helps that the relationships are generally interdependent, and there's enough money sloshing through the system to fund change. So all parties generally do a fair job at converging on the requested changes, quicker than they'd like, but slower than the government would prefer. And then the few trailing insincere implementers start getting beat with fine sticks once the majority of their peers have successfully implemented.

But agile, it ain't.
I’m assuming you means from Chrome’s extension store (not sure why they call it)

While they can be installed manually with extra steps, there are also other browsers out there.
I purchased one a couple months ago, and it has definitely helped to 'become a different person' in that I have found a joy in both handwriting notes and sketching that I never had before.

I downloaded some PDFs on how to sketch, and I can sketch right there in the PDF along side the examples..

The futility of hand-written note taking was always my lack of organization, but the auto syncing of this really helps in that department.

I can't say it is for everyone, but while I was definitely not the target consumer for this device, I am more that person now after buying it. I appreciate anything that pushes any of my time from consumption to production, and this helps me to do that.
Because programmers/engineers are really bad at accepting they are wrong.
If that's really the only thing keeping you from Firefox, which you would "love" to do, why not stop keeping dozens of tab open at a time?
Can you also get kindle on it?

Nova devices are android so kindle, safari reader, and any ePub, pdf etc. book are a breeze to install.
I've had similar story, but this time with the IRS.

Right after my university I've started pursuing startup idea and of course I though that I will get investors coming through the door very quickly so first thing I did was to setup a Inc. company in Delaware. There is 2 ways to pay taxes there - on revenue or on shares (I might got it slightly wrong)...

After a year or so company staying dormant I was living in Europe already and received mail saying that I have to pay $150k in taxes :o

I tried to call ask why I got this bill, but it was Friday, already closed. I didn't have a job and experience back then so this was horrifying. I was running through scenarios of having to work years to pay this off because of some stupid mistake (or hiding from US government for life). So I called a laywer who asked for initial $5000. I've met another person who wanted to help me for cash $2000. I though it is a joke, because I was barely making a living.

Fortunatelly I didn't fall for that and waited until Monday. I called again and lady explained that they always send the bill for first option and we have to remember if it is correct or not. So at the end there was no tax to be payed. I immediately closed the company.

What can you do...
It's far more unique than your house number. Nobody expects that I can show up directly at their house, if they just say their SSID or simply send me a screenshot of their Android home screen. Just search your SSID [0] and see for yourself.

[0] https://openwifimap.net
Most providers have a pretty good idea what the lower bound will be, its the upper 5% they may have no idea about.

Pathology maybe usually $100 for a tissue exam, but I've seen a routine mole biopsy need $1,500+ (wholesale) exams after referral to an academic center because there was something off that required further workup. This happened 1 time in 10 years.

Anesthesia knows that a breast augmentation will usually be no less than $X, but if the patient has an anesthesia reaction and decompensates and needs 4 hours of one on one time with an MD its going to be a lot more. Very, very rare.

You get the idea, its often not possible to know until you do the procedure. Even more when surgery is involved because imaging is not 100% and you may wind up with a much more complex procedure than you bargained for once you cut someone open, or a complication like a perforated bowel during colonoscopy, etc.

Finally, most of these people don't talk to each other -- so the pathologist has no idea what the surgeon is charging and neither of them the hospital nor radiologist.
Hello all, Aaron from Replicache here. Happy to answer any questions about Next.js Live or Replicache!
I agree that contextualizing the question could help, but that doesn’t mean the poll question is useless. We expect “acceptance of NAMBLA” to be a pretty unusual view in the public. The fact that 80% of the public has some views they’d feel uncomfortable expressing suggests that either:

1) There is a “long tail” to controversial ideas, and while each idea may be held by a small number of individuals, holding at least one such idea is common across the population had a whole.

2) There are widely held ideas that the public nonetheless feels uncomfortable talking about.

In the first case, that suggests that society had more than just a handful of ideas (like Holocaust denial or support for pedophilia) that are deemed beyond public discussion. In the second case, that suggests suppression of views held by the majority. Either way that’s a pretty telling statistic.
4 GB, especially if you don't have an SSD, isn't really enough for Windows 10.

> I installed Ubuntu

I did this once and regretted it. Except for OS itself, nothing quite worked reliably, and you're basically the only person who can help them if it has problems.
All technical limitations are artificial barriers enforced by humans. Software and hardware doesn't just fall out of the sky.
I find it remarkable that 5 large companies can employ fully 6% of all newly-minted programmers. That's just a lot.
Java Desktop System
I believe you're thinking of AppleTrack.

https://appletrack.com/appletrack/
No, but almost everyone ignored it and it never matured out of Candidate Recommendation:

> Efforts to standardize Do Not Track by the W3C in the Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) Working Group reached only the Candidate Recommendation stage and ended in September 2018 due to insufficient deployment and support. [...] Despite supporting it in its Chrome web browser, Google did not implement support for DNT on its websites, and directed users to its online privacy settings and opt-outs for interest-based advertising instead. The Digital Advertising Alliance, Council of Better Business Bureaus and the Direct Marketing Association does not require its members to honor DNT signals.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
I'm not sure this one matters to me much. It's something you spew into the public space, and they're just recording the name and where it is. To me it seems no different than your address, or if your door is a certain color, or the color of your house. Zillow likely has a picture of the front of your house if you're in one, and a bunch of other info about it as well.

Changing the SSID to prevent them collecting the info is sort of like hanging a big sign that says "no pictures" to prevent services from taking pictures of your house. It's a little ridiculous to have to do that, but it's also a little ridiculous to expect that people are going to ignore what is publicly visible. Honestly, I'm a little impressed that Google lets you opt out (and Microsoft apparently as someone noted, although with a different suffix).
The parent wasn’t saying whether it was an emergency or not.
Your router is publicly broadcasting its SSID ("Pretty fly for a WiFi" or whatever). Google Street View cars, Android devices, etc. have noticed the SSID in their vicinity and submitted the SSID with an approximate location to database. Now, when another device using Google's location service is trying determine it's location, it can submit the list of SSIDs (including yours) it can detect to get back a fairly accurate location. If you add "_nomap" to your SSID, Google won't use it; it's crude because broadcasting metadata along with SSIDs isn't a part of the WiFi specs.

I don't see how using public router SSIDs as a landmark is "tracking you." If you use Google location services to determine your location based on your SSID or others, particularly while logged in to a Google account, then in some sense they're tracking you.
I learned to code without understanding first, and then came to understand later. I don't know if that's good or bad pedagogy in general, but it worked for me. Maybe a few more people can chime in; the plural of anecdote is data.
Publish an Android Library to GitHub Packages
(Not the person you were responding to) I'm curious what countries you have had experience with? Direct praise of the university programs you had may be due?

My favorite audio language, pure data, was created after IRCAM kept the IP for max/msp - if I recall correctly. This seemed to motivate the author, miller puckette, as he seemed to form an ethos of accessibility. Now pure data is supposed to have a ~25 year support cycle along with mit/bsd licensing. Ableton, a german company, bought max/msp after a few decades of it being on its own.
I would personally lump both head start and luck into opportunity. Opportunity can come from many things. It basically just means an open door instead of a locked door. I think it encompass all environmental factors such as class, education, upbringing, genetic lottery, connections, support network, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, economy, unsolved problems, unaddressed needs and on and on.
Thanks. They seem really nice devices, especially the Remarkable2.

The problem with working online is that most of these devices phone home regularly, and while I wouldn't mind if they read with me an electronics magazine or book, that would be different since I'd also use a reader for displaying medical prescriptions and/or other personal documents.

Broadly speaking, device manufacturers (TVs, home appliances, etc.) became obsessed with making users sign in to their own cloud and downloading their own app; no thanks, I'd rather buy a device that lets me browse shares on the local network I'm connected to, and/or save documents into their storage using a USB cable. If the reader and the media are both within my house walls, I don't see reasons to connect outside.
> Why does it somehow not count as misgendering when you they/them someone that prefers he/him or she/her?

Because one appears to make an assumption about gender, whether or not you intended it to be taken as a generic, while the other objectively is generic.

As far as options go, they/them minimises assumptions. Yes, some people might still take offence, but given that most of the people who take offence at that takes offence because they oppose inclusiveness of others, I'm perfectly fine with not respecting their choice in the matter.
Headlines need statements. If you disagree, consider if I'd written: Headlines that assert a statement grab readers, you probably wouldn't care enough to still be reading.

Write the headline just as you think it with all its logic and reason, and then conjugate it into an assertion with a begged question.

Maybe they're going for a more quiet experience than clickbait, but since people read for sensation, and the more people that read something the more they will have in common, I'd say conjugate your headlines.

People Overlook Subtractive Changes.
https://future.a16z.com/the-untapped-potential-of-subtractio...

Low Switching Costs are Driving DeFi.
https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-...

Nobody Knows Where Their Stuff Is.
https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-ch...

Bubbles Are Statistical Time Travel.
https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovat...

etc.
Speak of the devil (just found this site earlier this morning), but I really think what metaculus has built could be what you're looking for.

https://www.metaculus.com/
Well, I want strong moderation, and I don't believe so-called 'filter bubbles' are inherently evil. HN suits me better than any other place online. I'm not even convinced that most people who complain about HN's restrictions and bias would, in reality, enjoy a similar site that didn't have them. But if they would enjoy one, Andreessen Horowitz strikes me as having a sensibility (which I dislike, tbh) that would match such a site.
MeVista8?
You have different selves working at different time scales. Your problem is that your short term self is winning out against your long term self. The remedy is to learn to hold your attention where you want it, so when the short term self directs your attention to the line of cocaine you can keep it on the long term goal instead. To get better at directing your attention... meditate, particularly deeply focusing on a sensation. Practice practice practice.
Probably referring to this story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-iphone-11-pros-locat...
Thank you for the feedback... I am just learning web development, so I don't really have a use case yet. I largely created the website to show myself I could. I really appreciate your feedback. Thank you for taking the time to look at my website!
How much does social media factor into these “unattainable better life” thoughts?
But it can be solved by startups: Procedure Insurance.
I recently discovered, while helping a family member, that to unlock Windows from S mode you now need a Microsoft account. This is really crazy: I need a stupid Microsoft account to use my PC.

Without mentioning that the only way to create a local user is to setup windows without connecting it to the internet.

And without mentioning the amount of nagging, ads and spam that Windows users have to withstand. Like, the other day Edge reappeared on my taskbar by itself and reset itself as the default browser. And how many times do I need to confirm that yes, I am not crazy, I want to use another browser?

It’s a pity, because under the crust of shit, there’s a good OS with wonderful software compatibility that spans over decades and that is, overall, quite stable. Too bad it is constantly trying to bother its users.
The tricky part about modern "conspiracy theories" is that many of them are actually true.

Amazing how using your own brain to think critically to reach your own conclusions is now frowned upon (a.k.a. wrongthink). And it's being done by people who think they're smarter than everyone else, but are actually under control of a much smaller group of people in the social wrung above them.

Nothing going on in the world lately is really about politics, it's all about population control and class warfare. Politics is the vehicle to recruit useful idiots.
T cell selection forms immune tolerance and has now been reconstituted in-silico
I don't think this will be a successful business model. Niche AI models cost a lot of money to gather the right dataset and train, but they would probably only sell to <100 companies/individuals. So pricing a model at $50-100 isn't profitable. If you're selling general CV models, you have to compete with the plethora of open source ones, including ones that Google and Facebook release for free, which are trained on huge datasets and using a lot of compute resources.
For Auction: Source Code for the World Wide Web, Offered by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Here is an example of a thread where we all knew for a fact that the virus could not have spread as early as it did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459963