skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is trying to work on price transparency at her practice by offering bundled rates for the surgery she does. She has worked with all the various providers - anasthesia, pathology, the hospital etc to come up with a cash rate that she publishes on her website for the surgery. Most of the parties are very open to it but also extremely worried about outliers. Patients that end up costing 10x what was expected due to complications.
For her this is a minuscule risk, but in her negotiations it has been their main worry.
It's not a loan from a bank. It's an investment, and the nature of investments are that some fail.

It's pretty wild that founders would need to pay back this money. That would have a massive drag on any risk taking or innovation.

The entire point of venture capital and similar funding mechanisms is that in exchange for a potential massive return on investment, funders are willing to lose everything.
Thank you for the answer!

> Axolo helps to unstuck dangling pull requests in centralizing notifications in one place and let them be top of mind as a "to-do list" in your Slack.

That's an interesting perspective: Slack as the preferred workspace for developers, vs. the platform they use for code management. I wonder how that squares with GitHub and GitLab's shift towards owning the full lifecycle of code -- "DevOps platform", "a single application for unparalleled collaboration, visibility, and development velocity".

Personally, I'd rather spend less time in Slack and more time in GitHub and so it sounds like that's where the mismatch lies for me and my team. That said, good luck, as a solution for people who want to stay in Slack it seems great and I'm sure there's a lot of people like that! :-)
Sweden does not have the highest billionaires per capita. Hong Kong, Monaco, Switzerland all have higher rates for example. There are several additional places as well.

Is Borland actually a European company? It looks like it was started in California and has a headquarters in Texas. It is now owned by a company in the UK, but it doesnt really seem European to me.
Programming Framework Simplifies the Distributed Computation Learning Process
After Windows 10 I’m honestly expecting the worst
This is true, I usually travel with friends and we’d rather be in the same house then the same hotel. Also there’s more options as far as locations and houses can be a lot more unique than a hotel
There's so much cynicism in this thread and lots of forcing everything into black and white. It's not black and white, life isn't black and white. Are there TV stations that show programs disguised as news to promote an agenda and make money? Of course. Are there news outlets working hard to to cover stories that are legitimate publications? Absolutely. Just because OP points out a few cases where media is wrong doesn't make it all shit that should just be ignored. That's fucking childish. Part of growing up is learning to think, and it is really, really hard, and takes work. But it seems lots of people here want everything pre-digested and handed to them on a platter saying: this is true and this is false.
Hacking my ReMarkable tablet into a live presentation tool
Which countries? I've never heard of this, sounds insane!
First off, everything the author writes is worth a read and I want to thank her for that. Re:

>the error message has 0 results when you Google it

While this used to (and still does, I suppose) cause a bit of throat-tightening for me, I've learned this usually means it's a case similar to "your assumptions are wrong". It tends to be something I have misconfigured or a dead-bang obvious typo that my eyes look right past. Often it's something like having the wrong virtual environment in one shell tab which is causing a process to half-work but then fail in a misleading way.
Extended Call-by-Push-Value: Reasoning About Effectful Programs
I like reading these kinds of comments, but then I snap back to reality. It's easier to make Windows 10 behave than make Linux actually work properly beyond a browser and an editor.
> Chrome has the biggest market share (outside of iOS) because it has the more features

Most users don't care. Chrome is the dominant browser because Google anti-competitively used their monopoly in search engines (and eventually their market power in phones). They're no better than Microsoft in using Windows to push IE/Edge on users. They're just far more successful at it.
Free stuff, like a free web browser? Or a free smartphone OS?

If you don't want to be tracked by Google, don't use their software.

Now, if you're having a hard time avoiding their software because it's become a de-facto standard that's a separate problem. The bottom line is that we shouldn't be in a position where we don't have a choice not to use software from Google (or Apple, or Microsoft, etc). As long as these companies are in a position to offer software that can't reasonably be avoided, you should expect them to optimize these offerings at the expense of their users.
People will definitely pick hotel/hotel chain based on price vs. quality.

In the case of AirBnb, while you certainly have some people looking to pick a particular kind of property/experience vs. a hotel, my sense is that most people are going with AirBnB vs. hotel to save money.
Sorry to hear that you were affected by the fork defect. I hope there were no lasting effects from the injuries.

I got Cannondale's recall email as I was flying to Kenya, with my CAADX, for a cycling trip. Was a bit nervous riding the bike, especially given the terrain, but in the end decided to risk it as I didn't want to curtail the trip.

At the time I was wondering whether I was overreacting, and decided that I probably was. It is quite shocking to come across someone who personally suffered an accident due to the fault.
They did copy SV, the product just sources results from Bing, like DuckDuckGo does.
Mobile devices are packed with sensors in a way that desktops aren't. And of course it doesn't help that users generally want those sensor measurements to be accessible to the apps they use.
Agreed. Whoever is working on the kernel and PowerShell at MS can stay, everyone working on Windows UX is fired. Preferably out of a cannon and into the sun.
The difference is Apple doesn't care about reported WK bugs.

I reported a bug in 2016 and it's still open.

Another bug I reported in early 2020 doesn't even have an answer from the team.
You make good points. But from what I remember, "Russia" (I put that in scare quotes because I do not know what Russian entity was behind this) bought 100 thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads. By contrast, the Clinton campaign spent $132 million. That's enough to make me skeptical as to the extent of Russian influence.

I'm only half-joking here, but if these Russians were able to undermine the 2016 election's integrity, spending that pittance, either Trump or Biden would have hired these political science geniuses for 2020.

My understand is that their efforts were mainly meant to sow political discord. If you ask me, what they learned is that we don't need their help with that.
>The EU, France, need to swallow their misplaced, ridiculous pride and understand one simple thing: if you want SV results, you need to fucking copy SV. Otherwise just shut up and don't make an embarrassment of yourself.

This is also why there won't ever be a EU Silicon Valley. Paris isn't going to support any Europe-wide effort to create one that isn't located in the Hexagon, nor will Berlin support one that isn't somewhere in Germany. London pre-Brexit would not and did not support anything that might take away from Silicon Fen.

While other US states encourage their own tech centers' growth, Floridians and New Yorkers and Texans are all aware of, benefit from, and are proud of Silicon Valley being in the US. This can't and won't happen in the EU unless and until people feel more strongly that they are EU citizens than of their own countries, and maybe not even then.
I get sent a deceptive bill every time I use the hospital. I think the idea is to show you what they are billing your insurance (not what insurance pays in the end), but it is always marked as "payment due" even though the insurance is going to foot the bill.
I am hoping to predict home sale prices using MLS data
As as person who got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and looked back to a life of potential wasted, and while I don’t agree with calling the benefits of any drug “superpowers”, I can understand why some people would.
I exercise almost every day, meditate, eat and sleep well and yet, it was a pill that made the biggest difference in treating my difficult on keeping focus.
I'm very tired of the property investors that snatch up duplexes and turn them into quadplexes and then post them all on AirBnB with deceiving photos of the room layouts and amenities.

The number of airbnb's that I've stayed at that have awkward rooms or incomplete amenities has been increasing year over year (such as a counter that prevents a refrigerator door from fully opening due to a hasty remodel, or a kitchen with a full set of pans but no silverware). The toiletries are almost always lacking, the bed sheets are always of the lowest quality - whatever the minimum the host can do to check the box on their AirBnB profile. The photos, reviews, and amenity lists on the host's profile never tell the fully story.

This is more the norm than the exception in my recent experience.
Change the name, because getting rid of misogyny is a longer term project that is still ongoing.
Look up dynamic theme on the windows store. It grabs the daily bing images and sets your lock screen image to them but since its set to a picture there aren't any ads.
That's one of the best love stories I have ever read!
> I dare you to list three finished software projects.

I can probably list 30, and point to the repos.
Or good old MK-ULTRA, of course. :P

Nothing is better conspiracy fodder than ‘the government tried to practice mind control by force feeding people LSD,’ etc - and this is actual declassified government papers. Freaky stuff.
Maybe it's a matter of perspective: If you buy a million pound property to live in and keep as a hobby farm that also generates a little bit of income, are you "subsistence" or in fact "very wealthy"?
Everyone is a creature of habit. So new tools should be tenfold better to kick the habit. Is ripgrep so good? Doubt it, although it’s definitely better.
Rotating might work but the bigger problem is that it’s not immediately obvious that you’re losing half page. The retro effect makes it look like the screen fill is intentional. It’s not until you view the page on a desktop that it becomes clear just how much content is missing in portrait on mobile devices.
The number of people who’d appreciate such accuracy would be minuscule.
WSB is a cluster of lemmings if ever there was one.
When I asked if blind people can suffer from ADHD and the doc didn't know and was like hmmm.. makes me feel its a disease brought on because of the use of screens. 30 frames constantly has to do something to our brains and attention
> I wonder if this next version of Windows is an attempt to throw off some of the bad rap Windows 10's gotten with the "forced updates", unpopular Start menu design, ads on the lock screen, bundled shitware games, etc.

Maybe, but I bet it won't work for the simple reason that they'll do exactly those same things and add a few more equally stupid things too.
> Making human clinical trials cheaper and quicker is probably one of the biggest opportunities for improving U.S. healthcare both during and beyond pandemics.

The failure to accelerate vaccine development through challenge testing is a black mark on our ethical and regulatory system. the Moderna vaccine mRNA was developed two days after COVID-19 was identified, yet it took over a year to get through human testing. All the while, willing volunteers stood by at https://www.1daysooner.org
> Are you saying we should get rid of this functionality just to ensure nobody has a database of the physical location of hardware addresses?

"Privacy" advocates constantly demand that all of us bear the costs of worse technology just so they can have a little fake relief from their imaginary harms. We're long past the point of diminishing returns in preserving real privacy: now privacy advocacy is all about holiness spiraling.

That said, I don't blame Amazon here: why wouldn't they take advantage of an opportunity to hurt a competitor at no cost to themselves?
But Michael tends to use "we" in his writings.
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Which you can side step by doing your own plumbing, helping friends out with that while talking to people, watching videos online, etc.

Good luck apprenticing as a doctor without 6 years of medical school. Or as an architect without architecture school.

Let's not overdo the "blue collar jobs are hard to get".
A lot of parents of modest means, immigrant parents in particular, will move out to suburbs expressly because of the school quality relative to what's available in many city-centers. They're also willing to make much higher sacrifices for their kids' educations and enroll them in parochial or even private schools in spite of the cost. Sometimes, a good charter school or a magnet school is possible too.
I watched a video of Geoffrey Canada[1] explaining that when parents would ask them what they could do for themselves he would respond with something like "Unfortunately, there's not much you can do to change your situation. Which is why it's so important to place a high priority on your kids." I'm paraphrasing and don't remember the exact words but that really had an impact on me. The platitudes that Americans grow up - "Be who you want to be" and "You can do anything you want" - really start to fall away once you're older and have responsibilities and don't have the time anymore to take risks.

[1] https://hcz.org/about-us/leadership/geoffrey-canada/
> Yes, except there has been a concerted effort by monied interests in the upper strata of society to convince those below that organizing to demand better wages is useless at best or un-American at worst. It's an uphill battle.

Then you have to fight against this by organizing better and more widespread. Sometimes I do worry that all this information on Fox News and others about bogeymen distractions us from trying to better the things we actually can.

It may be that we are too easily distracted / disorganized / disheartened to better our position. And then we will not better our position.

But if you believe you can not change your fate, then you definitely can not. So I do suggest being like Obama and starting with community organizing and solidifying ones position locally and taking that larger. There are effective strategies to engage in. But they are not watching TikTok or YouTube all day.
No, because I need a phone for work and family emergencies and dumbphones are even clunkier and more insecure, and it's handy to have a great camera on me all the time.

Delete the apps you want to avoid.

Work on your self-discipline, which is the real problem here. It will pay dividends.
IMHO containers are great for a lot of reasons, and still have benefits without kubernetes. For example even when you have monolithic apps, if the setup is complicated and requires a lot of time to setup, containers can be an excellent option as they help devs get up and running really quickly. This is especially true if you have specialized functions for developers like the classic FE/BE split.

Personally I also find setting up containers nicer then using something like Puppet to manage updates/deployments, but if you have a lot of infrastructure relying on Puppet already or deep experience with Puppet then the gains are marginal for switching to containers.
HEB is using Favor for deliveries (which they bought a few years ago)
Some of the stuff in this article may be fine, and trying to raise money is certainly harder in Europe, but I thought one of the biggest drags on Europe's tech industry is poor pay for engineers and other tech talent?

In the U.S., going into a tech career can be one of the best ways to make a high salary quickly -- especially without needing an advanced degree. Without this incentive, you'll have a lot less people pursuing education and careers in these areas.

A software engineer makes like 50% more salary (let alone all of the other stuff) in the Bay Area as they do in London. London is a really expensive city that pays certain industries a ton of money.
> > immigrants continue to come to the US looking for economic opportunities, which often take the form of small businesses, and then their kids become doctors and lawyers

> Especially if they come here with the capital to start a small business, or to send their children to medical school.

I'm not sure what part of my comment or its parent made you think anyone was talking about refugees or illegal immigrants.
"Mendix, Betty Blocks, Outsystems"

Interesting. I've never even heard of any of those products. They must be in some completely different space than I'm operating in.

In 1980 I was a database consultant, with a long-term account at NY Telephone. Their marketing department mainly used a 4GL called NOMAD. I have to say, it was really great for creating hierarchical databases and for formatting complex reports from it. In fact, when I moved on from that world, I've always missed it since then.

Nothing I've used since then has actually worked as well as NOMAD for the purpose of generating reports from data. SQL did many of the same things, but not as easily. (And even though it was based on a hierarchical DB, you could do operations that were basically SQL's joins. So it was both relational and hierarchical. Although I'm not sure whether the word "relational" was used in that way at the time.)

And at that time there was talk about how in 10 or 20 years even those 4GLs wouldn't be necessary any more because software would generate itself from specifications. I sure haven't seen that happening. In fact, my personal experience has been that, at least for what NOMAD was built to do, nothing since then has even done it as easily.

But then again, I haven't even heard of the tools you named!! Are they just not popular yet because they haven't had time to reach their full audiences, or are they only used in very specific niches such that they don't have a lot of presence in places such as Hacker News?
I have a remarkable 1, and, honestly, I'm deeply disappointed in it. It'd pretty slow just in terms of hardware responsiveness, which maybe the RM2 corrects, but it also just... gets most of the little things wrong in a way that makes it feel so much worse on a day to day basis than most consumer-grade tech projects.

For example: it comes with its own cloud sync. Which is extremely slow and unreliable: if you upload a pdf from a laptop, it might show up right away, or it might show up tomorrow, there's no way to tell and no reliable way to force synchronization.

Or this: the software is super clunky. For example, there's no direct switching between documents. If you're reading a PDF and trying to take notes in a separate file (a good idea because it is also really hard to just get annotations out of a PDF), it takes a looong time to close the pdf, open the other notebook, take the note, close the notebook, and reopen the PDF again.

Honestly, the remarkable experience has soured me on the entire class of products. I really want to get that color onyx book thing, but I'm too skeptical.
> Autonomous driving the same. Blockchain forget it.

There's plenty of both in the EU. And blockchain is more useful as a counter-example of innovation than anything.
I didn't make any comment for nor against, I simply stated a fact.

As for my opinion, I have no issue with the collection of the physical location of access points, I take issue with making me litter my chosen SSID with garbage so that I can opt out.

Regarding hotspot, I'm not sure what you mean, none of this discussion is about mobile hotspot.
But this whole discussion is not about software.

I don't have to use their free browser, their free smartphone OS or even their search engine, but they will still freeload on my Wi-Fi for location tracking and will record my router location without consent, and the only way to opt-out is appending a stupid _nomap to the end of my ID.
just use linux, is better
Let's say you own a restaurant. It's a public place, people are welcome to come on in and take a seat. But there's a guy across the street who likes to come in, take pictures of everyone eating there, piss off your customers, and then leave without even ordering anything. After he's done this several times, you tell him he's not allowed in your restaurant anymore. He comes back anyways. Is he trespassing?

This isn't a matter of stealing information. HiQ is more than welcome to acquire the information by other means. If hiQ scraped the same information from an archive site hosted by someone else it would be fine. But they've been explicitly told they're not authorized to access linkedin, and the CFAA is unambiguous that if you don't have authorization to access a system it's illegal to access it anyways, which is very much in keeping with how we'd treat access to a brick and mortar public business.
Because people create IP on their tablets.
It's not so easy when you're paid in cash, and there's no nearby bank branch to deposit your cash. Even checks aren't so great when you don't have a nearby branch to deposit them.

There are a lot of reasons why poor people can't maintain bank accounts. Everything is harder and more expensive when you're poor. Banks don't want to open branches where people don't have much money; it's not profitable.

They're the ones that "unbanked" refers to. There's a lot of thought about how to get them over that initial hump of having a bank account, which might make their lives better.
I've been facing bugs and non standard Safari behaviors for years.

I've been reporting bugs to WK for years and none have been solved.

Did you know you can't set the dimensions of an iframe in iOS?
The same way you cannot photograph people on the street and collect their facial image for processing.

They publicly advertise their face though, right?

Just the fact that information is available, it does not imply there is a consent for 3rd party to do anything with it.
You'll want to look up the specific games you care about. It's hit and miss. Some will work fine, some won't. E.g. with respect to Epic for example, Fortnite was reported working at some point, but stopped working due to their anti-cheating solution. No idea what the current state is.
Do you really want to make passive wardriving illegal? Literally anybody who sets up a wifi system has probably seen the list of other people's networks within a some-meter radius. How could you possibly think there's a reasonable expectation of privacy with your SSIDs?
Some kind of Expedia for hospitals? Some company that somehow extracts the actual price information from the hospitals and lets you comparison shop?

Ultimately this is a technological solution to a political problem. It's going to be difficult to implement and face a lot of pushback from the entrenched incumbents.
Spain was razed to the ground during the Civil War (1936-1939) and people were literally eating cats and rats off the streets so I doubt that any of our current wealth is inherited from our former Imperial glory, aside from maybe some intangible, indirect and minuscule effects such as “historic capital”.

To your point, same goes for Germany indeed… Have you guys seen the pics of what cities like Berlin, Nuremberg or Frankfurt looked like after the war?

There is a lot of old money in Europe, as some families managed to shield it from these crises, then compound interest did the rest, but I’d really like to see some proof about the sentiment being repeated ITT that Europe’s current wealth is inherited or handed down, because the idea sounds contrary to everything I know about the continent’s history.