skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're literally saying is: instead of ending predatory pricing, enforce it for the rest of the world.

Here's a novel idea: cut military spending in half, and you can provide all the free medicine to all Americans for the rest of their lives. All the while making the world a safer place.
I am SUPER interested in what problem could be big enough to cause this world-wide
Psychologically, how do people take this? Is it real enough for the payment not to contaminate the experience?

Also, SilverDial appears to take over half the money for themselves. You pay $100 for 4 30 minute calls but SilverDial pays $12 for each call. Seems steep.
oh my god come on man
Do nothing (2020)
Again, should be true but often simply doesn't play out that way in practice. The stockholders may be very diffuse groups of people, or mostly represented by proxies (eg fund managers) that don't have any real incentive or ability to organize a counternarrative and counterdrive to counteract concerted, well organized shorting, with all that entails in terms of media FUD etc etc.

Hell, even in cases where long oriented speculators really do bite back, and in even in the fraction of those cases where they're able to have any success, they still get ridiculed in the media and in the industry.
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of buying kick-ass startups.

Fixed it for you.
This is an interesting idea!

Took a quick look at pricing, looks to be about 100/mo for a weekly call (so about $25/call).

Yet the person making the call gets paid $12. That seems like quite a markup (and is easily seen by users).

A portion of this is probably taken up by the humans doing the matching. Folks will probably tell you to better hide this cost, but maybe you could just be transparent and tell the users?
All the good ideas are under the "Encourages" type of thing. How does this actually do anything?
>To be clear, the computers already were taking pictures

How so?
The high price for hearing aids in the US is due to that independent providers need to mark up their hearing aids to pay for their overhead. So a $4k/pair hearing aid might have cost $2k/pair for them. Here Costco also sells hearing aids so they private label the same top end hearing aids for $1.4k/pair. They are a lot cheaper because they make profits through their overall membership base. Also they can negotiate a volume discount. Based of talking to the audiologist, I'd say the supplier sells them for $1.3k/pair tops.

Having hearing aids myself, the big thing is amplifying the sound without the noise. The device needs to figure out what to focus on. If I'm in a restaurant with lots of background noise and people talking, what should be amplified. Most hearing aids use multiple microphones and program settings to identify what to focus on. And there are different kinds of noise like car engine noise or HVAC noise. And don't forget the wind noise on the microphone when you are walking. Also hearing aids compress the dynamic range and frequencies to extend the range of hearing to improve comprehension. And if there is a sudden loud noise it shouldn't go beyond a comfortable power level.
The Secret Service is abbreviated USSS, not SS as that is associated with the Nazi Schutzstaffel.
The stacking of improbabilities is a head scratcher. 12 million vote increase over Obama with 300+ fewer counties.
Must be wildly more popular. Yet was losing the nomination of his own party. Can't 10k views on youtube, but somehow more black people turned out to vote for him in Detroit than Obama. I, like 40%+ of Americans have doubts about this Election.
In that superset of emoji, is that about the same as stickers on several other chat platforms?
Surprised not to see exercise listed. It’s a common trigger for asthma attacks, especially in cold dry air, and I bet there were pretty big changes in exercise patterns for a lot people during the pandemic.
The airpods are compared to wired ear buds. Once Apple removed the jack port, they effectively created the added waste which was not there before.
Yo! Founder here - I am definitely still playing around with the pricing and this is really great feedback. I don't want the profit margin to be jarring - I want to keep the lights on for the business. Do you think the service itself should be cheaper or should I pay callers a larger amount?
There’s a bug on the signup page for silver dial employees. You ask for the name twice, instead of name then email.
Thanks for the tip, it really does what I was hoping to accomplish. Although there is a price to pay:
https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/27-privacy-policy
If there was a free trial, yes.
It's true, but worse is also better; of reasonable answers, the “right” one is often the one that will be popular enough for people to rearrange the world (sometimes retroactively) to make it right.
In the sense that DEC's initial commercial offerings were "vendor unauthorized" boards for IBM mainframes and DEC hired a good many IBM employees. IBM eventually went after them for it.

From my perspective, Ken and his Pinto were the antithesis of everything IBM and we loved him for it.
If I'm going to lose an eye or a limb, I want it to because I got sliced by a 7 year old's 400m rubber band death whip.
The title hits home, strongly... I have rarely used emojis (let alone I don't have any social media profile, plus only conversate through mails with few people). One thing I realized is the use of emojis from the other side evokes a sense of "I don't want to see emojis...". I don't know why, but I just feel that emojis kinda make me feel that the conversation isn't "deep"; it doesn't convey the actual emotions... In hindsight, I also feel a few-word replies are often disengaging. Probably it's just me. But it's been years I haven't used emojis. I don't even have the urge to use it or see it.

On the contrary, I do believe that using emojis in certain contexts are better. For instance, when you are euphoric and someone sends you a "happy-like" emoji, it makes you feel more "connected".

I guess, it's just me...
As a casual website owner, I find Google is the main culprit. My original articles were buried under content farms full of copypastas.

Lots of my URLs were either "Discovered – currently not indexed" or "Crawled - currently not indexed", but spam sites are happily searchable with the exact same content. And I don't want spend to fight SEO.
Implement full-text search maybe?
I like the idea but what steps are being taken to combat fraud? One of my elderly relatives is frequently a target of scam calls for instance.
Right but when they return how do you distinguish between a new impulse and a continuation of the old? This is one of those cases where marketers and businesses love to act like they know everything when in fact it's a huge info blind spot.
How do you know my mistake wasn't intentional? :)
terrible subscription model. Tried to download but they force you to sign up. The free version has a watermark which means anything you do on it is unusuable.
Very true. Knowing how to prioritize the most pressing work at hand is very important for the person having to make those choices. For those on the receiving end, try to remember the story of the boy who cried wolf.
Feedback taken for sure - I'll ask you the same question I asked the other comment. Is $100/month what feels high? Or is $12 for 30 minutes of conversation low?
The comment said "this potential" (referring to a use case of LSD), not his potential.
50% margin is pretty standard.

How much is the cost base and double it, triple it or quadruple it is a common approach in many industries.

In reality the amount you charge should have little to do with how much it costs you.

Are they providing $100/month in value should be the question irrelevant of the cost to them.
The details are vague, maybe on part of it happening so long ago. From just the text it sounds like they didn't get explicit permission from the store manager, and it didn't exactly sound like they made it known that they were the ones doing it. It all depends on who and how he gave that 'can i shoot video' question and if they knew the extent. It's also not like floor staff are constantly watching those machines - if people could just hit escape to get out of the slideshow, they might have just thought they accidentally opened the camera/photos app and wouldn't have immediately alerted an employee to the weirdness.

I think it's clear that it was done with a sense of "it's legal so i'm going to do it" even if that wasn't verified nor approved by anyone.
> * Encourages the FTC to restore Net Neutrality rules undone by the prior administration.

This is the worst thing in the list. The politicians still don't seem to understand how the internet works and how different service types cost differently and have different effects on the network. A new Netflix-like service is a very different thing than a new social-network-like service.
> And because it's the internet, there were the inevitable flames against me

It's not "because it's the internet", it's because publishing images of nonconsenting people is widely disliked.
I need to check HBO out. Netflix I knew had the first 4, which I kind a assumet ment they had the exclusive deal and wouln't have the episodes until season finale airs
it means if you dare to give us a negative review, we will sue you.
The author have internalised the woke "I'm privileged" narrative.. sad
You can buy prescription drugs online from India without a prescription for super cheap. They arrive in your mail.

This is probably illegal, but not enforced.

I’m insured so it’d actually be cheaper for me personally to go in to the doctor and ask for a prescription. But I got tired of taking time out of my day for this - these are just beta blockers for fuck’s sake.
Any idea what to use to replace it?

Friend of mine cannot forget to take it, or their chest/airways are quite heavy.

Does it take time for the body wean off?
Okay I think I see what you're saying here. The terminology of reducing "UI vocabulary" threw me off some, since you could alternately describe it as an expansion of UI vocabulary: so many things don't have a convention yet that every developer is free to define their own (similar situation in e.g. video game UI where there's constant invention since a fixed widget set isn't getting re-used).

> ... they are undermining an established set of UI conventions, without advancing a replacement.

> There's a virtuous cycle when apps use a platform's native components

There's certainly an advantage there, but it basically comes down to whether you more highly value cross-platform capabilities or specialization for a specific platform. So why not acknowledge it as the tradeoff it is? Instead the common stance here is to frame it as some kind of cataclysmic regression in software development.

Anecdotally, as someone using mostly Electron-based software, I've yet to run into any kind of issue related to platform integration—but I wouldn't be surprised if people ran into an occasional glitch or inconvenience there. It makes sense given what the software is.
Its certainly more than I paid in taxes
How often do users have a choice really?

I've seen inconsistency, churn, and simplistic design turn people who used to be power users into helpless feeling novices. We can say something has been lost even if the world isn't literally on fire.
If I took your computer and installed spyware without your consent, that would be legal?

Absolutely incorrect. Where do you get this idea from?
As always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Are you aware that the US government already spends far more on health care than it does on the military?

Half the US defense budget is no where near the amount spent on healthcare in the private sector.
> This was to draw attention to that fact.

Nowhere in the post do I have an indication this is trying to say "wake up Apple customers! Their imacs are taking pictures of you while you're in the store!". It's not as if people aren't already recorded 24/7 by security cameras in retail stores.
It's not always the same user but a team or entire organization using the same tools, and it helps to unify the experience.

Contrast that with something like Outlook which has a dozen different UIs depending on app or device or website. It causes way more friction than just having the same workflow everywhere.
What to Measure?
Five Pieces of Good News About the News
Does that work for node.js apps?
But for all these kids, what do they have to give up?

Cities/suburbs come with appealing perks: entertainment, dining, large dating pools, etc.

What percentage of young people could we really convince to give up those things and how much would it cost us?

I don't doubt that some young people badly want a rural/agricultural lifestyle. I'm skeptical that we could convert more of them with just money.
Oh interesting. I reference this article all the time.
Yeah - I had a negative reaction to this in 2011, if anything it’s only soured more in time (and the artist seems even less aware of why people hated it or why he was investigated).

It’s also the low quality (imo) type of art that does a disservice to the rest. Like the blank canvas art hung in the SF MOMA, it’s the stuff you roll your eyes at and ignore.

A lot of the art at RPI was like that.

They should have prosecuted him, maybe then his lawyers could have explained to him why what he did was wrong.
Pharmaceutical companies spend even more on advertising than on R&D and still highly profitable though.
Exactly my first concern.
Well those haven't had a couple decades of time working with the government to build regulations that suit them. They're early stage still.
Today’s launch vehicle was SpaceShipTwo. The next model (SpaceShip III, revealed in March) is planned to be capable of flying London to Sydney in less than three hours.
Took the music industry a few decades to learn that suing your fans is bad for business. Now they have to deal with Spotify and Apple/Google/Amazon Music.

Like, you're pretty awful when you end up a target by the biggest companies of the world and even the scrappy upstart is double the market cap of your biggest member (Spotify is double Universal Music Group: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9529823/spotify-... )
They installed spyware on someone else's computers. Of course that's illegal, regardless of whether or not the AG decided to go after them.

Are people serious here? There's nothing ethical or legal going on with the blog post here. The fact that they got off is just luck. There's no whistleblowing or any other protection granted, and there shouldn't be. Period.

And the worst part in my opinion is the author has no intention of not doing something like this again. They think they're in the right. Probably because they got off the first time.
There's proof you're right, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798879
I've yet to see a single kick ass web app from Google. All of them are barely functioning slow-as-molasses slugs (or I'm jaded by the entire GCP experience).
No he's right, the internet is for assholes.
Your definition of 'open and free' smells a lot like 'built to favor commercial entities over information pages'

Most of my searches result in a wall of sales or product pages. Hardly 'open' when they turned it into glorified yellow pages
Can Ultrasound become a wearable consumer product?
Today, we need to democratize and decentralize the medical imaging and monitoring ecosystem in health care. Pre-hospital monitoring should be done anytime, anywhere, instantly and should be accessible by everyone in order to prevent overcrowding hospitals and save time.
Recent developments in health tech will convert traditional ultrasound system into wearable consumer products. True?
I am actually doing this. For free, to provide some company to my mother.

It started during the first lockdown (I am an expat, so I am already living far away from home but when she was actually locked up at home I wanted to make an extra effort).

The way it worked best for me was to use Skype(1) so that I could share the screen with her and show pictures - initially from my own trips and vacations, later from Instagram(2) - and provide audio commentary.

1) Yes, I know, there are 4 billions alternatives: Skype was for me the best because I could configure it on a spare tablet and make it automatically answer my calls with basically no effort required on her part. She is not really good with technology.
2) I am writing this because I hope it helps other people to do the same, no matter if it is for relatives or for this company: almost by definition older people will mostly talk about their own past and this can become repetitive quite fast, while also make somehow difficult to engage for the person talking with them.
For me the trick to show and comment pictures together worked very well. YMMV, of course, but I am quite proud of my "discovery".
I'm not quite sure what you mean.

There is no technical barrier that prevents an oscilloscope manufacturer from adding a DRAM controller to their designs, either via an IC or as an IP core in their main FPGA.

The cost would be relatively low, too, and long traces are extremely useful especially for beginners.

Market forces will work to make this a reality.
Just FYI for anyone wondering about the photo, this is actually Google's office in King's Cross. "Campus London" was further east and looked more like a coworking space.
No, $100 a month seems fine and whatever you can get qualified callers for would be the going rate. My first thought was more that with such a high margin, I might hunt around for cheaper options first. My immediate thought was "is this good value for money?"

I suppose it also depends on what I am getting for the extra margin. Are these people vetted in any way? Background checks to make sure the callers aren't sleazy salespeople from World Financial Group? As people are always trying to steal the money of the elderly. What is it that my $13 dollars a call that goes to you gets me other than just finding someone who talks?

Anything about vetting and security will make me fine with paying extra.
At least give the option of the old shit
They're not, but it's still illegal to drive with headphones.

Deaf people still are unable to properly hear so are more unsafe when driving. They're legally allowed to do so because of deaf people lobbying legislators to force them to be allowed to do so.
The ability to launch an old Mac binary is different than the Xcode project you used to build it being healthy. A developer can't open a ten year project and just submit it to the app store. Most likely it won't even build.
IIRC he was a couple years out of school at the time, probably ~23-24
You completely miss the fact that the company whose shares are being depressed will suffer problems raising capital if their stock prices drop
I'm sorry, dang, I can't stop at this point: I've set my sights on glorious hacker news oblivion and I will stop at nothing to achieve it. I recommend you ban this account. I am fully prepared to become a martyr to the cause of saving the world from self-satisfied tech knobs. I have reconciled myself to this fate. Hit me.
>...The US gained its advantage during the 40s-70s, when the government sector was a much larger percentage of the economy.

The government sector is larger now than pretty much anytime since the end of WW II.

The US gained its advantage when it was the only industrialized country that wasn't devastated by WW II.

https://taxfoundation.org/short-history-government-taxing-an...
It’s the complexity penalty. For years, in trying to make the system “better” for the current definition of “better”, the system has been made more complex. Probably to the point where no stakeholder understands it. But complexity breeds complexity (you need to understand something to not botch any change up) and the price of the system grows fater than the complexity (x times complexity increase leads to about x^1.5 times price increase, there’s research on it). It’s not profit margin, it’s the cost of dealing with the complexity.

In a competitive market, companies with high complexity penalties can’t compete, get pushed out or are forced to reduce complexity by force. In this case, there is no external pressure to reduce complexity but an increasing number of parties seeking to benefit from it. Which leads to predictable consequence of complexity growing like crazy.
> A popular synonym to what the majority is doing is "the modern way"

I am so very tired of people using the adjective "modern" as an abbreviation for "if you're not doing it this way you are stupid and obsolete".

This attitude is what brought us gems like WebUSB, PulseAudio, and xdg-open.
So it needs a browser. Wonderful. And not any browser. So now google knows what i'm drawing. Some people never learn.
Yo! founder who pays for the calls. Are elderly paying for calls?
Did not get business model.
everywhere is in my sentence. Some people see black and white everywhere. That's perplexing. Given the word everywhere is there, I'm going to guess that you can now see that your derivation isn't logical.

It's an internet forum, so no big deal, but you've gone on quite an accusatory rant without actually reading my comment properly.
> If Google kills the web then Google kills itself

That's why Google instead reshapes the web as Google sees fit.

> Anyway, Google works hard to make the open web competitive with all the walled gardens around

No. It subsumes the web and replaces it with all things Google. It dominates all web-related standards bodies, pushes through half-baked Chrome-only APIs as "standards" and then presents them as fait accompli through Google-controlled properties like web.dev.
Crushing It as a BootCamp Grad/ Self Taught Software Engineer
> without your consent

The author mentions getting consent from Apple employees on multiple occasions. If you asked me if you could install spyware on my computer and I said "yes", then of course it would be legal.
Niagara, no matter how nice, collects way to much data for my liking. It's a good thing that you mentioned Ratio too, because it also lets me accomplish the same thing while also being privacy oriented. Thanks!
This is typical. DRM doesn't deter or hurt pirates, and according to the EU[1] piracy doesn't hurt sales either, all that DRM does is to create support problems and hurt legitimate paying customers.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...

FIX: disambiguate 'it'
Yeah, the first 100 applicants are going to be people from World Financial Group.
Didn't seem to hurt him in this case.
> damage done by the short sellers

short selling (not naked short selling) doesn't "do damage". It is part of the set of actions in the market which reveals the "true" price of a share.

Lending out shares for short sellers for a fee is just a fund's way of getting extra income from their assets. If the short seller turns out to be right (and the stock is over-valued), then at least they would've gained the lending fees. The fund's share position is still the same, and their losses (if any) is still the same.
Cool idea. HN might not like the margin, but I think it's pretty reasonable. $24 per hour to talk on the phone is solid pay. Seems the more important question is just whether you can get the quality of people you want for whatever price you choose. The leftover margin is irrelevent.
Secret US bombing wars: One thing that hasn't changed
Nothingburger IMHO could find the same article written in the ‘70s. Where’s my self driving car?
Emoji helped make most apps and websites support Unicode, which is cool. I'd rather use the little unique emoticons most forums had though. They were fun and could be personalized for each community.