skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this is a much older sentiment than modern corporations. For one thing the aversion to discussing wealth is more potent in contexts where the information is less related to market forces - people are more open to information about salaries when it is related to their line of work. Saying how much money you make in public (even among friends) is seen as a jerk thing to do. Instead people will say things like 'the starting salary in my field is...', or 'a senior level employee doing this makes around...' - a actual number for them personally is seldom offered (nor should it be outside of very intimate contexts (family). From an informal observation this prohibition is common across Protestant societies, though I think it also shows up around the globe. Talking about money publicly is seen as vulgar and viewing people in terms of money is seen as demeaning to their fundamental worth. You can find religious antecedents to such sentiments from thousands of years ago, so it is unlikely that these were promulgated by corporate interests.
Sometimes you can. At some point I worked as a consultant assisting a team that actually picked the next item from the backlog as their next task. All tasks were estimated before they were put in the backlog and assigned to someone. I would usually finish tasks in less than 30% of the esimated time, while some would use 3x+ the estimated time, and then only because they were receiving assistance a couple of hours per week.

The guy doing the estimages was evaluated based on his ability to estimate accurately, so he had to inflate the estimates beyond what would be reasonable.

This was in a country with really good job protection laws....
Didn't Lightning ship (Sep 2012) before usb-c was standardized (Aug 2014)?

So no idea about RF engineer comparisons, but Apple seems to have stopped waiting for consensus on what USB-C would be, in wanting to ship something thin before Samsung and Google and LG could even design something thin, by almost 2 years.
This is the correct answer. Legislation and outright bans of products that require any sort of internet connection to work.

Furthermore, legislation that explicitly prevents gathering of any data, user account or coercion to use the product in any way without explicit consent of the user.

OSS is not going to cut the mustard.
Idiotic cope for the intelligence community to circlejerk about.
> You cannot always look at a service in isolation

But in the American system it's setup that you must. This is the whole "coding" thing that you hear people refer to which is taking a procedure and breaking it into individual codes that can be used in billing you/your insurance.

This was addressed in the "Methodology" section of the article:

> Data was collected for three services, determined by specific codes.

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> I’m very interested in how the community might think it would affect the value based healthcare industry with respect to total cost of care management and bundled services?

You mean... releasing pricing for individual codes.....? Finally showing that hospitals will bill different prices for the same code based on the patient's insurer...?

I read the article and all I got was that hospitals are releasing pricing information under the Trump mandate. I'm not sure what you're positing for an "effect" here as the effect is literally just transparency in hospital billing?
> Personally I think that this is a good thing since it encourages humility and a sense of equality.

For whom? The richer ones who know they’re richer and not equal? That’s a really weird way of putting it, as pointed out on other comments.
It makes me wonder if everything would be lightning connectors if Apple had allowed others to use it without royalties.
The new DeepMind building and the new Google building are close to each other, yes. However, G building their HQ around DM is quite a claim.
10x (or more) engineers in both hardware and SW exist. I've personally known more than a few, they are humbling, and I was pretty good myself at the time.

SW is too time consuming, I think, for it to really show, and tools help even things out, but I think math shows that even 100x people exist - the von Neumanns of the world. Maybe they don't exist any more, but we had a bunch of them in the 1900s and it's inarguable that they were at least 1-2 orders of magnitude above the rest.

That said, there's a ton of people in the field who now focus on image management so heavily that the numbers of _apparent_ 10x are really skewed. If you're willing to engage in engineering fraud, overselling, etc. you can seem to be one of them pretty easily in most contexts even pushing the most outrageous crap/fraud as something it's not. I feel like ML particularly enables this. I am dealing with two of these guys now, and honestly, it's so tiring dealing with the low-cost-to-produce/high-cost-to-analyze asymmetric warfare that frauds in engineering create.
Talk about lucky, the Earth will only be habitable by most life for another 500 million years. We showed up in the last 10% of Earth's (habitable) life. If evolution would have zigged instead zagging, we'd never have been at all.
Microsoft is similar in a way where when errors do happen, they usually log them or give you a pop up, but it'll be some inscrutable thing like error -1002, with nothing resembling a backtrace or other information to figure out where it's coming from. It's the number 1 reason why I hate debugging any problem on windows compared to linux.
That reminds me of all the espionage and counter-espionage that (at least used to) occurred in EVE clans/guilds (not sure if that's the right word). They even had custom plugins for their messaging boards where they could use BBCode to offer multiple words and the forum software would present a different combo of words so that if someone copy/pasted it then they could narrow it down either right away or with a few examples. As in they would have 4+ words in an announcement that had multiple variants and would record "We showed User A the following 1:1, 2:3, 3:2, 4:3..." (variable-word-instance-index:variant-index).
Hmm... Yes. But I can't make a cogent argument why lol.

13 year club here, the Reddit I think of is probably not aligned with what Reddit thinks of itself anymore.
I am not sure how accurate this information is but quick google search says Xiaomi have 24% phone market share in EU, not just Lithuania.
Why does HN display a number next to a submission ?
The whole out of network aspect in hospitals is ridiculous
From a mainstream perspective, there are mixed mode ICs that contain a bunch of analog components (op amps, comparators, etc.) and allow you to configure them digitally. E.g. the whole PSoC series from Cypress (formerly, now Cypress is part of Siemens).

Slightly less mainstream, there is the concept of FPAA (field programmable analog array), which is the equivalent of an FPGA but for analog instead of digital.

E.g. see https://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp.
Common Lisp is wonderful. It was really ahead of its time - and, in some cases, still is. We would also have avoided many cycles of markup and configuration languages.

That said, having a small Lisp or Scheme script in a Rust (or C) program can be helpful. Although I would honestly look into just adding Chicken, Gambit scheme or Guile at this point.

Scheme and all Lisp likes are deceptively simple - you can implement an interpreter in a weekend. Then spend a lifetime trying to make it efficient.
For optical, I'd love to see a comparison between standards for terrestrial use mirrors vs satellite ones. Surely the ones used on earth are manufactured well, but end up with dirt on them anyway? Is the difference because the earth based ones can be cleaned earlier during use? Would a future path to better ability for optical imaging satellites to self-clean be a game-changer?
In freelance networks I've worked in this is par for the course. I understand the rationale- they'd like their network to be more valuable by being the gatekeeper on everything- but it's extremely off-putting to hear you're never allowed to mention rates. In general, I mistrust services and systems that derive value from opacity.
Bah. Come on, OP. 10x engineers exist but much rarer than most think. Could you honestly see these people and NOT call them 10x engineer?

* Fabrice Bellard

* Linus Torvald

* Chris Sawyer of Transport Tycoon

* John Carmack

* Ken Thompson

* Jeff Dean
I am in pharma, though not tied to Alzheimer's research.

A narrative of this-one-theory-being-kept-down-by-the-man is attractive, but a bit thin in practice. The amount we do not know about anything in biology (especially the brain) is staggering. Few researchers are willing to make definitive statements owing to our ignorance in the space. Biological research is the closest one can come to direct manifestation of Murphy's Law.

Many are invested in the amyloid hypothesis, but only because it is the most compelling target to date. Everyone knows the emperor has no clothes. If/when better evidence comes to light, the field would move accordingly. Until that time, pharma companies will keep throwing billions of dollars at abeta hoping that their compound will have an effect where others have failed.

Edit: corrected typo pointed out from below
It doesn't have any networking features as far as I can tell.

If HN was ever directly instrumental in getting someone laid, you might have an argument, but I'm going to say "no".

If it had direct messaging and follow/subscribe features, it absolutely would be, and I say these are things that make Reddit social media while HN is only a forum.
I think this is a legitimate question.

In my mind, there are two main issues. The first is what other alternatives would be overlooked because of an approved treatment, including further research.

The other issue is money. These medicines cost a lot of money, and it there's no improvement it's a waste of resources not only for the patient, but also for the insurance pool they're in. If it's something that's not expensive, go nuts, but thousands of dollars to move the metric but not the symptoms doesn't make sense to me.
Looks like an exciting company but cant understand the tech moat behind it.
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Why do they need to? Sure it'll be nice, but depending on your market, maybe that's an unnecessary implementation detail.
RFID and NFC are complicated.

At the high end of NFC communication you have the basically the same chips used in smartcards (like payment cards/sim cards/etc) running with limited power, but theoretically able to run all the same apps. These can be cryptographically secure.

At the other end, a lot of rfid tags are very easy to just read and clone, including many involved in access control systems. These often just work based on the uid number that is freely readable, and most of the protocols have chips available where the user can write this "globally unique" id that would normally be written by the factory.
What streaming service doesn't work on FF ESR on Linux?

Netflix and prime and Pluto do, at least. That's all I use, so I am curious. I don't stream anything else, no Roku or Android-tv or whatever.
> Example: if there were 1000 spacefaring civilizations in the Milky Way, what are the odds that all 1000 of them (assuming they were within out light cone) would remain quiet or hidden? Couple that with mass and energy ultimately being limited then there is a strong incentive and advantage in becoming as large as possible. So even if 99% of civilizations remain quiet, the 1% will still make themselves visible.

I am not sold on this math necessarily. When you ask "what are the odds?" what is that based on? How do we derive these odds at all? We know nothing about how these civilizations would evolve or what their values would be. So how can we assume that out of 1000 that 1% would be visible based on the odds? This sort of assumes that the Drake Equation is accurate, when the last few parts of that equation are complete guesses.

> Additionally, on the notion of hidden civilizations in particular, it's essentially impossible to remain hidden to a K2 or K3 civilization so there's really no point.

And maybe this is the difference. Maybe all 1000 are visible to K2 or K3's because it doesn't matter. But equally all 1000 aren't visible to K1's. We are so far away from K2 that I see no reason to speculate on the likelihood of this since we have literally no basis for this other than some fun thought experiments. And all of this is based on how we view ourselves and apply those same traits to beings we have never met and possibly can't even imagine.

This is simply so far out of our grasp to intelligently speculate on, I tend to just avoid doing it.
Why only that particular rk3399 board? My rock64 runs blob free, as I would imagine most rk3328 boards do. The rk3399 type c port does require a blob, but I guess that is optional and boards without the USB3 type c port do not need it. Other than that the only blob I need for my PBP is for the broadcom WiFi modem. Are there any ac WiFi modems that work without blobs? I have only seen the ath9k chipsets which top out at 802.11n

With that said, I worry an rk3399 would run hot in a phone. Hopefully the thermals on the rk3588 are better. But rockchip is dedicating die space to a poorly supported "neural processing unit" now, so we will have to see.
The XKCD comic on these needs a separate column for open source.

If thousands of companies are using my library, then there really is a case to be made for making it as efficient as we can within the bounds of maintenance concerns.
So upon someones passing I would tend to wonder "did they receive the best care possible?". Immediately shitting on the dead says "it does not matter what care they received, they deserved what they got". I think that is a dangerous seed to plant.
Device ‘breakage’ concerns surface days before Let’s Encrypt root cert expiry
Local hospital released this as an Excel spreadsheet (Chargemaster).

They have a column called "Uninsured cash price." These prices are <25% of the insurance "discount" prices, but the really amusing thing is that this column was set to 0 size so that when you download the Excel sheet you have to know to auto re-size all the columns, or you cannot see it.

And, no, I don't think this was by accident as they have updated this Excel spreadsheet several times and only that one column is always set to 0 size.
> Those modern transportation 'solutions' are a sign of local maxima of current city design. A bad design that cannot scale any further.

Exactly. And for some reason the "solutions" always have the nice feature that they get those using them out of the sight of the rest of the lowly peasants living in those cities.

As if it hasn't been demonstrated how public transport can do wonders for highly populated if done right (e.g. look at japan).
3. Companies that have technical problems that can easily be solved by typical engineers but not noticed and articulated by typical engineers.

Which is most of them. The main value of "special" engineers come from them pointing you to the right problems. Notice how all of Ritchie, Shannon, Dean and Buterin certainly fall into this category. They were all technically proficient enough, but that's not the point. A seasoned veteran would have coded circles around Buterin at age 20, which is when he invented Ethereum. The point is that the seasoned veteran didn't invent Ethereum. Similarly, Shannon's most influential work (that paper that basically invented information theory) is fairly elementary, and basically any geezer with a relevant PhD had had the technical chops for the paper. But they never would have written that paper in a million years.
In the future if another alternative to USB-C PD arrives, you could presumably swap out to that module (of course, presuming it's otherwise compatible with the internals).

Also, is there any reason to believe someone wouldn't make a two-port USB-C module provided the market for such a thing exists? Maybe off-the-shelf ICs to do this aren't available (which would make this more expensive and thus less likely), but that doesn't mean that will always be the case.
> If you're comfortable with this then I don't think you're actively investing in your software.

What exactly does 'actively investing' mean in this context and why is it needed? If the software is actively maintained so that it continues to meet business requirements, is that not enough?

> No, if you have a team actively maintaining the project you have the knowledge transfer in-house which is the second part of that sentence.

That is orthogonal to what programming language is being used. When the project is actively maintained, knowledge can be transferred regardless of the programming language.
I just wish employers would stop focusing on hiring 10x engineers, and instead focus on how to create an environment in which the overall standard can improve. What I mean is - you can take a superior engineer and put them in a crappy environment, and they will fail. Likewise, you can take an average engineer and surround them with support and they will produce a multiple of their raw talent. Focus on the things that make it possible to produce at a high level. For that matter, it strikes me that often those people that companies believe are producing at a high level, aren't. I saw this a lot in consulting - companies think Jimmy is just the bees knees, but in fact the reason he looks like a hero is that his junk is broken and he's constantly having to firefight to fix it. Often too, the loudest engineer in the room shouts down everyone else and "looks" like a leader when they are really the villain.

I saw for myself - there were places in my career where I was super productive, and places where I hardly produced anything. It had everything to do with the environment: politics, communication style, teammates, technology, and problem domain.
Might be able to do a slower deployment method for that.

A little like pouring concrete, you'd pour molten aluminum (or molten steel?) into a prepared area or crater and let it settle and cool.
Significantly quieter than car traffic noise. Struggling to see the issue here.
I never understood these kind of analyses that talk about aliens reaching "humanity’s level" like it's inevitable or somehow special.

We could blast radio waves with ABBA songs into space to find whether there are other Swedish-speaking civilizations, or whether we are alone in the Universe. We don't because it's silly to think of the Swedish language as a necessary step for "advanced life".

Why do we think that human-like intelligence is special?
Yes but emergencies are the exception, not the norm for most hospitals. Most hospitals make 40-60% of their revenue on elective surgeries, ie things that can wait 2-6 months. So patients have time to shop around.

Source: currently work at a big hospital in IT.
Already 20 years ago there were serious discussions whether the fibrils were actually responsible, or maybe instead some toxic intermediates might be the cause. As far as I understand the case against fibrils as the main cause only got stronger, and the mainstream view among scientists is that it is quite likely that there is more going on there and the fibrils alone are not the full explanation.
Something like this at the 1k price point isn't profitable? If you've never done anything like this before, I can see it being daunting. However, if you'd never done something like this before, you'd be crazy to start here.

When learning anything new you do a 'hello world' version of something. Bicycles have training wheels. Electronics has starter projects as well. You work up to something like this. Being thrown into the deep end is not the best way to learn how to swim. Eventually though, you get comfortable that project like this are not daunting.

You get your stacks of PCBs, you get all of the interconnect wires, you get all of the LEDs, you get all of your tools, then you just draw the rest of the fucking owl. I would not be looking forward to making 5000 of these, but I would not be afraid of 100. It won't be done in a week, but by the time I got to 100, I'd be pretty good at it. Again, if you know you're making 100, then the added time of making the proper jig is well worth it.

Also, isn't this something that Kickstarter would be perfect for?
I generally consider myself a 5x coder... I usually spend about 1/3 the day reading/learning and another 1/3 experimenting... only about 1/3 of a typical day will I be on-task, and usually still outpace my peers. This last 2-week cycle, I literally did all the assigned work, and refactored a few things that annoyed me in one caffeine fueled night.

I used to do design/graphix/ux work... that always interested me. Programming pays better, and I have a talent for it. I have spent time learning patterns, etc, but not through a formal education. I tend to just see a good way forward... creating discoverable code along the way. I find a lot of the time, the formal patterns tend to just make things more complicated than they need to be.

Just my own take on things. I'm kind of lazy in a good way. I have spurts where I will do a crazy amount in a short time, and those where I'm closer to coasting. Like many/most creative types, it varies.