skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study finds Baby Poop Is Loaded With Microplastics, 10x more than Adults
Writing a test suite so comprehensive that the only programs that satisfy it are correct wrt the specification amounts to writing a formal proof, which is in most cases orders of magnitude harder and more time consuming than writing the code yourself.

Programming is ironically one of the worst use cases of AI, because often predictable failure is better than unexpected success.

"Fix the null pointer exception" is less expensive (time, money and mental energy) than "figure out why the code spits out garbage even though the test cases pass".
In the meantime, since we have the data, this could be a good project for volunteers to glue together all the different documents from the different hospitals into a single system.

These files are provided as excel documents in what I assume to be a (hopefully) mostly unchanging location on each site. A script could download all the files, match up the procedures and then push it to a pretty tool for everybody to use when comparing prices.

Most enterprises have terrible dev/IT talent but when it is a cause as important as this, talented people tend to show up to provide a great solution.
Very much like the Civil War but a very strange sort where almost all the casualties are on one side, and mostly self-inflicted.
you state that like it's not the intended end goal. everything is a step towards this.
People, on average, lose money trading crypto. This is just a simple mathematical property of the crypto market.

On paper, it looks like a lot of people made a lot of money. But in actual money, on average, you will lose.
Yeah I exclusively use lists for this reason. Any time I take a look at my main feed or the curated psyops in the "Trending" column it does strike me as a horrorshow though.
Can confirm, got "Death" as a gift in 2011.
This 100%.

Sorry but I'm probably not going to tell you all the reasons I'm leaving or the issues I see with the company. I have no intention of coming back but I won't burn the bridge on my way out or sour any chance of a good referral down the line. Also companies are notoriously bad at hearing anything negative (no matter how true) about themselves. I'm leaving, so I have no interest in getting into a fight/argument or being gaslit on my way out.
>You'd think that shopping around would've helped in that case, but the word got out somehow to the other insurance companies and they were giving us similar quotes.

Employers are welcome to purchase healthcare.gov plans that are not allowed to price based on pre existing conditions:

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/

If an employer wants to self insure and restrict their risk pool to only their employees, then they have to pay for it.
Yes, I'm quite familiar with your record - you sell it endlessly. Your getting in early at Mozilla doesn't make up for the damage you've done to the web with Brave.
> Which is fine, because 50% of the time I am als an everyday user.

pacman -S hunspell
They visit multiple times. A sub par restaurant would never earn its stars. In Europe anyways. I don’t know about Americas or Asia and beyond.
Whiteboard, perhaps? Big "write on it" monthly calendar on the wall, maybe.

"tech" won't help. individual attention to communication and doing the shit you said you would is whats required. tech cant help that much and the cost is often more than the gain.

With the exception, of course, of the case where you're both plugged into some time management system for other reasons anyway and you just need to reconcile specific interchange protocols. If thats the case, quit and move out to a farm and raise the kids.
> no one has an accurate amount of how much you add to the bottom line. It's a safe bet you don't.

+1. This is extra impossible at tech companies that "give away" products. How much do you add to the bottom line for improving google search algo? Its directly 0 because a better algo doesnt mean more money (it would at a hedge fund!) and indirectly it could be billions if it means more people use the product (or it could be zero if one thinks that google's 98% market share means the algo is irrelevant)

How much does an employee on Alexa add to amazon's bottom line? Its a huge project that is important to the company, but it makes almost $0 and is obviously not free to run... so should you lose money to be an alexa employee?

How do you measure this at any real company?
I didn't refer you to independent parties. You can check Brave (we provide old versions on github) and you won't ever find us replacing ads in publisher pages. We're all open source on the client side, so you can read revision histories too. If you don't check for yourself, then how do you know what you said is true?
i def like the idea of accurately naming things -- what do you think we should call this?
To add to this, Semtech / Lorawan tech is literally _so cheap_. There really aren't technologies as optimal on the cost per evilness spectrum.
>the only way to do it sustainably is to increase the numbers of doctors and nurses, so as to drive down their salaries

Getting the hospitals to accept a price ceiling which forces the issue is another way to do it.
worth noting, that blacklist filtering decompiled code looks this way (just one line; to show the naming)

if (iNativeAd.getAdTitle() != null && m12161a(iNativeAd.getAdTitle(), str)

If to believe the naming, it is filtering advertisements.
You did not get my comment. I wanted to say that in choosing lang+tooling is a great place to make the 10x difference.
I really appreciate this feature. Yes the obvious case is crypto but there are other interesting opportunities in web automation not strictly crypto related.
> This is not the case. The most common claims are "Brave accepted donations for others", "Brave replaces ads across the Web", "Brave injected/modified referral links"—each of these claims are unequivocally false.

How so? For example the case "Brave injected/modified referral links" https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/o...

The "problem" of open-source is, that you can see what is happening.
He’s saying if you go in as an insured patient and get denied for a procedure by the insurance company after it’s been performed, you’ll get a bill from the hospital for the insurance-negotiated rate, not the uninsured cash pay rate. You can generally talk the billing department down to the cash pay rate, but that requires having a lot of meta-knowledge of how American healthcare works.
Nothing stops you from creating others TLD besides .bit.
We just have to formally agree to use, say `/something/`, for storing name records for .something.
Because the broken leg could be a gun shot wound, or an alcoholic who fell down and now is withdrawing, or a geriatric patients who is abused at home or a person who fell due to side effects of drugs with alternatives, or a cancer patient with bone metastases.

No one gets an x-ray for a broken leg then leaves with their foot broken. Even assuming that you are just trying to figure out the cost of an x-ray - there is a radiologist involved (unless you want to read it the x-ray on your own) and how they bill is a whole total beast!
pikvm is open source as well: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm

In fact, TinyPilot is based on ustreamer, that is developed by Maxim Devaem, the pikvm creator: https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer
Does it fediverse? That would be awesome.
The "past" link at the top right under the article title provides this already.
The headline here is misleading. By "open-source talent" they mean "people who can configure k8s". Which, I GUESS, _TECHNICALLY_ is an "open-source" talent, but man, it's not what people expect that to mean.
Do you mind elaborating on this? Is it just because the use case turns into something like app install fraud?
Does This Work for HN?
Let's test this out.

Hi, I'm ned. Someone who loves to swim.

So what?

So, I'm testing the waters here at HN.

Does it work?

IDK. You tell me
>Now they are getting flak for not switching to USB-C, but just looking at some devices (Nintendo Switch comes to mind) maybe it's not the best user experience.

Can you expand on the Nintendo Switch, I don't understand why the NS doesn't provide the best user experience due to USB-C? If you're talking about the bricking from using third party chargers/docks I always thought that was due to Nintendo implementation of it, not the standard itself.
At my company, the bridge auto-ignites behind you. They blacklist you. They also won't provide referenced nor allow manager to give you one.
Human whistled languages may offer model for how to study dolphin communication
This reminded me to check up on how Althea is doing. Looks like they are changing their blockchain to something they have more control of:

https://blog.althea.net/althea/
I'd love to look up uninsured prices and compare them 1-1 to what I was charged for my little girl's 2 week ICU stay https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-bab...
Not even just that but magisk modules can show phone as stock to banking apps and such.

Really this all just shows that people will truly put up with anything to make their lives more convenient, or for them to have to do less work.
I think the problem is, it's insurance. I pay $1200/month for my ACA insurance as I am a freelancer. Those with full time jobs pay a similar amount, just indirectly. In a given year, if I am healthy and need minimal medical care, then my insurance puts me way behind financially. If I have a sudden medical emergency, it can really save me. That is of course, assuming the insurance company will honor their end of the bargain which is another matter altogether.

I don't want health insurance. I want health care.
PSA:

Non profits can be as greedy as any other organization.

Typically the money goes to wages for the leadership rather than profits to the owners.
It provides the rudiments of it. I think the sweet spot will be adding support for community curation, the way dredmorbius did above. We were just talking about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28613646.
I can't help but wonder if you were in politics at some point in your career, being able to hinge on a very strict and literal definition of "replace" and missing the entire spirit of topic at hand.
>It's bad enough that I've heard office gossips complain about other employees leveraging their healthcare turning into higher premiums the year after. Like, as evil as complaining their coworker's kid got cancer.

That is how it would have to work if the employer wants to restrict the risk pool to the company's employees. After all, money has to come from somewhere.

But employers are welcome to participate in healthcare.gov plans where the risk pool is much larger (across the whole state), and where individuals in the company cannot be solely blamed for increases in healthcare costs:

It's bad enough that I've heard office gossips complain about other employees leveraging their healthcare turning into higher premiums the year after. Like, as evil as complaining their coworker's kid got cancer.
Observations or assumptions about the presence or prevalence of life which take as a premise that we could detect them are IMO meaningless.

In particular, work like this makes assumptions about what it means to be "loud" which contain what amounts IMO to a profoundly inane belief that advanced civilizations would employ communications that are similar enough to our own that we could detect them, or, would leak energy in a fashion we could detect.

Both of these premises are deeply anthropocentric, in specific, they extrapolate from our current and 20th c. level technologies and understanding of physics, material science, etc., not even touching on philosophical matters like the dark forest hypothesis,

which are so myopic as to be comical.

Idle comment, sometime in the last year or so there was a detailed write up of a zero-day no-touch exploit for the iPhone, which included a nice tour through the wireless stacks and hacks Apple uses to do things like proximal device detection and networking.

What struck me at the time and continues to inform my opinion on these SETI questions is,

without the frame for understanding the why- and how- going on in the iPhone,

the scale of effort it would take a naive investigator to build a basic model of what was going on and why, is already at the threshold of human comprehension.

While in this specific case what's at issue is EMF using crudely comparable encoding schemes,

the point is simply that even knowing about various obvious ways of encoding binary information for transmission in a noisy environment,

the active signal(s) are already close to the edge of discernible from noise, especially complex but true noise.

I.e., even in the EMF domain, we're already for fungible consumer goods dealing with multiple frequency-hopping handshakes and sniffs and stochastic back-off and retry and error correction.

But there is no good reason to assume some other civilization at some other level of advancement would have any use for EMF. There are even with known technologies all sorts of exotic, more efficient, more targeted, ways of doing long-distance communication. Helically polarized lasers come to mind...

Anyway. I think the authors of these things need to be a lot more humble about their presumptions, or at minimum, spell them out plainly...
If you have a way to security distribute one time pads you don't actually need one time pads as you have a way to security distribute the messages as the one time pads are higher than the size of the messages you are distributing.
It doesn't even have to be a hand-to-mouth startup to blatantly lie to folks, it can be a multi-billion-dollar multi-national corporation. For instance, when I was a manager at Microsoft I had more than one newly-hired report tell me that their onboard training said there was no stack ranking, which we all now know wasn't even remotely true in the early 2000s.

(New hires would mention this, because one of the first things I'd tell new hires on my team was how stack ranking worked, amongst other parts of the performance review process.)
The problem is that you don't know the value of your contribution - unless you're in accounting or the CFO. At least with knowledge of what other people make, you can know the ratio of relative contributions to compensation.

Without that, you know nothing. You'll be making the case that your performance deserves a 20% raise, and they'll negotiate you down to a 10% raise. Meanwhile everyone else is making twice as much as you. Your estimate of 20% was not based on your value it was an estimate that you made of what sounded reasonable, and what you thought you might be able to get away with. That's easily nullified by the boss always playing hardball, and always giving the impression that they're paying you as much as you possibly can.

How can you possibly know how much you should be paid if you both don't know how much other people are paid, and you don't have access to the books?
Also it causes brain bleeds in about 40% of patients, and was only tested on those with mild disease. Again, showing no improvement of progression or symptoms, but a reduction in plaque.
> It's easy to contact salary services to know what the market rate is for your position.

This would be easier and more accessible if the data was just available.
Hey there, Andrew from MicroAcquire here.

Really really sorry for this experience, this is definitely not typical and I've shared this with my team to ensure this never happens again.

Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention so we can improve our processes & deliver a better experience to entrepreneurs.

If you'd like to reach out to me directly for additional feedback you can reach me at andrew@microacquire.com.

Cheers.
My brother did this, he decided to become a stay at home dad, partially because he made less money than his wife.

From what I have seen, he talked to some existing clients that needed tweaks but didn't want to keep contracts with the company he worked for and he essentially poached them. He also leveraged people he knew, like graphics artists etc for more leads. Essentially a trade, they refer to each other.

Overall he works about 15 hours a week, when the kids are in school and delivers projects. He gets the requirements, gives a quote and a date and goes from there. He is not greedy, so he is not trying to expand, more like maintain a steady rhythm of contracts.

He is not getting rich, but keeps himself busy and does what he likes...which honestly I don't know what it is, but it's not working.
I think the only solution here is to not use an OS designed from the ground up by surveillance capitalists.
Well, if you have anything on your Chinese phone (assuming it dead leak/back door back to China) that could get you arrested by the FBI - then whoever in China who had that ability to use it could then blackmail you with threats of arrest by the FBI if they told them, and you’d be in even worse shape right?

Especially since then they’d probably have you do things that would result in even more jail time if caught than the original thing. And since your data is transiting international borders all the time, it would make a nice juicy target for the NSA as well!
I want honest feedback from the exit interview- it's the only way we can improve as a team you leaving, and the way you performed and conducted yourself while working on the team has a far higher weighting for me than what you say to HR on the way out.
I have 17 exceptions in PB that I've setup, including my ISP, my broker, and my local utilities. Those would all be since I switched to firefox (2-3 years ago now?). It used to be worse, I'm pretty sure I had many dozens of exceptions on my old chrome settings.
Well now we have two anecdotes. Don't you wish there was an unbiased, trustworthy study we could look at it to resolve this?
Things I Wish I’d Known Before College
> The last time you bought milk did you lose or did the grocery store?

There's way more people involved in that supply chain then me and the store. This is an over simplification.

Outside of the obvious answer of "the cows" - factory farming has been destroying my home state causing huge problems in rural America. Also - the environment. Big time the loser there is the environment for literally any bovine farming.

> The last time you paid money for a hair cut

When I was getting my hair cut professionally I tipped a $20 because I knew the gal cutting my hair working at the midwestern mall Regis Salon was making jack-all. I knew this because I worked at Geeksquad with her boyfriend, eventually husband. If I were not to tip well she would be at-risk for making minimum wage for that hour - and since you can't support yourself on minimum wage I see that as her losing.

I've always tipped my butt off because I know without that they lose.

---

So yeah - sorry... I anecdotally do see losers in the situations you described. I don't have to look hard to see them.
Thanks, downloaded both the apps!
Hacker News IS harmful because there's no established standard for what should receive an upvote or downvote (>500 karma can downvote). This leads to people just upvoting things they agree with and downvoting things they don't. It's all groupthink. Alternatively, all well thought out comments should receive upvotes (despite personal cognitive dissonance) and inflammatory, trolling, or irrelevant comments should be downvoted. That would support diversity of thought and ideas.
The marketing world is currently a game of musical chairs with buyers and sellers switching sides or people making lateral jumps to different clients or agencies.

The cost of switching is lower with remote work - fewer social bonds with coworkers, fewer fringe benefits to consider (travel, fancy office, expense/entertainment accounts), no change in commute.

People are willing to try the same job in a new company for the shot at an easier to climb corporate ladder because the only cost to switching is swapping one company-owned laptop and phone for another.
You've got it exactly backwards, just look at the market cap change over time: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

In a bull market, anyone can make money with just about any bet.
> Employers are welcome to purchase healthcare.gov plans that are not allowed to price based on pre existing conditions:

Which are stupid expensive for anyone much above the poverty level.

> If an employer wants to self insure and restrict their risk pool to only their employees, then they have to pay for it

A 250 person company wasn't self insuring or restricting their risk pool to only their employees. They wouldn't be negotiating premiums with an insurance company if they were self insuring.
There can be policy, it just can't be as prescriptive as you're asking for.

Consider the review process for paper submissions to scientific journals. You can't prescribe an exhaustive checklist to Nature reviewers and ask them to mechanically follow it. You need to give the reviewers some autonomy. And with that autonomy will come inconsistency.
With DIY they couldn't insure the security of participants. The temptation is too hight to create 100s of cloud miners.

That said, there are 50 HW manufacturers queued up to supply. Incorporating Helium into an existing Lora framework is very easy.

In fact, Helium is seeing an interesting phenomena where the PoC mining tech is becoming bundled with existing HW platforms because the material costs are so cheap. Projects are now bootstrapping on top of Helium.
sudo spctl --master-disable
> This is just a simple mathematical property of the crypto market.

What? I don't doubt that people on average lose money but I don't know of anything fundamental about crypto markets that makes it a mathematical property...
I'm not sure about that. High oil prices spur investment in extracting oil. In the short term it might reduce demand slightly (oil demand is quite inelastic) but long term it may have the opposite effect.
Boolean syntax doesn't work (e.g., terms grouped with parentheses), but the individual searches do:

an0m: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

operation ironside: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

operation trojan shield: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

You can also search comments; many of the headlines, as in this case, don't mention any of the keywords used here, and I turned up most of the articles based on comment search.

I'd recalled the investigation sufficiently to know that it had been mentioned, and what search terms were likely to turn it up.
Knowledge of how to do something sub-optimally isn't bad. It's up to you to decide where the dividing line is when you should switch to a different language. Beyond that, I enjoy knowing how to do tricky things in the terminal simply for the sake of knowing it.

Also, while it's not necessarily a guarantee that Python or Perl will be in a given environment, Bash will practically always exist. I will grant you if you find yourself in this predicament, you should probably be rethinking your build/deploy strategy altogether.
Startup Lessons from a Komodo Dragon
I suspect that may not be legal?
>the very nature of profit/capitalistic societies means someone has to lose

If by 'profit/capitalistic societies' you mean those allowing for voluntary exchanges between its people, I would disagree. As an adherent to the subjective theory of value, I think it is common that both parties in an exchange would consider themselves 'winners.' [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
I agree, and yet there is a difference between a communication problem and a lack of process. The latter is most applicable to my current state.
If I had Go's build speed in Swift, I wouldn't have minded a clean break language like Swift.