skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the founders and have not tried the product, but I'm building a business in the consumer subscription space so I'll post a few things that might clarify why they could end up with this model even with good intentions. I'll also add that I don't know much about the science/behavior of folks with ADHD, so I won't try to talk about that piece at all.

First, the app stores are pretty prescriptive about how you handle introductory trials on subscriptions (especially Apple), which means you are usually stuck with "start trial + opt-out" as the only viable model if you're billing through the App Store.

Second, behavioral/commitment theory often shows that for apps or really any behavior change that requires some effort, a longer time commitment/investment gets people to actually invest the effort they need to actually get value out of the product. If you let people pay for a month, they won't actually put in any effort and then at the end of the month they'll be like "I'm not getting any value here" and they'll just cancel. They won't put in the effort to build the habits. So most wellness apps/products (from meditation/fitness apps to gym memberships) end up with some sort of free trial period, followed by an annual commitment (and if there's a monthly option, it's at a steep hike from the annual one).

Finally, when you're early on in the life of your startup, you're mostly trying to get to product-market fit and see whether people are willing to use / pay for what you've built. You just choose a pricing period/plan that makes sense, focus on the product, then when you get the product where you want, you go back and experiment with finding the ideal pricing plan for you and your users.

That said, it's clear in this case that this model may not be great for the target audience (in fact, even for neurotypicals, canceling subscriptions and such is still a challenge to manage). And obviously the app creators could have put more thought into it.

We ended up with an opt-out free trial plan as per Apple's rules on iOS, with a monthly plan where the yearly plan is a 25% discount if you choose it, and several reminders before the trial converts to paid. We also allow users to do a standard opt-in plan if they're not signing up through iOS (ie only need to put credit card after trial expires). We offer refunds where we can for people who got billed but didn't intend to, but Apple has to process those refunds too.
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Watching this, several observations:

Why does it have to be in a cabin, even lifted up into it, while most pallets/boxes are shrink-wrapped already?

If avoiding shrink wrapping because plastics, use standardized hoods with deposit, if you have to. Works for pallets/boxes already.

They could do with the net, like shown there anyways.

Also some lighter mechanism which goes into the pallet/box from below, since they are standardized. Or good old rope/chains/somesuch.

Lastly, why the EFFING EFF is he wearing a helmet while riding a Cargo-TRI-Cycle, which won't go above 25kph ever?

Also: Can I have one with joystick to sit in? *g*
If the government wants to apprehend you, a face recognition system in the metro is the least of your concerns. They will get you anyway, sooner or later. It can only make the life of FSB easier, so they can learn about your habits for blackmail etc. by just looking at some footage downloaded from a server, instead of actually putting some effort
S-expressions also enable proper macros, as long as it has them, it's already ahead of <insert sys prog language>.
Each ADHD individual is unique and will have unique responses to therapy, medication and other treatments or self-help measures. While we have worked hard to build Inflow for all members of our extremely diverse community, we acknowledge it may not be right for everyone.
You said that the FAA would be causing brain drain - in a field where thousands get laid off all the time?

And that Boeing would surely be exerting influence on them so they wouldn’t catch issues - after Boeing laid them off?

And that it wouldn’t matter having competent engineers at the FAA because catching things require expensive tests - that the engineers if they existed at the FAA could mandate Boeing pay for, since they would know they needed them to do them?

Huh?

No one is saying the FAA should be running a full parallel aerospace program. I’m saying if they lack in house competency to call bullshit on what a player they are regulating is passing to them and relying on that player to just always do the right thing, then they are not effective regulators

It would be like taking Facebooks word that they are totally being good privacy wise, and not having anyone available who understands internet tracking or adtech. Which, is of course another failing regulator (looking at you FTC), but at least that doesn’t get hundreds of people killed in giant fireballs?
> “We need a sortable table on this route and it should support pagination without a reload, but the pagination needs to be persisted to the address bar for outside link sharing.”

How would you do that differently in a SPA? Or would that just preclude the link sharing, removing the requirement altogether?

Are SPAs doing client-side pagination or something?
For ~20 jobs in my local network for the longest time i was running single VM with 2cpu 1gb ram. Opening htop was taking more resources than rescheduling a job. For local development just use `nomad agent -dev`.
Why can't Facebook App allow to select text in it's iOS App?
If you use Facebook App on iOS, It would be very hard to copy part of text from post/comment. You can either copy entire text or none of it.

Great UX!!!!! {facepalm}
> It was your “civic duty” to rat out your neighbors, too. Your framing something as the moral position does absolutely nothing to make it so

I don't think you understood. I wasn't making an argument -- as far as I'm concerned, it's self evident that "getting a vaccine" is the moral position and "ratting on your neighbors for hiding Jews" is not the moral position. You're not being argued with; you're being excoriated for having such a ridiculously warped worldview.
Pretty sure a total electrical failure will preclude a successful autorotation failure on a swashplate-based drone as well as you still need to power the actuators (and the avionics). So redundancy (including in the DC bus) is just as valid of an option as autorotation is… more so as you could continue powered flight and means you can survive blade failure, etc.
The resolution is absolutely fine.
Hey, thanks for levels.fyi! It makes this kind of accurate compensation math possible in a way that really wasn't before y'all came along. Thanks again!
I use a lot of Laravel but symfony is awesome and its documentation is one of the best I have seen.
Honest question: what is the path to something resembling wider-audience usability (i.e. not a toy project)? Or is that not really a plan?

I'd LOVE an open, Linux-based phone. But I also need a phone that does video calls, has a working browser, messenger etc. One that works with at least a good bunch of most common apps.

Is that likely to ever happen? Or is this a very interesting project, but really aimed at tinkerers, or people who don't use WhatsApp etc.
Recreational stimulant users use 10x to 50x higher dose then ADHD users. 20mg vs 1000mg of the same drug produces very different effects. If you are serious about treating your ADHD you take the minimum effective dose because if you become tolerant it stops working.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-o...
For the bulk of my Internet surfing, I have JS turned off by default in uBlock. Now and then I encounter a white screen of death which on closer inspection is a Single Page App (and didn't have the courtesy of having a <noscript> tag telling me I needed JS to view the page).

I have JS turned off for accessibility and privacy reasons. What annoys me is sometimes JS is needed just to render a bit of text when it could be rendered with plain HTML. Not everything needs to have JS in order to work/function. Also: many hamburger menus are rendered useless when JS is turned off when it could be implemented with CSS alone.
We should consider technologies a public good once they go over some threshold of users, they should then eiter be nationalized or regulated as public or broken up.
Sure. But this is completely independent of the discussion above, which is about voting in multiple locations despite showing proof of identity. What the poster wants is to provide both proof of identity and proof of residency at the polling place.

People sign when they vote and signatures can be matched against registrations. When we examine this, we don't find a large number of people performing voter impersonation.
I'm entirely and completely unemphatic. I think these are loser concerns for when a startup first launches.

These guys are moving the needle making improvements in a forward direction, and a big part of this thread is shitting on their launch, hyper-focusing on things they'll be able to change.

Launch HN threads used to be about asking thoughtful questions, having a back and forth where people learn about new spaces, and encouraging people launching their startups.

This whole thread is concern trolling of the worst kind, to eyes.

I'll bow out since clearly the bulk of the thread disagrees.
> This sort of thing is absolutely worth discussing, but I'm always skeptical of it being engaged in good faith.

> The big red flag for me here is that the word "lockdown" is used to cover the entire year. Most states had brief lockdowns, and ultimately there were a lot of different levels of locking down that were implemented at different times. FEE isn't doing the work to prove that stay-at-home orders directly contributed to overdose fatalities.

It's been my impression that most of the people who loudly oppose lockdowns do so for dogmatic ideological reasons, but dress that up with a potpourri of whatever negative factoids they can manage to collect.

Foundation for Economic Education exists to promote a rather extreme ideology, and I find it very difficult to believe they'd bemoan overdose deaths that trace to that ideology (e.g. their favored free trade policies rapidly hollowing out manufacturing towns leading to hopelessness and drug use), so it's very likely they're engaging in bad faith here.
> the apps breached laws on hosting illegal religious texts

Pre-existing laws were enforced.
> EVERY single time I told people who "trust the science" and "believe the experts" about these topics, it was before any mainstream government or media sources had caught on to these ideas.

Yeah. Except we know why that happened: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-bob...

This is the hydroxychloroquine dude. This is the political group that has gone towards ivermectin. This political group is __STILL__ making false and misleading claims on a mass scale today.

> I care that the scientific and political institutions in control of this country are attention-seeking frauds that never take responsibility for making incorrect predictions.

Why don't you dig a little deeper? Figure out the forces that caused the problem and blame them a little bit more? Playing down the virus was Trumps reelection plan, and provably so. This coincides with all the other misinformation (hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and anti-vax attitudes) going on today.

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Look, its cute that you're making issues about what people knew or didn't know in January / February 2020. But I have coworkers who refuse to mask up _TODAY_ and I know people who think that there's a "vaccine timebomb" where everyone will get cancer in like 3 or 4 years because they took the vaccine.

I can also point you out to some pretty abhorrent misinformation going on in July 2020, months after your dates: https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/13306662813480304...

This misinformation crap is happening right now, today, still going on. And I'm a little bit tired of it.
Well, duh. "Free market" does not mean "unregulated market". It requires that the market be free from monopolies and that all agents have complete information. Regulation and trust-busting are, in practice, required to bring about a free market.

Co-opting the term "free market" was a fantastically successful bit of propaganda.
A student ID proves identity.

The comment upthread I initially replied to stated student IDs aren't appropriate because they don't demonstrate citizenship; I pointed out neither does a drivers' license.

The appropriate time to look at residency/citizenship is at the voter registration step. This is already done!
This has not been my experience. Firefox Android is perfectly functional, fast, and blocks ads too.
Of course the obvious question is "What kind of memory management does it use?"

It uses a "linear" (actually affine) type system for memory management, with borrowed refs similar to Rust, but evidently without tracking mutability: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/Memory.md

The omission of the kind of mutability tracking that eases multithreading seems like a significant drawback for its target application domain.
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https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraGen3D/

https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraGen3D/raw/master/Screenshots/ShowCase2.gif
> But it's not hard to find lots of front-line doctors who are seeing success with Ivermectin.

If that was true then how do you explain the fact that so far no study was able observe or reproduce that effect under a controlled environment?
I agree with you. I would not hesitate to use bear spray, wasp spray, etc. for self defense when I thought that my life is in imminent danger. However, it would be foolish (IMO) for a law enforcement officer to recommend it. Also, if I were on a jury and the defendant used bear spray or wasp spray to save their own life I would certainly not vote to punish that person for what I would view as reasonable force for the situation.
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Perhaps I used the wrong phrase with “just around the corner”. My prediction would be that we’ll see major SPAs in wasm in ~3-5 yrs.

This is not imminent from a developer’s perspective, but I think it is close on the “language evolution” timescale. As in, soon enough that I’m not sure we will have a long period where JS stabilizes before wasm revolutionizes it again.

Not a high-confidence prediction either way though.
> I'd argue that 4) (async support) is the only meaningful point and 5) , given it's a Python framework, is at most a nice-to-have.

Same thing here, and I've been writing Django code for a living for 15 years now. What baffled me was the complaint about the admin interface, if used right can get a small business up and running almost instantly.
As someone with pretty bad ADHD, to the point where I'm basically unemployable without medication (and I know that because I started working before I took any ADHD meds and almost got fired because of it), I don't agree with the characterization that ADHD was invented by drug companies.

One way to think of it is to see attention/motivation control as a spectrum. There are going to be people in the bottom X% of that spectrum, where it starts to negatively affect their lives. I'm thankful we live in a society that recongizes those people and has come up with ways to help them, since I've benefitted tremendously from ADHD treatments.
What I meant is that low latency GC is sort of a commodity/mainstream now. Not advising to use java or a specific JIT+Collector.
I noticed many of the same issues, but the most concerning one for me was that the modem (behind the upper rear of the phone) gets extremely hot. This has to be terrible for battery life and general longevity.
> but we simply don't know because it's impossible to ascertain through external means.

Yeah, exactly. We haven't developed a good enough Turing test -- for machines, people, or gods.

> What a ridiculous strawman.

I don't believe is a strawman as much as you think it is. A lot of arguments for consciousness derive from the desire for humans to be special, which is in turn derived from Abrahamic cosmology that places us directly beneath their God.
Their (stated) minimum requirements are what stopped me from using it for projects too. My projects were pretty simple, so it was total overkill, but for any bigger projects, it was too risky to try something new. So I ended up never trying Nomad out, even though it always looked really nice.
> NASA is no longer a space launch company.

NASA has never been a space launch company. Or a company at all, for that matter.

They’re a government administration that always contracted out most design work to private firms, with a mission much broader than space launch.
Lucy will spend only about 24hrs observing during the 12yr asteroid mission
https://archive.is/wW6Vy
Sometimes I go through my bill and find opt-in services so I can call in charge backs against them before I cancel.

They can pry that money out of my cold dead hands. And I've yet to have anything sent to collections
> Is this ironic?

No.
"If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?"
Holy shit this is the most inspiring thing I've seen in a long while.
ah, thanks for that. I wonder if this also explains why spaceports in the U.S. have tended to be located further south.
I don't understand the point: we could both be seeing a red car (which is objectively red, in the sense that it has a wavelength of 625–740 nm) but we could be perceiving it radically differently (for example, maybe my perception of red is exactly like your perception of blue) and language would never help us find out.

In my world, that car, stop signs, fire extinguishers or chili peppers would look like the clear sky or sea water in yours. But we would never find out, because I would point at the car and say "red" (I have learned that all objects that look that way from my point of view are "red"), and you would agree that it's "red". There is no way to find out that our perception is different.

But I guess my lack of understanding is because I haven't read Wittgenstein, so I hope to do so when I get the time. Thanks!
Even the most seasoned pro can make stupid mistakes, especially if overworked and stressed.
That's probably a very fair point.

I wonder what the minimum modern requirements would be for a viable "mainstream" phone.

Common messaging apps (SMS, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Slack). Social media apps (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok). email (Though an average stock email app is probably sufficient). Google Apps (gmail, google maps, etc..). Navigation (google maps is sufficient for most) Probably some set of games.

I suspect the real viable option is being able to run Android apps natively without any special configuration.
Who is "they"? You realize that most of the actual development work on all those programs was done by contractors/subcontractors in the aerospace industry?
Ok, forget the CDC. Let's look at health Canada's site[1]:

> A total of 56,151,862 vaccine doses have been administered in Canada as of October 1, 2021. Adverse events (side effects) have been reported by 17,982 people. That’s about 3 people out of every 10,000 people vaccinated who have reported 1 or more adverse events.

> Of the 17,982 individual reports, 13,307 were considered non-serious (0.024% of all doses administered) and 4,675 were considered serious (0.008% of all doses administered).

> Most adverse events are mild and include soreness at the site of injection or a slight fever.

> Serious adverse events are rare, but do occur. They include anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction), which has been reported 307 times for all COVID-19 vaccines across Canada. That’s why you need to wait for a period of time after you receive a vaccination so that you can receive treatment in case of an allergic reaction.

And[2]:

> Up to and including October 1, 2021, a total of 195 reports with an outcome of death were reported following vaccination. Although these deaths occurred after being vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, they are not necessarily related to the vaccine. Based on the medical case review using the WHO-UMC causality assessment categories, it has been determined that:

> 73 of these deaths are unlikely linked to a COVID-19 vaccine

> 75 deaths could not be assessed due to insufficient information
> 41 deaths are still under investigation

> 6 deaths followed a diagnosis of TTS (refer to the TTS bullet above)

So serious side effects in 4,675/55e6 doses. That's something like a 0.01% incidence rate. And 195/55e6 deaths - 1 in 282,000.

If you don't want to trust any national health service I think we're at an impasse. Your problem is then fundamentally with the government (or even government as a concept) and not with the COVID vaccine.

[1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/su...

[2] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/#d...
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Thanks for the response. You're right, but, I'm not trying to say that the headline claim of "false" is misleading with the body of the article.

I'm trying to say something more nuanced... that the headline claim of "false" is misleading from the actual conversations happening out there right now. Which in a way is not a problem with just fact checkers, but the Internet as a whole.

BUT... In my opinion, "fact checkers" by nature of their name have a greater responsibility to Internet discourse than the random comment thread or opinion article because they claim to be an authoritative source.

I can't help but think of the Ministry of Truth.
By the way, this is has already been a way to circumvent KYC on crypto exchanges, as many use technology that analyzes a video of you with your ID.

The crypto exchanges are a much more benign use of deepfakes as they implement KYC primarily to deny users of certain countries out, and the user just wants to use their own funds to trade on the exchange. The crypto exchange is just covering its own ass here, and not getting things stolen from it.

Of course, any body with stolen funds that they want to trade or launder can also create fake accounts at these crypto exchanges using deep fake KYC.

But yeah, back to the article, traditional banks and exchanges have much lower tech verification technology. So its probably a better use of time to just heist them for larger sums via wire transfer, instead of trying to grow/launder a crypto balance.
As well as input from the team, we did a lot of user interviews and testing during development and this wasn't flagged as a concern (a lot of people were used to the model from other apps) but clearly this is something we need to work on.
> The result of this cooperation is the RK3399S – a RK3399 variant made specifically for the PinePhone Pro.

Looks like the RK3399 was used in some chromebooks so hopefully that means it has great upstream Linux support. We can hope it doesn't require any device overlays or weird kernel patches.