skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire healthcare industry is all based on inflated numbers. Doctors have to charge $100 to get $10 from the insurance company, hospitals charge $1,000 and then accept $100 and write the rest off as "losses" so they can tweak the books in other areas.
They invested in IBM and BABA. Enough said.
You are missing the point: it is endemic to the culture. It has nothing to do with personal choice. It's like blaming a sexual assault victim for what they wear: that's not the issue, it is toxic masculinity that is the problem, e.g., the culture, not the individual incident.
This reminds me of the "hubless" motorcycle:

https://motorbikewriter.com/hubless-motorcycle-streets/
As an aside, it's kinda sad that you need to cost your vacation days (unless you're a contractor). One of the better EU laws is that you must take your holidays and can't just cash them out, which is better overall, I think.
Elizabeth Holmes: 'They Don’t Put Pretty People Like Me in Jail'
If you’ve read the book “sea of rust” by Robert Cargill you will know the phrase quite well. A bit dark but not a bad read.
>becuase I know that we have never observed another universe

You should hang around people who do a lot of mushrooms, they can clue you in to the others, duuuuuude.
Ask HN: What's your freelancing company/business setup?
Most of my clients are in USA and I have a small SaaS (~$500 MRR) with most of its users from USA.

I'm checking my options to have minimal bureaucracy overhead (for me) and minimum expenses (taxes, lawyers, accountants, etc.).

I'm thinking of opening an LLC in Wyoming or Delaware. As far as I understand, I could pay myself dividend and have zero profits so I'd only pay dividend taxes in my home country - Croatia, which is 10%.

I know this question has been asked several times and I've read almost all of those past threads, but it's still not 100% clear to me that I have it right. I just don't want to end up with something like C-Corp.[0][1][2]

I'm sure there are people with ton of experience here so I'm looking for your help. Did you use Stripe Atlas? Something else? Should I open outside of USA (Canada? Croatia? Estonia? Singapore?)

Thank you!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States

[1] - https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/united-states/corporate/taxes-on-corporate-income

[2] - https://stripe.com/guides/atlas/tax-season

Some past discussions about Stripe Atlas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870886

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24282940
It looks and feels very different than Mastodon though, and allows you to do interesting things with your posts using CSS.
fly on private jets to mandate the world use bicycles and fake meat
Twitter went public at $45 a share and only had a max of $77. Sure some engineers could have almost doubled their RSU valuations if they had perfect timing but this isn't a case like GOOG/APPL/TSLA where 100x jumps occurred. Or is my thinking here naive?
wait, does this mean there will be no more leap day year starting from 2035?
Yes?

The CEO’s role is to articulate a vision to workers (particularly to middle management).
If it’s a secret plan, then functionally there is not a plan.

Good plans can be executed even if competitors know it because they rely upon competitive advantages the firm has. Even if this is only true in the short to medium term, by the medium term when competitors can pivot the company is executing on another plan.
The second generation Web UI of a Series A startup in 2011 that went on to be acquired for $1B in 2020. I have another promising personal project in the works I'm hoping overtakes it.
It's crazy how things have changed. Reddit is now heading in the opposite direction. It's a shame, because I think that your approach was the better one.
Cool story! what languages, frameworks, etc did you use? Or are you about to tell me COBOL? :P
You are restating my argument as using a sonic cannon. That is not what I said. I said: what happens if I shout my speech so as to obscure yours?

Given the strawman, I guess that you don't have an answer.
The same CGPM 2022 conference also resolved to give standard prefix names for 10 to the 27 and 30:

power prefix symbol
10^27 ronna R
10^−27 ronto r
10^30 quetta Q
10^−30 quecto q

c.f. https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20... (Resolution 3, English version on page 23)
No, it's the opposite argument, that we SHOULDN'T do that because one it's impractical, and two if they actually did it, the solution (mass government wiretapping and auditing and pre-censorship of all "foreign" apps) would be worse than the problem it's trying to solve (TikTok not playing nice).

I'm no fan of the CCP, but I'd take Chinese propaganda over American censorship any day.
Also: SpaceX and Tesla were heavily subsidized with taxpayer money. To date, something like 98% of SpaceX contracts are govt. I’m not sure about the Boring company but I suspect its business model is heavily dependent on taxpayer funds too.

Although he's often held up as a paragon of free market capitalism, it looks like a lot of his business ventures are actually the result of crony capitalism.
Bottom of the 9th and

Baseball Highlights 2045

are great, specially like playing on the app, since it does all the scoring and bookkeeping.
Boring product space. Psychotic leader. Hard pass.
Do you have any insight on whether NeverTear would be good media for long-term archival? Waterproof and damage resistant is a big plus, but I wonder if they come at the cost of pigmant durability.
That's a bummer. Wonder how many cars are sitting unsold.
How to Run 300km in a Day
I think there's a scale issue here. For such a parasite, the host body is an environment rather than prey. It's analogous to our species' depressingly poor record of considering negative externalities.
I see what you're saying, but I remember reading on here months ago that Coinbase's debt was unimaginably huge. Doesn't matter if they have a good business selling shovels if they can't dig themselves out of the impossibly deep hole they're in.
> solid 10-15% of folks doing nothing

Where are you getting these numbers? You got any real studies or data to back this up?
Well if you were to diagnose most companies there are probably 30-40 engineers that make the most value, like billions of dollars each. From there it starts dropping off like a long tail in search results. There's value, but a lot less than others. Cutting the long tail may still break huge areas of functionality - but the rest will patch and fix it over time.

Heck there might be a team of 50 that has the sole responsibility to figure out the code/algorithms that puts something on the main page automatically. Instead that can temporarily be a small team of 3 people that rotate news articles or tweets.

We tend to think "each employee generates $44B / 14000" but that's far from the truth.
Spending days figuring out a few boring lines of change that has an outsized impact would, imho, be a fairly compelling bit of code to show off. IMHO while he might be crazy and way out of line, he's effectively asking people to reinterview for their jobs, except instead of doing blind code tests he's asking them to show off the best work they've done recently.
the competent 10%?

just joking, bootstrap aside the only thing I remember about Twitter engineers was the "happiness" password incident and several similar cases. Competent may be a stretch.
Sorry all, I was typing it on my phone and missed an underscore. Here’s the proper link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unstable_diffusion
I want to love Mozilla and Firefox as it promotes diversity and standards for the web, but god do I hate Mozilla's marketing.

It's completely outrage driven and feeds on fearmongering: "google bad, we good, give us money".

Having spoken to people who work at Mozilla they say the management is pretty toxic which makes me think they are being hypocrites with their message.
I vote they spend some of it on a drop-in HTML/CSS/JavaScript rendering lib
Are you sure it's unclear to use commas and parentheses? Is being frowned upon by English professors really the same as being unclear?

Language means compressing and serializing information. Commas and parentheticals are a more efficient way to leave the information in a slightly more compressed state. Generally we are describing a graph serially, and adding the details as we go rather than coming back one by one and zooming in is just more efficient.

Also, I honestly suspect that often people just don't have the detailed level of understanding to be able to add it on the first level. And those details can be quite critical.

I mean, also the actual amount of things that are relevant that they have to say may make their communication seem cluttered compared to someone with a more simplistic knowledge base and thought process.
Just because you can pop a shell doesn't really make Android a Linux distro in my book. I'm not an Android expert by any means, but apps don't use glibc do they? And I doubt sound goes through ALSA or PulseAudio, or that you can run purely native apps without some kind of Java shim, nor use dbus or hell is there even /etc? It has "Linux," but it's missing the "distro" part. userspace is so divergent, it'd be like calling OS X a BSD distro.
Not just a unicorn, since they actually have 1B in assets. Most unicorns can't even claim a tenth of that in revenue. They have 600M in revenue and 340M in expenses, and their cash flow looks strong.
"Weak evidence" is a term of art, not a pejorative. The original article frames this study as an attack on prior studies and vindication of red meat. My point is that this is extremely dishonest, and the authors of the study do not intend to convey that at all. They instead say that the evidence is there, but it's not yet strong enough for them to recommend any policy actions.

> The available evidence suggests that eating no unprocessed red meat may minimize the risk of disease incidence and mortality compared to consuming any, but there is insufficient evidence to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations. More rigorous, well-powered research is needed to better understand and quantify the relationship between unprocessed red meat intake and chronic disease.
DiAngelo followers don't generally like intersectionality because their views are incompatible with it.
You can start a new "show HN" post and talk about it (only if you'd like!) No pressure, it's not a big deal either way, just thought it'd be interesting to share :)
Why use leap seconds at all?

Our current calendar was introduced in 1582, 440 years ago [0].

We add a leap second about every 1.5 years [1].

That means in the time since our calendar was invented, we've added less than 5 minutes to our time.

Would anyone notice if noon arrived 5 minutes earlier over the course of 500 years? Especially since the position of the sun varies orders of magnitude more than that simply based on season?

Maybe we could all just agree to add 10 minutes in 3022. If we haven't switched calendars again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html
Great Chinese social credit system with ever changing goal lines for punishment
For 10 years until recently a statistics research system that was the primary tool for keeping granular measurements on the health of the US economy.
You would have to be foolish to. However much value may be created, Musk has shown he will try to wriggle out of deals he made when he thinks he can get away with not meeting his obligations to his counterparties. Delaware courts wouldn’t let him welch on the merger, and I expect the execs he fired “for cause” will successfully hold him to their agreements in the end. You, as the employee in a closely held private company, will have no such leverage. Musk could promise all the upside in the world, but even if everything works out he’ll just screw you out of your share of it.
How can we accomplish as much good as possible with our giving?
This comment won’t age well.
> Anyone else feeling like this at work?

Yes, and not just because of cross cultural issues, as some of the sibling comments suggest.

I've seen people who don't address questions clearly, sometimes cannot explain their train of thought or reasons for making certain decisions (which may or may not be cargo culting at times), or have especially pronounced challenges in regards to async communication as well - not electing to use a spell checker and usually having typos (both in their messages and code, unfortunately), communicating in cut off short sentences without providing the proper details, or always asking for a call.

I suspect that communicating effectively is a skill like any other and many simply choose not to make an effort to advance it. Alternatively, some may not be comfortable with writing in any capacity (e.g. dyslexia), or alternatively, explaining themselves verbally (e.g. anxiety).

In regards to my latter points, I actually made this site to hopefully give some tips on async communication: https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/

(some of the already existing sites seemed to ridicule these people, which I do not want to do, but rather offer tips)

That said, I am also not perfect and have made the occasional communication blunders myself. That's why nowadays I try to re-read what I'm about to post, or consider how I word things at least a few times before hitting submit. Even in communication that takes place in-person, I try to introduce people to the points I want to make bit by bit, giving them whatever context may be necessary.

As for engaging with others, all you can do is encourage them to share more information as it's necessary, not get sidetracked and be very patient yourself.
It's not particularly surprising that people would criticize someone focusing on a bad actor's ethnic group, whether it's Kanye West going on a Twitter tirade or a "crypto influencer" writing a deliberately provocative headline to drive clicks.

The actual article is more nuanced than its title suggests, almost acknowledging the obvious fact that a blue-collar "white boy" in Ohio has nothing close to the "social currency" that someone like Bankman-Fried did. It's still clearly provocative to suggest Bankman-Fried's Stanford educated, genuinely "privileged" upbringing as the son of well known Stanford professors is somehow reflective of hundreds of millions of people rather than his own circumstances. Doing something for clickbait doesn't somehow make it not provocative.
So did tribal conflict and "mine against yours" on the basis of looks and skin-color. I don't see how this is contrary to my point.
what was the driver of this growth?
> I'm not sure what the moral is here

I think the moral is that it'd be a lot easier if we could just stop messing with the clocks, or at least push more technical things towards only caring about a closest-to-a-global-high-precision-monotonic-clock-as-relativity-allows rather than worrying about what the clocks on the walls say, which is more a personal matter of how much you care or don't where the sun is in the sky at 12:00:00.000.
Appreciate the point of view, but I am a systems/infra engineer - not coder. It would be pretty cool to learn how Twitter keeps its infrastructure running all the time. Even though I have been doing my speciality for a long time, I would certainly like to see how others run infrastructure at scale.
Ah, you reminded me that I did actually try out iCloud as well! I was unhappy with how the sync worked on macOS – basically lots of magic in the background without any idea what is happening and how long it might take. And you couldn’t even turn off the laptop in between sync attempts, as far as I remember? And their online services are quite far behind the competition as well (no proper folder sharing without requiring the receiver to have an Apple account, for example).

But yeah, I’m still keeping the lowest-tier iCloud subscription to sync my photos via Apple Photos, which is quite nice to have.
Ask HN: What would a truly useful AI personal assistant look like to you?
Yes, we have alexa, siri and google assistant.

They all do cool stuff. I can check the weather, know my agenda for the day, and get a joke told.
Some of these are somewhat useful, others a cool stuff to show or try one time.

I feel a truly useful personal assistant is not yet here (am I wrong? please share projects I may not know about). This is a field where I have a lot of personal interest and have been brainstorming some ideas. I'm very curious to pick your brains too and know from the HN crowd what would a truly useful personal assistant based on AI look like? What would be able to do that you can't ask alexa or siri?

I'm always reminded of the next-level AI in the movie Her, and how the AI manages email and is able to naturally respond and carry out tasks.

I think a personal assistant is, by definition, aware of all the important things in your life. An integration with every significant email box, calendar, note taking app, etc... would be a significant part of its "wisdom" and ability to truly help out.

What kind of dialogs do you dream of having with a digital personal assistant? How would your day be easier with it available in your pocket?

Disclaimer: I do have a personal pet project for an AI digital assistant (leaning towards productivity)
How common was it for founders to cash out on common shares in the Series C-E rounds the last decade?
It's not about a mass of googlers interested in it, but about leadership being interested in such a small consumer product.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave
Not a dumb question, the example is for the client library (browser-side).

We also have a server side library you can use in node if you wanted. But for e2e encryption to work you need to use the client library
Wow, that is how you turn a single paragraph of information and a single photo into a whole article! Repeat youself, write about what a quote is about to say, then zoom in on the same image and show it again!
Oh, that's a new filing from yesterday. Hadn't seen that one yet.

Here's the view from the Bahamas.[1][2] Apparently the government of the Bahamas did attempt, per a court decision there, in getting custody of some digital assets of FTX. The Bahamas have appointed a liquidator.

The Bahamas are tougher on bankruptcy than the US is. They are going straight to liquidation, while the US bankruptcy in Delaware is chapter 11, "debtor-in-possession / protection from creditors". This whole thing is likely to go to liquidation soon, since there is no ongoing business worth preserving.

There are organized ways of handling international bankruptcies. The Bahamas does not seem to be a party to the main treaty on that. There is, though, an extradition treaty between the Bahamas and the US.

[1] http://www.tribune242.com/news/2022/nov/18/bahamas-rebuts-ft...

[2] https://www.scb.gov.bs/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Media-Rele...
> Also we’re bringing NPM style supply chain problems to the kernel now?

Nope. They've thought that through.

(In fact, cargo is only used to build test helpers. https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/rust/Documentat...)
https://archive.ph/hDeGP
By your logic, the predator in To Catch A Predator is not doing a bad thing.
Freshbooks in my experience has been the 90% best tool for my needs, although kind of expensive.
7 bits was enough for ASCII and lower case, why not 7?
Myself. Came from a dysfunctional family, enormous debt and have survived lots of trauma to reach a decent position + decent net worth.
Programming languages, even so-called general purpose ones, really need to have a general niche. Swift is for application programming while Rust is for systems programming. Which doesn’t mean that they can’t do things in the other niche. But it does mean that they will not be used to such a wide extent that they will be seen as "better" than the other language for that opposite niche.

One illustrative facts is that Rust in practice cares about each individual allocation. Meanwhile Swift has the wonderful value-semantics collection implemented by way of copy-on-write (cow) atomically reference-counted pointers.
I worked on the epitaxy for vcsels that go into iphones for the facial recognition. Not that impactful but cool to know that the stuff I worked on is in use all around me.
> I had figured the hour hand had a tiny gearing mechanism in the connection between the two hands.

They have a previous version that was exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCOC2zNjWCg&list=PLAYNJqEoXT...

The movement of the hour hand is pretty terrible though.
During the last decade, Google has overextended itself in new ventures. This thread is full of "successful stories" from that era. there is sooooooo much potential for maturing what is in there already, and I think this is their mindset for the time being.

What I'm really curious about is: if zuck has his metaverse fantasy and musk his twitter conquest, what about Brin and Page? All I remember from recently is some "Airy" stuff (literally):

Sergey Brin’s airship startup grows rapidly (https://www.ft.com/content/ae625a25-d2ac-4bca-9508-a5f0d3c7dd09)
Larry Page's electric air taxi startup is winding down (https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/tech/kittyhawk-larry-page/index.html)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Man, between this and the Ronna and the Quetta, it feels like science is getting its admin done today!
Very well thought out article, but I promise your life will improve if all you do is read the caption on the first image.
Doesn’t work on my IPhone.
I think regardless numbers, it is usually a slow burn for situations like these. And probably plenty of people will probably not see a space to fill and try their luck. Hopefully, one of them will work.
what did you get done this week?
The Swift story around ABI stability and library evolution is pretty unique. Relatedly, its approach to generics doesn't fall into either of the 2 traditional paths (either box everything like Java and C#, or template instantiation like C++ or Rust).

https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctS8FzqcRug
Built Video Hub App that almost 5,000 people have purchased. I was a math teacher, became a web dev 6 years ago, built this 5 years ago. Most proceeds go to charity. Very minor by comparison to others, but I'm just starting out ;)

https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

What I did that is most impactful is that I've been giving at least 10% of my income to cost-effective charities for over 10 years now (see Giving What We Can - thousands of others do the same). This amounts to almost $100,000 given to charity which translates to thousands of people protected from malaria for many years of their lives.
Yes, that's what the CGPM eventually decided to do because they know UTC will have to stay.
Android definitely doesn't use Linux as a runtime, but the implimentation of the kernel and userspace is quite Linux-like in my opinion. OSX isn't a BSD distro because it uses a non-BSD kernel with a BSD compatibility layer; Android on the other hand is Linux, but not GNU/Linux. Saying Android isn't Linux depends on your definition of Linux being incorrect.
> he said he hoped students today looked at biology the way he looked at computer science back in the 50s and 60s

that's interesting, i believe ken thompson said something similar re: getting into biology in an interview about 20 years ago.
Continuous cuffless blood pressure monitoring via graphene bioimpedance tattoos
> This was the project that made realise how huge the effort-to-effect ratio that can be when computers are involved

I love Steve Jobs' metaphor: computers as a bicycle of the mind [0]. Unfortunately, a lot of effort is concentrated on problems that scale to billions of people. There's a lack of attention to problems that would have a big effect for a relatively small number of people. It's a shame, because they're a blast to work on.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40B08nWoMk