skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m imagining a utopia now where my privacy was protected as well as my medical data is with HIPAA.

I'm imagining a utopia in which our medical data is as well protected as people think it is under HIPAA.

> Some of my family works in medicine and there is nothing that scares the pants off of medical administration more than a HIPAA data breach. There are real penalties for it from the government and they have to be reported. People responsible get fired.

The penalties are usually in the tens of thousands of dollars. That sounds like a lot, but it's really not when you consider that most breaches for which fines are levied usually affect many patients, not just one, and when you consider the annual revenue and margins of most of these responsible parties.

The fines are capped by statute at a value (about $1.5 million for all violations of a provision in a single year) that is laughably low.
>> here's what you need to do to get this much of a raise or this much of a bonus

Because they can get more out of the high-performers by not giving them a clear threshold (which is why they are called 'over-achievers') and if the mid to low performers met the threshold then the company would have to pay out a lot more in salary.
The problem with swapping is the battery is a very large portion of the residual value of the car. While functionally very different it'd be more like swapping out the engine or transmission in an ICE car. You don't want to roll in with 20k miles on the odometer and roll out with 250k miles!

This is actually the same issue with using EV batteries for grid tied storage. You end up putting (many) more cycles on the battery which devalues your car.
Goals for any situation more complex than commissioned sales are highly likely to change throughout the year.
Isn't that gravity is just a result of clock tick rate is slower if you are closer to some matter?
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The report from Equality Labs is, pardon my French: garbage. Here’s a somewhat more balanced take https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/09/social-realities-of... and here’s an article highlighting what’s wrong with the equality labs report https://www.pgurus.com/breaking-down-the-carnegie-endowments...
It still wouldn’t help. There is nothing stopping a developer from releasing a free game with a single in app purchase that unlocks everything.
Thanks, I flagged this and the other one you mentioned. Do you know if that's the right way to bring these to dang's attention?
Hologram announces the next generation of Hyper IoT SIM with network fallback
The caste system exists outside India. In Japan, people who were falconers, butchers, leather workers and other "ignoble" or "cruel" professions under Buddhism were branded as untouchables, burakumin in Japanese, sometimes also eta or hinin, literally meaning "subhuman". Somehow the lord who employed the falconer was not cruel or ignoble, funny how things work out...
What does vanderbilt dei office have anything to do with michigan shooting? Was there some link between dei and the shooting? If there was, it would've been good to detail it in the email.

But anyway, kudos for them to credit chatgpt as co-author I guess.
In my experience annual reviews are more or less a standardized way to fire poor performers.

If you run a company you know this, but for the uninitiated: there’s a lot of work to fire someone in the US. Technically most employees are at-will, however companies need to have non-sueable reasons for terminating employment.

If they fire you because of race, sex, or some other protected class, that’s illegal. The employee can file for unemployment and that makes your company’s rates go up.

So before terminating someone, companies get a lot of written paperwork in order. This is typically called a performance improvement plan (PIP). That usually starts at the Annual performance review - they’ll say you have poor performance in specific areas and write it down in traceable documents.

The employee tries to “improve” sometimes, but if the company is adamant on terminating someone it’s really just a matter of time.

Their goal is to have a strong case (aka paperwork) demonstrating poor job performance so that when you sue (or file for unemployment) they can push back with a 6 month history of documented issues.
Dark matter and dark energy are different notions. The article is about the later.
The 'software industry' is so wide that I don't think anyone needs a 'Plan B'. If you don't like the specific project, company, language, framework, etc., that you are currently working on; then there are thousands of other opportunities out there.

You can specialize on a certain area (web programming, device drivers, phone apps, etc.) or jump around. Most skills you learn doing one task are helpful as you move on to the next one. Even if find you don't like sitting down at a computer writing code anymore, you can go into project management, consulting, or other related area.
The mobile gaming landscape could have been completely different if Rovio charged a flat $10 for Angry Birds all those years ago.

I'm sure they've made significantly more money by going freemium with ads, but in doing so they also poisoned the well of mobile gaming. Everything now is Pay to Win. Despite there being genuinely impressive games on mobile (Asphalt racing for one), the mechanics of how the game actually works makes me not want to play it.
Mac being a certified Unix just means that Unix certification is meaningless, bought and paid for drivel. OS X was a certified Unix before it had atomic renames!
This is neat

Go figure the cheapest eggs in the country are in Ohio though lol
Sorry, but you are just generalizing based on the top blockbuster movies. Films have never been more diverse in their style and quality and, in my opinion, offer something for everyone.

If you are looking for movies that focus on strong dialogue and character work those movies are still being made and are fantastic.
Looks like Washington, DC, St. Louis, and the area to the east of San Francisco are "red zones" for high egg prices for some reason.
The company is run by the BOD to return value to the shareholders, e.g. VC.

The assumption is they'll get more effort out of labor if they're uncertain about the outcome. No matter how valuable an employee is the company must always maintain a MAD type posture that no employee is too valuable to lose, because if that were true and the employees knew they would take the company over effectively.

Part of what the annual review is is a reminder that your job is not an entitlement. It is not supposed to be pleasant for the average worker.
The last few years I've had two managers simply check my goals as completed, regardless of results. They seemed as sick of the whole process as I was.
How else would it correct their grammar? Users want it doing that. It’s not malware.
Right. Even if the developer knew exactly what he did -- any sane provider would put the updated update through a full QC cycle, which would take a while I'd figure.
Reforming copyright length is more straightforward than trying to come up with some roundabout way to incentivize it. Angry Birds was released in 2009, 14 years ago. By its publisher's own admission, it has run the bulk of its financial value. Angry Birds should now be in the public domain, including source code that should have been escrowed as the creative work (distributed binaries are mere mechanical derivatives). Copyright is not property - one decade is plenty of time to economically benefit from a work, after which a work is solidly in the commons of culture and shouldn't be subject to monopoly control.
Lots of great games on Apple arcade. All add free and microtransaction free. Pay to rent but pretty low cost, and lots of them are not available on any other platform.
I had the opposite experience.

I bought a bunch of these for aging parents. Set them up on their phones, not my own phone, and put them on everything for my folks.

Dad lent me a suitcase, with one of his air tags in the pocket, and a week in I still had not received any warnings.

I thought it was troubling, and I wanted to see how long it would take. So I left it in my back seat for two months… at some point I just forgot it was there.

It provided Dad with my car’s location until the battery died. At no point did I get any warning it was there. I don’t have any sort of joint account or family plan for iPhones.

This made me really nervous about how these worked. I don’t think they do enough to tell people when they are being stalked.

This all happened a year or two ago when the tags first came out. I got rid of all my AirTags after. I don’t think they respect privacy and that makes them unsafe. It makes me happy to hear people saying they got notifications. But I didn’t.

Oh one more thing… I thought I turned off location tracking on my phone and it still knew where the tags that connected to my phone were. Just shows you can’t really ever turn location tracking off.
> Hand crafting communication will fall in to the "why bother?" bucket of work.

For these kinds of communications, probably. I don't think anyone is ever really looking for words of comfort from their university administrators, but sending something out is socially expected of them. It's kind of like a greeting card someone just signs and sends out instead of writing a personal note in.
Ah, that makes sense. So the focus is on helping people navigate the policy, not changing the policy. I can see how that can help.
solution: don't give people that choice... this aligns all corporate-business incentives which are the only ones that matter when considering how to run stores.

I'm really worried since it occurred to me that going forwards the only way to really change what any computer device does/can do is through app stores. No more programming languages; specially not 'open ones' for your own computer hygiene (or safety).

heck, at this moment I'm worried about a future (I hope it stays a future plan forever) agendas against teaching people to read and write. Now that computers can engage in verbal (oral) communication is just a matter of time.
> Could it be that there is no gravity

It makes so much more sense that there's no Dark Matter.
Show HN: I made an AI builder that lets you build AI web apps in minutes
Hi everyone, I made this easy to use AI web app builder that you can use for free.

English is my wife's second language and she asks me to look at her texts a few times a day to check her grammar and reword it to sound more polite and friendly to an English speaker.
I made an AI app that did this for her and by the next day, she said she had used it three to four times. She uses it daily now.

I also know somebody that needed ideas for product names for their business so I made a "Help me name my product AI".
I felt like there's a lot of simple apps like this that could be created if people could just combine a reusable AI prompt and a text box to get user input.

This got me to thinking that anyone should be able to have an idea and then instantly create a sharable AI app.

Check it out at https://www.pancaik.com (spelled with A.I.).

It's a little rough right now but I wanted to share and would love to hear some feedback.

In the future, I want it to be able to take multiple inputs and combine them, include a history for users, add a log for admin, include prompt engineering tools that you can run against the request log, have the ability to generate web components that you can integrate into your own web apps, and have a REST API.
Can they really load so fast as to bottleneck on the current 30 minute charge times (Tesla Semi, 70% fast charge)?

A swap station would need maintenance and refilling, so it's starting from behind and has to earn back its keep by eliminating latency that absolutely can't be hidden any other way.
Tesla being solvent and spinning up to scale is what allowed them to build a factory in California that produces 40GWh/year in utility scale battery storage. They’re sold out for the next 2 years.

https://youtu.be/lvSmMUdC_nA

Battery storage kills fossil generation, as it can’t compete when the batteries take ancillary service revenue (frequency response and voltage pinning) from gas turbines and firm renewables that are dispatchable make fossil generation overall uneconomical. It also reduces the need to curtail clean energy due to overproduction or transmission congestion.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/12/battery-storage-syste...

https://www.harmonyenergy.co.uk/general/harmony-energy-incom...

Sexy electric cars with fat margins paid for this, as well as a billion dollar global fast DC charge network. Cheap econobox EVs with no or negative margin do not. Electric bikes do not. Public transportation does not. That doesn’t make them less necessary, just not drivers of change.
So how would that explain the fact that spacetime is curved in a very predictable manner in a clear relation to the mass of an object in spacetime ?
I always wondered why Apple can't implement something similar to Steam refunds.

Quote from https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds:

You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam—for any reason. Maybe your PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it.

It doesn't matter. Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within the required return period, and, in the case of games, if the title has been played for less than two hours.
Then everyone would see "task board" and assign whatever meaning or implication they already have with that term, probably missing the point of why this system is not the same as the task board they learned about in elementary school or whatever. Different people would assign different understandings, and none of them would be the one intended by the system.

> unnecessarily difficult for job starters to find their bearings.

"unnecessarily" is a value judgment. You're assuming that using familiar words automatically leads to common understanding, that people will notice if they have different understandings, and there won't be flamewars about the meaning of common words. What's worse, the effort to explain to new people the system, or the results from everyone assuming "task board" means whatever they think it means and running off in different and possibly conflicting directions?

Words mean things. Loan words enrich language when they lead to shared understanding.
> If I have trouble putting things into words myself but I prompt an AI to write an empathatic email and then tweak it a little bit, what's wrong with that?

It betrays a lack of empathy that you weren’t even willing to take the time to write a personal email to the community in the wake of a horrible tragedy.

> Would you rather I write no email or write an insensitive one?

I’d rather you write a sensitive one.
if Apple wants to sell their products in EU, they have to listen what EU says.
It's not really my kind of music, but huge respect for her. She's obviously got tons of talent and has figured out how to turn it into big $$$$.
I went to see if I could use moon and found this page: https://moonrepo.dev/docs#supported-languages

Does that mean most of the automated features you mentioned here only apply to JS?
You don't own your NIO batteries, you just lease them. So you don't care if they're new or old as long as they work.

They aren't manually swapped, robots do all the work.
> Notably, NIO also equipped two LiDARs and two Nvidia Orin chips on the third-generation battery swap station, for a total computing power of 508 TOPS.

Does anyone know the context of this? Seemed somewhat out of place, why would a battery swap station have particularly high computing power and what does Lidar have to do with it?
Why would progress be faster in Python?

As for JS in general, I agree, but there's a (very small) subset of TS that actually makes a very nice (and complete) language, IMO.
I get the AirPods owner can see your location and I can't seem to get rid of it. Anytime I use them for the next couple hours. It's annoying.
Annual reviews have many problems, the main one being that the incentives behind them are usually flawed. In many cases, these reviews exist because management believes it needs them. That doesn't mean that said management will actually take said reviews seriously. Once the review has occurred, the job of the review is done, which is to say that management or the business owners succeeded in making themselves feel as if they have done their job and have created a pathway to greater excellence by providing feedback to their employees. It doesn't matter how vacuous these reviews are; just pretend like they're better than nothing, and you can feel good about yourself. If all else fails, you, the manager, will maintain your sense of superiority.

From the employee's perspective, there's usually little reason to take annual reviews seriously. The fact that they are annual and not more frequent subtly communicates that any negative (or even positive) feedback really is not that important, if at all, and savvy employees who care about maximizing their earnings should consider whether it's worth investing effort into "improving" when said improvement is unlikely to translate into a bigger paycheck or a fancier title. Some companies try to counter this by having employees self-review, but this backfires in a number of ways. For one, employees are incentivized to either exaggerate or downplay their strengths and shortcomings. "Always room for improvement", right? If an employee legitimately can't think of anything they need to improve upon, they're liable to make something up just so they don't stick out like a sore thumb. One way that this system does work out for employers is that it can encourage less savvy employees to work harder than they did before but for the same pay, but this may also cause burnout and higher turnover when these peons realize their station at the company and move on to better things.

In rare cases, annual reviews can be used in an effort to get rid of poor-performing employees. This is not as common as people think, and is even less common the bigger the company gets. Businesses want to maximize productivity, but that doesn't mean they care enough to outright fire the mediocre or even lazy employees. Mediocrity can actually work in the favor of the business because, if such mediocrity is permitted, they can hang on to employees longer than if they demanded the kind of extraordinary excellence they claim to in job ads. "We only hire the best." No, you don't.
What language would be a good example of that?
What kind of dumpster-fire developer gets out-competed by a game they released fourteen years ago targeted at a platform with a 320x480 screen and 128MB of RAM?
I'm always surprised to see such big ads on a personal blog like this, it makes me wonder if they even know that they are there. Surely it can't be worth the income?
yeah, that threw me away at first too
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34894412
Don't you think this whole thing is a bit eggsaggerative? Couldn't resist...
They paper is also telling them how to poison their databases, so if they really wanted to avoid being used in that way they could do.

The paper also tells them how to solve that issue, which is what google would prefer. But they are letting wikipedia make that choice.
You make it sound as if Beyonce, Drake, Taylor Swift and Bieber don't already account for 80% of Spotify's artist payouts.
There's just no simple way to make a review system that scales infinitely and doesn't have some sort of tradeoff. There's no perfect.
I lost faith in Rovio when they started advertising fake game footage on TikTok.
They're just a clickbait company now.
Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
> Yes it's tempting to correct errors as you see them pop up. But it's better to construct a network that can learn from data to handle any situation that you didn't think of specifically.

“Yes it’s tempting to save and invest your money for your retirement, but it’s better to put your faith in god and he’ll solve all your financial problems, even the ones you didn’t know you’d have.”

If the system, with all of its data, can’t solve a common problem that happens every day, how the hell is it supposed to solve a problem so rare that the engineers don’t even know exists?
The difficulty of learning translates to the difficulty of understanding and "mental fog".

Mental fog translates to logical bugs that either the compiler or human reviewer never catches.

As a result, the program becomes buggy in more subtle ways than before.

To claim that overall, rust reduces the number of bugs during the lifetime of the program, we need experimental data, which is still missing.
Nio batteries aren't owned, they are leased.
WSL2 is great if you're stuck on Windows, but it's still really not there yet. For example:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8725
AI deserves attention, reflection, and debate. Far from stealing our jobs as designers, AI can only make our lives easier, evolving our roles into decision-makers.
The AI content gets no input from the world outside of the internet except through humans.
I'm not sure how to make these two statements consistent:

> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

> “Women don’t need to be in long-term relationships. They don’t need to be married. They’d rather go to brunch with friends than have a horrible date,” said Greg Matos

So women don't need to be in a long-term relationship, and yet they are at a much higher rate?
If you start with the presumption that anti-discrimination laws already exist, then you may see this law as merely performative -- it didn't outlaw anything that was actually permitted prior.

But it could also be that such a redundant law is part of an broader acculturation process, and so has more cultural, rather than legal value.
I dunno, the A750/770 kinda look like the AMD 7950/7970 to me. Slow and power hungry and janky at first, but also aging conspicuously well.

But it was late, which is a disaster in the gpu world.
A potential solution would be to provide "batteries as a service" when a car is bought. You'd not be paying for a battery per se but rather for the battery service with some performance guarantees where you pay a base monthly and mileage fee -or something to that effect.
Reviews require that people's jobs are confined to a given box.

Many people like to do things outside of that box, or hate being so constrained.

Companies also struggle to quantify the value of some of the things people do.

For example

- Employee 1: Sales rep, hits quota, shows up late, leaves early

- Employee 2: Sales rep, behind on quota, but everyone in her pod is crushing because she's spending extra reps helping them be better at their job.

It's likely that employee #2 is in the wrong role. But if you're a mega-corp manager, all you see is that she's behind on quota, and her annual review reflects that. Let's put her on a pip and find some more people like Employee 1.

It could be that Employee #2 isn't motivated by more money.

Telling her "Do more sales or you're fired" could end up being pretty bad for you.

You may end up getting what you want(employee 2 is gone) but not like what you get(decreased productivity for your other team members.
Right like running a second instance and if both disagree there is an issue.
Okay neat— the WP page for it mentions it being produced at least in part as a byproduct of steel production:

"In the finishing of steel prior to plating or coating, the steel sheet or rod is passed through pickling baths of sulfuric acid. This treatment produces large quantities of iron(II) sulfate as a by-product."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%28II%29_sulfate#Productio...

So I guess that explains why it's so inexpensive, but of course as with many such things (natural gas from oil production, whey from yogurt/cheese production, etc), once there's a robust market for the "byproduct", it can result in changing the original economics.