This doesn’t get nearly enough airtime. Among other things, also potentially driving obesity rates: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33223205/ There is no federal limit for pfas levels in water.

Could those confidence intervals overlap more? Jesus.

So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad...

>So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad...

Which promotes those who can pay the most to advertise, not the best in their field or even a given user's area/feasible options.

One could argue that the best doctors would be the ones with the most deployable capital. Not too many lotto winners in medicine.

In an average month I click approximately zero ads and I pay my mobile network operator $14 in cold, hard cash.

Perhaps Google want to diversify from advertising. Mobile communications would be one way of doing that.

That's just stupid. If Google wants to replace Verizon/ATT it will have fuck all to do with advertising. It will be for the revenue from users handing them a handful of cash every month.

Companies typically want to diversify how they make money, and this is very obviously something Google desperately wants given that pretty much all their new businesses are around NEW revenue streams and not advertising.

For someone who's an expert about how companies work your grasp of profit margins and competition isn't the greatest ;)

People that take surveys seriously take all of the questions seriously

Anyone been to an airport lately? All open outlets are swarmed upon by people charging and keeping watch on their phones to make sure they don't get stolen.

How about mini lockers with miniusb and apple chargers in each locker. People swipe a credit card and can rent a mini locker to charge their phone is.

I realize how low tech this is but it's less so than people babysitting charging phones.

We have these in few places in the UK, including some of the airports.

This new site called Meterfy came out on Friday (I think) that is trying to be "Wikipedia for numbers." It currently only allows submissions of individual numbers as facts, but if something like this could handle datasets it could replace entry level analysts. For example, thousands of people (and algorithms) pour over earnings reports to find out different information about companies. Much of this work could be done by fewer people, freeing up the productive efforts of the others...

Because the only reason it was posted on HN in the first place is that the company is a tech company. In that way the story is only tangentially related to hacking and startups, so it doesn't need to be on the front page.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the sheer number of comments indicates that the community certainly finds this "interesting." It's just a matter of keeping the comments civil and high-quality.

Right, but this is an issue that everyone is talking about; it's interesting to everyone including good hackers. I don't need to come to HN to see this. This story is/was on every news website.

"The wisdom of crowds is a very important part of this project, and it's an important driver of accuracy," Tetlock said

This part threw me off. But overall, crowdsourced estimates could be a useful tool, provided everyone is actually trying to guess correctly (ie national pride, monetary reward, etc)

I would throw in the Django docs+tutorial combined with stack overflow. These two resources combined are like having a personal tutor.

The django docs in particular are intuitive to follow and pretty comprehensive. Then stack overflow is good for the stuff that's not in the docs.