skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, Comcast does the same sort of thing without any insurance model involvement.
I wasn't making the argument that curl should be rewritten in Rust. It's too late to edit my comment to clarify it, so please see my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996154
Won't that basically just cause amazon.com to look like a blank page?
Teslas and Edisons did insane work hours most people would consider suicide these days.

In my experience these are largely a function of volume, quantity and relationship with your work. Most managers I know can get by even 2-3 hours of work/day. This is true because the work is largely meta- Delegating, tracking things et al.

If you are involved in your work at a lot more micro level, then the speed of the project is the function of your involvement with the project.

This fantasy of achieving extra ordinary things doing just 5 hours of work/day is largely a millennial thing. As a Indian millennial myself, I find this attitude sick. Our fathers used to largely look these things as 'opportunity'.
Aside: a frustration of mine is that the chips take so long to verify for artificial reasons of security theater. Because American banks are too lazy to manage PINs and consumers too lazy to want to punch in PINs, which essentially are a necessary user salt to the process, the systems just request two hashes instead, wanting about a minute in between to make sure the wall clock time is different.

Just like everywhere else, American Banks don't understand two factor authentication and would rather just check the same factor twice for the appearance of security rather than actual security. The sad irony being that the lazy wait for wall clock time solution is slower than punching in a PIN would be.
This is about chlorpyrifos, not all pesticides or organophosphates. I don't see any generalization in the article.

And that's not the only study they referenced:

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0653-...

"D. Drew et al., Chlorpyrifos: Revised Human Health Risk Assessment for Registration Review, December 29, 2014, D424485; 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Literature Review on Neurodevelopment Effects & FQPA Safety Factor Determination for the Organophosphate Pesticides, September 15, 2015, D331251; 

R. Bohaty and J. Hetrick. Chlorpyrifos Registration Review Drinking Water Assessment, April 14, 2016, D432921 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chlorpyrifos Issue Paper: Evaluation of Biomonitoring Data from Epidemiology Studies, March 11, 2016 and supporting analyses presented to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel’s (SAP) meeting on April 1921, 2016, (EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0062). "
Rejected a policy recommendation. A scientist making a policy recommendation does not mean that the policy recommendation is science.
Mine was the gray one, and model III rings a bell.
> doesn't prevent drug companies from allocating volume on a country-by-country level and maintaining price discrimination.

It does; for price discrimination, there are three criteria that all need to be satisfied, and one of them is the ability to restrict resale between market segments. If market segments are free to trade with each other, the supplier cannot price-discriminate.

> This happened back 6-7 years ago when getting your script filled by a Canadian pharmacy was all the rage. The drug companies simply setup quotas for Canada. They have a good estimate of how much drug Canadians need. If a wholesaler tries to buy more, the drug company tells them no. Then all of a sudden Canadian wholesalers are in a bind. Do they sell to Americans and tell the Canadians no?

It's important to understand the difference between the short-term impact and the long-term (steady-state) impact. The case you're referencing is an amusing one, because it's actually AstraZeneca's proactive campaign against what was then a touchstone of the healthcare reform bills[0]. At the time, unrestricted trade in pharmaceuticals was not possible between the US and Canada, and AstraZeneca was making a threat to try and kill the provisions that would have permitted it[1].

The only reason that they can set these quotas in the first place is that US wholesalers can't (freely) export to Canada, and vice versa. If the ban on that had been lifted, AstraZeneca wouldn't be able to set quotas per-country in the first place. They could try, and succeed in the short-term, but in the long term, the prices in both markets would be forced to converge (with the difference bounded by the costs of import/export).

[0] Remember the date: April 2009, just a few months into Obama's inauguration. The public option was still theoretically on the table, and the Baucus plan hadn't happened yet.

[1] It worked - that was one of the parts of the ACA that was killed before it got a vote.
My vasectomy a year ago left me in chronic pain on one side, and with a significant reduction in enjoyment of sex. I have spent thousands of dollars on treatment, and will soon go for a reversal, which will cost around $12k. I'm not sure what I'll do if it fails, but orchiectomy is on the table. Vasectomy was the worst decision of my life.

There is a real risk of chronic pain, which can be devastating, and it is much more common than the literature would have you believe.
They also have an Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) paper with a title that brought a smile to my face: https://cmaurice.fr/pdf/ndss17_maurice.pdf
> What you have is not the result of your toils.

be careful with your phrasing. better to say "What you have is not solely the result of your toils."
To this point, Dropbox does an excellent job of what they set out to do. I haven't seen anybody do it better and I'm a happy paid user. Being able to pay $10 / month for 1TB of fast, instantly synced and versioned online storage integrated directly into the filesystem is hard to beat.
When I can buy drugs from the Pharamacy for $1.69 a pound I'll be happy to see it driven by market forces. The market simply isn't doing a good enough job getting medications to consumers at a reasonable price.
I don't know about Dropbox but for example Twitter is still losing money since 2012. Twitter is way overvalue in the market and has lost around $2 billion since inception. Obviously it's not the same as 2000, these companies have revenue, but some of the are not making even a profit. If they continue to throw tech companies with revenue and losing money as IPOs prepare for the next tech bubble. It will burst.
In your comment you suggest that most of the profits of pharma companies go into R&D but that's not the case. There's a lot of rent seeking behavior by these companies due to poor legislation. This kind of behavior (incentives/"conferences" for physicians, lobbying, etc.) shows up under sales in their annual reports and it's clear they spend a lot more on it than on R&D: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p... Clearly the current legal framework is not optimal for consumers.
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> I think we're safe.

Well, it doesn't need to equal the irradiance of the sun to be a big effect. 1% of the sun is still a hell of a lot of extra warming.

At an annual growth rate of 2%, that 12 TW becomes 1% of the sun in 250 years. Not all that long when solutions are 50+ years out. If you're a fan of keeping capitalism going, we're going to need faster growth than that.
This is awesome.. I have been trying to video chat with somebody more overseas. Whatsapp video, facebook video, skype, seems like the only thing that works for us right now is Duo.

Bad thing: this tech is trapped in Telegram which is quite political of an app. I wish they'd break it out into something like duo.
Reaction time, I can kind of get. But weight, especially when compared to velocity and the coefficient of friction - i.e. the road conditions - has negligible impact. Sure, it increases your traction when stopping, but it also increases the amount of energy which has to be dissipated by the vehicle to stop.

Something that has a much greater impact than either would be the road conditions. Wet, dry, icy, sandy, gravel, oily... all have much more impact than either weight or reaction speed.

Have a look at this review:

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-power-to-stop

The quality of the brakes had a much greater impact than the weight of the compared vehicles (a SUV had a stopping range of 355 ft, whereas a coupe had a stopping distance of 365).
Niven and others wrote sci-fi about "organ-legging". Reality has beaten them all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

Much [hard] sci-fi now counts as a kind of scenario planning.
Bezos can buy The Washington Post and use it a megaphone to shape elite debate and tilt policy towards his preferences. No rookie cop can do that.
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As a single guy that checks out girls a lot, I can verify that exercise makes you hotter, if not better looking.

Yes, it may be true that healthier people are more likely to exercise exactly because they are already healthy, but I would imagine that is true in less that 1% of the population.
When I first saw this I thought they were talking about making a Freedom of Information Act request
> hours of labor are not required for achievement?

Well, you need to put in something like 3-8 hours per day, certainly. But it's been documented over and over that 60+ hours a week does not increase your productivity.

Each book does contain evidence for its claims based on research. Perhaps "Deep Work" is more anecdotal than the others, but Cal is up-front about this.
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Well, those are flaws that don't matter much, though, as the primary mission is getting the satellite to orbit. Sure, landing the booster a second time would be nice and awesome, but usually they tend to learn much more from failures than from successes.
Medicare and Medicaid often reimburse below cost. Healthcare businesses make up the difference from private insurance. By forcing people to accept the lowest rate (which is not negotiated, but effect by decree), you absolutely destroy the funding for services.

Good luck keeping any healthcare facilities open at those reimbursement rates.

Medicare is allowed to set prices by fiat for physician and hospital services. It is barred by law from negotiating on medications. Perhaps the ire should be directed there.
And when you ask this sort of question people will lie about how important the say money is.
> it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free

I worked on SkyDrive/OneDrive for a few years. That's what we thought too. This stuff inevitably starts out with "seriously, how long is it going to take to make essentially a wrapper around rsync" and ends up with "Hey, guess what happens when you cross filesystem errors with distributed systems errors when dealing with unmergeable files?"

This is a deceptively challenging space, particularly if you want to do sharing and group work in a reasonably intuitive way. Which is why Dropbox has managed to remain a company instead of simply being eaten up the first quarter that appl/ms/google decided to get into this business. Note that all three have an offering, and at this point I know that OneDrive is actually pretty good, but for years it was kind of an uphill catchup struggle.
Rejected a policy recommendation that cited a lot of published research.

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-
products/revised-human-health-risk-assessment-chlorpyrifos
The "wall of legalese" is what ensures that you are protected from lawsuits. MIT/BSD licenses are shorter because they are more vague. That vagueness means they are easier to read, but harder to understand the implications of.
^ this. My best cited paper came to me while summiting a 14er in Colorado.

Did actually generating the results take long hours and serious work? Of course. But the idea required freeform thought and subconscious mulling.
I believe we've already asked you to please not post deliberately inflammatory sarcasm like this. It's not part of the thoughtful and civil discussion we're trying to have.
Yep, over-reliance on rationality, overspecialization and dogmatic thinking are huge problems with the current academic landscape. Faraday and young Einstein thought about problems in a fundamentally different way. In fact, when Einstein became firmly entrenched in the establishment and started approaching everything from the math first perspective, he failed to make further progress.

Another interesting anecdote is that on the crowd sourcing platform innocentive, the majority of problems (which have stumped fortune 500 R&D departments) are solved by people outside the domain of the problem.
Well, seems we can't seem to agree on a simple thing, I don't want to waste my time attempting to discuss anything more complicated than a word. You went straight for the cool-aid bottle on the previous comment, and you wonder why I'm ignoring the rest?

Beside, my reply wasn't related to that particular post in detail it was paraphrasing (<-- hint) a behaviour that is pretty common across many projects, wether they are open or closed source.

Sorry to come out as a bit flippant, but I'm slightly overdosed on the 'fake .' argumentation these days.
Latency for a 56k modem was 180ms. Latency for a voice call on the same line was _much_ smaller. AFAICT, latency from my games console television to my TV is much higher...
The text of the Georgia law is not copyrightable, and the article states this. The issue is with the annotations, which are basically links to related resources. These are made at great effort and expense by Lexis/Nexis, a private company. These annotations are copyrightable. The mistake is Georgia making the annotated version of its codes the "official" version.
The thing that's so weird about a Late Capitalist society like the U.S. is the amount of time spent ritualizing inequality into a quasi-religious phenomena. The lower classes have no desire for wealth, but instead an ascetic mastery of whatever lot the divine order of the market has handed them. Meanwhile, our gilded class of saints must be free and untroubled by worldly concerns(mostly taxes), so they can harness their benevolent energies towards curing the ills of we small mortals. I guess it makes sense given our history of religious nuttery, but I never expected to live in such a "mythical" world.
Also people lie.

I imagine that lots of people who say they aren't motivated by money would also leave their company for more money.(some for a little more money, and some for a lot more money)
This is important, as court decisions are based on the annotated version.
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How many of those plants are farmed to feed the animals that are then being killed? I couldn't easily find data on this, but this massive inefficiency is part of what makes veganism more environmentally sustainable when done right.
there is a meaningful compromise position here somewhere. being able to accumulate $1 billion of personal wealth is still a mighty incentive even if we tax wealth enough so that accumulating $90 billion is almost impossible.
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That's not why anyone gets a PhD. The training is designed to teach you research. Unlike any other schooling, the degree has little class work.

The PhD is essentially an apprenticeship to a practicing scientist.
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For teeth it clearly does. Way easier to fill a tiny cavity then do a root canal. For medical your article is likely right.
Fluid dynamics is local, and so are the dynamics of human-driven car traffic to a first approximation. Computer-driven cars can react non-locally by communicating with each other via radio even if they don't see each other.
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Even if we find ourselves at a fairly fundamental level of disagreement with other community members, it's important not to let that cross into personal incivility, which this comment at least verges on.
No problem at all dude, as I said I have no interest in shaming for grammar, my english is not perfect as well.

I just wanted to check if there was some colloquial use of 'loose' that I was not aware of, as I am seeing this a lot and HN sometimes is a benchmark for me of good writing.

I am glad you received that with sportsmanship, I am totally for having my errors checked out too, have a good one!
I see these comments without fail whenever anybody mentions the term democracy. Everybody knows what is meant by the term, your pedantry is neither insightful, nor interesting, its just distracting, pointless noise.

Please stop.
No, I don't think so. Somewhere else in this discussion, someone posted a picture of a modern car factory:

https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170323-c86vRGKVPsbek3PZXpVw...

Someone else responded with a picture of a car factory in 1984:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OKTGFiU...

They've had automated production in car factories for a long time. And it's not an either-or thing; just like robots were only used for certain jobs back in 1984, and other stuff was done by humans, it's still like that (though probably more stuff is done robotically). Some tasks are just easier to have humans do, or not worth the expense of a robot (and the set-up, jigs, etc. needed for the robot).

Did you buy a different brand car in 2005 than the 97 and 99 cars? Different brands are different. Even within the same brand, there have been improvements over time (and also regressions). Designs have changed; maybe that company focused more on designing for serviceability between those times. Design has little to do with automated vs. manual production. There's nothing stopping you from designing a car to be assembled by hand (like a small production-run handbuilt exotic), and designing it to be easy to change the oil on.
I took a course on Linux Network Programming in college; at the time, my instructor said that while he loved that book, he felt David Kerrisk's Linux Programming Interface [1] had come to supersede it. I really like the latter book, though I haven't had much call to use it in the 'real world'. Really well-written and with great C++ based examples. Pity it's so damned heavy...

[1] https://www.nostarch.com/tlpi
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Another interesting nugget that I think is material to the conversation:

"For the banks involved, taking on the risk of lending to an unprofitable private company can help them win a role underwriting an eventual IPO."

It's fascinating to watch how we're building the stack of cards this time.

The bankers on SNAP made $85,000,000 in fees on the IPO - which is very high margin activity.

The same bankers provided ~$1.2b in credit to SNAP as part of the courting process (1).

I'm not going to wave the doom and gloom flag, but credit lending on unprofitable companies to secure speculative IPO rights is probably something that will show up in HBR case studies after the next downturn.

(1) http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/03/snap-ipo-what-wall-street-ban...
I will agree with you there; the builds run through our CI servers can't be run on a local workstation. I'm still not sure why, but the build script simply will not work if run locally. To run from the command line, I have to invoke msbuild and nodejs manually. This isn't a big problem since most devs build through Visual Studio anyway, but I do fully understand your argument.
As a PhD, I want to give a word of caution: Classes in school are really almost nothing like doing research (or taking on any large, difficult project). I still take some here and there personally, but the main idea in this article isn't about finding a optimum point on the grade vs. effort plot (I totally agree with your assessment though!).

I'm not sure I buy the "you get diminishing returns for working harder" in general --- yes, you can absolutely burn out, but you could also just do amazing things if you work really hard. Sometimes there are diminishing returns (like the A vs A+ in school), and sometimes there aren't.

The most important thing is that progress can be made even if you want to work at a more leisurely pace on difficult problems. And, of course, that's far less likely to burn you out.
The system is always subject to market forces. The government can budge the market around, but it's like pushing on one part of a balloon--it'll just have an effect somewhere else. When you set prices, you drive investment and talent out of the industry. Why spend years getting a PhD in biochemistry when you can go make $400k/year with just a BS at Google? It's precisely because people need drugs to survive that it's counterproductive to take measures that make pharmaceuticals a less attractive market to invest in, which fixing prices would do.
not that hard, but keep in mind the current limitations on supported cpus
People have written books about this stuff (the field is called Organizational Behavior) but in classic Sillicon Valley fashion we have to reinvent the wheel. Higher pay will rarely attract employees, but it will prevent them from leaving. Low pay will increase the odds that other reasons (lack of motivation, work, environment) will cause an employee to leave.
Ah, the old "What do they call the person who graduates last in medical school?"
> With free trade, another country is still free to subsidize the goods that it imports from the US, but with the knowledge that they'll be subsidizing whatever portion of Americans choose to reimport those drugs at the subsidized prices.

But that's the whole problem. Canada presumably doesn't want to subsidize U.S. citizens. The whole point is to provide a benefit for their own citizens. If Canada subsidizes a popular but expensive drug so that it costs $1 for Canadians, with that drug being freely exportable, that could be billions of dollars lost, depending on how much of the savings compared to the country that imports it is in a better negotiated price and how much is subsidized by the government of Canada.

> In reality, that reimportation won't need to happen, because it'll just apply backpressure on the initial sale prices in both markets from the manufacturer.

It will happen for as long as the manufacturer resists. If the price difference is mostly because of subsidies and not a better negotiated price, that cost difference would be paid by Canada, and the manufacturer has no incentive to change the price. In fact, they may have the opposite, since they are still getting paid well, and the drug is effectively marketable as being much cheaper than what they are charging.
The NYT arguing that one should only advertise on 'high quality websites' is the equivalent to a retailer arguing that you should only buy in store because all the online stores are full of fakes. Fits perfectly in line with their 'we report the truth and anything else is fake' narrative.
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For compatibility reasons perhaps? I would expect evergreen browsers such as Firefox and Chrome to handle a proper HTTP 451 without issues though.
Neat project! Love it.

Sort of sad to see the most useful object to recycle (the steel scissors) went to the landfill. The recycle value of that one item would have dwarfed the value of a year's worth of banana peels.
If you read the article, Dropbox is bringing in a billion a year and is almost profitable.
The article was written 1947, so I guess he was thinking of algebraic geometry before Grothendieck came along.
> We put no such caps on anything else whether it be beauty, intelligence, number of friends, popularity even though all of these things cause disparity.

there are natural limits on those things whereas there are not natural limits on capital accumulation because capital isn't natural.