skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There surely has to be a middle ground in some cases between the two cases of $100 million trials and essentially unregulated and unaccountable hotel room doctors.

Could there be a series of exams that a would be patient would have to write, to demonstrate that they truly understand the risks, and what protocol is to be followed?

In investment they have an "accredited investor" category to avoid higher risk investments from being offered to those who can't afford the risk.

If you have a chronic disease and pass the exam then you become an "accredited trial patient".
It is not based on radioactive decay but on fission, the usage of Sterling engines is correct. [1]

[...] the core of the reactor will be of solid, cast uranium-235 surrounded by a beryllium oxide reflector. This reflector focuses neutron emissions and returns their energy back into the core to minimize nuclear gamma radiation [...].

Nuclear reaction control is provided by a single rod of boron carbide which is a neutron moderator that is initially fully inserted, [...]. Once the moderator is extracted the nuclear chain reaction will start but can not be stopped completely, although the depth of insertion provides a mechanism to adjust the heat output [...].

Passive heat pipes filled with liquid sodium then transfer the reactor core heat to one or more Stirling engines, which converts heat into rotary motion that drives a conventional electric generator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
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I actually tried office hours. I hung a sign on my chair during non office hours. It totally didn't work. People would shake my chair or wave at me even when I had headphones on and the go-away sign, and say "just a quick question", as if that made the interruption during non office hours okay. Some people thought I was being a jerk too.

This isn't something people can or should have to do on their own. For it to work, it needs to be a company wide expectation on a company wide schedule that immediate interruptions are off limits during certain times.

I also generally agree with "you don't need an app for that" for pretty much everything... except that this app would need to integrate and work around online calendars. And I want it to queue people so I can answer them in order. And I don't necessarily want to have a specific time for interruptions, I really want people to try to answer their own question for 5-10 minutes before interrupting me. I'm happy to answer questions, but I get a lot of questions that people can easily answer on their own with 30 seconds of effort.
Do you demand that the local supermarket carry every brand of chili on earth?
I doubt these factors are statistically independent -- the most popular neighborhoods for tourists and yuppies have always seen prices grow faster relative to the overall metro, and more popular/high-growth/expensive neighborhoods will naturally attract more Airbnb hosts to take advantage of their location.

In any case, assuming people travel the same amount, it is zero-sum (Airbnb saved NYC visitors 616 million dollars and also transferred some percentage of tourism income from hotels to a broader collection of residents). However, I think Airbnb enables people to travel more (I certainly travel more with the incentives of cheap, reliable Airbnb lodging), so we need more data to determine whether the lower prices actually incentivize a sufficiently high increase in tourism to be a net positive for tourist-mecca economies.

Even if it comes out to a net negative to tourism-based economies and it increases costs for local residents, I'm curious what the Airbnb witch-hunt crowd is proposing. Limit tourism / make it harder and more expensive to travel? Reinstate the hotel cartels?
Was looking over the shoulders of a guy seting up instagram auto likes via a 3rd party tool the other day. No value added there.
Their comment was not accurate, and that's why it was flagged and downvoted. In many areas, you could say the exact same thing about capitalism.
They're both American companies this time around. If Apple had been Korean and Samsung American I would not have bet on the same outcome.
It was a submarhino, of course.

(Probably a species of rhino inhabitant swamps could swim among close islands. Elephants are surprisingly good swimmers so, why not rhinos?)
I'm not sure what the confusion is here. There's no downtime or slow serving as the first comment said because your app shouldn't be using any new columns until they're ready, whether that's through Ghost or transactional DDL + concurrent index rebuild.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797548
The challenge is that cell phones causing cancer is that the idea that they cause cancer has long been promoted by morons who think that they produce radiation like a nuclear reactor.

The electromagnetic radiation that cell phones actually do produce is similar to say a radio or even more aptly a microwave and anyone who has ever nuked a spud knows what too much of it looks like and knows that your phones radio falls far short of what anyone would consider too much in the traditional sense.

Further large scale analysis has repeatedly failed to find a correlation between the introduction of cell phones and an uptick of brain cancer.

So in summary we are talking about a theory that has been repeatedly debunked by scientists and promoted by idiots if it turns out there is some novel mechanism by which it promotes brain tumors it will be a harder than average sell and it will be novel science not vindication of all the idiots who believed cell tower = plutonium.
This is really nice.

Two notable points:

1. It is relatively short and well-categorised. I've seen scare-mongering blogposts exhaustively listing all the worst-case edge cases you could possibly have to consider, whereas this is a common-sense high-level overview.

2. There are links to relevant articles on each point to provide quick clarity. For example: "Your company has appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO)" links to Article 37 which clarifies that this requirement is only for "public authority or body"; "regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale"; or "processing on a large scale of special categories". Other similar clarifications for the other points are helpful too.
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isn't this what most companies do?
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Nothing new! Same as the Crypto bubble / hype. Seen many people ploughing money because they wanna get rich quick. All because bitcoin or *coin is going up & 'blockchain'.
But eventually a region runs out of fusable (fuseable?) matter (Hydrogen / free protons).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_galaxy
There really aren't for most people.
Here is a discussion/summary of the American Cancer Society:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...

It is certainly not an easy problem to measure and collect strong evidence for either side.
>”I’m never going to work for someone,” Oyefeso says in one of his videos, in a somewhat cartoonish, nasal voice, while he drives his Rolls dressed in a bathrobe.”

What’s with this obsession of not working for someone else? American/British managers in particular are some of the most democratic and “least power distance” bosses out there, especially compared to other countries where there is still a very hierarchical management structure.

The only time I ever hear now seriously about “your boss is horrible time to quit and start your own business!” or “time to escape cubicle nation!” is with someone selling a particular product.
How can that be? Are buried ancient bones indistinguishable from buried recent bones?
What will ecommerce look like 10 years from now when VR becomes common?
I am starting market research on Zillow/Redfin Estimate Accuracy tracker. It is an interesting topic to help people understand how their zillow estimate varies over time and with similar sales nearby. I assume the product would be useful to agents and home owners. Since, zillow is getting into flipping houses, this number will be even more interesting. If you are interested, we can team up. Email in profile.
It's not a question of worth but feasibility. Just like an ideal schema is fully normalized, but performance concerns sometimes drive denormalization. When foreign keys can't be used to enforce data integrity, the application has to be built to compensate in other ways. Sometimes that means simply accepting dirty data, and designing the application to stay robust when encountering unexpected data. Other times it means building alternate solutions to discover and repair data issues.
Huh. That totally makes sense.

In fact I wonder if this whole article could be attributed equally. Certainly china's tech sector has experienced even faster growth. The person in the story central to the article was probably just caught having an affair or something.
NASA and the DOE did a study on this and they determined that it was too expensive to do it, though safe enough but that we might want the waste later. Vitrification and storage was deemed cheaper, safer and more 'reversible'.
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Agreed.
Definition of matter should be relative. A radio wave doesn't see a wall like how we do. Also, Time seems to be one the biggest discovery of Humans even when we don't see it, feel it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Possibly there are other such things like time yet to be discovered in this universe.
Thank you, everyone in this thread, for articulating for me why these types of movies and books have never sat well with me.
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Unfortunately, an inevitable result of AA-type hiring is that everyone--including the candidates themselves--will wonder whether people hired this way are really up to snuff. You can censor, but you can't stop people from reasoning internally.
You could use an IP -> geo lookup, and block EU countries.
> it can be either reasonably comprehensive or a total mess depending on the city or state or something.

I'm currently evaluating US coverage and this has been my experience, though even cases with better coverage it still fell short of Google Maps.

It's a tough problem in the sense that people have generally gotten used to the excellent coverage of Google Maps, so anything deviating in even a minor way is seen as noticeably inferior.

I'd love to know if others are running into similar issues in the US.
For all the review they get they might as well be. I rarely see a patent where I think 'wow, that was deserved'. And when I do they are almost always on some deep technical subject that took a long time to research, validate and implement.
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Seeing as that page states the resulting executables still require numpy, I'd guess it was the static requirement that it misses.
That's a ridiculous comparison, and probably a better example of a comment worth flagging. Capitalism has many faults, but hasn't directly led to the deaths of 100M people.
>"we pay attention to how we construct patient recruitment, sample demographics, ... etc"

I was told the opposite the other day:

"the fact that clinical trials seek people maximally healthy but for the target conditions rather than a representative sample of those with the target condition is a very frequent complaint."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16868660

>"Anyone who wishes to lend a brain cell is welcome."

Its pretty misleading to promise this. People who disagree with the "publish an endless series of statistically significant differences" paradigm are not going to find it at all welcoming.
And here comes the question of maintainability. For the code, we are trying to have a single repository to avoid duplicates and to have just a single place to make changes. That's what a wiki is good for. Whereas for such a dispersed knowledge base it would be hard to keep all these atomic questions up to date.

The front page for Teams boasts it's better than your "stale wikis and lost emails" but in reality there are much more stale answers on SO than anywhere else.
Anyone have access to the report? I don't have readily available access to a terminal but I'd love to read the study. Any kind of analysis such as this one relies heavily on _ceteris_ _paribus_ --assume everything else is the same. Of course that's a poor assumption to make, so most studies fiddle with the assumption and try to tease out the effects of one market (short-term rentals, a la AirBnB) on another (resident friendly long-term rentals).
But what about the things that aren't true because of AirBnB's presence? Maybe prices for short term stays went down, tourism went up, and there is more tax revenue that can be used to improve the city for the renters.

If we only look at one part of the picture we may miss that an overall trend is different. Is it really beneficial to talk about how many died because they were wearing a seat belt without also considering how many who lived for the same reason?
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Well, I'd say it's definitely half bad. Like how it doesn't work in special tabs like the new-tab page making you have to use the default keybindings anyways.

Firefox's Vimperator is worlds better, though I haven't tried it since the Quantum update neutered plugins.
For a while, I worked mostly remote, four days at home, one day in the office. I miss those days badly... I've never been more productive. Scheduling all the in-person meetings and status updates and planning work into the Monday in the office was the key. Embrace the suck, and the fact that no work will be done that day - you never get any real work done on a Monday anyway, and once you're into status meetings, it's all over anyway. But doing all of that planning and collaborating and getting the shit together on Monday meant the week was laid out, and Tuesday through Friday were freed up for big blocks of deep work. Bonus, not being physically in the office meant I was out of sight and out of mind, free to actually get some work done.
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/the-impact-of-airbnb-on-...

> Any kind of analysis such as this one relies heavily on _ceteris_ _paribus_ --assume everything else is the same

That's not the assumption made by this report.

Of course, predicting alternate futures when humans are in play is always a non-trivial task, but they did put some effort toward controlling for the obvious stuff:

"A summary of the regression results is presented in Table 1. We find that as the share of units listed on Airbnb goes up by one percentage point, rental rates in the neighborhood go up by 1.58 percent, after controlling for neighborhood level demographic and economic changes. The result is statistically significant at the 1-percent level. Coefficients of other control variables including household income, population and share of college graduates are positive and statistically significant at 1-percent level. Employment rate is not statistically different from zero."
Why is zero plural?
Consistency, a non-didactic intellectual environment, and free speech go a long way.

I'm only speculating that "non-didactic" is key. But let me put it to the test:

Does anybody have an example of a person who swooped into a FLOSS mailing list and posted a long didactic screed that ended up qualitatively changing that FLOSS project for the better?
This just a PR-driven article that states an obvious fact (demand influences the market) in order to advance an agenda.
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Becoming a confident, capable solo developer. If you're able to make stuff by yourself at decent speed and with good features, you can generally be confident in your own skills based off results.

This doesn't account for interpersonal skills or skills for working in a team, but if your imposter syndrome is about programming skills, just program by yourself.

BUT, important to add is that you should be focused on improving, learning, and experimenting. If you're just staying in your comfort zone you won't be doing much more than busybody work.
The finding is somewhat interesting on its own but I don't really see why it matters all that much. No one likes paying higher rent and I can see rent increases as being particularly hard on the poor, so that's bad. But I'm not sure interfering with these micro-leases is the best solution. It makes more sense to me to focus on how we can expedite construction of safe, quality, affordable housing. That would help address the AirBnB inflation problem as well as the basic housing crisis. What's more, we'd retain the benefits of micro-leasing.
Some of those languages do have cross-platform GUI offerings.

Even AWT is better than any option currently natively available to Rust.

After all, "using libraries is no longer a pain" is not what I felt when converting an old toy application from Gtkmm to Gtk-rs.
Why would this lead to infinite energy? Positive density summed over a finite volume does not equal infinity.
Hi, it looks as if this comment was voted into oblivion, despite you being more couth than your parent poster.
Butt cancer you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhjuRf5wPkc
I agree that this is an implementation detail. If they were to simply use the JS model of "every thread gets its own environment and message passing is how you interact", then you could still use threads safely and achieve some pretty impressive performance improvements in some cases.

Knowing literally nothing about Python other than what I read, I'm kind of confused as to how the current implementation came to be, because it is much easier to design an interpreter that uses the JS model than one that uses a shared environment among multiple threads. I created an Object Pascal interpreter, and it has this design: it can spin up an interpreter instance in any thread pretty quickly because it's greenfield all the way with a new stack, new heap, etc.
Maybe I'm absolutely wrong, but as far as I could tell, Damore's memo did not mention race at all.
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Roughly how many programmers do you have? What difficult has it been to get people to participate (on either end of the scale)?
This is one of the reasons that your best engineer should be on the least important project: everybody knows he can answer your complex questions fast, and they know what he is doing isn't very important so even if it can be definitively proven that your interruption caused his project to be late nobody will care.
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This would place a far higher load on the DB (which would validate the constraint via the index if allowed to) and create more network roundtrips. It’s 10x as expensive as just using a FK, and far less reliable!
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Looks amazing great work on finishing a great looking project! I made a similar application for iOS (www.zonemessenger.com) a while back with the same intent of getting people in contact within a 1km radius (have since updated the radius to match local demand).

And although I still think it could be a very valuable type of platform it is extremely hard to build the right community with enough critical mass. Best of luck! And if you ever want exchange experiences I'd be happy to help.
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It appears that its probably a little of column A; a little of column B

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It's misleading to say it was written as a parody.

To quote from the Wikipedia article: "semi-autobiographical book [...] describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s".

Before reading Liar's Poker I was ignorant about, and extremely hostile to the financial industry, and the book brought about complete change. The book is at best ambivalent about high finance, but clearly also glamourises the industry.
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I completely agree with this Analysis.

Having said that, my gut feeling is that SO "Teams" product will succeed in enterprise (& small companies). Managers love if their employees take time to create "Summary pages" from the "Slack and other Chat products". But employees "do not have time" for "Summary pages" and there is no formal structure in 'Slack'. I think this Pages product product provide that 'structure' and a way to measure/monitor by manageres.

> SO is torn between essentially ambiguous goals, providing fast on-site answers and being a reusable knowledge base.

> And it's good with the latter only because of Google. Without Google it will be no better than fast on-site answers on Slack.
This always perplexed me. With Mad Men and Breaking Bad too, people idolized the main characters, which is interesting not only because they are bad people but because they are deeply unhappy, too.

There's something extremely surface-level about people's takeaways from film characters. They want a certain level of panache that the characters can muster, but they ignore that even the characters themselves are miserable.
And PetsMart owns Chewy, the online competitor that Amazon is going after.
The spin is preposterous. They should just say that that's a natural outcome of better real estate utilization and that the city needs to figure out how to build more affordable housing.
American individualism, I suspect - part of how deeply rooted that mindset is in all the different strata of classes. Proving that you can make it on your own, especially with how "equalizing" social media is on the surface (everyone has an account, the only limit is how you portray yourself!) is a pretty tempting goal to go after for some folks.
I prefer work from home, but I agree with you, there should be options. As long as the option chosen has no effect at all on career advancement.
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That's not a schema migration tool per-se. It's a web interface for managing running a schema migration tool (in their case the venerable pt-osc, but there is an open issue for supporting gh-ost too).
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Not necessarily. Chimps eat carrion gladly when available. Some chimp (cultures?) populations in Côte d'Ivoire are also known to look actively for marrow in bones
* The provenance of the vaccine couldn't be accounted for.

* Neither could chain of custody from manufacture to application.

* Subjects who experienced adverse effects were removed from the trial without further tracking.

* People with HSV-1 were administered a vaccine based on live HSV-2.

* Subjects were tracked with self-assessment questionnaires of poor design.

* Subjects socialized with investigators and with at least one cheerleading investor.

If this story was about a pharma company, we'd be calling for heads on spikes But there's a rooting interest for underdogs (especially those up against the US regulatory state).
I don't see that particular model now, but a search for $35 phones on Aliexpress [1] (where I bought it), shows plenty of similar enough phones.

Get the AliExpress mobile app and keep your eye on it for a few weeks, and you are bound to get a better deal.

Of course, it will probably copy all your data (including speech and movements) both to Google and 100 Chinese corporations + partnering government agencies, but that kinda comes with the territory.

(Especially as even brand names phones on Amazon, even when they are not using a compromised chpset like Rok, might really be cheapo fakes with the right SKU numbers, that are siphoning off that data as well.)

[1]: https://he.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm...