skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any kind of food will do to prevent starvation given a slight mix. So, if you won't sell me potato's for a decent price, I'll just get rice from somewhere else.

In medicine, you tend to need very specific treatments. This means the set of potential suppliers is much lower, which essentially means the supply is restricted.
If you won't sell me an epi-pen for less than 100 dollars, there aren't a lot of places I can turn to. Moreover it's not like open-heart surgery is going to work.

Besides, some procedures are just actually expensive. Open-heart surgery takes a lot of labor, organ transplants require intense logistics. Dialysis is a complex and repetitive procedure. The 'fair price' for these in the economic sense is still high. Way to high for most people's morality.

Should people really have to chose between death and the bankruptcy of their entire family?
Because in a functioning free market, it is near essential that some people have demand for something they can't pay for. So if we turn dialysis, heart surgery, etc. into free markets, there are going to be people who need those treatments that cannot pay for them.
Think about it this way: imagine standing at the bottom of the Challenger Deep. Draw a small circle around yourself on the ocean floor. Now step outside the circle. Because you're standing on a spherical object (Earth), the area outside your circle isn't infinite like it would be on a plane. It's another finite region, which covers almost the entire Earth, and contains both yourself (standing just beside the lowest point of the Challenger Deep) and also the peak of Mount Everest. Therefore the circle is a base contour line for Everest, and Everest's wet prominence can be measured from the circle.

However, this same contour line cannot be used for the wet prominence measure of Mauna Kea, since it contains every mountain on Earth, many of which are taller. Mauna Kea's lowest contour line that doesn't contain another taller mountain would probably enclose a sizeable portion of the floor of the Pacific Ocean, but wouldn't include the Andes, Japan, or the Sierra Nevada, since those peaks are taller. The contour line would therefore be deep below the ocean surface, but not as deep as the Challenger Deep.
echo'ing mabbo... there were no drugs involved in my study either.
“I’ve been doing this job for X months so you know by now if you want to promote me to lead/manager. After all, I’m already doing the job. If you don’t know by now let me know.”

Don’t threaten them, just let them know that they got the “free sample”, now it’s time to pay up. Frankly, I would just leave. I hate being taken advantage of.
Adam Smith:

The five following are the principal circumstances which, so far as I have been able to observe, make up for a small pecuniary gain in some employments, and counterbalance a great one in others: first, the agreeableness or disagreeableness of the employments themselves; secondly, the easiness and cheapness, or the difficulty and expense of learning them; thirdly, the constancy or inconstancy of employment in them; fourthly, the small or great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or improbability of success in them.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
I personally love this! I think the concept is especially fitting for mobile use. It would be nice to be able to swipe left/right to advance between project pages and projects themselves.

Good work!
It is not a good method to use in that case.
> All of this is why my first step right now is to keep losing weight

Weight gain is a symptom of untreated sleep apnea, so you should consider whether you're doing this in the right order.
‘Post-Millennials’ on Track to Be Most Diverse, Best-Educated Generation Yet
Is it because you expect to make more than a billion dollars using your computer, or because you value lifetime computer usage at over a billion dollars.
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My understanding is that if you're not going to fall asleep in the setting of the sleep study, they'll Ambien you out.
Reply to myself - found it interesting to revisit this stuff again so I put a quick post together on it -> https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/build-better-teams/
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Cool! I basically completed the Duolingo course, which I loved but whose vocabulary is a bit limited. I was just wondering where to go next, so I could really use this.

Do you have plans to ever release this on ios?
I learned a lot working at tech companies, though I've since moved on to other line work where I tend to be the only man in the room.
Another way you could put it is that employers offer a premium for unpleasant jobs.
Consider this: Facebook brought on Joel Kaplan in May 2011.

According to wikipedia:

In May 2011 Facebook hired Kaplan as its vice president of U.S. Public Policy, as part of a Facebook's effort to "strengthen" the company's ties to Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.[8] In October 2014 Kaplan succeeded Marne Levine as Facebook's vice president of global public policy.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kaplan

The first big FTC ding against FB was in Nov 2011. That's some good timing!

Further, before working for Facebook, the wonderful Joel Kaplan oversaw public affairs for Energy Future Holdings. Ok, so what? Well, from the wikipedia for Energy Future Holdings:

Energy Future Holdings owns four of the nation’s highest emitting coal-fired power plants, which together account for approximately one quarter of all industrial/utility air pollution reported to Texas regulators.

And:

The Martin Lake, Big Brown, and Monticello plants rank first, third, and fourth, respectively, in airborne mercury pollution in the United States according to company reports submitted to the EPA.[10][13] Such high levels of mercury pollution have drawn criticism for their harmful effects on child development.[13]

And:

NOx emissions from EFH’s coal plants help contribute to harmful levels of ozone in the air in Dallas and other parts of east Texas, and ozone pollution can trigger asthma attacks and respiratory problems.[13]

So you have this guy that clearly gives zero fucks about "making the world a better place" or whatever Mark says his vision is.

To me, that really says it all.
This seems like a great idea. That said, I wonder how long it will take until people figure out to blacklist all splintermail (kind of like fakenamegenerator).
Just because there are no downsides to screaming you carefully considered, morally pure opinions doesn’t make them any less valid. Actually, I’d think the opposite: someone who’s dependent on getting a job at Facebook is far more likely to be be disingenuous in their criticism of the company than someone who has no reason to filter their views.
Odd, but I'm reading your comment next door to ResMed, did not realize they made CPAP machines
For comparison, the modern day version:

Mauritania Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo-ykjmHgg
Worked on sql server for 10+ years. MS SQL Server is way better than that. The sybase sql server code we started with and then rewrote was as bad as oracle.
The rule of three requires quite a lot of assumptions about the nature of the phenomena.

Or as Taleb says it:

> Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say.

> On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.
conceivably this could be all put into the compiler.
> This is the stagnation of outsourcing.

This is the stagnation of paying your scientists poorly.

One of the reasons for so many microbreweries in San Diego was paying microbiology types so poorly. More than one microbrewer here has said: "Well, I was getting paid kinda crappy in biology. So, I started a microbrewery. Now I get paid about the same, don't have to put up with managers, and get to drink beer."
>The free market is not fair, and it is not a meritocracy.

It's fair, but not based on effort like people mistakenly think it should be. It's silly to think "I should be paid X because it was really hard work" or to try to interfere with the market to force that price.

A big part of the issue is ignorance of economics among most of the population. People don't realize they are always participating in markets, even when it's a regulated market.

>Consider the average CEO: not the exceptional visionaries but the type that loses the shareholders money for years and then exits on a golden parachute.

I don't think you know what the word "average" means, because that's very far from the truth. There are hundreds of thousands of people with the title "CEO". Only a tiny fraction are of companies with publicly traded shares and only a fraction of those get large golden parachute deals (<1000).

There are more professional football players becoming millionaires for playing a game than there are CEOs who lose companies tons of money and get a golden parachute.

>On the other side of the ledger, you have immigrants with medical degrees, who are driving cabs for minimum wage (or now, Uber, for below minimum wage).

So what? Their medical degree obvious isn't qualifying them to be a doctor in the new country.
Sure, messing with any medical device could be fatal - but so can the medical condition itself. I would like to live in a world where I can make those decisions on my own and improve my life by taking calculated risks, as opposed to a world where my death is an acceptable trade-off for an overloaded and risk averse medical establishment.

That being said, the regulations around medical devices and healthcare have evolved in a certain cultural environment where blame is the name of the game: if any treatment ever fails, the public and political uproar against the healthcare industry is always vicious and patients will never accept any personal responsibility. It's understandable why the medical professionals react by removing any kind of control away from the patient - you cannot assume responsibility for something that you do not control.

That lone idiot that pushes his treatment to eleven to see if it has any effect on his erection ruins it for the rest of us. And I guarantee you that for any user accessible feature on a medical device, there will be such an idiot, and that he or his family will sue. And that's the case against which medical manufacturers optimize against, in this instance, by abusing unrelated copyright regulations and denying life saving options to other patients.
Why wouldn’t an investment banker be able to help? I work at a large investment bank, and we hire from the same pool of top engineers as the FAANGs.
So, for a 50% confidence interval, you could look at the first word -- if it is a typo, boom, done. Otherwise, flip a coin.

This stinks. Estimating is about approximating an answer with low information -- it's about efficiency of using data, not _only_ doing better than guessing.
Men who die early are less likely get married
There's no need to till with any other grain either, the majority of grain is farmed no-till already. Is there any actual evidence of better drought tolerance, or is that just assumed based on the misconception that perennials are more drought tolerant than annuals?
Interestingly, this gets into the territory of the Framingham Heart Study, a long-running, prospective cohort study of cardiovascular disease risk.

The data are mixed. One analysis, for example, showed that "Type A behavior" was not correlated with CVD[1]. Another showed that increased tension was associated with heart disease[2]. You can find plenty of other papers on the subject as well.

Job-related stress is a particularly interesting aspect of this. Conceptually, it makes sense that demanding work would increase cortisol levels and lead to CVD, but a number of studies don't bear this out after correcting for smoking, exercise, and so on. However, one could argue that job-stress leads to higher rates of smoking, drinking, etc., which makes the interpretation harder. It may also be that stress at work is not the only factor, and that the combination of high stress plus low control over one's work is substantially worse than one or the other alone.[3]

It is a bit unsatisfying to not have a clear answer, but I think the issue is more nuanced than I would have assumed.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/665654
[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16204425
[3]https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/jaha.117.008073
Not just them, though yes, I've noticed.

Mostly in an "about time" kind of a way.
> I think it's short cited to come out in a public forum against any employer.

I mean, if you are saying you don’t want to work there, why does it matter if their hiring managers see that? Also, just from personal experience: I’m pretty vocal about my criticisms for Facebook, but that hasn’t stopped me from getting recruiting material from them ;)
Is that what it looks like in the store? That's not how it feels at home. Shoppers frequently label items as 'of low quality' to alert me that the bell pepper selection or whatever isn't great.

Also, despite my 30+ years on this Earth, I vastly more trust a 'professional' shopper to pick out good veggies than I do myself. I respect that you're different, but I can say with 100% certainty that the produce picked out by my instacart shoppers is excellent and better than I could do. Never a single complaint there, at least from me.

Do they really rush? From my side, they seem to take their sweet time. They text frequently, asking questions, suggesting replacements not shown in the app, etc. The whole process feels slow and relaxed.

I don't eat meat so I don't know about that. But I would assume the same as veggies. Instacart does a top-top job picking quality ingredients for me. Definitely better than I would know how to do myself.

Who is more likely to know the freshest spinach? Not me, that's for sure. An instacart shopper who is there all day? Much more likely to get good results.

I do have issues with instacart, but none of the concerns you've mentioned have in any way harmed me. My main issue is that the delivery times seem to be not communicated to the driver. So it will tell you 10am - 11am, but the driver will show up at 9:50 and not know that they are early. Sometimes also, the selection available on the website will be mislabelled in category (tomatoes in bath care, or something).

Otherwise it has been really incredible for me, overall.
Ironically I think Facebook is one example that (at least in the early days) had values that actually had teeth.

"Move fast and break things" isn't just a feel-good truism like most values that companies come up with are. It's something that at least some people are going to disagree with, and it's something that can actually be instructive when making a decision at that company.

I don't personally agree with it, but I respect that at least in the past Facebook was willing to take a stance on how they developed products that wasn't some saccharine feel-good BS that values usually are.
That depends on whether the assumed error distribution is accurate. Obviously, if the distribution is known, you will do better by incorporating it. But assuming Gaussian errors when the data doesn't match can lead to bad analyses.
This is an interesting comment, because I can't decide if you are sarcastic or making a deep insightful comment. Because I don't think the statement is true. LOC can go on forever, but it usually happens in things that aren't beautiful and abstract.
Who are the two soccer players?
Also echoing mabbo, I did a sleep study in the comfort of my own home about a year ago. I'm told it's not as precise as a "proper" sleep study in a lab since the instrumentation isn't as precise, but it was basically just a band that I strapped to my head before bedtime. No drugs, no technicians. Just some accelerometers and a microphone to hear what your snoring sounds like. And that was enough for my doctor to diagnose me with mild sleep apnea and give me an oral appliance. Basically it just forces my jaw forward while I'm sleeping, which keeps my airway open. Never tried CPAP but I'm told that the oral appliance is much less intrusive.
There are some good thoughts and complaints in there about propaganda and nepotism, but isn't this old news? Isn't it also pervasive throughout society? I mean, there are even blatant industry-wide propaganda agendas such as Harvard scientsts lying about sugar, MIT scientists lying about climate change, and scientists lying before courts about leaded gasoline... Of course always after payments from profit-seeking industry.

There are countless examples. Of course Walmart is known for both nepotism, and brainwashing their employees about union membership. And of course they are also close with the top-echelon of politicians at state and federal levels.

Like the article mentions, companies say they are progressive, and for an example， promote gender equality, but their engineering divisions tell a completely different story. And then if you really take a moment to stop and look around the world we live in, we are in a society full of propaganda. Of course the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War on Poverty all increased poverty, poor outcomes related to drugs, and removal of liberties and prosperity that terrorists sought for.

Over the last year, MSNBC covered Stormy Daniels on average >1/day. War in Yemen? 0 times. Or, here is Wolf Blitzer saying that arms sales to Saudis is a "moral issue" because defense contractors will "lose jobs."

Propaganda is part of our daily lives. My favorite Einstein quote is: "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
There are a few possible reasons for using multiple bands. With the higher frequency of the V band you can very high data rates down to the ground. However, higher frequency RF will be very attenuated by rainfall [0]. So the Ku band could be used as a backup to the V band.

The V band (or optical links) will also likely be used for the inter-satellite communication.

You do typically need different hardware for using the different frequencies. With some of the more advanced software defined radios, you could use both of the at the same baseband within the same radio. But you will still need some sort of frequency conversion [1]. You will likely need different antennas for each band as well. And to get an efficient system you also want to add filters for each band.

[0] http://happy.emu.id.au/lab/rep/rep/9510/txtspace/9510_032.ht...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-noise_block_downconverter
It’s not particularly important how you define the term “quantum computer”, nor have I presented any definition of a "quantum computer" that you can disagree with. The point is that, as I wrote before, regardless of your definition - currently there is no discernible advantage of quantum computers over classical computers in the only metric that matters: computational power. This is what people refer to when they talk about the impossibility of QC. Nobody has demonstrated that physically realizable quantum computers can solve BQP problems in polynomial time, or provide any superpolynomial speedups over classical computers, and there is certainly no proof that this is simply a matter of scale.
>This is what feminism tells men, that their problems stem from them not being able to handle and process their emotions correctly.

What "feminism" would probably say is that masculine culture doesn't allow men to display emotions as openly as women, especially when those emotions betray a sense of physical or emotional vulnerability.

The common term for this is "toxic masculinity," which is often confused by persons like yourself to mean that masculinity itself is toxic, whereas it really means that masculinity can be toxic, and can manifest in negative ways, such as an inability to express one's emotions for fear of being seen as weak, effeminate or possibly gay.

This isn't propaganda, it's an obvious and self-evident sociological and cultural phenomenon, a flaw in society, not in men themselves.

>and no attraction from women for men in the bottom 10%.

Oh. I see you've fallen down the rabbithole.

It's unfortunate that the lunatic fringe of redpillers and incels seem to taken over and undermined any legitimate credibility the mens' rights movement might have. Women aren't evil, and feminists aren't entirely wrong, and no, aren't driving men to mass suicide because they don't find them attractive.
I was using a CPAP machine that I couldn't see the data nor extract it to use with SleppyHead. It was awful because the appointments with the doctor were 6 months apart and they were basically about a lot of leak detected by the machine and let's try to adjust it and see in 6 months if it was fixed.

Awful.

Almost 3 years later I requested another sleep study because I was done with no progress. The study found out that what I really needed was a BiPAP machine and a MUCH higher pressure.

Now the insurance replaced my old machine by a Philips-Respironics DreamStation Auto BiPAP, which comes with an app (DreamMapper) that you can sync every morning using bluetooth and it shows the usage time, % of mask leak detected, and detailed AHI information like: Total clear airway apneas, total obstructive apneas and total hypopneas.

This is really all I needed to monitor it myself and adjust whatever I need without having to wait 6 freaking months.

I have a friend that didn't want to go through the study and ended up ordering the same machine as I have. He's been adjusting his settings based on the app. He's very happy with the results and probably would have similar results if he had done the sleep study.
What do you use for a grinder? I’ve been itching to get into milling my own flour for a while. I hear it takes the bread to a whole new level.
> What does a living wage even mean..

The definition of living wage is fairly established. It is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. Needs are defined to include food, housing, and other essentials such as clothing. This definition is why, in the United States, at least, every few years Minimum Wage (used interchangeably here with Living Wage) would be raised, to keep up with inflation. It allowed the average American to start saving for a down-payment for a house even if all they had was a high school education and nothing else (so, the paperboy you mention). Until, for some reason, we stopped doing that as much.

Instead of looking at one of the most inflated rental markets in the country (SF), let's look at somewhere like Idaho - you'll find that inflation has still affected that place, but minimum wage (living wage) to be able to provide those basic needs has not kept up. This is why, countrywide, 40% of non-elderly adults report difficulty meeting basic needs such as food, housing, health care and utilities [1].

But let's consider that paperboy, for a minute. Do you really believe that the only people who deserve the most basic income to be able to live (living wage) are those that are capable of getting a higher education? What about all the other members of a functional society that we rely on?

[1] - https://www.urban.org/research/publication/well-being-and-ba...
I feel like a good stage play or even book has been written about this.
Wow it looks great, nice job!
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