skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This can be done via taxes but insurance is a private market solution which should in theory make it more efficient for the sake of maximizing profit.

Imagine there's a single, private, insurance company, A.

Wouldn't the natural interest of A be to maximize health costs (i.e. make paying for health coverage expensive, as thus their insurance more desirable and more expensive in return)?

And if there were more smaller insurance companies competing with A, wouldn't it make sense for A to just eat them up to eliminate competition (so, having us end up with an even larger company)?

And if there were several equally large insurance companies aside A (say, B, C, D), wouldn't it make sense for them to collude and keep prices and profits high?

And since A (a single large) or A+B+C+D (several large) companies surely have considerable clout (money gives you that) isn't it their natural interest to spend on buying politicians, media, etc, to make sure things get even more in their favor?

All those seem inevitable (and profitable) in a market economy. How would insurance being a private market make it "make it more efficient for the sake of maximizing profit"?
Verified by Visa with an appropriate implementation is one way to fulfill the requirement for Strong Customer Authentication. All Visa cards in the EEA will have to either implement Verified by Visa in a compliant way, or use some other method such as a randomised CVC you can find out via a mobile app.
It's hilarious that you think Twitter has not tested chronologically-ordered UIs.
> The reason you pay more for higher ranks is because you want to incentivize people to work to be promoted to those ranks

Also to compensate for more responsibility and experience.

But we aren't logical beings, and pay is part of social status.
Yes, absolutely. You'll see China having the same issues as Japan about 15-20 years down the line.
More CO2 than ever before in 3M years, shows unprecedented computer simulation
Humans aren't very good O2->CO2 convertors, and people object to you killing them in the process of fighting fires, so it's not "the best way" but I suppose it is a "way".

A more extreme version, using explosives to put out oil well fires, is common.

But we're really discussing the inverse prospect, adding oxygen to make a fire hotter. This is even more common. From blowing on camp fires, to bellows in a forge, to back yard foundries built with a hair dryer acting as a fan.
Interesting - I wonder what's responsible for seemingly large variance in the data set between 2005 and 2008, or if it's just an anomaly.

More importantly, hopefully this data can be used to increase pressure on governments to strengthen regulations against single-use plastic items.
Go to Seattle U. District after 10pm. Lots of "youth" advertising "some shit" on the Ave.
Great work Hugo. Thank you!
Popfile does that with email and a Bayesian classifier. It might be a good thing to look at for ideas.
What Tolkien Knew About Love
> I get to participate in fixing it

You'd be ok with effectively being blind, deaf, mute, paralyzed, and probably brain damaged, in the name of science?
To fixate on a rating seemingly based on a likert scale is a rather strange conundrum to have, after a month into a new job, especially considering that everything is hunky-dory.

On the other hand, a 7/7 rating would probably set off a full-blown existential crisis..
Multiple Reviewers Facing Broken Galaxy Fold Devices After Just Days of Use
Profits equal the difference between what customers are willing to pay for a product/service minus what it costs to provide that product/service. When you find a new way to deliver something valuable at a lower cost -- meaning less time & material resources -- you enjoy profits. Profits are then used to do things like hire people, invest in tech improvements, and acquire companies like Touchtech. Without profits, people would pay for things at cost which sounds great in the short term, but would result in no money left for further improvements much less incentivizing hard work, which is very bad in the medium and long terms.
You're right... oops. Sorry.
The bottom line, if you travel a lot, is to essentially leave your bags packed for a typical trip. I might need to top some medications off, pack the right amount of socks and underwear, decide on the clothes for a particular trip given weather/activities, electronics, etc. It sounds like a lot of stuff but I can basically grab what I need for a typical 3-7 day trip in less than 30 minutes.

The other thing is just bring less stuff. A lot of people are amazed by how little I carry and I don't consider myself extreme. Consider what you really need as opposed to want.
It would be interesting to run it against a data set with
percentage of consumer packages in plastic wrapping.

csv data set of plastic production
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
Any idea if this is a free and open data set? I'd love to get my hands on it.
Frankly, I find your evidence that this era is "weirdly intolerant" to be completely lacking. That some random advocacy group managed to get a couple of lines into the Guardian about a movie means nothing; the fact is that it got nominated for a bunch of awards, and the sisters got an even bigger budget for their next one. Talk about a chilling effect!

As for public statements, we just didn't use to be able to publish whatever crap came to our brains at 3am on the toilet to millions of people. Broadcasting was a Big Deal, only made after careful preparation. The difference is Twitter, not the reactions.

Yes, there are still taboos and stuff you can't say freely. But worse than before? I'm not seeing it. And Cleese provides no more evidence than you.
Counterpoint: I love the Stories feature. Stories are for dramatically different content than the primary feed. They are for the mildly-interesting, curious little joys that permeate our lives, but are not interesting enough to merit documentation for posterity. And yet, it is still different that the type of content you see on Snap because the audience is different.
Sure, and personally I'm not saying they literally set a bunch of engineers out to build a machine to explicitly target black people. I am saying that they probably didn't put the same level of testing there in that they did against disproportionately targeting white men in business suits when they were pitching investors and getting senators / the people who sign the checks to buy these things.

Or maybe they just didn't think about testing the machines against the diversity of actual people who go through an airport daily vs. who was available in the office at the time to test with.

Maybe they honestly believe that folks with natural black hairstyles, or who wear a 'turban' or ponytail, could be disproportionately hiding something suspicious up there, and we need a machine to tell us to check them out more often.

Hell, maybe they just didn't care at all who got flagged, as long as it didn't inconvenience them too much and they got paid at the end of the day. I mean they sure as shit don't mind the reality that this really does seem to be a lot of security theater with little benefit, besides the benefits to some peoples wallets.

Whether you want to define any of that as deliberate malice, willful ignorance, laziness, the banality of evil, or something else, is entirely up to your own values I suppose.
That's why the out of pocket maximum exists. (I think?)
The full relevant text is "Dogs can gallop for only about 10 to 15 minutes before reverting to a trot, and so their distance-running speed tops out at about 3.8 meters per second. .. Elite human runners ... can sustain speeds up to 6.5 meters per second ... Huskies can trot up to 100 kilometers in Arctic conditions when forced to by people."

I objected to the handwaving numbers.

Handwaving #1: 42.2 km / (6.5 meters / second) = 1.8 hours for a marathon distance. The 2 hour marathon has not been broken. Hence, the 'sustain' here is for less than 2 hours, and not the day-long sled races that dogs can do

Handwaving #2: The text implies that a dog trotting speed is 'about 3.8 meters per second' then uses 'trot' for Huskies which, according to the link I gave, are able to 'average 10 to 14 miles per hour during the course of a day'. That is 6.25 meters per second, or almost as fast as elite runners, and for a longer time period.

Handwaving #3: Sled dogs can race far longer than 100km. The Iditarod is about 1,000 miles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race says "the exact measured distance of the race varies from year to year, but officially the northern route is 975 miles (1,569 km) long, and the southern route is 998 miles (1,606 km) long" and that the fastest time is 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes, and 13 seconds and 8 or 9 days is not uncommon. That's about 180km/day, not the "up to 100km".

From http://www.iau-ultramarathon.org/images/file/March_2012_Worl... we see that the fastest human times, is over 10 days - truly impressive!, but significantly slower than sled dogs.

I just realized that 'special circumstances' is also human-centered. Humans also require appropriate climate to get those optimal speeds, and the Yiannis Kouros's 10 day record is on a road, not cross-country through snow like what the dogs run in. From the dog's point of view, humans need a special circumstances - climate and well-prepared track in order to reach their long-distance efforts.
Currently standardized testing better predicts future academic performance than years of GPA, which in a way is the sum of teachers’ views on a student.

But teachers still prefer teachers over standard tests, and they shun conversation with their researching peers. The classroom is their kingdom and that’s how people prefer it.
There are lots of reasons - as populations become more educated/urban/rich/able to access contraception, fertility rates decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#Caus... describes many associations.
Actually that raises an additional interesting point... if the market price is varying from doctor to doctor it could be for many factors - how am I supposed to judge the relative quality of an MRI that would be read by two different specialists. If the quality is different then how can I be informed as to the efficacy and truth of that difference?

With a bank, Bank of America has terrible service - so I just don't use them, with a doctor though... what if I'm paying a premium price but receiving substandard care, given how complex human bodies are most illnesses compound over time and only in very select circumstances could you get a doctor to come in post defacto look at an X-Ray and say "This doctor was terrible, that's totally a tumor" maybe the real issue is that a tingling in your finger tips when you sit down that you asked your doctor about went unnoticed and twelve years later your heart gave out over totally preventable causes.
One thing this article doesn't discuss: at least some of the times where I "lost" my employer-sponsored insurance (either because I switched jobs or because my start-up decided to switch providers), it went to something better than what I had before, and most of the time it was a change that was a matter of indifference (from one major plan provider to another where everything was pretty similar). In most universal health care proposals I've seen, "leaving," isn't really an option, you're just stuck with The Healthcare Option.

Whatever the merits of the more general arguments for or against, it seems like we should at least not put a finger on the scale.
I saw Prof. Stein's talk at JupyterCon last year and was blown away by what he had accomplished with CoCalc. It was one of the best talks at the conference IMO. Very excited to see where CoCalc is headed and wish Prof. Stein all the best.

Edit: here is the talk
https://pyvideo.org/jupytercon-2018/real-time-collaboration-...
I would say that a system too entrenched to consider removing anything, is fundamentally at risk of not being able to correctly analyze the system when adding anything to the checklist, and is itself at an increased risk to fail.
Checkslists force me to really have some kind of plan for achieving a certain goal - how I want to achieve something. Because I have to be able to write down the single steps.

Also checklists make it very easy to just get started.. just begin with the first task

And last but not least - I use checklists especially for things that I do NOT want to do at all (but I will have to do anyway). I am already annoyed (for whatever reason) by that task - so I want to minimize the amount of time I have to spend dealing with it. Therefore I use a checklist with the minimal amount of necessary steps to solve that problem or task, so I can get rid of it as fast as possible.
NASA engineers have been trying to tell doctors this for decades.

What's brain surgery to a rocket scientist?
Are the work hours very different between working extremely long hours in a factory and working extremely long hours on a farm 70 years ago?

One Child Policy was certainly a huge factor. So is probably a strong rise in wealth and education, which are both linked to lower birth rates.
There are so many core misconceptions you have about the nature of volunteer service in an armed profession, its people, and your statement is so tangential and charged with auxillery purpose that i question whether you actually care about the pilot shortage at all
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> I got the information from a piece about translation fails in international branding campaigns.

Yes, the Nova story is very common in that context, but everyone who's actually done the research has found that the Nova actually sold decently well. The story probably originates with some English speaker who knew some Spanish seeing the car's name, read it as "no va", and assumed that "of course that would sell poorly" and using that as an example of marketing failure, which everyone copied without fact-checking.

Note that Spanish does have a word "nova", which means exactly the same thing it does in English (a stellar birth), and could be used as a marketing name in Spanish-speaking countries with much the same connotations as you could find in English. After all, Pemex has a brand of fuel that's called "Nova," which should instantly debunk the story.
TBH I feel like there's very little risk with quitting to work on a project that already has users.

It seems like he's a good enough programmer that he could always find a job at a big tech company, make a bunch of money and then quit once he has enough saved up. And that's assuming he doesn't find any paid users or get any source of funding which again is hard but not impossible or that unlikely given that he already has a product with users.

I think he'll be just fine and I wish him the best.
Does Philly count as East Coast?
Pity this sank on HN, but it's an excellent and meaty article.
Why the world’s leading AI charity decided to take billions from investors
That is a good question, and I just checked Wikipedia for modern population estimates. Census counts and non-census estimates tend to be from different years, so the data isn’t perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good and all that, and it is still interesting to look at.

2006 estimate for Nigeria was about 240M, and the 2019 estimate puts them at about 199M, or +59M in 13 years. For Indonesia there is a census count from 2010, ~238M, and a 2016 estimate of 261M, or +23M in 6 years.

Now for the United States: the 2010 census put the US at about 309M, and the 2018 estimate at about 327M or +18M over 8 years.

I think no matter who takes the #3 spot, the United States will be at #5 and maybe lower in my lifetime.
If we predominantly cared about intelligence then shouldn’t we not beat around the bush and directly test for it?
> I would like to ask another question though, how does the community feel about people who talk to themselves when they're focused?

There's a special place in hell for those people :). Even worse when they are whispering or mumbling.

It's really the same as talking on the phone: my brain is hijacked because it only has a side of the conversation.
That Systrom checked out but was also checked-in enough to throw a fit over the direction facebook decided to go in his absence/checked-outness.
It’s when you’re gaming and your ping jumps to 500 because someone is watching Netflix. It’s one of the main flaws in the currently deployed internet for end users. There are a lot of novel solutions (codel and so on) - but still not widely deployed.

More generally it refers to any hardware/system with large buffers - needed to handle large throughput but can lead to poor latency due to head of queue blocking.
>Instead of adapting, they legislate.

This is a source of many vast, seemingly intractable problems.

Fucking. Lawyers.
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you don't seem to understand organizations and their politics then, or more charitably, you're being intentionally obtuse. egos, esteem and positioning are the primary drivers of decision-making in an organization (i.e., a political body).

the good of the product is of secondary concern in most organizations. it's the opposite in (young) startups, because their success depends on it. this, to me, is one of the main reasons to work for a startup, not the financial rewards or the vague experience of it. it's to build a product you're proud of.
This is a hard question to answer, but here are a few thoughts:

1. Resigning from a tenured position likely means taking a one-way street. The exception is a well-known scientist that can easily switch tenure to 2-3 other school today. In many fields competition for tenure is brutal and once you leave you may have some disadvantages in re-entry against a bunch of post-docs. "Only losers leave academia" is still a widely held mindset. All this does not mean not to resign; just be aware.

2. Do you still need money? The fact that the company is not ramen profitable in 7 years (including last 3 years of dedicated effort) means it may not be a source of income for a while. If you are not set for life, how long can you afford to not work? Will you be OK in industry (some professors thrive there some are completely miserable with a manager who tells them what to do and imposes deadlines)?

Unless you are set for life I would seriously consider your 50% option -- you get another year to fully dedicate to your startup without teaching a single day and still maintain tenure. In a year, re-evaluate. My 2c.
I just finished reading "Blood Makes The Grass Grow", about a Norwegian soldier who decided to leave the Norwegian military to join the Kurds and fight ISIS on the ground because his skills weren't being put to use in the Norwegian military. In it, he talks about how the Norwegian brass painted him as a traitor and a war criminal, and shunned him from his old unit.

Every Western military suffers from this. Every. Single. One. And the reason is Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: there are two kinds of people in bureaucracies: those who serve the bureaucracy's goals, and those who serve the bureaucracy; ultimately the organization is led by people who serve the bureaucracy rather than people who serve the bureaucracy's goals. It's simply unavoidable in a military which must necessarily be a large bureaucracy.
Is it really that weird to not have "enemies"? There I people I wouldn't hang out with or wouldn't work with again, but I don't think I'd consider them enemies.
these are the caveats of data presentation that consume an incredible number of hours compared to actually designing an experimental protocol and generating data sets.

this is one of the major activites during thesis defense, tearing apart semantics to be sure that verbal descriptors are representative of observations, and free of qualifiers or modulations.

Also defense of scientific thesis involves a discourse between supporters and deniers as a matter of course. This is the way science works, two opposing positions meet somewhere in between. usually a third external will weaken or reinforce one side over the other. The ultimate goal is not to proclaim who is right or wrong but to refine interpretations into representations of real physical processes
If you somehow stumble onto the page and are too lazy to Google the term, I don't think you're in the target audience.
Parsing short hexadecimal strings efficiently
Also, the furnace could compromise the stone structure. So the focus was to keep the wall from getting too hot, first from the inside.
Please, stop hating and berating yourself. Or do it in silence :).
Yea afpc decision making is always short term 3year scale thinking with real consequences rarely analyzed, just number crunching whether or not current training pipelines are optimized for minimal idle time of trainees.

When a t34 rudder issue it a fleet in the navy pipeline, numbers for 92T slots dropped accordingly, so the marker for pilot qualification is as much luck as it is merit
I hope this isn't a widespread thing but I fear this is. This phone is the first time I've gotten excited about new consumer tech in a long time.
Employee sponsored health insurance is a result of "centrally planned" economics - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th... ... it has nothing to do with feudalism or even what employers wanted, but has a lot more to do with government officials who thought they could design an economy.
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A short-ish read on how the UN does population projections and major factors contributing to the expected population decline:

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_...
Yes that is truly amazing.

That will relegate the US to the 5th place within 20-25 years. And actually, even Pakistan could overtake the US. And if you count the EU as one country, which is increasingly true, then the US could easily be the 7th largest country in 2-3 decades:

India
China
EU
Indonesia
Nigeria
Pakistan
US

And including the EU, which is still catching up with regards to it’s Eastern and Southern European population, all of those places are poised to get much richer in the coming decades.
I've got a plan based on self-replicating swarm robots. The basic idea is to collect oceanic trash and recycle it into more robots (to collect more trash to make more robots, &c.) The geometric increase should allow for a (relatively) small "kernel" to grow to handle the global problem.

Two primary recycling technologies seem promising: Thermal Depolymerization and Molten Salt Oxidation.

I've acquired two boats, one to serve as a base and the other to get to/from it, and I hope to begin collecting trash (in SF bay to start) this summer. :-) Fingers crossed...
I can't relate to this at all. When I'm dead, I'd like to cease. I have no desire for my brain to outlast my body.
A lot of families are split up as a result of migrant factory work and the factory dorms, so it's probably a drag in multiple ways compared to farming.
Absolutely. More children meant more farmhands. In the city, it's a net negative.

It's not to say you're wrong, it's just the one child policy is a compounding factor.
No one owned the process by which the oil was produced.

We don't need to bring in leaky concepts of rights here. It is a plain fact that the Earth has a resource which was formed before humanity even existed, is limited, and the price of which is not reflective of the process required to create it. It is also a plain fact that using said resource unwisely hampers fellow and future citizens.

Buying a cart full of apples and flushing them is also unwise, but at least the price of an apple is somewhat reflective of the cost of producing one.

A carbon tax helps bring the price of oil up to at least be closer to its real value, and help prevent unwise ways of utilizing it.
I haven't heard of the term "Roman Evaluation". Where does it come from?
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