skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some smart business in a foreign country should start providing tele-medicine to the US for reasonable prices.

We could send blood work overseas cheaper than the piracy prices of labcorp, for that matter.

They could explain it legally as "not medical advice" to skirt any FDA laws, but provide world class health care in reality.

It's a business model that could really work. The "skirt America's dumb self-inflicted crap" business model.
What is the appeal of liberation from the market? Aren't you participating now in a market of ideas?

I don't know why you "other" capitalists. It doesn't seem right.
So... can you rephrase that into an answer explaining why this is (was) on the front page? It's not a significant advance as I see it, but I'm willing to be educated.

Again, the abstract does not appear to claim a performance benefit, so I'd love it if you could explain where that's coming from.
Farmed salmon usually has fish meal (sourced from wild-caught fish that has lower economic value) as a significant part of its diet. Those wild-caught fish concentrate organomercury compounds like other wild fish, and the compounds pass on to farmed salmon who eat them.
The Harvard response undercuts itself by bringing up "environmental sustainability"

It isn't wrong, but it seriously calls into question whether the aim of the recommendation against red meat purely accurate nutrition science or a broader agenda.
Microsoft Announced the Global Availability of Windows Virtual Desktop
Checkout Malcolm Gladwells podcast regarding how MickieDees abandoned the beef fat.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...
Anaconda may work well as a virtual environment for some ml projects, but it is by no means a solution for getting a gpu-working installation of tensorflow on Windows.
The Wait Is Over – TensorFlow 2.0 Released
1. Re-read the comment you quoted and you'll see what comment I'm referring to.

2. If you need a source to prove that table sugar is sucrose here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sugar

3. Finally, you're close to understanding my point (and what I presume is the orignal commenter's).

As far as we know, a moderate amount of refined sugar is not bad once in a while since it helps to increase blood glucose levels like any other source of sugar. (I'm intentionally disregarding the insulin spiking aspect of it here since I've already addressed that in a previous comment.) The fact that you and various other are against moderate sugar consumption (the original commenter's claim), shows how brainwashed the masses are.
It's more like David vs. Goliath. The food industry has MUCH more money than any animal rights advocacy group.
It would be better to set a price per minute, depending on decibels and population density of the area.
That would be illegal because they would need to be licensed as doctors in the state of the patient, nothing to do with the FDA.
https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/telehealth/1/barrie...
Bit light on the use of the Hreflang
> being that individual testosterone levels go down once one marries and has kids. That's a medical fact, not speculation. And testosterone on average makes one more aggressive.

The first part is true, but the later one is false. Testosterone on does not makes one more aggressive, a medical fact researcher started to figure out in the last 30 years or so and have instead found a much better theory what testosterone do and why it so easily get associated with aggression. Testosterone increase the amount of energy a person will spend on defending challenges to social status.

Imagine a male baboon that just raised to alpha status of a flock after a difficult and dangerous fight with the previous alpha male. This is the point where testosterone production spikes. If the new alpha male get challenged and loose then any gained chance of mating would be lost. In addition all the energy and risk of injury that was just spent on rising to the top would be wasted effort.

A low ranking male baboon however might find a better strategy to lay low and wait for a opportunity, such as the moment after someone above them have just been in a fight. If they get challenged and loose then there isn't as much of a loss. A optimal strategy is thus to modulate how much energy is spent on defense based on how high the probability for mating is and how high the risk is that someone else might try to take it away.

The role of testosterone, a sex hormone, should maybe not come as an surprise as being the method in which the body inform itself of this. It also make sense that marriage and having kids reduces the need for high testosterone. You loose social status and the negative effect is not as bad. A better strategy might be to reserve energy and maybe focus on raising the offspring you already have.
I didn't think you needed my help to follow the trail of citations, but here you are. I'm sure you're going to dive right into these:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8075769,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42756923.pdf

Sugar does not have to be consumed. Your body can convert protein into glucose. Your microbiota can convert fiber in short-chain fatty acids that feed your cells. You can also function without sugar (look up the ketone diet).

Maybe you should be more precise and not expect others to read your mind.
Maybe just HTML?
My frustration with the arguments for communism and or socialism vs capitalism is that they are surface arguments on ideological basis. I see socialism and communism as dressed up authoritarianism.

A massive hand-over of power to a few in government is not an improvement over capitalism where a much larger group vie for power in a dual reinforcing and opposing system of government and corporate interests. To hand the economy over to the government creates a far more centralized system of power and all the discussion of supposed benefits we could attain by such a system does not nullify the massive threat to freedom by that kind of system.

Capitalism is a horrible system but its the least horrible one we know of. A better discussion is how do we get to a better regulatory regime.
> I vastly prefer creating hermetic environments with either venv or Docker. They're much cleaner and easier to work with. I wish data scientists would adopt these tools instead.

I suspect you have a lot of time on your hands. But for me the 'batteries included' approach really nails it, why repeat the headache over and over again when a single entity can take care of that in such a way that incompatibilities are almost impossible to create? The hardest time I've had was to re-create an environment that ran some python code from a while ago, with Anaconda it was super easy.

I'm sure it has its limitations and just like every other tool there are situations where it is best to avoid it but for now it suits me very well.
What do you think a Civil, Mechanical, Industrial engineer does? Do you think a Civil Engineer is going around re-working how buildings are designed?
just buy an ethically raised cow/bison etc and freeze it. i've been living off the same 1/2 cow since probably 2014 or so.
Fall gets wacky as the book progresses.
This is really down for more than 2 hours!!!
> getting a gpu-working installation of tensorflow on Windows

I think part of your problem is the last word there. Windows is a bad match for such an environment. On Ubuntu it is pretty much painless.
Didn't they just get a 300m injection? That is a pretty big confidence boost that you are doing things right.
My heart desires python then
As a fan/user/creator of modular synthesizer stuff and design observer in general I can usure you that you are quite definitly not the only person that feels like this. Vinyl record sales have surpased CD for the first time again not long ago, people crave for physical interfaces, modular synths and everything hardware is getting more popular despite the ton of plugins you can get for your music software. People are going back and build physical interfaces for menu-diving-synthesizers from the 80s like Yamaha’s infamously unprogrammable but amazing sounding DX7.

People are rediscovering mechanical keyboards etc.

Modular synthesizers are a wonderful playground for physical interface design. Because of course you want to expose a lot of functionality of your module, but on the other hand your panel will get big and your module will end up taking up a lot of space. Of course you can get away with using a screen and an encoder but hoe wrll can you use it live while making muic then? Of course you can add 20 dials, but maybe 3 clever ones that abstract over those 10 in just the right ways are better? Also: people might not use your module for a month, how can the design remain in their head just enough to kick a spark?

Physical interfaces. Use them blindly, shile wearing gloves, in your pocket.
It's a cornerstone of their brand relative to other office space leasing companies, and tech investors are how/where they got a lot of their funding. Check out their S-1, they mention "technology" 110 times:

"Technology is at the foundation of our global platform. Our purpose-built technology and operational expertise has allowed us to scale our core WeWork space-as-a-service offering quickly, while improving the quality of our solutions and decreasing the cost to find, build, fill and run our spaces. We have approximately 1,000 engineers, product designers and machine learning scientists that are dedicated to building, integrating and automating the complex systems we use to operate our business. As a result, we are able to deliver a premium experience to our members at a lower price relative to traditional alternatives."

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...
Why would <meta charset="utf-8"> be required if you can set it in the HTTP headers? I've also read that modern browsers (everything except IE) will look for a byte-order mark.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118018
I'm a man, not a number.
This is typical investor 'all about the numbers and margins' as a way to build a business as opposed to the actual product or the quality of the customer experience which is what makes the business valuable.

This in particular:

> Apple and Amazon were put forth as great lower margin businesses. Amazon is a roughly 25% gross margin business and trades at a little over 3x revenues. Apple is a roughly 40% gross margin business and trades closer to 4x revenues. I think that emphasizes the point that revenue multiples ought to reflect gross margins.

Completely avoids mentioning why Apple and Amazon are actually valuable in the first place (Fred in particular has thing about Apple in a negative way because of something that happened to a portfolio company in the past).
If you enjoyed reading this then I would definitely recommend The Design of Everyday Things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things).
Leadership is soft skills, and the employee in question doesn’t have them. The poster needs to get out of the weeds, and stop the demand on labour, but he’s not wrong about getting rid of the petulant child.
Show HN: Modern Take on Computer Output on Film
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113344
First thought, they didn't grow anything, they germinated a seed.

2nd thought, great we now left more fingerprints on the Petrie dish that is the moon.
Why we need operator precedence is so that math notation can properly serve as a "tool of thought".

The correspondence between arithmetic laws and an algebraic notation which remains sane when not fully parenthesized requires precedence levels. Higher "power" operations must be placed at higher precedence levels. For instance, given

A(x + y + z)

we can distribute A into the trinomial factor:

Ax + Ay + Az

That doesn't work if that result has some wacky interpretation like:

A(x + A(y + (Az)))

And under this rule, although you don't have precedence, you still have an implicit rule of associativity: multiplication and addition share the same precedence level, and associate right to left. You have not been been liberated from ambiguity that requires invisible rules.

Why the higher-powered multiplication must have precedence over lower-powered addition is that at the most rudimentary level, it represents repeated addition. 3y means y + y + y arithmetically. If we want that equivalence to be mirrored in notation, we need the precedence. This allows us to take an expression like x + y + y + y + z and confidently rewrite y + y + y as 3y. The properties of addition and multiplication assure us that it's mathematically correct, and the properties of the syntax, assure us that the symbolic manipulation is semantics-preserving: replacing multiple terms of a sum by a single product has no interaction with adjacent terms due to precedence. That's the gist of it: correspondence between syntax rewrite rules and the semantics of algebraic rules.
Algorithmic Beauty: Introduction to Cellular Automata
Debbie Harry: Sylph-Perpetuating Myth
Is it enforced that way?
Nice article. Sad to see Timelinr not mentioned, though.
Question: how many of these are standardized? I'm not particularly interested in adding a bunch of specific, proprietary tags…
how about instead of eat less meat, eat less shitty meat and cook more?
in all likelihood, you'll save money and feel better.
Just had a look. I am taking the wife to Napa on Sat. for an event and thought this would rock (vs 2-3 of driving). They do SFO to Napa but not on Sat. Oh well.
I have experienced a similar dip in the level of, uh, retention and engagement that books can elicit from me. Recently I kind of feel it turning around, and there seem to be two main causes: using time on airplanes to get deep into a book, and intentionally seeking out books that would suit my taste.

The airplane thing is a small one and may or may not suit your lifestyle. But the bigger thing is that as a child or a teen, everything is new to you. There are some books that are just about guaranteed to suck you in and expand your worldview if you've never encountered them before. They are the low-hanging-fruit curriculum books that just about anyone will benefit from. Once you've exhausted the Catch-22s, the Mark Twains, the Tolkiens or Austens or Heinleins of the world, you'll have to spend more effort to find books that really resonate with you.

For me, this meant following sites like The Baffler and Electric Literature. I hope if you figure out where online people are reviewing and promoting the books you enjoy, you'll find yourself funneled toward books that are capable of drawing you in again.

As a concrete recommendation, I just finished The Overstory by Richard Wright, which won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction this year, and absolutely could not put it down.
> For example findings that might relate to rehabilitation for crimes and how long we sentence someone to prison, or if we even sentence someone to prison at all. Findings related to forced institutionalization of someone deemed too mentally ill to be allowed their freedom.

Before cargo cult science becomes a problem here, we need to actually accept and adopt evidence based management of these institutions. Currently policies in these areas are primarily driven by tradition, rhetoric and anecdotes, not scientific inquiry.
Is there anything in the backend arena that a small business couldn’t do with an excel spreadsheet?
Linear regression might be the simplest thing to do with Tensorflow's autodifferentiation, if you want to jump straight in...
> Why do you believe this matters to the discussion?

It matters because we can't just go around making laws based on whatever we feel like. Laws need to be about equity and need to be supported by evidence. Otherwise we can make a law saying that left-handed people are not allowed to use public washrooms, because they might not be able to use the facilities properly and make a mess.

> Some may say the same about gender identity ... lack of scientific understanding has not prevented it from being a protected class.

Some may say that. Some also say that vaccines are just a money-making scheme by pharma companies, or a potential cause of autism. But the people who actually studied it–i.e. doctors–don't. The American Medical Association is committed to informing policymakers of their current science-based understanding of gender as a spectrum: https://policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder/detail/gender...

> It’s juvenile that you seem to think...

The factors that you associate with introversion and correlate with suffering in open office plans haven't even been scientifically established. In fact, scientifically there is doubt that the factors that people normally associate with introversion are actually about introversion. Given this lack of evidence, I don't know how you can make such a strong claim that introverts are discriminated against in offices, especially in a thread about already-established discriminatory practices.

But if you feel so strongly about it, absolutely no one is stopping you from writing up a post and submitting it to HN.

> I’m not interested in the legal process that led to this, rather the entirely separate sociological and philosophical parts

The legal process used the sociological and philosophical factors to arrive at the discrimination judgments. Law doesn't just appear out of thin air–it's based on human factors. That's why I pointed you to those sources in the first place. They cover all that. If you're really interested, please go ahead and read them.
> That wholly depends on your definition of interesting.

Of course it does... I'm just making an assumption (possibly wrong), that if you're the type who's in an MS program, wondering if you'll be bored without a PHD, then yes, most industry jobs will bore you. After all, why are you in an MS program seriously considering a PHD. There's gotta be an intellectual curiosity there beyond just moving data around.

At the end of the day, 90% of industry app development is CRUD (Create, Replace, Update, Delete) work on data. The really interesting problems (from an intellectual perspective) are either in research positions, or, at the elite positions within company pet projects like Google Brain, for example.
> The Palo Alto to SFO one doesn't really help you get into the city because much of the traffic you'd have to drive through is between SFO and downtown

I don't think they target PA<->SF traffic. This looks more like a last mile connection for people who want to get to Palo Alto, from outside of bay area. Given how many VCs are there, there's some potential market for it.
SFO or SJC to PA are useful is your office is in PA/Menlo.
Isn't airbnb similarly disqualified under your definition?
If you instead move a doctor to a rural area it's a much more cost effective solution because that one doctor could treat everyone in the area rather than needing to move everyone in that area out of the rural area. A new doctor in the rural area would also create jobs as they would need at least a receptionist.
Eh, I think you exaggerate.

Sure, some people are so disabled they can't travel. For those who are not disabled but are simply poor, here's what they need-- and it doesn't cost much.

- A greyhound bus ticket

- Camping gear: A tent, sleeping bag, inflatable camping mattress

- Clothes

I used to live in a tent. Sure, it's uncomfortable, but it is fully survivable.

While living in a tent in some woods, I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, applied for jobs, visited community centers for showers & food handouts.

Applying for jobs-- How long did it take?

- Blue collar jobs: Took a day to get hired, $13/hr job.

- White collar jobs: Took 3 weeks to get hired $25/hr job.

I've lived in a tent while studying and job hunting 3 times. Now I am quite gainfully employed making over $50/hr.

Should tax payers pony up? Not if you mean people other than the individuals who need to pull themselves up.
Peaceful does not mean pacifist, and slavery under Islamic law is not slavery as embodied by the West and other cultures.
Fi numbers are actually hosted by T-Mobile. Google Voice uses bandwidth.com and possibly other VoIP providers in some rate centers.
The waste water can be diluted till any standard is satisfied, but nevertheless same amount of acid and heavy metals ended up in the ocean and that is wrong.
The problem is as you state: discussions between ideology are not productive when at least one side is completely entrenched in that ideology.

Instead of focusing on ideology, focus on specific problems, and don't let the discussion occur in terms of ideology. This can be done by forcing specifics as much as possible.

Ideology is almost by definition, highly abstract. It's nice to talk about things when they're highly abstract, because their incredibly malleable.

But the problems we face in the world are not abstract. It's completely clear at this point that an ideological approach to solving problems will not work. But perhaps changing the discussions to be smaller and focusing on real issues in specific detail might be better.

I could be wrong. I've been unable to have a productive conversation with ideological opposites from me, but I seem to get closer when I talk about specifics instead of abstractions.
Julia consumes python and give you so much more.
> the future won't be "super weapons" like the F-35, but instead just "mass" weapons like tens of weaponized drones

The difference is plausible deniability.

Stealth weapons let one plausibly deniably launch attacks. (Perhaps to the point of letting the attacked pass it off as an accident, which could let them save face when returning to the negotiating table.)

Swarm tactics have no such deniability (though attribution can be complicated if non-state actors are used as a front).
> Nearly all the countries that call themselves "democratic socialist" are in fact capitalist, with strong welfare states.

Well, then, there you go: that's the meaning of the word, then. Or at least it certainly is to a lot of people.

I think we again don't much disagree, other than in a very surface level about the words. I go out for a beer with some Norwegians, and they self-describe to me as having ideals they call "socialist", because they're ideals around being social and building a society together, and that's what the word means to them. I accept this definition. Maybe you've got a different one in mind; words are tricky like that.

I similarly don't know what to tell you about the utility of taking the precise wording of websites as the ultimate truth of anything. Did every person in every klimastreik around the world read those two websites and sign off total agreement on every detail they proclaimed? Probably not.

I offered anecdata that many people on the ground, even around those causes, are very positive to carbon taxes or other forms of market-aware schemes to make a difference. It is, of course, anecdata. You can take it as a note of hope, perhaps? Or, not. Up to you.
I don't follow why you distrust sites like Fakespot but trust something like Wirecutter which as you note is directly incented to shill review products that offer more affiliate revenue.
Essentially it's using civilian transmitters as part of a military radar system. A stretch, given.
> How about the frequency and the fair price?

The case looks even worse for Uber, than it does for Alaskan in that case.

The capital costs and logistics of getting more airplanes, more (highly limited!) slots at airport terminals, working this out for point-to-point connections, getting all your staff moving from flight to flight efficiently, are horrific.

The capital costs and logistics of scaling up a self-driving taxi network, in comparison, are peanuts.

> It's more difficult for in-app uber purchases that are more frequent for less money.

It's a simple as checking the ride price in two apps.

> The biggest network will have the best cost structure.

No, the network with the lowest profit margins will have the best cost structure.

Uber will either be a defensible business, or a profitable, but entirely indefensible one.