skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...Suppose the vaccine did nothing at all when administered to males but--for some reason--we did it anyway. This would double the price while leaving the effectiveness unchanged, but the $/quality-adjusted year of life (QAYL) would still be a in range that we typically consider worthwhile.

In reality, the vaccine has beneficial effects for the men themselves, as the article points out. It also contributes to "herd immunity", which benefits vaccinated men and women alike. Increased demand for the vaccine could also drive down the unit cost (most drug-related costs are fixed, rather than marginal). These three factors all suggest it's even more cost-effective than my naive analysis above.

Also, definitely talk about stuff like this. It's important and interesting; I'm actually surprised there's less interest in the pharmoeconomic modelling itself, as it's a very HN-friendly topic. That said, it is a little frustrating when people assume everyone involved in something biological is an innumerate dummy. A lot of this stuff has been analyzed, often by fairly clever people.
I've tried syncthing as well as btsync (now called resilio); it's not just less user-friendly. It tends to be _much_ slower and eat tons of CPU due to a different algorithm. Resilio has a free tier that works fine for me, and I don't have an inherent issue with a proprietary program that works well. It's a very convenient solution, I haven't had issues, and highly recommend it.
I dismissed the criticism because it was not substantive.

> methodologically flawed

How is it flawed?

> fails to meet the standards of the bibliometric community

What standards?

These are both unsubstantiated points, there is no counter argument because there is no argument to counter, all that can be done is to dismiss the argument which comes across as snarky.
..also between genius and madness. It's brilliant and deserves a place in art history.
No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1bn
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Indeed, just because the research university has been a successful model doesn’t mean others aren’t possible, like RAND, Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, SRI International or the Max Planck Society.
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I was part of a remote-work trial at my office (as a Software Developer). We were remote for about a year and honestly it was the best work experience I've ever had. I felt so productive working in an environment perfectly tailored to me (my own home).

It ultimately ended as several upper management thought we were too "disconnected" from the company although my e-mail was always open, phone forwarded to my cell and I was online in a company wide chat messenger during working hours. We even came on-site once a week for face-to-face meetings. But I guess some people picture remote workers negatively so we are now back on-site and all the things I took for granted during the trial year are making being on-site so much harder.

I commute an hour by car so I gave up a pay raise ~$6,000/yr. on gas alone. I haven't (and don't want to) calculate vehicle wear, snow tires, etc. I'm constantly interrupted by people throughout the day laughing at the nearby reception desk, asking me about lunch or just coming to talk because they are bored. Even right now I have someone using a leaf blower directly outside my window so I can't focus on code (why I am on HN right now). The office temperature is an uncomfortable 66F because the corner office gets so hot with the many windows it has and I am part of their HVAC line. I am using an underpowered laptop instead of my home desktop (32GB RAM, high end CPU, etc) and I require our IT Department to install all software for me because "company policy"... Needless to say my productivity has dropped.

Perhaps someday we'll be able to go remote again, or maybe it's just time to move on. I've been here now for more than 5 years and I enjoy the work I do and the people I work with but after having a taste of remote-work, it's hard going back.
Waffle House used to offer all Georgia Tech graduates a manager position. Not sure if they still do but they certainly did from the 70s until the 2000s.
I think this is better source - I was very skeptical from the original thread because the source did not seem trustworthy. I think BBC is slightly more reliable..
Yup, that's a great point. This does help those with familiarity about REST APIs get started, and those wo a lot of puppeteer background.

I think the more recent chrome extension examples are pretty interesting, and we're looking to go that direction at some point.

Thanks again!
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They post the rules up so everyone can read them and it's enforced on both sides of the counter. Anyone who has visited a Waffle House frequently knows even in a bad part of town it's the one place you can sit in an eat in peace.

That's not to say every one of them is perfect but over the years it's always been my go-to place for a meal no matter the time or day.
It's linked-to in the NYTimes article: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGTJHX9edmQOD8Ez-1...
In the US , only about 6% of nurses are male.

https://realmanswork.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/male-nurses-wo...
Then the solution will have be different than stopping to use oil but mitigate its negative effects.
"Remember the USS Maine" was just a meme too. Don't underestimate the power of memes, boomer.
Social Justice nonsense.

Look at the systems which reward X behavior in Y sex.

Assuming that access to partners is a primary behavioral motivator ( it is, it just is ). Then what rewards exist for women undertaking novel enterprises?

Very little. Or substantially less compared to males.

The systems running internal to humans don't preference the sex-barganing position of a woman when shes got money / power which comes with starting companies.

More simply:

Power / money doesn't beget better mate-optionality for women in the same way it benefits men -- so why would she do it?

Please stop the ignorant pandering.
More info: https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-2019-az...
Well, isn't that just like evaluating the difference between whether or not you're a self-taught programmer?

If you already have business skills, either from an undergraduate business degree, experience, or self-teaching, you don't need a non-specialized MBA.

If you look at the actual MBA curriculum it has courses that seem to be quite obviously useful if you ask me.

The only problem here is that there are some places that won't let you take a management role without a masters degree or MBA, instead of evaluating your actual level of skill, creating a surplus of MBA demand.

(And there are bad engineering schools just like there are bad MBA schools).
Well, breaking or bending laws for any reason isn't "ethically questionable", it is clearly unethical. What it isn't is necessarily wrong, nor is it necessarily immoral, nor bad for society.

Especially when we live in a world that is over-regulated and ungovernable and is led by record-settingly amoral and unethical "leaders". And this is true at local, state, federal government levels. But is also true of many large corporations which control more and more of our daily life.

Asking permission is not an effective strategy in these cases. Do what is right. And be brazzen. Show people how to take back their freedom. Screw the DCMA and hack your roomba, etc.!

Sadly to assume that morality and legality or ethics are tightly linked is becoming less and less often true. If the system wasn't broken they would be.
Exactly right. Incentive caused bias is one of the strongest forces in economics.
Because the USA has an independent media that is very critical of its government while China doesn't (at least not on the scale as the USA's main stream media). I mean maybe if you're a conspiracy theorist you could say it's just controlled opposition or a distraction, but in the context of this argument at least the US media is unafraid to criticize or even just straight up mock the government and it's leaders, that has to count for something compared to China.
That is not the nature of 'quick and dirty articles'.

That is precisely the nature of identity politics, which treats everyone not as an individual with a personal identity and personal believes and responsibilities, but as a generic instanced clone of some immutable class assigned by birth, all members of which need to prostrate to a perpetual divisive ideological war.
They are literally two very different types of data. This isn't an ambiguous issue: One is a continuous variable, the other categorical. Whether or not one or the other could erroneously flag someone doesn't change that, and doesn't mean they're the same. Because the nature of those differences means the use cases are different. A continuous score has much wider versatility than a black & white binary value, and allows for more nuanced use. Even if it's just in the realm of fraud detection, a continuous score allows for more safeguards, e.g., if it's low but not too low then it triggers further review rather than outright rejection.
Yes! Please create a higher-level abstraction so we can all be CSS painters in the Old Masters' style.
Imagine placing ping pong balls in a regular pattern in the bottom of an empty swimming pool, then filling it up with water.
Sounds like it will just net out.
Why people don't tell the definite and super obvious reason for that: people will scam their employers! I know many people who work fully remote. All of them have 3-4 "full time" jobs, and just do the minimum necessary on all of them to not get fired, or outsource work. Making a good Valley salary in a place where rent is $400 a month. Good? For them yes, but a company that allows remote work is just making a mistake: it WILL be scammed by the vast majority of people who work there.

High-level employees need collaboration and frequent meetings making remote work impossible (execs), low-level ones can't be trusted because they have nothing to lose.
In my experience Waffle houses don’t always have a managed. Sometimes late at night they only have a cook and one waiter.

A good manager should be able to fill in on any position, expo, cook, hostess, or helping waitstaff. The problem is they could get stuck at peak hours helping in the back and not seen very much.
Someone on this thread brought up trust as an aspect of successful organization remote work. I do like this take. As a manager I have observed that trust can be hard to come by if there's not a solid metric that can help establish trust where there is none. And one bad miscommunication experience can erode trust that has been built up for months.

Face-to-face is always one of the highest fidelity mediums for communication in expressing the verbal & non-verbal. And I would agree with the resounding opinion in this thread that periodic meet-ups are very good for keeping trust relations higher in the times when remote is the norm.

Sometimes even that is hard if you're managing a team from across the globe, and then trust is reduced to a metric of some kind - work output, quality of work, etc.

I like working with remote teams and I've had great and horrible experiences with them - first and third party. It can sometimes be cultural but oftentimes I've found it can be isolated to the individual - and working to remedy that weak link can oftentimes (but not always) turn a situation around.

Understanding how to build a team, identifying the needs of the team, and establish trust within that team, whether co-located or remote is important. It's also important to understand how those needs and methods are differ between co-located and remote work.
So we shouldn't hire Australians until they actually fix the situation with their indigenous peoples? Why are you assuming that the average Chinese engineer doesn't resist and oppose transgressions by the government?

"The west" is not a race, it's not racism to hate the west, it's just the result of the blatant hypocrisy these sorts of statements display.

Imagine if Americans started to refuse to hire Australians because of their recent crackdown on press privacy?
A lot of my friends are in, or have completed an MBA program. Has anyone ever noticed the whole “we go on 10 trips a year as a cohort. If you’re missing out on those, you lose out on the experience” nonsense?

I’ll admit I wanted to get an MBA, but when I did my due diligence, time and time again, people talked about the unexpected costs (read: trips) associated with getting value. That irked me to the core.
It very quickly escalates to discrimination against Chinese people in the US, as evidenced by the highly upvoted comment I originally responded to. I'm sorry if I get my knickers twisted about people proposing an entire race of people pose a national security threat, but this sort of xenophobia has rarely gone well in history.
The big issue here, is that you assume that you can get the same ultra-light Google search to give you the same answer for Go and Rust. That's a totally unrealistic expectations! If you google “nodejs http”, “PHP http”, “python http” or “Java http” you don't have the answer you're looking for either!

“How to perform an http request in Rust” is a Google query that makes much more sense, and works for all the aforementioned languages.
I've worked in 4 very successful organization that were almost 100% remote work, the percentage of remote work employees by company, 98%, 99%, 92%, 98%.

These companies were no different than the 3 successful companies that didn't support remote work at all.

All 7 companies were process driven companies, with discipline. The processes were not overly complicated, nor bureaucratic in nature, but they were followed religiously. If the process wasn't working everyone still followed it, but the issues were raised and addressed quickly. Which meant everything worked and made sense.

I've worked at 4 unsuccessful companies 2 that were almost 100% remote, and 2 that were almost 100% not remote. What these 4 companies had in common was a lack of process, or discipline. Chasing the "next thing", blowing up schedules because "we need it now", zero planning. These companies need everyone in the same location because nothing is written down, everything is rumor, tribal knowledge is key and if you don't get to sit in a room and look at everyone to figure out the politics nothing works.

Bottom line is if you want to be successful you need to plan, have process and be disciplined in your approach to running the business. If you do these things managing remote employees is no different than having everyone in the same room. If however your company is a mess, trying to manage remote employees is next to impossible.
I'm not sure that's true about the boomers having access to affordable college. I had an ex whose boomer grandfather lectured us endlessly about how he worked hard all summer long to save up for college -- which, for him, meant a 40 hour work week during the summer, to afford a year of university, with room and board -- and why couldn't anyone else do the same these days?

No matter how often we pointed out that college is, in general, vastly more expensive, and summer jobs comparably less well-paying, he'd just repeat himself. "I just don't get it, you go work for the parks department, you work all summer long, why isn't that enough? It's your iphones, your cell phone plans, etc." when, you know, yeah we're paying $20 a month for cheap cell phone plans and five-year-old iphones, but the reality is that working three months at, say, $15 an hour, nets you what, $5-6k? That might cover a year's tuition at a community college if you live at home, not a year living at a state-run four-year university.
I think you inverted the pictures. The first one is what i get in Firefox, not Chrome.
Explain wiping the table? Are you fooling people into thinking the place is busier than it is?
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If anyone actually has this problem and doesn't know about StatQuest, well then, StatQuest!

https://www.youtube.com/user/joshstarmer
> A lot more needs to happen to end oil's stranglehold.

So what's your plan? Honest question. No sarcasm. How do we get from words to action?
Looking at this, it immediately reminded me of Emacs org-mode. The ability to manage agenda and notes and link Them all together. In fact, org-mode is often used for research as well

https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2011/TalkSlides/C...
Polynomial magic I: Chebyshev polynomials
>I have no control over my government. Zero. 0. Do you understand the concept of 0? Thats the amount of influence I have over any government matter.

Then you should be more pissed off at your own government and screwed up system than the people who are pointing how that the system you live under is screwed up.
The problem is that it's not realistic to expect client machines to be able to distinguish between blocking for "good reasons" or "bad reasons". The network isn't (usually) under the user's control, and as a result any reasonable threat model for software running on client machines should assume the network is actively malicious.

Ultimately, I think any sort of content blocking is going to have to happen on client machines. Or at least via a mechanism which depends the client machine's active cooperation. Anything less just opens users up to interference from malicious third parties.
Thankfully your circle of acquaintances isn't even remotely close to representing the wider world out there and the plethora of legitimate use cases that it presents for all sorts of people in this world.

Just last week a friend of mine from another country was suppose to send me a few hundred bucks. He could have sent it 'traditionally' but he would have been harassed about why he was sending money abroad and wasted considerable time and effort going to a physical bank branch. Instead in under a minute he sent me some Ethereum and we both were able to confirm the transaction near immediately. I'm now able to use that in the way I see fit directly within a Chrome extension within the browser I'm typing this on. I can take this money and start earning interest higher than any bank will give me within a few minutes. And this is just the beginning of cutting out middleman and processes that feel as cumbersome as sending a letter vs an email.
Thanks, I did not know that!
Its also telling that the male-dominance of long distance trucking (in air-conditioned trucks with power-steering) is in the same range, but not so much as a peep about that.
I could argue that the EU is a Mecca of enterprise and innovation compared to the US (no software patents or their associated trolls), and I could point out differences in capital models and so on.

Instead I'd just like to know: why do you think enterprise and innovation is more valuable than you or a member of your family needing an operation not bankrupting you?

There are more important things than work. In the UK we value the NHS so much it featured in the Olympics opening ceremony - a segment the NBC refused to air - because it literally keeps us alive better than anything else.

Does this mean it takes us longer to save up for our dream home because we're being taxed more heavily? Sure. But we don't care, because we realise that balance is more valuable.

I'm genuinely curious: is this attitude seen as eccentric or naive outside of these shores?
I would love to have a suitcase-sized wireless hotspot that I can bring with me on road trips. There are a lot of places in the US that I drive where there is no 4G, or coverage is very spotty at best.

Also, I work at home, and the main reason I don't work while traveling is that I can't depend on reliable internet. With a portable, reliable internet connection, I could absolutely see myself being more mobile, perhaps working from other countries more often.

Also, more options for internet connection at my house would be awesome since it would likely drop prices for internet in many areas.
The people who fund the politicians and media who talk about identity politics are the upper class. They would be incentivized to talk about anything but class.
The US inflation rate has never been more than 4% annually in over 30 years. Bitcoin often moves more than 20% in the span of a few days. If you don't like volatility, you don't want Bitcoin.
That's basically all it took to de-anonymise trips for celebrities using the NYC taxi data[1]. There was some poorly anonymized driver information in there but that wasn't used for tracking the celebrities themselves.

[1]: https://gawker.com/the-public-nyc-taxicab-database-that-acci...
Yes, which is why we've moved on to Gen Z now as the scapegoat du jour.
You are making a claim based on what's being an extreme application of a technology. We can push any technology to its limits but that doesn't mean that average usage should suffer from the edge case problems.

We still have a rational media architecture with vector graphics support.
It seems obvious that you cannot cut a circle into finitely many pieces and combine them into a square of the same area.

Hence, I suppose that in the starting statement of "If you have two flat paper shapes and a pair of scissors, can you cut up one shape and rearrange it as the other?", the concept "flat paper shapes" refers to polytopes [1]. That is, N-dimensional generalizations of polygons.

Otherwise the statement "For two-dimensional shapes, the answer is easy: Just determine their areas. If they’re the same, the shapes are scissors congruent." is wrong with the circle - square case as a counter example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytope
> "China" (as in the CCP) does not, in fact, have the data. They're leveraging a network of mostly-private companies to do the dirty work for them

The difference is that the CCP has every right to shut down businesses and they make the Law directly. No provisions can be made by external parties, there is no separation of power. So in practice all companies work in accordance with the CCP and will bend to their requests. In the US there are still companies which can and do refuse the federal government's requests to provide data without sufficient reason.
I don't know about that. My millennial friends, when we're buying beer, go for the 24-pack of keystone light. The craft beer's always a treat, like something you might get a four-pack once a month.