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Ask HN: How do I make a difference for health and wellness?
I am a Product Manager and have some experience with data (excel -> SQL -> Pandas). How can I make a difference and contribute to healthcare, are there startups that can use the help? And if so, how do I find them? Any and all pointers . are helpful!

(Maybe its the new years resolution, but could really use some pointers as I start the new decade to do something good with . my skills)
Aside from the politics I agree raising rates would be good for foreign debt holders and bad to Turkey internally. Lower rates keeps exports high and jobs remain when employment is full start raising rates.
For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25k
Yes. The firestorm surrounding the Bradley led to a forced redesign. Sadly, most of this knowledge is inaccessible online, but here's the Wiki

> When testing the Bradley, however, disagreements occurred between Burton and the Aberdeen Proving Ground's Ballistic Research Laboratory, which preferred smaller, more controlled, "building block" tests. They claimed such limited (and according to Col. Burton, completely unrealistic) testing would "improve the databases used to model vehicle survivability", as opposed to full tests with random shots that would provide a far more accurate picture of its performance under real battlefield conditions, but produce less useful statistical data.[11] In addition, Burton insisted on a series of "overmatch" tests in which weapons would be fired at the Bradley that were known to be able to easily penetrate its armor, including Russian ordnance. Burton saw attempts to avoid such tests as dishonest, while the BRL saw them as wasteful, as they already knew the vehicle would fail. The disagreements became so contentious that Congressional inquiry resulted. As a result of the tests, additional improvements to vehicle survivability were added.

Burton forced their hand. They retaliated by making him retire in disgrace, but his bureaucratic heroism saved thousands of lives.
> No matter how you slice it, it's probably a lot less than $5k per year.

Now remember that the offer starting this thread was to pay a flat $5k to own a machine. Even with running costs and repairs, that's less than a tenth of $5k per year.
“Inevitable”? “Only other alternative”? You have not supported these claims.
I think it's reasonable to ask for clarity on this point. One might, reasonably imo, expect buffering. (And E2BIG if a size limit is exceeded.) You have to dive deeper into the spec than a genre savvy user should need to learn this.
"full ride" <> "able to go anywhere you'd like"

Unless the one school that offers you a "full ride" is the one that you wanted to go to.
The company will build a generic charging infrastructure in return to state support it gets. This way people can see advantages of electric vehicles. We expect a huge impact on fossil fuel dependency.
I don't buy this analogy with drinking. Alcohol is fundamentally different. It is critical to reduce the number of people who get addicted to nicotine, because it is very difficult to get them off it. Despite flaunting the age limit for drinking, I think it is still the case that there are fewer 18 year olds drinking alcohol with the drinking age at 21 than there would be if the drinking age was 18, and in many ways that is all that matters. Your argument would also justify reducing the drinking age to X, because there are some people younger than X that access alcohol illegally. Importantly, a higher drinking age also stops beverage makers from targeting products to younger demographics.

I disagree with the harm minimisation/safety argument because the primary harm minimisation for tobacco products comes from preventing their use at all.
I’ve used the `duti` CLI for a while to set defaults per file type; never had any issues since.

https://github.com/moretension/duti

(or `brew install duti`)
They're perfectly compatible with each other. Sonos can stop the countdown, but won't.

You should of course be cautious about assuming a cursory look from a 3rd party is enough to know for certain how the device is bricked, but it's not abnormal or weird for a business like Sonos to use a half-baked technical strategy to brick their devices, and then to just stonewall anyone who calls into support.

Half of the time that a company says, "there's no way for us to do X", what they really mean is, "please go away now."
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The downvotes you're getting are pretty telling of the american tendency to infantalise their children.

Kids from 5 onwards are perfectly capable of doing various chores around the house and until recently in history, it was expected of kids to start contributing to household work as soon as they're old enough to.

But after the post-war age of abundance, americans are like oh no our bubby 10 year old can't handle washing the dishes and folding their own clothes.
Doesn't prevent use, but definitely reduces use.
Predicting the Future of the Web Development (2020 and 2025)
His viewpoint is just as valid as yours. Both viewpoints are anecdotal and therefore both could be a different aspect of the truth.

I don't like how his comment got flagged. It's almost like burying a whistleblower.
Or maybe host a tournament series where you host the top x amount of players and they all have to play while on a treadmill haha
Sure, but auto ML has not in most cases panned out. The ML name for auto ml is neural architecture search, which is mostly useless these days. NAS has shown to not be any better than standard random search across a neural network architecture. I do not say this to disparage googles results, only that they came up with the networks they did by expending huge amounts of computational power.
I see no reason to disbelieve that ignorance decreases the human desire to act politically. If you don't know you've been wronged (or limited) and you don't know what change is effective, or you are supplied with necessarily limited misinformation...you spend your efforts in other pursuits.
This is covered in the Twitter thread. Individual consumers might not go through the hassle, but a recycling center totally will: they tend to have market connections to refurbish used equipment, and prefer that option because they know it's more sustainable than scrapping perfectly good hardware for raw materials.

If the device works, and someone else wants it, then it has been recycled very efficiently. Sonos policy here is backwards.
Ask HN: What are the technical and scientific achievements of this decade?
I just took a single 29-hour workday, right before a major deadline. And coming up to that, didn't have a single off day whole December, typically working from 2pm to 4am. So yeah, it's definitely possible, but really not good for anyone in the long run.
Yes it's a waste. I also find it genuinely funny. Not sure why. Just tickles me.
I crossed Turkey years ago (back in 2005-6) from Georgia all the way to Istanbul. Even then, they had very impressive freeways crossing very difficult terrain, that must have costa fortune to build and maintain.
Otaaaaaaaagoooooo! Wouldn’t change it for the world.

Local undergrad is way more sensible. If you want to be elite, kill it locally then do a masters at Oxbridge or whatever.
I disagree that democracy provides consent of the governed. To write with broad strokes:

Half of people don't vote. Half that do don't get what they want. Half that do don't understand the issues, and without understanding can't give consent.

You don't know what laws your representatives will write. You don't know how the obtuse legal language will be interpreted through a myriad of other legal artifacts by unelected judges. You don't know how the administrators of the executive branch will selectively enforce whatever does get written.

How does giving an almost entirely symbolic vote (for national elections) in any way convey the consent of the governed?
> ethical advertising, what it looks like

Word of mouth. Reviews by third parties that don't have any conflicts of interest and which list your competitors and how their offerings compare to your product.
You should probably link to this instead:
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture

(This way has more compatibility with various computers and software that you try to view it. Also, for some reason the "FULL TEXT" link does not link directly to the file, nor does there seem to be a link from there as far as I can find, but if you change "stream" in the URL to "download" then it will access the file.)
No, I meant one person drops their working stuff off at the recycling center to get rid of it, and if the recycling center finds that it’s still functional and worth something, they can sell it to cover their costs.

This was what was described in the grandparent comment.

In the case of Sonos the only thing the recycling center receives are bricks.
From the linked blog:

> A Swiss Army knife does a bunch of things, all of them poorly.

Counterexample: the Phillips head screwdriver in my Swiss Army knife is actually the best Phillips head I've ever found. It can easily turn without slipping a wider range of screw head diameters and depths than any other screwdriver I've used.

(Does anyone else have way more screwdrivers around than they can explain? I cannot think of any reason I would own more than two or three full sized screw drivers, and one set of small of jewelers screwdrivers...but I've got more than a dozen full sized ones and a couple sets of jewelers screwdrivers. I cannot remember buying, inheriting, finding, stealing, borrowing and not returning, or being gifted any of them--but there they are. Glitch in the matrix?)
> You can only lend money to people (or States) you see as equals. Large scale lending essentially ties your economies together (like the US and China).

Debt can also be a thinly disguised bribe if there’s no real expectation that it’s ever going to be paid back. That’s how most lending to extremely poor countries works. The US or other “donors” lend money to the local tyrant to support domestically unpopular policy; the local tyrant pockets a large amount, distributes some to their cronies and some goes on the titular reason for the aid and at some point in the future the debt gets written off. Then the cycle repeats. The US does not view any other states as equals. China has lent a lot of money to Sri Lanka and Cambodia among others. It does not view either as an equal.

> I highly recommend Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Grabber. He does a great deep dive into the history of debt (both personal and with States). It's an amazing read.

It’s also riddled with factual errors, from saying Apple was founded by engineers working on their ok laptops or that the Fed isn’t part of the USG, among many, many others.

Long post on a small selection of the ways the book gets things wrong.

https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-g...
> Public student loans have income based repayment. Assuming you go to a state school and don't live on campus, the debt isn't a big deal.

only for very specific programs, doing very specific work. I looked into it. it's not a general program - at least, when I was dealing with my 10s of thousands of dollars..
My personal perception is that it implies you're not giving 100% to the conversation at hand, if that makes sense.
You could just put speakers in your ceiling. But given how people have trouble telling whether sounds are coming from above or below them anyways, I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
You can change the app associated with a file type from the "info" dialog for any file of that type.

Yeah, I know. If you want good UX, best to switch to living in the 1990s.
Unless you count the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which out-engineered the west for decades.
> The entire point of what I said is that the political opinions of the Democratic party moved in a direction that did not match that of my general demographic. Now that opinions have shifted, we find that our interests are better served by Republican talking points than by Democratic ones.

I agree that the Democratic platform has moved, but it moved rightwards. The Republican platform has also moved (considerably more) rightwards. If your political positions were once aligned with the Democrats but are now better aligned with Republicans, your personal opinions have necessarily moved dramatically rightwards, and your new alignment has nothing to do with the shift of the parties.
For digital publishing, sure. In academic publishing, for print, or if the same file is used for both digital and print copies, colour pages are often clustered together to reduce the production cost. If you have 20 pages of mostly black and white text each with a small colour figure, you have to print 20 colour pages. If you cluster them together, you can print 18 black and white pages and 2 colour pages instead.

This practice will go away as all publishing moves to digital formats. But as long as there is a print version for purchase as well, it will be more cost-efficient to organize papers like this.
Interesting. It takes me exactly 2 steps.

terraform plan && terraform apply
my doctor recommended "nuts, beer, wine, and hard liquor" as a way to boost my LDL

Did that doctor describe a mechanism of action how hard liquor could be of benefit? Sounds like a quack to me, frankly.
> But because you don't send the speakers directly to Sonos (instead to a local recycler), they have to trust you're actually recycling it instead of keeping it or selling it.

And to be clear, either keeping it or reselling it would be better for the environment than recycling the device. It's completely backwards to design an environmental program around making sure that people don't secretly do the right thing behind your back.

The fact that there are multiple highly-rated comments on HN looking at resellers and saying, "well, obviously they shouldn't get Sonos credits" shows how poor of a job our society is doing educating people about how reduce-reuse-recycle actually works. You don't have to check for people abusing the system. The people abusing the system are the environmental success stories. If a bunch of people participate in the trade-up program and then secretly resell their devices, that is a good thing that should be celebrated.

If anything, Sonos should be offering more credit to those people, not less.
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Haha. So I'll do better than the average company doing A/B testing by simply avoiding the methodology altogether? That's nice to know.
> Sales sells customers on a new feature within a vastly reduced time frame..without consulting the development team

This was my life for years. We need this giant feature/product, because we sold it, yesterday! We'd have jokes like "what startup are we building this week?". I guess at least I can thank that atmosphere for being able to work super fast.

The CEO at the time didn't really say no to any sale. But I didn't understand why sales couldn't sync with product or engineering.
I believe I understand the question & goal, and maybe this is the right way to go about it, but I’m not sure. It somewhat strikes me as the wrong question -- people don’t choose college equally at all income & IQ levels, and some of the factors that (statistically) lead people into to choosing to go are already accumulating before they’re even born. As a result, the hypothetical solution that hides the factors that lead to that choice in the first place in the data might not be fairly or adequately answering the question of whether someone should invest in college, given the choice, right?

Under this model, you could have someone with a higher IQ and a degree earning more money than a non-degree holder, but have a ‘negative’ return. Does that accurately reflect the situation, should the advice be to skip college, even though the absolute financial returns might be positive?

And what does this answer tell someone who has a low IQ or a low socioeconomic status? How should they try to evaluate this choice? Does discounting high IQ and high family education give an accurate picture of the benefits of post-secondary education to poorer families?
> What exactly would the quantitative "score" be to measure between the qualitative systems of Capitalism and Socialism? Between Buddhism and Christianity? Between Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory?

The depends on the question. You can compare Buddhism and Christianity in many ways, each with their own score. Are you saying 'which one is better for humanity'? Or 'which one will make my stoner friends think I'm rad?'?

if you were to compare which one has done more good/bad for humanity, than the score would be how much good or bad each one has done for humanity. You may say Buddhism improves the lives of it's adherents about twice as much as christianity on average. But Christianity has 20x as many adherents. But but Christianity is responsible for 10000x more deaths... etc. Then you just need to decide on the value of 'improving a persons life X amount' compared to 'killing X number of people' and do the math.

Of course, you typically don't get to the level of assigning numerical values to human life when forming your opinions most of the time. That's just the explanation of how these things are quantitatively 'scored' to try and answer your question - in practice it's a much more guesstimation-based system.
"Really forward-thinking"? All of what Bill Gates "envisioned" in this 1983 article was already done or about to be done at that time. Gates is well known for being bad at prediction and for having no vision to imagine the future. It certainly is not the reason why Microsoft kind of "succeeded". No need to rewrite history.
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California passing regulation to restrict innovation and progress as usual.
I think one of the interesting aspects is that performance plateaued in a lot of ways.

If you look at the S/N and distortion specs on a new affordably priced receiver, they won't be meaningfully better than a mid-range unit from the late 70s/early 80s. All the new HDMI and 20.7 Dolby Surround does nothing for two-channel MP3s or CDs.

Because the performance is equal, it's allowed build quality to shine. 15kg of heatsinks, capacitors the size of Coke cans, and big old TO-3 transistors are probably going to outlast propriatery digital doodads and amp-on-a-module designs built to minimize costs.

I'm more of a JVC fanboy myself, but I've been working on a Kenwood KR-6200 recently. 45 years old and one dead bulb. Unacceptable!
cheese and eggs which are full of cholesterol

Dietary cholesterol doesn't generally affect serum cholesterol in the absence of dietary glucose.
Show HN is not advertising, it's peers sharing cool stuff they made. Just like scientists would share their own research.
I would disagree here. You're assuming that Abrahamic religion solely integrated fasting for credit purposes. Whatever you think of religion, you can at least give them a point on that.
It’s hard to fight a bonfire with a match.
I went to Turkey in 2010. Drove about 2500km around the country. One thing that stood out to me was the amount of work going into making really epic stretches of highways.

I was driving on 6+ lane highways that were so new, there wasn't even stripes on the roads. It is neat to understand now that they were also building the infrastructure to support these cars.
I gave thirty bees (https://thirtybees.com) a shot for my latest e-commerce project, and couldn't be happier.
I am really enjoying the default theme.
The default checkout system wasn't to my liking, so had to pay for a better checkout module.
It’s only bad if you’re privileged enough to own property. Otherwise it’s great!
Ubiome patients sold for 7 million two weeks ago.

Bad management but great idea.
Well, that's gonna be complicated. The strategies are going to vary by situation. Honest communication is just a hard part of being a human. But it's worth the effort.

For example, with the "yes those pants make your butt look fat" conversation, that's an opportunity to set a boundary that improves your relationship: "Please don't ask me questions you don't want an answer to." Your relationship doesn't have to be a minefield, where she's quizzing you and any wrong answer could turn into a fight--that's not a pattern that's fun for either of you. Your wife probably just wants you to compliment her, so you can tell her that you'll make an effort to verbalize when you like how she looks or something she does. Those compliments will hold more weight, because she'll know that what you're saying is true. A compliment from someone who gives false compliments all the time is meaningless.

Some other general strategies:

1. Consider that I might be wrong, and if I was wrong, apologize. A side effect of being more honest with others is that I end up being more honest with myself as well, and I've often discovered that I believe some wrong things. Particularly with opinions, if you find that being honest about your opinions is offensive to people, consider that your opinions might be the problem, not the honesty. A lot of people who say "I'm just being honest!" when they offend people are actually just assholes. Lying wouldn't make them less assholes, it would just make them secret assholes.

2. Consider that my input wasn't wanted, and if I did that, apologize. A lot of the time the truth can just exist without being said. Does it need to be said? Does it need to be said now? Do I need to be the one to to say it? I'm particularly bad at this, personally.

3. Have a conversation with them about why I said what I said. A lot of times, like with the "yes those pants make your butt look fat" conversation, what the person is actually taking offense to is because they're assuming that what you said has other meaning. Just because I said the pants make her butt look fat doesn't mean that I don't love her, or that I'm not attracted to her, or that I think her butt looking fat is a bad thing. It may be that her negative reaction is because she's assumed one of those things, so clarifying would make her feel more secure.

4. This doesn't trivially apply to you wife, but in some cases, you can just stop wasting energy on the person. You can't please everyone, so don't try. If someone wants you to lie to them, that means they don't value what you have to say. Why would you want to talk to someone like that? But really, it rarely gets this far, because the reality is that most people don't take offense to the truth. Most people realize they have no choice but to accept reality when presented with it.
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It's a measure that's a few steps before violent revolutions - its a "we could, if we wanted to, but we hope there's another way", sort of statement.

I think a more correct way to put it/think about it is: protesting is a threat, not a statement that "violence is absolutely necessary". If violence were absolutely necessary, then they'd all just skip the protesting and do the violence.
You give consent for a given group of people to govern you, not for every decision they make.

That would be direct democracy (and probably a clusterfuck).
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The author probably wasn't using the word 'socialism' in the technically correct way that you've explained, If you just take it for what he meant though then I think his point still stands