skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of a claimed difference of "several orders of magnitude" (i.e. >1000x), a difference of 1-2x rounds down to 1.

If you follow the citations for that Wikipedia claim (a very very basic step) you will see that they don't provide any evidence for an order of magnitudes difference.

I'm not usually in the habit of shilling for Big Pharma, but since you've taken such a condescending tone I'll make an exception and point out that according to that exact Wikipedia article you linked, literally the same paragraph on the topic mentions that the majority of marketing spending is on free samples. Unless you think that drug companies should raise their prices in order to fund more R&D (which would have the same effect as reducing free samples) this doesn't seem very objectionable.
Strategy? You're a bit paranoid are ye? I'm from Ireland and have never set, nor would I want to set, foot in Shamerica. f'n gun nuts who hate immigrants despite themselves being founded on the genocide of the original people on the land. I feel sorry for the people in your country who aren't thick as two planks.
You've got this entirely backwards. E-Bikes are an enabling factor for overweight people to start using bikes more. I know because I am one, my BMI is 33 and it's one of the main driving factors behind my decision to acquire an e-bike in 2018. (Another driving factor is the fact that my commute home involves an elevation gain of ~550ft, which would be tough even if I was not obese. I had been a bike commuter when I lived in the Bay Area but after moving to Portland I had a longer commute with more hills and I couldn't make it work with my old bike.)

The biggest barriers to people in the US riding bikes more are having enough safe bicycling infrastructure to make trips feasible without having to go too far out of their way for a safe trip and having secure parking at their destination. These are solvable problems if we have the will to do so.

I admit I'm lucky, I live in Portland where we have a pretty good greenway network -- I encounter very few cars on my commute -- and I work at Oregon Health & Science University, so I get to park my bike at the largest bicycle parking lot in North America before I hop on the Portland Aerial Tram for the last leg of my commute. Plus I get a commute incentive of $1.50 every day I ride. OHSU does have unique incentives to limit employee driving -- the city limits how much employee parking we have, so spots are limited. Daily parking passes are expensive and sell out quickly; you can expect to wait at least seven years for a permanent parking pass. The bus takes 20-40 minutes longer than my bike ride depending on transfer connection timing. The e-bike is my best commute option, hands down. Even in the rain, it's far more enjoyable.

I'm actually on my second e-bike; my first one was my old bike converted with a GeoOrbital Wheel. That was great until it started malfunctioning, and it was the second time I sent it back to the company for service that I decided to invest in a new e-bike with a larger battery and more range. Now I not only commute by bike, I've acquired a cheap cargo trailer so I can do my grocery shopping, I ride it to therapy appointments, and I even rode it to a Trail Blazers game once (we have a set of secure BikeLink lockers at the Rose Quarter Transit Center, which I first used in the Bay Area and something Portland needs more of). Portland's climate means I can ride nearly year-round; I won't ride when the streets are icy but that's pretty rare around here.

I am really, really close to being car-free and my e-bike is the reason why. I recommend everyone try riding one at least once.
First would be that my app is completely free. Even the dark mode is free on a per session basis.

I also prefer my way of swiping to upvote/downvote/favorite content. There's also a ton of customizations in my app - from accent color to fonts, compactness, padding, font size etc!
if the logs are only a few GB you can still write to files and fgrep.
What do you do for fun? How would you feel if someone ruined it for you, and you had absolutely no recourse?
Seriously.

The risk adjusted return on whatever that crazy contraption is is almost certainly negative, and probably incalculably so.

The idea that any sane financial instrument could increase its return by two points by the holders of it voting to do so is... I haven't the words.
Be it space or submarine habitats, at some point it has to make sense to have some workers who are adapted to hypoxic situations, if only for emergency work. You go to work, you have kids, the kids fall in love, you have grandkids that might have one, both, or neither of the genes. A few more mingled generations and a little selective pressure here and there and soon you have specialists with two copies of the genes.

I think it's plausible for things to play out something like this, a bit different from Kim Stanley Robinson's predictions in a few critical ways:

You have a group of people on Mars who can survive and reproduce in cheaper habitats than everyone else, eventually they'd realize they could sod off and do their own thing. Lower barrier to entry maybe overcomes economic and political pressure, and pretty soon they outnumber everybody else. Your first group that refer to themselves as ethnic 'Martians': Tall, dark skinned, barrel chested (because of the air) individuals who speak a pidgin of English, Amharic, Quechua, and a handful of Tibetan words, and don't answer to Earth.

They are the first people who can walk the terraformed surface without equipment, and they explode out onto the surface. A fresh wave of earthlings from above 10,000 feet arrive and bolster the numbers and gene pool. As terraforming continues, a second wave inundates the First Peoples with many immigrants who swarm to the lowlands. There is a comedian who does an entire monologue on the crazy customs of the New Coloradans, and how they never seem to get along with the New New Mexicans (which leads to 3 full minutes of material on why the hell they called it New New Mexico). For her second tour, she asks why so many Mormons are there. This trickle never really slows down, and Albuquerque and El Paso become a kind of continuous concierge service where people come to live for a year, and then either go home or to the space port to fly to Mars (people who go through Albuquerque have better outcomes, but El Paso competes on price).

Eventually a third wave brings people from everywhere, and the 'Old Ways' find themselves in the highlands at first, and on the slopes of Olympus Mons later, where no amount of terraforming will ever create a popular destination for lowlanders or Earthers.
It would.
But not 100%. Same with skylights, depending on the depth and density some sunlight still makes it
* $200/yr
Anonymity is not a fundamental human right. Rather it’s a tool that should be available in extreme circumstances. Totally anonymous systems generally devolve over time. Nothing about crypto is inherently anonymous. Bitcoin was never meant to be anonymous. There’s a public ledger... Crypto a la Bitcoin is fundamentally about building distributed consensus. Secure distributed consensus requires strong identity. Whether it’s easy to tie a crypto identity to a social one is simply a matter of time and not a fundamental principle of these systems (except maybe Monero). Behavior can always be analyzed.
7. Please, PLEASE, PLEEEEAAAAASE be right.

We early millenials (1982-84) were promised both utopia and dystopia and I've yet to see the flying cars so I'll settle for good enough VR.
One big difference post-Patreon is that I no longer think "my small regular contribution is just going to get chewed up in transaction fees", since Patreon does just one transaction a month and then divides it up among several people/organizations that I support.

But, it would not be my first business model to try, just an alternative to "we built it but now let's just shut it off".
You are wrong. The single payer in Canada is each province's respective health insurance plan. Anything listed on their "schedule of benefits" can only be paid for by the province.

Providers are actually in many cases like contractors... most family doctors, for example, bill for services rendered and are otherwise free agents (unlike in the UK).
If you go into a Fry’s the mystery isn’t whether they are in trouble but rather how they didn’t go out of business 20 years ago.
On Developing and Marketing Slack Bots While Working at Amazon
Same day appointments, booked via usable app or website. Doctors who took their time with you. No waiting after you show up at the right time. I could go on.
The complete functioning of the MakerDAO system is publicly documented here [1] and here [2]. Feel free to peruse the documentation and point out which parts seem unbelievable. The system is currently live and I hold a Dai Savings Account and can attest I've been paid according to the system's documentation.

[1] https://community-development.makerdao.com/makerdao-mcd-faqs

[2] https://docs.makerdao.com/
Can you share a picture of this issue? I am not familiar with this bug. I can test it out then and fix it if my app faces it too.
From my observations of working as a developer for a long time, it seems the majority of developers can be classified in two groups. One group will really advocate for adding lots of features to a language. They are also the ones who don't mind or even seek out constant change for the sake of change. They like the new and shiny, and don't care that much about anything else. They want to rewrite code even if it is perfectly working and the problem it solves does not change, just to make it more "modern". They don't think anything of burdening everyone else with the additional complexity added by their demands, as long as it makes their specific use-case easier. Their attitude can be summed up as "it's not my problem".

On the other hand, the other group values stability and not feature proliferation. They don't want to have a constantly changing foundation, but something stable they can build on. They want a small language which they can more easily master and then use to solve problems with. They think code should not ever need to change again as long as the problem it solves is the same. Their attitude can be summed up as "do what you can with what you have."

The C++ and a lot of newer programming languages (especially web stuff) seem to mainly be composed of people from the former group, which is much larger than the latter, but I think we really need more of the latter group in a lot of the tech industry. My go-to language is still C89 and I don't need anything more, because it gets the job done and it's simple enough to be very portable.
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- Self driving cars will have a subset of roads that they are allowed to take since they can't perform well enough generally yet. They will be 100% allowed on highways, with trucking/bussing without a driver being very common.

- VR/AR becomes common (though still not surpassing cellphones), the killer app begins not for consumer use but for business use. Apple comes out of nowhere to kick this off.

- Most people's personal computers live in the cloud by 2030. Local storage and powerful CPUs become uncommon.

- AI overtaking jobs continues, but not exponentially. It's clear it's a big problem, but it's a slow enough burn that nothing's done about it by the end of 2030.

- The climate change conversation doesn't change. It's less bad than alarmists think and not the biggest problem the world faces yet.

- Genetic engineering moves faster than people think it will. China gains a huge lead and it becomes available commercially to parents there by the end of 2030.

- Someone will gain fame by livestreaming their entire life via AR.

- Digital tech continues to lead but Biotech gets much closer and it is clear that it will overtake digital tech stocks in the following decade.

- The trend of children/people spending less time out of their homes continues. Many businesses start moving into people's homes (i.e. Home workouts instead of gyms. Home medical care instead of doctors offices).

- A bunch of key cancers will be able to be strongly mitigated, like aids is now. Some are still death sentences.

- Cryptocurrency continues to be niche.

- No WWIII.

- Movement into cities continues. Property prices continue to rise.

- Deepfaked actors in movies become a significant percentage of films.

- Serverless wins wholesale. AWS not only continues to succeed but grows in influence.

- Javascript is on the decline by 2030.

- Sports move to streaming, which is the last death blow to cable. It's effectively dead by 2030.
Yes, but every bitcoin is divided into 100000000 satoshis, and it's possible to add even smaller units in the future.
They get a few things right, mostly in terms of practice management and pseudo-vertical-integration that make the experience far nicer than a traditional doctor's office. It's nothing world-shattering, but 99%+ on-time appointment starts is a big deal.

Their online platform is very UX-focused. The app is nice and easy to use, and makes things like firing off a quick message to your PCP for an Rx refill super super simple. My old primary care doc had nothing of the sort. It was the old 1990s way of doing things. Try to get scheduled... by phone... a month out... for a refill of a skin cream I've used for 20 years. I get that they want me in yearly, but that's inconvenient and annoying.

OneMedical's practice management/online tool for patients makes scheduling dirt simple. Their offices are REALLY nice. It's a little touch, but it's trying to raise the bar on that. And they offer their own teladoc services as well, which are then obviously integrated into their EHR for your PCP services, so everyone is on the same page.

OneMedical tries to combine PCP with some urgent care services, so they have a same day component, as well as some specialty services.

Just a lot of small but meaningful ways in which they're better than a traditional PCP office. They're also apparently offering practice management and holiday support for existing practitioners, which is interesting from the perspective of the S-1. If their EHR/PMS software is as nice as their app, I imagine that's a welcome change.
justinzollars said that there is no possibility of a political crisis because it is a well-controlled authoritarian country, and then afterburner present some reasons why the government is afraid of one, and then I supported afterburners view.

Your comment diverts the discussion away from this very important issue, which I assume was your intention.
Isn't that kind of the same thing? Adversarial examples work by matching what the neural net 'remembers' about the target classification, rather than being a picture of a thing in that class. Neural nets just find different features salient .

I've wondered in the past if we could use black box adversarial methods with Mechanical Turk to generate adversarial examples that work on humans. Maybe they'd end up looking like cartoons?

(Also agreed, some cartoon animals are just informed likeness - for instance Goofy doesn't look anything like a dog, at least to me.)
60% interested but concerned is not even close to enough, there are significant entrenched views (car culture) and lobbies(AARP, Big oil) who will make this very difficult/impossible. Also how many Americans are “interested” in being fit, or following a diet to lose weight. Interest means little in the face of a routine that requires substantially more effort. And yes, riding an eBike is substantially more effort than hopping into a climate controlled automobile.

>engineering

The US has so much infrastructure debt it’s crazy. Our bridges are falling apart, I don’t see bicycle infrastructure being a priority any time soon. The spice must flow and so semi-trucks must be made roads to drive on. Also a Billion dollars is chump change in California infrastructure terms. The upgraded eastern span of the bay bridge was 6.5 Billion, and required no land acquisition. I try not to think about the HSR boondoggle.

>education

I don’t see this being realistic at all. AARP will fight any sort of further drivers-ed, and the US already has very lax driving standards. Even in California people resent cyclists.

>enforcement

How does this mesh with (5)equitable? Being able to bike to work is super privileged. It means you have a job where arriving tired and sweaty is okay. It means you have time and energy to bike to and from work, the average US commute is something like 16 miles. It also means you are financially secure enough that you don’t need a backup place to sleep just in case, and you have adequate healthcare as biking is obsentsibly more (especially at fault) injury prone than driving. Enforcement primarily on cars would be a covert regressive income tax.

>equitable

How are we going to restructure the US to make biking equitable? Most of the wealth is concentrated in a dozen or so urban areas. Is the solution for middle class people to sell their house in the burbs so they can rent in the city so they can ride an ebike to work? such equity.
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Then don't buy it! If the product is known to be defective, resist the marketing and be a savvy consumer who doesn't buy products known to be faulty!
Oh no, I'm not asking to "keep politics out of it". The politics are most definitely part of it, but like everything else, they very narrowly specify the politics: "Code must be free. If you have a binary, you should have the right to edit it.". That's a really wise political angle and I'm grateful for all the people who made it possible.

But it doesn't take a position on abortion or immigration or anything and I prefer it that way.

To be clear, I recognize the right for free people to protest companies. I recognize the right for employees to protest their employers' dealings with companies.
You could also use a regular bike by moving closer to work.
I've been biking for nearly 9 years to work, church, dentist, and the dr's office. They are all within a 3 mile radius.
It's highly addictive, and a great form of exercise.

It's my understanding that the toxins produced from mining the minerals for batteries, and recycling them isn't great for the environment.

I'm still interested in an e-bike though, or adding a motor to a bike for the days where everyone else's pollution causes an inversion, and I can't breathe too well.
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I have the same question. Especially since the site is extremely vague about the value of their service. I'd pay $200 a year to never face a surprise medical bill, for example, but it is otherwise unclear what the big advantage is for someone healthy.
> I should have answered my pain level was 10 instead of being truthful about it and responding 3.

This is why we can't have nice things.
> I’ve never seen insurmountable technical debt grind business to a halt. Not once.

I’ve seen this happen more then once. The best and brightest tire of the crap and leave to go do other things; and those who stay erode the culture into a cesspool of negativity. Sure the business trods along for a while but often the products just enter a phase of slow death and irrelevancy. At some point there’s some kind of private equity acquisition or transaction which just temporarily delays the inevitable.

To be clear, I’m not arguing for “strict requirements”. Just that the professional engineer is who needs to distill the chaos into clear and ready action. And, that “just ship it” can sometimes come with cost.

These articles usually come across as flippant. They are written from a small business or early phase/unproven startup point of view. Sure, don’t waste all your time tweaking tools, but at the same time, make sure you’re not shooting yourself in the foot because of the 50 kludges put in place that overlooked security or performance considerations.

I guess this is just a way of saying “there is no silver bullet”. “Just ship it” doesn’t always work.
Yep. I went on a Saturday afternoon in the summer of 2019 to buy a power supply. They had a poor selection in general, and didn't have a full or partially modular PS in stock at all.

Went to Microcenter later that day. Moderately busy store, fully stocked shelves, and a decently knowledgeable staff.

I also just bought an open-box video card there last weekend, which ended up saving me another $35 USD. I like having the option to just return it to the store if there is a problem, I'm a little more worried about doing this via an online retailer.
Or like a lot of GPs, she just prescribes whatever medication is top of mind after the last visit from the friendly pharma sales rep.
The ABI used to change with every compiler rev.

That's only because they changed the standard library. The ABI itself didn't change much if at all, I believe you can still get the latest compiler to link with the far more compatible MSVCRT.DLL that's been there since the first Win32 OS (Win95).
I can easily believe it. I believe there was another famous pre-crypto version of this run by a guy... Madoff or something? I wonder how that's going today.
And what does it show? I just see giant data sets.
>Olaf Carlson-Wee and Balaji Srinivasan estimate that at a price of $200,000 per Bitcoin, more than half the world’s billionaires will be from cryptocurrency

This misses a key piece of information. They take the price as an an assumption for their argument, but that is insufficient to draw this conclusion. When Bitcoin reaches $200,000 is also a factor.

The worlds existing billionaires will not sit still. If it takes 70 years then it would be pretty easy to make better money elsewhere. I have no idea if or when it will happen. I'm inclined to think on average it will increase at a decreasing rate.
>Except for light financial crime (ransomware, money laundering, gambling, theft, etc), it has no demonstrated advantage over alternative technologies.

I know this is a crime, but it's not a financial crime: cryptocurrency has HUGE advantages over alternative tech for buying drugs online.
The first year was year 1, not 0.
So the new decade begins next year in 2021
Personally I would avoid locking a helmet up like that.

Expanded foam helmets are fragile by design. They are design to be disposable with even small knocks. So even accidentally banging them against your frame, dlock or solid post is a bad idea even if you can’t visibly see any damage.

You’re recommended to replace them at regular intervals also due to sweat damage.
Finding a doctor is hard...
I’ll post mine since I started the topic.
I sold a couple pictures of my travel this year. Got a few hundred bucks out of it. I’m pretty happy about it since the goal wasn’t to make money out of it.
Ah yes, the very classic "you're making me act this way u big meanie" response.

I notice you didn't want to correct the original OP on his misleading claim. Is there a reason you were shilling for Big Pharma before my post hurt your feelings?

>which would have the same effect as reducing free samples

Where do you even get this idea from?