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It boggles the mind that there was absolutely no mention of COVID-19 preparedness at the recent Democratic debates

Maybe you were in the kitchen getting a beer when it happened, but I saw it.
Random quote from the above:
"The book’s misattribution of the CDC statement to the WHO will be corrected in the next edition. "
A starting salary of $110,000 per year was not unusual before the pharmacist glut. That's $55/hr.

The /r/pharmacy group on Reddit posts a lot on this and it seems like wages that are below $40/hr aren't atypical now.
You give “customers” way too much credit.
Hedge funds don't typically do leveraged buy outs.
UW CSE is ranked more than a few places higher than Harvard CS, it has the second highest ranking next to UCB CS.
Because 0 is the average temperature from 1961-1990.
is Brave paying the Internet Archive as part of this deal? surely this will increase load on the wayback machine.
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Yeah I never understood why Brave rewards only works in their own browser. Seems like they're kinda limiting their userbase with this all-or-nothing approach.
If you just want to get a quick answer on basic questions of the encoding, such as where to put the zero/one threshold, bits per second, how bits are encoded etc you can open up the file in audacity and zoom in on the wave form.
I’d be interested in this if I didn’t have to subscribe to the CoHE just to read the one article.
>Are there legitimate safety reasons these mundane diagnostics are so locked down?

Healthcare is not my area of expertise either, but my understanding is that the short answer to your question is yes.

For a longer introduction to the issues surrounding letting anyone get whatever diagnostics they want to pay for, this Medlife Crisis video that came out today seems appropriate:
https://youtu.be/yNzQ_sLGIuA
While I can't speak to the accuracy of the book criticized, science in general is riddled with similar problems. Follow the citation trail and you'll often find that a cited article doesn't say what was claimed or says something similar but not quite the same. Alternatively, you might see that the cited article does say what is claimed, but the evidence is weak.

When researchers talk about all of the "low hanging fruit" being taken, it seems to me that they're blind to all the nonsense that appears once you start following the citation trail. Maybe every topic has been touched, but even something that seems definitive in a review article could have major flaws when examined more closely.

I'm almost done a PhD in engineering, and this has been my experience at least. I try to "debunk" something in roughly half my publications now.

Edit: I don't mean to suggest that identifying many of these problems is easy, just that it's not done frequently enough. For example, if you're doing research in a particular field, you're probably basing it partly on previous review articles. Take a look at some primary sources in addition to that. This applies extra if you're writing a review article. Don't just mirror what some previous review articles say and cite some newer papers. Find some old but good papers that were missed by previous reviews. Check primary sources. Etc. This is the job of a someone writing a review in my view.
You can’t just hand out lifetime bans without strong evidence of clear rule violations. A lifetime ban is stripping literally hundreds of millions of dollars from players. There would be years of legal battles if MLB tried to do it. The only way to get strong evidence of who cheated and how they cheated is through interviews and the players wouldn’t interview without immunity.

MLB simply had no good options that would allow them to directly punish players.
I love watching esports but I don't have time to play them. I found your comments really insightful and would love to hear more.
Mostly agreed. I think everyone (including myself) was ready for a huge pop science book to be bad, and boosted the post based just on its title.

In defense of the post, Walker's called-out claim that "Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours...double[s] your risk of cancer" does seem pretty out there. Even if that correlation were well-established it would be hard to interpret.
Is there a technical article on this?

Also, drivers? o-O
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I don’t see how this post can be seen to be nitpicking.
Many of the points are that there is zero evidence to back up the authors claims, while using his scientific credentials as authority on the topic.

If the claims in this post are true, the author of “Why we Sleep” has behaved appallingly IMO.
Came here to post the same.. The "web" option isn't much assistance in this case either. Google preview showed a paragraph but led to the same paywall as before.
At this point I might do it for greenfield work.
Disrespectfully, for someone that harps on about the main thesis, you fail to ascertain the blog author's main point:

Matt Walker is lacking integrity. Despite his Ivy League status, despite his PhD and numerous accomplishments, and despite all his prestige and educational attainment, he's still a high-quality conman.

That's the point. He twisted facts to sell a book and abused his position of authority to mislead others for money.
I've just began to learn ES5 and ES6. I've compiled a small list of JS quirks, things that I'd take for granted because they're well stablished in other high level programming languages. For instance, 'for/in' picks the keys instead of the values of either array or dictionary ( object in JS terms I think), dictionary doesn't have a keys 'method' but you can call Object.keys for that functionality, arrays are key/value indexed, so array['a']=1 is valid, and so on. I've lost a little while just laughing when I learned about how ES5 does OO.

JS oftentimes reminds of Apple: there's the industry standard or some already well stablished way of doing things, and they go like "Well, flip it. We're doing our own way, just because".
Something to consider: replacing 'jury' with 'jug' (or some other one-syllabic phoneme) might increase overall efficiency, even if one or two combinations need a slight pause.
>For example on Linux you could do this with running a localhost instance of unbound

Not seeing _distributions_ there
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Mostly, the Fox deal killed it— ironically during his investigation to run. That’s the story I’ve heard him tell at least. Maybe that was Murdochs way of keeping him out?
Ember just got a facelift with Octane, and they’re open source & have a good community for support.
Their value is very similar to that offered by Ivy League schools - prestige. The journals have the reputation for only publishing the highest quality, high impact papers. They act a filter.

Getting a paper in Nature will help you get tenure or win you that grant you need. Publishing in a no name journal is barely better than not publishing at all.

Because these journals are so prestigious, they can charge a lot for access. Every top school will buy access because it would be embarrassing if they didn't.

There is nothing stopping researchers from publishing in their favorite open access journal. In fact, they'd probably have a better chance of getting it published. However, they don't want to - those journals aren't prestigious enough. And without enough prestigious papers, they'll never make tenure.
I don't do fasts, but I can attest to hunger pains disappearing after a couple of days, and the fact most of it is mental.

I went from a 3000 calorie/day diet to a 1000 calorie/day diet for 8 months several years back. A few years after that, I once went 4 full days without food (it sucked, but I was mentally prepared due to my experience from that 3k to 1k diet change).

The change in energy will mess with your head/body for about a week until you get used to it.

Edit: People keep downvoting the parent, but I'm not sure why, just because the information comes from someone who does "fasts"?
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I flagged this post after reading comments at the bottom and in my experience, the reason why you see less political posts from india on the front page is mostly due to the demography of the site and guidelines. Indian posts always have little activity with or without political element and for few political threads that do get some activity, lot of uninformed opinions posted within a few minutes. People just aren't interested outside of HN too, I don't think the IT cell mob will come in private political forums/guilds.

I might also point out indian news sites are horrible with tracking, adverts and UI/UX. A blog post from someone on hn about mac revealed that an average HNer spent very little time on the site compared to other places. So that might skew things further outside of international sites.

Secondly, I can see who you might be referring to as modi apologist, I also see similar attack from the opposite spectrum. Either doesn't seem healthy and should be kept somewhere else.

1.34 billion people are a lot. That's 3x the size of US. We have greater inequality and varying standard of living resulting in highly different or counterproductive expectations from the system.

A farmer getting by barely with not much need for hyper internet connectivity may not see the implications of laws that deteriorate freedom/privacy online. They are in different hierarchy of human needs than someone living in urban area with a lot of solved problems and some artificially created as a consequences.

One want more roads, the other want more greenery.

One want availability and affordability, the other want quality.

There are highly controversial laws passed such as the act to give less qualified people the same authority of a doctor so they can treat patients and there were some consequences to it of course but it happened because someone wanted it or at least thought it was a good idea than nothing. I have met a couples like that and know personally.

Becoming condescending, calling everything propaganda or blindness because you don't agree with it or think it's fine is a good way to cause hurdles in leading to a compromise.

What you see online isn't representative of most things. People won't mention about a product/service they don't face any problem with, they mention about things they face problem with or have had a horrible experience most of the time. It's easy to say nothing than a thank you. We ought to do it more but we don't. The specific indian culture I have lived in doesn't encourage that and sometimes even discourage thanking people because it's their job or things should be like that encouraging people to share views in negative light more.

This isn't specific to india either but we have a tad bit more pressure to live within segregated communities directly or indirectly. Marrying into the same caste, income bracket or status quo. Interacting with people from the same checks only.

I would recommend working for upping the quality of life for everyone and things will stablize on their own but in the meantime, calling people modi apologist will give you a knee jerk reaction from otherwise people who may listen.
>I have many stories of people who slept well on less than eight hours of sleep, read Walker’s book, tried to get more sleep and this led to more time awake, frustration, worry, sleep-related anxiety, and insomnia.

This is me. I get at most 7 hours, usually 6. I only feel impaired if I drop down to 4.

Reading about Matthew Walker's research years ago caused much anxiety and a loss of sleep, how ironic.
It only applies as a temporary treatment for a small subset of people with a severe condition.
I don't really agree with the article to any extreme, but imo, its a really useful pedagogical tool to "follow the types". The book "functional programming in Scala" uses it a lot, and it really is easy to do in some cases. Like implementing map or flatmap is really demystified by looking at the type signature first and then realizing, given how abstract it is, that there aren't really meaningful alternative implementations for the type signature.

In a more general sense, by utilizing nominal types and defensive programming, you can get a lot of mileage by making there one obvious way to do something. A canonical example being a validation function that takes User and returns ValidUser. If theres only a single function in your codebase that can do that transformation, you can actually use a (debatably simpler) principle of following the types to guide implementation, and in fact, actively prevent the wrong implementation from being written in the first place.

These things are certainly possible to varying degrees with dynamically typed languages, or statically typed OOP languages, but Ive never encountered a paradigm that makes representing invalid program states impossible to the degree that statically typed FP makes possible.
> Every 4 (or 8) years a new President is elected and they replace the entire cabinet.

I'm talking about the voters. You can't fire the chunk of voters that didn't vote for you.

I guarantee a lot of blue states would like to fire the red states who consume their tax money disproportionately.

However, we don't allow that because we are the United States of America and not the United States of People Who Agree With You.
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You are just advancing my point. I agree with what you say, but my point is that what is taunted as egalitarian fair system - “once you are in, it’s easy to transfer, just click the Transfer button” in reality doesn’t work like this at all.
Some of the points feel a little bit pedantic (or even semantic?).
"Iraj Harirchi was sweating profusely at a news conference before testing positive for coronavirus disease"

It is a little worrying when an MP who is partly responsible for the health system attends press conferences when feeling sick.

Here in NZ we have posters up all over the place, especially government and educational buildings, saying if you are sick with the virus symptoms let a health professional know and stay away from other people.

We have no known cases but strong trading links with China.
The issue with the title is the word "firms". It's like you have cancer and you're explaining that the root of the problem is your heart muscle and how it enables blood flow to the tumors. It's not exactly that it's false, but...
I don’t know much about the city water system, is there a likely scenario where the water shuts off due to coronavirus?

It’s a much different situation than an earthquake, nothing is going to damage the water lines in this case. Does the water grid require a lot of active maintenance on a daily basis that it’s at risk of shutting off if there are a few weeks where nobody is working?
It still happens, except now the recompilation is done before the reboot for the upgrade, so that it doesn't create a massive downtime for upgrades. But if you manually upgrade, you can still see one (very long) step called "Optimizing Apps".
It's also quite jarring to come across a paper on a niche topic (e.g a specific hormone's effects on certain biological processes), that completely botches simple, fundamental and accepted facts in your field; facts that the main thesis relies on.

It's absolutely silly and I find myself finding little of use in the author's conclusions, or their observations. After spending way too much time parsing through endless research papers, the only things I pay attention anymore are methodology and data.

This tells me: is the data relevant to my work? And was the data collected "properly" (I swear, half the time the researchers half-ass methodology that the results are fairly worthless)
I keep seeing this defence of Walker that amounts to, "Yeah, so what he's bloviating. What's the harm in recommending more sleep?"

But there is a lot of harm in recommending more sleep. If someone only needs 6-7 hours but keeps trying to force 8-9, they're going to have all sorts of trouble.

I personally have an issue with a drifting circadian rhythm that makes it impossible to go to sleep at the same time every day if I sleep a full 8-9 hours a night. The cumulative effects of this gives me very poor quality sleep and negatively affects my social life. Changing to sleeping only 7-8 hours addresses this, and I've been testing the cognitive effects of this change to see there aren't any.

I think Walker's overall message is important, but the numerous fabrications and massaging of data he's committed to convey that message is bad science. If you tell a lie (2/3 of people are sleep deprived, if you sleep less than 8 hours you're killing yourself) to dispel another lie (you don't need more than 6 hours sleep, keep hustling and chugging 5 coffees a day), you aren't actually making things better. You're just replacing one problem with another.
> "Rules make sports."

The Houston Astros: It's news to me.
It’s funny because the Chinese apparently thought it was the Arabs that had elderly willing to submit themselves to mellificetion, so it would seem Ibn Battuta discovered that what he was looking for had been back home the whole time.
Even if you accept technology will be part of their lives, it doesn't follow that any addition of technology in the classroom is good.

How much rigor should we ask of evidence showing it's bad? Does the evidence showing it's good clear that bar?
This is a nice resource - I wrote one myself as well which is mostly based on the series by 3Blue1Brown, as well as other resources which I found useful and which used a visual approach to introducing linear algebra.

You can find my guide here:

https://github.com/photonlines/Intuitive-Overview-of-Linear-...
Good catch on that bug! I'll fix that.

Beyond that, that file is just a simple example for showing how to work with the toolchain and the sandbox.
Hydrogen and carbon aren't qualitatively something that can only come from fossil fuel. The present use is entirely about the quantity needed and the relative price.
I empathize with people who are trying to help by reducing their footprint. Though I fear it'll all be in vain when a machine is invented that can suck a lifetime's worth of frugality out of the air in a fraction of a second.
I got a strong motivated reasoning/bullshit vibe from Walker in this interview: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630792401/sleep-scientist-war...

Particularly this section:

> “Sleep is not like the bank. So you can't accumulate debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. And the reason is this - we know that if I were to deprive you of sleep for an entire night - take away eight hours - and then in the subsequent nights, I give you all of the sleep that you want - however much you wish to consume - you never get back all that you lost. You will sleep longer, but you will never achieve that full eight-hour repayment as it were. So the brain has no capacity to get back that lost sleep...”

I don’t think this follows - seems likely to me that sleep is not some linear time thing and that there’s a standard overhead that doesn’t need to be repeated to extend and make up the time. This feels like a symptom of not understanding the mechanism and making a bad assumption.

I also found the “I won’t mention the cognitive failures I can detect” irritating. If there’s some actual thing to mention, say it - this kind of thing sets off alarms for me.

It doesn’t surprise me that the rest is similarly bad, I’m glad someone dug into it.
TMA aren't just sports, they call themselves martial arts. Emphasis on martial, relating to war. You would expect something calling itself a martial art be useful in a fight, but MMA is much more effective in self defense than TMA because they focus on actual combat in the ring instead of showy but unproven katas.

TBF, MMA has rules that don't apply to bar fights, and knowing how to use a firearm fits closer a martial art that would let you survive on a modern battlefield. Or practicing squad tactics on an airsoft field. Perhaps TMA weapons training would qualify as a martial art in the days before firearms when armies fought with sword and spear, but it shouldn't continue calling itself anything to do with martial in this day and age. Historical dance or reenactment maybe, along the lines of renaissance fair and civil war battle reenactors.
It's not unheard of for airlines to discriminate based on age (which is what I thing you're saying here). An acquaintance of mine was part of a lawsuit about this very thing in Australia in the early 2000s - https://www.theage.com.au/business/virgin-blue-loses-age-dis...
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