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The views in my comments are no more reductionist than the parent comment I was replying to. I would also suggest that rejecting psychological egoism as reductionist is a rather blatant anti-science point of view.

However whether reciprocity was involved doesn’t at all change the existence of a self-interested motive. It’s simply irrelevant.

Furthermore, in this case there was reciprocity. In this instance the big corporate interests were selling a product for which doctors had a demand to treat their patients. You’re welcome to have an opinion about the integrity and value of that reciprocity, but that goes for anybody in regards to any relationship. A cynical person could come to that conclusion about any relationship, and offer you a justification for it supported entirely by a leading thesis from the field of ethics.
> which they were merely in the right place at the right time and such.

If you are successful several times against the odds it's probably not just mere coincidence anymore. You know, stats.
I never got yelled at in consulting, and honestly if the client is upset that’s the partner’s fault. Most of the time there wasn’t a lot of pushback because the partner knew what the client cared about. The exception was PE firms who would push back on certain assumptions.
The point is, obviously, to fight global warming. By importing additional oxygen from the moon, we dilute our CO2.
Oh! I listened to Scott Hanselman interview one of the authors of this paper on his podcast the other day. It might interest some of you as she explains it all in a very accessible way: https://www.hanselminutes.com/763/tldr-extreme-summarization...
It's spot-on because the NYT told them ahead of time about the claims they were going to make, in the process of fact-checking those claims and offering Coinbase an opportunity to provide quotes to rebut them in the article, which opportunity Coinbase availed itself of.
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>Being skeptical of the conventional wisdom can be useful, but keeping yourself intentionally ignorant of it is generally a bad plan.

Yes, I agree with this. It follows along the lines of the saying: You must learn the rules before you can break them. With that said, I have seen many 1st year graduate students spend weeks/months going through the literature only to come up with project ideas that are close derivatives of published works. This usually happens because a student put too much focus on absorbing the "conventional wisdom" of the field rather than starting with a question and seeing what research has already been done to address it.

However, there are plenty of scientists who disagree with this sentiment. I had a colleague who would quote Feynman, "I never pay any attention to anything by experts. I calculate everything myself." Maybe that works if you are Feynman, but I seem to recall John Preskill saying that he didn't think this mentality served Feynman well, at least in his later years.
A solitary, rehydrating beer or two after an intense game of pick up basketball is one of the finer things in life. Otherwise I'm ok with your list :)
It isn't just 1kg difference overall. This bike weighs less than half of most electric bikes, comparable to an entry level road bike. ~8lbs less than a similarly priced lightweight electric bike with an aluminum frame(Specialized Turbo Vado SL), or a modern non electric commuter bike with fenders and a basket. There are some other carbon fiber ebikes, but they tend to be much more expensive and also are usually heavier(but with a longer battery range)

It isn't just about carrying it up the stairs to your apartment, it is the stairs taking the subway and getting off, getting on and off buses, going up and down stairs for parking garages when you get where you are going, the battery lasting a little longer overall, taking hills and accelerating a little faster. Especially for someone who is not a typical fit cyclist, the weight difference can be a the difference between this and not cycling at all.

For relatively short trips, mixing with public transit an electric kick scooter is a competitive option, cheaper, comparable weight or lighter. Slower and less utility though
> I'm an engineer and a biker. If you only look at the numbers or try to run simplistic calculations, it's easy to think that bikers are just deluding themselves.

Bikes are all about diminishing returns.

If you spend $500, you get a bike that's probably twice as good as a $250 department store bike.

Spend $1000, and you get a bike that's half again as good as that $500 bike.

Drop 2 large and you get a bike that's 25% better than the $1k bike.

etc etc until you are paying $15,000 for a bike that's 0.5% better than a $10,000 bike.

We all find what part of the curve we want to participate in.

Personally, I think $4500 for a really nice looking eBike with some fantastic add-ons is a decent deal.
> Also, NYT has become heavily biased/activist type of journal. While they don't straight up lie, they often omit many important details in their story, in order to justify their conclusion.

That's also my experience with the media on the left. It's not straight-up fake news. But it's more misleading news. The infamous "women earn 78 cents for every dollar a man make". Which gives you the impression that a man and a woman both working at the same role doing the same work and woman makes 20% less than man. While in reality this is just an abject misrepresentation of the actual stat and weaponized for political gain. But unfortunately, this will not qualify as fake news.
> It would also have been a clever chemistry based approach to murder in a series that often showed off some bit of chemistry.

It wasn't Walter White doing the poisoning. The character whose plan it was was not a chemist; it would be out of character for him to solve his problems with esoteric chemistry.
HTMX encodes server interaction in hypertext rather than in Javascript. For those with intensive back-end logic and only light interface needs, HTMX offers a incremental way to add front-end interactivity without having to take the deep dive into Javascript frameworks. Longer term, the concept of encoding server interaction in hypertext seems rather novel to me. Perhaps this approach may be one of many missing pieces towards an ecosystem of interoperable hypertext-based web components?
Life can get better. Don't give up don't give into the bitterness.

What ever you're doing isn't working for you but you can change your situation. There is hope.
What’s wrong with the new 1x gearing? It’s pretty standard these days in mountain and gravel bikes. As long as the back cassette has a varied range you don’t lose too much gearing while getting the benefit of a simpler drive train, less maintenance and lower weight.
No, it’s more Purdue and McKinsey modeled the overdose rates based on market performance of OxyContin. Overdoses were a metric, provided for free by the county health departments, that was a proxy for sales performance.

It is a murder bonus; it proceduralized a public health crisis.
~10 years ago I was visiting the Bay Area (I live in EU), and developed knee pain (rather strong). I went to the emergency room in a city hospital, and long story short, I was given a prescription for paracetamol or ibuprofen and something called Norco, which is apparently some kind of opioid.

In the pharmacy (CVS i think), the pharmacist was calling somewhere to confirm the prescription and my identity and was trying to understand hard my foreign-issued driving license. After an hour of this identity verification circus, I left the pharmacy with this opioid drug and a pack of Paracetamol/Ibuprofen. Back in the hotel I read about it, and seeing something about opioids I threw it away (I guess, for no reason except that it sounded like it sounded like it's related to drugs) and treated myself with paracetamol (which worked). The experience in the hospital: 6h waiting and check-up straight in the reception room with 20 people watching, plus a doctor whose biggest concern was that I remember that his name is Lim and not Lime, plus being treated like a potential drug abuser in the pharmacy was a bit surreal.

After getting back to EU, the hospital and my international insurer started negotiating price for this 6h waiting and 10 min check-up and an xray. It started with 2000 USD, in the end they settled on 1000 USD or so. Fortunately, I didn't pay anything cause international insurance.

After a few years, when playing football in Switzerland, I stomped badly and sprained my ankle. I went to the local orthopedic clinic, where I was treated at once in doctor's office. Cost: 250 CHF (~250USD), xray included.
Maybe we just know what moon dust is made of and do experiments on the same material, which we can probably find on Earth.
I recall a story that used fish hooks, swallowed in pills that were supposedly medicine for stomach pains. There was a huge electromagnet under the bed that would be pulsed sometimes, yanking on all the fish hooks.
I wish this was a little bigger on mobile, I have fat fingers and struggled to navigate the demo
The author did type "Swift" but it applies to Obj-C also, obviously. I wouldn't discount the whole post because of that slip-up. The optimizations made to reference counting are more than "gossip". David Smith posted about this weeks ago also, if you need more reference/confirmation than that I'm not sure what to tell you.
Seriously, they have taken a real nose dive. I wonder if they still have MBAs competing for their jobs or if this has taken out the top level talent (and shipped it over to SV)
This is cool. I had been watching this guy on youtube who wears a mask in all his vids because he reports on cartels and wishes to not be murdered. It got me wondering if the new age Brian Krebs of YouTube would use something like this to maintain anonymity but still have a face the audience associates with them. The future is trippy.
> The FTL drive might get you to Proxmia Centauri in a couple of seconds. It's purely fictional so why set artificial limits?

It was just an arbitrary example. If we're in the realm of the purely fictional we can just as well forego FTL entirely and use teleportation instead - instant travel to anywhere, why not?
Over what time frame? A year? Sure. But three years? Five? Ten? It's simply not sustainable for 95% of people. And it's unrealistic to hold everyone else to the standard of that 5% who are 1) naturally hyper-productive or 2) have little else going on in their lives.

The cynic in me wonders if the attempt to turn overwork into a virtue is just to keep people busy enough that they don't stop to wonder what it's all for in the end. Somehow everyone seems to have forgotten that the economy should exist to serve people, not people serving the economy.
A little late to the party, but- MacOS has actually beaten FreeBSD to the punch by shipping with bsdgrep as grep for years at this point.

FreeBSD should be able to switch before 13.0, but the bsdgrep developer is a slacker. It's only missing a couple of GNU extensions that are somewhat surprisingly (to me) common.
I have an imposter! But friendly reminder that police are not your friends and you should not talk to the police unless it is absolutely necessary and even then stay tight lipped.

Figure I’ll add a story about being black and driving a nice car. One day I had a flat tire and pulled into a gas station after hours to change the tire. I didn’t have a lug wrench and the kid working in the store didn’t have one either. So I called triple A. With an obvious , and I mean my rim was sitting on the ground, flat tire. Mr big bad cop comes up and questions me about why I’m here. I explain the AAA situation. He asks for my license, I ask why, because there were robberies here and I’m a suspect because I’m parked here. I make a dramatic turn to the flat tire on my car. And ask him where I’m going to drive off to. He puts his hand on his holster and asks if there is a problem.

This is what happens more often than we realize and is the reason why my cars are no longer registered to me from a personal capacity, and why I have a dark tint on my windows. But more importantly it’s why people of color have an unfounded anxiety from simply driving a car. It’s a sad state of affairs but I am blessed that I can look back and laugh at the absurdity of the situation.

After he took my license guess who showed up? He quickly got out of his cruiser, walked over, gave me my license and peeled out. I said “you’re not even going to say good bye?” as he was waking away. The AAA driver, also a white man, had some choice words for the police and we bonded on that during the ride back to my house.
The failure mode of sarcasm is either asshole or idiot.

Generally speaking, it’s a high risk, low reward mode.
Group employee relocations are a big deal. You are leaving out the part where the stated rationale for that relo is to have the team all together in one place. Instead, the real rationale appears to have been to have all the Black employees all together in one place (or, just as pausibly, that the relo was in fact a soft RIF of that group of employees).
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This comment is too snarky for my taste but the main thrust of the message is spot on. When I've taken the time to ask black friends and black professionals in my industry about their experience, it's very clear that they deal with an extra level of complications and hardships compared to me.

And it's not "my one black friend was a victim of racism this one time." It's just generally harder to get a job. It's just generally harder to get promoted. It's just generally harder to be taken seriously relative to your white peers.

And that's why these responses from Coinbase are unsatisfying. Every company and every hiring process has elements of racism in it. We haven't escaped the biases that permeate our culture. There are companies that are aware of these biases and work hard to minimize their impact, and there are companies that stick their heads in the sand and say 'nope, no racism here! Find me actual proof!'.
HN is a glibertarian echo-chamber that has a severe problem tolerating any sociopolitical viewpoint that wouldn't be voiced by someone like Donald Trump.
> Now I have to figure out another way to deal with the bitterness of coffee other than my current 2 packets of stevia method.

Add a bit of salt to the grinds before you brew the coffee. Alternatively, try different coffee. I find lighter roasts taste better, and cheap coffee is just bad coffee. I used to take creamer in my coffee regularly, but since I've been buying better coffee, I've stopped buying creamer.
I think it's pretty easy to act outraged and say "somebody should be punished," and most people I know, and most politicians, do.

As for actually doing research, thinking about it, and bothering up to come up with a proposal... I guess nobody actually cares THAT much.
Start up bros are becoming generic this space is filling up with garbage as well.
Pharmacies have to handle the possibility that a patient is collecting multiple prescriptions from multiple doctors to get more quantities than they need or can safely have.
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I’m sorry, don’t want to ban other (especially qualified) viewpoints just because they are “likely wrong”.

To his point and yours, how does this compare to normal flu? I don’t know, I don’t see that example in your data. The problem as this highly qualified individual states it, is that they’re looking for a diagnosis and are changing the number of times amplification of the dna occurs over time.

Am I sure of his claims, no.

But either way, I appreciate hearing both view points. Having minored in bioengineering in school I can understand both arguments and make the determination myself... provided I have the info.
I played around with this on the demo page and found that while the generated "TLDR" are pretty good, they tend to generate sentences composed of fragments of existing sentences. Basically, it seems vaguely extractive in nature. Never did I see it summarize a concept in new words, or try to dumb down a complicated concept further than the original paper did. Given the results of GPT3 I would think that it should be possible to do much better by now, at least with enough data and compute time.
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I’m a big fan of reveal.js via reveal-md: https://github.com/webpro/reveal-md. Makes it very easy to quickly create good looking slides without clicking around GUIs.
Amazon's delivery network is built around pre-optimized multi-hour routes. Like DHL and others it's completely unsuited for restaurant delivery.
Have you seen the market for bikes nowadays? All the mid 50s and 60s men I know spend at least $5k on bikes, and own several, and change them out. As less young people bike, the market has shifted entirely to the high end.

I don't get it either though- if I wanted a moped, I'd just buy a Vespa.
From those actions alone you can't determine if Coinbase rejected George Floyd/BLM, or rejected all kinds of slogan chanting that the CEO was pressured to chant by strikes.

It was, after all the first time he was pressured that way.
> "TV idiot"

Much as I love James Burke, there is a rather funny parody of him from the old "Not The Nine O'Clock News" comedy series in the UK: https://youtu.be/82GUX_NA7AU?t=65
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Same! For instance, it never occurred to me that Black men have to be especially careful about expressing frustration, because white coworkers find any expression of anger from a Black man threatening. But that's what my neighbor, who also works in tech, told me: that he's basically never allowed to object as forcefully as white coworkers, because otherwise he'll get HR complaints.

There's probably a whole lot of shit like this that we just don't know, as a group, about.
I love these...
Though the short length is both a blessing and a bane. Just enough to peak your curiosity, but not long enough to really dig into something.
Go to Khan Academy's math section and do ALL exercises from grade one and onwards.
OP just said it seems [my words here:] not grounded in observations of their behavior, not some definitional impossibility.
> To any one who has not been there, it will be hard to understand the enormous relief of [the doctor’s] uncompromising verdict, lifting us out of the formless vague and setting us within the very heart of the sustaining concrete. One would naturally not choose such an ugly and gruesome method of progression down the dark Valley of the Shadow of Death, and of course many of the moral sinews will snap by the way, but we shall gird up our loins and the blessed peace of the end will have no shadow cast upon it.

An excellent illustration of why people, once diagnosed, can become very attached to that diagnosis.
Yes, but I think the latest codec that canon uses in their newest cameras for 10 bit 8k raw are now supported. I'm not sure if it's hvac265 or something else
I think the way the author expands on it isn't too great, with questions like "How many hours were you working a week?" and "obsessed person". However, I do think there's sense in the general premise of "hire people who care about what they do", but this doesn't need to translate to "work your ass off".

A lot of the time when I see people produce really crap code it's because they just don't care. They show up for work and anything that meets the minimal standards is fine with them. There's no passion or interest in doing more than absolutely needed. This isn't about "hours worked", but about passion and trying to make whatever you're working on the best it can be. You can do that perfectly fine in just 40 hours/week.

But yeah, some people seem to conflate "passion" with "work your ass off for 60+ hours/week", and that's just silly.
I don't think bans are the answer, but see my other comment about how social networks end up generating the perfect bullshit and make it hard for scientists to go back on their theory and to realize whether they're wrong or not.

Bans don't solve the issue. We have to invent better social networks, where scientists can be free to theorize and be connected with their peers, without getting false awards (retweets, likes).

In general as humanity we also need to be more aware of the nature of social networks and how they don't always elevate the best content.

As for credentials, you have to realize that the mechanics of social networks are very good at finding and amplifying the few individuals with credentials that have something wrong (but interesting) to say. What you don't get to hear about are the dozens of reviews of that theory, also by experts, that show how its wrong. Because thats just not interesting for a retweet, and its kind of a downer, too.
> I go catch up on that other Web site that does over-the-top criticism of HN, so that I don't feel like the only one

Which is that, if you can share?
I understand that people feel threatened by accusations of racism, but we should subject those feelings to the same scrutiny that fear of vaccines, fear of blood transfusions, fears of child kidnapping, fear of having our child trafficked for sex, and various fears of violence are subjected to. If we look at data, we find that many of our fears are not calibrated to probability of occurrence or even to the expected value of the outcome -- they're instead calibrated to media coverage.

Two guys and a gal were fired after Donglegate. People's lives are being turned upside-down in many ways by social media, whether its discussion of justice issues or sex tapes or your dog or your toast going viral. Discriminatory behavior has long been documented in employment, housing sales and rentals, financial services, etc -- just today I was reading about the riots in Cicero in 1951, when a mob of thousands attacked an apartment building in Cicero, IL into which a black couple attempted to move -- and now some of this behavior is being caught on video, unsurprisingly.

Sure, you can be antagonistic, but as doctors have discovered with malpractice, it's actually more productive and more optimized on a financial level to be gracious. Doctors who are honest and express sympathy and empathy, with an apology [1], when things go poorly are far less likely to be sued for malpractice (more links in linked article). Similarly, when you'd done something that appears to someone else to be racist, why not simply apologize (even something like, "Sorry, that was not my intention!") and then try to do better, even ask how you can do better?

If you are committed to an ideology of white supremacy, then of course this doesn't make sense as a next move. But if you're a normal person who just does things that in retrospect do come across as thoughtless or uninformed, like asking your Asian-American colleague where they're really really from and complimenting them on their English, or telling your Black colleague that you're surprised at how articulate they are, or giving a nine-year-old female chess genius a doll when she just wants a chess set... why not just apologize and do better next time?

The world is made of imperfect people who are all gonna die anyway. Most likely no one will care about your reputation in 100 years, even your great-grandkids (I knew my great-grandparents and I only knew a bit about them). So use this time to actually do your part to make the world better -- why not? It will most likely make you feel better, feel you have more integrity, and you'll be happier.

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/you-had-me-i-m-sorry-im...