skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the authors of SPDK (which includes an NVMe driver and an IOAT driver). If the community wants to add rust bindings to those two components I'd be very supportive.
This seems to be a fairly balanced (and pretty long!) review of the evidence from Scott Alexander who is a psychiatrist (I believe) which comes down on the side that the balance of the evidence is that SSRIs do have an effect that can't be explained purely as active placebo: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...

Here's another 2014 article leaning the other way by Irving Kirsch, one of the more prominent researchers to question the evidence for anti depressant efficacy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/

In Anatomy of an Epidemic Robert Whitaker details many of the problems around the published studies that raise real concerns how bias free the remaining positive results of these studies might be. In addition, pretty much all of the discussion above is based around short term effects and perhaps the most worrying part of Whitaker's book for me is the suggestive evidence of devastating long term effects of many psychiatric drugs, SSRIs included.

Personally I think the bar should be rather higher for evidence of short term benefit for any drug than the 'optimistic' view of the evidence for SSRIs and especially in light of evidence of the drug making the condition it is supposed to treat significantly worse over the long term. Given that even proponents of SSRIs seem to accept that talk therapy is equally effective I know I'd rather take the drug and side effect free option but Scott Alexander gives a different take on that in his article, pointing out that drugs are much cheaper (and hence more profitable for both psychiatrists and drug companies as Whitaker points out in his book).
Congrats for choosing the solution with the least moving parts and rejecting premature optimization and over-engineering.
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There are a few projects that are trying to tackle the music industry copyright issues, mechanical rights distribution and also p2p distribution of Creative Common releases. They all look promising, but none have seem to catch on a network effect. Early days?
I think a better way to frame my argument is: look at the inflection points for each of the starting ages in the graph. 'at birth' has been going up since we have reliable data (1845). @20 has been going up since 1875. @60 has been going up since 1915. @75 has been going up since 1945. @85 only started to go up around 1980. @90/@95 look like they've only barely started to go up in the last decade. @100 and above are still completely flat.

100 years ago you could have looked at this data and just as easily said that there must be genetic/resource barriers to increasing life expectancy for 60-year-olds, since we've never been able to make a dent in their life expectancy -- at the time, the graph for @60 would still have been flat. Today that is obviously incorrect. The same thing could have been said 50 years ago for 80-year-olds, and again, that's now obviously incorrect.

It's entirely possible that your hypothesis is valid, but if I had to guess I would say mine is more likely. Put another way, it's possible that 50 years from now the graph will still be flat for 100-year-olds, but I see no fundamental reason why that should be true, and the data certainly suggests to me that it won't be. A good way to test this might be the following: Based on the rest of this graph, I would guess that a decade from now, we'll see noticeable acceleration in the @100 line. If we don't, that might suggest that there is some fundamental barrier, or at least some anomalously hard problems there.
It would appear that once again the music industry is at point of disruption - whether it's Imogen Heap's Mycelia project or the one mentioned in this article, something is coming!!
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Orwell was British. The use of 'to cut (a thing)' to mean 'to remove' comes from the American English vernacular. Though the lines are more blurred today, I suspect at the time this was written it would have been extremely odd for Orwell to use that phrasing. In British English, there's really not a shorter way to put that!
But sometimes, that do not realize what your stuff is. When I pass, will someone recognize that my VU/Warhol Banana poster is actually autographed by Lou Reed? Will they identify the Scotty Moore and Johnny Ramone autographs? The uniqueness of some of my guitars and my vinyl collection?

Some things have value only to myself, others if they know what the item really is. The best is to simply value memories and not possessions. But at least those guitars get played and the vinyl is appreciated right now.
The test is performed on a dead shark - a little sad that something so old is no longer with us.
Great Idea!
First off, great work. This is impressive stuff. You should definitely put up a page describing some of the technical details, this is hacker news after all and a lot of us would be interested.

I think you have something and here's why.

Awhile back I started to devise a new kind of advertisement system based on this same concept. My starting point was the research done by Kota Yamaguchi. http://vision.is.tohoku.ac.jp/~kyamagu/research/clothing_par...

Although most of that work was done in matlab, I was able to translate and extend the core ideas into something practical. In this type of domain, clothing segmentation and pose estimation is key.

I don't know how your images and data are set up, but with my software you could feed it a random facebook image, feed it some images of different types of clothing and the output would be that person wearing an entirely different outfit. Hopefully you can see how this can easily become a big business.

Anyways, I never released anything publicly because the distortion and displacement algorithms were never perfected (Albeit with hilarious results... Jeans became capris, shorts became miniskirts that kind of thing). Given the time I'd love to jump back into this.

In any case, I'm interested in the technical details and the approach you took.
Actually this compiles pretty easy.
It however only runs on the provided qemu. And actually without adding some user space tools you only can use kilo which is akward to handle under a MacOS terminal :(
But it's really really easy to setup and even integrate userspace programs. kind of extremly simple to do useful stuff on it.
osam!
True, contacting personally people and manually reviewing all the stories is not very scalable. But I believe that's probably the most "lean" way to startup a Startup or Side Project. You start doing things that don't scale then, if you have the luck of getting bigger, you should start automating as much as possible. Giving the response he received, I think this non-scalable start has been absolutely awesome.
Thanks for term - good to know it!
Isn't that just as bad as it getting seized though?

Is this 'Market Rate' the same 'Market Rate' you get reimbursed when you loose your place to civil forfeiture?
There are more invasive procedures that directly fix nearsightedness. Of course, they're riskier than glasses.
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I don't know if we're talking about the same guy and the same forum, but I remember a very similar story on a forum I used to frequent. The guy also had a plan for interplanetary spacecraft propulsion, that involved a weight moving to the back of the craft, being thrown towards the front of the craft where it's caught, and repeating the cycle.

The theory in his mind depended on there being a difference between the weight being 'thrown' and merely being 'moved and released' towards the front of the craft. It took a few patient techies, one of whom was a professional physicist, quite a while to explain that there was no physical difference between 'throw' and 'release'.

Nice bloke, but a classic example of 'not being able to talk the talk', as discussed in the article.
Aren't you describing the very popular Prius? And PHEV cars (and buses) seem to be a major new segment generally.
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>My last car had 150,000 miles on it, and needed around $3000 of engine work (timing chain, head gasket). The car was only worth around $4000, so I traded it in on a new car.

I don't understand this logic. You had to put up way more money to buy a new car. Unless you really want a new car, there is no cost justification for buying something brand new that will lose more than the value of your old car in less than a year.
Nicely done but claims like this:

>
Increase productivity 200% or more

are dodgy. Where did they get this number from?
This! It's a life changer! I use ClipMenu on mac.
I use `ssh -R` to my VPS with public IP. It's possible to forward any protocol with this option, HTTP, RDP, etc.
It runs on some Broadwell and Skylake hardware. Docs are coming for http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/switchalpha12.
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Wow are you seriously comparing mri with jvm that receivee billions of dollars and significant manpower investments and is fundamentally different from.mri?
I = V/R

So once the voltage is applied to your body, the higher it is, the more current flows through you

(Some assumptions about source of electricity made)
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oppressive ideology in close association with bad prose, love this essay.
>Aviation emissions could be reduced through legislation, but people will die as a direct result.

Or they will stop flying until manufacturers can put out reliable engines. I thought aviation safety was very high because of strict regulations around durability. Surely nobody would be allowed to fly if they were so unsafe?
what were you big motivating milestones that kept you going? if anything caused you to almost give up, what was it and how did you overcome it?
Use this perl project called TagTime <https://github.com/dreeves/TagTime> to track your own time. Description from GitHub: To determine how you spend your time, TagTime literally randomly samples you. At random times it pops up and asks what you're doing right at that moment. You answer with tags.

Use Beeminder <beeminder.com>, a commitment device with a sting. Make a commitment, and give them a price (in USD) for failing to meet that commitment. They take your money if you don't do what you said you'd do. They have APIs for many services such as RescueTime and TagTime, and an Android app.

Note: If you're the kind of smart person who always finds a way out of doing the things you claim to care about, then if these two tools don't get you to do those things, you'll at least think deeply about, and know if you really cared about them.

You either get value (success in the things you care about), or information (learn what you don't care about, that you thought you cared about). Then you can use the value of that information to reorder your preferences in an optimal way.
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Very sadly, that little book wasn't published a century ago, but in 1926. Two years after the 1924 copyright blackhole cutoff.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/chapters-on-machinery-and-lab...

TIA finds no matches: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Chapters+on+Machinery+a...

SciHubbed review http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.sci-hub.bz/doi/10.1086/2539...

I'll have to get and scan that.
To provide a counterpoint...do I really have to care all that much. I know many people that obsess over money but quite frankly I feel like it's mostly a hygiene factor. As long as grave injustices are avoided interesting work trumps interesting compensation (imo)
Learn 1 new thing. Talk more with girlfriend or family. Help 1 guy who is younger. Answer 1 question on Stackoverflow/Quora. Blog 1 short article. Try to code a little better. Read a chapter in a book. Think about what we did today, how to improve tomorrow => Life is happiness, follow our heart and live better every day
This is the first time I've heard someone advise calling the police to protect one's right to photograph a public building.
Get JSON values very quickly in Go
Automate your job. I'm steadily building tools that make my job easier and thus me more efficient. I have a nice django app scaffolding generator that makes writing code quicker. I just need to add the model fields and the logic to the views. Everything else is mostly generated. In fact, I'm moving towards automating a lot of the code I write. Less strain on my hands.
what was your first sale like?
There’s computers, I guess.

A $300 laptop is perfectly fine for normal computing. An entry-level MacBook Air actually not irritating to use is about $900. If you want a full-sized 15″ MacBook Pro, that’s $2,000 at a minimum. The range is higher if you consider desktops.

But there are plenty of products where the top-end is a couple orders of magnitude more expensive than the entry-level. For example, the car market, from used junkers to brand-new custom luxury vehicles. Or the meal market, from McDonald’s to Michelin restaurants.
Manhattan has millions of people in a small area. Attacking random public building is capable of mass casualties.
That's great. It's been a while since I did a lot of simulations (which used double precision) so I didn't know that had changed.

I still wouldn't say that they're highly optimized, though.
So if you replace standard solar panels with this and you burn the alcohol in an engine each hour, does it produce more or less electricity each hour if we know it's 10x more efficient then natural photosynthesis?
> My connection is a sub 3ms ping to the nearby datacenters, what exactly is the bottleneck?

Heh, tell that to someone in, say, Australia.
Like servo ?
https://servo.org/
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targe...

Has some notes on setting up the Acer UEFI BIOS to boot the system and creating USB flash boot media.

Hoping to get some more general "HOWTO Run On Hardware" docs up in the near future, including netbooting w/ NUC and other useful things.
> Are you really denying that the Israeli govt had nothing to do with supporting the military takeover in Egypt back in 2013

Conspiracist much?
Lithium, uridine... no side effects? You must be joking.

Even at subclinical dosages there are sometimes side effects from those.

Dietary changes have a ton of shoe effects as well. Even the dieteticians cannot really find precise enough consensus on these.
> - Chrome is built on Chromium, which is open source,
but Chrome itself is not.

If you've actually tried using Chromium then you realize that this distinction doesn't make much sense. Chrome IS Chromium + Netflix + Flash + updater/Omaha + flashier logo.

> - Android is based on open source technologies, but is,
again, not itself open source in many cases.

Android itself is open source (AOSP) and is very much a usable system without Play Services.

> - Many, if not most, programming language implementations
are not open source. In fact, you're dating yourself
with this claim, as those with more experience remember
the dark days of paying for compilers.
Even C compilers.

As you said yourself, your claims are out-of-date. AFAIK, the only three remaining language implementations that matter today that are not open source would be Oracle Java (very close to OpenJDK), Apple's LLVM form (naturally very close to real LLVM), and Microsoft's C++ compiler (AFAIK generally considered to be crap).
But not IPv6 image hosting.
True but they can be turned "up" or "down". Reducing the air flow to the lowest value that can be sustained for, say, 12 hours would give an opportunity to find out if the intensity and type of noise has changed. Do that a few times and see if it is repeatable.
Ask HN: Is there an objective summary of recent Bitcoin proposals?
Lightning Network, Blockstream, Segregated Witnesses, Classic... Is there some post / paper / book that sketches the problem and how each of these (and possibly others) are trying to solve it?
Great essay, and a mantra to live by - "If it is possible to cut a word, cut it."
June 3, 2016 archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160603220849/http://ghostbrows...
I guess it's cool that Rust is getting zero-cost futures, but they have a long way to go to catch up to C++'s negative-overhead coroutines!
I made a set of Powershell functions to automate making Powershell script modules, and adding functions to those, and adding items to functions. At some point, this became a natural language to Powershell interpreter, adding in brackets and other punctuation at the correct locations - it has the side effect that human error is not introduced, in brackets (5% error rate) and also human error in comments (20% error rate).

I feel like this is where all languages will eventually go, being easier to hear and speak instead of read and type. And not having to think about brackets and semicolons frees a developer to think instead about the work their code is performing.
> Android itself is open source (AOSP) and is very much a usable system without Play Services.

It's open source by the most limited definition possible. Google throw the source code over the fence occasionally.
Yes, there and mailing the go-dev mailing list [1] if you are serious about it.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-dev
Some of the functionality, through multiple user profiles.

I've used that for sites which don't otherwise offer multiuser functionality, but there's a bit too much independence between Chrome profiles -- I'd rather not have to individually install (and configure/customise) my usual Chrome extensions for each of my many multiple personalities.

OTOH, this makes profiles an easy way to check to see if any of your extensions is causing site breakage.
2k rps with rails?

With all of the talk about how slow ruby is, that sounds too intensive for a 2gb vps to handle, but I'm not a rails dev so I don't know.
Typically though once you get to that stage the continued maintenance of keeping it on the road is going to quickly run more than the value of the car. If that work would get you another 5 years it would be worth it, usually though something else will be close to failure.
Much more cumbersome, however.
Dispatcher object in WPF for multi – threading
You may have pinned CPU cores, but there's still contention for other resources such as disk IO and network unless you've got dedicated interfaces for them as well, and that's just within your own instance - downstream you've got shared routers, and the various AWS services you're probably depending on as well.
Everything's "trans" these days.
Exactly. And people don't, unless they are careless or have no other choice. But, that slows down the economy...
>But that isn't the learning problem being posed! You are not being asked to learn `P(string | language)` (which is, in fact, the uniform distribution over arbitrary-length strings), but `P(language | string1, string2, ..., stringn)`...

Hold on. Let's say the goal is passing a Turing test. I think that's sufficient to demonstrate general intelligence and do useful work. In that case, all that is required is mimicry. All you need to know is P(string), and you can produce text indistinguishable from a human.

>Noooo. Compression does not work that way. Compression works by finding informative patterns in data, not by throwing them away. If your goal is to learn the structure in the data, you want the structure to be more redundant rather than less.

Ok lets say I convert English words to smaller huffman codes. This should be even easier for a neural network to learn, because it can spend less effort trying to figure out spelling. Of course some encodings might make it harder for a neural net to learn, since NNs make some assumptions about how the input should be structured, but in theory it doesn't matter.

>Some kind of high-dimensional sense-data is [necessary]... purely linguistic processing would work fairly well for, say, some of mathematics, but not so much for more empirical fields

These are some really strong assertions that I just don't buy, and I don't think you've backed up at all.

Humans have produced more than enough language for a sufficiently smart algorithm to construct a world model from it. Any fact you can imagine is contained somewhere in the vast corpus of all English text. English contains a huge amount of patterns that give massive hints to the meaning. E.g. that kings are male, or that males shave their face and females typically don't, or that cars are associated with roads, which is a type of transportation, etc.

Even very crude models can learn these things. Even very crude models can produce nearly sensible dialogue from movie scripts. Models with millions of times fewer nodes than the human brain. It's amazing this is possible at all. Of course a full AGI should be able to do a thousand times better and completely understand English.

Trying to model video data first is wasted processing power. It's setting the field back. Really smart researchers spend so much time eeking out 0.01% better benchmark on MNIST/imagenet/whatever, with entirely domain specific, non general methods. So much effort is put into machine vision, when Language is so much more interesting and useful, and closer to general intelligence. Convnets, et al., are a dead end, at least for AGI.
2k rps alone is fairly meaningless without the context of what exactly is being done. I could build a Rails application that can serve a cached static template at 2k rps without breaking a sweat, but once you start hitting the database and doing some processing of that data it gets more difficult.
Are there any numbers comparing pre-rendered React versus React communicating with a JSON Api?
It seems to put a lot more stress on the server which can neglect the (theoritical) speed improvements
> In fact, you're dating yourself with this claim, as those with more experience remember the dark days of paying for compilers. Even C compilers.

And how many bugs (and security issues) have their roots in the limited stack size that those shareware compilers came with?
Holy cow, Governor Christie's staff masterminded an actual terrorist attack on the NY/NJ, and it was an inside job, and 1 person may have died as a reult.
That's fear enough - and that's why I'm featured only Startups. All them generate much more than much $1k/m. The interesting thing is too see the reach that level starting from 0. This is what I call on the Site the startup "growth journey".
Efficiencies are ~1-3% in most plants, with 5% a possible high. Algae can reach 10% without various artificial stimulation. Given gro-lites and other factors (which tend to defeat the purpose), much higher per-hectare yields have been achieved.

As others note, plants offer many, er, plantly services. They're (usually) self-supporting, have disease, insect, and pest deterrance capabilities, self-transport water and minerals, and arrange for their own replication.

In many cases, a seed in a hole, or even on bare ground, is all the infrastructure you need to start manufacturing a new plant. Constructed infrastructure tends to have higher investment requirements.
That's harmless by military standards – for jets it's in the order of 10+ hours. Even Humvees have an hour maintenance per 3 hours use by some reports (although I think that's for the up-armoured versions that overtax the chassis and drive train with all the applique armour).
You can use Day One as well for the "random sampling". I've got it setup so that it pops up from the menu bar each X time and prompts me to add what I'm doing.

Some months are almost full, some months have only a handful of info. But it is quite stable since all the way back to 2014 for me.

You could add both tags and paragraphs of what you're doing.
It's clearly about his son, though I don't assume he says it straight to his face. I thought you were also thinking of your offspring. Sorry I've misunderstood.