skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's unfortunate when people ignore the possibility of psychosomatic symptoms, but even more dangerous when they attribute every issue to it. It should be a tool in the toolbox, a possible explanation/approach to ailments that are sometimes simple and singular but often times complex and multi-faceted.

My N=1:

I have chronic back issues. At best it's general tightness and fatigue, but can also be sore and painful. In particular I had two incidents in 2011 (in a matter of seconds) and 2012 (over a couple days) where my back spasmed and left me crippled, unable to move without knife-stabbing pains and unable walk down hallways without holding onto a wall. Both lasted almost a month, and were followed by months of heightened soreness.

I was 23/24 at the time, with no preexisting health issues. I'm a regular runner and in great health otherwise. I tried to fix this with deep tissue massage and core/strengthening regimens, and largely those helped keep the pain levels down but really only halved the symptoms at best. A friend had been recommending Sarno's 'A Divided Mind' which is all about the psychosomatic diagnosis since the first incident, but I had dismissed it. Finally in 2013, as I felt a new round of the spasms coming, I gave it a shot. Lo and behold, it became the single most effective tool I've found to manage my back issues. I identified that each spasm came with a major emotionally loaded event. In 2011 it was unrealistic pressure to compete at a big running race I had been training for. In 2012 it was participating in the search and rescue for a dear friend who was lost (and died) in the wilderness. In 2013 it was a nasty falling out with my best friend (and brother) at the time.

I don't believe the mechanisms are fully understood, and I think Sarno in particular does too much hand waving. But using his approach was the first time in years that I had no discernible back issues. I liken it to getting butterflies in your stomach. Your mind and emotions can trigger physiological changes to blood vessels, nerves, muscles, etc. that in turn can cause real issues. I also don't believe it's the only factor. I started an office job in 2015, and back issues have come back that I attribute 100% to the office lifestyle. I've found no relief with the psychosomatic approach, but do better with a sit/stand desk, breaks, and daily exercise.

Overall, I think a ton of people could benefit from approaching health issues from a psychosomatic perspective as one of many possible diagnoses. I also agree there are so many other possibilities that assuming it is always in your head is ignorant, neglectful, and downright dangerous.
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Libertarianism is not "let everyone do as they will", but to interfere only to maximise liberty. The challenge - and e.g. the primary split between left-libertarianism / libertarian socialism and right-libertarianism - is to define what it means to maximise liberty, and which forms of liberty should be inviolable even if affects the liberty of others.

"Let everyone do as they will" only works if you are prepared to step in when someone's idea of "doing as they will" involves preventing someone else from doing the same, or it won't be "let everyone do as they will" but "let a small portion of people do as they will, and everyone else be damned".

As a left-libertarian, I'd certainly argue that if you pollute and as a result affect the very ability of others to survive or negatively affect their health, you are also affecting their liberty, and society is justified in sanctioning you.

Elites get this wrong because few, if any, elites aim to maximise liberty. Maximising liberty does not (currently, anyway) win you elections.
Maybe it's all frozen in the Arctic. Maybe aliens stole it.
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My claim is, however, that when discussing statistics we should stick to the statistics terms. If we want to discuss a new concept then we should make up a new word for it.

To do otherwise risks having people get confused as to what underlying concepts are actually being discussed. For instance, go read the HN comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13004790 Why risk such confusion when we can just use two different words for two different concepts?

However, you are also wrong about the vernacular sense, at least if the dictionary is to be believed:

Bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

This are just informal versions of the statistical term.

To translate this to another topic, if we are discussing global warming I don't think we should use the term "warm" to reference "feelings in my heart". Why would we want to confuse whether we are discussing the temperature of the earth or my feelings?
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Thank you for posting this, and engaging here on HN. Do you think this collection of interesting things would be a good candidate for digitizing and getting up on the Internet Archive?
and even if you're a billionaire on paper you have to manage those investment so that they cash out at the right moment. you can't just quit doing everything. at that level it's a reverse debt where you (or pay someone to) have to chase everyone for money
You could always submit it to Infogalactic and see what happens.
Why not just start building solar plants(or windmills) and energy storage system?

If we spent billions of dollars on this couldn't we make a serious dent in carbon emissions quickly?
That's because most doctors are pill-pushers and he couldn't prescribe you something that would have given him a nice kickback.
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Which book(s) you consider highly inspiring/influential for computer scientists?
Focus on non-fiction books, including those on philosophy, ethics, team management, or personal stories.
if you get rich doing something you like, why not just start another venture with something you actually love.
on Vertical Takeoff you are completely right, personally I think we will see fixed wing electrical one to two seats self-flying planes.

The basic problem with VOTL is power/weight ratio of current batteries the maximum fly time you get is 15 minutes with no reserve.
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How are checklists handled in Markdown? I've been wanting to move over to Markdown but I'm a heavy checklist user.
> I didnt' watch the video yet. But do you need to be "in ketosis" to benefit from this energy source?

Your body will handle that naturally. If it doesn't have enough of resource A, it'll try resource B, then C, ... It happens automatically.
I'm in a state that is notorious for enforcing non-competes (in fact our enlightened legislature tried to make them even stiffer), but even my contract says my non-compete is only enforceable where a clear conflict of interest exists.
I tried that and damaged my brain to point that, when I think about a problem at work, I feel like knife is put in my head.

If you have some spare brains to throw out, you can try alternatives on them, of course.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic (there's the non-Nexus Android experience after all), but I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro on my gaming machine a while ago. Full retail license and an official .iso downloaded from Microsoft. There's barely anything installed on that machine, however I was also surprised to find Candy Crush in my start menu after a while. It's probably just a shortcut to the store, but it does look quite a bit like it's already installed.
Showing a featured app on the windows store tile != Installing an app.
Even aside from a biased editor wanting to control a subject, reputation, edit history, and voting on administrative decisions are all important parts of a Wikipedia editor's account and experience of Wikipedia. Enough 'good' participation can get you an administrator account and further privileges.

This turns Wikipedia into a game for these people which, inevitably, to arcane rules-lawyering. Creating content is hard, and when you want to increase your metrics and contribute to the community because it is the community and not because you have a passion for Subject X, creating content is not a sustainable strategy in the long-term. You can't know everything, you can't be an expert on everything. It's much easier to revert, to rules-laywer, to delete. So that's what happens.
I'm sorry if my words were offensive for somebody - it's all questions of personal perception.
Looks like a scan of a German book or paper. Any idea which one?
On the contrary, plenty of scientist have had the idea and researched the topic. It is not that easy because immortal cells have the tendency to become cancerous.

Before suggesting intellectual dishonesty in all scientists check the first paragraph of the article that says as much.
> using Windows with a very smooth Virtualbox environment

What are you using?
I just installed Vagrant and the experience is almost
there, I have some problems with file permissions (can't delete on Linux side, can't remove executable flag, etc).
'Now, we shall receive four minutes warning of any impending nuclear attack. Some people have said, "Oh my goodness me — four minutes? — that is not a very long time!" Well, I would remind those doubters that some people in this great country of ours can run a mile in four minutes.' - Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe, 1960
I enjoyed it :-) But in this context I am talking specifically about the post-apocalyptic world, the way the few remaining mass-produced items from before, are now valuable commodities (he says something like, people will kill you now, for something we used to just throw away before The Flash), the barter economy (eg. how he gets his battery recharged), the water, the hand-shakes...
This was always the first app to send me an alert when news happened often by a long time. I always wondered why they didn't charge for that, it's the kind of thing I'd happily pay what I no longer spend on a newspaper for to get. Though I must admit, the last time I routinely bought a newspaper it was $0.35 a copy. and $0.75 on Sunday. $2.85 a week, and no coupons, or ads which in a newspaper were part of the value so I'd easily pay $1 a week.
Showing a featured app on the windows store tile != Installing an app without permission.
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"The Americans" [1] had an eponymous episode (S04E09 "The Day After") [2] about the broadcast of "The Day After" [3] on November 20, 1983.

As portrayed in that episode, everybody watched it, everybody talked about it, and it changed how everybody thought about nuclear war.

I don't remember a thing about the TV event in the title of the previouis episode of "The Americans" (S04E08 "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears" [4]), but I sure remember seeing "The Day After" in 1983.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(2013_TV_series)

[2] http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/theres-got-be-day-after-america...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_Liberty...
Not really. This talks about a devastation of:

> A limited, regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan in which each side detonates 50 15 kt weapons could produce about 5 Tg of black carbon (BC). [1]

That's 5 million metric tons. The footnote on the Wikipedia article [2] says the oil fires produced:

> 16,000 metric tons of actual soot is produced from 220,000 metric tons of oil burned every day.

They started doing this in January and they didn't finish putting out the fires until November, or almost 300 days. But let's use 200 days as a reasonable approximation, given that some of the fires were out earlier than that. Multiplying 16,000 by 200 gives 3.2 million metric tons of soot, so the nuclear war soot is about 1.5 times worse than the oil fire soot.

Also, consider that humanity has actually performed some 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) with a total yield of 545 Megaton [3]. And yet this 0.75 Megaton conflict is going to plunge the world into winter? I'm not buying it.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000205/full
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires#cite_note-37
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
I think it comes down to whether or not picking out clothes makes you happier or not.

Similar debate with Soylent. I think a lot of us are just dumbfounded that picking out and eating tasty food is one of the things some people want to give up to have more time and emotional energy for other things. For me, getting to go outside and pick between one of several decent places to eat is one of the things that adds a little bit of happiness to my day, and being pressured to give that up so I can stay at work longer and give even more of my emotional and mental energy to my employer than I do already, seems just mean, small minded and short sighted.

Probably not a coincidence the examples from the articles are all people who have a lot of autonomy and authority in their work life.
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> Fonts and UI rendering look awful on Windows compared to macOS, there is just no comparison.

I've heard a number of people say this, and I'm always puzzled because it is exactly the opposite for me. Running on the same hardware (late 2013 MBPR 15"), Windows 10 font rendering is much more pleasing to my eyes. When I boot into OSX, the text looks terrible to me. (I'm still running El Capitan - has text rendering changed in Sierra?)

One thing I did in Windows that I recommend to everyone: I went through the ClearType tuner and adjusted the settings to my taste. I picked darker and heavier text compared to the defaults. That really punched up the rendering; everything is so crisp and clear, much nicer to my eyes than the blurry text in OSX.

I understand that OSX text rendering may be more typographically accurate, and I have some sympathy for that view. I appreciate good typography, especially after working at Adobe many years ago. (I built the first scalable font system for Windows, Adobe Type Manager.) But OSX text just doesn't look good to me.

And of course I don't disagree with anyone who prefers OSX/macOS text rendering, since this is very much a matter of personal taste.
I won't comment on your general remark but I don't think it is relevant to this specific case. "noatime" has a simple meaning and a clear name that represents its function: it stops updating inode access times. If you don't want your filesystem updating access times you use this mount option and it's done. Functionality of "nodiratime" is the one that's more specific & esoteric and subset of "noatime", thus it has a more specific name. It's not that "noatime" implies "nodiratime" , but more like "nodiratime" implements a subset of functionality of "noatime". Nothing to hate really.
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>Having self-driving cars from Google integrated into the same ecosystem could have serious repercussions for users, so is this wise? Do we need legal changes, or should Google just change their model for locking out users?

Break them up, and force the patents to be openly available for a nominal fee (like the patent on the transistor once was). Refuse to license a self-driving car for street use if a centralized firm, rather than the car's owner, can decide how it's used.
Yeah, the stylus isn't very good. I bought a Surface Pro 4 tablet with a ~$500 discount which made it attractive. The device has some nice points, but compared to my Wacom Cintiq or even my Apple Pencil/iPad Pro combo, the stylus on the Surface is sub-par. The pressure sensitivity is weak, there's no tilt capability, and it frequently fails to capture clicks/strokes.

The Surface type cover is definitely nicer than the keyboard cover for the iPad Pro though. MS did a nice job with that.
> That's also NOT what machine learning algorithms do.

A machine learning algorithm run on non-representative input could be said to lack experience with the portion of input that isn't represented in the training set.

E.g. I think it's pretty obvious that machine learning algorithms exhibit far more vernacular-bias than purely logical reasoning techniques.

> I made this claim given that I explicitly listed two examples of algorithms which are biased.

Your parent is pointing out the very real possibility that technically-unbiased algorithms can produce vernacularly-biased outputs. I.e., that statistic's definition of "bias" does not sufficiently capture the notion of bias as it's used in the vernacular.

I don't think you've refuted that claim.

At the end of the day, your approach toward side-stepping the issue of vernacular bias is intellectually lazy. Instead of tackling the problem head on, you're hiding behind a mathematical object that happens to have the same name as the actual thing under discussion.

> I'm beginning to think you are seeking to derail the conversation rather than discussing statistics in good faith.

I think your characterization of bias in terms of statistic's technical definition is already skimming the edges of good faith. You know what the reporter means when they say "bias", and that's not the meaning that statisticians use in technical settings.
This is exactly why we still need the copyright system in the US.
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> Are you really trying to say that Trump, and not Putin, is the primary reason for this?

Sure. The NATO of old was facing off against much stronger opposition than Putin today, without even the slightest trace of doubt in commitment coming up. Trump is certainly not the only factor that erodes trust in NATO deterrence (Brexit, Erdogan and NATO overexpansion are other important contributors to the general uneasiness), but he is the most visible one. Visible cracks are bad because there will always be people (on all sides!) who see personal incentive to widen them and if they succeed, the mere thought that limited scope wars could be possible will endanger peace.
Windows hasn't used Thumbs.db files on most drives since it switched to a central cache in Vista.
Metal is too expensive still. Next step is porcelain. I made one prototype so far. It failed because the glazing process "puffed" the surface out of acceptable tolerance. I plan to inversely deform the mesh to compensate for this when I get around to another attempt.
Theoretically he could exhaust the 3 revert rule with the delete-happy user (he creates it, guy deletes it 1, he puts it back 2, guy deletes it again 3), make a note on the talk page, and head to the edit war noticeboard where an admin can see it.

If you don't understand any of this, you see why WP is a bureaucratic pain in the arse.
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"What everyone has thought of, but no scientist is willing to say out loud"

What no scientist is willing to say out loud, is basically what scientists have been saying out loud since the mid 90ies. It has nothing to do with unwillingness to talk about the subject, but it has not been pushed that hard because there was* a strong belief that messing with telomeres had a very high risk of causing cancer.

*is? Although I think this belief has softened lately
For one think, Markdown does not support checklists. I'm not sure how checklists are handled in VimWiki when using Markdown as the backend.
>What blew my mind in giving up sugar was that I lost 5 lbs. I'm was lean at 155 lbs and 6'1, I dropped below 150 now. It really opened my eyes to how much sugar is converted to fat.

Pretty much all water weight.
We can't let them go free to keep committing crimes and harm other people. So if you criticise the model, you must provide a better one.
What was the name of the article you created? The deletion log shows nothing for "rsync.net". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=...
I'm trying, and I have no basis to back this up, so value this what you are paying for it... =)

A couple of the techniques are:

* Mix things up. Doing "learning" in an all of one thing, then all of another, is less helpful than mixing up topics. Baseball players that practice hitting 20 fastballs, then 20 sliders, etc. do less well OVERALL than one where the pitcher randomly picks a type of pitch one after another.

* Learn in different ways, or using different answers. If you're learning to sight read music, read the measures backwards. Or down one side and up the other. When you're memorizing words, come up with a different sentence to use the word in, each time. Come up with a word that rhymes with the correct word. Describe a picture that would characterize the word/concept. Sing the word in a song.

* Synthesize, synthesize, synthesize. (overlapping the previous point) - when coming up with an answer to a question, consider different questions that have the same answer. What things are LIKE this answer? What things are different? Picture yourself using this word/concept in some setting. (Things I like to do are picturing myself in my house. Or outside. Or in the winter, or naked, or with a famous person (perhaps also naked).) The point is to create imagery associated with the thing you're learning.

A lot of this boils down to getting at the memory through many different neural pathways. SRS is just a way to strengthen ONE of those ways, which is important, but ideally you want to use many. One strong rope holding you from falling down a cliff is good. Many, possibly even weaker ones, can be much better.
My point is that Mad Max assumed a very sudden and unrepairable damage that
can't be worked around.

It's hard to believe that people would panic if the oil price went high, or
even sky high. It wouldn't be pretty, sure, probably several industry sectors
would die, but I don't see how it would end our world.

Most of the oil we use today is consumed by transportation, but there are
plenty of other propulsion systems than just internal combustion engine (to
name a few: electric ones, pneumatic, flywheel, external combustion (that can
run on burning guano; e.g. Stirling engine)). Then there is the thing that we
can still produce gasoline artificially from coal, it's just more expensive
than how we get the gasoline currently.

I don't question the vision of collapsed society shown in Mad Max (I don't
know if it makes senese or not, I just don't think about it). But how and
why the society collapsed (MM1 version) doesn't stand the basic scrutiny.
A three paragraph "article" from Tom Warren at The Verge which sources a Microsoft blog post with zero numbers to back up their PR fluff.
> What everyone has thought of, but no scientist is willing to say out loud is that maybe if the telomere count is reset (like it is for babies!), then we'd have cellular immortality.

Plenty of scientist are actively thinking about this and are fighting against that because that's precisely one of the things that cancerous cells do.

Further reader: Hallmarks of Cancer, the next generation, Hanahan & Weinberg 2011, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21376230 (open access)
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Finally, a confession: some people on this forum really DO have more days in a month than other folks!
Doppio (https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio) is exactly this: a POSIX layer (for a single process), while Browsix is a Unix layer. Both are JS only. Doppio implements a ton of libc functionality, enough to host a full JVM interpreter (see http://plasma-umass.github.io/doppio-demo/). Doppio contains BrowserFS (available separately as https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS), an in-browser file system that abstracts over local storage and lets you mount remote filesystems like Dropbox, Zip files, and more. Archive.org is using it for all of its DOS and Windows games.