skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happiness wasn't invented in the last decade of the 20th century... or at any arbitrary point in the development of civilization.

Pretty much any time things aren't just horrible and desperate, people are more than capable of being happy. People are very adaptable in that regard.

The other thing we tend to do as human beings is tell ourselves that people who are better off can't be (that much) happier. Or people who are better off convincing themselves that because their lives aren't perfect that all circumstances are essentially the same as far as happiness goes and that people with less or who are living closer to the edge are actually happier than they are.

There's a wide range of circumstances people can live with and still find happiness. Very few of us have a hard requirement of being on the very top rung of the ladder to be happy. And there's no particular rung on the ladder where happiness becomes possible.
Edited to add: http://fdsal.com/doc/

From that link, it seems there's evidence MIT did not actually anonymize the data -- i.e., used non-aggregated data and violated explicit guarantees of anonymity, so my analysis below seems irrelevant.

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Data aggregation / anonymization and the ease of de-aggregating reveals a major loophole in current US health privacy regulation (HIPAA). Once aggregated, personal health information (PHI) loses most protection.

So, here if the mental health team aggregated the data, that is 'ok'. Then sharing that aggregated data with administrators is also 'ok' because it's no longer PHI. The exception would be if the disclosures of the mental health department to its patients prohibited this use of the data.

I don't see a crime here, other than moral.

Anecdote: I have sat across the table from a health data purveyor whose entire business model is buying aggregated data from multiple sources, de-anonymizing and monetizing it (for ad-based stuff and risk-scoring for life insurance and key man insurance provider type customers). That was a few years ago and I believe there has been some guidance that would make that business model much more difficult today if it was ever legal. We didn't get past the discussion phase based on that model's risk to our patient-centric model.

I'm a lawyer in healthcare turned dev, but readily admit not to be a health law expert. Most of my work was corporate and transactional, so please take my opinion above with a healthy dose of salt. And if I'm wrong or have woefully outdated info, please correct!
The ridiculous thing is that they were allowed to go there in the first place. It's relatively common knowledge that these tribes are extremely hostile to outsiders and should be left alone, allowing gold mining there is basically signing their death warrants.
AMD is taking a stab at this with ROCm/HIP/HCC to try and get a slice of the machine learning market: https://rocm.github.io/languages.html

I wish them all the best, but I haven't seen much adoption yet. It's not particularly clear that this is the right path yet because folks are building special-purpose neural net accelerators, and those may not have the same programming model and may make this whole HIP thing irrelevant for ML.

I'm also not totally convinced software developers are ready to take advantage of something like this; developers are barely taking advantage of multiple CPU cores, let alone the more limited GPGPU environment.
How about T-Shirt Guns?

http://www.tshirtguns.com/
> I would think the breakeven point for using the GPU (assuming inputs and results are on the CPU) is several megabytes of millions or elements at least.

Well, the idea of GPU computing is to keep the data on the GPU as much as possible.

The CPU <---> GPU link is at best, 16x PCIe. Which is fast, but not anywhere close to the speed of HBM, GDDR5 or DDR4 RAM. (Exception: AMD's A10 operators, which have a GPU / CPU which shares on-chip cache memory. As well as the "Crystalwell" Intel chips IIRC. But these are rare chips that I doubt most people use)

So if you happen to be running a major algorithm on the GPU, you'll probably want to sort it as well, before bringing it back to the CPU. Under no circumstances should you be introducing a PCIe delay for a simple operation like sorting.
Have there ever been exploits in closed source software, including 0-day exploits? Most definitely. So you would want to use the highest quality software you can for a given purpose, but even that isn't enough. In reality, the answer is defense in layers.

First layer -- if you are running on RedHat or CentOS, make sure to have SElinux in enforcing mode, and resolve any SElinux errors the correct way.

Second layer -- separation of concerns. The same way that many businesses accounting operations are set up, you need to have a security breach at several layers at the same time to have an issue.

This may mean that having the public facing web server talk to an app on an internal server, using a defined API, and that internal server only has firewall rules open for what is required.

That internal app server then may have access to a database server in another security zone, making requests utilizing specific API patterns. At each level, have auditing software to look if any of those patterns change unexpectedly. Also, rate-limit the amount of data that can be pulled from the DB server on a daily basis -- this would mitigate a massive data dump situation.

You could go even further, and have the web-facing side talk to an internal web server, after going through a layer that validates each request fits a given pattern. Of course this is a pain to keep updated as the app gets updated, but then again when the consequences of a security breach are high enough, this level of pain is worth it.
Here is the much more portable and expensive version of this kit.

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Extension cord for solar panel to battery. $8
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Evaporative Cooler instead of building your own. $112
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$810 for the total package. The benefits are that you get to use a lithium-based battery which is 20 lbs lighter, you can use a foldable solar panel which is more portable, and you buy a pre-assembled evaporative cooler which has nice features like swinging. Mainly this is a good solution for those that just want to press buttons and set up their configuration in a few hours otherwise the kit seems like a good option too.

I used this configuration at burning man and the battery was permanently charged even with the cooler on the whole time. I needed another shade structure for the tent to keep it down a couple more degrees but I was able to sleep until noon with this set up and be totally off grid and have enough power left over for lights and music.
Disclaimer: I'm a mathematician, well versed in algebraic topology & also have a PhD in biology.

This is one of the most disingenuous papers I've read in a while, indeed my first reaction was "wow, what a load of horse shit".

The editorial on the journal's main "selling point" is that it applies algebraic topology "in a novel way, never before seen" to neuroscience. There is absolutely no reason to use algebraic topology in this context.

They're basically counting in a variety of ways network motifs - which Uri Alon & others have been doing for years. This is entirely possible to do using directed graphs, basic combinatorics, and elementary probability.

As other commenters have pointed out, there's at best a weak correlation to actual brain activity, and the amount of data is not actually that large and within reach of off-the-shelf graph software to process (or a python script).

This is also not the first time the senior author of the paper has hyped otherwise lackluster results. It's easier to impress a TED audience than your peers. Here's a critical review on Nature:

https://www.nature.com/news/rethinking-the-brain-1.17168
What part of electron gets used? Why would it be used? Is it to package an app?

In particular, does Yue spawn the Chromium processes and Blink?

If I understand correctly, one can build JS interfaces in Yue without it, though (either with Node.js or with its Yue-specific fork, Yode). It uses Chromium base, but not Blink, right?
In academia it's also because NVidia does a lot of stuff to make your life easy.

For example, NVidia came to our University in the UK and provided training for £20 an academic/PhD student for a 2 day course on how to use CUDA and with performance tips, hands on porting of code, etc. They also give away CUDA cards to academics under a hardware grant scheme, so it's possible to get a free Titan Xp this year for a research group.

There's not really an equivalent for AMD or Intel; a Xeon Phi Knights Landing chip is significantly more expensive than a consumer level GPU, and the same cost as a workstation GPU, and it's a lot harder to get good performance from it. It also doesn't seem like AMD are targeting this market, at least not currently.
Why the ban on human powered vehicles? Sounds bad for the environment on the surface.
nice http2 by the way
IANAL. There's case law in copyright law concerning implicit grants. We can assume that it's at least partially applicable to patents (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license).
Note I wrote "uninterested" not "incapable." There's a clear anti-engineering bias in software development, and one way that bias is exhibited is by a narrow hyper-focus on the minutiae of DS&A trivia.
Cause you can pretty easily bike, with a big trailer of drugs, from one border town to another.
I think you overestimate people. There are lots of people that would bat down chemo drugs if they thought they had a buyer.
> Its never about the company or the work.

Yeah, I'm at the same company I was at 18 months ago and at that time it was the one I'd been the most happiest at in my career. Autonomy, great leadership, trust, people over process.

Same company today, same work, but the opposite of all those intangibles. New leadership, new values. Significant turnover now, following an era of unusually low turnover. Total commitment to the new direction despite the picture painted by direct feedback and turnover.
If better skinning is the intended advantage, then it's apparently not implemented yet. I would also like to know the developer's reasoning, since using non-native controls makes it much harder to support accessibility, and this library hasn't yet addressed that.
More like Real Genius.
> OLED screens in that quality and format aren't produced in enough quantities to put on every iPhone

Apple's scale is amazing but I don't really get this observation. Is this is because Samsung has been shipping OLED at Apple-level volumes for years, so they've already sucked up most of the supply?
By "this" do you mean marijuana legalization, regulation around the sale and delivery of marijuana, or specifically the part about drones?
Ok, that's a bit different than how I read your earlier post, I thought you were saying that parents/relatives should be entitled to that info solely on the basis of footing the bill.
> However, the price of the lowest-tier of the latest model has been going up steadily over time,

The base model iPhone has been $649 for as long as I can remember, which means it's technically gone down in price when you account for a decade of inflation...
"This place becomes more and more like reddit every day" is so old a meme here, that it wouldn't surprise me if a similar phrase was posted as one of the first 100 comments of HN's history.
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Hi, author of the post here. I updated the post last night to be more precise about losing the patent grant specifically and not other rights like the copyright license.
CSS Modules have been revolutionary for us. I agree, it's a great compromise. I don't really see any reason to go to CSS-in-JS from here. It's scaled very well with our team and applications.
If I hire employees to sell my product, and those employees break the law to sell my product, even though I have policies in place saying they should NOT break the law. Am I liable for the actions of my employees?
At 18, a "child" can enlist in the military without parental consent.

There are fighter pilots younger than 25 who are entrusted to fly SOLO in a $180m F-22 Raptor with live missiles.

How do these so called High school administrators justify protecting "children" from every theoretically possible harm? While forgetting that in less than 2 years these same students might be going into combat as a member of the armed forces.
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Well, no, as it turns out Comcast is also entirely capable of creating laws, thats the problem.
When I first heard about it, I noticed that McCormick had the highest GPA and SH the lowest. So I helpfully suggested moving all the SH residents to McCormick and are there any other campus problems you would like me to solve this morning? Only a few were amused.

PS. Former EC guy here.

PPS. Sorry for the inside baseball.
Historically, if we look at societies with more market freedom vs those with more government control, it's pretty clear which ones do better. If you don't believe that, you may want to try living in Venezuela or North Korea.
What card(s) do you have that have this protection?
Ok, I can see it from that perspective -- we have similar financial aid limits in the U.S. I still think it's a choice, even if it's one that's structurally difficult for many people to make.

However, this is mostly orthogonal to the issue that most university students are adults, and the university has no business sharing their personal information on their behalf (without their explicit consent of course).
>>Closer in time, you have the outsized role still played by the Catholic Church in countries like Italy and Spain,

When I think of religion having a toxic effect on a state I think Saudi Arabia, not Spain.
My understanding is that the patent hasn't expired, but is under threat from prior art.

Transferring it to a tribe during the lawsuit sounds...risky, but I can see future IP using the approach from the start, like government contractors.

On the other hand, it's a stinky loophole that might be shut down immediately. Probably not, though; there's money on both sides.
As humans we seems to have a need to believe in things greater than us, we love to idolize and put things in hierarchies.

I mean, just about every single business is set up with a "great (wo)man" at the top who seemingly created 1000x the value of everyone beneath them. I mean they don't, but we are all somehow convinced they are entitled to those spoils for being so much "better" than the rest of the people contributing th the corporations bottom line.
My solution:
1) Encourage people be advocates for people with disabilities (ideally not by being pompous).
2) Educate others about what service dogs actually do - in articles such as this one (I didn't write this article but thought it was constructive).

At it's core - there will always be people who want to bring their dogs into places that only service dogs can go.

The author is making a case for alternative path, such as canine good citizen certification, whereby people who would otherwise slap a vest on their pet can bring their dogs into restaurants, stores, etc. This will ideally decrease people impersonating service animals at the margins, and lead to a better environment for actual service dogs.
Yup. They're treating in silico statistics as faithful to real "brain activity", because the network layout the scientists used was a detailed representation of a snapshot of a part of a real mouse brain. Don't worry if the neurons would behave differently than the simulated neurons, or if that could lead to totally different spikes globally, or if the hype irreversibly makes the story go viral and people still believe claims that were never even part of the original test years later because the story was good enough..

Also... "2.3. Topology Organizes Spike Correlations" <- "Energy makes it go!"

@neuroskeptic on twitter is a good source for examples of questionable neuroscience, their blog is http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/
Which is why they're banning drones getting high.
So dogsleds are horses ok?

"It's like Uber for Marijuana by Pony!"
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Sorry, by open space, I meant sparsely populated, not pasture land.
Put simply it is not the originality or uniqueness of their work but the quality and depth of it that makes these researchers great men.

In some cases, if their work was not of that depth and quality, the field's progress may not have proceeded as rapidly.
This is a University that would rather someone die than they have to admit they did something wrong. Nobody is giving them the benefit of the doubt.
> ...or is it the government's fault for _allowing_ lobbyists to exert...

That's a good question.

Notice, however, that NOT "allowing" the lobbyists of carriers to override the good of the people is sort of a form of "regulation".

The fact that these politicians don't have their asses handed to them upon the next election illustrates that this is a bigger problem than just regulation or not. Citizens who aren't informed are as much to blame as Comcast and the politicians who are lining their pockets with Comcast money.
"very high possibility of being used recreationally"

You mean like opioids?
And/or a day job.
Taxis are allowed to pick up people that are hailing them on the street. Uber works much a like a private car company does - you call them and they send a car. So it is different than a taxi. The difference between uber and a private car company is that uber can respond as fast as a taxi.
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In 1956 At&T was forced to license all it's patents as part of a deal with the government to remain a monopoly. This is called a compulsory license. A company could do this and simple not charge a fee for the patent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#Patents
The interesting thing about a school at the top of the pile is that even the dropouts will have their educational background described as "MIT dropout" for the rest of their lives, and it will mostly be used as an oddly positive descriptor.

In the bigger picture, even those MIT student who don't graduate MIT enhance the school's prestige. And it enhances the student's prestige. Only now the school will be less likely to appeal to this set of students in the first place.
Would other industries be wise to expect such regulations?

All of my "Drone Uber for [weed, pills, guns, flammable materials, knives, slingshots, katanas, scissors, ...]" ideas are now in limbo.
We already have a native and universal computing platform, the web, and yet we're stuck in 2007 writing code for Apple and Google!

Is there any real movement on iPhone or Android moving to replace native apps with offline web apps? Any competitor on the horizon?

Apple and Google are being very Microsoftesque in dragging their feet towards the inevitable.
> but I still have to see one web application that I would prefer to use over a desktop one.

Sure you have, I would make a huge bet you've used a website that you were unwilling to install the app for. On-demand, truly cross-platform app deployment is a huge feature, not to be underestimated.
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Which countries or regions did you find the most happy and friendly? I'd love to hear about your experiences.
You forgot: if you pay money you get away with bending the rules, as seen here (it's a fundraiser for a sister school washed away by Hurricane Harvey):

Students may wear sweaters or hats for a donation
Indian tech teams are ~10X bigger than their Valley counterparts
> Besides, it's not like hybrid is some magical unicorn technology that enables creating a great app at a tiny fraction of the budget of a native one

It actually is.. You cite saving "50%" likes it's no big deal. Clearly you're in charge of coding and not in charge of the business.

> Most things don't need to be an app at all

Well then you'll be writing this logic in JS for a web-app anyways.

I'm curious, what part of your native app couldn't be done in a hybrid model?
Both the tribes and IP owners are going to be on the other side of that vote.
Results about computational complexity are always relative to some specific model of computation. For example, a standard Turing machine cannot sort in O(n log n) time. Because it has to walk along the tape one position at a time, it takes longer. When the big-O of an algorithm is given without mention of the machine model, it typically refers to a machine with random-access memory, since that's approximately what real computers have.

So yes, physical possibility is definitely a big factor here, even if it's not always stated explicitly. If it were impossible to build practical random-access memory, then that wouldn't be the standard model used for computational complexity.

Consider the big question of whether P=NP. The question itself is unrelated to physics, since P is defined as polynomial-time algorithms on deterministic Turing machines, and NP as polynomial-time on nondeterministic Turing machines. But the question gets a lot of attention in part because it's considered to be impossible to actually build a nondeterministic Turing machine. If that were untrue, then we could solve problems in NP in polynomial time even if P≠NP.

In theory, you could build something like a nondeterministic Turing machine (without infinite memory, but close enough, much like we consider real-world computers to be close enough to normal Turing machines) if you could, say, send information back in time, or if you could split the universe into arbitrary many parallel universes, then destroy all but one. Obviously, nobody has the slightest idea of how to do this, but at least there are some vague, crazy possibilities.

Hypercomputation is even worse. To accomplish it in anything like physics as we know it would require infinite time, space, and energy. In theory you can get infinite time by putting your computer into just the right orbit around a rotating black hole. Infinite space and energy are somewhat harder to come by. (You know you're in trouble when you need to do something harder than putting something into a precise orbit around a rotating black hole.)

There's always the possibility of new physics. Nothing says it's impossible for there to exist some fundamental particle which acts like a Turing oracle when you poke it just right. But the chances seem pretty poor.

In short, yes, barring any massive physics breakthrough, treat hypercomputation as a theoretical math construct, nothing more.
test lots of different things and different media channels. What works for one subject may not work as well for something else. Just got to be persistent.
I have a story, but I haven't made it public. Someone recommended to me that I do just that, but the idea scares the hell out of me. Part of me feels like it'd be career suicide if I went public.
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