skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I basically agree with your friend, but I'm pro-drugs for pepole who find them helpful. I very strongly suspect that the underlying "problem", like with cancer, is actually an enormous variety of problems that cluster into vaguely similar symptom groups. I am absolutely not an expert here, this is a layperson's opinion, but it's really hard to imagine that there's just one specific cause that we're treating. I think that's why different drug classes vary so wildly in effectiveness from person to person, there's a ton of underlying confounding variables that we simply don't understand.

But what we do know is that anti-depressants can be a powerful tool for helping people who aren't responsive to other types of treatment. Even if it takes some effort to figure out which one is the best fit for the underlying disorder, that's better than nothing.
You should read about how the US acquired its Pacific teritories. Interesting stuff. I love all those colonialist skeletons in the closet stories. This is nothing new, sadly.
interstate to where though? For the sake of argument say an interstate is $20 (I assume it's actually more). Do you choose to spend it on a bus to somewhere you've never been, and without anyone you know, or on a meal?

Seriously curious as to what the response is? SF has a slew of problems w.r.t housing costs, but in general every study has shown that it's much cheaper overall to provide housing and/or money to people than paying for assistance. Instead we waste money out of the fear of giving money to people who don't try to stop relying on that money.
>The moment he saw the brilliant light captured by his camera, “it all clicked” for Victor Buso: All the times his parents woke him before sunrise to gaze at the stars, all the energy he had poured into constructing an observatory atop his home, all the hours he had spent trying to parse meaning from the dim glow of distant suns.

It sounds to me that the sweat capital this guy poured in dwarfs by far the "social capital" of inspiration that the rest of us could have (and often) got from watching PBS shows.
Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’
A combination of public leaks and private contributions. He does a pretty good job of vetting them and determining what era they're from (by polling some users to see when that password was used/changed on that service, etc.)
Dammit, the browser mangled my comment.

Fixing:

The authors included Chinese, Turkish and Slavic people. Not all of them could write well in English. And I didn't even have to look at their names to guess nationality, because they would have English grammar mistakes that would make it clear what their native language was.

I really resent paying 35 dollars for a PDF from a company that can't even do some copy editing to help such authors. Elsevier has no respect for the researchers or their readers.
They don't. Do you think Twitter cares if they have truth or DAU and advertisers?
> the genetic exposure risk is pretty directly about aboriginal and islander communities

Is it, though? Families and communities share much more than genes with each other, including big lifestyle choices. So we can't deduce that easily that genes are to blame.
I think it is less about being the truth and what exactly you're doing business hosting and what the end results might be.
Michaels Talks Cyberattack, Possibly 3M Cards Affected a Day
Does 80 million light years mean 80 million years ago? If the star is moving away from us fast...
Private ownership is not quite sufficient to be immune from the First Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Granted, Marsh has not been very relevant in First Amendment jurisprudence of late, but it is standing precedent, and it could very well be extended to cyberspace.

Also, private actors are not exempt from legislation restricting the use of censorship. There is a First Amendment right to not be made to speak, but if you're a common carrier you're considered to not be speaking when carrying others' speech; social media could well be classified as common carriers or some similar (new) classification with similar effect. Given this it is a fair question as to what the appropriate public policy is as to censorship on private platforms. You might say that no public policy is appropriate on that question other than "hands off", but then again, since Congress has the relevant power to legislate, others could reasonably propose limits on censorship by privately-owned social media.

"Start your own" is good advice, but "lobby Congress" and "file suit" are also available avenues, and for some those are more realistic than the first.

I suspect that before long we will find out if Marsh applies to social media. I'd love to read legal analyses of that matter.
Yes.

We didn't have each others phone numbers in our contacts.

Manually adding by phone number didn't work.

At this point we just gave up.

I use prepaids because I travel a lot so my mobile numbers are just throwaways.

I'd rather not give _all_ of my contacts to an app anyway.

So there really should be a way to manage contacts inside the Signal client and add people via screen names or email addresses.
I held a top secret clearance for 8 years, and worked in the DC area.

Those jobs suck, and your attitude does as well. You sound like a stuck up prude.
How is this even allowed? It's just a repost of the Washington Post article but behind a paywall.

Anyways what a find. It makes me wish I had a high powered telescope and a good place to look up.
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I used to listen to audio-books/podcasts whenever I am doing anything mindless. But I just went on a hike this last weekend and didn't listen to anything and it was so peaceful and meditative.

A few years ago I peaked at reading 72 (mostly audio) books in a year, and since then I've been reading less and less. I realized, even though we consider reading to be healthy, that reading THAT much is is its own form of distraction/procrastination/escape.
Yeah, isn't Saipan in the middle of nowhere? And its not a famous tourist destination like Tahiti.
What a silly question. One can prove who they are with documents, but nobody can prove who they are with 2FA.

It goes like this: If you can prove who you are, you get access to your account. That's what this is all about.

The more offline, human touch we go, the greater the security.
My girlfriend had her car stolen from her driveway that way; the thieves disconnected the infotainment cellphone (dug under the dash to remove the sim card, probably) and it has not been recovered in 3 weeks.

Presumably it was a key amplification attack. And they knew what they were doing when it came to being tracked.
I imagine it's similar to the struggle that the researchers that created those successes you speak of were going through before they had their success.

Of course, the article goes to great length to describe how this struggle is different, specifically referring to the fact that most game AI have involved perfect information and an easily stated win scenario to optimize for.

The real-world problems people expect more advanced AI, or AGI, to solve (better than humans) involve imperfect information and objectives that aren't as clearly defined.

Of the 4 examples you give, 3 are board games involving perfect information that AI are now better than the best humans, clear wins. The other you're referring to involves a self-driving car challenge where the first place winner managed to drive 60 miles in an urban environment in just over 4 hours[0]. 5-10 years later we still aren't talking about self-driving cars winning the Cannonball Run[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2007_Urb...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shinin...
""Spotify & Apple Music" --> Rhapsody/Napster already had this in 2001"

Yeah but neither of those had a billion+ smart phones to deliver their subscription service to. Not really their fault, but clearly mobile streaming was what really made this type of product skyrocket in popularity.
Hey, I paid $5 greenbacks for those followers. #libtards
It's a common practice for papers to print articles from other publishers. You'll note that it's credited to the Washington Post in the byline. WaPo has their own paywall rules, FWIW.
> Monopolies and cartels are also busted

I think you mean 'were also busted.' Trust busting in America happened under Roosevelt, 110 years ago. The FTC does not actively prevent cartels or monopolies today.

> They distort markets and lead to worse outcomes for consumers and the country at large.

If by country at large you mean shareholders, sure. Not to stray too far from home, software companies colluded to suppress software engineering wages - certainly a market distortion.

Personally I prefer to keep free market ideologies where they belong, the classrooms and textbooks of the Chicago School of Economics.
I don't know how much spotify & apple disrupts label's biz model, they still have to pay enormous amount of money to the labels for songs being played.

They supplement record label's core business more than they disrupt.
> You should never use only 2FA for something you don't want to be locked out of.

Tell that to... everyone.

> You need a 3rd authentication method to replace the 2nd when you lose it, such as backup codes, that as well as a 4th one to recover a lost password.

That's on Cloudflare. If they don't offer backup codes, what can an end user do about that?
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> Personally I've never found a use for either of them in practice.

One of my servers batch downloads approximately 550GB of data per day. I use a bloom filter to deduplicate the file significantly faster than naive Unix sort or awk ‘!X[$0]++’. It also has superior asymptotic complexity.
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"It is well known that everyone has a limited supply of willpower."

Not sure about that : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/en...

but, then again.... : https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/12/14/strongest-evidence-yet-...
Part of the problem is that icann policies for legacy ccTLD network engineering and backend support systems are very lax compared to the operational and technical requirements for a new gTLD.
Lol politico isn't a credible source. They are more biased than the fake accounts they are reporting on.
There are plenty of people who use scala as an ML on the JVM, not as a worse Haskell. They just aren't as loud about it.

If you're looking for an ML kind of experience, Kotlin is a joke, it doesn't even have pattern matching.
I've been trialing it recently on sites of lesser importance, and in the configuration OP described, it doesn't - everything is deterministic from login+site+master password.

It does however you set password profiles, which alter how the password is generated. Here's an abridged example from their FAQ[0] with my notes about what each option does:

"login": "contact@lesspass.com", # User name
"site": "example.org", # Domain name
"lowercase": false, # Site accepts lower case characters (Default: true)
"uppercase": false, # Site accepts upper case characters (Default: true)
"symbols": false, # Site accepts symbols (Default: true)
"numbers": true, # Site accepts numbers (Default: true)
"counter": 1, # Increment e.g. on compromise and the generated password is changed (Default: 1)
# Password entropy is derived from pbkdf2, counter is used as part of the salt
"length": 8, # Password length to be generated (Default: 16)

In the default configuration, these profiles are stored in the browser's local storage, so lost if/when that is cleared. LessPass provide a service to store these profiles on their server (log-in is generated from the master password using a default password profile), and provide the scripts (Docker) that let you self-host this data (the browser extensions include a field to set server domain).

For me, it's a useful balance of convenience and security (each site gets a strong unique password, but I can regenerated them on devices where I haven't synced a password DB) vs. KeyPass which I was previously using.

I'm probably going to switch to 1Password thought - it gives the same "any device" benefits, has basically the same risk model (compromise of the master password is a full-compromise, and because I need the synced profiles I need to put _some_ trust in a third-party anyway[1]), but it gives me the full flexibility of a real password manager (store associated data, credit cards, set specific passwords if needed etc.)

[0] https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/wiki/FAQ
[1] 1Password: need to trust their client isn't malicious/capturing the password at login and is secure; LessPass: need to trust the webclient is never changed to exfil. the master password, (theoretical?) risk of brute-forcing master password from a generated password, and sends sites/username metadata to a largely unknown third party (could run my own server, but it would likely get neglected and fall behind on security updates etc.).
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I have no experience at large firms. At startups, I meet them often. But I also only choose to work with startups with good, employee-supporting philosophies, so I can't say how common they are.
Well there's one more way it can matter, and make your experience suck: When the downstairs neighbors smoke out at all hours, and it comes up through your floor and in through your windows, and the whole place smells like Tom Petty & Willie Nelson were hanging out. Not even during work hours. Or worse, during your remote-working hours that don't happen to correspond to the neighbors' working hours.

Almost sounds like I have personal experience doesn't it?
Amazing what you can do when your medical community lacks any ethics or rules.
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> Reading this paper I'm amazed at the increased efficacy of some of the newer SSRI's despite not having a novel mechanism of action.

There are huge differences in the mechanism of action, quantitatively speaking, even within a class of antidepressants. As a particularly striking example, you're allowed to call your drug an SNRI as long as it has any detectable N effect at all -- even if the N effect is too small to practically make any sort of difference, and the drug is practically an SSRI.

Don't remember well enough to cite exactly but this may have been it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11920-013-0370-7?
I find it hard to believe that you could set a cutoff of passwords that have been leaked but that you could rely on an attacker not to try. These passwords are more useful guesses than anything a password cracker would make up out of components.

XKCD considers a password that's one of 2^28 possibilities "easy" to guess, and provides a well-regarded strategy [1] for coming up with a password that's one of 2^44. Passwords in this list are one of 2^29.

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/
They should probably reduce the amount of spam. It makes for a better experience and uses less server space... However, I don't believe they do it near well enough to be considered "fair" especially because they do it mostly manually and the people doing it are partial in some direction.
But you can encrypt with Curve25519: E(public, M) = let (ephemeral_private, ephemeral_public) = gen_random_25519(): let shared_key = Curve25519(public, ephemeral_private): return ephemeral_public || E_AES256GCM(shared_key, M).
Talking about "effective tax rate" with regards to multinational tax-avoiding corporations is basically gibberish.

You can't use taxes paid as a percentage of revenue because it's meaningless. A retailer with a 3% profit margin would have a ~1% effective tax rate because 97% of their revenue goes to tax-deductible expenses.

But if you use taxes paid as a percentage of profit then you're not counting any of the tax avoidance, because the way international tax avoidance works is to shift profits to sister companies in other countries instead of the one with a high nominal tax rate.
This was on my ever-lengthening list of projects. Glad to see someone do it. Thanks, Joe!
They have one use: as a fast check for whether you should bother with a slower check. Bloom filters are basically a sort of a pre-cache.
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Ever ask yourself why they did this "very publicly"?
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Woah woah woah I've been warned by dang for politics on hackernews. Now it's ok for this article?

Ha ha I'm "calling foul" ;)
I understand that, but there's still the possibility of the domain name itself being hijacked, or even just forgetting to renew it.

Maybe I'm paranoid :)
No, I genuinely do not know what the “n-word” is supposed to be. None of that made much sense to me.
The responses here seem to have gotten into the weeds of specifics, but I think this is a fundamental point. A code of professional ethics will never get traction if it tries to be a code of personal ethics as well.

If you put personal ethics into a code, there are roughly two possibilities. One is that you put in things that were already censured at another level ("we oppose convicted serial killers") and nothing changes. The other is that you put in things which are actually contested ("we oppose all lawbreaking"), and then everyone who disagrees breaks away from the whole code, and probably benefits by working with people who support their stance.

A useful professional code tells you how to define malpractice, not immorality in general. Since professional censure and lost reputation are the consequences for breaking such a code, it had best be limited to actions which impugn the professional merit of the person committing them. That way, enforcing it is natural and self-interested; clients don't want to hire code-breakers, and other professionals don't want to be tainted by association.

I think medicine is instructive. People hold up the field as a successful example of bounding personal morality, but the Hippocratic Oath is very much a professional statement. It happens that professional behavior for doctors produces a very clear good - lives saved - but this is not actually a feature of the code. The Oath demands that the practitioner offer their subjects competence, confidentiality, and fiduciary duty; nothing more. Questions of personal morality in the workplace go unanswered, and so the Oath outlasted massive corrections in what is moral, like ceasing to treat homosexuality as an illness.

Appealing to personal morality in the workplace is fine, but it's not the same as appealing to a professional standard.
Interestingly enough, I've heard that BMI mostly under-predicts problems. There are a lot more people at a higher body-fat percentage now than when BMI was developed, meaning that BMI assumes that the average person is leaner than they are.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/N-word
good connection! Personally, I'm expecting Kanye to go mothership funky and embrace his alien origin.
In view of some of what you wrote above, I'm compelled to note that Cook is generally well-informed and his posts are on target - as is this one. I think if you read through some of his posts you'd agree. Some of the ad hominem comments you made above are regrettable and baseless.

(About my own experience with floating point: I think I wrote my first Cholesky solver in K&R C in about 1986, while taking a course based on Golub and van Loan. This was before IEEE was sensibly implemented and you could observe significant FP differences across various Unix platforms.)
Adult industry historically had higher than normal share of chargebacks. Even though those are free to consumer, they are definitely costing banks.
A pretty printer, historically—going all the way back to indent—allowed the user to define a bespoke style guide, with a specific indent level, with one way to align braces, etc. You could implement GNU-style C code with indent; you could implement Allman-style C code; you could mix in your own preference for indent level.

As such, I think your complaints are misplaced. gofmt is not a pretty printer. It's designed to implement a single standard format—one which does not define a maximum line width—but nothing more.
Slack’s /feedback is stupendous. You get a human response in minutes. And they have live chat too.

Google for example makes it 1000x harder to give feedback and report bugs, which greatly limits the amount of quality feedback they get.

Anecdote: hangouts didn’t let us accept external users into a hangout today. Google will never know that because I have no easy way to tel them that.
This is consistent with my understanding, but:

- how serious are the side effects?

- how well would harmless placebo pills work in their place?

I currently believe that there needs to be a safe, placebo-like option for people without severe illnesses. For those who are severe (and can tolerate side effects as serious as suicidality), it still seems to be a good idea to prescribe them.
They actually have other uses, like measuring file similarity in sdhash and dimensionality reduction in machine learning.
I am obviously confused, as usual. I'm not used to reading these studies.

I'm looking at the study. I'm looking at the #3 graph under Tables and Functions Tab.

It says amitriptyline is the best drug? Isn't that an older drug, or am I misreading the chart?
Oh. Still doesn’t make any sense since I didn’t follow the soap opera but now at least I know what it means.
Um, you should have sed’d the whole sentence! J/K: totally absurd.
The number is under-represented because US English is not used worldwide:

ilovemymum: 7928
ilovemymam: 926
I'm not sure I follow. BMI is a objective (if arguably problematic) measurement. How would changes in population demographics change it's predictive usefulness?
The cryptocurrency decision was driven by higher than normal share of chargebacks. Even if the consumer is wrong, and bank eventually denies a refund on that BTC @ $16,000 purchase, there are processing and overhead costs that impact bank margins.
Aren't the licensed crops generally designed to not spread organically?

We're already dependent on too few crops. Genetic modification gives us more ways to increase diversity and preserve crops that would otherwise fall out of use.
Are people not understanding OSI model these days?

Is the flag icon the 'magic layer of mystery' now? eye twitch
I feel like the article made its case pretty well, but I really dislike idea that I need to duplicate my library into a "v2/" directory (or a different top level git repo) in practice. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this seems to be exactly what branches are for. If I'm not able to specify a branch name in the package "path" then there's something really wrong.
> giving up our anonymity and privacy amounts to unilateral disarmament while our enemies are holding us hostage at gunpoint

It occurs to me that many of the nastiest online spaces are ones with mixed anonymity levels. On Facebook, you use you real name but can mostly block out harassers. On 4chan, you can't stop harassment but you can detach completely from your identity with each post. On Twitter... well, on Twitter professionals using their real names get hounded across the internet and into real life by anonymous eggs. It's asymmetrical, which favors the people behaving abusively.

The temptation to crack down on those eggs is understandable, they're the ones misbehaving, but it assumes we can actually succeed. If we don't, and the history of mail and telephone misbehavior should lead us to expect failure, we've rendered every space asymmetrical, and given the benefits of anonymity exclusively to bad actors. Unilateral disarmament indeed...