skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We pay $375 for a 40-minute infusion

Having no knowledge on the matter, what's the price comparison to just buying ketamine illegally and taking it without a doctor's help?

Depression is like (or possibly is) a form of chronic pain. People suffering from it severely might be willing to do anything for relief. Here's good information that a currently-illegal drug can help but if you want to do it legally you might need to take on a third job just to pay the costs.

It reminds me a bit of the South Park episode[0] where 'concentrated dose of about $180,000 shot directly into the bloodstream' is discovered as the cure to AIDS. Volunteers inform poverty-stricken Africa that all those suffering from AIDS have to do is inject themselves with piles of cash.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsil_Trouble
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> I dont understand why this gets downvoted.

I have a suspicion: many people in the tech world do not like it when someone points out that the tech world is very much at fault for what happened.

Many people (tm), especially here, believe in the Holy Free Market as the Solution To All Problems... and having someone show them that the total lack of regulation did cause issues is bound to cause discomfort.
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Well, when I was 12 I used that command in a batch file with an infinite goto loop effectively lock up my sister's computer, so we might want something a bit more robust than that.
Ketamine isn't a pain reliever. It's a dissociative hallucinogen. It works by disconnecting you from sensory input and putting you in something like a lucid dream.
Isn't MSDOS.SYS a binary? Are you sure you don't mean CONFIG.SYS?
I just came back from China. I could not message my loved ones, check my mail, update my social media, or listen to internet radio. This was not Facebook's fault, it was not even China's fault (though they were the ones blocking me). It was the fault of the way we use existing technology.

So Facebook is banned. Fine. That shouldn't stop me from being able to at least send data somewhere that will end up at Facebook. And I should have been able to send an e-mail that bounced through intermediary relays without connecting to Gmail's servers.

A lot of the web that _could_ be peer to peer isn't. And it's not because it is difficult, but because we simply haven't decided to use it that way. Email is the oldest, most successful distributed decentralized application. It does not require complex consensus. It does not use distributed databases. And it just works. You don't even need to be connected to the end server. There's no reason the web couldn't work like this. It is feasible today.

On top of this, where your web content is stored should be simple: it should be stored on a device in your pocket, and cached and distributed on servers around the world, just like email already is. Again, no complex algorithms are needed for this. A very simple design could accomplish this with existing technology, and perhaps an extension to a protocol's RFC and an update to some core software.
It is somewhat ironic to see such an article coming from the VP of a large publisher. How can he seriously suggest to use Feedly as tool for finding relevant and high-quality content? Where one of a publisher's main services is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to guide the reader to content useful for them.

The whole issue I see with these articles is that they view the Web mainly from the content producer side. However, the majority of Web use is consuming content. And also the problem of the few walled gardens is on the consuming side. Everybody can nowadays put content on the Web with ease outside of these gardens. It is just hard to get attention for that content.

So if you really want to make the Web more distributed again, you need to come up with models for distributed relevance assessment, spam filtering, quality checking, etc. Work on a new 'Web infrastructure' totally misses the point.

(context: I have worked in P2P research for a while)
I run a popular forum in a certain niche -- and have played around with discourse as an alternative. It doesn't seem to solve any important issues with growing a community. Additionally, it is rather difficult to customize, making it even harder to solve problems specific to my community. I am not a professional coder, but I can hack pretty much anything I need into my php based forum.

Though, maybe discourse has gotten better since I tried it a couple of years ago.
I definitely meant that as "being based off Eclipse it comes with these advantages, but caveat emptor otherwise". Honestly I use Eclipse for all my Java dev at work, and compared with the OSX implementation of PGAdmin III, it's well worth the shortcomings.
Completely agree. It's worth reading older literature to see this effect first-hand!

To add to your point, language frames reality through its structure, and meaningful concepts that are "missing" from a language may be missing from conversations in that language. For instance, the Pirahã language has no concept of numbers or time! English itself is missing some nice features, such as efficient agglutinative words (backpfeifengesicht) and emotional context added to words (perrazo vs perro).

I don't know if any language does these concepts well:
* Relative positioning in greater than three dimensions
* Quick and clear way to indicate that a point being made applies universally versus being limited to the current context under discussion (and vice-versa). You could do this with a separate statement but it would get tiring very quickly.
* Clear and efficient expression of degree of certitude. For instance, being able to convey how much evidence you have for an argument, or being able to express a statement as purely speculative, without having to explicitly append that as a separate statement.
* An elegant way to "tag" a statement as metaphor, or even as being an intentional oversimplification for the purpose of brevity.

We may solve some of these gaps over time. After all, the internet brought us "/s", which I both despise and grudgingly accept as necessary.

In terms of this discussion, perhaps what we're missing is a suffix that indicates whether or not we're using a word in a slightly different way than is traditionally intended. I see this all the time, especially in philosophy, and it can be incredibly frustrating for the reader. It's an issue in politics as well, but good luck solving that one.
The reason being, perhaps, to have a version without known bugs or vulnerabilities. I wish everyone was that aggressive in patching.
Everybody is talking about a decentralized Facebook alternative, but can't we build "federated shopping", where independent shop owners join in an Amazon-like shopping experience (for the customer), with reviews based on proof-of-purchase, using smart contracts/blockchain technology?
Not really a binary question. So it might be better to think about it as what mix of stocks(including the one I work for) should I own with my portfolio? Especially since my job is tied in with XYZ company. Anything less than 50% in the broad market would be very risky. In fact you might want to think about aghast some % bonds.
Slitaz would blew both 8 and Mint. Try it.
We don’t yet have a substitute for asking complex questions about the source material.
If you look into the data on fatal accidents and examine them even for a few minutes you'll easily see that this is a foolhardy bet.

Quoting the linked article:

At the moment, most AEB systems are "forward-looking". In other words they are designed to prevent crashes where one car runs into the back of another.

Such crashes account for around a quarter of all accidents, but these are the incidents which can cause some of the nastiest injuries, such as whiplash.

AEB has been shown to reduce such collisions by 38%, according to research by the safety organisation Euro NCAP.
Twitter is probably a better indicator if there are AWS problems than their dashboard unfortunately...
It was my neighbour and his C64 that got me into BBSs back in the 80s, and even when I finally got a modem for my Atari ST I was somewhat jealous of the unique characteristics of the C64 BBS community. The PETSCII graphics + colour aspects of those BBSs were really nice. I don't see any of that in this video, but there was some really fantastic artwork in the C64 BBS community.
I attribute the issues the web is having today with one simple fact: We never democratized home servers. If routers came out with home-server capabilities that were standardized for data transfers we would not be here today. Simple as that. Is that to say that adoption of home-servers is impossible because users would have never adopted them? That's a non-technical issue I frankly have no idea what the answer is. I'd like to think that if people of all walks are capable of plugging in a wifi router and logging in/signing up to social media websites, they would also be capable of managing their home server (as long as the UI was nice enough.) but I have no way of knowing if that's true or not.
> We just need to tweak the advertising model to disable their entire business model.

FTFY
The employee may get paid by the reporting agency, or have friends in journalism who are also enthusiasts.
Accuracy of ML models is lower than the worst of statistical ones for timeseries
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I like that definition! Not least because it means Futhark qualifies as an array language: i32.product (map (1+) (iota n)). I have also heard the more fundamentalist definition that if you have to say 'map', then it is not an array language.
Well that'll teach that poor bastard to ask a question here, good job!
Thanks for commenting. After reading your response, I added "his actions while testifying" to be more clear, although I was speaking to them in the rest of my piece.
Those lists should have RSS feeds of their own. I feel like I'd much rather have "active" as my primary feed.
That is an incentive to insurers only if they are paying the price or if the lower costs to a specific group of consumers increases their market share. Since most costs are passed on to the consumers and most consumers don't get to pick their insurance (in the U.S.) , the incentives aren't there.
20 years later. What does Guy Steele thing about how Java ended up? We still have no operator overloading, no value types. There are plans, sure, but Java grows very slowly. Good thing? Bad thing?

Does anyone know if there is a follow up on this?
Why does an article about boycotting Amazon try to convince you to share their content directly to Amazon's servers? Seems to me like the author does not believe in this mission one bit and is just writing clickbait.

Author, if you're reading this, you ought to live by your words and reduce at least your Amazon supporting activities in the very article you are complaining about their doninance in. Remove that Reddit share icon and everything eles that sends data to Amazon, or we'll all assume you don't care about this, you're just in it for the money and the fame and the clicks. With that Reddit share button, you make it clear you want us to use Amazon a lot to spread your content far and wide.

Can't have it both ways.
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> But people discounting coding GUIs left and right, just because they haven't seen a good example of it yet, only discourages others to explore it further. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, to some degree

And there are good examples from the past, too. History is important and is often ignored by the wider programming community. Personal computing was more or less invented in GUI programming systems. There are environments and architectures from the 1970s that are highly relevant today but that are ignored or downplayed in the mainstream. Such an attitude will stifle progress for sure.
kind of like brick and mortar retailers are "forced" to do?
> until ISPs start offering subsidized plans for Facebook, Gmail, Spotify, Twitter, and expensive plans for everything else.

Is priced content worse than the current situation, where services are monetized exclusively by essentially running malware on the user's machine?
The $70m round in 2015 was likely for 10-20% equity, meaning a valuation between 350m and 700m. With that in mind, it's virtually no gain or possibly a loss.

The article actually mentioned a latest valuation iirc that said the last round investors had ~no positive return.

I agree with the evaluation of risk, though.
Isn't that a little like ebay or aliexpress?
This was not Facebook's fault, it was not even China's fault

Absolute shite. It's 100% China's fault. Given the widespread, damaging, lingering ramifications of the lack of security on the Internet in general, the absolute last thing we should be doing is promoting the idea that this information and these connections should be less secure.

I am baffled that anybody could even propose this idea.
I just bought a 2018 Subaru Impreza with Eyesight (their suite of ACC, braking, lane assist, etc). I was driving on the freeway into work less than a week after I bought the car and had someone pull out in front of me without signaling or slowing down. The car stopped itself before I had a chance to react and saved me from what could have been a really bad accident.
I recognize this kind of story. I also suffered pretty horrendous abuse from both parents growing up. I partly credit weed for self-treatment of extreme social anxiety, and being able to get out into the world and function, if only poorly. I also took LSD and MDMA, but not nearly as much. I'll certainly credit LSD with ... other things, but that's another story.
This figure is a good overview of the models performance for this study.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=l...
What does blockchain add to this?
I think this explanation makes sense?

The source of the noise at any given moment is where the tire is (or has just caused) the strip to vibrate. That point is moving away from the observer about as fast as the car is moving away from the observer

So, the doppler effect is present since the point of friction is moving to a different point on the road, even if the road is stationary.
Typing these characters is quite annoying though. The characters for most programming languages are readily visible on a 108 key keyboard, which means they’re easy to remember and teach.
It's happened with MDMA via maps.org

Why not? Probably need about $25M - $50M

Also Ketamine seems to be pallative vs. a cure, if I'm not mistaken.
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Just a nitpick about the wine business - he claimed to have taken over the operations for some time and then stepped away (not inherited.)

He does give some practical advice for young people, like be willing to sacrifice your 20s. Besides that I’m not sure how helpful the rest of his stuff is. He believes FB and IG ads are currently underpriced. I think he makes predictions based on observing what people are putting their moment to moment attentions on, calling it “day-trading” attention.

Honestly I’m wary of charismatic / hype / inspirational speakers / performance coaches as much of HN likely is. But I think he’s not bad for the younger generation, and at least he has some entrepreneurial experience, if that means anything.
SSL isn't some slap-on after the fact that does nothing - it renders traffic unreadable to anyone in the middle, and unalterable. The fact that China deems any content it cannot read as immediately forbidden says way more about China than it does about "our current state of tech".
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EU is about to enforce GDPR. Net neutrality seems to be American problem, while rest of the world is moving to the opposite direction.

Which economy has better prospects in the long run? Currently internet is very U.S. centric because most of the big players are located there. That could change if European legislation is more supportive for small agile companies to evolve.
Yeah, this is basically a variation of the POTAXOR strategy [1]. Well, whatever it takes to get it into the hands of sick people! But I think it is a commentary on the system that it will take decades after we had good evidence for ketamine's effectiveness.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescriptio...
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> You can't become a web developer by viewing Facebook's source; but you might by looking at a new site that isn't weighed down by all that CSS and JavaScript.

I agree that web bloat is a problem, but why is it the responsibility of web developers to teach users of their site how to code? Is there any other area of software development where that's the case? Even major FOSS projects aren't designed to easily enable new developers to "copy the code they want".
> I'm not sure I'd look to a psychiatrist to be an expert on the physical (not mental/emotional) effects of alcohol.

Why not? Psychiatrists are MDs.
I feel we barely have a notion on how to teach other humans how to teach, let alone a computer.
>Do programmers only consider their own code sacrosanct, but anyone else's creative output free game?

I don't, and I share as much as I can after losing things a couple times.

It's important to keep in mind though that software is really fundamentally different than art: software is a liability and has to be maintained whereas a work of art is (usually) more or less created once. The models that support software development probably don't work well with art.
Perhaps you can also provide a reference to how risk-taking is inherently an undesirable genetic component that should be weeded out.
Investor interest.
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>Elliott Morris of Redditch, Worcestershire, was sentenced to eight and a half years for conspiracy to supply cannabis.

Great, just great. Let's jail someone for eight fucking years because they are supplying people with Marijuana. That seams reasonable.
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You can prove that your reviewer is the same person as the person who paid with blockchain. I'm just not sure how to do so if the customer pays with traditional means.
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Ensuring that you can only place a review for an item if you have purchased the item.

Or similarly for placing a review about a shop.
Why don't they load one of those port-a-potties on one of those Kiva robots and drive it over to your work area. It's still in human..but better than a bottle.
> Contrast with the US which keeps it's NSA spying and data collection private. Until it isn't.

I think the USA is a bit behind China and the UK in applying surveillance technology to target individuals for petty things. Sure , it's technologically viable, but it seems there's no will yet to punish the evil jay walker with the full force of law.
They recently redone the whole web part (and supposedly the backend as well since they changed usernames), it's a bit expected to have some issues. Gandi is an old company now, there's probably some very old legacy code they had to remove.
My take on it is that B2B customers are difficult and expensive to acquire and Adecco has a relationship with 100,000 leads. Seems like a good acquisition to me.
Honest question: consumers are notoriously ill-informed, companies are good at propaganda and fake "clinical" evidence, and finding out if medicines ate effective AND safe is really complex.

How do you imagine abolishing the FDA would improve outcomes instead of increasing supplies (and marketing) of snake oil?
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How well does ATR actually work?
This is similar to what Jet's original vision was. Since the shipping cost is baked into the price of items sold online, Jet would have you buy from local retailers who could bundle the items they sold you, allowing the consumer to save money since the shipping costs were cheaper.

Great idea in theory, not sure how it's working out in practice. I think Jet had trouble establishing a brand - it was acquired in September 2016 by Wal-Mart.
This is hands down the most hilarious ICO ever invented
Wont/cant are indistinguishable when you really don't want to do something.

I'm no moral crusader, but I very rarely use Amazon. In the last 12 months I've ordered 2 things, a jeweler kit and a charger. If I were trying to affect a boycott I could have last year easily!

I'm intrigued by the idea of someone who has tethered their life to an online shopping experience. Maybe THAT is who buy Amazon Echos.
There's no tangible benefit big enough for the added complexity and maintenance cost.

What exactly do you get from incremental brake lights?
The thing that worked for me was to not renew my Prime membership. It then became much easier to force myself to use something like eBay. It's really difficult to wait those 5 extra days for shipping but makes me feel a little better nonetheless. For cloud I use Azure.
I vividly remember how big AOL was in Germany in the 1990s. It was that (the easy option) - or the rather complicated "traditional ISPs" which required no small amount of technical expertise to get to work.

AOL only really died when they decided to block port 25 to make you use their webmailer.
Those are two separate things. OP is talking about the pipe being monetized. That is an extra charge we will pay just to get to the sites that then monetize via ads or gathering our data.
Most of the time you can just buy the same thing in another place. Maybe it's different in the US but here in Europe I don't find Amazon better or faster than any random e-commerce website, so it's pretty trivial to boycott them.

In fact, I do avoid buying from them as I don't like the way they treat their employees.
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APL, (which is the array language I had some exposure to), had three
interesting characteristics:

1. It implements an algebra: Operators take arrays as input and yield
arrays as output.

2. The special characters bound to those array operators.

3. It is functional.

#2 definitely gave APL programs a distinct and elegant personality,
but probably didn't help with widespread adoption.

But #1 and #3 are powerful ideas, and have showed up in other
forms. SETL was a set-oriented language from the late 70s/early 80s. I
took compiler courses from the guy behind it, R. B. K. Dewar (of
Spitbol fame). Fantastic teacher. SETL programs were concise and
powerful like APL programs, exactly because of #1 and #3.

Later in my grad school career, I got into relational algebra, which
also has these characteristics. My advisor was T. H. Merrett who
engaged on a many-years, quixotic quest to explore relational algebra
as the basis of a general-purpose programming language. I didn't buy
into all of that, but as a database guy, I find relational algebra to
be powerful and useful on a day-to-day basis.

Finally, I really like functional stream approaches as a great way to
bridge set-at-a-time programming (for lack of a better term) with
ordinary, low-level programming. Java 8 streams and lambdas is a great
(if flawed) example of this approach. Even Map/Reduce is, under the
vast amounts of complexity.

I like this approach so much that I built a command-line tool, osh
(http://github.com/geophile/osh) based on it. The idea there is the
Unix idea of composing simple commands using pipes, except in osh, the
pipes carry streams of Python objects. And the commands that operate
on the objects in these streams are Python. E.g., to print the pids
and commands of processes whose commandline contains "emacs":

$ osh ps ^ select 'p: "emacs" in p.commandline' ^ f 'p: (p.pid, p.commandline)' $
(37268, '/usr/bin/emacs24 ')
(42107, 'emacs ')
(63758, '/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/osh ps ^ select p: "emacs" in p.commandline ^ f p: (p.pid, p.commandline) $ ')
(113605, '/usr/bin/emacs24 ')
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