skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing firearm ownership would reduce suicides: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/su...

The common response is that "people will just find another way" but that's not supported by evidence.

>“Anything that builds in delay is working in your favor because that fever-pitch time when you’re actually willing to swallow the poison or pull the trigger is often fairly narrow,” said Cathy Barber, who directs a suicide-reduction campaign at the Harvard School of Public Health.
> How wouldn't there be a cost?

How wouldn't there be a cost of switching between two languages? Normally. You
could try, you'd know then. Though the prerequisite is a system that is
designed, with clearly designated borders between the parts, not a system
that has just emerged.

Proving something's non-existence is a little like proving that you're not
a weapons smuggler. How would you expect to even start?

> There are more things you have to remember. Workflows in both languages. Of course it's more stuff, thus more context.

But this is irrelevant to switching between the languages. You have just as
much to remember if you write unrelated things, each in its own language.

> Is it just as easy to maintain Spanish and English skills than just English?

"Just as easy than"? Really? In a thread about languages?

You picked wrong analogy. It is just as easy to write prose with every second
paragraph in English and Spanish as it would be with just English. The
prerequisite, obviously, is that you know both languages.

> And you have to use both languages constantly to stay fresh in them.

For some value of "constantly". It's not like people forget everything about
a language when they don't use it for a week or a month.

> "I don't notice it" isn't a very strong argument.

Well, at least it's some argument. On your side is only "how wouldn't there
be a cost?", clearly from a position of somebody who doesn't use many
languages.
> The problem with sequestering CO2 as hydrocarbons is that you need to put a whole load of energy (embodied in the hydrogen you're combining it with) into the ground and leave it there.

That sounds like a problem into you translate it into "leave rice straw on the fields".
Drought in California's largest lake threatens locals with toxic dust
And I suppose one man's "successful negotiation" is another man's "fragile egomaniac taken advantage of again".

Much like his inaugural Carrier "negotiation", these things tend to fluff his ego, benefit the other party and somehow leave everyone else worse off.
Indeed.
With a bias and FUD, it is too easy to generalize anything.
1.4 Billion in penalties. I don't see any other President of the USA doing that. Its a WIN for us.
Seems like a good tool for professors at universities. For some classes my professors send out quizzes along with (mandatory watch) lecture videos (3-4 min) long and they track how much of it have you actually watched. Mostly to see if a student is actually putting up effort or simply copying.
MacOS Suspicious Package
Making it open source doesn't mean anybody could use it in a proper manner - I guess it's a ton of services which need a lot of setup and management as it's purposely build to support a few million repos and users.
Relevant recent SSC post: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/31/in-search-of-missing-us...
If you think Trump has nothing to do with this, you have clearly not understanding of big data.
The hypothesis being that there is some upper limit to suicide rate that a society will tend to approach asymptotically but never reach?
Unless there is an /increase/ in how much people are being told something analogous/similar to that, I'm not sure how that would explain an /increase/ in the rate.

Is there a reason you would expect the harm from things of that sort to have increased as of late?
Microsoft does have Monaco used in Azure and VSTS online tooling.
Won't you know before the article is published?
Reminded me of their first principle, and how well they did with that one: "Don't be evil"
It's a PITA for any reasonably large/old CVS repo. Partly because CVS is fundamentally broke.
Seems weird to start a post with a disclaimer that it's not political and then make a clearly political point...

Maybe people just REALLY hate working... https://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/us-unemployment-r...
Funny how I'm the exact opposite. I like Chrome for general browsing because my bookmarks and open tabs are known to all other devices, out of the box. Besides that, it seems faster.

I use Firefox Developer Edition for dev work. I prefer Fx's tools, and it's a walled garden where I don't have any other plugins that could possibly interfere with anything I'm doing.
I am not familiar with any exit scam that was done based on issuing crypto-powered company shares, which is the topic of discussion. None of the ones you mentioned seem to fall into that category. Most are MLM type stuff.

Where you got the idea that I'm denying the existence of ICO scams, I'll never know.
Same here. It's a "better Javascript" for me as well.
My constraints force me to use JS for what I'm building, and Haxe does a great job of insulating me from having to write and maintain a large codebase in JS.
Still missing context. Are schoolyard bullies actually doing this to other kids? Or are you talking about something else? Can you speak plainly and not use analogies?
Well, there's two sides to that. The other being they may be using their position of power to strong arm less powerful people into an affair, then discrediting their lover to cover their ass. Even if you don't care about that person being mistreated, it tells you something about their general priorities and how likely they are to be generally corrupt.
I wonder how a Spring WebFlux [1] variant of the spring benchmark would perform in comparison. Also the spring benchmark has been updated to use a recent spring boot release about a month ago [2]. Before that it was using spring boot 1.3.5.

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-...
[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/commits/m...
Call me skeptical. Hydrocarbon fuels have a lot of energy in the chemical bonds. That's why they are good as fuel!

Making hydrocarbons from CO2 will require hydrogen and energy. Where does that energy come from? Maybe solar, or wind, which would actually be a good use assuming this process can stop and start as sun/wind is available, but the amount of solar panels or windmills needed to replace current amount of energy sourced from petroleum would seem to me to be staggering (I haven't done the math).
Your own sources offer a good perspective, if one takes the time to read them.

Ethanol has been promoted as a ‘green’ fuel because its combustion tends to produce lower emissions of carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and NOx than petrol. But the impact on air quality of a wholesale transition from petrol to ethanol has been difficult to assess, with different atmospheric chemistry models predicting a variety of consequences. [...] air-quality campaigners should not start advocating for petrol instead of ethanol quite yet. Increased petrol burning clearly raised levels of NOx, which also poses direct health concerns, and it probably boosted the amount of particulate matter in the air, something the study did not look at. And because every city has its own unique air chemistry, a similar fuel switch might produce very different results in London or Los Angeles. Nevertheless, says Salvo, the findings illustrate that “ethanol is not a panacea”.

So, maybe I'm wrong in claiming it reduces smog, due to an ozone increase at the same time as NOx is decreased. The important point though, is why ethanol is interesting in the first place. It's not supposed to be a petrol replacement, it's an additive to modify the combustion. Specifically, by increasing the oxygen available in the combustion chamber for more complete combustion- aka a fuel oxygenate.

The second link, FWIW, specifically addresses "ethanol as fuel", which is different from "ethanol as additive to improve emissions of petrol".

"Fueling the automobile fleet primarily with ethanol rather than gasoline might increase air pollution"

Environmental engineer Mark Jacobson of Stanford University used a computer model to assess how the air pollution in the U.S. would react if vehicles remained primarily fueled by gasoline in 2020 or if the fleet transferred to a fuel that was a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, so-called E85.
The other comments are spot-on. I'll just add that the neutrinos flavors are defined by the way they interact: electron neutrinos interact to produce electrons, never muons. So they're quite different in that sense, and in the current Standard Model of particle physics, they're treated as independent particles. (This is not to say that in the future, we won't require a more comprehensive model that could relate particles in a deeper way.)

We know from experiments like LEP (electron-positron collisions) that there are only three kinds of neutrinos that participate in weak interactions (electron, muon, and tau). Thus the fourth neutrino type suggested by these anomalous oscillation measurements cannot interact via the weak force, meaning it doesn't interact at all,* hence sterile. The only way to detect them is through their influence on the oscillations of other neutrino types.

* They'd still feel gravity, which isn't included in the Standard Model anyway.
The correct stat is "50% of all bankruptcies include medical debt". That doesn't mean the medical debt caused the bankruptcy. It could be a $10 co-pay they didn't pay, but the $50,000 in credit card debt that sank them.

Keep in mind, health problems are actually a major cause of bankruptcy in countries with universal coverage like Canada as well. It's nice when your healthcare is paid for, but if you can't work, bankruptcy is a major problem as well.
People will always put their own comfort in front of any real ideals or morals. That is, people talk the talk but don't walk the walk. You see it with all the idiots still using Facebook.
The accelerationism of the world is really taking it's toll. I feel like the political and economical system is, idk, a result of over-application of certain tenets that might have been justified in the past but are increasingly less valid but certain forces are clinging to them because these tenets are all they have.

It's not just the US, the world feels like such a blur. Very important and fucked up things are happening multiple times daily. Things that don't affect me but a lot of times actually really do. Some thousand year old struggles seem to be getting kicked into the internet age and as a result the whole world is getting involved in local conflicts and is forced to take sides.

I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don't know what but I'm all ears.
Very simple question that the article completely failed to address: does the process output more energy in the form of gasoline than it takes in? I am quite certain that the answer is, NO, which means that the factory ends up putting more CO2 into the atmosphere than it is taking out...unless the factory itself runs on renewable energy, in which case who needs it at all.
"We would have to buy / own rights to the photographs before we could use them to train..."

Is this actually true?
Nevada looks to be in the top 10 states by suicide rate.

Comparing to this map is interesting: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/...

Looking at the map from the article, you might think that NY, IL, WI, OR and WA are all in the same boat, but suicide rate in NY is half that in OR.
I second the use of statemachine for embedded systems.

They’re particularly ideal for embedded systems. The limited ram in many embedded systems makes a full dynamic language difficult to fit but a state chart interpreter can be very minimal while production runs can be compiled directly to code. Memory management in state charts can often be much easier to handle.

There’s also a lot of benefit to describing valid states for your system both in terms of correctness and the ability of algorithmically finding an optimal reduced state machine.

Personally I am fond of SCXML as it’s fairly concise, can include code snippets, and has a relatively well documented standard easy to display by converting to Vue/React/WebComponents. XMI with its connection to UML didn’t seem appealing to me, but this project seems pretty robust!
You forgot the third option: are both caused by a third independent variable.

For instance, economic situation could influence both political views and mental health.
We currently have only one person in our entire company of 15-20 people who uses both Android and Windows, and have been considering just buying her an iPod so she can use iMessage/Facetime.
Potentially filter for people who have a demonstrated history of successfully freelancing. They've likely learned how they work most efficiently already.
Have you spent much time around Grand Junction? There's much more to western CO than just mountains. And the grazing land isn't terribly valuable. I don't know the CO specific figures, but the statewide average in Wyoming is 40 acres/1 head cattle, and western CO has a similar climate.

Honestly, WY would be a better place for this, but the state government has its head way too far up the coal industries rear for that to get much traction.
The map absolutely does not make that clear. It could equally be the case that minorities are dying by suicide more in communities where they are totally engulfed by white folks (or folks of any other characteristic that matches the map distribution).
I don't have time to follow the links and dig into the data quality but a recent SSC post[0] claims "Blacks and Hispanics have only about half the suicide rate of whites", which seems pretty strong to be accounted for by average age differences.

[0]http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/31/in-search-of-missing-us...
I run a small church. It's pretty much the same idea, except for YHVH.
Resources for Experimentation (A/B testing)
Hello, I'm a data scientist with statistical background on Experimentation (A/B testing).

But I want to learn more about the following. Can you please point to resources/books etc.
1) Metric design
2) Practical experimentation skills
3) I'm in a Growth team (which is looking to acquire and retain users) and would also prefer any proven resources related to Growth team concepts.

Thank you
Crybullying against $insertGroupYouDon'tLike has gained popularity over the past decade, at the very least from "not a concept" to extant.
It's not really surprising that middle-aged men who have been raked over the coals in a divorce and left with a hole they'll never get out of, would opt for an end to the pain.
Strawman aside, the current political climate is certainly growing more hostile and polarized as the societal pendulum swings away. It's probably not a coincidence that most who commit suicide are male and the worst of it are in predominately white states which also just so happen to have lagging economic growth.
> we need to accept the fact that people are going to die following incidents with autonomous vehicles involved.

Car accidents will kill people at least as long as there are any human-piloted vehicles on the road and probably long after (pedestrians, etc.)

What doesn't need to happen is companies in the self-driving space recklessly exaggerating their cars' ability to self-drive.
Where in that AMA is there a reference to zoning being defined at the state level? I did not see it in the long starting post.
I completely agree and should have put something about sample size in that comment. However there are no red flags yet in the statistics and I think that is important.

Think of it like flipping a coin. We decide to flip a coin 4 times and get 2 heads and 2 tails. That wouldn't be enough to draw any meaningful conclusions about whether the coin is fair or if it is weighted to one side, but I would feel a lot better about that result than if the coin ended up on the same side 4 times.
I don't think it would be controversial to say that the amount of people saying that to/about white males has gone up recently.
Not being used for anything? What, exactly, do you think agriculture looks like?
True, but the new energy could be renewable/clean.

In that case, it's like you're using hydrocarbons as a storage and transport mechanism for renewables. Also lets you have nearly net-zero carbon emissions from the billions of hydrocarbon-burning engines in the world.
And then there's Patchwork which can be easily integrated with Jenkins.
The best way to lead is by example. Thank you, Googlers.

The choice not to accept business is a hard one. I've recently turned away from precision-metrology work where I couldn't be certain of its intent; in every other way, it was precisely the sort of work I'd like to do, and the compensation was likely to be good.

These stated principles are very much in line with those that I've chosen; a technology's primary purpose and intent must be for non-offensive and non-surveillance purposes.

We should have a lot of respect for a company's clear declaration of work which it will not do.
Can you clarify this quotation? What is the source, who is speaking, to whom are they speaking?
It's a cheap method for branding. No designer needed :)
If there's ever a reminder to be kind to others and to talk to people who might need help, this is it.
Well you used to be able to buy a nice craftsman home from the Sears catalog, and many of them are still in use today.
They paid for the user / project base. Open sourcing would not affect that. It seems like a brilliant idea and a real possibility to me.
But then it has a chance to become biomass for bacteria, plants, and fungi instead of atmospheric CO2.
Are you kidding? Social pressure to make people feel worthless if you don't toe the line on liberal issues has absolutely skyrocketed.
Two People Killed in First Crash of Electric Airplane
Unfortunately most consumers want behavior like this.
I'm not sure it's in Tesla's financial interest. Misleading statements give the plaintiffs more room to argue for punitive damages, and California juries have awarded tremendous punitive damages on auto companies.
Warren Ellis.
I'd like to chime in and add that I've had to rebuild an entire Visual Programming Language (think Scratch, but free of text) to migrate away from Flash.
I picked Haxe, and it has been a solid language+compiler for what I needed (transpile to JS, and now my code runs on any modern browser).
Thinking about MS's recent acquisitions, how long will it take to recoup the money they spent on: LinkedIn, MineCraft and now GitHub?

LinkedIn: $26b

MineCraft: $2.5b

Github: $7.5b
Meanwhile, a Chinese state investment puts $500 million dollars towards an Indonesian project heavily involving Trump properties, golf courses and branding.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/china-contributing-500-m...

Peddling influence and using government for personal profit seems par for the course in this administration.

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/16/trumps-bizarre-zte-tweets-p...
>> In the article, they cite enough statements made by specific people at specific organizations to support the headline - it's not peer-reviewed academic research, sure, but it's not like they are just making stuff up either.

The 'support' is that the PR department of the company said it. You think corporations always give you unbiased information? They are strongly incentivized, as the comment pointed out, to claim that contracts may be canceled due to reason X when the reality is far more complex. The cost for claiming this is so incredibly low that there is no reason not to do it.
> Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

> We want to be clear that while we are not developing AI for use in weapons, we will continue our work with governments and the military in many other areas. These include cybersecurity, training, military recruitment, veterans’ healthcare, and search and rescue.

I wonder if this is an official response to the people at Google[1] who were protesting[2] against Project Maven.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-...

[2] https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/technology/googleletter....
Try reading Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, from what you just said it sounds like you might really like it. He covers a lot of the themes you're talking about in a really approachable way

As for what other conception of states can exist, socialism is pretty cool I think
> Tesonet was previously used as outsourced HR before we incorporated our own entity in Vilnius

But your entity's business address in Lithuania is still Tesonet's HQ. And Tesonet runs the entire technical infrastructure needed for a VPN service. So, are you partners or competitors?
> why is it suddenly gaining tracking in 2017-18

For data science and machine learning, it makes sense because the most popular packages are all in Python at this moment (strictly speaking, they have interfaces in Python but the underlying native code is in C++).

For academics who do data analysis and scientific computing, the last few years have seen an explosion of scientific packages available in Python. The major packages, NumPy/SciPy/matplotlib/pandas, also become more feature-complete to the point that one can do everything that is used to be done in MATLAB now in this set of packages. That's free MATLAB with better performance and more potential for optimization. No wonder people are switching to the Python ecosystem.
Lessons learned Working from Home
But business’ change and then so does your models? And it can change radically. Or different laws forces you to change the whole database, like with GDPR.

I do agree with the OP just this reasoning doesn’t resonate with my experience in regards with modeling. Quite frankly, because the data is a result of the business and if it changes the data and the models have to do it too.
Github is only a high profile Git peer. If it explodes someone just pushes up to a different repo hosting site or goes back to trading chagesets some other way.
So, in this analogy, white people are the victims, and minorities are the bullies?

I guess if you strip all historical context out of the racial issues, ignore current inequalities, and just focus on what people on Tumblr are saying, I guess you could come to that conclusion, but you have to intentionally avoid a lot of stuff to reach that
The hack-ability of the two products is pretty different, right? The reason Vim Mode Plus (for Atom) is so amazing is due to GitHub's original internal plugin for Vim emulation being a "first-class-ish" citizen. The fork has gotten incredibly amazing. VSCode's vim emulation is fairly basic. That's not to say that it couldn't get better, just that it's not a design goal for VSCode.
> AI applications we will not pursue [...] Technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. [...] Weapons or other technologies

This statement will have zero impact on subsequent sensational headlines or posters here claiming Google is making killbots.
As someone who has only ever lived in dense urban metropolitan cities, can you tell me about some of the things midsize cities offer more of?
When I say "they dominate in tech" I mean to say that they implied tech bros dominate in tech. (As in when you bring up tech they'll rattle off the big named ceos)
And anyone interested in SCXML, there’s a similar project https://github.com/tklab-tud/uscxml
I’d disagree strongly. I’d argue that “Pull down to refresh” is still a bit of a geeky trick. Either way, you’d want a lot of user testing.
I've heard that no one attempts suicide twice, but guns make it more likely that their first attempt succeeds
And specifically (and overwhelmingly) males. My own experience would point anecdotally toward it as well, as the four people whom I knew personally who died by suicide were white male Americans.