skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I found an advocate for rationality in Richard Sloan, a professor of behavioural medicine at Columbia University. He said that when it comes to hypertension and other health problems, Americans put too much faith in the power of personal agency.

Isn't that the truth. Another example came to mind immediately which is the treatment of alcoholism. AA is really big in the United States but has abysmal recovery rates, whereas preliminary studies with muscle relaxants have shown great promise.

Yet in public discourse diseases are treated like one's 'personal demons', a 'challenge that has to be overcome' and so on. It almost seems like a personal growth lifestyle change rather than an objective medical assessment with programs like AA suggesting opening oneself up to 'higher powers' in their official guidelines.

There really needs to be a big culture shift that moves health debate from a sort of Puritanism to objective medical evaluation that keeps the personal angle out. Especially when it comes to drug abuse and dietary related illnesses. Obesity is a big issue as well.
Reddit and hn are quite different in the sense that HN actively (allegedly) attempts to fight against clickbait / mislabeled titles where resdit (in general) leaves that up to the subreddits to manage which (in general) do nothing.
Even the metaphor used is wrong. A few bad apples in a barrel will make the whole thing rot. A cop that covers for another is equally rotten so I simply do not believe there are any non-rotten cops. They might not commit the torture, rape, and murder of unarmed people themselves, but they'll do anything to defend those cops that do. That's somehow ethical in the mind of many and thus they applied the phrase "a few bad apples" about as well as they apply their ethical principles: terribly. So "a few bad apples it is": aka all police are rotten scum. Their logic, not mine.
I'd love to hear more about how they achieve this efficiency!
I know it's too much to ask, and this accomplishment is impressive, but when I read the headline I thought that solving Rubik's Cube 'without assistance' might mean building a mechanical apparatus to solve the cube.
Isn't there a new cathode material promising manyfold improvement announced about every three weeks or so?

I'd like to see one of them actually deliver in new batteries. But instead, the 50% or so improvement we've seen over the last ten years have all been because of incremental refinement.

Color me skeptical until it's proven in production.
Do you remember if it was Steve Duda, the guy who owns XFER Records? He was an engineer for NIN in the late 90's.
Google Releases VR180 Creator for Linux and Mac Only
Because most people can't understand research or how it's done, so there is not enough pressure to change anything. I found the books by Ben Goldacre to be enlightening. He has a ted talk as well I believe.
I wonder what happens when it catches fire?
It's an uncomfortably mixed metaphor.
Is this a joke from the literal police?
Could modify debug symbols to contain git blame output then collect it in a profiler.

We'd probably just learn who wrote the busy/wait kernel loop.
I remember reading that it's because they're impossible to do: the only option would be to lock people up in a room and only feed them exactly the same food on a schedule for months.
I did say in my first post that I understand it can be abused. I don't mean to claim that nobody has ever used ketamine for such purposes.

I do think that the original article and some of the other ones linked draw wholly unnecessary connections between ketamine and date rape. As you note, it is a very minor use case, and alcohol itself is far more often implicated in these situations, yet we don't read articles that casually mention "the date rape drug alcohol."

I don't think there is any special conspiracy against ketamine, but it's just part of the way major media outlets distort these things to play up shock/outrage/drama.
I've been trying to understand why I would use WebComponents over vue/react. Like, if you're going to use a layer on top of WebComponents, why not use something like Vue anyway. Their single file components allow you to compose your templates together <my-widget>Some slot content</my-widget> etc..

I'm struggling to see the use of Web Components. And how easily it's going to be to compose WebComponents in with your custom frameworks' components, I wonder how easy that is going to be (e.g. passing props down to a web component).

It seems that you'll still be better off just picking a framework for the next wee while anyway.

Still, I'll look forward to your updated article ;)
If you have a reasonable hash function, why is power-of-two and bitmasking bad? If you're uniformly distributed over a range N you'll be uniformly distributed over N/2
http://www.sikuli.org/ is a crossplatform Python equivalent (and IDE with built-in UI capturing).

There's also https://github.com/go-vgo/robotgo for the Go world.
You just named 0.1% of the revenue of the tech industry.

Closed:

Google search. Windows. Office. Facebook. Cisco. Intel. Amazon AWS. Amazon retail. Most Adobe products. Most Oracle products. iOS and most of what Apple does. Salesforce. Workday. Most of what nVidia does. Most of what Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and pretty much every other chip maker does. Most of what Samsung does. The core software of: PayPal, Square, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, et al. The list keeps going.

Most of what every major tech company does is closed off.

The tools are largely open source. The actual pieces of the companies that generate revenue are not. They love open source, when it isn't about their revenue generation.

Ask Facebook to show us all of their source code.

Nearly the entire tech industry is built on massive, closed products.

Google search by itself generates more operating income every year than every public open source company combined, by a factor of ten. Ask Google to show you all the source code to search.
Referring to salt as sodium is a commonly understood shorthand in the US. If you look at nutrition facts, you’ll see they don’t say “salt”, they say “sodium”. And technically, there are lots of different salts, so I’d argue that sodium is much more specific (from a pedantic point of view).
You haven't been outside have you.
I wish NSIS would do this too.
I heard an interesting argument that we shouldn't focus on inequality, we should focus on poverty instead.

Inequality is something easy to get people mad about (something something CEOs make 300x more), but the real issue that people are worried about is poverty.
Or, one source of patent troll fodder.
Would you still apply the term "gossip" to talking about celebrities or politicians? When you are talking about people in their professional capacities (talking about the politics of the politicians, and talking about the pastimes of the celebrities), you can discuss substantive concepts. Gossip typically refers to discuss the character of the absent party - discussing software written by your friend isn't gossip if the focus of the conversation is the software, not the friend.
> What is it? I do have a german name in mind (knubbel) but i don't know how others call it?

Sorry, I was just making a crass joke. The name I had in mind is rather anatomical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Informal_names .
Esoteric religion as an intellectual Ponzi scheme...

Nice. Although I am beginning to suspect that everything is to a greater or lesser degree a Ponzi Scheme in the long run due to thermodynamics. ;-)
> When did you last try it? That certainly was the case 10 years ago or so

I tried it 5 minutes ago.

Here's an example: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1YHaKdXh2olSeVdX8ybhF1SG6fyDm...
Sodium is what has a RDV and a listing in products' nutrition facts, so it makes the most sense to discuss it in that fashion.

You can also get some of it from things like baking soda - salt isn't the sole dietary source.
'"Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, (formerly the Eastern bloc, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic) today: Russia, Eastern Europe (e.g., Poland) and some of the Turk States (e.g., Kazakhstan) as well as China.'
- From Google.
You’re getting downvoted for snark, but your question is valid nevertheless. Most people wouldn’t know why they see value in material things, which leaves only one possible reason: because someone else has, I must have as well.
The article presents Fibonacci hashing as an operation to map a hash code into a smaller range, but it isn't that, really. The operation that does that is still just taking some bits from the hash code.

What Fibonacci hashing actually is is a way of stirring a hash code before use, to spread its entropy out more, so that the bits you end up taking a more likely to be well-distributed.

If your hash codes are already well-distributed, then this is pointless. But if they aren't, it's useful. So, it seems to me that rather than applying Fibonacci hashing to all hash codes, it would be better to use it as the original hash function for types which currently have bad hash functions. This is something a C++ standard library could easily do.

For example, LLVM's libc++ implements string hashing using MurmurHash2 on 32-bit machines, and CityHash on 64-bit machines:

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/__...

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/ut...

But hashes all sizes of integers to themselves:

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/ex...

Changing that to a Fibonacci hash, or a simpler shift-and-xor, could be a quick win.

Provided that libc++'s unordered_map uses power-of-two table sizes, that is. The code is labyrinthine, but i think, rather gloriously, sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't:

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/__...

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/__...

__constrain_hash is a simple but entertaining bit of bit-dickery (reformatted slightly):

size_t __constrain_hash(size_t __h, size_t __bc) {
return !(__bc & (__bc - 1))
? __h & (__bc - 1)
: (__h < __bc ? __h : __h % __bc);
}

The x & (x - 1) tests whether a number is a power of two, because for any number that is not a power of two, subtracting one leaves the top bit set, so the bitwise and will contain at least one set bit. If the bucket count (number of slots) is a power of two, use a mask to extract the bottom bits of the hash. If it's not, do a modulus - but spend a branch to avoid that if the hash is already in the right range, which i'm surprised is a win.
Who would do that decentralized research? Why would they do that?

The real question is why do governments watch private interests take over public research institutions and not only do nothing to preserve the lack of bias, but even go out of their way to help the process? (And yes, the answer is not secret.)
If abortion were outlawed, what would women lose? Besides the difficulty of childbirth itself, if they didn’t feel able or didn’t want to raise another child, just about every hospital I know of has a “safe drop” where babies can be essentially abandoned to the state, from whence they are placed into adoption.

Children would gain their lives, people longing to be parents would have the opportunity... about the only entity that would stand to lose is the abortion clinics themselves (and perhaps foreign adoption agencies).

Note I have nothing against most forms of contraception. “Family planning” or preventing unwanted pregnancy is not the issue. But once a human zygote has formed, a new human being exists, and ethically speaking, should be treated as such.
It is. Unfortunately, I don't think 'people in a casual relationship' are a protected class. It leads to interesting scenarios where service members will specifically marry each other so they can get the housing allowance. The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is called the Desperate Love Institute by service members because of its abnormally high marriage rate. Students at DLI get to move off base and away from the watchful eye of their training instructors if they have a spouse.
That is the eternal problem of automated security stuff, the action may be legitimate or not based on context. And code is notoriously blind to context.
Folk eymology. The origin is a reference to Maxwell's demon.
Does anyone know how this compares to Sikuli(x)?
How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families
But now I knew contemplation at its height. At its height, but not yet in its fullness. For in its fullness the way of Mary includes the way of Martha and raises it, so to speak, to its own higher power. Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha. It gives access to contemplation---but to a contemplation that is incompatible with action and even with the will to action, the very thought of action. In the intervals between his revelations the mescalin taker is apt to feel that, though in one way everything is supremely as it should be, in another there is something wrong. His problem is essentially the same as that which confronts the quietist, the arhat and, on another level, the landscape painter and the painter of human still lives. Mescalin can never solve that problem; it can only pose it, apocalyptically, for those to whom it had never before presented itself. The full and final solution can be found only by those who are prepared to implement the right kind of Welranschauung by means of the right kind of behavior and the right kind of constant and unstrained alertness. Over against the quietist stands the active-contemplative, the saint, the man who, in Eckhart's phrase, is ready to come down from the seventh heaven in order to bring a cup of water to his sick brother.

Aldous Huxley, "the doors of perception"
Or they remember the 90’s and early 0x’s. MS has made a mess of many a fine piece of software in their efforts to ‘integrate’ it with their other offerings.
It is likely that the lax Chinese attitudes towards patents is one of the contributing factors to their highly agile and efficient technology sector.

It has been noted for some time that one of the barriers to entry for a new company in the US is their lack of defensive patents.
I see that now. Great, this looks interesting. Thanks for checking.
Stan Efferding, who not only holds world records in power lifting but who also trains Hafþór of Game of Thrones fame, is big into recommending at least 6g of sodium a day for people who are pretty active and exercise regularly: https://youtu.be/BeOc7TRo9Os?t=16m49s

Admittedly, some of the practices that work for genetic outliers of the caliber of Stan Efferding and Dan Green (or people who train as hard) don't apply to the rest of us regular mortals.
What did you predict for ARG v ISL?
OS X = MacOS.

Apple confusingly renamed OS X to MacOS a few years ago.
It was just a comment on how it is possible to accelerate testing. I wasn't suggesting anything, just discussing and exchanging information. Whether they used this, it's probable, but to what extent only an employee could tell.
Moral of the story: Always always consult Knuth.
The Defenders' individual series tend to be on the boring side. The focus tends to shift to things that hardly seem relevant to me.

However, I have not watched another Netflix series yet that suffers from the same problem.
This. It's like finding eating fresh vegetables correlates with longer lifespan, when really people that eat fresh vegetables have higher socioeconomic status, access to health care, education, etc etc.
The leap from correlation to causation is quite large.
> They need to standardize package sizes.

Both services already do this. They provide free boxes for you to use of standard sizes. So if you choose to ship in another dimension, you're bearing that cost. They incentivize you to use standard sizes.
Gut bacteria relieve epilepsy
> The German proliferation of knowledge created a curious situation that hardly anyone is likely to have noticed at the time. Sigismund Hermbstädt, for example, a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties for his "Principles of Leather Tanning" published in 1806 than British author Mary Shelley did for her horror novel "Frankenstein," which is still famous today.

In the absence of copyrights, and with plagiarism being rampant (as the article claims) how could authors command favorable royalty agreements? Could a rival publisher not just print the same book, sans royalty agreement, and undercut the original publisher?
Oh get off it already. It was an interesting fact about the history and intent of engagement rings, I highly doubt the original comment was endorsing female slavery or whatever perceived slight prompted the novel you just wrote.
Out of curiosity, what does F50 refer to here? Google doesn’t help, nor does https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F50 .
2 downvotes yet not a single source. Hasty generalizations such as “any time someone does x, y happens” aren’t enough to convince everyone, but they do make for a strong emotional response for some. Such as knee-jerk anonymous downvotes when anyone asks for any piece of real data to back up the claim, without giving explanations why.
I can't agree more about retraining these guys. Hiring cloud engineers with good skills is extremely difficult
Yeah, you read about women reporting rape, then being jailed for extramarital sex, and realise that ... no, just no.
You should do the move. Sysadmin is now a niche discipline, people work in devops now. The tech economy is good and their skills are getting more obsolete.

Just start slowly migrating things, and train them in devops skills. Then, even if you have a reduction in a year, they will have a year worth of modern skills in EC2 devops and the like.

It's going to happen, so better it happens now than in the future.
There is a reason the SI system uses decades. It's exactly that it makes this trivial, but I guess if one is not that accustomed to thinking in decimals/metric, it might not be as obvious.

mg is also just composed of the SI prefix m = milli, and the SI unit g = gram, where the latter is a little weird due to naming problems early on leading to it being the only SI unit where the base unit, the kg = kilogram already has a prefix.

The milli means thousands, so you are just saying 6 thousand thousands gram. If you internalize SI units, and decompose them automatically, this seems at least confusing, possibly worse, depending on how picky the reader is about unnecessarily contorted grammar in general.

I myself advocate the use of prefixed gram for the cases where people use tons, but I accept that people in general don't like them being called megagrams = Mg from now on. This is by the way the reason why mb != MB when denoting storage space, but 8e9 mb = 1 MB, due to the former denoting millibits, and the latter megabytes. There is also MiB, mibibytes, denoting 2^30 B. Microsoft denotes MiB as MB, which is wrong, and lead to great confusion. Be careful, embrace SI units, they make your life easier.
It's only the claims that matter, but the claims typically draw on vocabulary and context established in the disclosure. Often, part of getting a patent granted is clarifying the disclosure such that the examiner can understand the idea and how it's different from previous art.
I don’t think that’s that prevalent. It’s more that that nicer house is in a bettter school district etc.
Is your link correct? Firefox on Linux tells me it's not redirecting correctly.
To the first question, I'm under NDA for the company we worked for but it's a F50 retailer.

Other than them, Ikea, Amazon, Wayfair and a handful of other e-retailers with MM+ users have AR integrated into their apps with comparable bumps.

This also makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense if you have been an AR developer for 10 years. The simple version is that you need to a 3D "google maps" of sorts, to do something called re-localization before you release glasses. Bootstrapping such a system wouldn't get you very far, literally, because people will be expecting persistent content wherever they go without you - the user - having to insert it. So you have to have a pretty robust mapping corpus to start with. There are a half dozen ways to do this, but the best way is to source and create these maps with mobile/handheld AR systems first.

To the content piece, if you can "save" content to the real world - in context - which is what ARKit2 is now doing with their multi-user re-localization/multiplayer, then you can build out the "real estate" system you need for persistent objects - again, something necessary for AR glasses to "just work."

For more you can watch my talk on this from a few years ago I did remote for UMASS EE graduate students:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_0aoE9nrqM

This is the current land rush in the AR dev world - Apple and Google already own it unfortunately.
I was hoping this was about employee onboarding, but it's about customers.
I prefer libre (as in speech) and gratis (as in no cost) but it might be because I'm Spanish.

The thing is, they are conceptually orthogonal, but in practice there's strong correlation. It might be for many reasons, but I'd guesstimate 90+% of open source is also non-commercial.
What are you talking about? There's plenty of stories out there of obese people who lost weight on their own and got their life back into shape (myself included). This ivory tower elitism is nonsense. They are worried that if enough people took actions into their own hands they'd be out of business.
Fortune 50, I assume.
There were some interesting observations about salt with people who did a 135-day simulation of life on the Mir space station.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...
This, very much - it's one reason I've never bought a tablet; they always look so gross.
>>> fs[0].__closure__, fs[1].__closure__
((<cell at 0x7f4e9111b048: int object at 0x7f4e98e99500>,),
(<cell at 0x7f4e9111b048: int object at 0x7f4e98e99500>,))

So lambda isn't broken it's the list comprehension going all wonky with its local variables methinks.
So, we can first infer that the patient isn't correctly taking the numbers under advisement because they use them inconsistently (e.g., they worry more about four things that are 1 in a million rather than one thing that's 1 in 10 thousand). The question of how to align the patients understanding and actions with what they would do if they had perfect knowledge and intelligence is of course fraught, but one way is to compare medical risks to other risks they understand more intuitively. It's a big topic.
Well sure. I guess I should be more specific, but the points was that as long as it works in a local Ethernet network, you are fine, as you can fix it reasonably easy by just encapsulating packets. And as long as you don't encrypt, you don't even need much/expensive hardware to handle e.g. 10 Gb/s Ethernet over an IP network.

If you just have a passive thing that translates HDMI connectors to RJ-45 connectors, Ethernet won't help you. But if you use Ethernet, you can also use IP. That is all.
This is by project instead of by machine, but CNCF develops DevStats to show a number of statistics on each of our projects, including the companies behind the development.

https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1

Disclosure: I am executive director of CNCF.
I make way more money than my partner and doing a 50/50 split would be really hard for them to swing each month.
Nice, I didn't realize you were still working on this!
The percentage of people who manage to successfully lose and keep off a significant amount of weight is tiny. No one disputes that some people manage it. The concern is that depending exclusively on willpower clearly doesn’t work for most people.