skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A) With regard to "no standards of treatment", that is not the case, at least in the US. Licensing and professional bodies for both Masters-level clinicians (LPCs, LMHCs, MFTs, MSWs and others) and Doctorates (PhDs, PsyDs) effectively mandate therapists rely on evidence based practices, and insurance companies are quick to push highly manualised behavioural therapies.

A giant % of therapists around my area advertise that their treatment methodology is "eclectic".

Trying to find someone who follows even CBT is almost impossible.

I have seen at least a few people advertising themselves as following Freudian principles. So there is that.

> Licensure is not all over the place.

The quality of programs that provides those licenses are. And thousands of hours of training under someone who is not very good, does not lead to a good practitioner.

I'm not saying all therapists are bad, but I'd say that picking a therapist at random will have about as good of luck as picking a mechanic at random: Greater odds of your wallet being emptied than your problem being fixed. Finding an honest and talented practitioner is hard.

> Studies have demonstrated that treatment outcomes are not strongly correlated with clinicians' educational background

Isn't that a huge problem?

Imagine if that was the case for any other medical profession! "The surgical techniques we teach in school, and charge a lot of money and put students deep into debt for, aren't shown to be any better than someone coming off the street with a hacksaw and a really good smile."

Now that said, I've met people entering LMHC programs who obviously didn't need the credentials, their natural understanding of people was blatantly better than what 80% of their courses would cover. But those people are the obvious exception.
We use CUPS on prem to translate print queues from several Finance and HR systems for an up stream Follow-You printing solution with another vendor.

CUPS evidently has many applications that are outside of your awareness.
Well the importance of the kernel on application performance is often over-estimated, especially for non-server software.

xnu is a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD. To be super-concrete, it has both sets of syscalls, with Mach syscalls as negative integers, and BSD syscalls as positive integers. A given running executable has a dual existence as both a BSD pid_t and a Mach task_t. At one point it was even possible to have a Mach task without a pid.

Most executed syscalls are BSD: read, write, select, getpid, etc. However Mach still plays a role in the VM system (`vm_copy`, etc.) and crucially via the IPC workhorse `mach_msg`.

It's hard to overstate the importance of mach_msg. It underlies the great macOS IPC primitives: xpc, notify(3), etc. Linux looks anemic by comparison with its limited pipes, creaky SysV sendmsg(), and DBus (hope you never have to use it). But it also appears that Apple is preparing to drop Mach: mach_msg / MIG is buried, xpc is conspicuously designed to be separable from Mach, etc.
There is probably a game buried here, to find two company slogans which contradict each other.
Why are you even in the room dumb-ass!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
This entire treatise presumes not using one switch, two locks. Cars seem to have no trouble with this.
Airbnb ditched an effort to gradually migrate their codebase to React Native.

They (and others) have said using React Native works much better if you start out using it from the beginning.

Also, use Kotlin for Android, not Java.
Is that controversial? Software development doesn't have a lot of human interaction, compared to, say, sales, golf instruction, or professional basketball, so introverts like it more.
You're welcome. I lived in County Donegal and used to travel regularly back through NI to Scotland for a few years, so I find it mildly irritating when folks get this kinda thing wrong. Especially when folks still believe the Republic of Ireland is part of the UK like some Westminster MP's who should know better (or have been trolling).
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>300 deals...never lost money on a buyout

That does sound completely absurd. They must have some very specific definition of what it means to "lose money on a buyout".
While good in principal and as good as we can get today, we need to be aware of it's flaws. In particular, that certain stakeholders can manipulate, or have outsized influence on the market, as a result the system no longer operates as efficiently as it could, it begins to atrophy more or less.

I guess this is why we hold on dearly to principals of liberty and freedom. To ensure that proper feedback mechanisms exist to keep an honest system.

Edit: and rule of law. Especially application of said law without preferential treatment.
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I just can't believe I understood the whole concept so easily by the creative use of ASCII characters!!

Thanks.
So it seems it was already fairly easy and legal to build and own a very high-quality firearm with general attention-grabbing features mentioned in the article? Not a legal advice or suggesting you should do so:

1. CNC the Remington 700 action: https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/gunsmithing/making-rem... . This is the hard part and would probably need a week of dedicated work...

2. Buy barrel, trigger and stock.

3. Everything mostly just fits into the action, so assembly is just like putting lego pieces together.
If they're lying about their track record, this coverage/claim should bring out the refuting evidence, right?
Is it Greenway?
Is this different from private equity / distressed asset investing in general, or standard activist investor asset stripping?

All that is missing is loading the company with debt to pay "management fees," to the acquirers before cutting and running, leaving the founders and remaining shareholders with the bill. Organized crime have been known to do this as well. A handbook of investment anti-patterns, common hustles, and ways to identify crappy investors would be really useful.

There seems to be a tier of capital that just needs somewhere to go. It is not allowed to take the direct risks of angel or seed rounds, but can participate in venture funds, or funds of funds that include hedge funds and alternative assets, participate in growth rounds, and some really sketchy penny stock RTOs, but it's like they are prevented from investing while exercising any specific expertise.
i don't think you answered "why did he feel the need to fight so hard for it?"
It's the CCAT.

https://www.criteriacorp.com/resources/ccat_prep.php

Source: myself. I also work for a Vista company
Then dont add a translation for a small town and you have 0 problems.
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Konto 5 (special Nazi bank account)
> "surprised if any 3D printed gun was actually strong enough without metal components/reinforcing"

The article fails to mention that the Ghost Gunner is a CNC mill and makes the gun out of 7075 billet aluminum blocks, which is strong enough for multiple shots.
Including some factual information is what makes lies believable.
Never heard of him or or story. But reading about his escape I immediately thought of the run in apocalypto.
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The guns made with the Ghost Gunner CNC mill are made out of 7075 billet aluminum, which is strong enough for multiple shots.
When I was a young child I tied the pantry light's pull chain to string and tied the string to the door handle, just taut enough that it would enable the light when the door was opened.

Regretfully to shut the light off, I needed to first close the door, re-open the door and then finally close it.
The headline and article make some strange assertions. The fact that black men are vastly overrepresented among the improvised seems to go against the headline.

The writer mentions that education and the military are strongly tied to success without mentioning the educational benefits offered by the military, like the GI bill, that are otherwise largely unavailable to the poor.

This feels like another “post-race” America article. While I wish that for our country, we’re far from from it. Let’s acknowledge progress while keeping things in perspective. Black men being the most likely to be in poverty according to the charts is not success.
> "the gun you will get will be more reliable than the plastic"

The Ghost Gunner machine mentioned in the article is actually a CNC mill using 7075 billet aluminum blocks.
In other words, the bathroom is a "critical section" and instead of focusing on locks on each door, it's been replaced with one big "lock" that locks them all at once.
I don't think even the strongest Chinese nationalist would claim that the Chinese diverged from everyone else 2 million years ago!
Also naturally sortable if represented as YYYYMMDD, unlike default guids (unless specifically using sequential guid generator)
> The types of data and problems machine learning solve are well defined.

What do you/Vista consider to be the well-defined problems that machine learning solves? My understanding is that it is less well defined but I'd like to know what you think.
It makes the transaction atomic.
Small child in business school here - in our vernacular, this means remove lines of business not turning a profit. Many are kept around either in hopes they'll get better or because executives think they round out a basket of offerings and maybe people are more likely to allow us to perform their cancer surgery if they know we also do neonatal surgery. So even though our neonatal unit loses money, let's keep it. The Vista camp here would say - that's a bs theory, let's focus on getting better at what we're good at rather than trying to make a business line profitable we've already spent 5 years demonstrating we don't know how to make profitable.
> A person's ability to survive in a territory populated by Aztecs or Mormons is going to be significantly determined by their ability to conform to group beliefs re: normative behavior

I agree, but I see that as a separate issue from what I was attempting to address. The specific thing I had in mind was about authority figures in a position to promulgate some new idea to society: is it wise for them to spread ideas known to be false but estimated to have positive effects?
Companies come up with all sorts of reasons to fire people. Especially after they go through years of excess.

A friend who works at ANZ tells me that they have come up with another way of culling jobs. They have embraced Agile wholeheartedly. And every employee has to be certified in Agile. Once an employee is certified he has to apply to be part of a squad, chapter, tribe etc.

Now to ensure that people are fired for "performance" reasons, there are only 800 openings up for grabs for 1000 odd people.

I think it is a nightmare when after spending years in a company you have to re-apply back to just keep your job.
Also beware that radium decays to radon. Some watch collectors have to worry about this.
I can't imagine I'm in the minority when I say, "I do".
BTW, you don’t have to take my word for it:

“DENVER — Over the past couple of years several news organizations have attributed a statistic to the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) stating that 70 percent of lottery winners end up bankrupt in just a few years after receiving a large financial windfall. This statistic is not backed by research from NEFE, nor can it be confirmed by the organization. Frequent reporting—without validation from NEFE—has allowed this “stat” to survive online in perpetuity.“

https://www.nefe.org/Press-Room/News/Research-Statistic-on-F...
Yes, as long as...

I totally agree that checks and balances -- in the abstract, some form of all-to-all coordination between the different components of the system -- are probably the easiest way to healthcheck any system like this. Otherwise you fall into "multipolar traps" [1] where each actor, working independently and acting game-theoretically optimally, can throw the system into undesirable states.

Checks and balances should be implemented. But is this adequately true in the actually-existing implementation of the system?

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I agree all very reasonable questions but going back to original ASK HN. It's obvious there are instances where developing MVP takes a significant amount of resources what are the avenues for financing such a project.
The articles fails to mention that the Ghost Gunner machine which makes the new guns is a CNC mill and uses 7075 billet aluminum, which is strong enough for multiple shots.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...

Half of the market in USA. In my country Spain is 80% Android VS. 20% iOS.

If your are going to focus on the milenials on your high school kids, may be you could
Ignore Android but have a look to the stats.
Regarding the personality / aptitude tests, do they tell you your score, relative performance, and likely status prospects as a result?
You’re (perhaps intentionally) confusing profits and dividends. Based on the type stock a shareholder owns, they are absolutely entitled to their share of dividends.

The authors point is that a company is not obliged to pay all its profits in devisends. Without any proper explaination, the author draws the conclusion that shareholders aren’t entitled to any of the companies profits. This completely ignores to irrefutable truths

1) Not paying dividends does not automatically mean not maximising shareholders benefit. There’s unlimited ways a company can invest their profits in things other than dividends that will still benefit shareholders.

2) The shareholders control the company’s decision making. They elect the board, and the board controls the entire company.

The authors entire argument relies on pointless semantics and a highly selective view of reality. The same selective view you’ve displayed by acting as if profits and dividends are the same thing, and ignoring corporate governance structures.
Lots of us remember reading e.g. Shakespeare and Faulkner in high school. If the most challenging material they're reading now is Rowling (or whatever GP means by "books for children"), that is data.
You need to network.

Unfortunately, networking means talking to a lot of people not like you, and giving a lot of yourself freely, which to a maker feels like both exploitation and a water of time.

Gotta kiss 99 frogs, and suddenly, frog number 18 called a friend and said friend turns into frog 100 that's actually a match.

This is fundamentally alien to makers, and wish I had been able to learn this in my 20s or 30s, but I honestly don't know how I could have been receptive at the time. (Now I'm receptive, just not very good at it.)
Xeon is still better for complex workloads like databases since its inter-core latency is lower. Epyc is better when there is no shared data between cores. I'd say public cloud will pick up Epyc for such workloads. They may also use Epyc as a 4x8 core VMs with VM affinity locked to each die. Xeon will continue to be the standard for complex workloads.
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He didn't really. Hillary was just such a unpalatable candidate that she lost the election. Look at the turnout data and you will see. Trump didn't do anything special.
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If you meet the expectations of the first group of shareholders, by raising the value of their stock as they wanted, they'll just sell to a new group that expects another increase.
3D Color X-Rays Now Possible Thanks to CERN Technology
We all live different lives, with different responses. To some, scoping their depression as an illness is wildly helpful, as it moves the topic away from some intrinsic failure. To others, it's a cheap trick, avoiding the real issue. Some people live completely functional lives with bipolar disorder, without ever being diagnosed. Others would probably be better off talking about it with someone.

There's never going to be a penicillin for mental health. Or, to take the analogy a step further, even if we think we've found one, it's hard to say if it's not doing more harm than good in each case.
Then your company itself was out of compliance with the law (if it was in California).
> That's the thing about billionaires. Everyone agrees with them. Just ask them: everyone they knows agrees with them.

Then they pay large sums for "proprietary" signals, like satellite image analysis.
This is so true! It sounds like a caricature, but it really isn't.
Marketing and sales can be learned. Seriously. As long as you are able to validate that people have this problem and solve it in a way that makes sense the rest can be googled. If it kicks off, you can hire people with expertise to help.

Along the way for sales you'll have to learn how to put yourself out there, which can be challenging (it was for me). But its like speaking in front of people. If you do it enough times you learn to get by.

If your a founder, regardless of whether you the "tech person" or not, you'll probably have to learn all of this anyway.

Id second the "dont do it alone" part if its a full-time startup. Its tough going and having someone to share the burden in incredibly helpful.
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I took a couple courses by Baird at Lehigh before he retired. He used to teach "Pattern Recognition" as it was called before "Machine Learning". His approach was decidedly old school, but really that was the whole point; a lot of the trends in computing are cyclic, and if you focus on the fundamentals you have context for where new trends fit in.

One of his biggest take-aways in building systems like the one in the linked paper was the need for layered understanding. For example, to understand the meaning of a passage of scanned text, you can't just look at each individual letter of the text. There is ambiguity in characters like l and I or 0 and o and O. To remove that ambiguity, you bring in more context by looking at a character in a word. Then a word within a sentence. Then a sentence within a passage. This is how they were able to build highly accurate systems without massive amounts of training data.

Now that I'm on a roll recollecting the teachings of Henry Baird I will add two more:

1) There is a difference between an algorithm and a heuristic that is often overlooked these days: algorithms are provably correct. If you can't prove it's correct, then it's a heuristic. By this measure, there are very few algorithms out there, because there are very few proofs of correctness. Most likely, anything you've ever called an algorithm that you've written yourself is actually a heuristic.

2) Because of the above, Baird was very fond of KNN classifiers, because they are one of the few classifiers that have any sort of provable guarantees -- namely that with infinite data, the error rate is guaranteed to be no worse than 2x the Bayes error.
Thats what advisors are for...
> Why would these people be modifying config files outside of code review?

My VSCode config files are stored as JSON. They are hand modified all the time.

package.json is a user editable config file, used by millions of JS developers every day.

The .babelrc file to configure the JS transpiler is a user configurable json file.

.eslincrc, used to configure one of the world's most popular JS linters, user editable json file.

Those are all the ones sitting in one folder, and they would all be vastly improved with comments.

Especially the package.json, entire scripts live within package.json files, you run them with the command

npm run <scriptname>

Right now there is no way to comment what the heck each script does! Sorta a PITA to have to go through each script, which can link to other scripts, to figure out what is going on when a simple comment would save a lot of time.

> customization should never involve mangling a config file outside of version control, and absolutely not by third party devs, system administrators, etc.

Config files in general? Of course they need comments.

What about users wanting to set custom key bindings in computer games?

Back in the day, customizing Quake settings was huge. All user editable config files. Little Jimmy's DOS 6.0 games folder wasn't using version control.

Even more recently, users modify config files, often times to fix or get around bugs in a games UI.

How about setting up a mail server? Those are all user editable config files. People running a local mail server aren't going through code review or version control. A sendmail config without comments would be even more impossible to read!

Or just simply .bashrc files.

Config files are used all over the place. Being able to document what happened is incredibly valuable. Not every file in the world needs version control.

> Instead, document usage instructions for overriding defaults with ENV vars

Environment variables are set through configuration files! That is just kicking the ball down the road.
If humans use the software, it may be useful to interact with humans to understand human requirements.
The article mentions that one of the viruses which seems correlated with Alzheimer's from multiple studies is HHV–6A and 99% of people carry that one, but for unknown reasons the viral infection is much more active in people with Alzheimer's symptoms, though the number of ApoE genes is correlated with risk of active viral infection/Alzheimer's per individual.
That only works for a fixed set of items you specifically design. There is an infinite design variety of 3D-printable weapons or other dangerous items, so to prevent them all from being printed, you’d need to outright ban 3D printing.

There’s really no other way — even if we had a hypothetical omniscient AI — because you can already construct weapons from a number of harmless existing parts with nonviolent uses, there’s no way of banning ALL possible weapon parts from being printed without also banning everything.

And this isn’t even getting into inevitable circumvention of any such limitations placed on 3D printers.

The only way to entirely prevent the construction of weapons is to build everything around us out of jello or styrofoam, and box everyone inside this soft padded universe permanently. But then I bet you even then someone will figure out how to terrorize others with the tools at hand; even if all they can do is hold you down and smother you in jello, someone, somewhere will do it, and copycats will appear everywhere thereafter.
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If you exhibit the cognitive distortions in the slideshow, this likely doesn't matter to you. Money, time, and goodwill are all meaningless if you don't achieve your ambition, per all 5 of them.
Thank you for the suggestions. I will contact those companies for a quote.

I am wondering, are there any stories companies filling a claim and getting money? I actually have a hard time finding any stories of SAAS companies being sued.
Because they are saying you have to travel for work and you cannot eat anything we do not approve. How hard is it to understand that? I travel all the time for work. I cannot eat Gluten (medical reason), when I am in Japan what do you suggest I eat? There are many options that are safe for me to eat and they are all meat based. It is fine they choose not to server meat as part of what the company does as an in house offering but it is not okay for them to tell me what I can it when I am traveling on business. I do not require a drink with dinner. That’s fine, but I do require food I can digest without getting sick. This is pure bullshit over reach. The best part is everyone will just ignore it as no one turns in itemized reports on what they ordered just the CC slip. It is pure BS.
Wow I was going to call this stupid before I realized I have most of those
Nobody gets to see their score. It's a pass/fail.
"needed lots of dumb workers and peasants who were able to do their simple work"

Sounds like a very Monty Python-esque view of history, that's all. Perhaps you have a far more nuanced view, but it doesn't come across as such.