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This is a difficult topic to write and talk about.

But rather than a religious approach, I think it's best to talk about this from a psychology of trauma approach. In In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A. Levine, the author describes the mindset that exacerbates suffering and also the mindset that leads to faster healing.

> trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions.

There's some kind of magic alchemy that suffering allows us to access that not just causes us to physically heal faster, but also allows us to better transform normal, everyday living. And the quoted text, "innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions," is precisely where that alchemy happens.

High levels of arousal and intense emotion doesn't just happen when we're suffering, it also happens as a natural consequence of interpersonal relationships. But when we're suffering, the high levels of arousal and emotion don't go away, which allows us to experience them enough to learn how to regulate them.

Then when the suffering is over, when things get heightened during daily life, the regulatory capacity that suffering built serves to make the feelings flow easier. That's the transformation described.
Long-term user of benzos who never took Ambien here: the way people describe it, Ambien is dangerous. Long half-life benzos like Klonopin and Valium are not.

I only had a mild hazy kick the first two times I took Klonopin (and I was starting on two or three other meds at once); since then, I've used anything from 4mg to .25mg and never had trouble titrating either up or down. I don't have much of an anxiety problem if I skip my Klonopin altogether (it destabilizes my manic-depression, for which I'm stuffed with medications but titrate Klonopin for marginal effect; but nothing the day I stop Klonopin, only if I'm at ~2mg and skip it for a day.

The literature is slowly catching up too. A while ago there was a full moral panic about benzodiazepines, but I feel like this is part of the full moral panic about psych drugs (some of which is justified, because people (and sometimes unethical docs) are looking for answers in drugs that often aren't there.)
>and it is so simple to do so.

Except for the little hiccup of organizational politics in government bureaucracies that needs to be solved or side stepped as a prerequisite. If you can do that tons of "hard" problems are easy to solve.
That's also a problem in medical software. People are so risk averse that they avoid relatively small changes until the whole thing comes crashing down eventually.

I have also seen the trend that good developers start to leave and the only people left are low quality developers or outsourcing companies who don't care about what they work on.
Loaded this up on chrome and wasn't able to make anything appear on screen. Tried changing the # via the - and + at the top and got an undef.

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I see. Would be nice if there was some kind of about page explaining this
I think the UK thing is wrapped up in the idea of a CDT, which seems to be trying to make our PhD programme more like the American style.

I really don't like it!

I don't think PhD students should be sitting in a class or going through as a cohort. You're supposed to be a professional, independent researcher.

My first day of my PhD, I was shown my desk at 9 am and told 'get researching, mate'.
In my country, many banks force people to install "security modules" which includes a driver that monitors their network. There is no privacy policy.
How can there be no capital left to consume if the borrowed money has no support to back it up? You're saying we're borrowing from future generations which is like saying we're borrowing money from air. If we're borrowing money from non-existent source then there is an endless supply of the money, isn't there?

And if there's no plan to pay it off, then why not just write it off? It makes no difference, the whole effect is psychological.
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As it references NeXT, it would be after Jobs’s return.
I think having around 10.000 viewers at a time and the donations and subs coming in is helping ;)
I've been thinking how technical debt can be flagged / measured, and then managed. That is, a tool that can do a combination of:

Manual: Perhaps the person doing the code review can negotiate with the developer and agree that the code needs to be cleaned up at some point soon, but needs to be merged as is right now due to business needs, with some sensible score for the magnitude of the debt. When the debt does get paid later (stop laughing), the actual effort can be correlated with the debt score.

Semi-Automatic: The tool can take diffs from a pull request and show it to some other developers in the company and poll them on some subjective attributes like clarity etc. The score will be normalized based on other scores given by the person. Once in a while the app can even show nonsensical code in this poll to see how that is scored.

Automatic: 1. Flag the files that change frequently with issues, other pull requests, or 2. when there are long conversations and further commits to a file before a pull request affecting some files are merged (while accounting for some reviewers approving anything vs some reviewers nitpicking everything)... I have several more ideas like that.

Would you use a tool that does this? Do you already have something like that? Please feel free to email me your feedback, if you'd rather do that: techdebt@kirubakaran.com
US Health care costs are wildly expensive but describing healthcare in Europe as "free" seems terribly misleading.
Given how much the "brains" of AI is built upon fairly old (and very old) mathematics, I find this sentiment to be somewhat myopic. Yes, deep learning has its roots in something 50+ years old. Yes, we still use Bayesian concepts unearthed a century or more ago. Probability theory took foot 80 years ago. So what? Do we throw out the old models and approaches simply because they're old?

But to say that AI "hasn't really come very far" because its technological achievements outweigh its computational side doesn't really make much sense to me.

Progress is slow. Seeing a story like this and saying "wow, and we're only now seeing this in use in practice today" makes an implicit assumption that once something is proved it should become widespread. The original self-driving cars were not practical; it took advancements in computational power and speed to make it so. That's "coming far." We don't need some novel ML approach to advance AI.
Err whoops - proscribing would be forbidding good catch.
They definitely do happen in the UK.

Later versions of Android really help with the 'spam call' filtering, though I've noticed that callers tend to just recycle through nonsense caller IDs and/or unknown numbers (which is really annoying if you have clients phoning you from unknown numbers).

At one point I was getting 10+ a day, which seems to have calmed down now. Everything from tax scams, to PPI, to car accidents.
This is beautiful work!
I find it interesting how similar the Altair and the PC ended up being, at least conceptually.

Hell, the S100 bus may have been even more successful for a time than the Altair itself...
∞ and +∞ are the same thing afaik.
These rich prepper articles seem cyclical to me.
Albert Hirschman's "Voice, Exit, and Loyalty" is worth reading. I talk about how it applies to software here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/02/10/voice-exit-user-rete...
Wow, that was satisfying!

I liked the triangles split into further regions. Ala http://www.mandalagaba.com/#ucKlDy
That's the only thing blockchains solve is the decentralization of trust. Oracles provide a bridge, and it is possible to make trusted decentralized oracles.
Something not talked about. Big uptick in robo calls since sites started texting me security codes to sign in.
Ask HN: Is there a map of self-service fast food kiosk locations?
Something like this would answer "how widespread" and "how soon" they are coming to your town, as well as being a useful resource for customers who prefer or don't prefer using an automated cashier. Is this data curated yet, in a dataset like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap yet?
I didn't realize they had added the block feature too, nice! Just went and enabled that
there is nothing about babies being super humans and also nothing about cell-division or anything about healing ... did you even bother reading the post?
US roads are generally better in the south where they don't use salt or experience freezing in the winter time.
How currencies collapse:

1. In debt pumped economies (the majority of world countries these days,) the value of major assets and debt put into them exceeds the money in circulation big time.

2. People pop their piggy banks, sell cars, flats, company stocks just to get some food. Price of these very major assets plunge, and the holders of tbils, bonds, and etc (rich people) begin to panic.

3. When even rich people's money can't buy food and basic necessities, many of them run away from the country with what things they have left, pushing currency further down.

4. Whomever is left in the country is left with a lot of paper, and no food.
GHCJS is a beast to bring in, and brings lots of complications with it. The build tools and environment around it is also not great, and most development tools that work for GHC break down for GHCJS.

That's not to say it can't be used, in fact a lot do quite successfully, but it is a BIG increase in complexity.

I'm more hopeful for approaches such as WebGHC[0] or perhaps more promising, Tweags Asterius[1] :)

[0] https://webghc.github.io/roadmap

[1] https://github.com/tweag/asterius
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Does the output from a Bayer pattern bother you like that when you shrink it to 50%? Because "100%" means two very different things between those kinds of sensor.
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> The world, the universe as we know it so far has become inconceivable without this observation, known as the uncertainty principle.

Not really, deterministic interpretations of QM don't require such mental contortions.
Maybe, the problem is they didn’t define the niche just talked about people who need a higher abstraction. If they did maybe it would be easier to imagine how a particular audience could be most productive with it.
Tech debt, whether creating it or paying it is a critical function of the business. Where this gets messy is when an engineering organization feels they own or somehow should prioritize the debt. This is especially true of paying it.

In every case that I've been involved in or had explicit oversight in creating tech debt has been when customer and revenue obligations are needed to be met. It's very rare in startups to have artificial or made up deadlines. I'm sure they exist at larger orgs, but as a startup executive, I can say with confidence that everything is constantly on the line, each day is critical, and so shipping product is paramount.

Of course, you have to pay that tech debt back at some point, but this is a business decision. It may turn out the business needs to kill that product or alter it in such a way that paying back debt is useless.
No, but you could probably pick a restaurant to cater your wedding, which is more like what OP was describing.
well it is in the UK :) (yes everyone knows tax pays for it, spreading the burdon etc.)
The fictional character Sherlock Holmes certainly exists.
"And you know this rewrite, like others in the past, will be a significant sink of time, and likely a catastrophe."

This statement can only be true if you're using a very specific definition of "microservices". The first time I wrote about small services, in 2013 [1], I had not heard the phrase "microservices" so I used the phrase "an architecture of small apps". I was thinking of apps that talked to each via Redis, or HTTP, or didn't talk to each other and pushed everything into a database -- my idea was broad. Then in March of 2014, Martin Fowler wrote his essay on Microservices [2], which brought the phrase into widespread use. Soon after that there arose a number of startups that were promoting microservices, and they were promoting a very specific ideal: a system of apps that spoke to each other using HTTP, finding each other via auto-discovery, and offering data via a RESTful interface, with Oauth for authentication. A large number of people then began to use "microservices" for this specific set of interlocking ideas. That's fine, but it is a bit rigid. Something so comprehensive can demand a full re-write. But there is the more general idea, of slowly breaking up a monolith, and replacing small pieces with independent apps -- that does not demand a full re-write. That can be done slowly, and you have the option to keep the original monolith in a limited role, often to handle the frontend. Martin Fowler said all this in his essay, but some of the more extreme proponents of the idea have ignored the nuances that people like Fowler or myself have written about. I myself used the phrase "microservices" for a few years and now I've given up on it as too many people are associating with a very specific set of ideas, instead of the general idea of small apps cooperating with each other.

All the same, the idea can be powerful. Check out "Two months early. 300k under budget" [3]

[1] http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/an-architecture-of-sm...

[2] https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

[3] http://thoughtworks.github.io/p2/issue09/two-months-early/
I find that it doesn't get too frustrating if you don't let it get out of hand.

Routinely prioritize keeping dependencies up to date, clearly depreciate "old" / bad code, and focus on coming up with good product designs that have reasonable compromises between time-to-market and high quality engineering.

You just can't let stuff slip. Don't let 6 months go by without at least trying to upgrade to the new version of whatever or without making some some progress moving from the "old way" to the "new way" for some component.
In the end people can do wathever they want, its their live after all.

There are other ways to reduce stress, like finding remote work or changing jobs.

The problem is that one beer quickly becomes two, 3 and 4 and there are a lot of people that just cant control it, its almost never just one beer.

I wish alchool would become like cigarretes: at least everyone knows it causes cancer, some people still use it and thats up to them.

But with alchool we are not there yet, a lot of people still dont know it causes cancer and there is no safe usage limit, they even think that it has some beneficial health properties, everything in moderation.

I wish it would be so socially acceptable not to drink, as it is to drink. In a lot of places, you are actually socially expected to consume alcohol, still today, which is insane given what we know about the link between alchool and cancer.
Yeah, I particularly like two counter examples.

Example 1: We have prevalence of schizophrenia of 1-2% both in countries with extremely high use (Australia, 25-30% last year) and extremely low (Japan, <1% last year). Still many schizophrenia cases have been associated with cannabis, but here's the twist: CBD displays antipsychotic properties, whereas THC exacerbates psychosis. That matches both the selfmedication hypothesis, and the trigger hypothesis, but the aggregate data still dispels the causal hypothesis.

Example 2: The countries with the absolute biggest rates of tobacco prevalence are hovering around 40-50%, the US is sitting at around 20%. Among schizophrenics, though, it goes around 75-90%. But funnily enough, you don't see anyone claiming tobacco causes schizophrenia!
I'm referring to his association with a certain milieu of people who are important figures in the development and promotion of what is today termed the alt-right.

Association with movements like that (or the others I mentioned) is sort of special. Movements like the alt-right are different from (for example) mainstream Christian conservatism or Randian Objectivism or democratic socialism.

Totalitarian movements whose goals would be considered insane or evil by a large number of people adopt the structure of a manipulative cult. When you encounter the Scientology guy on campus he offers to give you a weird kind of personality test. You have to be pretty deep in before you find out about galactic emperor Xenu.

The outermost surface of the alt-right (termed the alt-light in its own terminology) are people who superficially advocate nationalism, question political correctness, and so on. A layer below that you have a more hard-core layer that introduces racism, explicit anti-democratic strong-man politics, and misogyny. A layer below that you have the hard core of the movement where you find explicit advocacy of absolute totalitarianism, terrorism, and genocide.

Maybe I'm wrong but what I see is an onion that looks like:

Peter Thiel -> Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopolis -> Richard Spencer -> Andrew Auernheimer, 4chan /pol

The people on the right hand side represent the true beliefs and goals of the entire onion. You see it revealed in things like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville where the layers mix.

Compare this to for example Randian objectivism or democratic socialism. Everyone in those movements more or less espouses the same ideas. There's no onion because there's not much to hide.

In general when I see a movement with this kind of structure where the innermost people seem to espouse different ideas than the outermost I see it as a huge red flag. What are they hiding? The other thing about movements like these is that if you associate seriously and persistently with the outer layers of the onion I assume you probably know about and accept the inner layers too.

I was deeply saddened and frustrated when I saw evidence of Thiel's backing of that movement. Zero to One is still by far the best book about business I've ever read, and I found myself agreeing with I'd say about 90% of it. Thiel is also one of the few people who has seen what I've seen for years, namely that core technological development (what I call fundamental innovation) has slowed since the early 1970s. I rationalize it by acknowledging the human capacity for compartmentalization. It's possible for someone to have very rational views in one area and be completely nuts in others.
There are astronomy clubs that have telescopes somewhere that can be accessed by internet and are shared. They don't call themselves crowdfunded but they are.
He seems to do contract work with teams. The bio might be old.
49something percent of voting Americans are the audience for that kind of rhetoric. And I think we fail ourselves when we fail to accept that a vast quantity of people live and vote with their emotional brain and not their logical brain.

I feel that one of the largest struggles, one of the largest causes of divide, is that to logical actors, the concept of an emotional actor is just so invalid that we believe them to be fundamentally wrong and broken and in need of fixing and education.

I'm not arguing that irrationality and emotion-driven voting is an equal alternative to rationalism. I think my point is that we can't just dismiss it as broken and in need of fixing. It's how our brains can work and it's a valid state of being.

I'm 31 and run upstairs in a panic when I switch the basement light off. Don't shake your head at how much of a fool I am, empathize with how I'm still sometimes driven by 3 million years of evolutionary practice of running away from predators.

Edit: Clarified in a child reply why my train of thought went in this direction as a response to parent.
slurpee/icee machines use this as well. As an engine mechanic, ice pumping is also used sometimes in refrigerated cargo trucks. Usually these trailers are carrying certain chemicals that become percussive-sensitive (explosive) at higher temperatures, but can be transported normally if chilled a little bit.
You talk about the American way, I assume that means "form a more perfect Union", "promote the general Welfare", "secure the Blessings of Liberty", "establish Justice" you know all that good stuff thats in the American constitution.

But everything you have said in this thread has been the opposite, you encourage espionage without moral concern that's not Liberty. You see America as a cult not a country or culture, questioning its actions are not seen as trying to establish Justice but are instead hand waved as anti-american.

Earlier you talked about the leaks being embarrassing, maybe you should encourage your country to stop doing things which embarrass you and your country, instead you blame other people for talking about your embarrassing actions.
> Peter Thiel, six months back, you announced to move your company to Los Angeles, citing doubts about the future of Silicon Valley. And yet, here we are at the headquarters of Thiel Capital in San Francisco!

We are moving in August, keeping just one of the venture funds here in San Francisco. The judgement call that I am making is that in the next decade it will be less centralized where technology happens and that the incredible premium on this location will not be quite as big anymore.

I'm shocked that everyone here is focused on his politics when he's making one of the biggest moves SV has seen.

Sama seems to partially agree: http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove
"(freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves) "

I don't think that freedom and equality of opportunity exclude each other any more than freedom excludes itself. Frankly I would go one further and say that equality of opportunity is freedom, and that rules impinging on equality of opportunity is impinging on freedoms as well.

It is not a contradiction that freedom can exclude freedom. My freedom to own land excludes your freedom to do what you want with it, etc.
> Chomsky basically called all these statsistical AI programs brute force parlour tricks, nothing to do with computer science or artificial intelligences.

The counterargument is our own brains use brute force parlor tricks to solve problems. We learn by a priori (pre-built models), by experience (reinforcement learning) and viewing and weighing features that we observe against prior experience (NNs/ANNs).

The entire point of ML is to produce approximately the same result a human does. Whether it's a parlor trick or a perfect simulation of the brain is irrelevant. There's no advantage to something novel and more "organic" unless it produces better results.

This is a common problem I see - people are always trying to compare human reasoning to artificial reasoning rather than looking at the output. The output is all that matters.
The correct "out of curiosity" would be "what were you taking it for".

The rhetoric about exercise is sound and great advice for 80% of people. But it's annoying for people with mental health issues (particularly those that have (a) objectively valid ICD-10/DSM-5 diagnoses and (b) live a normal life with medications) to be told to walk it off.

It's almost like advising cancer patients to eat some fruit once in a while. (A sudden switch to eating a wide variety of fruits truly seems to have improved my immunity, but I'm not on chemo...)
Really? You end up having to pay per minute for the entire duration of every forwarded (non-spam) inbound phone call...
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Yeah that's the same system we have. It works rather well.