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While I have your ear, any reason why the Be Happier post[0] isn't loading anymore? Loading it through the Wayback Machine it shows that the author deleted their account. Did you folks decide to hide those posts? I only ask cuz it's my favorite post on the whole site.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180220101251/http://lesswrong....
They are doing it with everything lately though. I agree with the original post. It's classier, but completely aligned with MAGA. They put a nicer face on it which is scary. I prefer my Nazis to be recognizable for the monsters they really are.
YouTube comes down on Alex Jones for hate speech, child endangerment content
On home server, CalDAV and CardDAV (instead of iCloud)
I heavily recommend LARTC http://test.richb-hanover.com/lartc-redesign/ (looks like main site is down at that moment)
Yeah, people keep saying they do this because of some "research" but I suspect that whatever research that was is very wrong. Here's what doesn't add up: the story of someone's life and activities is only truly interesting for a small fraction of the population, maybe one out of 50 people. So if you're going to write an article about a newsworthy scientific accomplishment, what are the chances that the people involved also happen to have a compelling life story? Pretty low. It's obvious to a numerate person that the first several paragraphs are there for no good reason, yet the author insists on wasting our time anyway, so we get annoyed and find something else to do.
Yeah, these urban feathered dinosaurs are shameless everywhere.
can recover or not? are you kidding me? lol
GitHub removes jQuery from its front end
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Works with learning a language through enjoying other media as well. Read Harry Potter or other popular books in another language, watch movies dubbed in that language and so on. Some day (today?) even machine-translated stuff will be good enough to learn from.
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Inflation in Venezula is about to hit 1 million percent.
it's still higher than recent low set after the Cambridge incident. The subsequent runup thereafter was quite aggressive as if the incident never even took place.
https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Sorry, it seems like I can't issue SSL certificates anymore as I reached the limit of Let's Encrypt usage (https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/). Whoops! I'm working on it right now.
That's exactly the point.

If you take it out of the context of gender issues, it makes sense.

Want to destigmatize homosexuality? Write about people going about their lives normally, who happen to be homosexual. Make TV shows of "two dads" or "two moms" where they're just like any other TV couple. Do it for a few years and people become more comfortable with the idea, as if the new default was always the case.

With gender stuff, in my experience no matter how you do it someone will always have a beef with any active effort to correct subtle gendered dynamics in a field. If you believe that correction is needed, then what's left is choosing which potentially objectionable (to certain people) way you're going to do it. If you don't, then the debate isn't about how to do it, the debate is about whether there's a problem that needs a solution.

If you say "hey look she's a woman and she did this amazing thing!" someone will complain that you should be celebrating that a person did it, rather than pushing a woman-specific agenda. So instead, another way to do it is to not call out the woman part, crank up the frequency, and get people accustomed to "Oh, yeah, she's a woman too." Someone who knows that's what you're doing might accuse you of intentionally skewing representation. That's a valid objection, but that's a tradeoff. The benefit is that this method is more more likely to work in the long term on people who already have their guards up.

Over time, the hope is that turns into "What do you mean? Of course women are capable of that, what's the big deal?" Pretty sure that's an end state most people would want.
I'm not advocating no sicks days. They are a good thing and the last thing I want is a sick person coming into the office and infecting others. The point I was making is that "ideally" this is what is expected.
I work in this space. The breakthrough will most likely come from computational biologists, not an external ML group. Liquid biopsy is close and that's the domain that reeeallly needs ML/AI in additional to strong mechanistic models.
This is what results from truly free markets.
get a grip, of course its not.
Rabies vaccine scandal reveals China’s tattered moral fabric
IBM Watson Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'
Also, you don't need a 'shower' to catch view of awesome meteors. Often enough, the best burners are unanticipated, random objects.

After a few decades of nightly pondering as I gaze upward, I still sometimes anticipate a plane approaching when I see Venus rising/descending in the twilight hours.
Cool news! I'm curious though, couldn't a quasar possibly cause the gravitational redshift that was observed?
I had the exact opposite experience - when I used Spotify, I never got good music recommendations, and every 'radio' station I created eventually devolved into horrible music of a genre that I actively dislike. Apple usic on the other hand does a much better job for me of playing music that I like, and the human-curated playlists are excellent.
Yea, that is unfortunate. I had a chance to take my 16" scope to a really dark site the other day and just saw a rusty disk with very little features :(
It's not just tone though; it's an obvious journalistic bias. It couldn't possibly be _more_ obvious. It's nonsensical to pretend that doesn't affect the author's credibility.
I believe you. It's just that we have a lot of experience with these tangents where discussions become both more generic and more ideological. If you imagine a 2x2 matrix of those variables, that's the flamewar quadrant.
Do you mean the big green button? You can usually click the first track to start playing in order.
Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value
Has AI surpassed humans at translation? Not even close
Yes, I could care less. I don't need what they're offering. Won't do business there.

And now that I know, I'm going to Advocate others don't either.
Businesses "reverse mortgage" their real estate all the time, including extraordinarily profitable businesses. I also don't see what some links from 2012 have to do with "like 2 years ago", though we all know that AMD went through some down times -- the CPU side did, though the GPU side never did and kept paying the bills.

A segment of their business was promising, and they could see a hugely emergent demand growing. Instead of getting in on the projects that matter, they just ignored it turning it into an entirely nvidia market. Yes, that is irrational and self-defeating. If they were so self-sabotaging in the GPU market they should have sold that business (and it makes one wonder why they ever bought it in the first place).

Of course CUDA is a moat. AMD sat doing nothing allowing it to get dug further and deeper, becoming completely synonymous with deep learning. A small scale, inexpensive software project to keep official, supported branches of major projects wholly functional on AMD hardware (e.g. Tensorflow) would have done great things. Instead they made some completely irrational solutions that tried to move the market somewhere completely different.

This has nothing to do with how they bet on "Zen". It isn't either or.
Yes, it really does boil down to just that word. We can speculate about the reasons, but the effects on a large forum like this one are predictable.
Thanks for the feedback. I thought it would be easier for users to simply slide a scale rather than manually input numbers (which I feel is error prone and more work), especially on a mobile device.

In the next iteration I'm considering allowing users to use either option, sliding scale or direct input.
Given the sorts of scales, would there be a hard limit to what we can see? Where we get to such a distance the dispersion of photons from the source would never allow us to see it? Or do we just have to build bigger and bigger photon collectors?
Apple started heavily investing in clang and friends because they wanted a compiler suite that was more modular than gcc and that could be used as a library in other things.

They wanted to do things like take chains of filters in Core Image and JIT compile them into a single optimized filter that could target the CPU or the specific GPU in that Mac. They wanted to use the compiler's parser as a library in Xcode to handle things like syntax highlighting.

Gcc could not do these things as it was at the time. The different parts were tightly coupled in ways to make it hard to separate things out. People had proposed making it more modular but the gcc devs rejected them, with RMS making it clear that the design was the way it was in order to make it harder for proprietary programs to have ways to use gcc's parts.

Apple could have forked gcc and changed it to be more modular, but that would have required a lot of changes and a lot of work, and since it would not be accepted upstream they would probably have to do a lot of work every time there was a significant gcc update.

It made much more sense in every way for them to go with clang and LLVM, because those were designed to allow the kind of modular, library use that Apple wanted.
Ah yes, the "Steve Jobs" cure. Just take better care of yourself and you can cure cancer/hiv/Alzheimers without any drugs.
Gravitational lensing has to be the coolest thing ever. That we can use a black hole as a telescope to see such incredibly distant bodies just leaves me with a childlike giddiness whenever I think about it. What's almost as incredible to me is that someone figured it out before we could prove it.
There's some wild stuff in the appendix:[0]

> The total wild mammal biomass before the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction event of ≈0.04 Gt C is about 6-fold higher than the ≈0.007 Gt C of extant wild mammal biomass. We cannot currently derive the uncertainty associated with the change in wild mammal biomass before and after human civilization, as we do not have a projection for the uncertainty associated with the pre-human wild land mammal biomass. ...

> At the same time that the biomass of wild megafauna collapsed, the biomass of humans gradually increased over the same period. Since the industrial revolution we have witnessed an exponential increase in human population, as well as a rapid increase in the domesticated livestock biomass. Today, the biomass of livestock (≈0.1 Gt) is an order of magnitude larger than that of all the terrestrial wild megafauna before the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction. Even the biomass of humans alone (≈0.05 Gt) is around twice the size of the biomass of all wild megafauna before the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction event.

0) http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2018/07/13/1711842115.DC1
>One difference is that Yew is powered by stdweb and Percy is powered by wasm-bindgen.
>I'm personally SUPER bullish on wasm-bindgen because it's been designed from day 1 to be able to take advantage of the host bindings proposal when it materializes.

I find it funny that you mentioned that. I actually was trying out wasm-bindget/yew recently and ended up using yew because of the wasm-bindgen limitations (mostly related to using anything with generics in the type signature).

The experience will probably improve on the future, but right now yew's actor model seems like a much simpler way to encapsulate rust libraries.
I love Apple music. For me the distinguishing feature is Beats radio.

Even though I don't listen live, I regularly listen to various programs to find new music. Since the music is picked and narrated by various DJs (Mike D of the Beastie Boys, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, etc.), it has a far less algorithmic feeling and there are fun stories in between, etc. Also, the different programs serve far more diverse audiences than mainstream radio.
Thats a big claim. Do you have a source on that?
The chart doesn't include today's drop yet: https://i.imgur.com/b3EzMfX.png
> The 'WASM is the new flash' argument only succeeds if you conflate at least all of WASM, canvas, webgl, webaudio, websockets and several other APIs and call it all 'WASM.'

I think it is disingenuous not to include these features, because they didn't exist in any form when Java and Flash where big.

> Flash can and did extend the browser in arbitrary ways. WASM is operating within a standards regime and relies on standards based capabilities.

Yes, it did, because it had to. The features WASM is relying on for similar functionality did not exist at the time, there was literally no other way to do it.

So your argument is that WASM is different because now, nearly 20 years later, these features are part of the standard web.
I don't find it anymore surprising than interest in mathematics being absent from many people.

The solution to your surprise will be a re-calibration of the expectations you have, not them magically becoming more like you :)
I've never tried spotify but I'm very happy with Google Play. It's worth the money and it has led me to discover many artists and genres that I didn't know I liked.
I believe the original Room 101 was just a meeting room in where Blair had to sit through boring meetings.
Oh they tried but bumbling incompetence and contractors saved the day. That and the bigger problem of iTunes being such a goatf*ck piece of software. It's like the contractors working on it were trying deliberately to make it bad.
Along those lines, James Tiptree Jr.'s short story "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution" concerns a plague causing males to kill all females.

(Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" was already mentioned in the linked-to article.)
Thanks for pointing that out!

For folks who don't use google/ios stuff, they even provide a webcal ics (source[1]):

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/nytimes.com_89ai4i...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/science/astronomy-s...
hacker news continues to push forward the state of alzheimers research one comment at a time
It was an open question, after the 2000 crash, whether MSFT would recover. It took until 2016 to do that.

It was an open question whether EK could recover. We all know how that ended.
> Mozilla discovered that the vast majority of Firefox users, 99.9% according to the organization, don't use the functionality at all.

Can someone put these guys in charge of something like an office suite? That'd be hilarious.
"It seems you can bypass some regulations by doing this."

Why would you think that? They're not gonna go, "Ooooo, you got us. You did the exact thing that we're regulating, but you called it a different name. Dang it."
Facebook Is Probably Fine
Maybe someday we will all realize that daily fluctuations in a company's market cap don't matter.

Just because something happened doesn't make it news.
I'm not quite sure what he is, but I don't think he's a comedian. He's either a character developed to market products, a genuine paranoid conspiracy theorist, or both.
Today’s Facebook Stock Drop Is Only the Beginning
> Georgia has been becoming progressively less red, and was early on in the 2016 cycle seen as a potentially swingable state.

I'm having a really hard time imagining an EV scenario where Georgia is the deciding state. An election where Clinton takes Georgia is one where she wins by a landslide.

And in the end the results in Georgia were right in line with both those of other states and with the exit polls.

There's no story here and, frankly, it distracts from real issues affecting voters like bogus Voter ID requirements, intentionally understaffing or removing polling places on college campuses, etc.
There are no more published results. In interviews Dr Bredesen confirms that the patients after 4 years on the protocol still are without Alzheimer.
One more anecdotal story: one patient did not like the protocol and stopped, Alzheimer returned, started the protocol again, Alzheimer reversed. This happened various times with the same patient. Make your own conclusions/assumptions.

There is a new study with ~100 patients but is is not yet finished.
Is there a case you would prefer Flexbox over Grid?
You basically count up reasons why I don't use credit cards.

Cashback almost always is connected with some form of datamining. The 500$ bonus is usually paid back in form of hidden fees somewhere. No money is free.

I don't want to spend money I don't have, ever. And regarding if my card gets stolen, European EC cards are very safe. They aren't CCs where you can just start grabbing cash, you need the pin too and the banks are very aggressive on putting temporary blocks on any transactions (as part of EC, any totally blocked transactions are billed instead and fully transparent for you).

Going to the ATM is easy and it means I have a very good feeling of my weekly and monthly spendings just by looking at how often and how much I use the ATM.
P/E is in the thirties. I have to disagree here. Google has had a PE in the thirties since 2006
The study was not a double-blind, placebo trial which means the positive result could have been because one of the following:

1. Patients didn't actually have Alzheimer's. Given the only definitive test for it is a brain exam after death, this is possible.

2. There was a placebo effect.

3. There was a therapeutic effect better than placebo.

You are assuming #3 but we can't draw that conclusion yet. Even the authors of the study aren't claiming #3.
You can begin to measure a player's defensive performance by working out what they allow the _opponent_ to do (or indeed not do), especially in something like soccer with larger play areas and slightly less fluidity of movement. There's a section in the Soccermatics book about an old metric I worked on called PATCH which implemented this quite naively based on defender territory and ball progression, which nevertheless flagged up people like Umtiti before his Barcelona move.

Of course there's also stuff like GoalImpact which just tries to apply plus minus to football, but all the old arguments about football being a low scoring game apply here.
Georgia Exit polls: Trump 51%, Clinton 46%, Other 3%

Georgia reported results after possible Russian hacking: Trump 51%, Clinton 46%, Other 3%

https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls/georgia...

https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president...
Bullshit. Without Flash or some other plugin there'd at best have been a different standard for each browser, with the only one worth caring about being whatever IE implemented.
Relativey speaking, all the GPU sales and spiking utility bills are of economic value to the suppliers. /s
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CocaCola can take a hard ethical stance against diabetes. It is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. They could add a disclaimer to their bottles the way tobacco companies are obliged to warn about the effects of long-term smoking.

Instead, they chose to implement the minimum legal requirements set by the FDA with a tiny number on tucked-away table. CocaCola has really good data on how much sugar their drinks have and they do not make an effort to really surface it to people assuming they are acting in their own interest, will read the label, and that will be enough to deter them from drinking a third can.

And the same can be said about pretty much any other company. They all implement "the bare minimum" required by law if it potentially affects their numbers.

> I think the point made here, especially with Disneyland, Candy, and Television is that children are targeted and manipulated for profiteering. And that's surprisingly legal.

Yes, but is it that surprising? We can't expect companies to regulate themselves.

> But it is not ethical. Each company has a choice. I hope public opinion will see FB as unethical and unforgivable in the future.

I agree, though I also think Facebook is a much lesser concern than other companies out there. That's not to say it should be put to the side or nothing can be done before something is done about big Tobacco, big Pharma or even big Sugar. I just think comparing it to a drug company is disingenuous, and lessens the urgency of dealing with companies dealing with proven, dangerous physical addiction.
Flexbox generally is better if you have a dynamic number of elements. Grid isn't a replacement for flexbox.
I could imagine a secure location service that allows your phone to compare its current expected position with other nearby phones' expectations of their positions. If it's over bluetooth or wifi, the positions should be within meters of each other. This could provide an input to a kalmann filter type position estimator to help reduce drift as you (for example) walk down the street.
Generally sure, but in other ways the US always lags the world - elsewhere you don't have to worry about being denied insurance, welfare systems are far more comprehensive, and privacy laws tend to actually get implemented (like the much-maligned GDPR)
In the 26,000 light years between the telescope and the star, I would guess that enough matter would exist, from stars to planets to dust, that it would complete occlude our view of the star. I would expect that objects would continuously be moving in and out of the way.

Is it that space is really so empty that you can get a direct view over 26,000 light years, or is it that we are looking at this star because it's one of the few we can see directly, or is it something else?
My condolences. But as someone whose father lost a kidney and suffered much un-needed anxiety and pain because of a false positive on one of those "extra tests" (and the general culture of treat-until-lawsuit-proof), I humbly request we meet in the middle.
This company has more revenue than a company which feed 1 percent population daily. Go figure.
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Hardly. God created men and women different, but equal. There is equal value in both. We should never attempt to dismantle the differences, but embrace them within the roles both sexes play. My wife is smarter than I am by far, gorgeous, and is a doctor. I'm a nerdy guy with glasses and a buzz cut. We compliment each other, but we are at the same time equal and different.

Women are more nurturing, more patient, better at handling conflict. Men are stronger, better at ending conflict should it arise (soldiers, police due to size and strength), and better at protecting families. There are exceptions. Neither sex is smarter. There are physical limitations for both. When I served in the military, for example, men had to do 20 dead hang pull ups. Women had to do a 70-second dead hang from the same pull up bar. Very few men could do the dead hang because women's muscles are different in their core. Maybe 1 out of 100 women could do the pull ups. It takes tremendous upper body strength to do 20 dead hang pull ups.

The desire to wipe away the differences between the sexes is wrong. I see beauty in the feminine and embrace it in its proper context. My wife cannot do some of the things I can do, and I certainly cannot perform as a doctor for women's health care in the same way she can. I'm at a loss, hence my wife and I both agree that men and women are better than the other in certain roles, but certainly equal.
Wait until the NY Times finds out that c-sections have greatly increased because of high-dollar awards like the one that made John Edwards (yes the politician) a millionaire...
Did I mention something that popped up on the wrongthink matrix?
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Awesome. Always happy to see Indie Hackers. One question. Do you make enough money from this to sustain yourselves? I had a blogging platform project in mind but I am not sure whether enough people will use the service.