skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First I want to say that determining something as Psychological doesn't put you in much better of a position than just saying something is a somatic condition we just don't understand yet. Secondly, to sufferers who are upset by this idea, please don't be. Yes, when the vast majority of people hear that a condition is psychological, they somehow think it's easier to deal with, less real, madeup or somehow not physical. This is wrong and any good physician will treat you with the exact same empathy and respect whether they believe something is psychogenic or somatic.

Ok, with that out of the way, the answer to your question is yes and no. Some folks emphasize the comorbidity of ME/CFS with depression to try and establish ME/CFS as a psychogenic illness. Some cases of CFS improve with the introduction SSRIs. Which further embeds this belief. But its entirely possible that the depression is a result of the day-to-day suffering. And the improvement reported with SSRIs isn't just a result of the sufferer's generally improved disposition.

The main difficulty with CFS is that it is currently a bucket diagnosis. So, you end with people in that bucket that have other diseases. For example, there are probably a good number of people in the CFS bucket that have an autoimmune disorder like Rheumatoid Arthritis or Spondylopathies because the mechanisms of diagnoses for these are somewhat unreliable and the effects of treatment are purely subjective if blood tests are consistently normal.

Without some differentiator, it's really difficult to study the condition with confidence. Any effect or symptom sampling will be diluted if our bucket has multiple diseases in it. It's because of this that I think sufferers should resist the temptation to pitch their tent around the CFS flag. But I do understand the yearning to have a name by which to call your affliction.
OK, how about red versus green wiring?
Any recommendations for sensible forum software? (self-hosted would be ideal)
To be honest, I don't quite understand what smart city even means. This term is so board and include so much different aspect of life that I am not sure what it includes. It is a cool marketing term, but does not explain too much what is happening.

So, I have read some of the use cases. One of them is putting a sensor in a garbage bin, so that the sensor could take picture of the garbage and determine where they should go. I don't think this is smart. Japan has already been very efficient on garbage collection, because Japanese people just separate different type of garbage themselves, and fine people who don't. A policy could just fix this in a cost effective way, not some sensor. But the spirit here is placing a camera to see what it could do.

Some other project like improving the accuracy of water meter to detect water usage and pinpoint leaks. They admit it already exists, and only improvement is required.

I could conclude that it is a debate about who could put an IoT or sensor in the public area. Google just wants to place those IoT in the city to see what they could do with it. Basically a web crawler in physical world. The government may also want to create a hype so that people would approve infrastructure funding to improve existing infrastructure people don't think it's that smart.

Am I missing something here?
They don't need the cash, they want the cash. What management and shareholders stand to gain from it is cashing out. That's the way business works. Not saying it's the way things should be, just the way they are.
A fun optimization trick from rsync
The issue here is that you did some "brief googling" (your words) on a complicated, confusing, cutting-edge area of clinical research, and now feel competent to state your completely uninformed "null-hypothesis"...

Here's some basic information:

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/index.html

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-...

http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/ME-CFS/MEC...
Not directly related, but for People interested in fundamental physics, classical mechanism is becoming very relevant for explaining particles.

«in the deterministic collapse theory of 2016 [29] the nonlocal absolute phase constants of the wavepackets were taken as hidden variables (cf. [30]). Collapse occurs when two wavepackets spatially overlap and satisfy a mathematical criterion, which demands that their phase constants very nearly coincide. The wavepackets then collapse to the overlap volume. In a measurement this mimics the action of a point particle. The phase constants are pseudorandom numbers, in the sense of the deterministic chaos theory, and the Born rules are derived under the assumption that their distribution is uniform. »

« Physicists report that quantum behavior can be explained with classical physics for a single particle, but not for multiple particles as in quantum entanglement and related nonlocality phenomena ("spooky action at a distance" ["gruselige Action in einiger Entfernung" (german)],[344] according to Albert Einstein) »

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/thni-wii1011...

And another hidden variable theory explain quantum entanglement.

Thus, classical mechanism deterministically explain ALL of quantum mechanics !
What still needs to be done is to unify those three local hidden variable theories and wouldn't that create the first theory of Everything ?
A thing that quantum mechanics will never by design be able to do by being incompatible with general relativity.

Let's be clear, probabilities distributions (quantum mechanics) are a Nice map of the territory.
But the map isn't the territory ans the territory IS superdeterministic like classical mechanics.

Also, I believe that local hidden variable theories are deeply underresearched because mainstream scientists have not updated their belief on them since 40 years...
I guess too that many quantum scientists are afraid of dropping the Nice absurd Idea of free will...
In case you missed it, there is another good post on HN right now about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321537
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Could be a brand new Tesla Model S
The joy of working in a large corp. One day it's: boss's boss cares a lot about the work of this team. The next day the whole project gets cancelled. All hands propaganda meetings are so much fun ;-)
Pattern Recogntion and Machine Learning by Bishop

I’m highly skeptical of lists that do not include this standard text.
I agree his posts were tiresome, but it's one thing to respond to such a post and quite another to drudge up the issue appropos of nothing. :(
It does—that's the point of the page.
Damn all these heart beats are costing a fortune
As I mentioned, my go to is ddpy which is “not your mamas yoga!” It incorporates a lot of calisthenics moves and gets the heart rate up for a great workout which builds strength.
you can try the (~$15) upduino 2.0[0]. it's supported out of the box by the free (OSS) icestorm toolchain[1]. The upduino board itself is also OSS.

[0]: http://www.gnarlygrey.com

[1]: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
Phone calls. Say, an office worker gets 8*6 phone calls in an average shift of 8 hours, so one every 10 minutes on average. It doesn't matter how long ago the last call was, since the customers don't coordinate.

This real world example still doesn't perfectly match the theory. For example, if there was no call for a long time, it may indicate that it's some special day or the phone line is malfunctioning or whatever and it could mean that the next call is probably further in the future than the model would say.
> Another less bad situation is that you might need to turn down better career opportunities in other cities because you aren't able to sell your house.

If the house price stays the same this still ends up costing you roughly 6%.
You're awesome for sharing and sharing src
btw. why do you need admin rights on first launch - the app should work without as well
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For the people saying that incomplete knowledge of theoretical foundations will lead to dangerous or "bad" AI - go read some papers from respected academics and 'industry leaders'. Incomplete knowledge is something we have to deal with one way or the other.

For the people saying that people won't be able to do anything useful after a 7 week course, go look at what beginner programmers are creating these days. There are so many resources out there now. I am constantly surprised at the impressive and practically valuable scripts that programmers are writing after a several week course. I was excited to get a hangman game working weeks after first learning to code - but now it's not uncommon to build multi-player games or complicated, good looking web apps with less experience. We've definitely moved a level of abstraction higher in the last decade - it just wasn't as clear cut as MIPS to Java.

I think the highest value created here might be in the really non-sexy "oh so that's what 'AI' means" revelations that more and more people are having every day. Before I spent two years studying ML I had the same crazy ideas around AGI that many people with no understanding have. And I got super lost in the same non-productive discussions about what AI might do, what it could currently do, and what it all actually meant. If courses like fast.ai can get a critical mass of people to understand core ML concepts like classification and overfitting and accuracy and precision and recall I think we'd collectively get closer to stopping the hype train and focusing attention on where advancement is actually possible and currently happening.

I know dozens of people taking this course, from all walks of life, and I am convinced that they're all gaining useful knowledge, and are likely to benefit society in some way as well. Maybe they're not going to invent GANs from scratch, but neither is every one who learned what an if statement is going to turn into Linus. Gate keeping isn't cool. This course is (though it actively claims that it isn't).
IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34B
There are plenty of other benchmarks where Ruby on YARV and Elixir on BEAM are roughly even. In this example, JRuby is ~2x faster than Elixir + BEAM.

https://gist.github.com/jamatthews/7b41b5ce5058f3f4ed674b6ac...
Rust has a static GC

https://words.steveklabnik.com/borrow-checking-escape-analys...

:)
"Position statement" = collective statement by a group of experts on a topic. "Encompassing field" = group of medical experts who study a larger body of knowledge that includes CFS/ME as a subset.

Like, in physics there is a big field of people who study dark matter, with subfields who specializes in certain (often mutually exclusive) hypotheses about what dark matter is made of, e.g., WIMPs, axions, etc. If I wanted to know whether a new hypothesis about dark matter was plausible, I'd want to hear what all the dark matter specialists thought, not just people who already committed to studying that particular hypothesis.
can someone explain to me what will happen tomorow at market opening ?
Currently redhat is quoted 114$, IBM announced they will buy all share at 190$. will it be tradable tomorow morning at market opening ?
That's more horrifying, not less. For 20 years children have been getting shot at school in your country and you've collectively done nothing meaningful to stop it.
The Onion was also prescient about the end game for surveillance based companies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o

(this video is especially interesting in light of Google's recent involvement in Chinese censorship)
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It's an unstable condition in a game theoretic sense, because if you don't push for a higher margin when you have the chance, your competition might and then you go out of business altogether because they can outspend and outinvest you. So you always have the incentive to optimize margin as high as you can.
Collabora?
Since nobody mentioned it yet, I think AWS’s f1 instances starting at $1.65/hr are worth considering. The underlying board is fairly expensive, but given that you mentioned algorithmic trading, I assume you’re intending to do this professionally (in which case production will look more like the f1 instance than a small dev kit).
I wanna see a language that is both dynamic and can be compiled. Runs on a VM and on bare metal. Something like C++, Java, and Python combined. It can definitely be done and would be an interesting exercise.
Where are you getting 50kph from? Nowhere did I suggest that was a safe speed for daily riding.

We've been talking about 35kph, or 20 miles an hour, which is a perfectly reasonable speed for a bicycle. You're unlikely to be seriously injured if you crash at 35kph. People regularly ride 35kph throughout parts of their ride. It's normal, common, and entirely legal.

Your comments about "sticking to the speed limit" make no sense whatsoever. We're talking about speeds far, far below the speed limit even on residential roads.

I'm flabbergasted that you're having such a freakout over a bicycle going 20mph. I'd hate to see your reaction to an actual gas powered motorcycle or scooter.
Is that really so weird? All elections are essentially state elections. Even the presidency is really a state level election due to the way the electoral college works. There is no nationwide election so why would there need to be a nationwide ID system for voting?

I'm in favor of requiring a photo id to vote but am well aware of the problems some have in obtaining such an id. That's the problem that needs to be corrected. It does need to be corrected first and we shouldn't just shrug our shoulders and go back to things the way they've been. Everyone should have easy access to a state endorsed identification card. It's an essential function of government and interaction with citizens. As such it should be funded by general taxation rather than a user fee.

A state issued identification card is used for so much more than just authorization for driving a vehicle. Why is it in the hands of the DMV/DDS in most if not every state? Even the non-driver identification cards issued to those who don't drive are usually still issued by DMV/DDS. It's an odd system that wouldn't be designed as it is now if we were designing from scratch but we're use to it because that's how it evolved over time.
> which largely pays only a 15% long-term capital gains tax

Before or after it was gutted earlier this year?
Seriously people doing 40kph in a city street? The average for a Tour de France pack was somewhere between 26-29mph ~= 41-47kph. That's assuming no stop signs , obstacles and plenty of the pack grabbing a wheel.

I think you're over-estimating average possible speed on a city route.

[1] http://slocyclist.com/whats-the-average-speed-of-tour-de-fra...
What sort of dumb mistakes?

Also, what engineering/technical challenges do you think Netflix still has to resolve? It seems like things are stable and right now the focus is on content growth / ownership, especially in the face of other companies catching up and trying to compete in the streaming space.
If you can reference 5 year old forum posts why can't you reference 3 year old chat conversations?
One of the cornerstones of US voting is secrecy. The ability to cast your vote without the public knowing who you voted for contributes to the integrity of the entire election.
Today you can already be assured your vote was counted - in California you can go to voterstatus.sos.ca.gov and review your previous election participation and see that it was recorded.
>because it's good software that might stop being developed soon.

Having looked at the code. Calling it good software is a dubious proposition at best.

As mentioned in another comment. There are other init replacements that are seeking to solve the same issues as systemd. I bet you can’t name them though since they were never properly evaluated.
People suffer through a lot more for a lot lot less.
For individuals and small businesses, sure it makes no sense. But large enterprise customers will pay a lot of money for support windows that are far too long. That's why Red Hat (and every other large company) offers them. Even when the publicly available support ends, they still often have hangers-on who will pay even more money to get a few more years support out of them.
Ideally the information goes where it’s supposed to in your permanent knowledge repo. This could be a wiki, a website, etc.

The email is sent as a notification that the content has been added, updated or moved.

Email should ideally serve as a notification system and a lossy communication system where things you want to retain need to be backed up somewhere else.

The nice thing wth email is that being an open eco system there are a lot of integrations that are supported easily.
It reads at 14 per week, unless there was a ninja edit earlier.
People enjoy vilifying Slack but like any tool what matters is how you apply it and build structure around it Replace 'Slack' with 'email', 'Skype', anything in these gripes and it all reads the same.
Not only that, but you can follow their "Instagram" (i.e. Pixelfed) account from your "Twitter" (i.e. Mastodon) account.
Should banks care? If you put up $300k on a $1m property (meaning a $700k loan), and it gets foreclosed, then the bank will recover all of their money. They shouldn't care, as they're in the clear risk wise.
It's got the support in the core language. That's what is so exciting to me ... its not just numerics, its an excellent programming language in and of itself, before you even get to the interesting type system.

It is JIT compiled, though some of us who like to deploy apps would love to have an AoT compilation. Likely we could work around that with a singularity container on linux.

Unlike many other languages, parallelism is a first class citizen, be it SIMD, GPU, distributed machine, and combinations.

It also works very nicely on FBSD 11.x. I've tried compiling it on recent 12.x nightlies, but not had great luck.

I am actively looking to find projects to work on in it.
Thanks, I agree with basically all this. I would only mention that medicine has a better track record of developing treatments to disorders with a somatic cause than purely psychological ones.
None of these qualify as "mainstream" compared to RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu. Even SUSE, which used to be in the big league, is a shadow of its former glory.

If you look at what runs on production servers, it's virtually always RHEL/CentOS, or Debian/Ubuntu. Everybody else isn't even above 5%, and most of those you've listed are in fractional digits.

For another data point, if you look at websites, Debian+Ubuntu is already >50%. At this point, I think it's well on its way to becoming the Linux distro, with everything else being relegated to the hacker/boutique niche. And I think that this announcement, and what IBM is likely to do with RHEL afterwards, will accelerate that trend substantially.
I figured bringing up that Tumblr will get flagged or at least downvoted, but it is amusing to ponder what would be the biggest, most high-profile acquisition in tech to merit an entry. Doubly funny when the firms involved aren't Silicon Valley startups but old enterprises.
So many people consider this a menace when in many ways it's closer to utopia. For decades cities have tried to get commuters to switch to bikes and public transportation, but nothing has really stuck in the states due to the convenience of cars. Now that it's happening, some people aren't happy.

The situation is basically that 20% of the population of some cities has switched to an ideal form of transportation within months, and our infrastructure isn't built for it. Imagine the number of bike commuters increased 1000% in three months. That's the situation were in. The irony of people complaining about it isn't lost on me.

People love bikes, and you never really hear complaints about people riding them just about anywhere. Bikers have been "violating" road and sidewalk laws for longer than cars have existed. These scooters are slower and smaller than bikes, and follow regulations better (reflectors, headlights, sometimes brake lights) . They're basically as carbon friendly as you can get for a motorized vehicle. And they're cheap and fairly durable. I bought one ~6 months ago and no problems for 500+ miles, it's practically taken my car off the road permenantly.

We should be embracing these scooter with open arms. They're drastically reducing road congestion at least in my city. Even displacing rideshare to the point that I've had many drivers tell me that nobody gets picked up downtown anymore.

But I guess the "get off my road/sidewalk" backlash is inevitable because people don't like change.
Gay marriage rights and now weed legalization are two recent examples of policy that I don’t think would have been possible in America (at least for a long time) without decentralized government. People got used to the idea in some more progressive states and it’s bubbling outward.

Many states experiment with election law as well. California with top two primaries. It’s yet to be seen how that will play out, but we likely wouldn’t try on a national stage.
Murderous communists? Who Knew? Look what they are doing in Venezuela
Structured threads vs an unending ticker tape of noise.
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Slack is still good for automated purposes, i.e. piping alerts and messages from a service. I don’t think I’ve ever found it useful for communicating with other people.
Yes. If you spend your whole life on one long multi-transfer bus journey, you'll end up with a gaussian.

It's a bit less clear that gaussians should be used when e.g. fitting a coordinate to an astronomical feature, which might not actually be symmetrical.

The other useful property that the gaussian has is its separability, in the 2D case. That is unique to the gaussian and counts for a lot.
You know that GPUs can dispatch work dynamically themselves to overcome this problem, right? So you totally can have one computation step determine how many instances it requires for the next one.
Is it really so different though? It feels like it's been converging if anything, what with Ubuntu on systemd these days, and moving from Unity to Gnome Shell. What are the substantial differences at this point?
Actually, these days Ubuntu is closer to Debian than previously.
When I was a teen I volunteered at a nursing home. It wasn't unusual for a resident to not have an un-expired ID card. Once they stop driving, they felt they had no reason to renew their drivers license. It really wasn't an issue since for most purposes an expired ID was fine.

It wasn't a problem for voting because the poll workers knew most of the nursing home residents socially. This was a small town and some of the poll workers even attended primary school over half a century ago with the nursing home residents. As our communities become looser and looser knit, this kind of informal identification system loses its integrity. Our identification card issuing system hasn't kept up with this change in society. Fix that problem and the rest fixes itself.