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> Ignoring the link between mental illness and marijuana use is ridiculous.

Your statement presupposes the conclusion. You need to consider two different questions:

1) Do we have correlation between marijuana usage and mental illness above and beyond the line for something as common as alcohol or cigarettes?

2) Do we have have causation between marijuana and mental illness?

Most studies barely reach an "inconclusive, needs more study" on 1). 2) isn't even in scope yet.

> Plus, we have a colloquialism for a person whose mind appears to have suffered damage from excessive marijuana usage: a burnout.

We also have a word for someone with the same issue on a different drug--alcoholic.

I'm pretty sure we have far more conclusive evidence of the mental damage that alcohol does than the damage that marijuana does.
Hmm, I'd much rather build a Class-D amp from scratch with no chips involved... any tips?
1. these same false-positives have been a recurring issue for multiple years already

2. there is no fix for a tool which is not a mass-market-consumer-product

3. as a technologist you should know that all anti-virus is bullshit which does not work. false positives and false negatives abound. the anti-virus's job is to accurately identify viruses/malware because users can't. But the anti-virus can't do it either. It's true. Really. I figured this out on my own over 15 years ago, and it never changed.

I really hate the sentiment and consensus around anti-virus. It's like an "car-crash protection talisman". It just does not work. But if you tell some one not to use it, and they get in a car crash, it's your fault. If they use it, and they get in a car crash, oh well, what can you do. But it's truly bullshit.

> They are the only authority that can rightfully claim that their product is virus free.

This is a dumb idea. What's the point of anti-virus if we just trust the vendor.
If something doesn't work, sometimes it's better to try something else. Especially when the only way to see if something is better is to try it.
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Just because something can be used for "evil" doesn't mean it can't be used for "good". You really can't imagine any "good" benefit?
Someone I know was recently trying to have a conversation with an audiophile about the possibility of re-purposing some audio equipment to make noise floor measurements for another system that had similar frequency and dynamic range characteristics.

The technique worked just fine, but man, that guy was loony. He was trying to claim, with a straight face, that a GPS disciplined oscillator wasn't stable enough for his audiophile-grade Rube Goldberg machine.
Nice work. Been looking for a resolver with DoH support that’s built with Go. Cloudflared is just too buggy and not actively maintained.

Would love to see some support for Prometheus compatible metrics.
Do you plan to make these (many in the future) embeddings to refer to a single 'semantic vector space' or have each of them be separate?

I.e. do you plan to do the work to align the embeddings of different types of media so that the contents are somewhat similar and e.g. an audio recording of a snippet gets a similar embedding to the equivalent text and a somewhat similar embedding to a picture that's being described?
> Do you never go to a dentist because you can never be sure they're fixing your teeth? You don't know if they're superficially treating your teeth just enough to warrant another visit instead of "fixing" them once and for all.

Shady dentists performing unnecessary procedures so they can rip off their patients is a rare but serious problem.

Do go to a dentist when you have a clear problem you know about, and do go to the dentist from time to time for routine checkups / cleanings, but be careful about choosing a dentist and skeptical when a new dentist suggests your apparently healthy teeth actually need extensive work.
The big gain for balanced inputs is rejection of signals induced into the wire. Of course optical is the way to go if you are really worried about that. Personally I don't care, my ears are old enough that I no longer hear the difference between a high end and a low end amp.
If anybody else is curious how the pattern looks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling
I agree that it's interesting they found no android devices that failed. Would love to see a more comprehensive study, looking at which devices fail at what levels, etc.

Not that this is necessarily 'Not Invented Here' syndrome for Apple, as I think they may have compelling reasons to design and procure a bespoke component, the benefit of using something off the shelf is that it is battle tested by other people. You get a component tested not just on your use cases and failure modes, but everyone else's, so that if your needs or environment changes it's more likely for the component to keep working.

I would also love to know more about how the enclosures used affects helium sensitivity; is helium pervasive enough that it gets everywhere anyway, or can some phone bodies etc keep it out.
Author of the post here — I agree that the "how" might be what's missing the most. The point I'm trying to make with the post is really more of a "what" question. I sometimes talk to entrepreneurs who want to outsource their distribution through some creative channels. I'm arguing that one should fight as hard as they can to keep owning that relationship with the end customer, and that this may indeed be close to the only thing that matters in the whole chain.

That also explains why startups that have "just" a bunch of users, and no revenue, are still able to raise at massive valuations. Sure the proximate cause is that they'll be able to monetize that attention at some point — but the deeper insight is that attention is inherently valuable, because it's upstream of everything. Every transaction starts with a person paying attention to something.
We're from Montreal , that's why most posts are from there.
You can filter by price and location once logged in ( gear icon > notification filters).

The other option is to use the map to check open jobs by location.

Your comment makes me realise :
1/ it could be interesting to allow unregistered users to filter
2/ we have to say $cad :)

Thanks a LOT for checking it out !
That’s a good point. I hadn’t thought of that.

Just to clarify, the adaptive cruise control in the Atlas works as low speed but lane keeping does not. I actually use ax all the time even in slow residential areas. It prevents me from inadvertently speeding.
Just do some research and get a cheap class D amp off a chinese website. I forgot the one I chose(I'm at work now), but other than some sparks if you jiggle the power connector(haha seriously. can be fixed with a tiny bit of effort), it is an amazing little amp. It also supports optical and bluetooth connections which is really nice.

I put my efforts into building speakers instead. I got a cheap kit (https://www.diysoundgroup.com/overnight-sensations.html) and spent my time learning how to apply a french polish finish. I really enjoyed learning french polishing. It's one of those things that when you finally get it, it becomes immensely satisfying. Yeah, shellac isn't the most durable finish, but it sure is pretty.
https://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/200w-class-d-audio-powe...

Not quite chipless but pretty close.
Your first point seems to be reflected in the article, except that, if they are correct, the high end of Class D amplifiers apparently is not "super cheap".

I don't quite get the aggressiveness of your second point: surely just leaving whatever your first association to a topic is out cannot warrant such outrage? It's not like they present this article as groundbreaking innovation. Not only do they cite other DIY efforts. The whole premise of the article is that the author himself already did this ten years ago,.
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Audio is a great way to get kids excited about electronics. When I was in the 6th grade, my father helped me build my own high power amplifier using an LM3876 opamp. I remember clear as day the first time I powered up my amplifier circuit and nothing happened. Hmmm... I brought my face closer to my circuit board and suddenly "BANG!!!!" an electrolytic capacitor blew up right in my face and scared the living daylights out of me. I unknowingly connected the power supply capacitor backwards. I soldered in a new capacitor, and then plugged it in again. Like magic, my home-brewed subwoofer was now cranking out serious bass by an amplifier that "I" built. That moment was magical and surreal - I still get goose bumps thinking about it!
I have some questions. My son has been taking guitar lessons using a classic guitar. Using the advice of his instructor we are getting him a begginer's electric guitar for christmas. We also need to get him an amp.

Is the amp in this article the same kind of amp that you could plug an electric guitar into? I know nothing about music or instruments, but I do know about electronics so I was thinking it might be fun to build an amp with my son.

I went to the diyaudio link you suggested, but I didn't immediately see information like in the article (buy this, this, this and this to build the amp). Can you point to where I could find a similar purchase list and assembly instructions on diyaudio? Thanks!
For most purposes, taking a decent ImageNet model and ripping off a couple final layers works reasonably well.
> If you pay a programmer, you have to worry that they have a conflict of interest. If they finish the job, you won't need them anymore.

Yes - this is a real problem especially if you don’t have the expertise to know how long a task should take.

That’s where many agile practices like 2 week scrums came from.
> but I don't think we can treat pot as totally harmless for people under 30 and teens in particular because it seems like it's very harmful for some.

But I can say the same for alcohol and cigarettes and ...

While there are a few diehards, most sane people will not defend "marijuana is harmless"--even for adults. It's a drug; it does something to your mind; that's why you use it.

However, the increasing amount of data suggests that what harm marijuana does is in the same class as things like alcohol and cigarettes--which are legal, but regulated.
Is zerovm still active? I loved the concept, but the startup behind it is gone, and it’s built on Nacl which is being deprecated by wasm... I would live to see it portes to wasm and expanded behind the original “python compute embedded in openstack storage” use case, which was underwhelming. There are so many more exciting applications to server-side wasm. I hope someone actually builds this.

At one point I got my hopes up that Docker would build this as the logical next step after Linux containers... But they seem to be focused on monetizing the containers/kubernetes movement, which makes sense as a business decision but still is disappointing.
> the Internet is a good example of "Real OOP": A system made up of other systems sending messages that are "desires", not commands.

Or: OOP is what you get when you take the necessary programming model required at the software level, to get two hardware devices that don't trust each-other's engineering to successfully exchange data (like, say, a computer in a public library, and your smartphone that you've just plugged into it over USB), and then try to shrink it down as far as it'll go, while still retaining the ability to represent and handle every potential failure-mode of the original exchange.
Yes. It's durable storage with a RAM interface. Byte-addressable through conventional CPU load/store instructions. It follows the usual cache coherence protocols for memory, but once it gets flushed, it's stable—just like conventional storage devices.
again, that's the whole point of the article - the MacBook/air/pro lineup is all about upsells, and they've managed to convert "smaller" into one of those upsells, where the 11" air used to be the cheapest model.
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Coming from a trade-tech perspective, companies like UTI and Lincoln that claim to offer a course for shop and engine mechanics rarely prove better than spending a year (or two) at your local city trade college.

For trades its all about your benefits. its the old-timers that move into teaching. No greybeard wants to hire on at a private school for higher private rates but ultimately lower benefits. A woman for 40 years experience as a plumber will choose lower pay at the city college for better health, retirement, and vacation packages.

The state also wins big again at trade colleges because many of the instructors have worked 40 years in the largest fleets: city bus or EMS/Police motor pool. These people are legends in their field and the city goes to great lengths to keep them around. Private colleges might get the occasional lead mechanic from Nascar or a pro-racing circuit endorsement, but she hasnt held a wrench to a normal engine in more than a decade.

lastly its about content. private schools polls industry to see what they want, and if industry is short on good (cheap) oil change monkeys then thats most of what youll learn. Old-timers know you'll need more than an oil pan to bring home a paycheck. Theyll teach you things to make you faster, safer, and better at all the work you need to do.
With anonymous submissions on sites like these (see also: Glassdoor), I wonder if there's any sabotage going on where companies submit fraudulent information about competitors.

Isn't it a potential downside to this open approach without any verification?
I actually have a debit card with Schwab but the app is nothing like Monzo unfortunately :(
Unfortunately, the email says it is confidential / under NDA...
Aren't these embeddings task-specific? For example a word2vec embedding is found by letting the embedder participate in a task to predict a word given words around it, on a particular corpus of text.

The embedding of sentences are trained on translation tasks. A embedding that works both for images and sentences is found by training for a picture captioning task.

The point I'm asking about is that there may be many ways to embed a "data type", depending on what you might want to use the embedding for. Someone brought up board game states. You could imagine embedding images of board games directly. That embedding would only contain information about the game state if it was trained for the appropriate task.
I found it to be an ok question; not at all an API one. The answers differ quite a bit, and by choosing one and explaining why you can show that you understand what you’re doing. For example, if you choose str.indexOf(‘ ‘) you clearly have no idea what you’re doing, and if you pick str.count(‘ ‘) - 1 you look like you saw the actual solution somewhere and are picking something that looks similar without really thinking about it (why are you subtracting one from something that seems like it returns the number of spaces in a string?). The last one would require the knowledge that “words” is not a common API that any language vends.
This is a tried and true method for processing bitmaps. It is always useful to see intermediate composites as you work. Some other software implementing node-based compositing and generation:

- Nuke

- Fusion

- Substance Designer

- Houdini

- Blender

- Natron

- Autodesk Smoke

I am a fan of Houdini which gives you the ability to drop into a C-like DSL called Vex if you ever feel like tossing some traditional code instructions into the mix.
Nothing wrong with vinyl, that’s more about physically handling the media, reading the sleeves, listening to an album the whole way through etc. Than the audio quality. No vinyl enthusiast would say the quality is objectively better, but the experience arguably is
I was raised in Europe, my pencils were always blue like those:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Pencils_...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2r0Y8HUTeMI/UQVsbzQceKI/AAAAAAAAB5...

I was surprised the first time I saw a yellow pencil, like the IKEA ones.
I've always thought of it as the preferred interface to Userland when there isn't an overriding factor.

Within a kernel it seems like no one cares how the sausage is made.
> A psychiatrist that behaves as you describe is literally engaging in malpractice.

That's only a deterrent to the extent you can prove it, which is zero.

> frankly it's ludacris!

Nearly every professional I've ever been in a position to independently assess has "rounded in their own favor," often quite heavily, frequently egregiously, and always with a firm rationalization in hand. Psychiatry has especially blurry lines to round -- but you expect me to believe that psychiatrists buck this trend? Frankly, that's ludicrous.
There are these I've been tempted to try out that use the same chip (and a low noise pre amp), but unfortunately I have two perfectly functioning amplifiers already :-) (and a set of powered edifier speakers in the mail - I have a problem). https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m...

They have a switch mode power supply instead of the toroidal in the IEEE article, so in theory more noise - in real life? probably doesn't matter. THD < 0.01% at 30W, frequency response is +- 1db, the days of having to spend any money for an amp seem gone, < $70
Okay ... neat story, but actually emphasises even more the arbitrary parallels with TFA, and the idea that some technology, up to some vintage, is kosher. f.e. the old camera, the soviet era mechanical watch, etc. I understand it's 'a month without computers' rather than 'a month without technology', but nonetheless the claimed parallels to religious abstinence are pretty dubious.
I modified this to try and compare against the last image it generated and feed it images via ffmpeg from a movie. Ultimately the results were still a little too choppy for video but the effect was very cool. The processing time was also incredibly long because lowering the polygon count made it very hard to tell what was moving.
We aren't currently doing this.

In the future I think we'll try to embed into a single space on a best-effort basis, assuming we can find the engineering resources. It will be really hard for some data types, but for the big ones like text/image/audio it isn't that hard, and will probably be valuable to people.
So, the solution is to antagonize a user that is taking time and effort to inform you of the problem?

> This is a dumb idea. What's the point of anti-virus if we just trust the vendor.

The AV company will, hopefully, not... The vendor is the only one that can vet that the file on the site is the file that it is intended to be. They are also the only ones that can make changes to the their builds (which can help).
This approach will be thwarted if the time is shown in the observation space. If this is so then every kth state will give a novelty reward and every other state will give zero, it doesn't matter what the agent does.
They may not be as independent as you would think. For instance. There could be straight-up signature sharing or outsourcing between vendors, and there is definitely an incentive to flag something if your competitors also flag it.
This "papers written by people 300 years ago and their interpretations are infallible" thing is a really common POV in America. People make mistakes. It's ok to correct them.

As brilliant as the Founding Fathers are, they did not, and could not, foresee a future where corporations have more money than entire governments, where they've been given personhood, and given carte blanche to just "buy" legislation. All in the name of free speech? How far does free speech actually extend - because we might as well cut the red tape and just auction Senators off the to highest bidder on an open market at this point.

I bet you $50 that if you were to resurrect the Founding Fathers and showed them the present situation and were ask "so - is this what you had in mind?" - they'd be absolutely horrified.
> While sexual harassment happens for example at law firms, nobody in the legal profession (and I suspect, most of "sanitized corporate America") would try to defend with a straight face the practice of relationships between supervisors and underlings, as is typical here on HN.

I think you would be terribly surprised.

Most of the people sitting in politics come from the legal profession.

You don't magically start harassing people simply because you get elected. The fact that you harass people is already well established before that.
There have been 6 releases of cloudflared in the last 2 months - https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases
>I did therapy with a military chaplain. I had a really positive experience there. He wasn't being paid by me to deal with me. He was on salary. If I got better, that had no bearing on how much he made.

Actually, military chaplains do have a conflict of interest. They have to be endorsed by a religious organization, and said endorsement must be maintained throughout the chaplain's military service and can be withdrawn at any time for religious or disciplinary reasons. If they're not consistent with the teachings of their denomination, they stand to lose their military benefits and a pension.
Well there's paintings that are part of our cultural heritage that most of us will never see, other than in reproductions. Doesn't mean you can't appreciate it. I don't really mind if the original is owned by some billionaire. The cultural significance is still something that's open to everyone to appreciate. But we get to do that knowing some guy who really cares about it is spending crazy money on maintaining it.