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The immune system is so complex, we can't even solve food allergies. We're only scratching the surface, although I am hopeful for the future.
The sad thing is that it probably won't help much against identity crime anyways. Criminals will figure out how to get around it, but ordinary folk won't.
I don't think the BSA is opposing that. Its all about how the Girl Scouts have imploded, closing most of their camps and drastically reducing their program. For years our local Boy Scout camp has shared their facility with the local girls, so they would have some place to continue their activities. Now the BSA is making it official - girls are welcome.

And as others have said, sports are still gender-based. Even health clubs do this. Its not gone or banned, that's a straw man
This is almost exactly like Textio (https://textio.com), except "similarity of writing" is not always predictive of actual results.

Textio's data is based on how documents performed in the real world along metrics people care about.
Does that mean anything or is it just honorific like most recognition of groups from the government? I think it's quite well established the Boy Scouts of America are a well recognized group regardless of this so I don't see how this is what makes them non run-of-the-mill.
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It's a pretty simple library, does it need commits every month to prove that you should still use it?
>distinguish between "freedom to act as you see fit" and "discrimination"

These are not linked, they are independent and orthogonal. The first is a matter of legal ability, the latter is a moral issue (that may under some circumstances also be illegal). There are many, many instances in life where you have the legal right to do something that is nonetheless despicable, and it is social consequences that moderate it (or not). russellbeattie did not say the Boy Scouts were criminals or should be banned, merely that they are discriminatory. And they are. They apparently have the freedom to be discriminatory, but private citizens may still judge them for that choice. Refusing to have one's child be involved which an organization that does that is a completely legitimate social and moral judgement as a parent. Debating and socially pushing back against evil is a critical part of society and reason free speech and association.
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Interesting case study: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
GFW probing is an interesting subject, and it's great that WireGuard can't really be probed (it does not respond at all to handshakes that do not use an expected key).

An interesting related talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBp6opkcxoc
I was only talking about one process above. There are others too, like sleep debt. Night shift workers can train themselves to sleep in the day and remain awake through the night but at a pretty steep psychological and physiological toll. Scientists have been studying the whole area pretty intensely for the last half-century or so leading to wonderful things like malatonin pills. If you want to know more but don't want to read a whole book there's always Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
As an African I am with you on Africa's true problems. From the article though it seems Gates isn't just looking for a solution for Africa. He is looking at his from a humanity perspective. We aren't getting the most from our sewage. There are some low tech toilet designs that work relatively well in Africa. The Blair Toilet[0] being one.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_toilet
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> ...wormlike critters with plump bodies and many tiny legs.
So they are saying, “wormlike” insects ie, not the butterflies, but caterpillars came first. That’s how I read it.
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I tried it on Hacker News audience mode and it changed this sentence to:

The unreasonable effectiveness of machine learning to improve this sentence.
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In my view, intelligence is an information processing problem. Neural Networks are situated in an environment to some degree. You have inputs, outputs, and then some measure of error with respect to the outputs and some objective function. The objective function can be seen as a way of encoding information about the world in which the NN is producing outputs, and provides the basis for the feedback loop that is used to train the NN ( forward-propagation and backward-propagation ) and produce a representation of the world.

I think these theories are great, but unless a theory makes a mathematical argument about information processing, I think they can be highly misleading and confusing. Natural language has been tripping up philosophers for a long time, and I think the lesson has been learned that we must make mathematical arguments if we ever truly wish to get to the bottom of something.
Perl 6 is still Perl and the name was in use for quite some time, so an alias makes better sense rather than a full rename. Full renames are annoying. Just look at ECMAScript. Is anyone using this name? No, everybody's still using JavaScript. People are only using ES5/6/7 when they refer to the specification. The name stuck. It's too late now. And people are needlessly wasting too much energy over a name.

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” -- Phil Karlton
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I'm glad someone is fighting that urgent battle, surely it's worth all the time and effort ...
I've probably said something like that before. But to see it in writing is jarring
Indeed. The relationship is probably indirect. Warming causing receding of glaciers and also lowering water levels (stronger than than positive impact on it by melting glaciers).

I thought though that maybe melting of glaciers might reduce the sealing of water basins (lakes) serving as a source for the Rhine. Causing the water to seep into the lake bed.
I’m not sure it’s even obvious for sports. Doesn’t it make more sense to divide sports by physical ability regardless of gender, rather than use gender as a preposterously imprecise proxy for physical ability?

Why have one team made up of the fastest boys and another of the fastest girls, rather than one team made up of the fastest kids and another made up of the next fastest kids?
Rubbish. Or show me a single series from the last three decades without the mandatory remarks of threat and need for action. There's plenty enough, and more, of it for the context.

Attenborough's thoughtful, tasteful presentations about the beauty and value of nature has done and will always have done more for environmental awareness and conservation than this ideologue nobody.
This was always my concern about writing nontrivial programs in Prolog.

It seems more like something I would want to embed as a DSL than something I would want to use for writing an entire program front to back.
In aother article pointed by the Guardian, I read :

>> Schmid said: “Immune therapy on top of standard chemotherapy prolonged survival by ten months

Since, I guess, patient are interested by "being cured", how should I interpret those ten additional months? Of course, I understand the statistic behind it, but I' d like to know if it translates to something meaningful for the life of the patient. For example, if I had a ten month increase in my life, considering that it could mean live 10 month more with
pain, false hopes, etc., then I wouldn't feel that the situation has improved meaningfully (of course I don't have cancer and therefore I may miss some obvious benefits).
OTOH, if that increase means that the chance of long time remission also increase, then, that's a whole different situation...
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> AMD is still behind per core in both clocks and per clock performance.

Yes, that's true but the per clock performance is close. They are only 5-10% behind in single threaded tasks without AVX (depending on the workload). The IPC increase is expected to be 10-15% (will of course depend on the workload). And their achilles heel, the AVX performance, will also improve with Zen 2 (256 bit instead of 128 bit etc.)

Due to 7nm the clocks (for consumer hardware like Ryzen and Threadripper) will probably also increase (not 5 to 5.2 ghz after overclocking like Intel, but up to 4.7 ghz overclocks could be possible seeing that 4.3 ghz is possible on the current node which is mobile optimized).

Depending on how much the clocks increase I believe they can close the gap. Maybe even pass Intel. The future certainly looks promising for AMD.

I wonder if they will revive their X APUs for the Server. In the past they had Opteron X APUs to increase the compute density of servers. Now with Zen and Vega this could be a nice combo in addition to discrete GPUs.

For example this system: https://i.imgur.com/yt5FasA.jpg?1

Imagine replacing these two 32 core Epyc CPUs made in 14nm with two 32 core Epyc APUs (Zen 2) made in 7nm, which would use the saved space due to 7nm for Compute Units, and you might get an additional 10-16 TFlops per System. Which is basically one additional GPU.
Very interesting read, I browsed the author's website and it says he is a independent security researcher and self employed, a real question, I am interesting in knowing he survives just reporting bugs, when there is no surety a bug could be found every month for a living....
As is every club with any kind of charter. The DAR; the sports teams at my local high school; heck even girl's schools like Wellsley.

And the religious component is contained in "adherence to spiritual principles, loyalty to the religion that expresses them and acceptance of the duties resulting therefrom"

Its about teaching young people to respect spirituality, to accept loyalty in Scouts to their own faith. I can't see harm in this. Perhaps an Atheist, dogmatically demanding that we all give up faith, could see harm?
Yes. One candidate remembered to do it that way after some searching, the other never did.

Both started out by looping over the items in the dict and stopping at the correct one. Asking if there was a simpler way to get values out of dict didn't help.

The third candidate really didn't get far enough to get the dict wrong so I counted them as well but they may have known how to do a dict lookup.

Here is the exercise:

Given these dicts:

{"a":[1,2],"b":[3,4],"z":[5]}
{"a":[66],"b":[77]}

Write a program in language of your choice that sums the common keys.

a and b are common so result is:

{"a":1+2+66,"b":3+4+77}

so output should be:

{"a":69,"b":84}

This exercise is stupid simple. Note this is in an IDE/Editor, not a whiteboard.
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> "personality tests are just astrology for managers"

That's very well put.
Not exactly what you are looking for and I'm sure there are better examples that I don't know of, but Cologne is made up of concentric rings and at least has one park ring.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9363443,6.9470178,14z
> Fossils dating to 280 million years ago, however, record the emergence of a different developmental process. Around this time, some insects began to hatch from their eggs not as minuscule adults, but as wormlike critters with plump bodies and many tiny legs.

What they mean is: before this developmental change 280 years ago, they hatched as (albeit tiny) fully fledged adults, rather than in their intermediary state.
A file system error isn't an error happening in the compiler. The file system is an external system. So this error isn't really any different than a syntax error or type error. I would not treat it differently except making a different error message. Of course you cannot parse a file you cannot read, so there is a dependency which means that sooner or later you need to "act" on the error.
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I think it's hard to look at a grid system and say that it's optimized for sales.

US urban planning in the late 1800s and early 1900s "emphasized a grid plan, partly out of extensive reliance on foot, horse and streetcars for transportation. In such earlier urban development, alleys were included to allow for deliveries of soiled supplies, such as coal, to the rear of houses which are now heated by electricity, piped natural gas or oil." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_end_(street)#Suburban_use...

Sure, you might argue that people purchased those houses because of the benefits of the grid system, and hence (indirectly) optimized for sales. But that same Wikipedia page points out that post-war construction in the US emphasized cul-de-sac and crescent streets.

> "Real estate developers prefer culs-de-sac because they allow builders to fit more houses into oddly shaped tracts of land and facilitate building to the edges of rivers and property lines.[10] They also choose these discontinuous network patterns of cul-de-sac and loop streets because of the often significant economies in infrastructure costs compared to the grid plan. ... The desirability of the cul-de-sac street type among home buyers is implied by the evidence that they often pay up to a 20% premium for a home on such a street, according to one study.[10] This could be because there is considerably less passing traffic, resulting in less noise and reduced actual or perceived risk, increasing the sense of tranquility."

In other words, cul-de-sacs optimize sales, not grid patterns, and "quirky features or strange floorplans" of non-grid plats don't seem to be a problem - quite the opposite.

I believe Joseph Smith's 'Plat of the City of Zion' influence on Salt Lake City's shows that the grid system of SLC was not specifically optimized for sales, and indeed was partially designed for navigation. At the very least, you know were you are with respect to the Temple.
I think it can really be summarized as the following: adding something to the community. It can be a new relevant story/project submission or a comment with an on-topic question/anecdote. As long as it adds something new and different,(I say different here because it can't just be a re-iteration of someone else's post, within reason) users will find it karma-worthy. Users here being users like me and probably your average user on HN.
Insights discovery most likely.
Most people don’t think about all the factors of waste disposal. 200,000,000/100,000/7 = 285 educated peoples’ salary for 7 years. Now thow in expenses. Doesn’t seem excessive given the multitude of issues. What’s the full disposal story? Throw in expenses and my response is “... and?”

As a SF homeless guy who frequently tweets about my hardships with pooping/water/grossness, I welcome toilet innovation like this.
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Solar panels were (are) a multi million dollar research project.

Yet they cost next to nothing and are really easy to operate and install
IME it's easy to look back and focus on doing the knowns. But starting from ignorance and alone is likely to take longer than a skilled team starting from scratch. Of course it must be the right size to explore and implement the solutions without too much overhead.
As I was seeing another post, it seems like Prolog's advantage would be as an embedded DSL. So you can write the logic parts in Prolog, then switch to C++ or Java or whatever for the GUI.
It makes vulnerabilities easier to remember and talk about. Is that bad?
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That's completely forgetting a lot of these areas are water stressed now let alone what they are projected to be in the near future
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It is nice when they throw in some diagonals and roundabouts for variety. Gives you more options when moving across the city.
In the medieval days of villages, everybody knew everyone's face. There was little in the way of privacy.

Today we expect a certain level of anonymity, but mostly just because we've grown up with it. It's not been normal through history. It may not even be healthy (to live in a society alone and unknown).

I don't think its the end of the world. It won't even be the end of privacy. Social privacy is mostly pretending in public not to know what you shouldn't know. Nobody 'hears' what goes on behind the bathroom door in their home, because its the height of rudeness to mention it.

We'll have to come up with social norms to not know what everybody is doing every place in public. Not knowing who went to what private clubs, or who visited whom's house after dark when their spouse wasn't home and so on. Unless we saw it in person of course!
Or tracing dna evidence instantly (those skin tags we leave on every surface or wafting in the air as we pass).
> I cannot imagine doing anything remotely Photoshop-related in a web browser...

I do that all the time, we might have different definitions of what photoshop-related is, but I often use pixlr.com to cut faces out of photos and put them on other things. I will check out his product
I really learned to appreciate the scale and horror of the war after listening to Dan Carlin's 6 part podcast series on it. I highly recommend it though it isn't for the faint of heart.
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This is a very smart idea. Business writing is its own set of genres and sub-genres. They range from consultant'ese to imperative command emails, with variants of passive voiced academicians and hyperbolic marketing speak.

Given the model, how large of a corpus would you need to mimic a style? e.g. If I had a target customer and a bunch of their emails, blog posts, or social media comments, how much data would I need to improve my pitch to them?

Would use this as a CRM plugin.
Parent of both, some anecdotes and generalities follow.

Girl scouting is indoors and out of sight, Boy scouting is outdoors and in view. Therefore you will see a lot more "boy activity". They spend a similar amount of time.

For whatever weird traditional reason its assumed the boys families will pay maybe a hundred per year for boy scouting stuff, and girls do not pay or only pay a symbolic tiny amount of money. WRT family budget, Girl scouting is like a tenth the cost of Boy scouting, maybe less.

Boys do indeed sell a heck of a lot of popcorn and holiday decor like wreaths, but mostly at special events or to family members, girl scouts seem to sell most of their cookies door to door or at the grocery store very much to the general un distracted public.

Boy scouting activities, well, bluntly sound cooler and more memorable. There's no reason a girl couldn't pick up a boys merit badge book for archery and have tons of fun, but girl scout activities just are not as cool, sorry but true. "Eco Friend" just doesn't excite the imagination like shot gun shooting merit badge or welding or car maintenance. Why aren't girl scout activities as cool as boy scout activities? I honestly do not know.

Girl scout activities are very risk adverse, worst case scenario is a paper cut. Boy scout activities (at the higher ages) involve firearms and fire and safety glasses and danger in general.

Gender integration is a weird topic because boy scouts has always involved over 18 women and preteen female siblings since the old days and no one really cares; however girl scouts is absolutely fanatic about no-males-allowed in any form. Its definitely like integrating the white schools only and not the black ones, or whatever historical analogy. Girl scouts absolutely forbids males and AFAIK they are not integrating like the boy scouts at all.
Note that the portion you quote was about the school system, not Scouts.
The only solution to human-friendly AI is to instantiate a quaila-producing consciousness.

Qualia is, by definition, data that non-conscious entities lack. We don’t have to understand what qualia is or how consciousness works in order to train software to develop both. All we need to do is understand how the qualia data affects behavior. If we train toward those unique behaviors that only qualia can provide, then ML will figure out how to produce consciousness and qualia on its own.

What is that behavior?

Empathy.

Empathy is knowing what it feels like to subjectively experience qualia. I know the feeling of awe when I see something beautiful. I know the feeling of pain when I lose a loved one. I know the feeling of jubilance when I succeed. And because I know what it feels like, I know what it feels like for another. And that is real data that allows me to understand what another person will say and do, and to understand what I should say and do with respect to their state.

This is real data, and luckily it doesn’t take a super-intelligent AI to produce. See your dog (and perhaps cat). A dog only understands your feelings because it too has those feelings.

We don’t need to train for intelligence to solve the question of meaning. We need to train models that demonstrate empathy.

I’m not aware of any research in this area. But Douglass Adams’ happy sliding doors and depressed androids were on point.
I find it funny that you would try to correct such a small insignificant detail
I tried it and it only recommended that I change a number of single-words to near-synonyms - but I was writing a technical piece in which those single-words have to be precise. So really, it wasn't helpful at all. I'm not convinced, in any case, that there are general rules of writing for all college students, or all accountants, rather than far more specific ways of writing tailored to the various contextual variables of each case.

I prefer the hemingway app.
> the practical results of the research are sold to oncology patients at bankrupting sums.

In the US. [0]

[0] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-do-...
Your city dweller’s habits compel you to throw fat and oil down the drain. These need very high temperature to compost. But then you are also throwing chlorine and ammonia based cleaning agents, which greatly inhibits organic life.

If you let the fat and oil solidify at room temp and dispose of them in the trash, and if you use regular soap in the recommended amount, and if you septic tank additive once in a while, you will be tearing the problem at the source, and will only need to take care of the tank when it’s time to replace it in 40 years.
Not necessarily, on small projects that are being rapidly developed it's very common that you need to change many times the data structures returned by api, as front-end is iterating on the design and ideas and figures out the new pieces of data that they need. Mapping the results of DB queries into complex structures & entities, and juggling it to fit the latest needs of front-end/app devs used to take a big chunk of my back-end dev time (and nerves). GraphQL can extremely simplify and speed up these iterations.
Septic tank owner here. I own a single family home, maybe larger setups are different. The recommendation from the installer is that it is pumped and inspected every 3-4 years.
The mind reels.

Not because Linux is a bad kernel, mind you, but because UNIX itself reeks of ideas that were ok when it was originally developed and clunky at best today. Even Microsoft seems to have given up. The future of computing looks pretty grim to me.
Isn't this exactly what datomic / datalog are?
I’d like to meet Gates one day and shake his hand and just tell him I’m glad he’s doing so much good with his wealth. I take for granted a lot and he’s helping to lift those that would love to have what I have.