skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been taking Effexor for more than 10 years. Two years ago I thought it was no longer being effective for me so I tried to taper down and stop taking the mediation. Over a period of weeks I dropped down from 150 mg to 37.5 mg. I could not drop from 37.5 mg - I experienced complete insomnia and terrible anxiety and I started to experience tinnitus. I went back to see a psychiatrist who initially didnt believe that everything I was experiencing was due to withdrawal - I had to fill one of my old scripts and prescribe myself my original dose of Effexor to get back to some semblance of normality. My anxiety and sleep levels returned to normal but although the tinnitus lessened its still there today. I worked with my doctor and eventually decided to increase the Effexor dose and it has helped greatly with my anxiety and depression. Apparently there arent many people who have reported tinnitus as an Effexor sessation side-effect. My doctor says it must just be coincidence - anyone else experience the same thing ? Just a word of caution to anyone thinking of stopping their medication - do it slowly and with the support of a doctor. I thought I knew what I was doing but I probably reduced my dosage too quickly and maybe this ringing in my ears is the price I pay.
I agree that men who abandon their children should be aggressively pursued by the state to remedy the situation of single motherhood. That's your point, right?
So I'm a Firefox user. Went back for reasons everyone here already knows; lots of privacy issues. I use a VPN too.

Anyway I switched to Firefox on my computers and mobile system. I use that VPN to try limit Google's tracking of me and I use duckduckgo for the same reason.

Long story short I just switched back to chrome on my Android, because Firefox has kinda stopped working. I used to be able to keep 100 tabs open, not I can't even keep 1 open in the background. When I go back it just forgets what it was and won't refresh. I click refresh and it shows it's refreshing, but then nothing happens.

Nothing I can do. I'm reading some or I see a great article and I open it right away in a FF tab for later. I go back it doesn't load. Then I can't reset/restart it, because it won't die and then it stops syncing, etc.

It's really really bad. Sadly this wasn't the case when I decided to switch about 8 months back, this is only in the last 60 days.

I'll keep using Firefox for now on my desktop, but honestly I really rely on profiles and sync across profiles, which is a pain to get around on FF as it is, but now it's a big burden I can't really see my way around.

Too bad, but honestly I need a reliable tool more than I need privacy at this stage.
The highest annual imbalance was $375 billion in 2017.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
Art doesn't work like that, it could be a bit more disorganized, spontaneous, fluid, etc. As soon as it is pinned down it looses its vitality, becomes boring fast. Artists spend a lifetime to end up settling in some very personal ways.
The alternatives to patents are trade secrets, open source style collaboration and academic research. All 3 have been pursued quite successfully to develop compression algorithms. 20 year monopolies are not necessary.
Infinite-dimensional symmetry opens up possibility of a new physics
The actual study is here: http://www.econpol.eu/sites/default/files/2018-11/EconPol_Po...

It seems that they completely omitted analyzing the impact of the retaliatory tariff's; which is odd - as that can often be a major reason not to impose a tariff in the first place.
Elevator safety code requires a working phone, so if that was broken, you should report it. There should be a current inspection certificate (less than a year old usually) and that should have been tested during the inspection.
Seems to be an endemic problem, maybe if zayo buys everyone else noone will experience it again.
Things I did not know, from France Info radio:
- before the alliance, Renault and Nissan had about the same size. Now Nissan is twice as big in number of cars.
- Nissan maybe in position to merge with/control Renault (and French government is not really pleased)
I have 3 apps on the App Store and I make around 500$ a month. It's not fully passive because I invest time in order to improve them and do bug-fixing.

http://emailmeapp.net
http://www.digitalphotoframeapp.com
https://www.peopletrackerapp.com
> What’s the alternative monetization model?

There's the heart of the issue, the belief that everything can and should have a monetization model. The fact that we had to invent a whole new artificial class of property to handle the existing model should set off some alarm bells here.

A lot of organisations make a lot of money from these algorithms, is having them chip into a non-profit to develop free and open standards too much? How about having some of that research from universities and government standards bodies chip in too?
Adrian Colyer has an excellent write-up of this paper here: https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-di...
Not such a noob question!

R and Python (pickle, for instance) both have facilities for serializing objects that can (sometimes) be used for ML models. Additionally, tensorflow has an API for saving models and I've seen people save the coefficients and structure of neural nets in HDF5 files (https://danieltakeshi.github.io/2017/07/06/saving-neural-net...).

But I wouldn't say there is a cross platform, universally adopted, model agnostic standard at this point (and it would be very difficult to create such a thing).
> Remote self-destructible VM for browsing with Firefox in incognito mode (only sites you NEED to, that REQUIRE JS), through multiple VPNs over multiple proxies.

I hope you're just joking since layering up multiple VPNs doesn't provide any privacy by design. The best way is to use disposable Whonix VMs in Qubes OS.
This but unironically. Yes, let's absolutely compare the total lifecycle cost of electric and IC vehicles, and price them accordingly. If you have a politically feasible proposal for this, by god, share it share it, the planet depends on it.

If not: who cares what "economists already know" about accurate pricing of externalities? The existing zero price for CO2 emissions is wildly off. Say we radically lurch in the opposite direction, setting the price of CO2 much too high (a hilariously sci-fi premise). We foolishly over-develop technologies that mitigate CO2 emissions. What a catastrophe, we learned how to suck CO2 out of the air instead of further refining fracking. We built a better world for nothing!
I would like to know what statisticians mean by "nonparametric", and what machine learning people mean by "nonparametric", because they seem to be something very different.
Typical strawman. Trump started the trade war because the _deficit_ is huge, not because China's exporters have higher profit margins. The mentioned "research" concluded that the trade war is going to "lower the bilateral trade deficit by 17 percent" after imposing tariff on $250 billion worth of imports from China. As the deficit is increasing every month, reduce it by 17% is like moving back to say one year ago.
What is self-evident is that you're just trolling, and have no interest in actual discourse. QED.
I always thought that for a country with the World’s reserve currency, the USA ought to maximize its trade deficit instead of worrying about reducing it. It gets scarce, useful stuff (iPhones, raw materials, food) in exchange for green bits of paper that the USA can print an unlimited supply of. The green bits of paper are usually invested back into the USA creating jobs and other economic opportunities (no point in hoarding it if it gets inflated).
Fake news... doesn't confirm my bias.

this is how it works, right Trump?
I actually like this art quite a bit, don't find it uglish at all. Sad that it's not functional anymore, how did the collaboration take place? It could not have been real time at the time could it?
Yes, that too. There's no point imposing an order on functions and classes; I think that when you're looking at a function, related functions should somehow float nearby. (This doesn't seem to be a very popular view.)
I had great success by doing intermittent fasting (I don't do it anymore). I had pollen, grass allergies, various food intolerance. I couldn't eat plums, grapes, figs, cherries, even bananas. My throat would get sore and lips swell.

After changing my diet and doing intermittent fasting for about a year I completely cured myself. I haven't grass allergy in more than 5 years. I can eat any fruit without any signs of discomfort.
Wrong! In 1978, LEGO's major patent expired in the US (20 years after it was filed in 1958).
Modular synthesizers. See www.muffwiggler.com
I generally agree with you on your points, but I'll share an anecdote.

I once had a friend ask me about getting a certificate in an unrelated field from one of those ultra for-profit schools they advertise during the day on TV. I told her it was basically worthless and that places that cared about that cert and those schools probably weren't worth working at.

Long story short, she went ahead and got the cert from the money mill, got a job at a place that cared about it, and despite my personal distaste for it all, she ended up loving the job and is very happy there a decade later. So...YMMV.

So I think it's hard to categorically say the OP will hate those places when in fact they might find them perfectly suitable. Some people just really like the kind of work those places do and are perfectly happy having a handful of 3-5 letter certification acronyms after their name on their business card.

As the question of whether they're worth the paper they're printed on and if those companies that care about those things are worth the air that comes out of their central heating, I have to say I personally agree with you. They probably aren't helping humanity or the security field any and I keep far far away myself.

But to your other point, the security field is tremendously huge and honestly a lot of it is paperwork pushing certification, compliance and accreditation stuff.
I don't understand - are you surprised there are some easy routes? 3s are mostly for first timers and warming up. I'm not saying there aren't also difficult ones.
My wife actually did introduce me to DFW, back when we were dating. I was a bit obsessed with him for a while... even visited his collected works at UT Austin.
I find the start of Social Network really inspiring. The great soundtrack (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) from the scene where he is running back to his room and then getting to work will get me productive every time.

Running home - "Hand Covers Bruise" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXdFJggkjzM
Starting work - "In Motion" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2mDjPR7oU
> The green bits of paper are usually invested back into the USA creating jobs and other economic opportunities (no point in hoarding it if it gets inflated).

The "green bits" are pumped into real estate across the US (not to mention Canada, the UK, and Auckland), inflating housing prices and making it harder for housing consumers to acquire property (kudos Vancouver for your foreign buyer tax!). Jobs are not created with these investment dollars.

Warren Buffet warned us of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGo_NL-eclw (trade imbalances lead to serfdom)
Interestingly enough, I have the opposite perspective.

A single or childfree worker can structure her leisure time at will, spending it socializing or engaging in activities, such as a sports league or making music. Work can be done in the home office and social activity later.

A worker with a family has much less control of his leisure time, being obliged to pick up or drop off children, and to be present for dinner. Socializing is much more opportune at the office.

It seems that your basic premise is that being at the office is unpleasant. I posit that being at the office can be pleasant and productive, and lead to social situations that otherwise would be harder to justify to one's family or encounter naturally.
By this report Google is 56.6% white.

My experience is that white male Americans are roughly 25% of the Silicon Valley workforce, but if you bundle in white immigrants and women you might reach 40-50%.

As I remember the TV show, the main characters are 80% white, and the Indian guy is the whitest one I've seen.

Small sample, I know, and I'm not offended. Just a little bored...
Any SkillUpper for salary negotiation?
Fair - correlation does not mean causation. That being said, countless experiments show placebo can have empirical results; even the simple belief in a remedy can improve healthcare outcomes.
One thing I've noticed is that aside from rent, random expenses in NYC are so much more expensive. E.g. classpass classes, restaurants, etc. Do service workers get better paid there?
Think about a police department or intelligence agency who can make you disappear anytime they want, without needing to devote manpower or risk lives at the task. Disturbingly dystopian.

Think about a black-hat hacker who can have a side gig making sweet ransom money by kidnapping you or your child from a thousand miles away. Aggressively anarchistic.

Think about a rogue employee who works for Tesla or someone and has legit access to the tech, and knows the GPS coordinates of the nearest body of water. Maniacally murderous.

Think about a terrorist group whose only objective is to cause as much damage as possible, and figures out how to access the whole fleet of vehicles at once. Grandly genocidal.

Self-driving cars are downright terrifying.
> it seems that one of the most reliable findings in psychology is that only half of psychological studies can be successfully repeated

Oof. That's a good line.
It's drawing only cactuses?? I didn't know I could draw cactuses so well
> I always thought that for a country with the World’s reserve currency, the USA ought to maximize its trade deficit instead of worrying about reducing it

Indeed. That was basically post-war US economic policy in a nutshell. The worrying about reducing the trade deficit is a purely political argument. Trump is simply the first person in power to actually believe the nuttery.
Really? Doesn't that go against the stated fish design document and ridiculousfish's intention for fish?

I'm more concerned about making fish scripts work well than making fish run bash scripts. (Maybe fish 3.0 will improve that too.) I've tried to use fish for writing somewhat serious scripts several times, and I've always run into frustrating problems that sent me back to bash for scripting. Fish is an excellent interactive shell, of course.
People find something to do in in a middle of Nebraska, too, but it's pretty hard (well, probably easier in Nebraska). In 5 years I couldn't even find a decent grocery store there.
You are deducting that investment today against the revenue it is producing today, and when you deduct in 2021 you are deducting against 2021 revenue.

We could argue about the shape of the curve we want, but it would not make any sense to deduct at retirement of the asset.
His history of infinity, Everything and More.
Global warming mitigation is not diverting resources from tobacco cessation.

> I don't think it's sensible to compare theoretical future economic costs to real costs paid by taxpayers right now.

"We should permit environmental destruction for economic gain benefitting today's taxpayers."
Especially considering LEGOs products in the beginner electronics /robotics space.
Venezuela tried that. Now they have petro coin.
The Broom of the System was the first DFW I read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The ending was a little lackluster, actually the overall story was a little lackluster; But the humor and characters make up for that. I smile every time I think about The Great Ohio Desert.
I've saved the references and plan to take a solid look at them. I stand by my criticism at the moment, even as an avid and interested reader in Das Kapital.
I think you might be confusing rental property that is unrented vs property that is not in the market but not physically occupied.

"about 30 percent of the more than 5,000 apartments are routinely vacant for more than 10 months a year" [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/more-apartments-...
Venezuela doesn’t control the world’s reserve currency.
Another example but not related to statistics: "convolution" in machine learning is not exactly the same thing as in signal processing.
While increased demand for real estate had definitely played a substantial role, housing costs could be flat or even decrease if we simply increased supply dramatically. There are a limited number of people but there is a cubic amount of space if we build up. If we had policies that encouraged always building then housing prices would collapse and we wouldn't have an affordable housing problem at all, even with foreign investors buying speculative property.
"Today's taxpayers" have been kicking the can down the road for half a century. The attitude should not be a surprise at this point.
It's one way to look at it, and you will find multiple macro-models that will sustain some ideas, for example the increasing weight of government or how captured economies become. But globalization has definitely been a huge cause of stagnant wages in developed countries and sky-rocketing poverty reduction in the rest of the world.
All of those are viable if the audience exists along the spectrum of power users.

Another alternative is to just offer features better -- better support, better reliability, fewer bugs, etc. Better support being the most impactful value you can add.
Higher real estate prices in the USA generally mean more money for schools, libraries and other local government services.
Or we could curtail speculative investment from a foreign nation's citizens (as other countries do, Thailand and Mexico come to mind) and not have to find ways to radically increase housing supply that we're not able to accomplish regardless. The charade that housing supply momentum can adjust faster than capital movement needs to end.

In places that can build more housing, it is done. In places it can't be done, or the local citizens don't want it done, it is not. "Build, baby, build!" is just as ridiculous as "Drill, baby, drill!" [1] We work backwards from those two fundamental truths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill,_baby,_drill
I'm with you. I'm not quite sure what elevated it beyond "yet-another-sitcom" in the eyes of so many people, but it really seemed like standard sit-com fare to me, the few times I watched it (terrible writing, predictable humor, etc).
> If it does works it is entirely possible it will lead to a healthier and smarter society.

Sure, and if Elon Musk invented flying hamburgers we could solve world hunger, which is just about as plausible as successfully using genetic selection to solve a non-genetic problem. The premise is false; anything that proceeds from a false premise is useless.
I wrote a build system for an embedded system with two processors and lots of code sharing across three platforms in Make because no other tool would let me program the whole DAG in the same language. The makefiles generated themselves.
I think you mean humans are downright terrifying, and self-driving cars don't need remote controls.
You have pairs ! Consider yourself lucky.
bone-headed housing polices happily voted in by existing residents

"Residents" have no such authority.

Cities and counties don't even have an initiative or referendum power open to residents, generally.
You're dodging the question. When, exactly, was the peak of American intellectual achievement that we're now coasting downhill from? Name a decade.
Or if you want to get really big, PHP.
And PSP also taking part in the memory-training process during the boot AFAIK. So you can't disable it completely.
>The issue with ext4 resilience isn't about quality of the implementation. It is a fundamental limitation of no COW filesystems. Since things are overwritten, if the system crashes mid write you can end up with partial data. COW filesystems always give you the old data or the new data. This can be worked around but that requires that all of your applications do this workaround.

You do know how journalling works, yes? Unless the drive lies about the state of data being written, in which case not even COW will save you, a journal is just as good as COW. Exceptions being coding errors but those can occur on COW with the same devastating result.

Maybe you don't know as much about filesystems as you want to appear to?
DuckDuckGo App
Interesting extreme user, would be interested to learn more about how you compute.
Yes, a lot of other apps and websites have been doing this for years. But you have to upload your images to their server. The point of this is that it does all calculations locally in the browser, at the expense of some quality.
> You agree to those terms when visiting Google Maps or using Google Maps API.

Those terms are not even presented on the screen when visiting Google Maps. And even if they were, I didn't sign anything or agree to anything. It is ridiculous if those terms are legally binding. Because then I will make a site and make you pay $1 for every page viewed.
I experienced tinnitus when I started either Celexa or Lexapro. It started on the second day. It was pretty bad and I quit it the next day. My doctor said that she had never heard of that happening.
Chrome is fun, today I learned you cannot turn off auto-complete for a page in chrome. Possibly some really creative hacks can do it but those seem to be "fixed" every so often as well. Which is great when you're building a HIPAA compliant page and would prefer that people's medical information not get cached by chrome (and then uploaded to their cloud storage if you're logged in).
With a Lamport Clock (counter, logical clock) you could end up with the following due to dependence on conflict resolution aka optimistic MVCC rather than Wall Time (copies do from another HN):

“it is possible for a transaction C to be aborted because it conflicts with another transaction B, but transaction B is also aborted because it conflicts with A (on another resolver), so C "could have" been committed. When Alec Grieser was an intern at FoundationDB he did some simulations showing that in horrible worst cases this inaccuracy could significantly hurt performance. But in practice I don't think there have been a lot of complaints about it.”
The blades are not the hard part. Windmills for grinding wheat have, after all, existed for quite some time. You need a lot of copper wiring and strong magnets. Especially the magnets are quite difficult to make.
I am considering FoundationDB for a SaaS project. Here are some questions I have:

1. What is the recommended way to filter on multiple indexes?

2. What is the recommended way to filter on one or more indexes and sort on another or more index(es)

3. If I use FoundationDB as my main datastore, how should I implement full text search?

4. From what I understand, FoundationDB stores keys sorted globally. How does it handle hot spots where a range of keys that is very frequently accessed is on one machine that gets overloaded?

Edit
5. How do you do backups?
They are, but Borg is also modern.
Artificial Intelligence in Sex
Beautiful graphics.

The article measures repetition via compression ratios, an interesting idea.