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I think I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to navigate what is actually healthy to eat, and more importantly, what is healthy for my children to eat.

Is there a single, trustworthy authority that can tell me which brands are safe, knowing full well designations like "USDA Organic" are being gamed by companies?
Unlike drugs, implants don’t need to go through clinical trials in most cases.

That’s a gross oversimplification. Yes, certain devices don’t need to go through clinical trials since their approval is based on a “predicate device” and only involves minimal changes not expected to greatly change the risk-benefit offered.

If you’re developing a brand new, never seen before device, you will have to conduct clinical trials.
"and his thesis is considered erroneous by experts in the fields of philosophy, computer science, and robotics."

from wikipedia. what clown writes about penrose without including the standard criticism?
Yes. There’s a reason that Japan created a new term “Chikan” to describe gropers on trains. It’s exceedingly common. Recent reports, suggest that almost every woman who has used a underground in Japan regularly has been groped at some point.

I asked the women in Japan who I know well enough, and they confirmed this.

Japan tries to combat this with female only carriages.

I was recently talking to a woman in the US about this, she suggested that it was also quite common in the US. So perhaps, there’s just a more public discussion about this in Japan.

I’d love to see statistics on this, if anyone has them.
> "they'd be unable to explain ... GPS, because it requires an understanding of general relativity to work.

It requires GR to make it work, but not GR to understand how it works. I.e., GPS would work fine -- in fact, be easier -- in a world without GR. The clocks on board the satellites depend on QM, but the idea of an accurate clock is easy. Same with orbits -- staged rockets came late, but orbital mechanics goes back a long way. Transistors are new, but amplification is old.
TL;DR: The Times tries to sell a narrative, but when you look at their sources, you find that:

1) They give no data specific to Dayton; they take countywide data and attribute all the "positives" to Dayton;

2) The data is utterly wrong. They simultaneously claim that there were 566 overdose deaths in 2016 in Montgomery County alone, but their other source for Ohio as a whole says that 2016 had only 564 overdose deaths in 2016 in the entire state of Ohio.

Something literally doesn't add up.
> One observation from Buteyko materials that sounds right (and would be easy to verify) is that only one nostril should be active when you aren't exercising, and there is a ~3? hour cycle where they swap dilation repeatedly through the day and night.

It’s called the nasal cycle.
N. N. Taleb has been harping away at this for ages now. Here are some great quotes:

> Electricians, barbers, gardeners, surgeons, tango dancers, are experts. Not economists.

> The Black Swan explains the domain-dependence of expertise: why the electrician, dentist, are experts, while the journalist, State Department bureaucrat, and macroeconomist are not. Since then, there has been a global movement against the pseudo-expert, the serial incompetence of a certain class of babbling and pompous operatives across bureaucrato-academic professions. Which leads to the question: who is the real expert? Who decides on who is and who is not expert? Where is the metaexpert? Time it is. Or, rather, Lindy.
Sources on when "we" decided that and on the actual reduction in numbers of police, please.
Arguing over fairness may be a dead end. But what about the practical question of incentives? How can a flat fine provide a significant disincentive to the very rich (without being so high that it would completely wipe out the average person)?
For all of the protests against police shootings / killings I know of, the protests were due to the fact that the criminal was unarmed and didn't actually pose a threat. Is there really a large political movement against shooting armed criminals?
Apple 666, Artemis, iPads (infertility pads), Project Inkwell, and Agenda 21
What are the odds of a random crosstalk saying 'liberty' ?
Aaron Klug, Nobel-winning scientist who examined molecular structure, dies at 92
I want to start using HackerNews again.
True, but a plaintiff's lawyer has an incentive to overstate the problem on the client's behalf. It's irresponsible journalism to just quot this and attribute it to 'lawyer' (a stereo typically responsible person) without mentioning the adversarial context in which the remark is made. 'Plaintiff alleges BART 'a free-for-all' for Criminals' would have been better.

The attorney's duty is to maximize the perceived level of risk, just as it is the defense lawyer's job to dispute that. The article only mentions a single statistic showing a 28% increase in crime in the first 6 months of 2018. One hopes the complaint is more statistically rigorous.
Where? In the US?
How about putting cameras in train?
Interesting that he noted pattern recognition as the limitation for computers.
> Employers don’t care where you went to school.

This depends on the employer. Google is notorious for not only caring about your school, but your GPA. Also as someone who has looked at hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes over the years - the reality is you very quickly start to look for any sort of signal and schools are definitely something some (I would guess most) consider.

Do I think it's unfair? Sure. But recruiters simply do not have the time to look into every applicant with any sort of detail.
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I have half a dozen post doc friends in science. All of them are honest and exceedingly hard workers, but they became disillusioned after 10 years in academia. Despite their PHD and advanced degrees that they worked so hard to earn, they now work in completely different fields, most very low paying. I really hope you have better outcome.
I know. https://i.imgur.com/s5qesHC.jpg

Except, the restaurant is not there. None of the signs are on the building except for Lake Powell Realty. Not the "Restaurant" sign on the left, not the CNG Burgers sign in the middle. And the reviews kept on coming even after we left.
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Great summary with nice examples. Read through and bookmarked for when I will need this at work.
I see your point about drug dogs on trains adversely impacting poor people, but what does that have to do with fascism?
Can you elaborate on why you think this is worse than having the whole network have a permanent history of a direct transaction between addresses?
I googled this quickly, and I'm seeing the UK has 36 deaths per billion miles driven [1] and USA is 1.7 [2]. Can you cite your sources that the UK isn't disproportionately high? I could be reading the numbers wrong.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[2] https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/4/232
> we're still asking a question we've had since times immemorial: where to draw the line between protection and privacy?

i've got a cookie which says you can't find anyone writing seriously about that question before the advent of photography.
While we are at it, lets change the format from .pdf to .zip to include source, data and other information that a hypothesis and test and resulting analysis can encompass.

First step is to put the pdf into the zip and have existing tools be able to navigate the hierarchy. Could include notebooks, bibtex, tex, data, images, etc.

And semantic scholar is in exactly the right place to institute this evolution.
For these purposes, the blockchain is just a fancy way to maintain accessible backups. It doesn't give anyone but the government "control". The law is always what the government in power says it is, pretty much by definition.
alpha.telemetry.microsft.com resolves and has Microsoft name servers as SOA. I see no reason to conclude this is a typo. What evidence do you have?
Ha, I had a guy similar to this today on the SFO airtram going from the rental car drop off to the terminal. He got on at International A and got off at the next stop.

Like your guy, he was pleading for money for his daughter. He had a very long back story, including the fact that a police officer already gave him $17 (and referred to the cop by name). Lots of unnecessary detail like that, trying to make it seem more plausible.

Everyone ignored him. He got off then jumped on the train going the opposite direction.

I wonder how much he makes a day.
Love mermaid. Very simple syntax for sequence diagrams and graphs.
Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
> And what would this pornhub app do that you couldn’t do from the website?

Store files for offline use or untracked use, have better privacy because user settings can be stored locally rather than on the server, provide source code that can be audited rather than relying on javascript that can change at any time, etc. In general, anything an app can do that a website can't -- otherwise why do native apps even exist?

> Should Nintendo also be forced to sell a PornHub game?

They shouldn't be allowed to prevent someone else from distributing one.
Be careful no-one actually links to the real info on HN. We wouldn't want to stray to far from Fox.

(The fact it does say the persons name publically is scary, the fact they got it wrong is technically interesting)

https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/facial-recognition-c...
Yep. In many ways we are simply stuck with whatever we built before we lost the ability to build things. Not because it’s the best, but because it’s no longer cost effective to improve at current efficiency levels.
> This is why it's hard to get support for public transit funding

My fiance and I took the BART two stops to get to civic center to the Trump protests about 2 weeks ago.

We saw people selling meth/heroin/etc literally INSIDE the BART station in the public... No one cared. No police around.

This happened 2-3 times. We were on for TWO stops.

Seriously... BART needs to clean up their fucking act. I associate BART with homeless people, BO, trash, vomit, fights, and getting robbed.
It sounds like machine checked proofs or other mechanical formalisms need to be employed to ensure scientific validity.
Exactly. Plus address reuse doesn't really matter: if it ever becomes a security problem, they would rob satoshi's coins first.
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Economists don't use Lacan yet, no.
We are in talks with several international governments. We would be delighted to help your country!

The system does not in any way change the legislative process, so you cannot use a pull request to make any substantive change to the law. That would include rewording, changing punctuation, fixing numbering, etc. If such a pull request were made, it would be immediately closed. As throughout history, the only way to make a substantive change to the law is to petition your representative to sponsor a bill and then convince the legislature to pass it.
His last name is a little on the nose.
Why the negative votes? She/he is damn right.
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I telconf weekly with a client in Singapore. The topic is litigation that's critically important to an industry none of you thinks about more than every year or so, if that.

Every call (2 years now) has been subject to intrusion by snippets of voice unrelated to our call.

I don't have this issue with telconfs (on the same topic) within continental USA. Have not done research on the matter.

I get that given a choice between causation arising from malevolence or stupidity, I should choose the latter. But sometimes I wonder.
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The dirty truth is that it isn't accuracy but what people want that keeps them coming back. If I were to set up a hillariously inaccurate database that used machine learning to generate incoherent transcripts I would get way more traffic then if it was accurate. This isn't new at all. People pay more attention to the ballad which attributed a single soldier pushing through a phalanx than the truth it was his own phalanx combined with a flanking auxiliary that broke through and gave victory.

Similarly Google was never about accuracy per say but indexing. It says what people are saying essentially. People may say that Ted Cruz is the zodiac killer but he would have been way too young in reality - amusing as the actual police sketch resemblance is. It just isn't capable of knowing the truth and that isn't its true purpose any more than a regex is to give you dictionary definitions.

I do wonder what would make a better system for maintaining these sorts of things. The whole identification and authentication systems in place are honestly pretty bad in legacy systems both technically and legislatively - combines with rightful concern about abuse potential in upgrades make it seem like something which will take generations to solve.
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Here's a Twitter thread with a director at Elsevier (@mrgunn) making extremely snarky comments about why they think academia shouldn't be free and widely available: https://twitter.com/dgmacarthur/status/1028489457803161600
I think it really boils down to American voters having lower standards and being resigned to the fact that these things happen. I don't think a single politician has lost re-election over it recently. The last time there was a significant voter backlash over crime in New York was when Giuliani was elected mayor in the 1990s, and crime was a lot worse back then.

I suspect that elected officials would feel significant pressure to act if this happened in London on a regular basis.
I did not say there should not be a government.
ResearchOne(1) was founded to address the issues with peer review and the academic journal system.

“A platform for scholarly publishing and peer review that empowers researchers with the

Autonomy to pursue their passions,

Authority to develop and disseminate their work, and

Access to engage with the international community of scholars.”

Harry Crane, an Associate Professor of Statistics at Rutgers, is one of the founders and a good follow on Twitter.

1 - https://researchers.one/
There is an API monitor included in the appendix of the report. From the looks of it, it seems to be designed to hook into the API for the ETW sources and log the data that they record. But I can't tell what script language it is written in, so I cannot be entirely sure. Can someone have a closer look and tell me what this does exactly and how to run it? Seems interesting for those who want to get the complete picture of what Windows is recording.
I know you're probably just kidding, but I'm going to be pedantic anyway and link you to this: http://danluu.com/dunning-kruger/
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If as a driver, you aren't willing to slam on the brakes, to avoid killing someone, because you feel you have right of way...

You shouldn't be driving.

Your first goal, as a driver, should be avoiding accidents. Your second goal should be following the rules of the road.

A human life is more important then enforcing your claim to the right of way.
This sounds like the symptoms of a death spiral to me. BART doesn’t have enough money to police its cars and stations. They get sued for failing to provide security, resulting in even less money for policing...

However, I’m not sure whether it’s actually true that BART is low on funds.
It could be an attempt to bypass DNS blacklists. I have Microsoft domains blacklisted on my pi-hole because I find their telemetry practices so difficult to constrain otherwise. Not sure if I caught any micrsoft domains, but there were definitely some that seemed intentionally semi-obfuscated, with msft or something like that instead of the full company name.
But for open access journals, authors often do pay publishers.
We have internal systems that allow us to audit/authenticate the repository. We will be deploying a cryptographic authentication framework based on TUF in Q1 2019 that will make it possible for _anybody_ to audit/authenticate the repository.
Why not just build a kind of a social network where people would post research papers, "like" interesting and high-quality papers and reference papers relevant to their research, post their comments and for every participant you would be able to see what papers they have published and reviewed? Sounds fairly simple. Why not?
In case of mc, ^O switches to same background shell, even from editor. So, variables, functions, and command history is same. Moreover, I can run command in shell and return to mc or mcedit to continue work when shell command still works (with limitation that current working dir will not follow selection in mc). It feels like real shell, not a subshell.
Making unsafe languages safe (at least to some degree) has to be a design goal of WebAssembly; else, it has zero business being used to run arbitrary code that's automatically downloaded from the Internet.
Yeah I'm finding some books too, and conference talks is another decent medium but they lack depth a book or paper has.

It feels like for every C# in Depth or YDKJS there's 100s of other resources strictly for the beginner. It's just hard to sift through 100s or 1000s of resources before you find something worthwhile.
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Interesting footnote.
Einstein and God (2006)
If criminals are walking free left and right, they will feel less afraid to commit more crimes, including murdering innocents.
Well, sure, but whether the software has business value is the concern of the PM. Developers are usually haggling over the balance between speed of delivery and quality, for a fixed set of requirements.
I do this for my personal email, but use AWS SES for sending. So far, no emails have been flagged/lost.
Saint Ignucius I hope you mean ;)
The problem is that nuance and understatement are not taken seriously either. Fascist isn't an ideal term due to its theoretical complexity, but it's less of a mouthful for most people than 'authoritarian', and informal conversation should have some room for approximation, metonymy, and so on.

I do see the point you're making, but conversely intensely oppressive and authoritarian regimes tend to get that way by degrees. It's hard to say where exactly the threshold of severity is, and by the time everyone agrees on it that usually means it was passed some time ago, and it's now too late to reverse by conventional means.
I find it extremely hard to believe that the US intelligence agencies haven't mastered the art of tapping phones without alerting targets over the decades.

Unless they want him to know. Maybe they’re playing mind games.
What you describe is really close to the "multiverse interpretation" of quantum mechanics. It is an interesting thought exercise, but it is really important to acknowledge that it is only an interpretation, mathematically equivalent to the other ones, and experimentally unconfirmable.

As to Penrose's ideas on consciousness, they are many other problems with them (see Wikipedia for a quick list of sources; or Scott Aaronson's lecture notes).
Quantum probability is just a generalization of classic probability. Busemeyer in his book [1] mentions several experiments in psychology that can only be explained by quantum probability [2] but not by classic one

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Models-Cognition-Decision-Bus...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cognition
Funny that I'm reading this as I'm riding BART.
> Perhaps it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m hopeful that this doesn’t go anywhere for the simple fact that I don’t want to have to keep 5 different app stores installed to have access to everything.

Ideally what should happen is that someone makes a Store app that will install apps from arbitrary distribution services. Then there is still one interface for installing apps, but competition for distribution/payment/curation services.
This is 100% wrong. Not sure if you are joking or just misinformed. Everyone already knows there are tons of guns out there. It doesn't deter crazy crime at all.
Oh the irony of trying to implement some facebook tracking crap on an article about RMS.
I feel that this somewhat due to the lack of mental health funding in the US. It's one issue that affects so many areas such as homelessness and crime, yet funding mental health programs is just not popular with voters and politicians in the US.
Weird, because I see them on a regular basis and I've lived here a long time. How often do you actually ride BART?
Given our overall expenditures on BART, would it cost so very much to ramp up security presence to a level that would prevent at least 90% of these offenses?

BART is a critical resource in the Bay Area. It has to be safe and reliable to be useful. I feel like we've spent 95% of what is needed, but haven't gone above the 75% yield threshold.
Classical mechanics cannot explain a lot of observed behavior of the dual slit experiment - for instance IIRC a single electron or photon can interfere with itself - this cannot be explained with classical mechanics or obviously ordinary experience at human scale.
This is one of those ideas that (rightly) won't go away.

I've recently been quite inspired by Christopher Alexander's "The Luminous Ground" (2003). For those who don't know, he's an architect and mathematician [2] whose work greatly influenced object-oriented programming (he's best-known for "A Pattern Language"), and in this most recent work of his, he addresses the concept of "wholeness" head-on -- investigating what can be done to integrate the completely separate worlds of art/spirit and physics, under the belief that they can't stay separated forever... and following in the steps of thinkers like Bohm, Penrose and Mandelbrot. (I.e. he's serious, not some new-age QM crackpot.)

The print copy is sadly ridiculously expensive, but whether online or in libraries there are definitely ways to read it if you're determined...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Order-Building-Environmental-S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
I still don't understand what problem decentralised currency is supposed to solve.

As you say, I want cheap, convenient transaction at low cost, and specifically concerning privacy I want to know who I send my money, and I want legal recourse should anything fishy happen.

The privacy proposal of crypto in my opinion is bizarre. I am supposed to lay out my entire financial history in a public wallet (which I don't want), but trade with people who I don't know (which I don't want), and have all of it supervised by 'smart contracts', which are anything but smart and make it necessary to essentially put myself under surveillance?
exa looks pretty slick, except for having the keys required be on the two weakest fingers of my left hand. :-(
I forgot to mention, that I was looking for one without the number pad.
Apple also stopped making the USB/wired mini-keyboard. A few are available on eBay or Amazon Marketplace.

I saw one $50 brand-new wired mini-Apple keyboard on eBay from one seller, but there is always the chance it might break down. In which case, I would have to go back and buy another one... probably when the prices have gone up.