skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a tangent, I do think it's increasingly obvious that T2D (and metabolic syndrome) is a disease that's specific to the modern western diet and that lifestyle interventions are very effective at stopping or reversing T2D entirely.

Here's a recent publication on a controlled study being done by Virta Health et al. Of especial interest will be Fig 3 showing just how effective carbohydrate restriction was vs "usual care": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194375/

IDF has also recently published case studies on the effectiveness of intermittent fasting as T2D treatment for those that can't/won't carb restrict: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194375/

To expand on the costs a bit, the ADA has similar estimates, and in their 2018 report [1] estimates $16.75K/ppy costs (also cited by the CDC [2]), with direct+indirect costs estimated at $327B/yr, and that 1/7th of every health-care dollar is spent on diabetes-related costs. The Milken Institute [3] recently published a report on American Obesity [4] that gives even bigger numbers: "chronic diseases driven by the risk factor of obesity and overweight accounted for $480.7 billion in direct health care costs in the U.S., with an additional $1.24 trillion in indirect costs due to lost economic productivity."

[1] http://www.diabetes.org/advocacy/news-events/cost-of-diabete...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/diabetesatwork/plan/costs.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milken_Institute

[4] https://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/944
Eating Oranges in the Shower Is the Self-Care You Didn’t Know You Needed
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just visited the farthest object ever explored
Times New Roman was designed to fit a lot of text on a newspaper page. Its popularity is completely due to it being an accessible default in early software, not to any intrinsic superiority in presentation. I consider it to be quite ugly, although not as bad as Arial.
Ugh, looks like i managed to submit this half baked post that I was writing earlier and intended to discard. Oops!
Is it what DLL files on Windows are/used to be?
Or you repair the hole and spackle/mud it, but put off painting it for 3+ years :)
Basically TDD
> If a cartoon character is still in commercial use and being further developed, I'm not sure if it's good practice to turn it into public domain.

Disney doesn't have any issues defending its repackaged public domain products like fairy tales. I don't see why Mickey Mouse would be harder to brand and market than the Disney princesses.
There was another game similar to Battlezone only it was a cocktail table only version. Helicopter something or other, played it many times as a teen but I can't recall the name.
Yes! I avoided the landmine. I can't imagine how I'd have felt working with a woman who interviews for Python role and doesn't know or understamd dictionaries!!

Plus they were giving me (x%) a raise, and I got (x-5)% in my current company. So thank God I didn't join there. Contacts are more important than salary.
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The first is just saying you can borrow as long as nominal growth exceeds the interest you need to pay. Sure, but that doesn't mean you can borrow an infinite amount, since as you borrow more interest will rise.

"What policy" you're advocating for printing money to spend regardless of the cost, which means costs will certainly rise.

If you want to have the "is the current inflation target optimal, or should we have a higher one" debate, don't pollute it by implying that spending doesn't matter. I agree the with the second article that the risk is inflation, not bankruptcy, but that doesn't mean it's not a real risk or that we should have larger deficits.
Seems so pricey. I'll build for cheaper, hire me
Sure. As soon as we could pack independent component into portable unit, then it's the solution we want.
We already have that, we’re just paying Whole Foods prices to get it.
According to the video, the root kit discussed does not work on Linux, it involves a dropper that writes a Windows service .exe to the NTFS volume. They have not seen a version that runs on Linux Or MacOS.

"Secure Boot" mode also doesn't protect against the rootkit, because it considers the contents of the UEFI Bios in the SPI Flash the root of trust, and does not do any verification at that stage. It only verifies the bootloader, which loads the OS.

It abuses platforms that do not implement the BIOS Write Lock mechanism incorrectly. (the BIOS is supposed to be write protected after UEFI Boot services hands stuff over to the Operating system)

Incidentally, (according to the video) BitLocker disk encryption can defeat it, though the legitimate LoJack system has a way of working with BitLocker. I think the implication is that a more advanced version of the rootkit may, in the future, work with BitLocker.
I'm curious about mashups here...
Would love to know your rates!
> but "intelligence" less so

I don't think there's any problem measuring intelligence, where we've traditionally run into issues is where we start to make policy or social decisions using this data without understanding it's subtleties.

I think Jordan B Peterson has a good classroom video segment[1] on this problem.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSo5v5t4OQM
Vermont to pay remote workers 10k to move to the state
I think this was probably in the early 80s. It could have been a replacement. I wonder if an Asteroids cabinet was converted over.
That's a little better explanation than, "The US federal government does not face an affordability constraint in dollars. It can pay for anything it wants..."
Yes, and I was suggesting that the motivation was not due to constraints as the trend emerged degree after these constraints were long since relevant. I tend to agree with other comments here that it has come to serve as fashion (different for its own sake) rather than any UI/UX benefit.
Are you sure it was that good with large files? I used to be a TextWrangler evangelist until I noticed it was mangling large files. You'd change one character but the saved file differed by far more than one character. Medium-sized nowadays, hundreds of MB TSV files. About 10 years ago.
It does not sound plausible, TBH.

I have a friend who scorns exploratory programming a “programming by successive approximation” a statement which I have to admit has some truth to it. This story sounds like something he might say.
I think it's more nuanced than that. If in a game, you program whether or not Enemy decides to attack based on if there's a player within 20 units of Enemy, there's nothing artificially intelligent there, it's all hardcoded.

"...Kaplan and Haenlein define AI as “a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation”...Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving"." [0]

Much of "game AI" doesn't attempt to do this. There definitely is "real" academic AI going on in some games, it's just not as common. Even the book I link uses the AI term quite generously.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not, cus there is definitely an upper limit to how information can be encoded in data.
Great point. Manufacturers are interested in moving inventory. Not so much with making money on loans. So they will take a small margin or even a loss on the loan as long as it sells the car.
Tl;dr when you got your people in power out of self-interest but now they outlived their usefulness
I'm pretty sure this parenting advice was based on a psychological experiment that failed to replicate.
Not not medical.
> Details depend on implementation. Might be just a simple API/DB call or more. IIRC your DB data should be encrypted, RDS supports encryption at rest out of the box.
Make sense, but it's more the scaling of this concept that worries me (when you start to have multiple services and DBs). It's easy to forget one API call.
> If, by retrieving them, a user can be identified then yes. Can you use an UUID and control the info on the AWS side?
Points will be linked to a user via a UUID yes, but (for example) is the temperature of the room at time X considered personal data?

I like this idea. Downside is that if you want to view the data to debug a problem in production, it's harder.
My understanding is that it is more like COM, CORBA and NetBeans. I guess it is one of those things that can mean different things to different people. At its core, it's just separation of concerns, usually branded and (re-)packaged. Often times, that core idea seems to get lost somewhere around the way...
>If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists.

If you want to measure skill and experience, that's good advice.

When you want to measure the ability to solve problems where the individual or nobody has skill or experience yet, you have to measure something like intelligence.
Article is paywalled so I'm just gonna assume my experience with Vroom is relevant.

The long and short of it is that Vroom sold me a car, promised delivery by a certain date, and missed it by about 3 weeks ostensibly because they noticed a variety of maintenance issues with the vehicle during "final conditioning". In addition to being almost a month late, the delivery driver was expecting to pick up the trade-in at the same time, despite the Vroom rep telling us more than once that they'd send a different driver for it within 3 days of delivery.

The process is online until you click "buy" and then everyone wants to spend just as much time with you on the phone as they would if you had walked into the dealer -- I spent most of the weekend on the phone. Their agents double as reps at a used car dealership in Houston and are frequently unavailable because they're out with an in-person client. It seems like someone goes out to the floor and drags them away from their physical customers when a Vroom customer calls in. Every time I sent an email about something, after an hour or so I'd get a reply asking me to call in to discuss.

Once you're finally done with all that, they overnight a stack of about 50 papers to sign and return. As soon as the return label is scanned, you're considered sold and they do everything they can to ignore and avoid you.

A few days after I finally got the car, I noticed a leak and took it to the dealer, where I paid to get it examined. Was informed that the water pump was going bad and would need replaced soon. I emailed Vroom about this while I was still within the return window, including a copy of the quote from the dealership, and they never replied. I didn't want to deal with the crap anymore, overall I was OK with the car, and the mechanical issues were non-urgent so I just let it go.

The only reason I don't 100% regret the transaction is because there were no local dealers that had the vehicle I ordered from Vroom in stock for the entire duration of the delayed shipment. I'm sure, however, that I would've had a better experience if I had just done eBay Motors or something. Buyer beware.
I was expecting something like https://www.kali.org/tutorials/emergency-self-destruction-lu...
The Star Control devs (and the company Toys for Bob) have been very accomodating toward freeware fan projects and ports of their games (see http://sc2.sourceforge.net/) for decades now.

The fact that they're litigating this leads me to think Stardock's actions are really egregious.
That's not how it works. "Costco Auto Program" is a system where dealers sell cars to customers at prices negotiated by Costco. Costco itself does not sell cars.
There are test frameworks for every tier of any application on any platform. People are getting it done.

Testing pixel presentation is a problem. Today, Automated macro tests can’t describe in a program how the UI should look before the UI is built. The UI is simply too dynamic and subject to the whims of fashion. But writing tests first for the UI and smoke testing that the UI elements are there and basically function is doable.

Most devs struggle keeping their micro testable code seprate from presentation code. TDD is a great way to incur this requirement. Otherwise it needs to be tested in a slow macro UI test. If you’re not familiar with the three tiers of the Test Automation pyramid, give Agile Thoughts episodes 1 through 4 a listen. It takes you through each stage of the pyramid and describes how macro (cutaneous and subcutaneous) and micro complement each other.
https://agilenoir.biz/series/agile-thoughts/
You may be right about some particular study, but in general, there is a lot of research around growth mindset, and I have not heard about failures to replicate (though I cannot vouch that they haven't happened): https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-grow....
Well... bye!
Of course spending matters. MMT is in agreement. Here's the main public advocate of MMT tweeting that:

https://twitter.com/stephaniekelton/status/10443137336008744...

Before we continue this discussion, you need to define "printing money". Because I will provide the definition: in the MMT worldview, printing money is synonymous with government deficit spending. Can we agree on that definition?

Ok, then inflation is a controllable problem. Because what I'm suggesting is increasing government spending to pay for Medicare. That's like... pushing on a gas pedal. It can create inflation. Now, there are 2 ways to deal with inflation:

1) Stop pushing on the gas pedal. Cut spending.
2) Raise taxes. That's like pushing on the brakes. Because my definition of "printing money" is "deficit spending", and raising taxes lowers the deficit.

So we shouldn't be afraid of inflation, because it is something we can control. And if we start by spending first on Medicare, and then taxing later to control inflation... then we've stabilized the size of the deficit while growing the overall size of the federal government budget. And there's Medicare for All.
This is a very distorted view of the US. Very few live in SV or NYC. My wife simply stayed home for a few years and we easily afforded a nice house.
> The principles of human-centered design have proven to be effective and productive

Perhaps this assertion is patently obvious within the field, and doesn't need a reference, but for those of us less familiar with human-centred design are there any well known instances of human-centered design being "effective and[/or] productive"?
Sorry, what is the purpose of this device? And why aren’t other solutions acceptable or even superior?
I am a complete 3D modeling neophyte. I literally spent the last few days trying to learn FreeCAD.

Following the tutorials is a lesson in futility. The UI is clunky and small mistakes can have catastrophic outcomes for new users. Undo works in mysterious ways.

When I found myself stuck on a tutorial, a google search rewarded me with the phrase "pary designer workflow has changed substantially in 0.17." I followed a second tutorial on the wiki. Whatever eas changed - it's worse. I considered installing an older version.

Instead, I dropped FreeCAD, installed OpenSCAD, and had my part drawn in a couple hours.
Natural Language Processing: Explaining Model Predictions with LIME
>The real issue was that I had ended up cutting a lot of corners to try and get things done in time, particularly with regards to testing. Definitely a major lesson learned.

Haste makes waste, measure twice and cut once. It's one of the hardest lessons to properly internalise - bodges and firmware changes can be hugely time-consuming, so it nearly always makes sense to absolutely nail your prototype before moving to production.

Congrats on a cool project.
Wide ranging restrictions such as these are being tactically applied throughout the world. Germany and France enacted similar policies last year. As Ian Hogarth sketched out last year, we're entering an era in which AI becomes part and parcel of a country's geopolitics, an era of AI Nationalism so to speak.

Hogarth expressed the opinion that Google's purchase of DeepMind(A UK based company initially) is going to be seen increasingly in the future as an amazing coup, a unit with some of the world's greatest minds on Deep learning allowed to be sold to a foreign conglomerate. I have to say as time goes by and governments realize how strategic their AI community is, I agree.
Smart - i have outsourced was cheaper but took 6 times longer.
if you do in US prices on point - love how simple it is
It saddens me that that seems to be true for damned near all of psychology. :(
If he left, why not report?
I’m getting mixed information from these comments. You say he failed to accomplish anything of note. Others have said that his work did leave the subjects immune to some HIV. You say the participants were ill informed, other comments (and his own claims) state that there was a high degree of understanding and communication with reasonably intelligent backgrounds.

What’s going on here? This seems like a recurring phenomenon with unethical science - people shut it down wholesale while refusing to entertain the positives. I mean don’t get me wrong - this seems unethical on several levels, but if the work shows actual successful avoidance of HIV in the patients then that’s something we have tested and done that we hadn’t before.

If the subjects really have that immunity, then saying he’s “failed to accomplish anything of note” is a pretty unethical claim itself.
Your post addresses my biggest problem with the article: It reads more like a wishlist than a guide.

I would like to these issues addressed going forward: (And please don't take this as a list of reasons why this won't work; these are all things that I think can and eventually will be addressed.)

1. How do the stakeholders learn what is or isn't technically feasible? (I've seen stakeholders propose cumbersome solutions because they had no idea that the technology existed to make something better.)

2. How do the stakeholders learn about the non-obvious trade-offs between different design options? (As a trivial example: Lots of first-time product designers learn the hard way not to use white for the plastic exteriors of electronics. Why? It's extremely difficult to get white plastic to have a consistent color, and the two halves of the shell won't match. Even Apple, with their massive budget, struggles with this.)

3. How do stakeholders learn about prior art in the field? There's rarely a good reason to reinvent the wheel, and there's even more rarely a good reason to repeat other people's mistakes.

4. How do the stakeholders communicate their design to the engineers accurately and unambiguously?

5. How do you accomplish all of the above without constraining the stakeholders to design by multiple choice (which is still inherently limited by an outside expert's idea of what is and isn't going to be useful to the stakeholders) or forcing them to become domain experts themselves?

If I have a suggestion off the cuff to address (some of) these issues, it would be to make a tiered set of design tools available. Level 1 would be straightforward multiple-choice, level 2 would be a mix of fill-in-the-blank and click-and-drag, up to level N using the same tools as the professionals. Community stakeholders could then decide for themselves what is the appropriate trade-off between flexibility and time investment.
Flat Design seems to take its cue from advertising (instead of editorial). Ads (especially in magazines) often look great - clean, elegant - and editorial designers can be envious. But some hoariness is not only functional, but helps offset substance from marketing.
Exactly. We're controlled by a handful of pharma/healthcare companies currently. I'd put more faith in the government being on the other side than those companies.
If I'm not mistaken, CStringT is just the template class for CString, CStringW, and CStringA. Makes perfect sense :)

My personal favorite is the PCZZWSTR type, which I've only ever seen used by SHFILEOPSTRUCT. Basically it's a null-terminated collection of null-terminated strings. And of course, there's a corresponding PCZZSTR for narrow-char paths.

VC++ is... interesting.
I agree with your main point, but not the last sentence. The complexity and expense of state of the art military technology is beyond the means of smaller nation-states, let alone rebel groups, and that trend has been accelerating since WWII.

Stealth, space supremacy, global surveillance, carrier groups, strike wings, nuclear arsenals, reaper drones and all the other crazy battlefield robot tech in service or development can cut to pieces any obsolete nation state military, let alone some rebels armed with cheap 3d-printed guns.
This thing is so bulky because the API that TwoWaySearcher has is so bulky. You could also have a very simple API that just takes a string literal. It's less a problem of Rust and more of that TwoWaySearcher struct.
I don’t remember that at all. Perhaps some haptic stuff Margaret was working on?
This will work about as well as suing Napster did to prevent the spread of music sharing.
I find this strange. You are essentially saying caring for your own children isn't something you should do, something only poorer people should do. This sounds like hiring a mercenary army instead of having a domestic volunteer army.
I do this mistake sometimes, I am off in my measuring, and have to drill a hole beside the one I drilled. I know it's likely not the cause, but if I built a shuttle, maybe it would have holes like this too. :/
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Maybe you're looking in the wrong place?

The question on my mind is the following: How is blindly trusting science better than blindly trusting the pope or your local shaman? Wasn't the real issue blind trust, rather than who or what?

There's nothing to be afraid of, and no reason to take a stupid test. I had to as part of drafting and I can't see these tests leading anywhere worth going. Maybe ask why being seen as smart is important?
I'll second getting your vitamin D levels checked and some sun exposure.
Just Google "psychology replication crisis". Pretty sure it will hit on a lot of this.

Last I heard, which could be outdated, is most of the popular experiments have failed to replicate to a good measure. Odds are, if you just heard of an experiment, it hasn't replicated. Worse, many of the studies were propping each other up. So that when one failed to replicate, it brought the others into question.
No, you can print money without spending. Central bank is independent.