skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the takeaway here is that people that talk a lot and think they know it all ultimately have more opportunities for success, and are less impeded by their limitations than their peers so the odds favor them over the long run. That personality trait is handed down from parents to children through breeding, most likely intentionally.
One interesting fenomene is that focused 2d images appear to be more high res. It would be cool if a 3d UI vould somehow know in real time what we focus on and put that plane in focus. Somehow we can see if another human or animal is focusing in on us, so it might be possible for a computer to also see what we focus on.
Rare treat to spot a typo on a Google page:

> It provides hands-on workers and professionals with glaceable, voice-activated assistance...

https://www.google.com/glass/tech-specs/

Perhaps V3 will come with a built-in spelling and grammar checker. They could call them SPAGgles.
Is it? There are numerous US cities where you can live comfortably without owning a car. Living without using the big five is all but impossible in part because you never know what they're doing behind the scenes.
> People do not write million lines of code applications in bash, for a reason, trade-offs are to be made.

Isn't that basically what SysVinit and a good-sized chunk of the management tooling in Linux is?

To their credit, Bash is a _weird_ language, but it's not going to corrupt memory when it crashes, and its failure modes are pretty well understood by the distro maintainers writing those scripts.
Competence is the ability to do something (a goal) successfully or efficiently.

IQ measures the ability to perform abstract reasoning tasks successfully. Conscientiousness measures the willingness and desire to perform one's duties well. Additionally, among people that earned their wealth, the fact that they are wealthy demonstrates that they achieved their goal of becoming wealthy. These all indicate competence to me. Wealth, in general, can also be imagined as a state where one's needs are met, which is (for people that earned their wealth) almost always closely related to having achieved certain goals.

I would have a hard time imagining an argument that rejects these claims and also demonstrates that wealth and competence do not correlate positively.

Bear in mind that this is talking about populations as a whole- correlations are something we can tease out via sociological studies, and experiments are few and far between. There are facts about human nature that we will never prove conclusively, but to be an effective agent in the world, you should try to learn things about people that cannot be proven. Being too afraid to generalize the wealthy as competent causes yourself to miss an personal actionable moral lesson about goal-oriented behavior. It is entirely possible to make this judgement, and learn from it, without demonizing the poor as incometent or subhuman.
Getting a baseline is harder than it sounds.

In the case of blood chemistry that is caused by fluctuations due to time of day, time of month, season, what you recently ate and so one.

In the case of MRI the problem is that internal organs shift to the point that it is impossible to automatically compare. And a experienced doctor comparing the scan millimeter for millimeter takes hours and would be very expensive. Even just tracking the volume of a known tumor in the brain (that shifts very little) to track the effect of radiation is tedious, time consuming and error prone.
You've mentioned fields that are more to do with hardware and physical/scientific innovation, like SDC's using all sorts of different sensors/predictive modeling, rockets that use physics/materials science/sensors, medical tech which draws heavily from many diff STEM fields. R&D in these fields is expensive and riskier than FAANG companies who use advertising/privacy exploitation to squeeze profits from the masses of users.

IMO, we need to create an economic/regulatory environment which more heavily penalizes/taxes those negative aspects of ads/social media while pouring more into R&D in the sciences.
Probably depends how you define "influencer." I remember reading a few months ago about "fake" influencers who aren't getting paid but pretend to shill products anyway so people think they are an influencer.
Yes, thank you for using your Gopher client to post this highly relevant and on-topic comment that none of us had already known since forever.
Distrust of overconfident people is a skill that needs to be taught. A class on this might include film clips of famous con men and failures, from Bernie Madoff to Shai Agassi.

Here's Bernie Madoff, after he was a crook but before he was caught.[1]

Here's Shai Agassi, before Better Place went bust spending about half a billion on their battery swap system and putting about 30 cars on the road.[2]

What can you see there?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSfaavHDXQ

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars/trans...
How is a dealership network more intrinsic to success than physical bookstores? Auto dealers are demonstrably not the best way to make money for a manufacturer. This is why dealers use legal means to prevent companies from selling cars without dealers.

If you need laws to protect your business plan, your business plan is probably not the best way to make money for anyone but you.
This is the thing I keep pointing out. Goto statements of that era had the same semantics as an assembly language jmp instruction. You have to be of a certain age to have seen this shit in practice[1]. There were reasons for that though computers then had very little memory and reusing fragments of code was the only way to get the program to fit.

The scoped goto in modern languages bears no relation.

[1] Consider setting a global variable to X, then jmp to a code fragment which when done then tests the variable and jmp's somewhere if var == x or somewhere else if not. Edit: I think of this type of stuff as a type of 'compression'. Done right there isn't anything 'wrong' with the program. But it's brittle, hard to reason about, and small mistakes results in bizarre wormholes.
Science Confirms If You're Not Outside Your Comfort Zone You're Not Learning
The article mentions that this is only the case if the person is well off to start with since they can mess up without many consequences so it isn't nearly as damaging to have overconfidence.
they keep the facial recognition results server-side
Sitting in the oncology dept right now with my wife who’s gaving complications from a tumor. I’d just be happy with peer reviews of radiology reports so fuckups don’t cost us three months of potential treatment.

I’m sitting bedside wading through pull requests for software installation scripts. How is it the opinions of folks on my team for a bullshit process get more scrutiny than a potentially life-altering assessment that requires expertise, a keen eye and sharp mind every time?
But doesn't this approach make it nigh impossible to catch people that don't fit the mold? It almost seems like it becomes a tautology, by not capturing the diseases in people you don't think have them, and only looking in people that you do think have them. And the only way to change the mold is for enough people to likely die that you reevaluate the model.

I am not a doctor, but I cannot fathom why a doctor would ever advocate against more data. Even if that doctor chooses to ignore it, at least let the patient utilize it as he sees fit. As someone who has regularly had to argue with doctors to get a test done, it is incredibly frustrating.
I was careful to say only that I saw you at the other store rather than implying I followed everywhere, since that's a fair line to draw and I wanted to avoid that particular connotation. But even still, hiring a private investigator is not illegal - it's just observational.
> Between them, these 18 genes have been the subject of more than 1,000 research papers, on depression alone. And for what? If the new study is right, these genes have nothing to do with depression.

The article doesn't actually say anything about what these 1000 research papers actually claimed to show. It's entirely possible that most of them were negative results, there's no way to tell from the text of the article. It strongly implies that this is the case, but it doesn't actually say so. This is a significant omission for an article whose thesis is that these 1000 papers constituted a "house of cards."

[UPDATE]

"Sometimes the gene was linked to depression; sometimes it wasn’t. And crucially, the better the methods, the less likely he was to see such a link."

Seems to me like this is science working exactly as it is supposed to (except for the possible suppression of earlier negative results, but that's a known broad problem that has nothing to do with this particular gene study).
>cannot be forced to provide that service without those ads and data at no cost to a user. //

AIUI the GDPR means you can't exclude users on the basis of their willingness to give up PII. So you're going to need to charge everyone. You can probably refund those who do give your PII, or pay them for it in a more direct way. But you can't offer a service where the only differentiator between access and denial of service is "give us your PII"?
Surprisingly, Techcrunch is a great example of a site that works very well without JS. Very clean.

Nothing makes me happier than rolling into an article and not having to enable JavaScript for 50 different domains to read 200 words of text.
Why do you use a completely unrelated argument then?
I don’t live in the US, but some numbers from a quick search for ages ~18-35:

- average pay 35k
- 78% of people live paycheck-to-paycheck (zero savings)

In other countries the situation can be a lot worse. Even excluding the 12% below the poverty line, the vast majority can not afford to leave their jobs even for a couple months without going homeless. Being able to experiment with business that has a 90% chance of failure, even for a short while, is out of reach for most people unless sacrifices much larger than “moving back in with parents” are made.

It should be possible to motivate people to be entrepreneurs without being insensitive to reality. “Rich kids” might be a stretch, but hyperbole is an effective form of communication.
Anyone know where to get old seasons of This Old House?
"How It's Made" is often fascinating to watch, and it always reminds me of a childhood favourite: "The secret life of machines":

http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines

Full episodes are available on Youtube, for example The Quartz Watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ9_bOIj49s
I think it boils down to "comparison being the thief of joy." Social media of all types are basically one giant comparison machine, and the people that are the most visible on social media are the richest/best looking/most successful etc.
Couldn't agree with you more. I do hope this time around they put on something more powerful than a TI OMAP SOC.
I don't like car analogies.

A software engineer is like a plumber you link up lots of small components, weld them together and then the data flows through the application (at least that is the idea).
I think I was advised once not to take a test for Lyme Disease unless I had other fairly clear indicators because of the cost of a false positive.
we can do better than licensing. we can have formal verification. soon
Idlewords is arguing for legally enforced privacy rights, rather than consumer-led boycotts (or worse, non-organized individual picking and choosing of which privacy violations to tolerate).
Thanks fez_de. Let me know how you get on please!
Why not employ those fancy new neural networks for analyzing images? Have the doctor and the software identify anomalies separately and compare outcomes.
For me, knowledge is wealth - it's the universal currency and has a long shelf life. If you strip away all worldly possessions of any two people, the person with more knowledge is wealthier. The best part is that you can't simply trade money for knowledge - you have to work for it no matter how rich you are.

Bill Gates could dump a billion dollars into a world class Japanese course and still struggle to attain fluency if he doesn't work at it with his own sweat and mental energy.

In other words, true wealth in my opinion is the ability to generate value if your brain/soul were dropped in a random homeless person's body in a random era. Something tells me Paris Hilton wouldn't fare as well as Leonardo DaVinci.
They're on the first page of google search results, so I'll let you find the ones you like best.
Maps are one very good example of this. A map is partially so powerful because it removes a ton of information you probably don't care about...Sure. But most of the time who cares.

This is usually true, but then again, there is the flip side. There are exceptions to this, and those exceptions may be interesting areas of inquiry. In particular, there are situations where one would like to go from a map representation to seeing relationships which can't be readily expressed in a map. One example of this would be evaluating views from a house. Another example, would be the layout of ducting within the ceiling or within crawl spaces. Another example would be evaluating lines of sight or lines of fire within a particular scene.

Often, this can be handled as something like a relief map or a scale model which can be manipulated and zoomed into by the user in VR, but the exceptions to the "a map is usually enough" seem to coincide with areas where VR/AR might be particularly interesting.

I think there might be some relationship here to Archy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
> statistically appropriate call.

but factually incorrect call is apparently OK, because they are treating "median person", and not the actual patient.

This has to do with money - and nothing else.
It’s a good book and actually serves as a good intro to this book. For Starngs learning from data book, you also need to know some convex optimization (not the difficult). Good luck!
>Why can't a doctor see an anomaly and decide not to chase it down based on the same reasoning that they use to not scan for it

Mostly it is just how the medical industry works. A previous co-worker of mine had a wife that ran a small family practice. He was always griping about the money they spent on insurance for the place ($20k a year or quarterly, can't remember). I asked why it was so much, and case in point, he told of a story just in the prior year of a woman that came in for a knot on her breast. She was informed to come back in a month as sometimes hormones can cause them to come and go. Well they never saw her again but a year later they got a malpractice lawsuit from her since she now had breast cancer...
A good deal of the advice in this thread is specialized to the sort of single males that make up the bulk of HN/Reddit/tech. As someone who is neither single nor male (I'm a trans woman,) I wanted to provide another viewpoint.

So this isn't specifically in response to the OP, but as someone who has been there, I hope a passing Googler finds it.

The people telling you to meditate or do cognitive-behavioral therapy are almost certainly right.

Neither of them ever really gave me perceptible results until recently. Here is why. If you exist for long enough inside of your own head, you can forget that it's possible to exist any other way. Some variants of CBT [1] call this "cognitive fusion."

If step one of CBT is "thoughts beget feelings, feelings beget thoughts" then step zero has to be "you are not your thoughts and you are not your feelings." This sounds obvious, but I had to have a dissociative episode to grasp it - if you're as deeply fused with your thoughts as I've been, it may not be something you can really grok by hearing it from another person.

So you do meditation or you do therapy, but you unthinkingly assume that the patterns of thought and feeling that you're trying to replace have always been there, and you can't even perceive them. So it doesn't work - the core of CBT is the practice of talking back to your thoughts, but it's really, really hard to do that if you don't (or can't) see the space between you and your thoughts.

I understand that many people have an easily-accessed self-concept separate from what's inside of their head. Tapping into mine is something I have to work at. I don't know if such theory-of-mind problems are something that coders (or trans women) experience at a higher rate than the general population, but anecdotally it seems to be common enough that this is worth dropping here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...
Does this include the IE11 mode or is that seperate and Windows only?
Let it be known, I'm bitching with love, I appreciate the work done, and wouldn't be bitching if I didn't... <3

I'm so confused by the frontpage of this, it looks like an alternative to Make with _no reason_ why I should use it over make. Seriously, there's not one feature on the homepage that isn't more obviously done with Make... Probably should pull that credentials example outta the docs and onto the homepage. And... on the homepage, please, please tell me:

what problems does this tool solve?

... Why was it created? Because generating new apps is like an "almost never" problem for me. Not to say it's not "un-fun" sometimes, but in reality, it's like the smallest amount of time I'll spend in the entirety of a project.

If anything the fact it's not Make, or whatever is canonical for the language/runtime, seems like a disadvantage because it's one more abstraction I'll eventually have to use... unless there are some wicked sweet problems it solves.

Also, the fact the user configuration language is `go` also seems like a disadvantage. As much as I hate to say it, JavaScript would probably be a better choice if you need users to have access to a language for scripting tasks (I know nothing about go but a quick google gave me this: https://github.com/jingweno/godzilla). Does it already support multiple languages? Examples of that would be awesome too.

One love. Hope my comments are constructive for y'all.
No.. not on my mobile browser
To use one example: Nuclear fuel is in liquid form, in a vessel that has a frozen plug of material being actively cooled at the bottom. If the reactor ever loses power, the plug melts, and the fuel drains into a collection pool, where due to simple geometry it cannot reach criticality.

Something bad (earthquake, tsunami, etc) could still happen that causes a plant shutdown. But there's no pressure vessel (other than regular steam on the generating side) to worry about breaching. And unlike current generation reactors, where even a full scram of control rods still requires some hours of active cooling to prevent core meltdown, if the liquid-type loses power, the core drains, and that's the end of it in terms of potential radiological release. That doesn't mean it isn't a complex, difficult system to design and operate. But it's a much, much safer design by its very nature.
systemd is good, but I think it came too soon. A lot of the comments here are about memory safe languages are spot on. systemd was written with two major assumptions in mind:

1. Linux system complexity has exploded and needs a top-to-bottom rewrite

2. It's safe to do such a rewrite in C

Since the systemd project, I'd say #1 has been largely affirmed. I like the result of systemd because it provides uniform tooling around complex Linux systems.

I'd also say the tide has shifted against #2 in a big way, there's much greater skepticism that anyone on this planet (short of djb or a few others) can write safe C, let alone safe C with concurrency and side effects.

This is really unfortunate, because it probably means the solution is to rewrite systemd in a memory safe language, and that's a huge undertaking.
The topic is memory safety, not concurrency support, FWIW.

Lua would have been a good candidate: memory safe, coroutine to structure the code in a concurrent-ish way if needed, and you have a configuration file parser for free (just use Lua as the configuration language, it was its very first purpose after all).
I believe your questioner was specifically referring to your assertion that audio on Alpine is unusually good. It is a somewhat odd observation, since ALSA is entirely a kernel API and Alpine is using the same kernel as everyone else. The only possible source of audible difference would be not running Pulseaudio, which resamples audio (some say, badly). However, you can install Pulseaudio on Alpine, and you can not-install Pulseaudio on most anything else, so it wouldn't really be fair to call that a feature of Alpine.
Thanks a lot. Any additional sites you'd like to see it working on- let me know please. :)
It's just a more fun and personal way to "be online" than regular Instagram/Facebook where there's the expectation of producing content and performing for your followers that you're living a good life, mixed with FOMO from others' posts. That's what group chats are being compared to. Bringing up IRC is a red herring since most people haven't heard of it and couldn't join if they wanted to.
Regarding gadolinium, linear agents are almost never used anymore (and shouldn't be), at least in the US. Also, macrocyclics do also deposit in your brain in very small amounts, however there has never been any negative effect from this shown to date. And lastly, gadolinium is not known to cause any kidney damage. The problem in the past (in particular with linear agents) was nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, which was shown to occur in patients with pre-existing poor kidney function, probably as a result of being unable to quickly clear the gadolinium, which could then deposit in tissues. There is very little risk (if any) of NSF with newer macrocyclic agents.
Not that I'm an expert in their history, but they were running one company together until some time after ww2 when they split up. So I was wondering if you saw something specific that hinted at puma. Afaik even today they still both have their HQ in the same city.
Social media's ills, rising wealth and income inequality, rising sea levels, mass extinction event, crumbling roads, shit wages, corruption in government and industry, governments overwhelmingly filled with representatives of other generations with different priorities...there is a huge list of reasons to be pessimistic and they are constantly thrown in our faces online.
Geoff was the partner I felt gave the best advice. It was well thought out, direct, and usually correct. I'm glad he's been promoted. I couldn't thinking of anybody better. Good luck!
Engineering is a professional title, with a set of requirements that express a certain level of skill, moral and ethics.

Self taught, yes if they can attain the expected level of the Engineering Order.
I would argue the other way around: The more wealthy you are...

- the less competent you need to be. You have more capital to do the work for you.

- the less you are affected from random problems, as you can spread your risk.

If you are in the lower echelon, one miss-step or random event outside of your control can bring you in a position where it is much harder to recover from.

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I believe it's $95.60 per year.
But this is exactly what an “executive scan” is. I know several CEOs who get full body scans. Two of them caught early stage cancers and credit these scans with vastly improving their prognosis.
And then there is Trudeau... pure charisma, arrogantly certain of his establishment group-think and almost entirely incompetent.
I'm saying that it seems like a most optimistic, best-case scenario, and not the average case.
I've seen Groupons for MRI scans and thought surely it must be a scam. From the reviews, sometimes they pressure you to get a package for periodic scans and use the first as a base line. But interesting indeed!