skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I found this very amusing. For several reasons:

- Within a week he seems to have found that the content of the book was more effective than years of his treatment of atleast one patient

- He buries this as deeply within the article as possible

- This experience casts light on the crux of my issue with the article, which is that it is very much a "prereplication" book review.

The reality is that neither the author of the book or the review have solid empirical evidence one way or the other, in terms of modern style studies. The book review seems to be drawing an overly negative conclusion about the research because of this fact. To me this is a demonstration of an overreliance on empiricism that seems to dog alot of western medicine practitioners in general.

I found this line very revealing:

>later studies – done in an atmosphere of boredom, by large multi-center consortia – are almost always disappointing.

I'm not sure what the phrase "atmosphere of boredom" signifies but it doesn't sound like a faithful attempt to get something to work. If you are doing any of these treatments in an atmosphere of boredom will it actually be effective? Is doing it in an atmosphere of boredom really a valid way of testing it?

I haven't read the book but will read it. It does seem to me that the thesis of the book, that trauma causes the mind to disconnect from the body and shapes the body, is something that Chinese medicine / Qi Gong practitioners have known about for thousands of years. I don't have any empirical evidence to back these specific practices but I have mountains of anecdotal evidence that would seemingly be rejected by the author of the review.
Eh, people who buy 5+ bedroom apartments in city centres, and the people who build them, are not exactly political outcasts. I'm pretty sure that if there were enough of them, they could nudge the city councils into changing those regulations.
I wouldn't be surprised if some do that under the hood already. The cadence hardware emulators for sure do, but they're not quite FPGAs.
> Perhaps researchers can use the tested-and-proven "Full Disclosure" tactic to exert public pressure on Intel. It doesn't need to disclose everything

At the risk of sounding pedantic, that's not 'full disclosure', that's 'responsible disclosure' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure
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:imap <tab> <esc>
This is why Apple Pay is really nice.
The latest obsd version (6.6, or the one just before, 6.5) makes package updates easier without running -current. So it probably depends on if that maintainer has kept them current during the release period. I haven't followed that closely to know how much that has been the case.

But see my comments elsewhere in this discussion page for why I value obsd's pledge/unveil browser mods and lack of privilege escalation more important than having the latest browser fixes (which I also value, but relatively less).
You’ve just jinxed someone.
It's not that odd, you spend the majority of your time at work.

It's even more the case I assume to people at Google or other big multinational s. People there are much more likely not to be locals, and a lot of their colleagues are going to be in the same situation.
That's the perfect context for friendships.

From personal experience, clubs can be difficult if it is a tightly knit community and you're an outsider; especially so if you don't speak the language.
It's not that they are not nice, it's just that you need 2 people to form a friendship.
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Buy here or read online for free. This is the official website of the book: http://modernperlbooks.com/ (hint - it's worth buying :)
They can be sold of course, but you'll get back maybe 50% of the purchase price.

https://www.diamonds.pro/education/sell-diamonds/
I predict that this will have zero effect on anything. The people who care strongly about accumulating SO e-points are the ones answering the questions, not the ones asking them.
Thanks, the comment thread for this post is a bit large and I probably would have missed that otherwise.
Musk makes lots of promises about these projects, but they don't always pan out. Just look at the Buffalo NY factory
Or maybe the main processor is near the camera? It’s not a conspiracy.
Assuming that this is a business that has some sort of online component (esp. payments), consider Stripe — they offer loans based on cash flow history with their service.

I’m not sure what level of cash you need, but this might do the trick without giving up equity or control.

Not affiliated with stripe — just a fan.
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Brave is a scam just like most "privacy centered" parasite products like DDG and VPN providers. All these companies are run by shameless and aggressive useless parasites who actually offer nothing but a rebranded product made by others. It's sad that a community supposedly filled by software engineers fall for and promote such scams
> If we had the means, should the web as a whole be append-only?

You probably meant this as a rhetorical question, but I'd argue that yes, (for public available data at least) it probably should be. It'd enable solutions to a lot of problems we have with the current web, not least archival and broken links.
That’s why a play construction video games too... although it’s hard for anyone else to enjoy
>It increases risk of data loss.

I realize that this is idealistic of me but data loss should never be an issue. This is 2019 and backups have been drilled into everyone's heads for years and years and years. You can still access the drives in these via Target Disk mode (and I've had to do a few recoveries through that so I know it works) and it's likely that the pros outweigh the cons.
That propublica article is the perfect example of the many aspects of the discussion here. It argues just one side of it, but the scenario it raises is one where an ML algorithm correctly found a solution to a badly framed problem.

Briefly, (and simplifying for clarity) it worked like this: the ML algorithm scored the risk of criminals reoffending. It gave a "high risk" score if someone was 80% likely to re-offend, and a "low risk" score if they had a 20% chance. Out of 100 blacks and 100 whites, here are the scores the ML algorithm gave, and how many ultimately did re-offend:

100 black criminals
* 50 "high risk", 40 re-offended
* 50 "low risk", 10 re-offended
100 white criminals
* 10 "high risk", 8 re-offended
* 90 "low risk", 18 re-offended

On the one hand, the algorithm was completely correct: 80% of high risk individuals re-offended, and 20% of low risk individuals did, and this is true even looking at just the black or the white criminals. It was unbiased according to its goals.

On the other hand, the failure mode disproportionately punished the black criminals: 10 were "high risk" who never re-offended, while only 2 white criminals were. Meanwhile, 18 "low risk" white criminals did re-offend while only 10 black criminals did. So the score was more strict for some unlucky blacks and more lenient for some lucky whites.

However, a key point is that because the underlying re-offense rates were different between the populations (50/100 for the black criminals, 26/100 for the white criminals), the algorithm could not have done otherwise. That is, given some n% re-offenders, if you have to fit them into 20% and 80% buckets, your "high risk" and "low risk" counts are mathematically fixed. In other words, it wasn't the ML by itself that was the problem, but the COMPAS score that it was trying to compute that had these issues inherent in it.

I think this is a good example where ML wasn't biased (at least, not anymore than reality), but where people were too eager to turn to it for a poorly considered project. By wrapping up important questions in high tech algorithms, it's too easy to fool yourself that what you're doing is the best thing you could be doing and miss problems in the fundamental framing.
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My 2003 12" PowerBook had 2 x USB-A ports, 1 x FireWire 400 port, and 1 x mini-DVI port.

My 2008 13" MacBook Aluminum Unibody had 2 x USB-A ports, and 1 x mini-DisplayPort.

My 2014 15" MacBook Pro has 2 x USB-A, 2 x mini-DisplayPort-style Thunderbolt ports, and 1 x HDMI.

If you want a massive amount of built-in ports, then a MBP has never been your go-to device ...
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I’d probably make 10-20 diagrams in the next two years. That’s $20 to $10 per diagram and then more if I want to keep them on their platform.

$200 per two year period for mostly client-side diagram software doesn’t sound like a deal to me.
I wonder where the fascination with trains and railways (that I share) comes from. Maybe from the 19th century industrialization and technological revolution when railway was one of its main symbols ("locomotion of progress")? Related to this, it was a great surprise to me when I first found out about the origin of the term 'hacker':

"3. The Early Hackers

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. The Signals and Power committee of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club adopted the machine as their favorite tech-toy and invented programming tools, slang, and an entire surrounding culture that is still recognizably with us today. These early years have been examined in the first part of Steven Levy's book Hackers [Levy] .

MIT's computer culture seems to have been the first to adopt the term `hacker'. The Tech Model Railroad Club's hackers became the nucleus of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the world's leading center of AI research into the early 1980s. Their influence was spread far wider after 1969, the first year of the ARPANET. "

Source: http://catb.org/esr/writings/hacker-history/hacker-history-3...
I'm have no medical qualifications but suggest that you consider if taking magnesium may help.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...

You may already be obtaining sufficient through your diet and should consider your doctor's opinion.

Perhaps religion may provide the answer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#The_cycle_of_rebirth
There are still people clamoring for a 17". The new 16" is apparently unnoticeably larger than the previous 15" model and I already feel a large difference when working on a 15" compared to a 13". If they enlarged the screen of the 13" to almost-edges it would be really nice tho.
The GDPR add a regulatory hurdle to jump over that is hard to small businesses to do properly, and affordable to Google to do it right and have a similar status quo.

I think most startup people would have no problem with the GDPR if it included the minimum limits that the CCPA has.
Right, once per business per year. Just remember to go back and renew next year!
Alternative unit I like is "how many per second" (when done on single hardware unit, one after another, of course). The numbers from there are then easy to grasp, since then they relate to what we actually want to achieve (I haven't checked them for truth):

In billions: L1 cache reference can be done 2 billion times per second.

In millions: Branch mispredict, L2 cache reference,
Mutex lock/unlock and Main memory reference can be done 200, 140, 40 and 10 million times per second.

In thousands: Compress 1K bytes with Zippy, Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network, SSD random read, Read 1 MB sequentially from memory, Round trip within same datacenter and Read 1 MB sequentially from SSD* can be done 300, 50, 7, 4, 2 and 1 thousand times per second.

And finally, Disk seek, Read 1 MB sequentially from disk and Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA can be done 100, 50 and 7 times per second.

No graphs needed, or trying to figure out is a microsecond much or not.
How do you even prepare for something like that... Do we need to assign identifying keywords to each other when we leave home so we know we are really ourselves? Like a vocal pgp?
My pal has a decent Model Railroader archive and is digging out that issue for me to read. I'll scan the article pages and put them somewhere for others to see when it arrives.
Sure. So buy those laptops?

I'm not having a go at you directly, I'm having a go at the idea that it's constructive to even point out how a piece of hardware doesn't solve a problem for you and that there are others options. We know.
It's good to hear you are now no longer ignorant! :-D
Venice was built on marshy landfill in a lagoon and has sunk 23cm in the last century. This is the main problem here. It will continue sinking and there's no way to make that stop as you can't build stable foundations under an entire stone city built in the actual sea on top of mushy mud and not anything stable. Venice is and always has been inevitably doomed due to poor engineering choices made centuries ago. Same goes for much of New Orleans.
How do you define "active"?
> Also, does macOS have a Unix shell that you can just start using for your work out of the box or do you have to use something like Homebrew to bring it up to modern standards first?

I'll take a Mac terminal over any Windows one, every time. Speaking as someone who uses all 3 OS's at work. The hoops I've had to jump through on Windows just to do basic things are maddening. Mac's terminal experience is one of the reasons I keep going back to it. I'm truly confused how one prefers a windows terminal.

> We want a decent desktop environment with a good system for managing application windows... We want updates that don't cause problems. We want a good file browser.

Again, you just described Mac. Spaces work amazing and still have better behavior than the windows version that's trying to catch up. Snapping left/right is nice in theory but I don't actually use it that much unless I'm on a huge monitor. And I have no idea what issues you see with Finder, which is generally a super smooth experience for me. Again, I'm just really confused here.
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Some UIs are inherently complex thus have a learning curve that can't be merely factored out with a redesign. Like DAW software and Photoshop/Gimp and 3D modeling software.

Though you yourself built a false dichotomy with a poorly-done "unskippable" tutorial. How about a well-done skippable one then?

Back when FLStudio was Fruity Loops, it had a cool modal-driven (skippable) tutorial for various features you could opt into in the respective component's "?" menu, like how to get started with the piano roll system or the fx system. And frankly the UI was already pretty intuitive, it's just not obvious where to start when you're a beginner.

Btw, unless it's a toy/trivial project or catastrophically dysfunctional, one does not merely redesign a UI. That's been the main driver of second-system effects I've seen in the wild.
> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming.

Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of programming in societies where they feel the need to accumulate power, and when left to their own choices (eg, when they have more freedom to choose), they choose careers at a different rate?

That is, what's your evidence that it's not Eastern Europe where we're witnessing societal pressures and other areas where we're witnessing biological variation?

To me, it looks like when absent coercion (or a need to accumulate high prestige for safety), such as Western Europe or the US, women have a different distribution of preferences than men, and choose different career paths.
Your example assumes that the AI isn't taking your 80/20 split and integrating that back into the test. Even if your ever so nebulous "biological differences" exist, you have already acknowledged that an objective measure of programming ability can be measured independent of gender, what TFA and "the left" are talking about is the distortion of that objective measure by lazily applying that correlation back into the measuring system, eg. making a 80/20 into a 90/10 split, then a 95/5 split, which in your example would be a waste of society's resources and would earn whoever made the AI a death sentence for incompetence.
Artificial Intelligence-Created Paintings to Be Put on Sale by Sotheby’s in NY
I always explain why I downvote, unless there already is a clear explanation.

Why do I downvote? I downvote when an answer is wrong or outdated.

That's the point of downvotes, to push incorrect or outdated answers to the bottom.
A more concrete reason it's not true in this case: diamonds as engagement gifts from men to women are a recent cultural phenomenon. For most of human history this was not the case, and there were/are large cultures where the tradition is a dowry instead (more or less the reverse) or nothing at all.
Yeah, I'm not sure why that disables app controls :/
My bad. I think I got it mixed up with Digital Ocean. Still, WeWork, StackExchange...MongoDB isn’t particularly loved anymore.
Well, I don’t know about you but I like my claims to reflect reality and not some ideal that is touted as “probably wrong but mostly harmless!”
> They have a good relationship with Perl 6 devs/maintainers

This is untrue.

> and even incorporate some of 6 in their work (that's where 11 comes from 5+6=11)

None of this EVER materialized.

Let it be noted that I have defended Will Braswell publicly and privately many times in the past, most recently in https://liztormato.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/on-crime-and-pun...

But since the stunts he has pulled after the rename of Perl 6 to Raku became official (both public as well as in private messages), I have decided he has migrated to the plonk category of people in my life (the sound of garbage hitting the bottom of the bin).
> "Eyes in the Sky tells the story of a top-secret surveillance system that helped turn the tide in Iraq."

Everyone loves a good under-dog story!
I think this would be better titled how header bidding works. It's a good article on that topic, but leaves out a lot. (Which is fair, Internet Advertising is fairly complex.)
You can restore your deleted board, manually remove all content and reuse it — but that’s them making it intentionally more painful than necessary.

So, draw.io it is.
I'm not sure it depends on image recognition as in visual classification (although a lot of that work was DoD funded). Once you identify a target shape/pattern/object, you can use motion tracking to track it backwards in digitized video.
Now, please be precise with wording. 2019 hasn't ended, and the 10000 figure was given with the second gigafactory in mind.(which will start production in this year, actually)
OpenSpades
The question is, will CSS and any other present-day tech be around in the medium-future?

We know plain text will be around.

I was surprised to find the website promoting this is tricked-out, which isn't consistent with very long-term vision of the project.
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I was a rail fan growing up, and my dad and brother are still in the hobby. I always thought the fascination was pretty simple: trains are the biggest machines that are ubiquitous and can be observed up close in virtually any populated area.
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This sea level map suggests that very little of SF would be underwater even with a 9ft increase in sea level. I was kind of surprised.[1]

[1]https://ss2.climatecentral.org/index.html#12/37.7426/-122.42...
Eventually yes. At some point you need to not just solve the problem but convince me that you have solved it. If I tell you I proved p!=np you wouldn't believe me, unless I can explain how I proved it so you can replicate it. (Note if p=np it is likely I can take my proof and construct an algorithm that that can only be created if it is true - thus hiding my real proof instead showing a proof by contradiction - if it wasn't my algorithm wouldn't solve this problem that is solves)

Thus if an AI say p!=np without explaining why we won't know if we believe it unless the process can be explained.
The economics of DSL are driven by the physics and physics is harsh. Basically the signal to noise for high frequencies drops through the floor after 2km and for low frequencies after 10km... with good copper and lots of clever DSP (that's long range adsl btw) The good news is that I think MIMO will make a lot of properties more economic to serve with radio in the next few years.
For every 1 good journalist and editor that has their career stagnate because they are not sensational or biast (or bends the knee to management agendas), there 4 shitty journalists and editors that progress because they are masters of bullshit and manipulation.

The salary and cut throat competition is why the worst rise to the top and we have this cesspool of a news feed we see now on a daily basis. I just stick to WSJ, Bloomberg, and this website to get the headlines that actually matter and ignore the rest of the bullshit.
I agree.

As the guy who gave up my laptop( MacBook pro 2015) in a meeting to project because the 2 other MacBooks in the meeting only had usb c and the presentation was on a usb a stick.

At least they got the projector using usb c with a dongle now..

Nothing like having choices. Why my new personal machine was a linux based laptop.
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