skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if an analogy would help, but I thought the point the article was trying to make was sort of like distinguishing between a dude selling shoes at Foot Locker and a podiatrist - most people just need someone with a basic knowledge of shoes to get appropriate-enough footwear, while a small percentage of people with foot issues may need a podiatrist to do so, so how stupid would it be if we made everyone who wanted shoes go to a podiatrist to get shoes? It would be very stupid, and an excessive and unnecessary barrier to entry in to the wearing-shoes group. The same goes for glasses. The fact that we make everyone see a doctor that is formally trained to diagnose actual diseases and deformities of the eye just to get a pair of glasses is absurd. Almost anyone could be trained in a single day to prescribe glasses - calculating the needed power of lenses is a solved and mostly mechanical process. Sure, it would be great if everyone saw an expert in every field before making any purchasing decisions, but given that it is substantially more costly, cumbersome, and clearly unnecessary, why should we force people to do it?
> No, they have not.

Here's an idea: listen to how people feel rather than tell them how they feel.

If people have felt the need to do something and so have done, that's as good as saying they needed to — if sufficiently done en masse. Whether that attitude was justified in the first place doesn't negate the fatigue they may now feel — a feeling they're more than entitled to, even with you saying they're not.
> minimal violation of the locality's established rules of the road

I wish. I've come to the conclusion that the only true rule of the road is: don't crash. As long as no actual collisions occur, people are totally fine with doing whatever they want and bending the rules for their own convenience. I can no longer predict the behavior of other drivers. Even something as basic as the turn signal is unreliable since people are forgetful.
Curious, what privacy promises do you believe DuckDuckGo won't fulfill? Genuinely interested to learn.
>kids are extremely hard to raise by modern standards...

Those thoughts don't seem to have been going through this guy's head: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/i-slept-with-1400-girls-impreg...
I use sauna; 10-15 minutes in hot, followed by a short break (1-2 minutes), then up to 2 minutes immersed in cold water. Repeat 5-6x. I feel like a new person afterwards, total mental clarity and many ideas immediately. Also removes stress. It might take you a few months to get adapted to that cycle though (2-minute cold immersion is not trivial at first). If you start feeling bad, abort, you can try next time.
Most remote positions I've seen offered are US-only. In fact, many only want folks both in the US and on the Pacific Time Zone. ymmv
Breaking Ground
Indeed, Shill-enberger's articles attack a straw man. No-one is reasonably claiming the world will end due to climate change, or even that climate change is directly causing fires etc. But it is helping alter habitats and will over time have quite large impacts on habitat and diversity, and particularly the water cycle, to which humans and agriculture are particularly sensitive.

And we are at a point where it could get quite out of control, with positive feedback loops kicking in (permafrost, clathrates, etc), unless we take serious action now. Simply counting the (human) economic impact of climate change seriously ducks our moral responsibility to take care of the planet.
Title:

> The Great American Eye-Exam Scam

Subtitle:

> Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in this country? It’s easier pretty much everywhere else.

First line:

> On a beautiful summer day a few months ago, I walked down to the part of the Connecticut River that separates Vermont from New Hampshire, and rented a kayak. I pushed myself off the dock—and the next thing I remember is being underwater. Somehow, the kayak had capsized as it entered the river.

I'd much rather read a concise, 3 paragraphs outlining what is actually wrong with the system than this author's personal life story. If this trend continues the rise of summary generation add-ons/sites is inevitable and I for one will gladly give them my money when they ask, super tired of click bait titles that lead to winding narratives.
Putting memory closer to the CPU, through dense and short-distance interconnects, allowing for much more efficient communication. Eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-besHp8HLxo.
I struggled a lot with my Emacs setup, and developing for clients and languages. But I was able to puzzle my pieces together with https://emacs.zeef.com , it is your friend
This sounds important and interesting but isn't wide the key word here?

They talk about shallow NNs and deep fully connected NNs but that would seem to leave out a lot.

I mean, the article puts forward a distinct language/model to expression neural nets in, which is cool but are they talking about all or most of the NNs you see today? If so, huge but still.

Fo-get-a-bout-it, see SiempreViernes' comment:
"I couldn't find any mention about a trained NN, this is strictly about the initial state. "(emphasis added)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653516
Ramadan involves a number of societal changes beyond just not eating during daylight hours, from fasting to abstinence to busier public squares and restaurants. I'd want to see something control for the differences in movement patterns, passenger miles driven, meals eaten outside the home vs. at home, and so on. Public squares and restaurants are typically packed during Ramadan at night.

Here's one (theoretically) similar example:

https://www.datagraver.com/case/relation-terrorism-attacks-a...
> Peer groups are the dominant influence on a child’s personality and development, full stop.

Whether parents are highly involved or not is an even higher factor. Think about the amount of time a parent COULD spend with a child over the course of their development years vs their peer groups.
Silicon Valley hasn’t innovated since 1978
Have you ever heard of a thing called agriculture?
Not really. When that campaign came out, consumer focused companies immediately latched on the the “recycle” message and pushed it really hard, because they knew the first two represented a big impact on them. Almost everyone internalized “recycling” and promptly forgot about reducing and reusing, so most of the past 40 years have been spent with people patting themselves on the back for drinking nothing but bottled water, as long as they disposed of the bottle in the right bin.

If people were actually following the program, we would be in a much different place.
There’s an HN thread within the last few weeks discussing research presented showing ML needing only five seconds of someone’s speech to replicate them.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
Google is the only company that can host servers?
Thanks for sharing this plugin!
Does IoT Technology Help in Enhancing Data Security?
> You need to throw that model out the window if you want a program to really work well on a touch screen.

I'm not sure that you do. The main issue really is having big-enough controls, and supporting things like scrolling via touch. The nice thing about Gtk3 is that it heavily nudges designers to make their applications touch friendly.
Theoretically possible, but so far nobody has done it, or knows how to...
Do you support sending to email address with raw IP address or .onion domain as the domain part? Eg:

test@192.0.2.4
test@[2001:0DB8::0004] # or possibly
test@2001.0DB8..0004
test@l5satjgud6gucryazcyvyvhuxhr74u6ygigiuyixe3a6ysis67ororad.onion
Yep, this 100%.
I wonder if there been a study on if there is any difference in outcomes. Japan also has a lower barrier to entry to be a doctor than the USA. Medical care is much less expensive but I run into plenty of quack doctors that would not qualify as doctors in the USA
the atlantic is literature, not twitter.
> Nah at least in chess all the grandmasters lean heavily on the chess engines, including studying top games between the best AI

They may use it for training and analysis, but they don't play their style - they play an inferior style (not to dismiss their achievements).
Just put a scoreboard on captcha.
> it doesn't tell us what distinguishes this framework within the space of new frameworks.

Neither does "The main problem with all those frameworks is JavaScript".
That's wild. This is the first I've heard about mandatory eye exams and I've worn glasses all my life.

I've picked up frames and new lenses, both online and in local stores, without having anyone point out that my prescription was at least a decade out of date.

The frames that I generally go for are pretty pricey anyway, and maybe that's a factor, but I've never been prohibited from buying an new pair. I've also had older lenses re-cut to fit newer frames, all without issue.
I miss the days Javascript were only considered a script language for HTML/CSS and we use it for silly things like hover on buttons or simple animations.

The whole thing got completely out of control and we lost the transparency of the web. We could open the source, see how it was made and learn some new tricks. The indexers like search engines could index and understand the content only by reading the data and metadata of a site.

Now is such a black box, that if you need to index for instance, you will need to use a browser to render the whole page before you or any automated process can understand it. Search engines now need to have ML based image and language recognition just to understand the contents of a site (this is nuts). The free trade of information is much more expensive and the web is turning into a black box day-by-day..

The whole "appization" of the web for which the biggest leader is Google, is leading to the fall of a medium of information that have so much potential.

Sorry for the rant, this is not the best place, but i cant see any move that can change the course of this medium serving mostly the big guys, leading to more concentration of power and resources.

Thats why i've think the only answer that can turn the table, need to start fresh, because the game the web is in, is already rigged, and i think that it has a lot to do with the design, not just the politics, strategy and the big money.
There are also ophthalmologists. That requires at least 8 years of post undergraduate training in the US. 3 years which is surgical residency.
A communication costs energy to transmit. It cannot be decoupled from physical circumstance. But it’s beside the point. The communication is still embedded in a context of the situation it’s in.

If you utter a communication to an insane person, the side effect might be that you are stabbed. You as the person uttering it must take responsibility for what neurophysical response in the mind of the listener might result.

If you emit communications, there can be consequences which are causal. Not strictly the volitional responsibility of the listener.
Clarity allows governance. Otherwise we're just reacting.
Do Product Managers from Google Make Bad Startup Founders?
I would fairly shocked if the CCP didn’t issue guidelines for history textbooks in addition to a post-publication review for approval.
I think the lines of code that changed everything is when a guy changed "utf8" from 6 bytes to 3 bytes somewhere in a commits of https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server.

I failed to bookmark it nor find it. Sorry.
We can compromise and call it the "throttle" :-)
Yes, pharmacists get a Doctors of Pharmacy degree.
>> But the defeat of the tactics born from this mindset by MCTS at least for
now lay bare the fact that the path to being good at go is actually to
probabilistically sample the phase space of the game and perform impossibly
mindless statistics on the game outcome an enormous number of times ...

This is a rationalist opinion that is attractive because it appears unbiased,
unwilling to make any concessions to human nature and to recognise its
limitations.

And yet- this same opinion overlooks the greatest source of scientific
wonderment in the victories of AlphaGo and family against the best human
players.

Which is to say: that human players play Go (and Chess, and Poker, and Magic:
the Gathering etc) very differently than machines. In particular, human
players do none of the extremely tedious, extremely computationally intensive
maths that computer players have to do. Human players don't perform MCTS,
neither do they train by self-play for many thousands of human-years.

Somehow, humans can play Go and Chess and all manner of board games _without_
having to do any of the hard work that only computers can do reliably. We are
not particularly good at those games- but we can play them well enough that
beating the best of us still takes huge amounts of computational power.

How we do this, why we are even capable of doing this and what other benefits
it confers to us: _that_ is the interesting set of questions. That a big
machine can outperform a human ... we have known this since
ancient times.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
There’s a strong link between the common cold sore (Herpes simplex virus type 1) and amyloid beta buildup in the brain, which accumulates and severely impacts cognition. It’s estimated that around 67% of the entire world’s population has HSV-1. When your immune system weakens and the virus activates and comes out of dormancy, your body starts to pump out these amyloids to “protect” itself against the virus. The issue is that high levels of this peptide buildup leads to Alzheimers like symptoms. Over time, if you have poor sleep hygiene or under a lot of stress, the buildup reaches a point of significant aggregation causing “brain fog,” even without a confirmed diagnosis of Alzheimers. This is just my theory though. I’m not a doctor. It’s just my 2 cents.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953363/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1586/14787210.2014.8...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26836158/
A simple script could win at FPS games every single time but it also hasn't diminished the value of the game as long as none of your competitors are using it.
I thought LensCrafters, and places like Costco, (Walmart?) had easy cheap access to glasses. Did that change? Jins is a big chain in Japan and they now have 5 locations in the USA. At least in Japan it's like the article described Peru. Walk in, get free example, buy glasses under $99
I think of it as like competitive sport. The value you're providing is the opportunity for others to test themselves against you.
Bingo. And all the old timers refuse to change.
"For example, people living with a medical condition or being very overweight might complain of cognitive impairment, but it’s hard to tell if that’s due to the inflammation associated with these conditions or if there are other reasons.”"

Is this study proof inflammation is the root cause, or that it correlates with other symptom.

I can here it now, "Obesity isn't my problem, inflammation is." Or "It's not my lifestyle. I don't need to exercise and/or eat well. My problem is inflammation."
I had to downgrade. There is a regression and you can't run it off a USB stick anymore.
> Most licenses don't do this

Most free software licenses? Sure. Most Proprietary software licenses? I don't know about that. For example from IE 5:

> 6. EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. You agree that you will not export or re-export the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, any part thereof, or any process or service that is the direct product of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT (the foregoing collectively referred to as the "Restricted Components"), to any country, person or entity subject to U.S. export restrictions. You specifically agree not to export or re-export any of the Restricted Components (i) to any country to which the U.S. has embargoed or restricted the export of goods or services, which currently include, but are not necessarily limited to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, or to any national of any such country, wherever located, who intends to transmit or transport the products back to such country; (ii) to any entity who you know or have reason to know will utilize the Restricted Components in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons; or (iii) to any entity who you know or have reason to know has been prohibited from participating in U.S. export transactions by any federal agency of the U.S. government. You warrant and represent that neither the BXA nor any other U.S. federal agency has suspended, revoked or denied your export privileges.

I have seen similar clauses in a lot of other software in the past (such as itunes, Adobe programs, and Norton I think).
Based on the banner you get when you use bash, yeah. They're pushing zsh really hard.
Note this also part of why Lasik is so expensive. You basically have to buy out your optometrist.
They have a four-year graduate degree. It takes as long as an MD degree.

I don't believe everything they say. But when my back feels twisted, I trust them enough to straighten it out. They even did a good job straightening out my whiplash.
Man or boy test
No, but it would take so much CPU and OI, it might as well. I doubt the application would be in great shape while this operation took place.
The point of this article is that something which costs 30$ should not cost 3000$.
Emacs is definitely gone, I was shocked to find. I must say, having Emacs (even aging Emacs) in the default distribution of OSX was helpful from time to time, needing to edit a configuration file on a colleague's Mac.
You can order new glasses - sunglasses or otherwise - from numerous sites online without needing to concern yourself with the date on a prescription. Assuming the prescription in question still works for your eyes of course.
I'm glad you mentioned IF. It's one of the easier ways to get many of the keto benefits without having to do keto.
I wish 1password integrated this so that I could have both random email addresses and random passwords for accounts all stored in one place
"not meant to be used" mostly just means that when something breaks, you're on your own.

Which, you know, you were anyway.
Paper Programs: run JavaScript programs on pieces of paper like DynamicLand
I am not sure what you mean by "style", but top chess grandmasters certainly play in a different way today compared to, say, 20 years ago. Current play is much more concrete (less based on general strategic principles) and players are willing to take greater risks for rewards such as material gains, since AIs have shown that there are often many more defensive resources than was previously thought as long as the defender remains tenacious.
> It used to be that you might be able to believe that there is some kind of art behind go, some sort of abstract beauty to it, and that the pursuit of this beauty is the path to being good at go ...

All but the last phrase are still true. Pursuit of Go for beauty is still pursuit of Go for beauty.

I will never play any instrument as well as a sequencer. I believe algorithms will make beautiful Jazz improvisations in real time, in my lifetime. But playing is still beautiful.

I will never run as fast as a horse, much less a bicycle or car. In my lifetime cars will drive themselves more safely and faster than I can drive a car. It will still be enjoyable.

I sincerely hope my children will live better lives and make better choices than I did. My life is still beautiful most days...

It is our attachment to being smarter than machines that makes us unhappy. We fear evidence that we’re not that special. But we do not need to be special to be happy. We do not need to be special to find beauty in our pursuits.

One day, a bot will live on HN and have hundreds of times more karma than I have. It won’t diminish the beauty of my best contributions. Perhaps the humility of seeing this happen will actually make me a happier person.
Can someone explain how is this even legal ? Isn't this entrapment ? And what's the objective of this sting operation anyways ?

It's not like students on F1 Visa know what is legal and what isn't, especially with US immigration laws being so complex. They usually rely on the grad school Visa office to tell them if they're allowed to do something like where they can work and what paperwork needs to be filed.

Instead of doing the actual work of publishing clear rules, explaining the law, inspecting universities and ensuring compliance, DHS ruined students lives after they took their money.
If knowingly taking a placebo can affect a person, I have no doubt that the ritual you described can also have an effect.
It’s easy to get glasses without a prescription.
With the absolute garbage apple has released in the macbook range for the last few years its a surprise they have any relevance at all.
DDG isn’t as good at indexing various forms of social media, but is decent otherwise. I find it depends where my results live

Eg, Reddit, forums, stack overflow (sometimes), YouTube, etc
You're responding to an argument that I didn't make. Your entire post appears to be a response to a fictional rewriting of my posts which doesn't exist.

For the record—:

• I didn't say (and I don't believe) that developers "should be immune to criticism"

• I didn't describe (and I do reject) an "ideology that obligates [anyone] to hold [their] tongue."

• I never defined any "bounds for acceptable criticism."

• I never said "All criticism should be formatted as patches or forks."

Nobody is obligated to act in accordance with anyone else's opinion of the spirit of a community. People are free to do whatever they wish as long as it's within the bounds of law and license conditions.

I have no problem with any form of criticism, although I do find it more worthy of one's attention when it's constructive. I do have a problem with the attitude of some people who get offended when their criticism is rejected or ignored.

What I reject is the assertion that the copyright holder of an open source software project is obligated to follow a certain mode of behaviour. By contrast, you're saying that "everybody has an obligation to refrain from bad behaviour." So in a surprise twist, it turns out the only person obligating a certain ideology upon others here is you.
Yep had this problem except it was only for 6 months. Trying to get glasses for the first time, had an eye exam in April, and last week Costco would not fill my prescription
I got it, thanks for your advice!

`RedisDatastore` is entirely removed, and it only serves as a reference implementation in tests now.
There should be some changes coming to the hearing aid market next year. You will be able to able to self fit hearing aids for the simple cases of mild or moderate hearing loss.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2019/...