skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, most instruments are built for repeatability, so you can play the same note twice and have it sound pretty much the same. Humans produce speech with a resonant cavity made of soft tissue, so a sound like "aaah" corresponds to an unsharp range of tongue shapes etc. and saying the same thing twice is pretty much guaranteed to sound quite different.

Being able to separate individual notes of a musical piece into sharply defined buckets (keys of a piano) or one-dimensional subspaces (finger position on stringed instruments like guitars) simplifies the source separation problem a lot.

That representations are contextual and subject to interpretation by the artist is a harder problem (as discussed in TFA), but it should be possible to treat it separately from the pure chord recognition problem. (E.g. it would be easy to take notation and a matching MIDI file and then pretend that it's the output of the recognition step which the original notation should be recovered from.)
Just to make sure I understand you correctly: you don't believe there exist any drugs which can permanently alter the psyche of an individual, up to and including psychosis?
So it was a direct quote from an article that was wholly consistent with contemporary sources. The only “controversy” is that the quote can’t be independently verified by StackExchange users because the guy died 20 years ago.
Don’t disagree, but that doesn’t prove racism was Nixon’s reason for the war on drugs.
Top things people learned this year that they can't share publicly
Recently I've upgraded 2 machines from 1903 to 1909 (aka the "semi-annual update"). Both times the process took less than 10 minutes.
> About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all.

Yep -- I don't even consider this an issue since it's very easy to get edibles as a consumer. For example, you can get marijuana-infused candies and tongue drops from pretty much any big dispensary for a pretty reasonable (sometimes better) THC+CDB/cost ratio.

Smoking and vaping marijuana (flower, dabs, oil, etc.) is known to be pretty bad for you, but edibles bypass that negative altogether.
Governments don't care about justice, they only care about keeping their misdeeds and lies covered up. They have Julian right where they want him.
How many more miles can you get out of a used knee?
5 years? 10 years?

I wouldn't see this being viable unless it would last the full 25.
Titanium hips, on the other hand, sign me up for a used one.
They have the year "2010" instead of 2019(?) in at least 2 places.
TBH, the majority of the laundry list in the original article is irrelevant for 99% of the population.
Nice, was planning something similar with map simulations: http://aperocky.com/prehistoric (Warn: bad on mobile)
Ask HN: Best service for simple low volume email marketing?
I need a service to send out emails to customers. B2B, no customization needed, just need to send current offers to my list of around 100 people.

I've tried mailchimp and constantcontact so far, but both banned me before I could send out a single email, and refused to give out any information. They didn't say I did anything wrong, just that they refuse to do business with me. At first Constant Contact claimed I was banned because I used a VPN while signing up and suggested I create a new account, but the new account was also banned by what I was told was the Compliance team.

Everyone on my list opted in, this is not spammy content, so I don't understand why nobody wants to do business with me.

Is there a simple service that doesn't have any of this nonsense?
No, it's not. You are still confusing heritability with PGS, and that's a much better PGS than is available for most 'biological' traits. Look through something like LD Hub to get an idea of average GWAS PGSes currently: <11% is very common.
While I respect the guidelines, we shouldn't be suppressing awareness and dirty tactics
Urban living might be associated with mental illness, but so is poverty. Not because poverty causes mental illness, but because mental illness causes poverty. Mental illness also causes people to live in cities, because their needs are better met in cities.
I prefer this Milton Friedman quote, because we cannot make better people:

> I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.
> 3.5% genetic association with intelligence means that 96.5% is not genetic.

No. It does not mean that. As I literally just explained to you: a specific PGS variance != SNP heritability != heritability. (How could you possibly think that when I also just explained to you in my other comment that the current IQ SOTA is 11% and you replied acknowledging as much?) The best estimate of intelligence heritability in adulthood at the peak, using measurement-error-corrected estimates, is 70-80%. Very far from 3.5%. Or 11%, or 30%, or 50% for that matter.
> Americans on the whole don't trust their government quite a lot. If the government just said "you owe X in tax this year", nearly everyone's knee jerk reaction would be that the government is overestimating and cheating them.

That's why most governments that do self-declaration services make it so you can review what tax rules they based amounts off of. It's not like tax law is super easy elsewhere and without complications. I should never have to pay a fee just to declare taxes to reconcile things for the IRS. That is a basic governmental responsibility to give me that service for free.
You’re leaving out the fact people who knew him said “That doesn’t sound like something he’d say at all”.
Cool! I built a toy procedural city / city block generator earlier this year...in case anyone wants to check it out, you can find it here: https://github.com/photonlines/Procedural-City-Generator
Every part of this story is wrong.
Out of curiosity, do you have an idea on what the thinking generally is in the field in regards to if / when we'll be able to treat someone using cartilage regeneration, or other organ / nerve / limb regenerations?

Were people expecting the breakthroughs we've already made on the timescale that we've had them? I have a deep ignorance of the field, but from afar it seems like we're on the verge of some truly revolutionary technologies.
Not surprising that marijuana is a sort of strange attractor that prevents people from using harder drugs. Also not surprising that the federal government doesn't just execute faster and legalize it nation-wide already. I find it mind-boggling that you can be dying from opioids in one state and not another just because the state you're in happens to have banned a benign plant that can help save you and wean you off of opioids.
The Opium Wars probably have something to do with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Your assertion is that it's been summarily discredited by a speculative though not unreasonably inferential comment on StackExchange?
The most evil aspect of the thing is that it was enshrined in international treaties, which lead to instability in the nations that were too gullible, or were just strong armed by stronger nations into enforcing these laws (e.g. what happened with many Latin American countries).
I tried blocking the telemetry but stuff kept coming back with updates.

In the end, using Little Snitch (on mac), I ended up blocking firefox communicating with mozilla.org. I update firefox via safari.
They are donating to anti-legalization for the positive PR so that when people say “you make an addictive drug”, they can say they are trying to stop abuse.
Please provide proof
>A substantial portion of the population believes it.

I think it is somewhat disingenuous to suggest that these people were simply duped. The average person has tons of exposure to government incompetence in other arenas.
It certainly makes the year look a lot smaller than usual, when all the days are printed in 1/3 of a standard paper size.
What languages don’t? All of them execute on the processor in some way.
Thanks for your input. So I recently looked at Vagrant and Docker and it seemed kind of like a deep dive and I couldn’t find any Clif notes. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.
1. Your citation is from a right-wing libertarian think tank. It is apparent from the analysis that the author is selectively choosing an explanation and back fitting the data.

2. While healthcare costs have increased, rising productivity gains have been almost exclusively caused by neoliberal policies and the effects of regulatory capture. See https://www.epi.org/publication/causes-of-wage-stagnation/
Yeah and Ted Bundy's parents were adamant that he was a sweet boy who would never hurt a soul.
Except I don't believe it ever has, even in egregious cases.

However, there is a pending test case attempting to give it some teeth. I expect it will be entertaining, no matter how it substantively turns out:

https://www.popehat.com/2019/12/13/randazza-confederates-dou...
> Germany also shut its nuclear power stations in favour of more coal

This is false. Germany replaced their nuclear capacity with, for the most part, wind and solar, plus natural gas.

Coal consumption in Germany is down by 50% since they began their nuclear drawdown.
That’s not self modifying code, though; it’s just an indirect jump through a pointer.
Thanks for your thoughtful response Dan. I guess you're right about how long it's been going on, I am probably mis-remembering practices from back when HN was much smaller than today.
true for other fields than AI as well. theory most of the time makes sense at the moment you need it for a practical problem.
Pharma does not make marijuana
I highly recommend against smoking or vaping marijuana and instead choosing edible oils[0]. These sublingual oils are the safest way to ingest marijuana, and they are just as effective (if not more) as other forms of edibles. Not only that, but you can administer surgically precise doses very easily, since you control exactly how many drops you take.

[0] https://www.leafly.com/products/edibles/tinctures-sublingual
Make prosecutors share liability for crimes of snitches they release. Charge them for perjury if they release a perjurer after claiming that they have no such deal in place.

Prosecutors and police that use known liars to achieve convictions should be treated legally the same way someone who plants evidence is meant to be.
I don't know. Seems if someone were on the fence for supporting Marijuana legalization, the fact that it also helps reduce opioid use seems to be a reason to support legalization. The picture you paint is of someone who is unlikely to support legalization, I find evidence based arguments (relative dangers of marijuiana vs alcohol/other drugs, potential benefits, incarceration rates, etc) to also be compelling.

>Proponents of legalization should be arguing that anyone should be able to do whatever they want to their own body as long as they're not hurting anyone else.

Sure. That's one possible argument. The evidence in this paper is another.
You can generate machine language without an assembly language intermediate phase, if you just directly put bytes into a file. But most compilers have some kind of assembler in them.
"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information."
I don't know much about x86, but on other cpus/architectures (PowerPC, MIPS, and possibly others) one might still need to fiddle with the instruction cache.
Anti drug sentiment is common throughout Asia, not just China.
Good free resources:

- MIT: Big Picture of Calculus

- Harvard: Stats 110

- MIT: Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning

If any of these seem too difficult - Khan Academy Precalculus (they also have Linear Algebra and Calculus material).

This gives you a math foundation. Some books more specific to ML:

- Foundations of Data Science - Blum et al.

- Elements of Statistical Learning - Hastie et al. The simpler version of this book - Introduction to Statistical Learning - also has a free companion course on Stanford's website.

- Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective - Murphy

That's a lot of material to cover. And at some point you should start experimenting and building things yourself of course. If you'are already familiar with Python, the Data Science Handbook (Jake Vanderplas) is a good guide through the ecosystem of libraries that you would commonly use.

Things I don't recommend - Fast.ai, Goodfellow's Deep Learning Book, Bishop's Pattern Recognition and ML book, Andrew Ng's ML course, Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Kaggle.
"Why wouldn't citizens demand a public tax filing process?"

Our government doesn't respond to citizens, only corporations.
Let’s be real, the government was at best complicit in the opioid crisis. The Sacklers did a lot of lobbying; meanwhile “big marijuana” didn’t exist until very recently.
mod 3 is easy if you process the number in base 3!
> I think relatively few consumers know anything about photography.

That's precisely why you need good image processing software that works automatically. Nearly everybody wants to take great photos with their phone, but few people know how to configure everything themselves, and even those who do probably don't want to fiddle with every shot.

> Couldn't they just find another niche?

Well, okay, what problem would you rather see them tackle?
Seems to me like мат is just "yo mama".
I could be mistaken, but, don't JVM languages avoid assembly steps? They use bytecode and are translated directly to machine code; I'm not sure there is an translate-to-assembly step. I'm also not sure how much of this confusion is semantics vs actually different components of the compilation and running process.
To a first approximation, the federal government is currently incapable of passing any laws whatsoever.
In my company on the other hand IT banned macos and we only run windows and Linux, because administration of those operating systems is far superior.

The fact is millions of businesses run on Windows and I would say most of the world economy relies on it.
He’s not; but the far left does. Bernie isn’t remotely far left. He’s advocating for solutions within the existing framework of capitalism, the far left wants anarcho-communism (the same way the far right wants anarcho-capitalism). That’s not gonna happen, so extremists on both sides say fuck your employer and steal.
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That may be true but it doesn't rule out the possibility (more like 'virtually certain likelihood') that they have other motivations as well.
In my experience, it's very much about time; I find myself able to work faster in a typed setting. Given testimony such as yours (which is by no means unique), and the inability of studies to show either approach clearly wins, my takeaway is that this is very sensitive to what particular skills we bring to the table. Different people work differently. And to some degree that's okay. It behooves us all to try and understand what is working for those who choose different approaches, rather than just ranting about how blind they must be. (I don't always remember that, myself.)
Best I can do right now: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs and https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32247/did-ehrli...

Someone wrote a well done article (I wanna say it was Medium) which appears to be what the stackexchange answer is summarizing that actually tracked down all the who said what and laid a pretty darn good case for why the quote wasn't legit. It basically boiled down to the guy who alleges the quote having several past opportunities to drop that bomb but instead waited until everyone who could disagree was dead. A cursory Google search didn't turn it up for me and I'm not letting a stranger on the internet suck up any more of my time.
> Hopefully get other tests done, to confirm diagnosis

Those other tests involve things like "needle biopsy" -- they shove a needle through your chest into your lung into the suspect tissue to get a sample. This carries risk. We can justify that risk if it saves life. But this is the problem with screening -- often it doesn't save life (of course, it depends on the type of screening).

https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=nlungbiop

> Having more information should never make you more wrong

But you can see how having lots of low-quality information could make someone more wrong -- these are not clear signals, because if they were it wouldn't be a problem. These are almost noise. We're taking data from a large population ("4 in 100 people with this result have this disease") and trying to apply it to the individual, and when we try to get more information we subject this person to more radiation in scans or invasive procedures or both. We increasing the risk, but not necessarily saving life.

> there's no point of doing them if that risk outweighs the expected value of evidence gathered

Yes, this is exactly the balance that doctors are making. They're looking at all cause mortality and seeing if life is saved.
hover text and/or copy and paste into browser before hitting go.
haha congress actually fixing a systemic issue in the US?
That thought made me laugh.
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There's a small percentage of the population for which marijuana triggers psychosis.

I support legalization of all drugs regardless of their safety, but it's important not to generalize too widely based on personal experience. Marijuana presents a different but important risk set when compared to alcohol or tobacco.
Apparently you can make multiple Twitter accounts with the same email address
While I can only recall writing real assembly once in 20 years I've read disassembly thousands of times while debugging.
I think he’s probably more invested in Cubase than Windows itself, which I’ve heard is the better of the two platforms to run it on.
This is true (in my experience) for search results but not for the chrome web store. Sure, you could take Google to court if you have more money and time to waste...
"very convenient"...

Nowadays it seems anything that can do something FOR you usually does something TO you.
It actually does not anymore because there is now sufficient counter-interest from big businesses: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-wo...
It is 2020. Just legalize it already. And legalize DMT and mushrooms while you're at it. So many can benefit from these natural and relatively safe remedies.
I worked under the table at a tannery from 15-18. Did not realize at the time that my employer was not providing me with proper protective gear, breaks, or training. In retrospect, $12/hr was not worth the exposure to toxic chemicals and unsafe working conditions.
>burntsushi is also the author of ripgrep

They are also the source of much highly practical domain-specific knowledge and advice on how to write Rust code that does e.g.; efficient text file reading, streaming, state machines, etc.

Many thanks for these contributions.
I think the op is saying that the instruction call <stub_function> gets rewritten by the instruction call <resolved_function>.
Could you maybe expand on this a little bit? Otherwise, your comment just comes off as SPAM.
They still have assemblers in them - they're just done with method calls rather than text.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/e73ce9b406c34bd460f0797f...

Also if you look at the compiler's intermediate representation at the very last phases you'll see it basically looks like an assembly program.
Are you using a domain-based email? If so, have you sent a lot of mail with it in the past? There's a chance your server is blacklisted.
> Android is already bad at sandboxing and keeping less-technical users safe.

Curious, can you name an OS that does a better job compared to android 10? (And maybe a TLDR comparison?)
Yup; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_vertical_separation_...

A plane can ascend/descend fast, but generally stick to either 500 or 1000ft/min.
There is a fundamental truth society and lawmakers refuse to ignore. People that want to consume drugs will do so regardless of the legality of it.

It would be much healthier for everyone (drug users and non drugs users) to simply acknowledge this truth.
I've always been skeptical of the Windows security model as a user but I didn't think it was that porous. Thanks for setting me straight. I found these articles explaining why it's so bad:

https://tyranidslair.blogspot.com/2017/05/reading-your-way-a...

https://tyranidslair.blogspot.com/2017/05/reading-your-way-a...

https://tyranidslair.blogspot.com/2017/05/reading-your-way-a...
Keeping the camera clean is another important issue. Without constant maintenance the effect will only look right at first setup degrading over time. What were you thinking with having multiple lenses, how would that solve some the challenges?
I tend to behave like you do, but it's a lot of work.
>plebeians like ourselves have no power against politicians anymore or the corporate world.

That's just what they want you to believe. You won't fight because you believe no fight is possible. The good news is, that's not true.

(Gee, feel like I'm writing the V for Vendetta script or something!)
Searching turns up https://adampash.kinja.com/google-just-dmcaed-my-chrome-exte..., which has the text of an email Google sent out that does include the sender information.

You can submit a counter-notice, and if for some reason they didn't give you the required information I'd expect you could contact support and ask for it.
Keep in mind "all of" is less than 1 per month, for a site that reports on torrent news and statistics.

2019 was as big a year as any for box office returns and streaming subscription revenue. The only reason you see so many is it costs nothing to send and plenty of companies (as seen by this article) exist to cheaply blast them out via bot.
Hmm, for some reason when I click the link, it opens with the page scrolled halfway down. It might have sometime to do with my 1Password extension, as it has the "email" field focused.

https://imgur.com/X3TkUSa
It seems probable that being close to China in a variety of ways (geographically, socially, etc) may have allowed the Opium Wars to induce anti-drug sentiment in other Asian countries as well. There are probably also other reasons for it, but I'd expect that to be one of the reasons.
Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
A friend of mine served in Iraq and has a lot of health problems related to his time there. He has a shoebox full of medications for various ailments but, when he can use marijuana, he only needs like 5 of them.

So every few months he drives three states over to the closest legal state, stays for a few days and buys enough to last him until his next visit. From what I understand, this experience is not uncommon at all. There are even AirBnB's that cater specifically to these "medical refugees" coming in to buy there because they cannot get the medication they need in their home states.

It is really insane to me that prohibition of a plant continues despite all the evidence of its positive benefits. Especially when drugs that are far more dangerous to you than marijuana can be purchased at your corner drug store without even showing an ID.
I'm not affiliated with humblebundle in any way, and this was a genuine question. I know that the packt books are not best quality, but if one these books is a good introduction to practical ML, I would consider it a good deal. In my opinion much better than googling algorithms and tutorials and visiting 10s or 100s of sites full of ads and ad trackers to find a suitable algorithm for a given problem. Reading an EPUB on my daily commute sounds much better and works offline.