skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This view, that mental illness is about psychology is kind of like what people refer to as the "god of the gaps" defenses of theism. Far too little is understood about mental illness, but no matter how much we learn about metabolic, autoimmune, or other disorders that affect mental function, there will always be some cases that aren't understood and people will still say that there are psychological explanations. By definition, essentially, mental illness is everything that can't otherwise be classified as a physical or neurological disorder. But all that it is, is a drag on actual efforts to solve problems.

As far as comparing to cancer, it seems plausible to me that some measurement like "quality adjusted years lost" (or impaired) could show it's more significant than cancer. I hesitate to say we need more research for anything, because unlimited funding leads to garbage research. But good research is needed. One of the most interesting developments in the last couple decades, I think, was "optogenetics" - techniques that allow scientists to manipulate neurons in a living subject by using light. But just funding more research may just mean torturing a few more mice to no purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics
> for most of history losing a child was what happened to most people

Even if true, that doesn't mean it wasn't heartbreaking and didn't have long-term effects on the family.
>the main difference between those Lisp based languages and Julia in terms of attracting people is the syntax

Yes, and this is practically the only thing that I find wrong with Julia, besides the lack of the interactivity of CL.

It's like populism -- an inferior syntax choice taken just to attract the Pythonistas.
My favorite is the symmetric and the antisymmetric part of the geometric product.
Oh, please. Miscarrying is worse for the person miscarrying. I’m male, single, childless, dumb as a stump, and even I can work that one out. It’s not just emotional; it’s biochemical too.

Look, no-one says grieving spouses don’t require support too (of course they do!), but it’s entirely reasonable to suggest that women who miscarry suffer more severe trauma requiring significantly higher and more specialized professional support. Terms like “PTSD” and “medication“ do not get bandied around for fun, you know. Particularly by a medical profession that has a less-than-perfect history of taking “female problems” seriously.

So try starting from the assumption that however bad it may make you feel, the other person feels a whole shit-ton worse, and show some flipping grace as you work your way from there.
I totally get why BMW snobs say the X1 and X2 are weird (but wait until you see the new 1-series). But they're hardly 10 year old models. For people cross-shopping in that segment of vehicles, its sales indicate that it comes out on top of the competition.

The iDrive system that the user was complaining about is pretty much interchangeable with every other bimmer of that generation, so you're going to find mostly the same features and quirks throughout that lineup. If they didn't like that UX, they're pretty much going dislike any iDrive.

Personally, I think BMW makes a way better infotainment than most other manufacturers.
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When I went to church as a kid I don't remember being anywhere this much beef between the religious vs non-religious. It's way worse. It's not just politics, it's sports, sexual orientation, gaming, and many more domains.
What's interesting about this as well is that participating in this economy of beefs makes people deeply unhappy right to the core, and yet they can't seem to step away.

Take any Twitter user with over 20k followers, and almost to a T they appear to be extremely unhappy, depressed, and anxious wrecks who use Twitter to put on a happy face and pretend they're not.
>Any examples?

Common Lisp has been used in scientific computing since decades, so in some sense it's "ready". Also, see CLASP: lisp at the state of the art of computational chemistry.
Mmm.

Repeatedly what makes a big difference has been ambient availability. Something is "just there" and you rely on it without even thinking about it - the way we mostly take clean water for granted in in the industrialised world.

I believe this was important for DSL and similar technologies often labelled "broadband" Internet service. Having 5Mbps rather than 50kbps seems important but what I'm confident really mattered was that the former was Always On, you didn't have to "go online" to check email or do a search or watch a video any more, and that changes how you think about everything.

For encrypted messaging that's delivered by systems like Whatsapp (and of course Signal) because everything is always encrypted all the time. It is not delivered when you need to explicitly "turn on" encryption, no real users will do that for routine conversations.

It makes a huge difference in transit too, transit engineers call it "metro service" - once you schedule at high enough frequency users change how they use the service. If there's one train a day people need to plan "OK, the train is at 11:23 so I need to be at the station a few minutes before that". When there's one bus a minute (some London peak bus routes) that never occurs to the passenger at all. They just catch a bus when they need one, because obviously there will be a bus, there is always a bus.

In many countries 4G wireless Internet has this sort of "ambient availability" outdoors in populated areas, but not so much in the wilderness or indoors.

EduRoam (and to a lesser extent GovRoam) do this for WiFi. The experience is that whether you're at your university or some foreign university maybe for a conference, WiFi just works the same everywhere magically.

Autocrypt seems to have some thoughts towards ambient availability but it's a long way from here. I wish you luck but if you can't reach that point it's probably not going to make a significant difference.
I think when a service provides its own status page, the customers are less likely to build their own status monitoring, so the service can get away with more downtime.
>but the service just kept getting worse and worse

And more and more expensive. I used it for 8 years, cancelled this year after I noticed it was $45USD per year (over $50 CAD!). Impossible to justify with so many cheaper or free alternatives.
Yes. PTSD does not discriminate based on type of trauma. Car crashes, for instance, are one of the most common events leading to PTSD.
They don't call it "the dismal science" for nothing.

The value of the analysis though is to recognise just what the power of apparent pricing is. And that if you want to change behaviours you've got to change that price.

There are recognised ways of doing that.

One is to impose mandatory floors or minima of behaviour / requirements.

One is to price in externalised risks. That's what insurance, posting bonds, licensing and credentialing (in some regards), and the like can do. All move the potential costs of future events to the present.

Strictly prohibiting certain types of transactions is frequently latched onto. That has certain benefits, but risks creating black markets, as with prohibition and the war on (some) drugs.

Enforcement / control mechanisms all also become potential avenues for power co-option or manipulation.

Taxing activities or wealth derived from them is another option.

As is mandating open access in specific contexts -- e.g., "common carrier" status, "equal time" doctrines, "fairness doctrine", etc.
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For those not aware, this is written by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js.
Has GDPR improved data protection and privacy in Europe?
it is one of these misguided efforts to bring some order to life sciences but they go about it the wrong way.

It is so heavy-handed, the website so obtuse and confusing that no life scientist I know (and I have worked with hundreds of them) is even aware of let alone understand what an ontology is or how to use it.

Might be hard to believe for the uninitiated but they even got some of the namings is wrong from the start, for example, they have a GO (Gene Ontology) but that ontology is not actually describing genes! It describes gene products (like proteins) a huge big difference! Not to mention grossly misleading the very life scientists it is meant to help.
What always strikes me about academia is the propensity for complaining. I only sort of mean that in a bad way. Maybe my experience is exceptional, but I have met quite a lot of people with PhDs. The vast majority of PhDs who went into industry afterwards viewed their PhD more as a rite of passage than actual valuable work. Every one of them has a story of their supervisor or some other academic putting them through random bullshit for no reason. The more experienced academics I've met are in two camps: the climbers- the small handful of academics who are more interested in becoming chief commissar of the faculty and get onto that gravy train. They're generally terrible people - the sort of person who complains that women simply aren't smart enough to do engineering. The other kind are the flagellators, people who will give you a dissertation in why their life sucks, and how the hoops of academia are so completely at odds with what real research requires.

It all leaves me at a loss as to why anyone would choose that life. There are bad things about life in industry, but no one I work with complains anything like that badly.
Weird. It looks like this to me on Firefox. (and everything else) https://imgur.com/a/qCn0fiH
I resolved the issue by navigating to the directory where it downloaded the vm's, deleting the folder and unzipping manually. Seems the launcher corrupts the files when it unzips them.
Let me draw an analogy with baldness. We can agree that baldness is a problem for humanity. Maybe not the biggest problem, but every year many people go bald and are unhappy about it. So, if we could eliminate involuntary baldness that'd be great.

Now, let's say our philanthropic anti-baldness initiative notices that men go bald at significantly higher rates than women. So, we come to the conclusion that we have to figure out the sociological factors that make men bald. Maybe video games contributes to baldness, or maybe it's the stress of having looser ties to family, or maybe its the rate of military service?

As we both know, baldness, including the higher rate of male baldness, is driven by genetic-biological factors. If we refused to even consider this hypothesis it would lead to some pretty absurd conclusions and policies. But knowing that the problem has a biological basis lets us direct our humanitarian efforts at the root cause. We know that to treat baldness we need to target biology, with things like Rogaine and hair transplants, not sociology.
Mergesort is more intuitive than selection sort, insertion sort, bubble sort, etc? I highly doubt you can write merge sort without thinking about it. And I highly doubt you can write bug free merge sort without thinking about it. Merge sort and quick sort are notorious for bugs introduced by trying to keep track of the indexes.

> It's very intuitive and simple, at least to me ?

Once you understand mergesort, you have a eureka moment and it all makes sense. But I've never met anyone who thought merge sort was intuitive and simple - especially when learning it the first time.
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I've never called Prosperity, the noncommercial license, open source. I've called Parity open source.
I remember that book fondly - I'd dabbled with BSD/OS at one company, then at the next gig set up their production servers on a couple of FreeBSD boxes running Apache. The book was a constant companion at my desk. For running servers, FreeBSD was hard to beat back then!
I think I have to disagree.

Google is definitely using Chrome for more than just a security measure. Google is getting aggressive in competing with Firefox, what they are doing is either borderline or literally illegal, like making their services intentionally slower or have a worse UI on Firefox.

They are doing it now to Firefox, so imagine what they will do if they have 100% marketshare in the browser industry. A competitor to YouTube is rising? Make their videos stream a bit slower. Or refuse to support new standard technologies, and support some deprecated ones that their websites still uses, forcing everyone to use Google's standard, and then slowly depricate those standards after secretly removing them from your services.

Phrasing it this way makes it obvious that this is illegal, but I'm sure they will find a way to subtlety do it so that a case can't be made against them, while still screwing their competitors.
The "opinion" label also denotes that the writer does not need to pretend to be neutral.

More concerning is netcan's suggestion that if something is just a collection of facts then it must be neutral...
Which password manager would you say has the brightest future, for someone looking to start using one with no prior experience besides Chrome account sync?
Can't believe nobody has mentioned Blindsight yet.

Awesome scifi book, it will blow your mind.
It’s not quite a ‘one size fits all’ if you have to take cells and genetically modify them for every patient. Sounds like it would be very expensive. Amazing nevertheless if it really works.
There was a snippet I saw a while ago where someone made C look like Java for a joke, using macros. I wish I could find it to share here, it's great.
1992 Colorado passed Amendment 2 which specifically forbade Colorado state, county or municipal governments from recognizing homosexuals as a protected class. The amendment explicitly allowed the government of Colorado to be used to discriminate against gay people.

That's my only quibble with your list, other than Bill Clinton also signed Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Anecdote: I’ve been getting noticeably colder every year for no natural reason, so I’ve tried many things: fish oil, iodine etc. The only thing that worked was iron. I took 600mg ferrous gluconate with 5g vitamin C, and I was sweating hot and felt amazing for the next 24 hours. Iron overdose can be deadly and irreversible, so I have not repeated this and do not recommend it.
Docker was working[0]. But it depends what you want from containers I guess. Layers?

Most of the container use-cases that aren’t layers work fine under jails. But it’s a more primitive tool, definitely not as user friendly.

[0]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
If you're competing with a service, it means that you're not going to suffer disadvantage based on the coding / development capabilities of your competitor. What they produce is going to be something that's available to your own deployment.

For self-service, this means that you're not locked out of the development capabilities of the service you've left -- though that arguably creates a free-rider problem for that service.
Look up the side effects of common medications for severe mental illness and ask yourself why anyone would take them if therapy was a more effective alternative. If you have no idea, let's just say they can kill you in various terrible ways, or damage your body and brain irreversibly, including causing tumors, and/or put you in a living hell, not to mention cause diabetes, and yet, popular medications have been around for 25 years or longer. It's not because there is a conspiracy of doctors or drug companies, and it's not because there are good alternatives, and it's not because positive thinking fixes everything.
The word “TANAB” is derived from a native word meaning rope. We believe that the formative years of ones personal and professional career are important - and our hope is that THE TANAB will help you keep it all together.
Are you going to support evernote?
> Mind providing some concrete examples?

It's like the difference between, say, applied and pure sciences. One is focused on developing and studying new algorithms, while the other is focused on using algorithms developed by someone else in practical applications.

To put it differently, it's like physics vs engineering. A physicist might develop new structural analysis methods, while the engineer would use those methods to model a bridge.
The word “TANAB” is derived from a native word meaning rope. We believe that the formative years of ones personal and professional life required navigating - and our hope is that THE TANAB will help you keep it all together.
The OBOFoundry has a set of principles[0] that not all ontologies conform to. An ontology project can register with the OBOFoundry through their GitHub site [1] if they follow the principles.

[0] http://obofoundry.org/principles/fp-001-open.html

[1] https://github.com/OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io
> Where are these internships that will hire you based on your completion of Fast.ai (if done in 1-2 months by a beginner I assume it's only part 1) alone, especially in 2020?

I don't think the idea is to look for an internship after the course but an additional 4 months of personal projects. After applying state of the art deep learning for 4 months full time you'll have some very cool projects, and you could probably convince some company to take you on as an intern for a certain amount of time.
Where is the study itself? They link to the "earlier, smaller study" from 2016, but not the one they're writing about.
>banks can lend money that didn't exist until they lend it to you and that stops existing the moment you pay it back

Of course. How else should the money supply increase but to create it out of thin air? All of it is. Imagine not being able to buy a house until Fred paid mortgage his off? This is a reason why getting off the gold standard was a good idea. What's the point of having a dollar be equivalent to the price of an ounce of gold (which itself is an arbitrary peg), along with all the mechanisms required to maintain that peg? If you want something equal to the value of an ounce of gold, buy an ounce of gold.

This is what Bitcoin proponents get wrong about its use as a currency; a static supply is a problem. Why would you want to limit people's ability to perform transactions in the unit of account? If you can't increase the supply as needed, then you have to find ways to further divide what's out there (which is just the other side of the same coin).
The study was on measurements taken in the early 1900s, not 1800s. Also, it's not like technology suddenly started in the 30s or something. Liquid nitrogen was first produced in 1883. The periodic table was published in 1869. Cells were discovered in 1665. Science was a lot more than banging rocks together.

You would expect the opposite of what you're suggesting, if anything. If water was used for calibrating temperature then there would be fewer good ways to control the impurity level, which would lower its freezing point. Not to mention Fahrenheit originally defined body temperature as 96 F, and it was later corrected higher.

All of the above is totally moot because we have plenty of medical thermometers from the 1900s and earlier, and they are remarkably accurate and the error is not particularly biased in either way. This is a highly researched area because the accuracy of whether thermometers is important to historical and climate research. Medical thermometers from the 1800s are good to at least 1/5th of a degree and instrumentation thermometers were good to hundredths.
I am guessing that now the software can’t be included in something else that uses “predatory copyleft“.

And those derivative works do not have the option to use a less restrictive license that allows such behavior.

Not sure of this though.
Interesting - i was in this topic for a quite a long time. Also created public repository made by lawyers for free privacy requests -> https://github.com/good-lly/gdpr-documents

From my perspective companies have a very very long time to prepare and I didnt find a single one that reply to my GDPR data access request in correct time with proper answers.

It is not about changing browser habbits or not giving a cookie consent. It is about practicing your rights - but it is still very time and energy consuming ...
Alan Turing’s stolen OBE, doctorate recovered in Colorado
I agree mental health should be allocated higher priority than it is. I can't find a great source, but this listicle[0] claims the top categories of conditions in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost are:

1. Arthritis.
2. Heart disease.
3. Stroke.
4. Cancer.
5. Mental health conditions.
6. Diabetes.
7. Nervous system disorders.
8. Pregnancy.
9. Accident.
10. Developmental disorders.

Whereas the top causes of death in the US[1] are:

1. Heart disease.
2. Cancer.
3. Accident.
4. Chronic lower respiratory disease.
5. Stroke.
6. Alzheimer's.
7. Diabetes.
8. Influenza and pneumonia.
9. Kidney disease.
10. Suicide.

Given that heart disease, stroke, and cancer top both lists, IMO, it makes sense from a pragmatic POV to focus on those two.

Side note: I was surprised to see arthritis at #1 on the DALYs list. Seems like more research is needed here, as well.

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[0]: https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/this-awful-disease...

[1]: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php
I am in exactly this situation now. I want to be able to have a method to load the content of the partial for mustache.ra; wrote in their repo looking for feedback - but if no none - absolutely going to fork, and hopefully no hard feelings on either side....
Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)
I guess you mean you prefer prefix rather than infix notation. Do you have any specific technical reasons for this?
FreeBSD does not have a focus on security[0]. Indeed, the defaults are notoriously insecure. There was a textfile floating around on how to bring it up to some standard but it eludes me. So it’s a low bar, but freebsd is great under low memory conditions, it has a rock solid filesystem baked in that is gold-supported, one of the best tracing tools known to mankind and very clear documentation.

That’s the power of freebsd. Not security.

[0]: https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
Ah, and of course I found the essay I wanted to reference when I wrote this: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

When you're new everything is new so you're willing to try a bunch of new tech. You haven't seen people get burned (repeatedly) on using a whole bunch of new tools at the same time.
Thank you for mentioning this. As someone interested also in RAM-only, that is a strong additional point for BSD.
This has been around for a while. It’s excellent, and I’ve tried to get it adopted at several life science organizations.

The problem is culture. Principal investigators are notoriously stubborn about how they do things, and that includes what they call things. Manufacturers and supply companies also don’t see much benefit to standardizing around this, and of course realize the large downside (alienating the aforementioned PIs).

What would help this would be the introduction of OWL into major software suites, primarily LIMS and ELN packages, and include tools for aligning terminology and concepts with OWL.
Most people would be wrong if they think that this is what all researchers do