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> The toxicity of this business model has only become apparent in hindsight.

I'm glad that Bradley is drawing critical attention to this issue.

> efforts to draft even more restrictive software copyleft licenses

A non-free "copyleft" license is not worthy of the name and is a problem because it is non-free, not because of "copyleft".

> The clause still needs work

The license needs work,it seems to treat copyleft as a form of punishment for authors to be tolerated for a while rather than as a strategy to permanently protect the freedom of all software users.

> a basic approach to incorporating similar copyleft equality clauses into written exceptions for existing copyleft licenses, such as the Affero GPL

These clauses can and will be removed by downstream users for any alterations or additions they make to the software in order to provide it to their cloud-based users. This will redouble the downstream use dynamics that VC-funded "open source" projects, some of the heaviest users of abusive CLAs, whine about.
First, mental health issues account for a huge amount of suffering and societal expense.

Also, this is a commonly misunderstood issue. We are increasingly finding that "psychological" issues have strong links to physiological issues. Here is one example (of many):

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/pandas/index.sh...

Autoimmune disorders can lead to a huge variety of neurological/psychological issues. All work on better understanding of the immune system is going to help many overlapping disorders.

What have previously been seen as "psychological" issues are, for these disorders, only marginally improved by therapy. Therapy can help someone cope, but root causes might be based on immune system issues.

I could of course be wrong, but my own unfounded suspicion is that in a few years we will find that a lot of current mental health therapy was rather stone age. Much may be replaced by more fundamental treatments to eliminate the source of basal ganglia (or other structures) inflammation that led to the psychological disorder.
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well, not sure what you mean by "Sequence->structure".
Historically, people have used the fact that small globular proteins refold spontaneously and rapidly to their native state to support the idea that there is a single, unique structure encoded by a specific sequence. That's a helpful if ultimately limited approach (as we observe many proteins that don't fold rapidly to single native structure).

That's a reason that evolution-based methods, which use statistics about families of related proteins to estimate distances between pairs of amino acids (in 3D space), are more effective- many times in biology we can use evolutionary relationships between proteins to infer things that would be hard to determine through experiments or rigorous, thorough simulations.

But it's important to appreciate there are a large number of proteins that don't fold to a single unique structure rapidly-- and there are many ways this can be the case and many different biologically relevant behaviors depend on these properties. The tools from CASP are much less useful for proteins that violate the assumptions of Anfinsen's dogma, although the evolutionary data is helpful there too, it can often be a lot more challenging to deconvolute the signal.

Ultimately, "what is the right problem"? THe one that makes the most money? Produces the most "useful" scientific result? Is accessible with today's technology? For now, there's plenty of value in these sorts of competitions.

Personally I think the "right problem" is: "given a collection of diseases, use experimentally derived data and clever math, to discover biological treatments that reduce the total suffering from those diseases, subject to monetary and ethical constraints". That's what pharma attempts to do, although not particularly well. Others might say simply solving interesting problems like protein folding is inherently valuable as the right problem.
I think it should be enough to initialize the PRNG with a secure random value before sorting. Am I wrong?
Unless youre someone like ghengis khan, or richard feynman, or elon musk/co.

I think there are different hierarchies to climb in different ways, and hirarchies seem to be distributed in such a way that ass-kissing climbup one makes the majority of the total, still isnt the only one tho, or way.

Wanna hear something funny? I saw a youtube/national geo. Video about chimps, actually about the ass-kissing hiera.

There was a young imp who was helping the aging alpha, he wasnt the strongest, but he was still made alpha by the old alpha, and the grooming kept happening after said appointmment. Funny thin is, the strongest chimp wasnt chosen, and was second in command! He could beat both in single combat, but not while both teamed up.

So i guess the ass kissing stuff has a role, i guess it selects for team players ... but damn man fo they Get toxic and abusive. It sorts of gives the impression that were not worth keeping around ... but then i see someone save a dog and my heart melts for our species.
> What rapid changes have we seen lately?

Well change in support/recognition of transgender issues has been very rapid over the past 5-10 years.

"More than six in ten (62%) Americans say they have become more supportive toward transgender rights compared to their views five years ago."

Source: https://www.prri.org/research/americas-growing-support-for-t...
Ugh... have you stopped following the Javascript ecosystem for the last three hours? We use YARN or NPX now. /s
I definitely agree making it available is a good thing.

However, I'd take exception to 'it can only do good'. I've had a loved one opt for experimental treatment that was ineffective, and made the last months of his life more painful and separated from his family (treatment was in another city). I'm not saying we would choose differently if we were faced with it again, but in some respects I wonder if it was more a service to our peace of mind at having done all we could than it was for his comfort or happiness.
Perhaps, but does it have to be?
That Affero license doesn't seem very useful, because if you depend on code running on someone else's server, it doesn't help you if you have an honest copy of the source code that is actually running on it. You still don't control it. You can't make changes and deploy it to that server, or update it yourself, etc..

Free, open-source software is about control: controlling what code manipulates your data.

In short, it seems that the license really doesn't really do much of substance for the user, and just saddles the operator with extra burdens.
Sounds like the Twiddler keyboard. It’s been around since at least 1991.
Why am I still excited about Elixir?
HS2 costs rise, reports delayed, but what’s the alternative?
> The C++ function is understood by the JIT so well that it just emits the code for it itself.

But how would that work for Ruby, where C functions on the critical performance path are often third-party code that the compiler author has never seen before?

We'd need to let the JIT understand third-party unseen C functions. There are experiments to do that (Sulong, MIR, Rubinius sort of tried it) but I think it's more of an open problem than you're implying.

If you treat calls to unknown third-party C functions as an opaque native call then you're really going to struggle to build a meaningful compilation unit, in my experience.
It's a coarse salt, as mentioned.

But also it doesn't have additives like table salt (e.g. iodine and anti-caking agents). Iodine at least has a definite flavor.

It's also very consistently made (though not between manufacturers) unlike some sea salts, and relatively inexpensive so it's the go-to kitchen salt (as against finishing salt) for a lot of cooks; you know what you get in a pinch every time.
Maybe I am confused about the idiom "something to prove."

Does it necessarily mean "something to prove [about their own name]?" I thought it might also mean "something to prove about [a group]."
I hold out a lot of hope that the resurgence in psychedelic research may lead us out of a large part of our mental health crisis.
Imagine two curves, ressources, and population growth, one bouncing against the other, deminishing it.
Imagine a blind force, trying to adapt to this circumstances.

How would a neuro-typus look like, that adapts to strife?
How would its build up look like?

What would be the treshold to bring it out of hibernation in hiding out in the open? What could return it to hibernation?

Would it try to create a everlasting thirty year war, if it could?
What re-purpose could such a neuro-typus have in peace times? Is something that is adapted to its surrounding even sick- can you call someone who traumatizes and revels in it, in its environment even sick?

Is religion - the maximum production of genetic lotterys for the great lottery of war- at cost of liberty, just another peace time adaption to this adaption to the perfect cycle of strife?
How many neuro-typuses are there?
Can diffrent neuro-typus form a social machinery?

Has the peacefull humanity, this idealized version ever existed? Or is this just some luxery delusion, created by science? Give me energy in abundance, give me fertilizer, give me fresh-water, give me forrests, i shall devour them, and call myself peacefull.

Will virtual violence (games) allow to hack/circumvent the cycle of strife behaviour?

Will self-surveilance gadgetry allow us to behave, even when the state collapses?

We live in intersting times.

We could feed this regressive behaviour for another thousand years, if we had fusion and spaceflight- but then, we would be exponential up and out there, holding the rocks of gods. Maybe its better to resolve this down here.

To harden the roots of the scenario-tree, give it all the chances to self-control, learned in a thousand years of repetition.

Dang, I wish you could invest kharma in a point, with a dividend, depending on investment. And with insolvency goes away all your posts to the underworld.
Would anything which is traumatic, be able to lead to long term post-traumatic stress?

And miscarriages are certainly traumatic.
Interesting, as clearly there is a PR issue with the name due to solid reasons of death risk being higher upon those model planes. People don't like that, so they fixed the problems but the stigma still holds.

I hope Boeing don't change the name or at most at a MK.2 upon it as reclaiming that trust is in everybody's interest.
ALso renaming it would be akin to sweeping it under the carper and also set the 737 Max reputation in stone - upsetting all those customers who own one and will see the value decrease even more with a solidified reputation that has no way to be regained as they changed the name and that regained trust is in that name and not the original.

So be interesting how this plays out.
I guess my question is, why is Chrome the only platform seemingly which will let me install PWAs? I'm a Firefox user, I want to install PWAs, and ideally, I'd like them to run using Firefox's engine instead of Chrome.
I think an exciting area that can innovate the lack of data is domain randomization, and synthetic data generation.

Slides from Josh Tobin is a great introduction:
http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/randomization_and_the_reali...

http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/BeyondDomainRandomization_T...

And a really cool project implementing synthetic generation of text in images: https://github.com/ankush-me/SynthText
I'd welcome hearing from you. Email address is john.sambrook@protonmail.com.
Nice! Tavern at the End of the World was one of my favorites, check it out if you haven't already.

SeekWell is my full time gig, working growing revenue so it stays that way!
Does diet and exercise really get you that far against cancer though? My sense is that it helps but only a fraction of the amount that it does against cardiovascular disease, is that right?
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My theory is that people have replaced religion with politics. They've fallen away from organized religion, but they still need somewhere deep down, the comfort and certainty, (or "faith"), that spiritual belief conferred.

Many have found that comfort and certainty in the ideological tenets of the political groups with which they form affinities. As a bonus, people find a sense of belonging that is fairly similar to what 50 years ago those same people would have found in the various churches or temples.

Again, just a theory, but I think this is why a lot of political arguments have started to resemble almost clashes of religious dogmas. Or what the author has termed, "beefs".
My mother will love this. I bet she had no idea she needed it as well!
I believe that this is arguing from a false premise: the reason that companies despise the AGPL is not, I think, that they fear that they fear accidentally violating copyleft and thus being forced to buy a proprietary license but rather than they simply want to have their cake and eat it too: copyleft for thee but not for me. They want to use software for free but not grant the rights they received to their own users.

Thus a provision reverting to a BSD-style license in case of proprietary licensing would, I believe, do nothing to encourage them to use it in the first place.
There is a certain subjectivity in play.

Is Duff's Device technical debt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
> My understanding for the mechanism by which the salt makes the fruit sweeter ...

Is that correct? AIUI the primary way that salt makes foods taste sweeter is due to the fact it attenuates our sense of "bitter".
A lot of research data sets are publicly available, but many researchers based at universities have relationships with private companies where they can get access to data or other resources useful for research (e.g. Google has a big room of robotic arms generating data for pick and place tasks).

There is still plenty you can do with a reasonable personal budget, however.
Of course fsync() sends a flush to the disk (unless you use non-standard mount options or "eatmydata"). They may not honor the FUA bit, though, but hopefully nobody relies on this if they expect it to work with consumer disks (See e.g. here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170510-00/?p=95... ).

What I have heard is that some disks have problems if they are on a error recovery path. E.g. they have a corrupt sector or a sector that needs reallocation (pending sector), and then they have a power failure while the sector is reallocated.
I like it. Tomatoes aren't very sweet naturally, so they work well when combined with other very sweet items.
There are many communities out there for people to join and find their tribe, they just aren't easily accessible or indexed centrally. A lot of them filter for like-minded folks -- even the ones that claim to accept anyone.

Focusing on community or hacker spaces is narrow view of one's options. I found mine via attending underground music events, then joining one of the groups and attending festivals with them, which eventually led to strong ties with the burner scene and some of the local artist communities.

I think people are forgetting that to experience these things you need to be present, and do so with some frequency. Open-mindedness and the right vibe will get you far socially. Unfortunately that doesn't really match well with the workoholic atmosphere that many jobs insist on, and so you end up with unfortunate situations like people mistaking their employers for family. I hope that those folks are secure in their employment because it is really easy to be cast out (e.g. laid off) under the guise of, "it's just business". Personally I think feelings of workplace-as-family are just another trap engendered by management to maintain employee retention.
I agree that everyone should feel some obligation to do their civic duty to report and pursue criminals. I’m just saying, do it because it’s the right thing to do, but don’t actually expect any of it to have any practical effect for you, personally. It might happen, as in your anecdote, but I’m saying that it’s very unlikely. Coincidentally, do you know if that person in your story was, after being spotted, subsequently identified, apprehended, arrested, and convicted?

Posting to HN about wanting to digitally enhance surveillance video indicates, at least to me, someone expecting some practical result (which is unlikely), not someone simply doing what can reasonably be done for the sake of society.
>"create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker"

Cool.

As I said, you can point the finger at the "Billionaire" but at the end of the day Gwaker's is liable for their unlawful behavior resulting in damages, that can't be blamed on Thiel. A Jury found Gwaker liable and awarded Hogan $140M, that bankrupted Gawker, not Thiel.

If Gawker didn't willfully publish stolen sex tapes of Hulk Hogan in violation of his rights, then Thiel would have wasted $10M and 3-5 years looking for something that doesn't exist, and they would still be in business.
Why does more testing need to take place? I would be willing to bet the majority of people currently dying of cancer within the next month or so would have zero problems testing it for them. So much bureaucracy. People need help now.
More heavily watered down than cooler, I suspect.

The only other Ribbonfarm article I've read was the "premium mediocre" one, in which they described themselves as a premium mediocre blog, adding "the actual upper-class readers read SSC or Marginal Revolution". On the limited basis of these two articles, I am leaning towards the idea that it was an accurate assessment.
In my experience, studies are typically not well constructed.

See the numerous studies that cannot be replicated, the below-the-surface iceberg of unpublished (unfavorable) studies paid for by for-profit institutions, or the shockingly small sample set or biased sample set in most studies. Most studies expose this information implicitly but it's up to the reader to determine the bias or replicate the study.
Downstream users cannot remove clauses put in place by the copyright holder, even for alterations that they make, because those are derived works. A pure addition that you make to a copylefted program is your copyright; you have to license it in a way which is compatible with that program, but otherwise it can be anything. E.g. you can add 2-Clause-BSD-licensed code to a GPL-ed program and then redistribute that to your own downstream users. The GPL still applies to the thing as a whole; users can use just your portion alone under its BSD license (like borrow the code into another program).
Google, Facebook – How to negotiate with counter offers?
HC status -
I have cleared HC for Google L5 TPM.
I have cleared HC for facebook E6 production engineer.

Offers
Neither Google or Facebook has given offers yet.

My lean
I am leaning towards google to join.
Reasons - Much more diversified portfolio. Better work life balance. No pressure of PIP.

Questions
1. How do i leverage the upcoming offers between Facebook and google?, in-order to get best offers at both, more specifically the best offer at Google.

2. When either Facebook or Google is asking about counter offer, should i simply say - "Hey XXX, i have a offer coming up from <rival company>, so can you provide your strongest offer."

3. What if they ask for range. Should i state- "hey i am looking for XXX,xxx$?". Here XXX,xxx$ would be high-end of what i see on levels.fyi OR "Given the knowledge that a counter offer is coming up, please provide the best offer you can."

4. What if they ask for specific for the exact counter offer?. Since i dont have the counter offer, tell them - "Hey, the <rival company> hasn't given the offer yet and they are currently working on their offer. At this point, I am uncomfortable with sharing their offer with you"

5. What if they say - Hey if we give you XXX,xxx dollars , would you accept our offer Potential response - "Hello company, i am waiting on the <rival company> as well, and it would be unfair to them if i said yes here, just like it would be unfair to you if i said yes to them without giving you a chance to speak up"

6. If Facebook gives a bumper offer, would google match it? Assuming that i had good interviews at google and they consider me as a must-hire.

7. With Facebook and Google, can i negotiate full payment of a future part-time/ Exec MBA ?.

8. Ideally, how many times can one go back and forth between these companies to get them to keep raising their offers?

9. With Facebook and googles offers, what’s the limit on the sign-on bonus that I can ask for?
One anti-aging speedup would be that long term safety of HGH therapy would be much less important if cancer would be easy to cure.

Peter Thiel started HGH therapy in 2014 because ,,cancer would be cured in 10 years anyways''.

It seems to me like his prediction is coming true (maybe we'll need 5 extra years though).
> and media are convinced Twitter is very important

> Nothing is worse than getting criticized by the peanut gallery. Twitter can end careers, cancel television shows, bring down elected officials.

Twitter is in a way like a street protest that gets covered on the nightly news. As an example you can have 1000 people (or even less) protesting in NYC (a region with what 20 million people?) and the media will entirely blow the significance out of that protest proportion. Not that there are 19,999,000 people who aren't protesting but that there are 1000 that are.

> Ask your aunt or brother-in-law about what's trending on Twitter and you'll get a blank stare

Exactly true as a general rule.

But better ask anyone what they think is important (and this is the sad part) and they will probably mention something they received from a traditional media source who got what they did from twitter or social media (if not placed by a PR firm etc.)
It's only what, 4 blocks?
Wow. You're only 16?

Do you know that I hear when you tell me that? Massive, tremendous potential. Almost a volcano of raw potential in front of you. So many things are open to you now, just considering how much time you have left ahead of you (should you not die or become incapacitated, of course).

I'm almost at a loss of what to say, because there are just so many possible ways for your life to go now.

If you really feel cooped-up in the rural area you're in now, you could try moving to an urban area and try to make it there, no matter how difficult it might be. Some people wind up getting stuck in really miserable and dangerous situations doing that, especially if they try to do that when they're young, but others make it.

Really, I would make seeking out and meeting people you resonate with, who you admire and like a top priority. Find people who are your heroes, meet them in person, and get their advice. You might not be able to do that now, but I'd make it a long-term goal. You could also try emailing them or connecting with them through social media. Some people will be glad to help. Also, you could find people adults who are doing good things in your area and talk to them in person and get their advice.

Also find your peers who are on the same wavelength as you.. it's easier than ever to do that now on the internet, but see if you can find them in real-life too.

I know it's hard. I struggle with it too. But you have a huge advantage in that you're still at a formative stage when you actually have a very good chance of changing both your behavior and your outlook on life. It gets much, much, much harder to do that when you get older and you've lived with the same ossified, fossilized bad habits for decades, and you've been shut in in your own room for 20 years or something. Then the inertia becomes terribly hard to break. You hardly have any of that inertia because of how young you are. You can change for the better.

Just, really, try to find good people. Connect. Be open, friendly, helpful. Good things will most likely come of this with time.