skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As society changes, what it means to be maladapted to that society also changes.

It's amazing how many people will agree with that statement (because... duh) and then freak out when someone points out it's impossible to talk about the DSM without talking about dominant beliefs regarding "what society should be like". I.e., without talking about politics and labor economics.

There are many topics covered by the DSM that are maladaptations to this society but a) would not have been maladaptations in previous soecieties, and b) might not be maladaptations in future societies.

Is it even possible to talk about something like whether some particular aspect of human sexuality is a disorder using only "real science", and on a related note, what does "real science" mean here? E.g., there have certainly existed human societies with no strong taboo around human nakedness, and in those societies Exhibitionistic Disorder wouldn't even make any sense to talk about.

Similarly, it'd hard to imagine ADD being anything other than a perfectly normal non-maladaptive variation in personality prior to industrialization.

As a practicing scientist, I'm honestly not sure how "real science" is supposed to given an answer a question like 'is being transexual maladaptive?" It's just not a scientific question. There are lots of related scientific questions about human biology. But ultimately, it's a question about how those biological facts interact with social constructions.

Can you tell me, concretely, what you mean by "real science" here?
One of the things that blew my mind was that in the USB-C spec, you can't have a male to female cord, but I was only able to find two hubs on amazon with a detatchable cable.

Why you ask?

I have a mac and a PC on my desk, and i plug my kb,mouse, and headset (usb sound card) into the hub) and just swap one cable instead of three to game. If you have a better solution that has hub/kvm -> usb-c for the mac, i'm all ears.
We need a time synced network based audio protocol that is standard and cheaply implemented. 192.168.1.2, yeah you play rear left channel in the theater. 192.168.1.3 you're the kitchen.
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40% of the electricity globally is generated by coal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Ele...

80% is fossil fuels.

I’d be more worried about their daily electricity usage than one or two flights a year.
Generally these diagnoses require the symptoms to persist for 6 months plus be so severe they disrupt your life.

And they are basically defined by clustering of symptoms. This is driven by welfare/insurance reasons. You need a diagnosis to get benefits.

And while they often can't treat the underlying problem for schizophrenia and other diseases, they can definitely treat the symptoms. So if you have some of the same symptoms by some other unique variant of the disease, the treatment may still by useful.
The fact is psychiatry today still lacks tests or any proof of its claims of "chemical imbalance", which remains unproven. No one had established a profile for what a "balanced brain chemistry"looks like, nor do they test for any brain chemistry imbalance.

Diagnosis is still left to the subjective assessment of the practitioner before prescribing powerful psychotropics that DO change brain chemistry in unpredictable ways, and cause a host of side effects often worse than the original symptoms.

So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate.
Framing the DSM-5's redefinition of gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria as academics "not having a spine" and not "real science" is a disgustingly transphobic opinion, whether you intend it to be or not.

This isn't an empirical science. We shouldn't keep shitty and harmful labels on people who are deeply struggling with their identity.
There are other storefronts than Amazon.
OpenBenches
It's essential on some embedded boards as a first step because a well crafted initramfs can fit in a few MB of flash, and it's sometimes the case that the onboard bootloader can read the flash but has no other capabilites (well, aside from usually tftp).

So you read the kernel and initramfs from there, then load the real root FS from whatever storage you need to.
For everyone concerned about the damage this crap is doing to the environment and humans should watch "The Devil We Know"[1]. This film covers a time frame, starting in the 50's up to the current day.

[1] https://youtu.be/gwZSXdjAqSk
I assumed it meant they were faking the symptoms to test if they got admitted.
How hard it would be to Port.
The goal isn't education in how to make games or use a particular library. The goal is education in coding, and games are just the hook to maintain interest. Pygame Zero hides the bits we don't care about so they don't distract from the bits we do. Middleschool students might cope with full Pygame, but when you're teaching 8-year-olds who can't type quickly, getting a sprite on the screen without any boilerplate is an advantage in maintaining their attention.

Another advantage of Pygame Zero is that the author was involved in the creation of Mu, and so Mu comes with Pygame Zero pre-installed. Having to install Pygame via pip would be a challenge for many kids.

Anyway, Pygame Zero includes all of Pygame so you're free to introduce as much of it as you like.
The only think I find more terrifying than a mental illness misdiagnosis, is a misdiagnosis with forced incarceration.

Assuming Rosenhan's study was fictional, what was his intent? Was it a lie intentionally designed to discredit, destroy, or reform these institutions?
Creating .bank.uk is not impossible. Nor is cleaning up .co.uk -- it would be painful, of course, but sometimes you have to rip off the band-aid.
Everything we know about the iPhone 12 lineup so far
http://www.simulatechnology.com/Product/Detail/uid/5de9347e-... exists, at least to some extent. It uses the aforementioned chip.
Three days after I put on the winter tires back in late November, we got a slow puncture warning from the car.

When changing the tires we found a fairly sizable screw that had poked it way through. We were about to drive to our mountain cabin, a trip which includes several hours on the highway and ending up in a remote place, so was rather pleased with the warning.

Bummer about the tires though, were about to start their second season, but being studless they were worn enough that just changing the one would be an issue.
Prioritizing staying out of prison over civil judgements you can extinguish in bankruptcy. Prudent strategy considering constrained resources.

Disclaimer, personal opinion: Holmes should receive life for her actions in contributing to knowingly providing inaccurate test results people relied on for medical decisions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/05/theran...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/health/2017/0...
Bold move. Hope she spent the past year or so brushing up on legal knowledge
Of course it’s not to Tricorder standards yet, but Apple does all fancy AI work directly on the phone/computer.

It also has downsides; for example, every new device synced to a photo library has to process the whole library from scratch (to identify photo content for searching).
There's an actual, interesting question here, away from the Culture War fighting, which we can have if we want it: How much of any academic field is due to the culture that field is immersed in, and how much is due to empirical evidence and people attempting to be unbiased?

For example, there's the existence of Jesus Christ: Modern historians agree that there was a man named Joshua-son-of-Joseph who was a heretical rabbi in the First Century Middle East who got crucified by the local authorities. Why? Is it because the evidence for him is just that good, or is it because most scholars in Christian countries were Christian and, therefore, unapt to question their surrounding culture?

With Jesus, it's because of the evidence, as it happens, but the question is there, and hooting it down does a disservice to larger questions all fields have to confront as they mature.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware. Thanks!
Sorry for the previous terse reply.

Longer answer:

SQLite files do not guarantee ACID compliance. You can write code tomorrow that produces SQLite files, and so long as you follow the specification (https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html) it will be readable by any other code that implements the specification (e.g. https://sqljet.com/)

An RDBMS is not a database, nor is it SQL, nor is it data. It is a kind of DBMS software that manages relational databases, and access to the data (such as users and user rights). Most modern RDBMSs run as servers and offer network connectivity, connection pooling, advanced buffering options, various memory usage schemes. Many have their own memory allocation and file handling routines that are separate from the OS. Some offer clustering, partitioning and so on. SQLite does not offer any of these things. If you were to write a comprehensive list of things that Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite offer, SQLite would offer almost none of the features that the rest do.

A relational database uses the relational model to store data. SQL is the most common language for describing what you want to put into or retrieve from the relational database, but it is not required.

There are many kinds of databases. Some of them store data in memory, in a file, in multiple files, and so on. Some of them follow various models, some of them are unique. If you have the file format for a database that stores its data in files, you can read/write to the file freely without any management system and without ACID compliance. SQLite files are examples of a kind of database file that stores data using a relational model. So are MDB files that Microsoft Access uses.

By conflating a file format with an RDBMS, it's like conflating a fork for a restaurant, or a chair for a house.

ACID compliance is not something guaranteed by the file format. SQLite files do not guarantee ACID compliance. If you write some code tomorrow that can read/write SQLite files based on the spec, you haven't created and ACID compliant SQLite file, nor is your code ACID compliant.

The SQLite library implements the properties that make SQLite ACID compliant. It does so by various clever means like a journal file format, and a write-ahead-log file format and various other well thought out approaches. If you were to write your own code that implemented the SQLite file spec, and you wished your code to also offer ACID compliance, you would have to implement those things yourself -- and you are under no obligation to use the SQLite journal and WAL file formats nor the internal logic that the SQLite library uses. You can do it entirely your own way!
This seems overly pessimistic to me, there are drugs that significantly improve patients wellbeing and do so consistently and repeatably, despite the fact that we don't have a complete understanding of the complete mechanism of action.

If I do a study showing that handwashing in surgeons measurably reduces risk of infection, does the fact that I don't know about microbes make lacking in scientific rigor and remove its scientific basis?
"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client"
> planned-obsolescence business model

Are you kidding? Why would you stick with TriCorder v17.3 when the new sensor suite in TriCorder v18 can deter hypercalcemia with twice the accuracy!?
For those missing context, "Gender Identity Disorder" in the DSM-IV, which described transgender identity itself as a mental illness, was replaced with "Gender Dysphoria" in the DSM-V, which was scoped specifically to the depression/pain of feeling socially in the wrong gender role, as well as the feeling of one's body being wrong.

The DSM does cite academic sources IIRC, but they're listed as a while for the book, rather than being referenced by specific sections or criteria, which is a common critique of the DSM in general. Additionally, Ray Blanchard, an academic who believes transgenderism is caused by "autogynephilia"/"autoandrophilia" (i.e. a sexual fetish caused by attraction to oneself as the desired gender), was a member of the committee who decided the DSM-V definition.

So no, OP, academics who didn't support trans politics weren't scared off by the community.. Ray Blanchard played a big role. As for the "minimum of real science," there's a lot of sociological and psychological work that goes into the DSM. Some of the pressure was certainly political/social, like the removal of homosexuality was decades ago, but there are sources listed in the back of the book, even if it takes some digging.

Disclaimer: am trans, am really done with justifying my existence but I felt I should share what I know.
She should be able to squeeze enough money out of the other high profile poeople in Theranos for her legal fees so not to spill stuff about them.
Did they steal the image captain? Seems a bit dated...

> Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford in 2003 as a 19-year-old to start Theranos, a company now poised to disrupt the medical diagnostic test market. She spoke about the company’s vision at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday afternoon July 3, 2014. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Wow, who could have predicted that Holmes wouldn't pay her bills?
That‘s not generally true.

Apple‘s newer model multiport adapter does 4k60 and USB 3 on devices supporting DisplayPort 1.3 (which is required to fit 4k60 into two instead of four lanes).
For clarity, precision, and a bit of pedantry, the IEC 61966–2‑1:1999 Standard does not specify an OETF but only an EOTF, so the OETF in the linked article is actually an Inverse EOTF.

Some more information here: https://www.colour-science.org/posts/srgb-eotf-pure-gamma-22...
I appreciate your clarifications. Until now, I was aware of [0], but not [1] and [2]. Your implementation seems be much more popular than both the new alternative and a reference implementation. The (general and scientific) workflow engines universe is very large - it likely contains, at least, dozens of production-level implementations. Such diversity is both a blessing and a curse, though ...
It needn't even be chemical; any sort of differential test that proves a deviation from baseline measure and treatment that helps mediate a return to that profile would at least be good science and may good medicine.

Maybe someday we'll have wide access to inexpensive monitoring techniques that could fill this need.
I'm glad they wrote about this, but it's certainly not breaking news or anything. Back in 2016, EPA released a report [1] that was years in the making, which covered the history, science, and effects of hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. The executive summary [2] says that produced water can contain "naturally-occurring organic compounds, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes (BTEX); and oil and grease; radioactive materials, including radium; and hydraulic fracturing chemicals and their chemical transformation products." It also discusses spills from evaporation ponds (e.g., a 2.9 million gallon spill in North Dakota in 2015 that flowed into Blacktail Creek), as well as exacerbation of local droughts due to groundwater withdrawal for fracking.

Unfortunately, as happens these days, when the draft report was released in 2015, conservative news outlets [3][4][5][6][7] grabbed hold of a single statement in the executive summary reflecting the usual statements of uncertainty in any scientific report, and they used that to imply there was no evidence of any consequences of hydrofracking on the environment or human health. The draft report's statement that they took hold of was: "We did not find evidence that these mechanisms have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States". However, the very next paragraph explains "This finding could reflect a rarity of effects on drinking water resources, but may also be due to other limiting factors. These factors include: insufficient pre- and post-fracturing data on the quality of drinking water resources; the paucity of long-term systematic studies; the presence of other sources of contamination precluding a definitive link between hydraulic fracturing activities and an impact; and the inaccessibility of some information on hydraulic fracturing activities and potential impacts."

Even in 2016, when the final report was released, a WSJ article [8] insisted EPA had "political scientists" who rewrote the report to cast doubt on the safety of hydraulic fracturing. (The rewritten statement was: "However, significant data gaps and uncertainties in the available data prevented us from calculating or estimating the national frequency of impacts on drinking water resources from activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle. The data gaps and uncertainties described in this report also precluded a full characterization of the severity of impacts.").

[1] https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hfstudy/recordisplay.cfm?deid=332...

[2] http://ofmpub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=53...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fracking-has-had-no-widespread-...

[4] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/report-epa-finds-...

[5] https://www.txoga.org/eid-long-awaited-epa-study-finds-frack...

[6] https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/201...

[7] https://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/04/epa-fracking-no-wide...

[8] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-epas-science-deniers-148209...
ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 failure: What and why it's happening, and how to fix it
People underestimate the resilience of laptops.

I've got one that's been going for 5+ years now...a good chunk of that under partial load 24/7 (BOINC).

Come to think of it it's rather quiet for 5 y/o fans...
The article mentions ride comfort which is well and good, but what about efficiency? I don't see mention of rolling resistance / efficiency, which I understand to be a problem with existing puncture-proof/run-flat tire systems.
I remember reading an argument about Bernie Madoff: he'll spend the rest of his life in jail, but nobody can take away the 20 years when he was king of the world.

Holmes got half that. I wonder if they were worth it, or if she spent them dreading being found out.
I fully expect that with her superior intellect that she'll deliver value to her defense the same way she delivered value to her investors and customers.
I give it a couple of months before it is rewritten in Rust, just like bat and ripgrep.
While I don't disagree with most of your points, NuShell's recent popularity seems to suggest that there is a demand for shells that operate on structured data – even in the Unix world. I dislike much of PowerShell's UX (syntax, tooling, etc.) but I love that aspect of it.

I see from the blog post that you've decided that Oil will operate on strings instead – I'm really looking forward to the blog posts explaining that, I'm sure it's not a decision you took lightly.
Interestingly, the article makes no mention of the followup experiment where it seems a hospital invited a repetition and then claimed to have found 40 or so fake patients during the agreed period. Only to be told that the experimenters had sent none.

Or at least that's the version told in Adam Curtis' documentary The Trap (part 1)[1] which engages in Curtis's usual enthusiasm for fashioning a sweeping historical narrative out of somewhat sparse materials - in this case presenting the "Thud" experiment and its followup as a pivot point in the tale of how R. D. Laing's anti-psychiatry ironically led to the advent of the DSM IV era.

However that may be, if Curtis' account of the followup is correct it seems harder to argue the diagnostic prowess of the psychiatrists was not open to question, regardless of the status of the original experiment.

1: In the section beginning here: https://youtu.be/y97Ywl7RtUw?t=2204
I don't really have a position either way on whether what PG says is true, but it's wrong to say that PG is amazing at "existence and dynamics of wealth creation". He's amazing at "wealth creation", that does not make him an expert on the effects of that wealth creation on society, or the work done in society as a prerequisite for that wealth creation. If I am a programmer, it does not make me an expert on the dynamics of the open source software community, nor does it even make me an expert on the theoretical underpinnings of the type system I'm using.

We don't need PG to point out the existence of wealth creation, nor do we need him to tell us about the dynamics of it, when we have multiple sciences with their own experts (economics, economic sociology, world political economy). It's also a dubious assumption to say that economic inequality only relates to wealth creation. Even if that was the only relation, writing about economic inequality and the actual fact of wealth creation are still not identical, they are only related.

PG is more qualified than most to talk about this, but he's certainly not the most qualified, and the study of the matters of inequality are tangential to his work at best.
This thread makes it pretty clear to me that managed DB services from the cloud providers are a Very Good Idea on their part.
Are you suggesting she's blackmailing the others involved in the company? Is there any proof of this?
Gambler's Ruin: How easy (or not) is it to double your money in a casino?
>> there are drugs that significantly improve patients wellbeing and do so consistently and repeatably,

No, there are not. A given drug may work consistently for some people, while having no effect, or detrimental effects on other people with the same diagnosis.
Nope, ICANN's policies don't determine that.
Yeah, Eric Ding is being dragged by epidemiology Twitter for good reason.

As for Nate Silver, I'd suggest there are some very different circumstances there than academic and policy forecasting.
Sticking /boot on a normal old SCSI disk and then putting everything else on a SATA SSD would be compelling.
That sounds slightly excessive if flying long-haul is about on par with solo car travel per passenger per km.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

Agreed with rest of points, it's a shame flying is so much cheaper. In the end it doesn't matter whether something is available if it's too expensive for mainstream use.
> "Still, with full-size spares having gone the way of the dodo"

This bugs me. It's probably fine in most situations, but I drove across Canada last year and I felt obliged to have a full-sized spare in the back seat the entire way, taking up space. I didn't feel like I could trust one of those "donut" spares on long sparsely traveled roads like that.
Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
Spot on take. Having a completely self-contained smart device has advantages in narrow cases, like portability. Otherwise, if you're doing home audio, there's no good reason to have in all in one box. Make the system modular and thus flexibily upgradable.
It also implies the decline of psychoanalysis was a bad thing, when it's basically pseudoscience.
And while they often can't treat the underlying problem
for schizophrenia and other diseases, they can
definitely treat the symptoms.

Yes. Let's not throw the baby out along with the bath water!

Psychiatry is far, far from perfect. It is a discipline that is still taking its tiniest of baby steps into the realm of actual usefulness.

I think any psychiatrist would be willing to openly admit this; that the mind is still largely a mystery to us and we have probably centuries of learning to do, due to the extreme difficulty of studying a living mind, much less performing repeatable experiments upon them.

And yet criticism of psychiatry so often misses the point! The medicines are sometimes hugely beneficial. Sometimes not. But I know lives that have been transformed for the better thanks to them.