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I'm all for free software bjt it doesn't necessarily help so much against surveillance.

I.e. if Facebook was completely open source it still wouldn't prevent governments from demanding access to all data stored there.

Afaik the only thing that really helps if you want to keep communicating over the internet and can't trust anyone is E2EE (End To End Encryption)[0] (and more opsec than almost anyone is prepared to deliver[1].)

[0]: VPN, Signal or possibly Tor (I haven't studied that option too closely) seems like the most approachable solutions options.

[1]: For example WhatsApp seems like a nice option since it uses E2EE but on closer inspection one realizes that it uploads all data to Google Cloud, obfuscate but not encrypted.
Exactly. In fact, for some domains, supporting IE11 can mean losing money. There is the technical cost, but also the support cost which tends to be higher.
Removed all non essential apps from my phone helped. Non essential is subjective of course, but for me meant social media (I now only use 1 platform but on my laptop), YouTube was a massive time waster for me, Reddit. Another comment said take calls away from a screen by walking around and using a headset, that's a good one too.
Those ie11 users may be able to just fire up chrome etc when they need to. That is my recent experience at least

We build an IE compatible marketing and sign up flow, so I may only be seeing the motivated users' behavior
You're right, of course, and the search engine full text is a good point. I'm not sure how many sites still give you a break if you come from Google, though -- I remember a fair number used to, but it seems the industry has gotten a lot less generous in that regard.
Yeah I agree, depression is a bigger deal than those things. But there's also heart disease, obesity, etc that are along the same tier of health issues with massive impact. But the #1 biggest issue imo is the length of commutes. We would all be so much more productive if we would all move to perma-WFH.
On very small scale the force would be very very high as the denominator, d^2, goes to zero.
What limits the denominator going to zero? Could a close distance really be what leads to the strong or weak force?
This workflow doesn’t seem weird or unorthodox to me, it just seems like a solo contributor workflow. There aren’t as many reasons to use branches when you aren’t working with other people in those branches. It seems fine to skip some of the overhead when you’re by yourself. The implicit suggestion that everyone else is always using branches does seem a bit strange, if that’s the implication. I use branches when I need them, but I don’t always use them, and usually on small teams we adopt a policy of checking self-contained single-commit features into master, and using branches for multi-person, multi-commit, and multi-day features.

No time spent creating new branches for new features.
No time spent switching between branches to address feedback.
All of my features are guaranteed to be mutually applicable to master, saving me time addressing conflicts.
Any conflicts with upstream are addressed in all of my workstreams at once, without switching between branches or allowing any branch to get stale.

To be honest all 4 of these are unconvincing. Creating branches and switching branches is a non-problem, these operations are faster than committing.

To the third and fourths points - that all “streams” resolve at the same time, that’s an okay point, but isn’t normally a problem in practice with branches. If you’re working on multiple branches than conflict with an incoming commit, it means you’ve touched the same code in multiple branches, and also someone else has too. It tends to indicate bad planning or bad communication or both. And it just doesn’t happen very often.

Here are a few reasons to use branching anyway when you’re alone:

- To do an experiment multiple ways on the same code.

- To avoid use of git stash. Branching is safer and adds no extra difficulty. Stash doesn’t have as good of a safety net (it’s in the manual).

- To write & test your feature without your other in-progress features getting in the way.
I think she means "the less treatment-resistant the participants are, the longer the treatment remains effective" (not that the session drags on longer).

The results of this study are pretty exciting, but the idea of using various forms of TMS to treat depression has been kicking around for a while, and several groups have been trying to optimize the stimulation in different ways.

Here's a decent review of its effectiveness
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582998/

and here's another group that's trying something similar:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5344760/
I didn’t mean to suggest that people should invest time to remove bootstrap. Only that Bootstrap offers far less now than it did in the past, and shouldn’t be considered the default option when starting any new project.

Among the downsides is its size, obviously. I also consider the html it encourages among the ugliest things since the invention of PHP. This is from the documentation:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-dark">

Classes such as “col-sm” are little better than style=“...”. While accessibility seems to have improved over the last years, my intuition is this happened in spite of the idea of semantically meaningful HTML being abandoned and not because of it. I used to worry about this, but had to abandon that particular fight for the sake of my mental health at about the time someone decided to name one of these frameworks “semantical”.

But with CSS Grids and Flexbox, layout has become just as easy and actually more flexible than using Bootstrap. Why would you add code and become pigeonholed into one framework when you could archive the same using vanilla CSS?
Your search feature is super fast!! What are you using?
While zoom has faced many privacy concerns in the last few weeks, it is incredible how reliable the service has been given the massive spike in demand.

Most services would have buckled (examples abound like robinhoods recent outage) and part of their stack would have not been able to handle the load.

On top of that they are in new customer segments that I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few elementary school teachers who are now hosting zoom classes with 15+ 5 year olds on a call.
um, where does 90% come from?

Only about HALF of patients who undergo this treatment improve, and only about a THIRD experience remission from depression.

and then

One month after the therapy, 60% of participants were still in remission from depression

this isn't a magic wand but one tool in a toolbox
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I mean, the name's pretty good, I think, so you should at least read the name.

But I realized that a lot of things that I take as common sense in the realm of programming and entrepreneurship are actually hard-won knowledge that I've gained from being immersed in those subjects for a a couple decades. I started the blog last year focused mainly on the entrepreneurship side, specifically focused on trial-to-paid conversion, thinking I'd just write about that niche, but I've since broadened my subjects, since I know and care about a lot more than that, and I didn't want to limit myself.
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yeah like i want the only thing that has stayed with me my whole life to leave.
I think the hypothetical was posed to highlight the utility of these fields of study, despite their issues with reproducibility and stats.
This is very cool! I wonder where else this can be applied...
The point of ECT is to cause a seizure. The point of TMS is to achieve the same effect without causing a seizure, though there is some risk of that.
> I'm fortunate enough to be in the B2B where our customers are generally less tech inclined
RTFOA. They didn't.

They used an internal ActiveDirectory domain of "Corp" as an example. An AD domain is not the same as a domain name.

....until it comes time for the Windows name service to try to idiotproof the user, and say "well, this doesn't resolve to an AD server here, maybe they meant it as a domain name, let me try appending .com and attempt a DNS query"

It's a case of the right hand not knowing the left hand's usability tweak would turn into a security issue.

Unquestionably Microsoft's fault, but it wasn't as simple as you make it out to be.
gco -b new_feature_branch for me.
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It is a bad analogy. We do not know even if dark matter exists as it is one of many possible explanations of a particular phenomenon. So the depression is like a galaxy rotation speed anomaly.
> the more severe [a problem] is, the more likely it is to respond to [some shock]

I think there's a generalizable pattern - regression to the mean.

In psychiatry, ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) seems to be very effective in some severe cases: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsiv...

I'm hopeful that the Stanford technique becomes yet another tool we have to address some of the hardest-to-treat problems.
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Some are small.

Having said that some are pretty well known large companies, but the business units that sort of operate on their own if only due to their archaic nature. The company has a policy, it just doesn't always apply to them.

Logistics is a weird industry ;)
New here: I am a startup business coach at an European, no strings attached, accelerator. This makes my advise less tech oriented.

Unless your stack is very deep or highly specialised I would say the following: I don't have a specific book in mind but with code slowly becoming a commodity I would advise content that intersects tech with business or UX. Anything not IP or otherwise USP to your company can be built by reusing other's work.

Also learning the mindset to leverage repo's and API's to the max so effective productivity is realised is super important.
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Ah, it appears that is only done for ARM, but not x86. It would be great if x86 were more amenable to FM, or if we had faster formally-specified processors. Can't wait for a RISC-V workstation!
I much prefer separate local branches and rebase against master to start the daily workflow. If you are regularly keeping your feature branch on the up to date with master head there is little conflict day to day. When there is a conflict it's because you have to make a decision between two features or collaborator updates and your feature. As long as you haven't pushed your local branch you can rebase it all you want.

Way way more organized to use branches.
This is good. My main annoyance with Docker in the past was that I would make a decent Compose file for local dev but then have to rewrite everything in a proprietary YAML format for use in CI and prod.
To be fair the excretion analysis may be useful for determining health problems before they become more pronounced: urine analysis for diabetics, women seeking pregnancy tests, any other nephrotic issues; and fecal analysis for cancers, parasitic and viral tests. Then you would need to pair that data to the subject. While there's probably better and less-gross ways of doing this, I like the spirit behind it (pun intended).
Did it help with your depression ? Can you give more details into your issue ? Thx.
Interesting thanks :)
But you’ll also have to rebuild. If your build system is bad, that could be slow. If your build system is really bad, you might need a clean build.

All build systems (that people actually use) are really bad.
I only ordered from the once but IIRC they don't tell you what shipping costs until AFTER you place your order. That seemed a bit crazy to me
> Docker is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in the open source community

Google?
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thank you! Next release will feature similar acceleration of group-by and time sampling queries.
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Definitely need RCTs with good blinding.

Placebo effects can play merry hell with depression, and even moreso when the patient is treated with fancy technology that has a noticeable side-effect.
People must not want to hear the truth, hence your downvotes. Most forms of depression can be cured with self-care.

"In health care, self-care is any necessary human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated."
I suspect they're going to see if they can wait this out and survive. If people start coming back to metro areas in two or three months, Lime can probably return -- I don't know what their runway is, but I presume their operating costs basically become entirely storage rental.)
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> How do papers like this get published? This is a conference paper at best.

The why is obvious: It's #1 on Hacker News right now, and spreading like a wildfire across my social media. People love to hear about promising new depression treatments, because we all know someone who suffers from depression.

Strangely, most rTMS papers follow similar patterns: No control groups, small sample sizes, questionable methodology.

The methodological issues would have been trivially easy to correct from the start, so I assume the omission of control groups is intentional. I think it's geared toward generating publicity and drumming up grant money. The core rTMS technique seems to do something for depression, so it would be great if someone could translate that into a practical, sustainable treatment.
No blinding on a study of a psychological condition just seems doubly bad
When English phrases are interspersed in vertical Japanese text (for example within magazine articles) they're often rotated.
that's kind of what the mbone was, a tunnel overlay. it just look a lot of fussing around for too many years.

the only reason that a tunnel is privileged is that it creates a kernel interface. given that we can't really use tcp anyways, there isn't any reason why the whole stack can't live in user space on a generic UDP port.

you would have to have pim or torrent style discovery/rendezvous machinery

aside from efficiency, I wonder what the use case is?
> there is no purely objective stance on topics

This is an objectively wrong statement. The existence of Mathematics is a negation of this statement in its entirety. Observations are purely objective. Measurements are purely objective.

> Are their answers incompetent?

Do you consider purposely substituting biased views in place of objective observation a form of incompetence? I don't. I consider it a form of intellectual dishonesty. That is far worse.
I don't think this would work, the size of the network would likely dominate the size of the compressed image.
This is my experience as well. My wife and I have a franchise location of a well established multi-national business...If we personally fail they would swoop in and run the location.

But the landlord still had us personally guarantee...There were several empty locations in the plaza so it's not like we were competing w/ others for space. We had some leverage.

Commercial landlords will get their money back, and have the lawyers to do so.
The site that had recent layoffs is The Outline, not this one. I got them mixed up myself at first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769301
I think that is grossly unfair, and honestly a really condescending thing to say about a legitimate area of research.

It is a messy area of work. Brains work differently between people, they work differently over time, among different groups of people, and they can rarely (outside of functional MRIs where you have structural factors) have anything but self reported outcomes. You have the privilege of saying that because people post their research and their numbers, which is all you can ask from any field of science.
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I was 100% sure it is weed.
I make sure my website is still 100% functional in IE11: Using only .jpg and .png (I don’t use .gif on my website) for images; not using too much Javascript; using .woff instead of .woff2 webfonts; text-shadow instead of text-stroke to give one font an outline look; etc.

If I was building a node website which depended on a bunch of packages from developers who may or may not care about IE11, this would not be possible. But since I’ve done the entire design by hand with HTML and CSS for over a decade, I can keep it IE11 compatible without issue. Also, everything works if Javascript is turned off, and there are reasonable (if not great) fallback fonts for users who disable webfonts.
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As someone who is in therapy for quite some time and read quite a lot about psychology, I can please take any claims of "evidence"-based short-term therapy approach with gain of salt. Particularly, if it's a very short term manualized approach of therapy eg, CBT style therapy.

Lots of research in CBT is plagued with abuse of statistics, manipulation of randomized controlled trials, sensalization, and over-hype. For the vast majority of time CBT is good for symptomp reduction and patients relapse frequently. Frankly, the depressed people I know in real life, I don't know how many of them would be benefitted by CBT style therapy.

My own experience is it took me almost a year of therapy, reading psychology and philosophy, lots of self-relfection and going to dark places in my mind to see marked improvement in my depression. If you are suffering from depression, please give psychotherapy a try. It'd be hard, but it's worth it!
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Sounds like mesmerism!
I'm no expert, but apparently it has a lot of negative side effects. Most people have to be heavily sedated, and just being immobile for a week or a month takes a toll. There are problems with being intubated for this length of time: stenosis (muscle seizure of the throat?), infections, etc. If they get the vent settings wrong, pressure or volume can be too high, leading to lung damage over time. Etc.

The exact figures are unclear, but it appears that most people going on vents during this crisis are dying. Even read a report this morning that NYC might need fewer vents than expected, simply because they can be so rapidly reused (due to deaths of users).

Again, no expert, but the alternatives seem to be oxygen using means that make it more available (can't recall the acronym--HFNC?), and non-invasive ventilation (which doesn't involve intubation).

One story made it sound like doctors are preferring vents as much to keep the medical staff safe as for the health of the patient. The alternatives to vents risk spreading virus, whereas intubation apparently does not as much. Grim choice.
> forth interpreters..have terrible interaction with branch prediction - they will never perform well on modern CPUs.

Interesting statement. It led me to this paper:

Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters - Don’t Trust Folklore (2015)

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document (pdf)

"..Many studies go back to when branch predictors were not very aggressive. Folklore has retained that a highly mispredicted indirect jump is one of the main reasons for the inefficiency of switch-based interpreters."

"The accuracy of branch prediction on interpreters has been dramatically improved over the three last Intel processor generations. This..has reached a level where it cannot be considered as an obstacle for performance anymore."
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The weird thing is that people always seem to blame academia for the disconnect.

If an industry wants its employees to receive a specific kind of training, it should pay for it.
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This is great news. Docker really screwed up v2->v3 and have continually suppressed Compose’s potential because it wasn’t inline with swarm. Looking forward to Compose getting some new life put into it.
I totally see the value of analysis, butt it is a clear sign of how our society is clearly focused on too many shallow and superfluous endeavours... Just like how our economy is threatened by people only buying what they really need..
You are aware of the typo in the URL, right? Otherwise, interesting stuff!
I wish there was a curated set of color palettes. I'm really bad at colors, but occasionally enjoy drawing/designing things. But colors always confuse since I have no idea which ones to pick, there are infinitely many of them!
I'm not a scientist, but I'm curious if any of you know: why do these important studies use such small N? I think its pretty obvious that a small N is not statistically significant, yet for this study, or the myriad of COVID-19 studies, the N is usually < 20.

It's just so frustrating that professional scientists just completely ignore this statistical fact. Why not use use N >= 100 or not at all. It just confuses things in my opinion.
Probably not right that second, but I expect within months they'll be ready again. People really enjoy international travel.
Can they sustain this with so many non-paying users
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This guy is brilliant!

Excerpt:

16:08

"And locks don't compose... I can't take two arbitrary pieces of code that each do locking, and then combine them together without knowing the implementation details.

Which means that the entire notion of reuse in OO is broken."

Never thought about that before, but it makes a lot of sense...

Now, in thinking about it, I'd change that sentence, slightly, to "the whole notion of reuse in OO is broken in objects which depend on databases and specific locking strategies or objects which depend on other objects that do", but the idea is still a very valid one...

To-do: Rewatch this video in the future...
"TypeScript adds a great deal of complexity both in tooling and dependencies, and I do not think that it is worth it."

The subjective parts of that statement are the author's opinion and fine enough, but I am confused by the "dependencies" part. TypeScript is a single self-contained dependency. Especially in the context of the larger web ecosystem where to do almost anything else you do need a million dependencies, I find this remark pretty confusing.
Same experience here. I had a VM up and running in about 30 minutes. (Having said that, I never got test meetings to work reliably. My clients, both on the LAN and on the Internet, would repeatedly "disconnect" and "reconnect" every few seconds. I didn't spend too much time on it because the company ended up making a "let's standardize on WebEx" decision the next day.)
We're mostly a voice application so with WebRTC being a requirement to our application we've completely dropped support for IE11 and Edge (pre chromium)

We've had to maintain support for Safari which has been very problematic since they initially released WebRTC support but not exactly bug free. That said it's a joy to develop for the web now without worrying about IE
Well, this is a mistake.

Nobody likes to support IE11 but dropping support moves Bootstrap 5 from "just use Bootstrap" to "Bootstrap has tricky pitfalls". Before someone can use Bootstrap 5 they need to be sure and confident that they don't need IE11 and never will.
Can Jitsi be used as a streaming server?

A small number of people in a call, 3-5, streaming to thousands. Live podcasts etc?
Sounds like me using RCS in the 1980's.
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