skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if they fail will they do so before they wipe out independent therapists

I suspect that this would be at least somewhat balanced by therapists who work for said online therapy providers suddenly needing to work directly with clients again... but I could see that leading to less therapists per capita in areas of high cost of living, like major cities.

But I hadn't really thought about the potential human harm that could be caused by their failure, which is scary to think about.

Kind of like non-profits in 3rd world countries who warp the local economy by providing some things for free, destroying the market for those, and then pulling out of the country after businesses previously filling that role have closed.
I think the problem is in the stakes. Consider the USSR - it had pretty fucked up science scene around 1930s-1960s: a lot of areas had been politicized and guided by the Party Line instead of reality. For example Genetics had been considered anti-Marxist for whatever reason and Genetic research had been forbidden (other than research to expose Genetic as a pseudo-science). But the science needed to make weapons had been pretty good. Nobody wanted to make a theory of Marxist-Leninist Physics and spend the rest of life in prison for screwing up rocket or nuke development.

Then the late 60s came around and the Party found they don't grow nearly as much food as the Rotting West. The Marxist-Leninist Biology missed the Green Revolution for inexplicable reason. Even though not as important as weapons it was a big deal - the state could have been spending much less resources on growing food and buying food from abroad and use them to make ICBMs or something else speeding up the Global Revolution's approach! So Marxist-Leninist Biology got a book thrown at it. And, not being dumb, the Party restrained the politics in many other areas, just to be safe. So by 70s-80s science in the USSR had been much less politicized than now in the US in my opinion.

I hope the current crisis will be a wake up call to the US. Hopefully people realize that playing politics around medical research is not just giving you cushy jobs and government grants - it can also fuck up the whole economy and if people cannot stop doing it by themselves then somebody have to throw a book or a whole library at them. And, maybe, just like the CPSU, they might do it in other areas, just to be safe.
Facebook took down a Trump post for the first time
Paranoid Exif Scrubber
A friend of mine created an app to scrub exif data from photos without saving them. Figured it might come in handy for the more privacy-conscious folks out there.
"Planet Labs ... photographs the whole globe once per day..."

This is not an accurate representation of Planet Labs capabilities. I can attest to this as a Farmer's Edge customer.

In the theoretical world where every inch of the earth was photographed every day things like losing MH-17 likely wouldn't have happened.

ETA: Planet claims "entire landmass" every day but I find that claim extremely suspect, but it does not even claim the entire globe.
I'd love to see a black banner / bar in her honor.
I'm sure your bosses love you.

Boss: Where's the config file?

You: In the project root.

Boss: Where's the include with the methods for this part?

You: Loose in the project root.

Boss: Where's the viewer?

You: Right next to the other file in the project root.

Boss: @#!$%^&
Its definitely not solely a marketing speak problem. There are only two of us at my startup and we've had at least 10 revisions just to get the above the fold text in place. The below the fold we are still working on and will have a new revision soon.

Yet even now if you told me what we do is not clear I would not be very surprised. I mean sure it seems clear to me but how could it not since I already use the product myself?
namespaces was the thing i was looking for without knowing what it was. it was a very happy day in my world when i was introduced to them.
That very article: "Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, and Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, are both Indian immigrants who come from the higher Brahmin caste"
Maybe via user agent headers.
> Neither of my kids have any interest in programming or computer science or engineering at all.

The rebellious son who does not want to become a doctor or lawyer like his father has been a stock character for decades.

We may end up seeing "engineer" added to this list based on how often "why don't my kids want to program" comes up on sites like this.

This isn't a commentary on your parenting, just a general observation.
First female IBM fellow.

First female winner of the Turing Award.

Lots of other notable stuff.

Sadly, this is the first I've heard of her. Hopefully all that means is I'm not a real programmer.

Edit: To be clear, I really meant "I hope other people here are familiar with her work, even though I am not because I'm not a real programmer." I'm happy to see that some people are, in fact, familiar with her and her work.
The value of content tagging (e.g., PhysML) and keyword tagging (e.g., ScienceWise) is apparent in aggregate, like for searching. That benefit is to consumers while the burden is currently on the content creators.

I don't know of any incentives within academia or grant processes that would motivate content authors to tag their content. With the exception of creators of the tagging systems. That means bulk analysis (whether using a grammar or natural language machine learning method) is key.

Citation graphs (which is mostly what's been done previously[0]) pale in comparison to text analysis. The possibility of enabling complex searches would be a big leap forward in science.

[0] https://physicsderivationgraph.blogspot.com/2020/05/literatu...
I get where you're coming from here. Ideally your co-worker would, when initiating a conversation, write a well formatted preamble that covers everything they need from you.

I have to say however, that this form of paragraph writing behavior is very irritating when you're stuck their numbly waiting for them to proof read their magnum opus. And you can't just leave and go back to what you were working on because in 4 minutes you're going to get interrupted by another dissertation. So you just have to sit there watching "Alice is typing" as it flicks on and off. When you could have been having an active conversation.

The reason the rapid reply behavior happens is to allow you, who is presumed to be actively looking at the person, to read the text as it is being wrote, so that you can formulate your response quicker.

And keep in mind, the situation where you have the attention of a support employee is that time where they are waiting on you.

So if the take away here is anything, it's:

* write well before you have someone's attention
* write fast when you have it
* be respectful of other people time
* be mindful of the effects of your actions
Maybe you could have the "wave function collapse" when a piece could take another or be on the same square. Would each piece only be able to be moved once before the collapse? Also, I wouldn't have people assign probabilities, but have them pick two moves with a fifty fifty chance of that move occurring. That way they can't just always assign the optimum move the 100% probability.
If you did choose to live out the fantasy, it wouldn’t be for long. The island is small and consumable resources are quite limited.
Thanks, that's good advice. I do oftentimes get arrogant and overestimate my ability, when I get the game dev itch. As with anything, there are some things you can only learn from experience. I think I have a pretty good amount of experience in the "playing games" department, but I sometimes erroneously assume that it will directly translate into my ability to make a good game. I can't count the number of times I've spent like a week straight working on a game project I'm passionate about, only to be met with the sobering realization that I've set my sights too high. You're absolutely right that I'll be more likely to make a good game if I set out to make ten of them. I need to get better at planning projects I'll actually be able to finish.
In your world no one ever makes mistakes or errors, it must be nice.
> Just for curiosity, is the # of forecasts due to SKU/locations, or due to granularity of series (i.e. let's forecast absolutely every KPI driver, as well as on different time scales).
In our case, the big number was due to SKU/locations. But in other use cases, it could be due to multiple KPIs.

> Apologies if that's an low level question, the Walmart blog was relatively large in use case.

I agree. I was trying to highlight the amount of infrastructure and setup required to scale forecasts. While that makes sense for their scale, there are hardly any options to achieve that without dealing with infra.
Where does the ecology come into play? At best European towns concentrate humanity so that ecology can exist outside of towns.
Often not, but it's considered rude to point out examples thereof.
Isn't exiftool better? Does this do something that exiftool doesn't do?
This is fairly normal and common, especially if you browse without aggressive ad blocking.

I routinely see a single ad impression make over 20-50 connections outbound, and repeatedly close and reopen or randomly open new ones for various reasons, the most common being some form of "anti ad fraud" tracking that repeatedly polls to get an average or median latency, new connections and requests firing on every mouse move, etc.

Would also be entirely unsurprised if phones that had free mobile games and equivalent were polling and sending stuff like location data every minute.
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What about 60,000 IU/week for someone who had D,25-OH at 7. I did that for a few weeks. Now I am up to 44 and switched to monthly. It's a singel 5ml dose. You just drink it once instead of taking it every day.
Cruise ships didn't do well. I think compartmentalizing HVAC in dense spaces will get a big rethink after this. People are already questioning the long term viability offices and cities. Seems premature it's good to be prepared, sometimes you need to hammer environmental intervention because people are unreliable at scale.
>Historically, the oil refinery and petrochemical businesses were the most profitable wings of the Reliance conglomerate, but now that “data is the new oil,” Jio is the company’s crown jewel.

Oh dear...
This is for config files inside a repo.
I was also a bit puzzled that blocking out time for yourself to work at your desk as considered a "crappy workaround". But then apparently the solution is to have 2pm-5pm as "office hours", which is precisely equivalent to blocking 9am-2pm as "desk work".

Booking time for jobs in your own calendar is a simple solution. If someone tries to book over the top of it, you just click "propose new time" to your next available slot.

I do get frustrated when my slightly more senior managers just have a month ahead booked out in their calendar, and I just need a 15-minute chat to get approval for something to keep me moving along.
Why is Debian packaging such a terrible process, according to this post? Wouldn't it be a great thing if one of the oldest and most important distros made packaging simple? One of the problems people have with Linux is that software isn't as simple to acquire. Sure, the main repos are easy, but what if it's not there? You have to figure out how to install .debs or .rpms or appimages or unzipping tar.gz's. Non technical people do not want to deal with that. Non technical people will reinstall Windows if they have to deal with that.

One of Window's advantages is that nearly every piece of software you want has an installer that handles everything for you. Now, downloading installers straight from distributors is a bad model, but if we want our model to work, we need to make packaging easier. Or saner, at the very least.
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I think you read a little bit too much into my claim. Obviously I'm not saying "all outward observations that ever occurred".
An explosion only generates compression waves, which are longitudinal waves, like sound, where the particle motion is along the direction of motion (and back again). For earthquakes, these are known as P-waves, or primary waves, because they travel the fastest and arrive at distant locations first.

Explosions do not generate transverse side-to-side motions, which are caused by shear forces. For earthquakes, these are known as S-waves, or secondary waves, because they travel slower and arrive at distant locations later. The S-waves usually cause more damage to buildings in an earthquake, because they last longer and induce a shaking or swaying motion.
I just spent a few minutes surfing her blog, and she actually has a really good answer to questions along the lines of "What do you think of study X?": https://www.devaboone.com/post/evidence-and-intuition-in-the...

No affiliation, not a doctor, etc., just thought this particular essay was well stated.
I don't get this, what's the problem here?
Having config files in root means you know they can apply to all sub directories. This has nice properties like recursive behaviours (see .gitignore)

If you want to put (most of) your config files in a .config folder, then most apps should support that

If you want to view your config files in a different way, then actually you're trying to solve a different problem. Perhaps hide show toggling or automatic grouping (see macOS desktop stacks) with your fs viewer would be a better area to tackle.

Finally, just wanted to say, everything at root level is usually config or a folder, so if I want to understand what tooling a project uses, I know immediately where to go, code is always in a "src" or similar. It sounds like this is a feature, not a bug.
Not just the volatility of your portfolio but the volatility of your life. Market downturns tend to occur coincidently with job losses.
I've read it once, so feel free to contact me if you need any help!
Nope, he means the "new" LSB preferred directory for user-level configurations. "New" being quoted here because it's around a decade old already.
Does anyone know how effective his intel was? Did he transfer key secrets, or crude napkin drawings?

Put another way: did he change the world? That’s the goal of idealism, after all.

It seems absurd to say that the USSR developed nukes thanks to his help. And yet, I can’t help but wonder... Could one person have made all the difference?
This old page makes it look like it was a real product, unclear how it was sold though. Also no product name, oddly...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304171428/http://www.pixen-...
If hezb wanted these materials they could probably make them themselves too.
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Rust is really nice, I like it a lot. It's probably also one of the easier languages to write performant code with reasonable latencies in most cases, almost all.
However, automatic resource freeing/deallocation can still bite you if you need really reliable low latencies, and if you think the language will handle it all.

Since the automatic deallocation in rust, per default, happens at the point where the value goes out of scope, if a resource destruction could block, or perform expensive operations on destruction, it can not be allowed to go out of scope in a latency sensitive thread.

Usually not that much of an issue unless you are chasing really low latencies.

But things can still happen in rust that catch you off guard. Say a value goes out of scope, and because of reasons, it does so with a destructor doing a logging call, which has accidentally become blocking on a socket send call, which it did because nobody realized that the AWS/GCP/whatever logger adaptor actually didn't perform all IO in a thread with which was only communicated with locklessly, which nobody noticed before because it was only if a buffer was full, which only happened today because ....

Not a big deal, it's almost all the same things which mess upp latencies in C++ code. And that's the thing. It's not necessarily easier to get low latency in rust than in C++, but the work required for hitting a quality/performance/latency target in rust is probably still lower than for C++. Unless you are lucky to have a very mature C++ low-latency stack, together with all the utility functionality you need, which seems to be exceedingly rare. Is the work required lower than Java on a custom/tuned JVM?

We'll have to wait and see. It probably is, but it's a complex balance between access to utilities, language complexity, and several more parameters which ultimately decide which platform provides the best environment for low latency code, especially if the complexity is non trivial.
I learned about AWS and Stripe at around the same time, but while AWS's dashboard has become truly overwhelming, Stripe has until recently been very focused on your core product.

I always imagined that flexibility was a key part of selling to enterprise while competing on something other than price. You also see this in other verticals: Salesforce in sales, Netsuite in finance, Twilio in comms, etc.

Stripe has already launched a few new products over the last few years. Is this hire a further indication that Stripe is shifting toward being the provider for everything payments? Is the Stripe dashboard going to be the next to fall to the curse of having a thousand buttons?

(I don't think it's a bad thing, it's been making everything a lot easier for us. But wow it's hard to get students up to speed on AWS compared to when I started using it :-))
Honestly, my best bet is that Musk, who needs at least fission or even better fusion for Mars (space is the only business case for any plausible peaceful fusion)

An interesting assertion. What are some of the reasons why you're certain that fusion will not be a useful source of energy in peacetime/civilian applications? Is it likely to be "too cheap to meter," as we were promised fission power would be, or do you think it'll always be too expensive to be practical?
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I do similarly. The k2 because I read it can be extra important if you have a history of kidney stones.
It looks like this does everything in the browser and doesn't require you to download anything.
I feel like a given tool deserves at best a single item in the root directory. If your tool needs more than one, you should be making a folder. I'd be totally on board with putting all those folders in another folder, but I'm iffy on the indeed the frustration of getting everyone to agree on one.
Hey friend, your edit is extremely classy. I’ve had a wonderful conversation with you today and alupis today. Thanks for being so smart but also so kind.
This is a UI problem, not a file location problem. GitHub and VS Code (both M$), could implement a nice way of grouping these files out of the of other files at the tip level.
I'm guessing it's a tongue and cheek way of saying "why be resistant to change without reason?"
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Chat systems are for rapid typing -- constant flow of communication.

Bbc/email systems are for long-form communications -- slow, methodical and referencable.

Slack and its friends committed the great crime of conflating the two, to produce systems that are never as quick as you'd like, and never as referencable as you'd like, and no one knows how to effectively communicate on it because there is no effective communication unless all parties forcibly drop back to irc
As far as I know, Pip doesn't have the notion of dev dependencies, so you need at least two requirements[.dev].txt files.
Likewise here. I think that as far as defaults go, having these config files accessible in project root so makes it easy for people to see what tooling a project uses.

Suppose this pushes through and .config becomes more of a default than a conscious project choice. I don't see all tooling packages to follow-through immediately with it - causing a period where you still have the scourge of some config files in project root, while others are at .config.
I think the point OP is making is: Say you have $1000 in a gold ETF with some brokerage somewhere. The Zombie Apocalypse comes. Banks are all failing, cities are burning, roads are torn up, and electricity is shut down.

Do you write a letter to your broker asking, "Dear, Schwab, I have $1000 in a gold ETF and shit is crazy now! Can you please have one of your customer care folks briefly stop stocking up on water and food, use a generator to turn your servers back on and verify I have that security? Then please deliver the equivalent amount of physical gold to my address via the postal system which is partially working? Thank you and look forward to continuing business with you!"

Point is, if you ever really need the physical gold behind the security it will not be available. To me, that makes the security worthless.
“UPDATE: Aug. 5, 2020, 6:07 p.m. PDT: A Twitter spokesperson incorrectly confirmed via email that the account of @realDonaldTrump was temporarily banned from tweeting. Instead, as the Washington Post now reports, it was the account of the Trump team, @TeamTrump, that was temporarily banned.”
A couple of questions if you don’t mind.

What are your thoughts on the research about low Vit D being caused by inflammation as opposed to the reverse?

Also any thoughts on what form of testing works? Seems like many things tested often have variations that are not routinely tested for.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160567/

My autoimmune disorder was initially diagnosed via positive responses to antibiotics.
Normal testing confirmed it later on, so I’ve been highly interested in some of these unusual approaches.
Rather than a .config/ folder how bout a .tooling/ folder ... as it is for the tooling. Projects usually have a config dir for server / environment configs. Would be easy to confuse the .config/ of tooling with the config/ for the app itself
The amount of pressure you feel telling you you are using too many tools should scale linearly with the number of tools you use. This discomfort you feel with seeing all of those config files is telling you something. Use fewer tools.
No. Obviously you rewrite the whole paper. Academics rewrite their papers multiple times before submitting them. The whole thing is a draft of a draft. The idea is to make your ideas very very concrete by writing them down as a paper.

Really annoys me when the word fraud is thrown around so freely, so I'd appreciate it if you don't.
Took me a second to realize what that was.

Also thought the main street nearby went to a sag. Glad it was just optics.
This assumes everyone is using GitHub and VS Code - I think the main issue is applying it to the node ecosystem as a whole
She also spoke at the acm turing100 symposium in 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTUvFboveM
One of the videos, when you step it frame by frame, manages to capture a nearly spherical fireball [1]. The next frame seems to suggest (to my amateur eyes) that the tall grain silos is causing a bit of a reflection of the fireball. Other than the grain silos, though, there doesn't seem to be any other factors shaping the blast.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/i420ir/th...
I am rooting for this also.