skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A better explanation for the relative lack of success of disulfiram is that you don't take it from birth without choosing to. You have to want to take it to gain the benefit of it, but if you need it, you don't really want to take it. You want to drink. It's the big problem of addiction, you want things that contradict each other, and you want the bad things more.

I don't see what supports this being a better explanation, I feel at this point all explanation that fits the data are equally likely, otherwise it's just bias.

In fact, I would say the proposed model failed the first test, which is that a good model should be good at predicting outcomes. In this case, the model failed to predict the outcome, as causing the condition in people did not reduce their alcohol consumption as we expected from the model.

Sure, it could be that only some details of the model are wrong, like that the condition only works if established prior to a history of alcohol consumption, or that it only works if having no choice on the matter of the condition, etc. But at this point it seems just as likely that the condition might not be the cause, but only correlated in possibly another way.

For example, we might have it backwards, and it is the lower drive to consume alcohol which caused the gene variant in the fist place.
It gets much much worse.

~20+ years ago, the old AT&T was doing a lot of government contacts. They optimized getting business and providing services, but couldn’t get their billing process straight. Which frequently resulting in them being unable to get paid for work preformed. Literal penny pinching incompetence was costing them millions for years and fixing it was never a significant priority. A classic case of management optimizing for what was being measured.

This was also the same company took years to realize they should be consistently charging more money for faster connections. At various points customers would get significant discounts for ordering faster service which cost AT&T more to provide.
2018 Model S. Will test it out in our Y when I take delivery end of month.
With this feature specifically?
With a lot of the decisions Tesla's been making lately, I'm not sure I'm going to buy another either. I'm mainly speaking of:

- The butterfly steering wheel.
- The removal of radar for Autopilot (I'd like to have multiple systems for this, not just cameras/vision).
- The removal of steering column stalks (and using the sensors to figure out which direction you want to go).
- The door open mechanism changing from handles to whatever this button situation is.

I'm sure there will be other stuff, but yeah, may have to cancel my reservation for the Cybertruck.
Richard Branson Will Try to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space with July 11 Flight
Yea, they were a great $999 PC in the very early 90’s. As long as you didn’t want to run Windows they were popular.
Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Congress explicitly protected Equifax when they had the massive data breach. The government chooses winners and losers indirectly through legislation, but this time they explicitly picked a winner because they chose not to punish them or make new laws.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/equifax-breach-congress-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/equifax-data-breach-was-entirel...
Back in 2007 I had a "laptop crisis" in which I went from having a laptop on me at all times, to not having a laptop at all, for about a month. My home situation was pretty good, but my school situation... not so much.

I ended up doing enough of a restore of my dad's old (1989, I think?) 386 laptop and parallel Ethernet adapter. The details were something like:

1. The rechargeable battery was dead, but it was a 4.8-volt NiCad. It ran beautifully off three alkaline D batteries, strapped to the back. I just had to disconnect the batteries out whenever I had it plugged into the wall, to prevent them from charging.

2. The hard drive wouldn't spin up, so I ended up making a DOS boot disk with an SSH client (SSHDOS) and ODI drivers for the NIC, as well as the bog standard MS-DOS editor.

3. When I had Internet connectivity (read: wall proximity to Ethernet), I used SSHDOS to connect to a remote IRIX host, and used Lynx from there. Lynx was painfully slow on the 386, and SSL was right out. Not that much used it in 2007.

4. I used the MS-DOS editor as my daily-driver text editor. My workflows then, as now, are mostly text-based, so this was a pretty easy change.

Of course, I couldn't help but add a sticker to the lid: "up to 10x faster than your malware".
They should have waited longer. They just pissed off the internet.
Adding another comparable offering is https://simplelogin.io and you can set a PGP key for forwarded emails.
Fans of Charlotte Bronte may remember:

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.”

- said Lucy Snow in the novel, Villette, by Charlotte Bronte.
As a long time meditator, I can say that as you regard thoughts more as potentially useful but maybe not mental formations rather than as bits of truth, then the energy behind the positive and the negative feelings becomes a little less. Rather than everything becoming a totality, it's more gentle; not "I'm going to die" but an awareness of a negative feeling. Not "I'm the emperor!" but a pleasure in doing something well. As feelings become safer to experience and your perceptiveness becomes tuned into the way your interior world works, I find a greater diversity of feelings. The way I can eat very spicy food and just blow up if I'm not used to it, or if my spice taste is adjusted, I can enjoy the way all the subtle flavors mix together and are amplified by the spice, being aware of thoughts and feelings is like the right amount of spice - fully alive as a sensate and sentient creature, but free anyways, free in the moment to steer your body/mind.
They would just sell that order flow to the next highest bidder. It would be a marginal, not total, loss.
Every time something like this happens, people point out that gas powered cars catch fire much more often than electric ones.

Quote: "That’s five fires for every billion miles traveled, compared to 55 fires per billion miles traveled in gasoline cars."

So why don't I want to own an electric car? Because my assumption is that the typical electric car fire happens while it is being charged, whereas the typical gas-powered car fire happens while it is being driven.

There's a huge difference between a fire that potentially destroys my home, quite possibly starts while I'm asleep, and a fire that just totals my car. And that holds even more for people who live in multi-family buildings.

This particular incident didn't happen at night while the car was being charged. But is that representative?
And its one of the more common ways to make those little Software Defined Radio boards do something.
> I think the big winner in the short-term is places like YMCA attempting to broaden into more and more social categories.

I might be missing something. You're making it sound like there is some short term or new phenomenon happening here. COVID certainly has not been the cause of the decline of community cohesiveness, and certainly not behind any rise in demand for people "sharing spaces" with strangers.

> This is a problem with a lack of investment into the space. If half of NYC was shared space, they would find their space and you would be in another.

Well I disagree with that characterization that it's a problem or that a solution would be to spend vast amounts of money on it. As I said, people don't want to share spaces.
The "problem" is not lack of shared space. If you don't like the lack of community or people willing to share and invest in their shared spaces, the root cause is completely different. A top-down decree of more will not fix it.

> I find Central Park to be mostly pleasant, and that's a shared space.

Parks are one thing that can work if they are quite remote or highly policed or in "good areas", but that's because people tend to go there for few reasons, there isn't much in the way of infrastructure or services to be ruined or hogged or stolen.

I don't see many people working, cooking, or gardening in shared spaces though. Sure there are some college kids, occasional professional who takes their laptop there for a few hours to work, sometimes people will have a BBQ and there is the odd community garden project. But even with the meager parks there are, I don't see a lot of them overflowing for places to sit and work.

> When it's 0.01% of the space, there isn't enough room for the required segmentation of the different tribes and it ends up toxic.

Dangerously bordering on anti diversity wrongthink... but true. However increasing space doesn't really help all that much when there is a lot of crime and not enough resources to police it.
> RH stopping all GME purchases was market-moving news and citadel got to know before anyone else, to the detriment of those RH users that were long GME.

Yes, that is the point of paying for order flow. That is doubtless why RH users don't pay commissions.
What I find interesting is that the human society and economy at large is able to function without there being any genius programmer who designed it all. If you look at roads, there is a road everywhere and still people don't get lost. But in a big chunk of source-code I do feel I get lost.

I believe that may be because there are too few constraints when programming textually. Whereas when designing roads and bridges we have the constraints of physical space. It is possible to draw a 2-dimensional map of all the roads and thus easily understand it all. I think visual programming was inspired by this notion, how physical and geometrical constraints make things simpler because we know those constraints intuitively, which thus helps us reason about the structure of the whole thing. It can not violate physics, nor geometry. Textual programs can, do anything their syntax allows. That makes their full structure hard to understand
Yet they keep winning public contracts (5 blockchains [0]). They clearly aren't cutting back on sales ...

[0]: (German; millions for inventing digital signatures) https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Corona-Impfpass-IBM-Ubir...
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Commission model is going nowhere. Ask anyone who trades for a living. They pay handsomely for direct market access.
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>This is kind of all over the place and riddled with non-sequiters;

Blanket dismissals aren't helpful. As the guidelines state:
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

>I will simply point out that we could raise the capital gains rate 5% tomorrow, and it would still be lower than it was when Amazon and Google were founded.

Well Google was founded in 1998. In 1998 the long term capital gains rates were 20% for those in the highest bracket and if held for over 5 years went down to 18%. Today's long term rates are 23.8% for those in the highest bracket. Where are you getting your numbers?

https://taxfoundation.org/federal-capital-gains-tax-rates-19...
Sorry I missed it earlier based on the comments. Just looked at it now and it has already devolved into the typical cesspool of internet trolling.
R is overwhelmingly used in bioinformatics. There is nothing quite like bioconductor. Most new tools/methods (for ex, in the scRNA-seq) release R packages first.
> "Nigeria ... is among the world’s most corrupt"

In practice, it means Nigeria has more retail corruption than most places.

The most corrupt countries, by take, are the US and China, but it is concentrated at the top. In China, top-level violations of the law are tolerated as a carrot-and-stick to maintain support for the regime, whereas in the US, top-level corruption is instead made wholly legal.

Russia and North Korea would like to be the most corrupt, but simply don't handle enough money.
Originally they didn't want you to use the manual handle regularly but they added a software feature that rolled the window glass down a bit when you pull the handle and stopped warning not to use it unless it was an emergency.
Why did you want to go back there so bad?
A couple years ago, Hootsuite announced that they were laying off 20 employees at one location, but they termed it as "assisting them in their transition to the next stage of their careers." It was beautifully horrific phrasing, and the predictable field day followed.
Similarly, scipy is 18% FORTRAN (jumpy is 0.01% so I didn’t think to link it.)

https://github.com/scipy/scipy
Regulation is so critical, the financials I've worked at are soul-destroying because of the bureaucracy. Its impossible to do anything. I'm surprised RH has managed to get this far, I'm sure they'll get fine after fine until they start to stagnate like everyone else.
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Most people don't know that the headrest (head restraint) can also be used to break a window in several ways. I'd known about this for a while, typically there's just a simple mechanical button you have to depress to remove the headrest to be able to use it in this fashion.

Then, for ergonomic reasons, I went to change the headrest orientation one day (I know this is stupid) - and, it turned out, in addition to a mechanical push button to remove, I also had to shove a tiny ass pin punch deep into a hole in a really weird place to fully remove the headrest. This was in a Lincoln, and I'd never seen something as stupid as it in any other car. So much for the idea in the back of my head Id've been able to rely on it if I'd ever needed to break a window.

Even more of a reason to just buy the purpose made breaker/cutter, never know what unconventional BS some brands/models may be doing.

edit: sorry, speaking in general - Tesla's dont/sports cars tend to not have detachable headrests. Or maybe most newer cars don't in general, haven't looked into it much.
Look at the kinds of examples people are using to demo Copilot.
> Also, if we were to directly copy texture data from a fast SSD into video memory, instead of SSD --> RAM --> VRAM, the loading times would see a huge improvement as it bypasses the extra copy.

The extra trip through CPU memory is not a significant bottleneck. DRAM bandwidth is still much greater than a single SSD's bandwidth. And there's no PCIe traffic saved, because even with P2P DMA from the SSD to the CPU, data needs to get into the CPU package where the PCIe root complex is to be routed to the GPU. There's a marginal latency improvement, and you can save a bit of the CPU's RAM capacity by not needing to use as much of it for IO buffering.

You've probably misunderstood the mechanisms behind the claims that new NVMe-based video game consoles enable much faster loading times, and the somewhat-related Microsoft DirectStorage technology (which is still rather ill-defined). P2P DMA is a minor optimization. Offloading decompression work from the CPU to the GPU is a big help, if the GPU has the right hardware to accelerate that decompression.

But by far the biggest improvement comes simply from increasing the baseline hardware capabilities that developers are targeting. When game developers can count on running off an SSD, it becomes worthwhile to overhaul the software's approach to IO so that the game issues requests with the high queue depths necessary for extracting full performance from flash-based SSDs, and the game doesn't have to pre-load multiple minutes worth of content into RAM because it can count on being able to perform multiple asset fetches per frame.
.life has four letters. Lots of terrible attempts to validate email addresses reject TLDs that aren't 2 or 3 characters.
The only big truths are things that seem obviously one way, but in reality are the other way due to a myriad of non-obvious sub-things.

E.g. Productive person-hour scaling as a function of team headcount
Keep it in your wallet or put it on a blackjack table. Or yes put it in a savings account that won't disappear until you can build up money to invest with.
I knew a guy growing up who's gas car caught fire in his garage while it was parked and burned it down. I think your assumptions about when and how different kinds of cars catch fire are wrong.
I came to say this. Also programming bots to buy, pump and dump altcoins.
It's interesting that octal used to be popular and isn't any more. I'm not familiar with how that culture shift happened, but I remember learning C in the 80s and thinking it was odd that it supported octal when I'd never seen it anywhere else.
Sounds kind of like my experience using Gusto to comply with state and local laws when hiring employees and contractors in various places. Not groundbreaking, much legwork remains, but still helpful.
> 'Beware of first- hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element – direct observation.

(The Machine Stops, 1909, E.M. Forster)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
I imagine a lot of bets are off with a fire going. Lots of wires burning and shorting, or otherwise not getting the power they need to do their job.
Funny, same thing happened to me. https://imgur.com/a/8MDZHti

I had to close my account for work. I left that company and wanted to open back up my robinhood account. Guess not
“””Computers can already author documents at near human quality. Research is continuing to increase the accuracy and volume of these models.

Language processing research will not only help doctors, but will allow machine-based language translation, and eventually automated chat bots that can converse in our languages.

The next steps in human-machine collaboration are to allow people and machines to co-create. A recent Chinese report suggests that 50% of scientific papers in this field will be written without human intervention by 2033, compared with only 11% today.

One of the biggest challenges of machine learning is giving the machine what it lacks. This usually means gaining enough training data to teach the algorithm how to make inferences from data points it has never encountered before.

Many of the large organisations involved in advancing AI's ability to develop documents can improve how the algorithms learn by building on the knowledge and experience of human workers.”””

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https://app.inferkit.com/demo . It uses a language model to predict the next word in a sequence. In other words, to use your example, it not only architects, but builds, the entire building simply by predicting where to put the next brick.

So to answer your question: Yes. That’s exactly how it’s done.
If everything is electronically activated, and a lot of the wires and control electronics are destroyed by a fire, then all bets are off.

Mechanical linkages are going to survive the heat of a fire quite a bit longer than wires and electronics.
Company that lost the bid to a competitor alleges that the bid competition was not fair.
I worked at IBM a few years ago. When I started we were had to use Notes for email, not long after we got migrated to Verse (IBM's webmail system). Verse was better than Notes (damning with faint praise).

One day I wondered why Verse took so long to start, i.e. time to first render of emails. So I profiled the startup using a browser performance profiler. It didn't take me long to discover there was a sleep(5) in one of the Javascript files. Every employee was subjected to a sleep(5) for every single login. Of course for security reasons your email session timed out every 12 hours or so, meaning that every employee is logging into email at least once a work day. Some napkin math: at the time IBM had almost 400k employees, so that's 555 hours per day of wasted employee time. Or 138,888 hours per year of wasted employee time. To be fair some large number of IBMers may not have had jobs that subjected them to Verse.
Its getting really sluggish over time (does it mine optical bitcoins?)

Also, stores literally a shitload of google spying information.

Can't agree with minimalistic epithet because of above
This is taking it to an absurd extreme though, which is not really how laws work. We would be better off with a right to repair on some sort of reasonable macro scale and letting a few court cases figure out where the line is, because its definitely not nano scale chip features.
time to take intuit out behind the barn........