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I also had my first flare-up in years with the pandemic, it was bad enough that, combined with world events, I sort of lost hope and flipped the table.

We moved to a new country in the tropics, a medical tourism destination with good support systems and schools. To be honest, I assumed it would be a place I could more easily afford long-term care and where our savings would go further after I couldn't work anymore - I was in a pretty bad place. I did keep my job remotely after a brief sabbatical, which was great.

It was a dramatic change for all of us, but since the move everything has been... pretty great. I don't know what changed; maybe it's the sun, the change in diet, the new clinic, or maybe (probably) the huge reduction in stress and all of the above. Maybe just random chance. But I'm physically active, I'm more productive than I've been in a decade (my short-term memory is shot and my long-term is fuzzy, but I make a lot of lists and notes), and I'm optimistic for the first time in forever. I had no idea how much stress and fear I was carrying before, not until it started to release.

I'm not saying you should drop everything and move South, but I am saying things _can_ get better. But even if they don't, now is a time you get to make choices about the rest of your life. You may find, as I did, that by choosing your life you also choose to live. We're all just making the most of what we have, some have less and some have more, what defines us is our attitude.

(edit: that sounds a bit overly optimistic as I read it now. I should be clear that I don't have a miracle cure, I haven't fully recovered from my last episode, and I know there are challenges and more degradation on the horizon. I'm just in a much better headspace and environment now, and a lot of that came from taking control of my life.)
There is also the serious looking man with a notepad.
Climate Change Is Strangling the Mighty Mississippi
Exactly. Of course having numerical values you can directly compare is going to be the easiest way to select students, but it's only "fair" to the degree those numbers accurately reflect the relative academic performance and potential of the students.

I think the reason people so vigorously defend the use of standardized test scores in admissions is that we all have a built in bias towards viewing quantifiable comparisons as inherently more objective because it's easy to justify how you arrived at a decision. After all, who can argue with a decision based on one number being larger than the other?

The problem though is that this approach doesn't really remove the subjective, complex elements at all, it just moves them from the decision step to the measurement step. Sure, an SAT score is just a simple number. But how the test is constructed to arrive at that number is much more complicated. And the value of a simple score comparison is only as good as the process of constructing the test, leaving you with the illusion of having made the decision simpler and more objective when you really just move the complexity behind a curtain.

In tech terms, I think the analogy is project managers trying endless different ways to measure software development performance. Number of tickets closed, "velocity", commits, releases, etc, (lines of code if you're very unlucky), all give you nice simple numbers to look at. And while they're not entirely useless, it's easy to become overly reliant on them and assume they are more objective measures than they actually are.
A mild contingency plan for servers that run out of space
How do you deal with the 9 hour difference between Europe and West Coast?
If you’re representing the college, how do you know the individual you’re about to hire has sufficient knowledge to both teach the material and cover any questions on the material students may raise.
Who could have seen that coming? The whole point of ditching quantitative tests is to empower the bureaucrats who want to make qualitative judgements based on their personal whims and biases. "Holistic" my ass.
Modern cars are much better with moose crashes. A couple of years ago I was in driving back from grocery store, just south of Sodankylä in northern Finland, during the darkest times of winter, when the car in front of me crashed into a moose. The moose bounced multiple meters into the air from the windshield of the car in front of me, and I needed to do the typical evasive maneuver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_test) to avoid the flying moose. I'd estimate that the crash happened with speed of around 40-50 km/h.

The person driving the car in front of me survived unscathed, without any injury. The car (2010's VW Passat) very likely was a loss though. This just tells how good modern cars are with these kinds of crashes.

In Finland there are about 1000-2000 moose crashes every year, but only around 1-4 people die from them.
Not a gamer, and I've never been impressed beyond the "whoa, cool tech" thing in game videos. But this is good enough that I'd watch a feature movie rendered like this, no problem. It draws me in.

Someone once said that virtual reality will never look right "until you put some dirt in it". And that's just it. They've recreated the irrelevant clutter that goes along with real life and that's what makes it look right.
You're suggesting asking people to work into the night to make an aesthetic change that will benefit no customers, that will not make the workplace friendlier or more productive, and that you may never even lay eyes on again, is craftsmanship? I would suggest its authoritarian control for it's own sake. To make people work to your arbitrary and unknowable criteria for no other reason than to exercise your power over them and to make them understand that that is your arrangement together.

Additionally silver brackets aren't inferior, like plywood. This is more like the craftsman chewed you out for using Phillips screws instead of flatheads for your table, because the craftsman feels that Phillips are for bookcases and flatheads are for tables.
> but I won't rule it out, if only I had the financial means to try.

Here is the problem: OP doesn't have the time. In such a situation, even if you have the money, you can afford to try one or two things long term, maybe three if you are lucky. If those turn out to be nonsense, that's it, you're dead or paralyzed or demented. You can't afford some esoteric nonsense in the bush because some stranger on the internet recommended it and a sketchy website pushed it.

It's really sad that dubious actors are making a buck off of desperate patients and that's just as immoral as a dysfunctional health system.
> But if you live in New York, San Francisco or London you would be tired of seeing your city in games.

Huh? I live in NYC and I don't think I've ever played a game set here. I know vaguely there's a Spider-Man game set here, that I never played, and at least one GTA inspired by but not actually set in NYC.

I'd love to play a game set in NYC that looks this great. It'd be my first time.
From what else I've seen of the author of this feat, I can fully believe it.
I'm not so sure. If the idea is that politicians order a bunch of food to get through late nights during a crisis, there aren't many other foods that work as well as pizza in so many ways. It's way easier to get vague suggestions for toppings than to pick individual entrees for everyone present, it stays tasty when cooled off, it's at the very least generally inoffensive and usually quite popular, and you can just hold a slice while eating it, no utensils required.
> I trust absolutely none of the research that has been conducted over the last 2.5 years. It's all garbage. Too much emotion and incentive is involved in making things follow the narrative.

Glad I am not the only one with this level of skepticism. I say that implicating both sides of the debate. Every study I read seems filled with overt examples of confirmation bias.
DeepMind AI invents faster algorithms to solve tough maths puzzles
> Again, there is a distinction to be made between the outputs of the model and the model itself!

Oh, you mean the very first thing I had to explain to you at the beginning of this exchange because you seemed to be ignoring it? Very little of these discussions has been about the models. Most of the discussion is about the outputs, and there the fair-use case is - as Lemley/Casey and Ochoa both concede - much weaker.

But by all means keep going on about feelings. We can all tell it's not others' feelings that are being hurt by mere disagreement.
That's good advice, I'm not seeking medical advice, as anyone with a long history with such a disease I'm battle hardened in this area, again, it's been a long time.

To be honest initially what I was after was some hints on even highly speculative future medical advances. I don't personally know of anything available right now that could, for instance, restore brain volume, heal myelination scars, etc. At this point even "don't worry, I work in AI and within 10 years it will find a cure" would offer a bit of hope I'd take.
Did Bezos know about Shatner's alcohol problems? I watched more Star Trek than most, but I had no idea before this comment, and I have even less of an idea about his wife. Not everyone is clued up on the latest celebrity gossip.
Not true, Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs get credit for what they built without this kind of commentary. Primarily because people don't detect immense amounts of fraud in how they operate(d), they actually built and delivered what they promised investors and consumers.
Dams don't 'dry up' rivers - they control them. The lake created doesn't have infinite capacity. Once filled, the flow downstream resumes normal levels. Just doesn't have floods like it used to.
Early Clojure adopter here (2008). Clojure completely transformed the way that I think about programming, and Rich Hickey's talks ignited a passion for computer science that still drives me to this day.

While I use Clojure less than I used to, I view it as a truly beautiful language with a coherent and thoughtful design. The community has always been fantastic, and the thought leaders (rich, stu, fogus, chouser, david nolan, etc) have given so much to the world.

I'm very happy to see the language is still making forward progress and has carved out ecosystems (i.e., finance) where it's finding solid adoption. Not much else to say besides a huge THANK YOU to everyone that has helped bring it this far. It has brought a lot of people a lot of joy.
Absolutely. I want to add it’s not even garbage in some cases, just too much of anything can affect our psyche.
The "avalanche" of applications isn't just from the lack of standardized test scores, but the rise of the Common application platform.

It's incredibly easy to fill it out once and then fire off a dozen applications in an afternoon.
Perhaps you and I have different definitions of complexity.

I identify complexity as increased costs due to an increased action space. In 1920, Jim can wake up and sit in the house or go to work. In 2020, Jim can wake up and site in the house (fiddling with a phone) or go to work. In 1920, Royce has to take 2 hours to iron clothes with an iron heated in the hearth. In 2020, Royce pulls clothes out of the dryer and throws them on a hanger, reducing clothing maintenance for presentability by 75%.

Cars in 1970 has simpler systems. Cars in 2020 have more complexity. The additional complexity lets Alice have a higher standard of living, meaning the time traded for maintaining the car herself versus taking to a mechanic is at worst an even trade, at best much less time to drop off.

Just because something has grown doesn't mean the cost of actions have increased. Maybe its harder to corner the silver market due to the internet existing, but that really wasn't a desirable outcome anyhow.
Every American midwest town is on a river. Because the pioneers needed water, every day. Carrying water is a huge chore.
False. Read the article and learn what they found out in this case.
Even a law professor couldn't escape being framed, what does that mean for the rest of us?
This 1000x. You won't believe how much I want to upvote you.

I feel so sorry for OP to have asked. It will be so hard for them to find the answers that are actually helpful and ignore every that's nonsense or actively harmful. They are desperate and likely don't have the energy to fight all this.
Hmm, the neurotropic stacks that many of us use in milder form for ADHD etc. that some of HNers use may help.

Specifically you want a very mild MOAI to keep dopamine around longer and that is in fact ginkgo. You want a smaller dose of L-DOPA which is dopamine that crosses the blood brain barrier with dose around 20 mg L-DOPA. Another method if you cannot find the small L-DOPA dose is to take caffeine in a micro dose with macro dose of the weaker Theobromine as then it lasts 12 hours. To do that look for bakers cacao chocolate and take 2 small squares with breakfast.

The other thing you will need is a product that has NFS and BDNFS in it such as
the commercial product Neuriva.

Also talk to older programmers as many of us are doing something similar to deal with aging via cognitive changes.
Check out "We Own This City" on HBO now, a more modern view of "The Wire". Unfortunately the story is still wrapped in people getting caught and justice being served, but it's a start.
Thank you! Me too :)
Absolutely agree. In the US, "holistic" admissions were introduced to deny admission to students suspected of being Jewish [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/a-lawsuit...
On top of the other answers that are really helpful, I would say to:

- take a break, go to vacation for 2 weeks

- get a regular sleep schedule with 8 hours.

- have a healthy diet without sugar (dopamine)

- do some exercise and cleaning instead of videos and games

- try L-theanine (possibly with caffeine). It helped me a ton in similar situations.
Depends on your tastes I guess, but for me none of them have been a problem.

I do usually have an external mouse on my desk when I'm using it at home, but the trackpad has been fine on the go. I've never noticed a problem with it.

Speakers are fine or hearing things in videos, etc., but I generally put on bluetooth headphones and/or a stereo system to listen to music. Bluetooth connects within 2 seconds of me turning on my Bose headphones. I think a lot of people don't like the speakers on this thing, and they're admittedly not as good as my VCR-sized Dell 2011 XPS with built-in minisubwoofer.

Webcam works great, but won't win any awards.

Screen brightness is good. Look and feel is good. Weight is excellent. Keyboard backlight is great. USB-C charging is great. Endurance seems good (I've had mine daily driving since 2020).

The only issue I've had was early one when I typed one key sequence too fast, sometimes there would be an extra letter thrown in there, but they fixed it in firmware.
> unsustainable consumption

This is a political claim made by privileged people that live in the “Global North”. Reducing that “unsustainable” consumption will make some “Global South” countries even poorer, because the little manufacturing that they managed to have set up is now gone.

Thankfully the coming economic global shake-up will drown out opinions like these, which do nothing to help the “Global South” catch up, and will give a bigger voice to people from said “Global South” who really have skin in the game.
> the models that fail this one test never get published

Not necessarily -- for comparison purposes one should include, and a negative result is not a bad outcome. But consider Edison's light bulb. Most of the failures don't matter, and a few might have interesting properties to reconsider or tweak down the line. But the major one folks care about is the one that worked.

> data fitting

Yes, models trained on data and not logic alone fit data.
> Locking down the Mac makes it a worse Mac, because the product is defined by it's openness.

s/mac/computer and you're right on the money. All computers are defined by their openness - even Apple products. A basic Turing-capable machine should have the capability to copy arbitrary software to-and-from the memory of the device; iOS doesn't allow this. Now, I've heard every philosophical waxing about "product segmentation" and "muh iPhone security", and all of that is fine. Nobody has to leave the App Store if they don't want to. But Apple's limitation of iPhone capabilities are entirely arbitrary, and there is quite literally nothing that stops them from adding a little toggle-button in iPhone settings that says "Reduced Security Mode" or something. Nothing besides greed.

Apple's ideal of a smartphone is so far-removed from the ideals of general-purpose computing that they need to be litigated into submission, just for common-sense upgrades like a universal charger or upgrading to USB-3.0. They chose this state of affairs for themselves.
Thank you, I was just making this remark in another reply, that a move to the somewhere with constant sun would be so helpful. I need to take this seriously. Thanks.
> And this is the hard problem of consciousness, how it is even possible to evolve that.

How was it possible for the eye to evolve? The paper I linked goes over this too: systems that have attention schema models are more efficient and more effective than those that don't.
I've always been surprised by this metric. True, if the game is only a couple of hours it can be a bad investment. However, I can think of at least half a dozen ten hour games that have left me with a more memorable impression than some games I've played for ten times as long.

To my teenage self it would make sense, though. Enough time but not enough money, which makes long (sometimes artificially long) games a necessity.
So sorry to hear. As of 2022 there is enough evidence for a causal link between EBV (the virus that also is behind mononucleosis) and MS later in life. The hope is that humanity will eventually have strong drugs and maybe a vaccine. Unfortunately, progress has been very slow until now. I hope things will move faster now that people could convincingly argue about this link between a virus and the disease.
I don't follow, why do you consider providing short term stays to tourists a valuable service, but not providing long term housing to residents?
Kickback? How is that an illicit payment?
You don’t. Not in the Java sense, where you can change a method’s name and it will just work, or a method signature and you will immediately spot the 14 places you need to update.
While I am sure you are competent like most folks on here, I will say this: I have met a good number of people who claim they can "get in and get out un-noticed". In retrospect, I think rarely did they consider the possibilities of observation beyond the actual target system.

My point is this: There is no defense against 0-day/X-day exploits in the wild. But the second best thing against being patched is logging and properly tuned alerting. In my 20-ish years of working in this field I've caught half a dozen attackers/intruders via logs and anomaly alerts. Without those 2nd best things in place the entire network(s) would probably have been compromised.

Cheers.
I love The Office, but I don’t believe that the writers actually have some deep knowledge of business psychology and hierarchy. It seems pointless to attempt a deep analysis through that lens.
> “I think the students that do have the strong test scores still do have that advantage, especially when you have a student that has strong test scores versus a student who doesn’t have test scores and everything else on the academics is more or less the same,” an admissions officer

Why would we expect this to not be the case? It’s literally additional evidence of scholastic aptitude and, if you want it to not have any effect on admissions, you have to prevent its inclusion* rather than making it optional, as optional means “those with strong scores submit those scores.”

* Or, accept them in the application but prevent their inclusion in the admissions process and use them only for research/analytics and only after the fall semester starts.
Who Is Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Welcome to the world of auto-immune diseases - or heck, the world of chronic incurable disease.

Everyone wants something that'll help, and it feels like controlling something that might make you feel better is better than doing nothing.

With MS in particular (knowledge because of my own MS): A few folks haven't been entirely truthful about their treatment story. Combined with the fact that MS affects folks very differently (I got diagnosed around 40 and it is generally mild so far and I'm lazy) and the most common form has "relapses" that are usually followed by a varying amount of recovery and remission, it makes a lot of sham cures look very promising.

The only thing that has been clinically proven to slow down disease progression - and therefore, keeping some quality of life - are modern medicines, which are unfortunately expensive.

I mean, of course you are going to be better off if you eat a generally healthy diet and move about when you can (difficult for some with MS), you are going to be better off. It isn't a cure, and if the supplements were, they'd be medicine and insurances/governments would pay for those instead of the pharmacy meds.
Of all the weird random records in the world this is one of the weirder ones
It’s not uncommon to have 2 kids on an iPad, a daytime show in the living room on, and grandma upstairs watching her shows.
> Not in my brain, in some context within the numbers.

Then yes. As I said, quale are sort of information stripped models of our perceptions, but divorced from direct perception, and this lack of a direct link is why they seem ephemeral and mysterious. If you believe perceptions have a formal model then quale are a projection of those.
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I'd buy into the model, but I think it misses a few things.

A sociopath doesn't have to be successful.

Alpha losers might think of them as sociopaths.

And people move back and forth between the roles.

Besides that, it's certainly a more complete model than the alpha/beta/omega one.
I remember this viral video from this guy a few years back https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk
Sure, that's one opinion, but that's not a proof.
“Starting out on your own” is not a way to work less, but you have a lot more control. To avoid burnout, work must be meaningful and it must be within your reasonable control.

I have that as an independent, yet I don’t have any fixed schedule and I basically work every day. (I work three to six hours a day in a mode that feels like work.)

Some of my work is coding or coding-like activity. I also teach, which does have a fixed schedule when underway.
"in any company, some people chug along, some people work hard, and some people are in it to win, and they have the following dynamics"

That's an oversimplification.

Sociopaths are not just "in it to win". They will do whatever it takes to win, and trample as many people under foot as it takes takes them to get ahead without a twinge of conscience.

The clueless in the article aren't merely working hard, they're also true believers in the organization who "build up a perverse sense of loyalty to the firm, even when events make it abundantly clear that the firm is not loyal to them."

Unlike the clueless, the losers see clearly and do the bare minimum to get by and will (like the sociopaths) abandon the ship when it starts to sink, unlike the clueless, who will loyally sink right along with it. While they're in the organization, "they traded freedom for a paycheck .. mortgage their lives away, and hope to die before their money runs out."

While the losers have no more loyalty to the company than the sociopaths "they do have a loyalty to individual people, and a commitment to finding fulfillment through work when they can, and coasting when they cannot."