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> Diagnosing every child who is bored and not paying attention with ADD and putting them on drugs is trying to shift blame from teachers and the education system to kids.

No, it's trying to see if they have a condition which is readily and effectively treated through medication. I have ADHD, and my daughter has ADHD, so I've been through this a few times with the docs. The _gold standard_ for determining if a patient has ADHD is treatment with stimulants. There are assessment surveys they have you fill out and such, but there's tons of other underlying issues which can cause similar symptoms and lead to false positives. The best, easiest, most reliable way to tell if someone really has ADHD is to give them Adderall and see what happens.

My psychiatrist says that he has done this even with patients who end up getting diagnosed with other issues like bipolar. Why? Because despite being a scheduled drug, stimulants are incredibly safe at pharmaceutical doses, without any serious side effects. It's harmless to try, and if it doesn't work you move on to try something else.

Btw what studies have been done have shown that if anything ADHD is under diagnosed, and severely so in the case of girls. A lot of people who have had other underlying issues have initially been misdiagnosed as ADHD, but this is not the same thing as general over diagnosing, and generally is because ADHD must be first considered and ruled out before moving on to conditions which require the use of more serious drugs.
Insulin is not the same as prozac, yo.

One is designed to get you high so you can deal with your life in a "socially acceptable manner" - the other one helps blood sugar enter the body's cells so it can be used for energy. One is a social crutch - the other, vital medicine.
Doesn’t the same argument stand as it does when Dall-e 2 etc recreate artist signatures.

“It looks like your copyrighted code because it learnt from reading your code”
> Skepticism is good.

So is optimism. I see a whole bunch of flaws with what they are attempting here. What matters to me is that someone is at least trying.

Being a sceptic is the easiest job in the world, it costs you nothing to bet on how others will fail, when you win you parade about pretending you are incredibly knowledgable and when you are wrong you just morph in the background acting as though you said nothing at all. Where are the SpaceX sceptics today? What is their new focus on?

Building something new that shifts paradigms is incredibly hard. Given the money, how would you build a brand new city to attract people given the history of modern (< 30 yr) planned cities?

Notice how virtually none of these people saying how it will fail ever create their own designs for others to judge? Given the same resources, what would you do?
> all that changes in practice is the text of log message
The hard thing about pandemics is they require a social response. Many western countries (the US especially, but here in the UK too) are unwilling to do that. So there is a tight limit on what work can be done...
Would you like to have a go at defining "consciousness"? ;)
That depends only on who has the most expensive lawyers.

One thing in life is never to get into a position where you need to defend yourself against this scenario which is why I would never even consider using the tool.
> You are quoting a single monthly report..and are attempting to mislead by 1) extrapolating it to the entire conflict since 2014 and 2) asserting the "bulk" of casualties to be inflicted by Ukraine...

Instead of a representative month, let's look at annual statistics. This table is from the OHCHR document you linked (page 2). Even over a four year period, the numbers are about the same. In my opinion, 81.4% definitely counts as the "bulk" of something.

Civilian casualties caused by active hostilities[1]
in 2018-2021, per territory

Rebel Government No Man's Total
Territory Territory Land
2018 128 27 7 162
2019 85 18 2 105
2020 61 9 0 70
2021 36 8 0 44
Total 310 62 9 381
Percent 81.4 16.3 2.3 100.0

[1] shelling, SALW fire, and UAV strikes

There is a question of how representative these numbers are for the entire conflict, since the nature of the fighting changed after the Minsk agreements. From the same document (page 3), we see a drastic decline in deaths.

Civilian deaths by year
2014 -- 2084
2015 -- 954
2016 -- 112
2017 -- 117
2018 -- 55
2019 -- 27
2020 -- 26
2021 -- 25
Its because the real numbers are actually quite weirdly defined (for good reasons).

One easy definition of the reals is that each 'convergent' sequence of rational numbers defines a real number. Two sequences define the same real number when the sequence of differences converges to 0.

In this setting, the problem of deciding if two real numbers are equal is the same as deciding if a specific sequence converges to 0. Apparently there are 'reasonable' sequences for which this is an undecidable problem.

I'm afraid I can't give you two reals whose equivalence is undecided. I expect it will involve some rather weird descriptions of real numbers. I would love if someone could give some examples.
> The "depression is lack of serotonin" theories seem to have less and less base every day

But that is not true.

The problem with statement "depression is lack of serotonin" is the same as with "being overweight is due to eating too much". It is factually true, seems like an easy solution and yet is mired with lots of problems.

The problem with medication is that it treats the symptom (lack of serotonin) rather than the underlying problem (how did we get there in the first place?) Kinda like telling somebody to loose weight by restricting their diet before first understanding what caused them to gain fat in the first place. Is your diet composed of garbage? Why is it, is it because you can only cook garbage? Is it because you can't cook and only buy garbage? Is it because you sit whole day and don't exercise? Is it because you are getting depressed and make it up with food?

The treatment should address the causes of the problem and not just the symptom.
So we're the drugs able to help you get past the anxiety enough to figure out what the root was or assist in CBT? I always fear that psych drugs are used to mask the root cause.
Thanks,

tried checking this in Kallenberg's Foundation book (Chapter 3) but got lost.

I found a free pdf:

http://tomlr.free.fr/Math%E9matiques/Math%20Complete/Probabi...
"normal" or "good", either way you become a "culturally acceptable" drug addict who must purchase a prescription for a drug made specifically for the purpose of creating a market of addicts.
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API keys are most successful when they're issued for server-side use; when used client-side the usual pattern that I see is for individual clients to request their own API key?

In this case, it would need to be distributed to myriad users who legitimately need to ask for the lists and then could be scraped by the "attacker", but at least then they'd have to be knowingly malicious vs. accidentally malicious.
For people with ADHD though, the drugs are the cure. Stimulants are a miracle drug for those lacking executive function.
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But that's not enough. You have to give at least a little consideration to how your audience will interpret your words.
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I think this will become even worse in the future.

Remote work is really popular with young people and a lot of young people like to travel the world. Before Covid most of them needed to take a sabbatical but now they can keep working their remote jobs. Staying half a year in Lisbon, the move to Barcelona, than go somewhere else again.

Most remote jobs are rather well-paying, even if you account for a location-based discount.

The messiest part of the whole thing is the tax situation but I guess you can pay someone to figure out how to do that.

I am not sure what a good solution would be but I fully understand that the locals have some real issues with the development.
I actually would have loved if there was a real greek legal case for this, like we could just say "Lycurgus vs. Theseus" and it actually meant something.
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One downside is that Torrent doesn't really share blocks between torrents. So updating the torrent would result in a full download.

That being said the data is small so it probably isn't a big deal.

A better solution may be something like IPFS where with a rolling-checksum chunking algorithm you only need to download the changed parts of the list. You could even use IPNS to distribute updates for a fully decentralized setup.
> One is designed to get you high

This is wrong. I'll flag this thread for removal.
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It's kinda weird how seemingly the same people who usually argue that software patents/copyrighted algorithm implementations are bullshit, now suddenly get all defensive about it.
There are a lot of trolley system in the world, not maybe as many as you would expect. However, very few in North America. The overwhelming majority of rail and buses in the US are not electrified.

Usually they have some limited battery for very short range operations. In many places they also have an additional diesel generator, often just for operation and emergencies, not operation.
> Isn't JSON 100 times better, smaller and easy to use than XML?

Quite certainly not. It's not even more popular if HTML is included.

It may be smaller, but not nessecarily so: both json and XML are easy to compress due to repetitive (overhead) characters. Uncompressed it depends on the use-case and implementation: the ability to have both attributes and content on a node, allow (but certainly not always are) XML to be smaller than JSON which does not have this.

Easy to use depends on the features: JSON is gaining complexity rapidly (json-ld, json-templates, jsonschemas etc) to fill up what XML can do OOTB. Sure: an all-out XML (XMLT, DTD, etc) is far more complex than a simple JSON. But hardly more than a JSON with JSTL, JSon-schema etc. The exact same performance and security problems arise in JSON with all these features bolted on.

In other words: "it depends". But the idea that "JSON is 100x better" is repeated oft in the tech scene, yet impossible to back up in general. JSON may certainly be better for your case. But so can XML.
> These drugs are like casts for broken bones. Just because you can't see the broken system doesn't make it less physical.

They're absolutely not like this. In fact, doctors themselves will tell you we aren't 100% sure how or why they work, and so will a Psychology 101 class. That's why medication is generally given in conjunction with counseling/therapy.
Citations needed.

As someone who works in an international environment and routinely taveles between sites run by international conglomerates workers in Europe for example are not better protected than workers in the US, they've simply ceded more control to government.

The real difference between European and US workers is in sheer productivity. Sure, Americans work more hours but they also get more done in those hours. The difference in regulatory and cultural overheads is significant.
As far as I know Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Greece and I think Spain and Italy have very popular unlimited sms phone plans.
How about building on solid ground for once? Datalisp.is the thing I keep posting here and it keeps getting overlooked but a solid foundation means longer lasting structures, just look at the 3-4-5 triangle; it still has a right angle.
IANAP.

My understanding is that MOND doesn't kick-in in the Solar System at all; the strength of gravitation from the Sun is much greater than the MOND threshold. So I'm surprised that Mercury ever comes into discussions of MOND.
This article approaches the drugs for being used to treat depression.
I am on 2 anti depressants and not because I have depression.
I take Fluoxetine in the morning to help with my foggy head due to fibromyalgia. I then take Amitriptyline in the evening to help with chronic pain so I can get to sleep.

A lot of drugs are licensed to treat X but doctors will use them to treat Y.
>Why would a huge chunk of the population have a imbalance of brain chemicals?

Because they are all members of a society whose food production is controlled by 2 or 3 mega-corporations, who also, incidentally, have an interest in selling pharmaceutical products to make people feel better about their lives ..
We can't do reflection and visualization
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In my experience those “large chunks” can add subtle bugs that require careful inspection.
Either these things stop or software licensing is meaningless. Pick one.

People somehow arguing that both things can be untrue are delusional imo. If copilot is ok, then obfuscating code in order to get around a license is ok.

Copilot can produce agpl code verbatim, and per the license copilot should also be agpl, but that’s not going to happen practically, so copilot will probably be shut down.

This is to say nothing of commercial code.

Best way to think of it is like - if copilot was a group of people manually writing and sending code would it be ok? No.

Why should big tech be able to effectively reproduce the work of the little guy without following the licenses they set?
Probably because they feel their jobs are being threatened by these AI systems. Cognitive dissonance at its best.
I think in general, it's best to breastfeed if you have the opportunity to do so, but it's not that big a deal if it doesn't work for you and you rely on formula instead. Both work. It's great that both options exist, so you can pick which one works best for you. People get way too uptight about this sort of thing.

Not to mention that society is really hypocritical about it; demanding that women breastfeed, but also criticising them when they actually do so. Can't we give each other a bit more freedom to make our own decisions and trust that most people will be doing a pretty good job at it? Provide info, not judgement.
'permanently suspended' is weird in itself isn't it? Just avoiding the word 'banned' or similar.. but butchering other words into meaning the same thing?
Is it really their code, or is it code many people have written over and over?

It’s pretty hard to prove that the code was copied from an individual, so good luck to them.

I think one of the things the FSF kind of got right is that copyrights (and patents) on code are kind of unnatural and difficult to enforce.
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> 3 minutes away

That's latency, not throughput. Streaming a pre-filmed movie is sensitive to the latter, not the former.
Well yeah it's "culturally acceptable" because of they low abuse potential, which is to say there are real actual differences that go into making it culturally acceptable. No one is crushing up their SSRIs and snorting them and going in to sex work to pay for the habit the same way heroin users do, because, well it's not a drug addiction as recognized by the psychiatric industry.
That's what I was wondering. I find argparse so helpful that I use it everywhere I need to handle a command line. It works fine.
You generally add a small "cost" to request an API key. For example submit your email to this form and wait a day.

Then browser makes like this will not reasonable be able to request a new key automatically for every install. So they will just request one and ship it.

Then when you get abuse like this you can disable it.
Its not wrong, it is factually correct. Mind-altering substances get you high... these pharmaceuticals are merely socially-acceptable high-producing mind-altering substances where - guess what - the science is not final on what they are doing to human beings.
I should have some say in whether a company with a 1.76 trillion dollar market cap can further enrich itself with my work without compensation or attribution. If copilot was about the greater good, the entire product would be free at all tiers.
Which book to start with?
Price of anything can be reduced to labor, energy, and scarcity as, you move up the supply chain.
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You are merely reiterating your argument, with an accusation of fear and religion on top.
Sure, and likewise: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1012896802713 .

I am presently researching a PhD in the philosophy of science and causal analysis; I have two degrees in physics, and I have spend the last nearly 10 years with major lead researchers and data scientists across many industries.

My opinions here are a summary of a talk I recently delivered at a conference on issues applying "ordinary statistical methods" to complex systems, esp. those with profound hysteresis, such as people. But likewise, my opinions arent rare amongst people with similar experience to me: psychmetrics, psychology, heritability research, and so on -- are widely regarded amongst my peers as pseudoscience.

It's unlikely I've made a basic mistake.
So I understand some of the comments streaming down on CloudFlare, but I would like to get to another point entirely.

So people writing apps using crappy coding are cratering Easylist basically through unintentional DDoS. It is the apps that suck. Full Stop.

I have noted over the last five to ten years the general retrograde usability of phone apps and full desktop apps in general. Bad UIs, inconsistent behavior, performance issues on stuff that, at least on the surface, appears to be trivial.

I don't understand what is causing the general slide in quality, but it is clearly visible, and it seems to me, untenable over the near term.

Is it the tools? Is it the app churn pressure? I really do not know, because I work in a very different part of the industry. We have our own issues there, but that has more to do with technology churn (particularly in wireless standards) than in the tools and platforms.

So what is up with the app world, in general, and the web app world in particular? I am all ears, because as I said, I don't work in that space.
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The firestorms are going to be devastating. That's damage in addition to the blast damage, and the radiation damage.
I agree it's tricky. I think it should be put to the same standards as we would if e.g. some game source code was leaked onto github and some guy decided to just rename all the variables changed the whitespace. If that guy did it most people and the courts would probably agree that he can't just sell that modified piece of code as 'halo leaked edition'. But currently if copilot performs the same action it seems the authors are arguing he should.
The legal department is typically in charge of producing thousands of legally sound contracts for the company. It is a daunting task, especially for growing businesses with an endless list of clients. Even with bulk actions, the legal team cannot handle all sales agreements using traditional methods.
That's not how it works. It's percentage changes that are significant.
How does that explain the much bigger error in the approximation with an incremented denominator, 358/114?
You've just described why tracking provenance is important to avoid copyright infringement. It doesn't matter where you got it from, if it's infringing it's infringing. You can sue the infringing middleman, but that doesn't mean your transitive use isn't infringing.

Microsoft should train Copilot on their own code. Theoretically they know where all that code came from and they haven't got a lot of copyright problems internally that would be revealed by Copilot. If they won't do that, that should factor into what we think of their arguments about what Copilot means for training corpus authors.
The dev is defending (his) copyleft, not patents. So let me stick to discussing the former, not the latter, in the following post:

His opinion, as well as the current state of law: His code could and shall be used pretty freely, but a comment referring to the original license/author is needed.

The context:
Having an option to "leave out copyrighted code", that does not do what the option suggests, is a flaw, both in a functional and secondly with law-as-is, in a legal way.
In the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson describes the Vikings as being descended from Trojans. Much like Virgil claimed the Romans descend from Aeneas (a Trojan prince) in the Aeneid.

So Roman (and Greek) influence wouldn't surprise me.
I don’t think that’s it; I think its mostly the lack of credit, and supposed claims of Copilot “generating” code, that makes it look very bad when its just basically copy/pasting someone else’s code without credit.

I bet the same people would be fine if this code was included verbatim with appropriate attribution and licenses. But that’s not the case.
I believe the same thing. In fact, I believe people with ADD have a natural advantage in pre-modern settings. We are built to run long distances, outsmart prey, and forage. A distraction isn’t a distraction on that environment, it’s awareness and quickly thinking through possibilities and avenues of success.
Especially if you ask the wrong questions.
> On this site researchers have found detailed similarities between two graves that were built hundreds of years apart

Vikings may have been influenced by the Romans, but burials have followed remarkably similar patterns for thousands of years all over the world with no influence from outside:

The dead are often buried with items to help them in an afterlife - food, money or something to trade to help the journey.

With items that were significant to them or their role in their life - jewellery, weapons, tools.

And are often laid out straight in 'best' clothes, relatives hold vigil over the body until burial/cremation etc.

We also base burials on the burials we've seen - so is it strange that they build tombstones like the old (Roman) one? In the same way that Egyptian rulers wanted a pyramid like their predecessor?
Exactly. A new account showing up out of nowhere posting nothing but links is basically exemplar spambot material.
>psychiatric industry

The same people reaping massive profits are telling you whether or not you should think of these drugs as 'normal' or not.

Nothing is normal about a lifetime addiction - whether the high you get is a party high, or a "I am feeling normal, where normal has been defined for me by a high priest who actually happens to also be my pimp" ..
You can be unsure of exactly how they work, but be able to verify that they do (unsure in a scientific sense can still be quite sure. MRI imaging to verify is hard.).

The cast analogy of a "supporting treatment" stands.

I mean, the fact the comments here exist on a forum primarily concerned with engineering is astounding.

Medication is given with counselling and therapy because that too can enact change on neurochemisty through self direction when the system isn't in functional collapse.

For a broken leg you might have metal pins and physio. For a broken leg we wouldn't be having these odd discussions, and the brain is fair more complex.

Maybe everyone should stop taking psych 101 and counting themselves experts in neurochemistry and neuropsychiatry then dishing out poor advice.

Admittedly the US health care system is broken by perverse incentives and so on, but let's not turn that into an attack on the science and efficacy of the drugs themselves for many people.
>I've been to-and-fro across much of North America for much of my life. I have never encountered a situation where it was especially challenging to orient to the cardinal directions...

This is one thing I always find quite odd on American TV / Films.

People [eg. police pursuing someone] will inevtiably say something like "He's turned north onto 21st St." or "He's heading east on 12th street". I always wonder how they know the compass direction. I don't think many people in Britain would express directions like this, using compass points, or even know which direction was which.

Do US streets have the cardinal directions on the roadsigns, or are you all issued with built-in compasses at birth?