skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.ph/R9ZBN

> But last week, after reports that the company pressured its clinicians to prescribe medications for A.D.H.D., Cerebral received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, which is investigating possible violations of the Controlled Substances Act, according to a representative for the company. Cerebral has more than 200,000 patients.

> The investigation, which the representative said Cerebral intends to fully cooperate with, comes on the heels of accusations from former employees who said the company prescribed Adderall and Ritalin to treat A.D.H.D. without properly screening patients.

...

> Cerebral is only one of the dozens of mental health start-ups that took off in recent years. At the start of the pandemic, regulators relaxed rules around medical prescription of controlled substances, allowing clinicians to prescribe stimulants and other medications online without the need for an initial in-person evaluation, said Danielle Stutzman, a psychiatric pharmacist and spokeswoman for the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists, a professional organization of pharmacists.

> Those changes made it easier for people with A.D.H.D. to get access to treatments during lockdowns — but also opened the door for companies to prescribe and market drugs without the protocols that can accompany an in-person visit. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cerebral visits typically took only 30 minutes, during which time some clinicians felt pressure to prescribe stimulants.

Cerebral announced in May that they'd pause prescribing ADHD drugs,[1][2] then deleted the announcement by November.[3]

It's not the sole cause, as is the case most systemic problems - Teva Pharmaceuticals had a labor shortage for months that reduced production - but exacerbated a demand growth that had been fast since 2006, grew faster immediately before the pandemic, and then shifted in growth from children to adults under during the pandemic in line with the pandemic-inspired growth of telemedicine prescriptions.[1]

Teva's shortage is passing, but Alvogen, Rhodes Pharmaceuticals and SpecGX all remain short. Methylphenidates (Ritalin and Concerta) are also temporarily short as Adderall users switched off during the shortage.[4]

1: https://www.drugtopics.com/view/adderall-shortage-continues-...

2: https://web.archive.org/web/20220504153953/https://cerebral....

3: https://web.archive.org/web/20221120002710/https://cerebral....

4: https://archive.ph/3SvUw
I’m explicitly stating that the fact its more local doesn’t make it more democratic per se. A small group of people who can effectively vote down the majority are not being democratic.

> The state should not be able to supersede local authority for local concerns, it's authoritarian.

Absolutely I include the suburbs I grew up in. The rich keep the middle out, and the middle keep the poor out. Not that hard to fathom.
So in Boston (which is the No. 10 radio market),

https://ratings.radio-online.com/content/arb013

WBZ 1030 AM (news radio) hovers around no. 5. They transmit on HD radio also (HD 2 on 107.9 FM), but the range is limited compared with
AM.

RKO 680 AM (local right wing talk radio) is also near the top.

Conclusion: AM is not dead
The guy you described sounds a lot more interesting than a desk jockey.
// So it comes down to how important you think “finders keepers” is - do the people who got there first have the right to lock everyone else out forever?

I get the point you're making and it's not illogical, it's just what do you prioritize? In many situations honoring the existing relationships and the wishes of people in it is the more humane choice.

When your dad married your mom, he locked everyone out from marrying her. We honor the exclusivity of their relationship even if there are like 5 single guys in town. We don't force your parents to let 5 additional men into the relationship because it's not fair that they are locked out.

Why should your dad have some special status with your mom - why "finders keepers?" But in reality, we honor that because we understand that forcing equity here would be horrific.

Obviously I am making assumptions about your fam and that's just an example, and obviously your marriage is an even more intimate topic than the nature of your town, but you can see the continuum I think. If I upended my life to live in a certain type of town, it's very turbulent to have that town completely change by government decree.

Also - there's no finders keepers here. Like 20% of my town is families that moves from the city during covid. There's constant turnover as older folks move out and younger families move in. What stays constant is the nature of town - those who want that nature move here, those who don't, stay in NYC.
Yeah sure. I think in part it's about doing interesting stuff.

To be real, I'm not at all passionate about my dayjob. I do what I do because I get paid. I would not do any of it if I didn't get paid or didn't need to get paid. I do a good enough job not to get complaints about the workmanship, but not much more. The truth is I get paid the same regardless.

Recognizing this, I work less. Part time. 30 hour weeks. Saves some sanity toward things I do care about. A lot of people seem to be working themselves to the bones trying to save up some nest egg to retire early. I just don't have that faith in the future I guess. Seems like an awful lot of eggs in one basket. All I know I might be run over by a bus next week, or die of a heart attack at 42. At least then I'll die having lived a little, rather than having postponed life entirely.

All the while I'm every bit as passionate as I've ever been about building Marginalia Search. That's like a fractal of interesting problems, by design. The more I work on it the more ideas I have. At this point I have probably years' worth of plans and ideas, and how well I realize them has a real impact on the project. It's completely different. Very foreign from how my dayjob works.

In the end, it's sort of paid off. Having a project like this has created a lot of opportunities I wouldn't have if I was working 60 hour weeks hoarding money until some time later.
I still listen to baseball on the radio.

Although I'll mention that nowadays it's also streaming online. So I really only use it with AM radio in the car.
Ask the A&Ps is a podcast that’s a pretty similar concept but for general aviation.
Chinese PlugX Malware Hidden in Your USB Devices?
What question will the next engineer have about your choice?

1. Rewrite your code to make the answer obvious.

2. If that's not possible use a comment.
The disease has a name: over engineering.

https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html

Most working programmers are in the middle near “seasoned professional.” They spend all their time thinking about how to manage complexity when they should be thinking about how to avoid it.
I didn't realize how sparse coverage was in the West until I moved out here. Once you're 5 minutes off of an interstate outside of a metro area it's pretty common still to have no signal.
I dunno, I feel like things like heavy manufacturing, smokestack etc. Should have their zoning controlled, everything else.. go nuts. I just don't want to breathe emissions.
Legitimate developers want this. It's not that Apple should "restrict the auto-charging aspect", it's that Apple should offer other models for developers to utilize!

There is no other way in the App Store to offer a free trial than to have an auto-charged amount (one time pay or subscription) at the end of it.

I'm not saying Apple doesn't deserve a slice of the pie. They make it possible to seamlessly sell our app in 193 countries with varying tax and regulatory regimes, all at the click of a button. But the app store brings in billions in revenue to them, offering functionality like giving developers the ability to refund customers or more creative ways to charge for our software seems like a no brainer at this point...
For me, the messaging in the announcements, dashboard, emails, and discussions here was clear and obvious that free databases were going to be deleted. If someone managed to miss all that, that's on them.
It's going to be more complicated than that. They will absolutely try to mitigate by downselling to Enhanced Autopilot, which gets more usage (I think). Depending on when you purchased FSD, that will yield somewhere between a $0 and $9,000 refund.

However, the Enhanced Autopilot option was removed in 2019 and came back last year. I think this was done to juice the sales count. If the DoJ agrees, then Tesla might have to honor EAP's 2019 purchase price. This would make the minimum refund something like $3500.

Either way, this would be a blow to Tesla and will definitely worsen the layoffening.
How different was this from most science? "Science advances one funeral at a time" was coined in recognition of us vs them long ago. And large expensive fundamental science like astrophysics and particle physics are very much team sports. "Tribe sports" might be the real distinction.

And long covid's effect is one we have yet to reckon with. I'll take the shots and masks, and avoid giving you impotence and long brain fog.
This position would be a lot more popular if 99% of new development wasn't hideous beyond words and an affront to human dignity.

People want to preserve old stuff because (and only when) it's beautiful, but there's no reason we couldn't and shouldn't be building beautiful stuff today!
Yes! Single store is a great team. We are currently using some of their work for this Python release, like libz
I do not understand your point, really. Obviously, from a legal standpoint, ownership exists. But you say, no, no, no, that's not _reaaaal_ ownership, since I have to pay property taxes.

When most people talk about ownership, when the law talks about ownership, it exists, and I think that is enough for it to exist.
Huh, I usually associate poor text rendering with modern software.
In all fairness, windows laptops don’t have functioning sleep either. Only apple nailed it.

Edit: This is what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
> If the truth is that zoning is the only obstacle holding us back from idyllic, beautiful mixed-density cities, then I'm showing my ignorance, but I'm not convinced that it is.

It definitely is. I work in IT but one of my kids is in land use planning and they have regaled me with many stories of how builders come to the city (not in California) with plans. All of them involve a zoning variance and, more often than not, a trip through what is called Design Review. If the zoning change doesn't kill it--usually because they want a departure from what is called "floor area ratio" rules or from the "wedding cake" style zoning that is supposed to keep zones of detached housing "safe" from "impacts"--then design review absolutely does. Which dovetails into...

> made of cheap and ugly ticky-tacky that caters to insular WFH yuppies

...your other point. It's fine to not like the design of a particular building, but to enforce design aesthetic onto someone else is also a failing of zoning. Design review is often used as a cudgel to "catch" what zoning doesn't (so the rules say this kind of building is allowed but neighbors don't want it) and then administrivia it into, if not oblivion, then a very expensive project through things like "more building modulation" and "tamp down building massing" and "mitigate shadow impacts".
On the other hand, people often die shortly after retiring. It's because we have evolved to struggle. Leading a life of indolence and sloth is not healthy for the body or mind.

Want to do so much more? Go do it!
Crypto lender Celsius misused customer funds for years, examiner finds
Setting the Record Straight: EFF Statement in Support of FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn
Arkency, a very well-known Ruby consulting company (at least in Europe), are the ones I've seen shout about this 'rule' the loudest: https://twitter.com/arkency/status/1254784379190038534
10 years in, I'm completely disillusioned on a professional level.

I am still personally curious about products useful in my own life, like 3D printers or homebrew Lepton based thermal imaging.

I think most people start out with idyllic visions of what something is, only to have a more realistic view after some time. I think that's normal.
Understand where you're coming from a privacy perspective. Our encryption operates at the file system/storage device layer level so it doesn't affect our index at all other than a small I/O performance hit when storing and accessing data.

W.r.t. retention policies, information is immediately deleted upon account deletion. We also delete all data after account inactivity for 2 months.

Definitely exploring messaging platforms, interestingly enough iMessage (despite not being available via API) can be indexed locally on Macs. Just not something that's on the top of our backlog. Thanks for your thoughts!
That phrasing doesn't rule out an issue on your email server's end, like the email could have bounced. (Though I'm guessing that's unlikely.)
Depending on what happens to their mental health protecting them may require dragging them kicking and screaming. It's harder said than done.
> For some reason Japanese culture is quite popular among nerdy types (be it anime? games? sushi?).

It's popular among all types, very much so in the states and France due to anime.

But they export A LOT of culture. and they are very good at streamlining that export. Fashion, video games, anime, food, etc.

It's really no surprise it's popular. If you end up consuming the culture (as many of us did as kids) you will be attracted to the origins of it as it contains many elements of the culture you consumed.

But yes, there's a lot of cross over between "nerds" or "otaku" and Japanese culture exports.

I assume because they didn't fit into their home culture fully, so they found escape in another foreign one that was adapted for them, and thus found a community to share common interests with, which reinforces that "obsession".

tldr: you can nerd/otaku out on anything, but Japan makes some good stuff to nerd out on, so you get hardcore fans.
Awesome, dropped you an email - let's find some time to catch up over some virtual beers!
Kalium for those who learnt outside of English territory.
No, that's a whole other business. Idler services just run up the hours on games in your library without the games actually running. Vanity knows no limits.

https://steamtimeidler.com/
we are evidently clones
I set my laptops to hibernate when the lid closes. Entire RAM written to disk, then a full powerdown. Do turn off wake timers and wake on USB (sometimes disabled in true hibernation but not always).
> Many of the big trees are on public right of ways. Nothing is happening to them.

*Until the city decides they want to change it

That's why people want to ensrine in law that those trees don't change. They don't trust the city to maintain homeostasis for the duration of their residency.

What happens when people want to build a new apartment building but those trees are too big to safely build next to?
We could build fire equipment to fit narrower streets.
These kind of comments are so heartbreaking. Is this really what you think humans are without work? You think people would just resort to hedonism, and addiction if not for corporations who kindly introduce order in our lives? When I look at humanity I see art, science, passion, inspiration, admiration and curiosity. If people didn't have to work 60 hours a week, they would be artists, parents, lovers, researchers etc... I'm truly, truly sad that not all of believe in this.

I deeply apologize for this possibly snarky, irrelevant comment, maybe it shouldn't be allowed. I just wanted to offer my perspective.
A tailor and laundry are technically industrial use, yet I wouldn't mind having a taylor or a laundry service nearby.
I upvoted this because it's technically true, but common "legal" use-cases involve format shifting and that puts you out of bounds straight away, depending on your jurisdiction.

Even if your area allows it for "backups" or interop, you're making it available in multiple locations at once. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to demonstrate this was some sort of performance or other act explicitly disallowed by the EULA. But I'm sure you're just sharing Big Buck Bunny ;)

My point isn't that it's illegal, only that it's disingenuous enough to suggest it is legal. Plex definitely lies in a grey area of tolerated home use, with features that turn it into a piracy nightmare.
I think you're misunderstanding the primary purpose of essays.

Teachers don't have the time to do deep critical reasoning about each student's essay. An essay is only partially an evaluation tool.

The primary purpose of an essay is that the act of writing an essay teaches the student critical reasoning and structured thought. Essays would be an effective tool even if they weren't graded at all. Just writing them is most of the value. A big part of the reason they're graded at all is just to force students to actually write them.

The main problem with AI generated essays isn't that teachers will lose out on the ability to evaluate their students. It's that students won't do the work and learn the skills they get from doing the work itself.

It's like building a robot to do push ups for you. Not only does the teacher no longer know how many push ups you can do, you're no longer exercising your muscles.
If you find your way to my other comment ("suburban sprawl") this is largely what it looked like to me when I visited my brother. The developments aren't very large and there is roughly nothing around them.

Contrast to NJ, where the NYC suburbs extend way outside Midtown and the city limits.

As a result, it is very rare to feel like you are in the middle of nowhere.
This is something I've put into most workflows at $(WORKSPACE=/=heroku) that end up disabling a customers systems. It depends a bit on how hard we have to kill a system for various factors. But for the softest setting, we usually start pulling DNS or similar access configs for a minute, wait for a minute, disable for 2, wait for 2, ... and the 30 minutes never end.

This gets people on the phone with support quickly if they don't react to their account manager or mails. Like, we've had a possible security incident coming from a customer system and they didn't react - because they tried to hide their processes internally. Scream-Testing got us on calls with their InfoSec in a hurry.
Touchscreen... boooo!
Player Piano
You've stacked quite a few what-ifs on top of each other
At least the Elbrus design assumes all computers have ECC RAM. Others should do the same.
Writing is very important for understanding a topic and long-term recall. I still remember topics from papers I did 15 years ago because I spent 10s of hours researching and writing and forming ideas about each topic.

Instead of being overzealous about catching cheaters, teachers should learn to express the importance of writing and why it is done. Convince the students that they should do it to be a smarter person, not just to get a grade, and they will care more about doing it honestly.
Heh. I always loved Heroku and have complained that Salesforce is messing it up recently, but turns out the first time I used Heroku was like 5 years after the acquisition. I think Salesforce just started inserting their own branding more recently.
If you are this close to a deadline, it doesnt really matter anymore. There is no avoiding the iceberg. You can fix your organization for next time, which is what the org believe it has initiated.
It benefits everyone. Earning more money means higher standards of living, financial security
Similarly to deep fakes, it seems that creating tools to distinguish between human and AI generated data will cause more harm then good if. Models to distinguish will never be perfect and an actor that can fool such a model will be very effective.
Salesforce is like the Midas touch of destruction.
Brownouts can be very useful in finding impacted systems that may have been overlooked as well. Last month, I had to do some updates because a customer's API had moved to a new URL on a new server. My team and I identified (what we thought was) everything using the API and did the updates.

A week later, the customer notified us that they were still seeing some traffic on the old URL, but all they could give us was the IP address it was coming from. Unfortunately this IP address belonged to a server that hosts a lot of our smaller applications, so it didn't really help locate the offender. So I just added a firewall rule to block access to the IP address of the customer's old server, and sure enough I heard the scream 15 minutes later. Removed the rule to get that application back up and running, got it updated to the new URL, and all was good.
Actually working archive link: https://archive.is/qyKaA
> are actually better generative models than prior methods (VAEs, GANs, etc).

Diffusion models are VAEs and follow the same variational framework. You could imagine that VAEs are diffusion models with a single step in the forward and backward processes ;). They actually optimize the same VLB objective, but with diffusion models the objective is a trajectory instead of a single step, however, when training we are optimizing single step transitions. This is possible because the objective ends up being a sum of logarithms, thus there is no dependence between terms.

In practice we solve a simplified objective which looks a lot like as we do with standard AutoEncoders ;)

The key component that differentiates the two is in what we expect of the underlying neural network. It is far easier to parameterize small changes than large ones, with VAEs you ask the decoder to produce a large change in the latent variable, whereas with diffusion, we generally split them into 4000 smaller changes assuming you are using the DDPM approach and not the DDIM one.

Because we are improving with very small steps, we avoid the blurriness of VAEs, and we don't go out of distribution when sampling random noise. VAEs are often difficult to synthesize because even with KLD in the objective, the encoder produces a low variance distribution, and so when we sample noise from a high(er) variance gaussian, we are out of distribution rather quickly.
We'll not reach that level of automation on time.Anyway we look at it, we are doomed sooner or later. Some country already reach the point of non return. China for instance, they have 1.18 baby per woman. To sustain the actual population it need to be to 2.3 children per women. China will soon lack enough working adults to sustain the massive aging population. By 2035 the percentage of population older then 60 year old is expected to rise to 30%, or more than 400 million people.The working population simply can't sustain the aging people. This will cause unprecedented upheaval . This is just one exemple, Russia is not far off. In fact except a few countries the following decades the very social and political structure of the world will change dramatically and not in a good way . Yes we humans we are not producing enough babies and it is only getting worst.Brace yourself for a changing world.
At the bare minimum, he enjoys life more.
I wrote some text about the subjectivity of communication and the nature of natural language, and I kept it very neutral, formal and verbose. And it said "this text is likely AI".

So, as honestly was predictable, people who rely on this tool being accurate, will inflict a lot of pain on unsuspecting individuals who simply write like GPT writes.
Well technically all motherboards have one...
"The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong."

Isn't this just about as obvious as the fact that traffic flows best when traffic lights are neither always red nor always green?
Is it just me or is that archive link also paywalled?
Sony halves reported sales expectations for coming PSVR2 headset