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A junior software engineer looking for an opportunity to grow professionally. Most experienced with Dart and Python. Have been working on a Flutter game for a year. Have experience developing and training ML and DL models. Open to any offers except for crypto/blockchain, trading, sports. The pay is of a lesser importance if the team/product/challenges are great.
>> a lack of diversity among participants. The vast majority of patients were white, with only five Black patients receiving MDMA, raising questions about the generalizability of the results. “The fact that this study has so many white participants is problematic because I don’t want something to roll out that only helps this one group,” said Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, the group’s patient representative.

Imagine letting EVERYONE being off worse because it might not help everyone.

She really should've done reverse racism: do the study on whites since they are the only race for whom it's ok to discriminate in the current zeitgeist.

Instant approval!

Also funny they say "it might not work": I'm pretty sure many people with PTSD are desperate and nothing works for them: those would jump at anything that might help them.

But now they've denied them that. Gotta push pharma pills!
Approach-Bias Modification as Add-On for Alcohol Use Disorders [pdf]
Is there anyone out there that’s can compare MDMA to more conventional treatments from actual experience?
You may have missed the quotes. It’s just as nonsense to talk of last halo industry for Japan
I'm not saying that machine elves definitely don't exist and I'm certainly not saying that my collection of things I think are true are objectively true. I'm simply saying that from my point of view its very unlikely that machine elves being real is the explanation for people reporting interactions with machine elves.

I believe its important to explore these experiences and I think people should do so, both under the aegis of science and less formal self exploration. But in the end we cannot just accept mere perception as naively correlated with reality. The process of connecting perception to reality is one of the great works of human beings and, from where I am sitting, that great work seems pretty definitively negative on machine elves.
I originally said (paraphrased) ‘parents will’, and I reasoned that since I was convinced that parents will try, they will mostly succeed. But you have presented evidence against this, and therefore I was wrong in saying that “parents will”.

You seemed, however, from the start to argue against the “trying” part and not the “will succeed” part, which confused the issue, since I still think parents will try. If only you had been more clear, this could have been settled quite soon.

> This is just a lie.

I should perhaps have worded it like “the phrase you used was…”, which is what I meant. I did not mean to claim that you said some parent was actually stealing someone’s phone.

> I certainly called this, the reversed burden of proof for your claims.

Since we both claimed things which can be observed, any one of us could potentially give proof. I did not mean to push the burden on proof wholly unto you, only to point out that it was not completely mine.

> Now you're not saying they will, you're saying "they'll try".

Yes, that is my position. But it’s an uninteresting one, since they’ll fail (as your reference showed).

> This was ridiculous from the first reply, how many times are you going to shift these goal post, back peddle, lie and repeat yourself without evidence?

You have a real problem with following the guidelines for this forum. I suggest you re-read them. Note, for example, that most of your actual reply now consists entirely of references to what I wrote, and references to me, and not about the actual issue we are supposedly debating. This is usually something to be avoided.
> if you say if came from the lab you are a conspiracy theorist and lose your grant and job.

And, absent actual hard physical evidence, not the slightest amount of which exists, you should be labeled a conspiracy theorist, because that is exactly what you are.

Further if your job is in direct virology / epidemiology and you’re such a theorist — which, again, pretty much does not exist, hence precisely why the actually qualified write letters trying to counter the not-actually qualified — then you absolutely should lose your grant and your job. Science is about discovering the consensus on what the truth is… the truth is SARS-CoV-2 had animal origins in the wet market where all the original cases arose, full stop.

But please, go on believing your conspiracy theory.
Which is why I just don’t bother integrating any Google products in to my life. They throw random shit at the wall and most of it won’t last a year.
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For someone who wants to get into poetry and literature, but has never read anything past the elementary school, would Pale Fire be a good start?

I'm not particularly sharp witted when it comes to books, would it be a good idea to read it in parallel with some sort of an analysis or commentary?

Should I read it translated into my native language (Polish)? I could get through it in English probably, by looking up some of the words. I wonder how much is "lost" when a book like this is translated.
> I'd call it a bug.

It's not a bug in the tool, it's inherent to PEG. All PEG parsers will behave the same on this grammar.

My point is that PEG is highly unintuitive in how it works to most human brains, which is why I specifically asked for a plain explanation why this happens to someone who claims their brains align with how PEG works.
Announcing T CrB pre-eruption dip (2023)
>Services I can think of that Google might shut down are YouTube, Firebase, Fuschia, Chromebooks, Google Cloud, Google Classroom, Waze, Google News, Google Flights, Google Fonts, Google Groups, etc.

You forgot: Search, Gmail, Maps, Android (OS and Pixel hardware), Go, Dart, Flutter

Also: why so anything at all when the universe will cease to exist sooner or later and you'll be dead long before.
Sync is not only about persistence, but also actual synchronisation. If you're writing to two files and want to ensure ordering, you have to (f)sync - doesn't matter disk or ram.
The article we’re discussing is exactly about Debian changing that for the next release. (The only thing that will be changing in this respect is the default, and possibly the configuration at the moment of upgrade to the next release. Debian has long allowed users to configure both RAM-backed and disk-backed /tmp, and both will remain possible.)
Assess craving in patients with alcohol use disorder using VR exposure
Another benefit of having stable identies / surrogate primary keys is that any relations (FKs) will be much simpler.

Sure, like the post poster you replied to is pointing out, you _can_ use natural keys, and then also relying on dates or other parts of the data - but creating a relation for that can end up being extremely cumbersome.

- Indexes generally become larger
- relationships become harder to define and maintain
- Harder for other developers to get up to speed on a project
To my mind, the rarity isn't really relevant.

Google purposely choosing to very specifically screw over its users like that should be enough for a lot of people (once they know) to avoid buying a Pixel. :)
And i think in the long term, it is going to benefit consumers. Squarespace lives and breathes domains. Google doesnt.
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>> “You should organize around this idea that everyone has to fight for their job every year, like it is in professional sports,”

"Fight for their job": ok but them pay me as much as professional sports players are paid.
My favorite time seeing this was when they raised the price of Garigari-kun from 70 yen to 80 yen then bowed deeply to apologize for making snacks less affordable for children.
Well, I mean, Google is planning that for all Chrome users:

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection
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Imagine legalizing a drug because white people’s psyche just needs to get high. As soon as this happens I’m getting some PTSD with all my friends.
> this limit is just for this entry-level series of chips

... for now

> then your question makes no sense to me

It makes sense when you consider they will go ahead and add integrated ram in more SKUs in the future. Possibly all except the Xeons.
Note: I am going to set aside politics…

Agree a Pocket is more flexible, but this appears to be a love letter to the GameBoy Color. It has a magnesium body, sapphire crystal for the screen and they claim a custom LCD that works well in sunlight.

I have an Analogue Pocket. Great device, but has a very flaky cartridge slot that wipes save data. Everyone I know that has one has the same problem.

If this is better with real carts it’s already better than the Analogue Pocket in that regard. Guess we will have to see if they ever ship.
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If detected in the 13th C I think we can say "naked eye visible in times past" but wikipedia says mag 2.5 and in a modern night sky in an urban setting it won't stand out.
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Did I say it's a single person? No. I said (implied) that it has an end game.

If you have no insight on Google internals, you really have nothing to reply to my question (as other's responses to your comment show).
The IT workplace has not been like family in ~10 years in my experience.

Lacking in perks, no loyalty, pay is stifled, no company events etc.
I gave you a star, good luck to you, I have a similar project
decades of our immoral consumption condensed down to nine month
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> I have been in a startup where competitors used our sequential keys to scrape a list of customers.

If your system allows customers to see each other (or worse: unauthenticated users to see customers) in this fashion in the first place then whether you're using a sequential integer v. a random UUID is the least of your problems.
Flawed, scandalous trials tank FDA expert support for MDMA therapy
I care. It's annoying that they're getting rid of this because I use it so my company can't spy on my Internet browsing.
Perhaps you can explain the joke, and why it's funny for you..? I do enjoy jokexplainings, not as much as a joke I do understand, but even more than jokes that I didn't get.. ;)
> On a dev machine? Not on mine for sure. If you think swap is a net positive on a dev machine, then try pasting the following (wrong) code in a bash prompt on Linux:

> We can discuss the results in a couple of hours, when you recover control of your machine. (Note: with no swap and no z-ram, it crashes after 10 seconds; no side effects.)

That might be true for this contrived example. But my real-world experience is exactly the opposite.

In a case of memory over-usage (in my case because of working in a huge bazel project and several browsers open + some electron apps):

- without swap, the system at one point just got immediately so incredibly slow, that the only thing I could reasonably still do was to restart my machine, while

- with swap, the system (at higher memory usage) just got noticably slower and I could close some app / the browser to get into the normal usable regime again.
What would you need to see, short of the actual end of the world, to take the risk seriously?

I don't have to be in a car crash or get shot in the head to know this is a bad thing, and nobody sane is going to bother causing the end of the world just to convince you it's possible.
are the comics written by ai? the app store says they're "crafted by some of the web's bestselling authors"
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With this track record, I'm still in awe that there are any serious companies that use GCP. Unless you have a good migration strategy / contingency plan, you're letting your companies' bottom line being held hostage by a fickle and unfocused dog chasing every garbage truck that comes into his field of vision...
Fixing the page file's size made sense for the time.

The page file would have resided on HDDs, having the size fixed meant it would occupy one contiguous chunk of space on the platters thereby maximizing access speed and latency. A page file of variable size would inevitably become fragmented, which manifests as horrible access speed and latency.

Nowadays with the page file residing on SSDs this advice isn't relevant anymore, but that doesn't mean it wasn't relevant during its time.

As an aside, I still stick to the RAMx1.5=Swap rule because I'm just far too lazy to really optimize it, drive space is cheap now, and I still don't trust Windows to be smart with sizing it. Yes, that means I have a 96GB page file in my Windows 11 machine with 64GB of RAM; yes, it works and I don't care any further. :V
1) why would they do that to them !?
Well my money in lent to banks that lend to each other, so this could just as easily apply to anyone. Nobody really controls the T bill market.
Well, that’s the idea, to look at it the other way, like the anthropic principle does. Whether you consider that “wrong” is up to you, I think it is highly subjective.
Yes I can. I completed MDMA Assisted Therapy last year and this year I'm having the best summer of my life. I'm 39 years old. I was abused as a child by my father and subsequently struggled my entire life with drug addiction, depression, suicide attempts, and bad relationships. I'm lucky to be alive. I've been in therapy for YEARS without ever talking about what my Dad did to me. Therapy was always about putting out the fires in my life. It was too difficult to talk about what happened in my home. I was diagnosed with PTSD. Literally 3 MDMA Assisted Therapy Sessions and a few regular talk sessions in between was all it took for me to heal. MDMA turns off your amygdala so you're no longer afraid to talk about the traumatic experiences. Being able to finally process my trauma in those three 7 hour sessions was what I needed to get my life back on track. Of course I had to do the therapy underground because the shit drug war took this treatment away from the therapists who knew that it worked.

The FDA panel's decision really bummed me out today. I want this treatment to be available to people who need it because it really works!
You can adjust the tax to be as high as you want to speed up the transition to be as fast as you want.
Medieval Europeans were able to increase crop yields (given same conditions) compared to the Romans without an industrial revolution. There was still a lot of space for (in hindsight very simple and obvious compared to steam engines) innovation left.
I had previously commented 5 months ago:

> I've been skeptical that this practice would have long-lasting benefits, but a 2020 study[0] measured outcomes 12 months after the final MDMA-assisted therapy session and saw strong results. Nearly half the participants ceased lifelong suicidal ideation for the full year following treatment.

> 0: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-020-05548-2

But this ArsTechnica article contains so much damning information I'm not confident at all in the study's results. In addition to the concerns previous raised on HN, this article includes the following novel information:

> A few researchers who offered public comment noted that the psychotherapy technique used along with MDMA is not evidence-based. They also claimed that the touch-based psychotherapy technique that Lykos used for the trial ties to dubious cult-like new-age psychospiritual therapy, which, among other things, intends to bring about a "global spiritualized society" and suggests suicidal ideation stems from suffering that occurred in the birth canal. This therapy has the potential to allow for abuse and exploitation, the researchers claimed in their public comment. At least one participant in the trial has accused a therapist involved with the trial of sexual assault during the trial's therapy sessions.
> The Big 3 sell most of their US-made cars in Europe with the only actually notable exception being some members of the F150 series; almost all of the Toyota cars sold in the NA market are US and Canadian made

What? First, one of the "US big 3" is Stellantis, which is an European company with significant holdings and market share in the US (Fiat having bought Chrysler, and the two of them later merged with PSA (Peugeot, Citroen, Opel/Vauxhall)). They sell most of their vehicles in Europe because that's where most of their brands and customers and manufacturing is. Funnily last time I was in the US I saw a surprising number Ram vans which are just rebadged Fiat Ducato/Peugeot Boxer/Citroen Jumper.

Second, General Motors doesn't really operate in Europe anymore after selling Opel to PSA, only a few niche sport models.

The third "big three", Ford, has a completely different lineup in Europe because Ford Europe operates quite separately, and was the origin of most smaller than a massive pickup truck Ford designs (Focus, Fiesta, Kuga, Ka etc.), some of which Ford imported to sell to the US market, but none of which were successful. Ford US sells trucks, Ford Europe sells normal cars, compact SUVs and small vans (Ford Transit Connect, which is better than trucks at 90% of what trucks supposedly are for).
> Now you have some legacy prefix that cannot be changed

Yes you can.

You can support the old cus_<ID> prefix as well as the new org_<ID> prefix, but always return org_<ID> from now on
"Is Betteridge's Law Always Right?"
So my recent reads have included:

Determined: the science of life without free will by Robert Salpolsky. I rate it 4/5

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. I give it a 3/5

Social Engineering: The science of Human Hacking by Chris Hadnagy. I rate it 2.5/5

Influence: The psychology of persuasion by Robert Cialdini. I rate it 5/5

I’m in the midst of reading…

Thinking fast and slow, by Daniel Kahneman

And the next in my queue is

Likewar: The weaponisation of social media by Singer and Brooking.
Back in 2011, right as the iPad was launched and no one quite knew what to do with these things, my brother and I made a children's book app called "Jack and Joe". It did pretty well, and even got reviewed by Engadget. We didn't have time to keep it up to date over the years, so it was eventually pulled from the app store. It's been an itch for years to redo the book with all the game development knowledge I learned in Unity so over the last year, I took all the assets and redid the entire thing with Unity. I'm quite happy with the results, and the process was SO much easier than when we wrote this stuff with Xcode back in the day! Another upside of using Unity was that pushing an Android version out basically took me 10 minutes (+ testing of course).
Aren't 288 cores with low cache going to be memory-starved with 12 channels?
I feel like https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid is the solution to this
This kind of reporting really annoys me. The news is the aggregate. It's the fact that on average the CEO pay went up by more than worker pay. To bring context to this they get a quote from someone, and the quote literally could have been said any year in the last 50 years. You know, unlike previous years, this year boards really want to retain good CEOS. Ok yeah, because we all remember 2018 when a number of boards fired CEOs they thought were doing a great job. Sure, Broadcom is killing it, but are we really going to justify this average by focusing on the 1 guy that like 20x'd his company over the last 15 years?

Note how the article doesn't mention the performance of any CEO at the bottom of the list? Or any CEO whose compensation rose but shareprice fell?

Really we want to see 2 things: How much of executive pay increases are accounted for simply by the stock market moving upwards on average (ie, compensation not correlated with individual CEO performance) and how much of the average is impacted by distributional effects (ie, did Broadcom really just move the whole market on its own). Neither question answered by the article.
I don't need 211 tabs open. One tab is enough to notice the difference.
Uh, they don’t need to understand how it works to recognize how it does not work.

> A common definition of a rational agent (human or artificial), which the authors adopted, is whether it reasons according to the rules of logic and probability.

Assuming that definition then LLMs clearly do not start from those two first principles; it is manifestly obvious that the rules of logic are not programmed into them explicitly, and since you acknowledge that LLMs cannot cope with mathematical operations (the underpinning of said rules) they also cannot have discovered either the rules of logic or probability implicitly.

Again, if relying solely on that definition (whatever the value of doing so) then it’s perfectly rational to label LLMs as irrational.
> * Healthcare insurance - employees of SMBs automatically get access to medicare

Perhaps better decouple healthcare insurance from employment status? (Perhaps remove the tax dodge where companies can buy health insurance cheaper than individuals can?)
Why is such a thing called a slug?
MDMA therapy for PTSD rejected by FDA panel
That’s because on the Switch they figured out how to bind online sessions to digital certificates unique per game copy signed by Nintendo themselves. This way “copied” games can’t get online without being detected.

The 3DS didn’t have any of those checks so you could actually play online with pirated games.
Have never seen decimal notation for a year-month event before (but of course it makes calculations easier).

> the T CrB Pre-eruption Dip has already started in March/April of this year. If the Dip in 2023 is similar in timing to that in 1945, then the primary eruption should occur roughly 1.1±0.3 years later, or in 2024.4±0.3.
Look into bfp tools
it's 50/50