skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this somehow related to the article? The implicit assumption behind the linked study is that not all sciences are equally precise and robust.

Therefore "we should always trust science" and "we should never trust science" are simplistic; rather, we should trust a field to the degree it has reliable methods and robust and reproducible results. So far, so good. But the main finding in OP is that people's perceptions of a field's accuracy relative to other fields is not always correctly calibrated.

My institute sent me an invite to the "March for Science". I don't plan to participate because I don't think scientists should get political in their professional capacity. But to the extent that the March is trying to send the message: "you don't get to cherrypick which scientific results you like and defund the rest", I support it.
You're right.

I read the sidebar and it's a bit too shady but the content in this article is solid.

Thank you for posting the NYT link.
You know the quote I'm going to put here :)
It seems unethical for a company to tell you "our markup for this grocery store is 15%+" when in reality it was ~50%.
That only matters if the under-reporting is biased towards certain cities. If there's a general incentive, then the 6.8 average for the US is also lower than the real rate.
My impression is that physicists who say this usually don't know much about the theory and evidence for evolution. (I am trained in physics, I now do biophysics).

What about the beautiful and often very precise linear relationship between radioactive dating of the fossil record, and genetic dating using the molecular clock?

What about the beatiful correspondence often found between the principle components of genetic variation and geographical position (isolation by distance)?

What about all the biochemical discoveries related to DNA function (including the existence of DNA itself), how mutations occur, about heritability?

What about everything we've discovered about genome composition and how it changes over time? (duplicate genes, pseudogenes, transposons, hotspots of various kinds).

Is a DNA sequence less precise than a spectral line?
"We will have to write off one to two entire generations". This from one industrial client who manages a workforce in the rural and suburban south. Why? The skills gap. Drug abuse, particularly meth. Competition from disability, welfare and black market income sources. I've heard similar from other clients. Their contempt for politicians stems largely from their perceptions that rural/middle America has been left to rot as big cities and technology centers thrive. The recent election in the US should have been viewed by both sides as the mother of all wake-up calls for Congress and the President to deliver results. Instead... outright political civil war with both sides having blame.
The Baron Winstanley died in the early '90s, so it's unlikely.
I write code on weekends and after-hours. I've found that in order to build trust with clients and stay on top of new opportunities, I need to be responsive to emails. Product development is a little slower, but since I coded the entire platform, it takes relatively little time to roll out updates. As for work/life balance, I work from home with my wife and daughters and regularly take off an hour here or there. Not for everyone, but this works for me.
I grew up in a small town with some people like this and I think what you are observing is actually a hindsight view of the situation. The vast majority of the people were unable to get a job for some reason and then moved back home to ya know avoid starving. Then on your second point many of these people did not start out with a bad attitude but end up feeling like they constantly are struggling due to others treating them badly in jobs -- often due to a lack of skills or education. Then finally many of these people become depressed about their life situation and end up taking drugs to avoid dealing with how their life is not going in a good direction.

So while the things you mention can likely be true, the behaviors you are talking about are very much related to people having difficulties in their 20s finding jobs and potentially getting laid off or fired and then struggling to get a new job. Basically my thought is that many of these people need some place that will really "help" them. Meaning that they need a type of job that will give them a good chance and allow them to make mistakes. Then help them get off drugs or other things that are hindering them.

I really like Germany's trade school concept. There are tons of people who could do those jobs well and if you give them a shot to do that at a young age you give them a marketable skill. Some people just honestly don't do well in a super academic environment.

I think the government would be very smart to say lets make it practically free to have people in various areas hard hit to do some trade skills programs.

We as a society benefit if there are more plumbers and welders and carpenters.
>What should we do about it?
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>Government policy can make a difference, Furman argues. Improving education and access to college could help by making workers more attractive to employers. So would spending more on helping people find jobs, as other countries do. Providing child-care subsidies and paid leave could draw more men – and women — into the workforce. Expanding the tax subsidies offered to low-wage workers so jobs are more attractive would be a plus, too.

The Brookings institution rarely fails to advocate for corporation and profit-friendly solutions.

In the 30s, they solved (actually solved, rather than giving out corporate welfare) the problem with the PWA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration
Unfortunately it's a race to the bottom between delivery services.

I don't know about the US, but drivers here are paid peanuts and being contractors they'd actually lose money to make some deliveries.

In other words, parcel service companies are well known for being economical with the truth.
Appeals to nature are suspect, appeals to the irrelevancy of nature are outright dishonest.
Don't mistake personal anecdata for fact. I've personally seen it happen recently to friends (and experienced it in the past the last time we had a president many outside the US hated). Not saying it's universally a constant (otherwise I'd fall in the same trap you did), but it definitely happens.
A lot of the lessons here need to be built into the raising of young men. I can't claim to know all the topics we need to master, but hyping up and honoring any domestic labor has to be up there. Keeping a household running well is no joke. If you give any population a limited set of options for self and social worth, you're gonna have a bad time.
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(I've posted this before, but it's very relevant to this topic)

Learning to filter guesswork and scams from robust claims is easily the most important skill that the general pubic needs to learn. It's hard to progress in any other topic if you don't understand the basic methods for filtering good information from the many mistakes, misinterpretations, scams and other bad data.

Democracy and modern civilization itself requires at least some understanding of the scientific method. Sagan's warning in "The Demon-Haunted World"[1] was frighteningly prescient:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time --
when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all
the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome
technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing
the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the
ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;
when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our
critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good
and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition
and darkness...

Until the public "baloney detection kit"[2] (and uses it regularly), trying to teach other topics is probably a waste of time, especially when you aren't even speaking the same language[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

[2] https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-k...

[3] http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/05/31/more-than-just-resi...
> is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect?

We should be so lucky. Planetary scale can be rather large and slow. For instance the oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere took hundreds of millions of years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event#Time_l...
Can be done with a laptop, but this huge console features fast user interface with great feature discoverability and is arguably much better tool for creating music. If you connected some MIDI controllers to your laptop and spent few days mapping controls to knobs, you'd get a technically better system. Still, if some musicians prefer analog/vintage technology, why is it so important to prove them wrong?
> It's not unreasonable at all to want to know how much more using their service costs than if I were to go shopping myself

They're not intentionally obfuscating anything. You know how much your bill will be before you order. What it costs them is immaterial.

Would you expect a clothing store to tell you what their individual per-unit cost is for clothes you're buying, and to tell you how much money they're charging you for opening a storefront and negotiating with the manufacturer?
Can you explain further? Because this makes no sense on its face. If they get a discount on what the grocery store charges, then the final price after their markup should be closer to the store's price, not further.
Doubt the folks outside of HN is much interested in reading websites.
Outside the Valley and startup culture most companies looking for software developers in the US view a tenure of less than two years as being short, and a series of them indicates "job hopping."

I'm not commenting on whether that's a good or bad thing, because good or bad it's simply the way it is.
No. Drug-breakdown processes have long been studied, whereas this is something new. Drugs like caffeine are removed by metabolic enzymes in multiple stages - e.g. here is a flowchart of caffeine's metabolic pathway https://s3.pgkb.org/pathway/PA165884757.png?versionId=XtszC7...
How on Earth is this 'cross-platform'?
And men should tend the land. It brings character to labor physically. These sissys who have no callouses don't know what real work is. Living in artificial, concrete cages, people have lost touch with reality!

Oh wait, no. Tending the land is for women. Men should be out hunting.

/parody
It's the lower middle class who used to be able to afford to own a home in these areas that now can't, that are really hurt. I've seen this happen in small towns around rural upstate NY in the adirondack park where wealthy people from the city spend massive amounts of money on property and spend a holiday or two per year in them. The economies of these small towns are generally almost non existent and the couple holidays a year isn't enough to lift them up to match the ridiculous rise in real estate and property. It's a really unfortunate situation.
I think we should strive for something along the lines of each woman choosing for herself.
The reason I learned English was to read manuals and program my Soviet clone of ZX80.
Nice data munging out of Indeed.com here. The article author gives a detailed description of searching Indeed in a write-up linked from the original article as well (http://r4stats.com/articles/how-to-search-for-data-science-j...).

Just playing around with the search terms from that second linked article is also interesting - it would appear that many terms ("machine learning", "data science", "predictive modeling", some others) show that Amazon has the largest number of job listings from a single company - for "machine learning" Amazon shows 1706 listings out of 12499 or almost 14% of all listings . . . The way Amazon also pops out in other data science term searches is also interesting - at least in their job listings, Amazon seems to really be attempting to slurp up candidates with deeper data and stats skills.

For some time I have been somewhat cynical about data science. My impression has been that much of what has been pushed as data science jobs is thinly veiled data reporting gigs (just plain old business intelligence). While I still think data science is over-hyped, I think I need to reconsider just how critical it will be as a knowledge base or skill set. While there may not be a large number of deep learning jobs out there, the expectation that a data hacker can be expected to perform a linear or logistic regression against a set of gathered and cleaned data may be closer to fizz buzz than I previously assumed.

I am teaching an introductory programming class (using Python) this semester and students are definitely focused on data science as a career track.
its not a bad form of argument if its he truth. the world isn't black and white as much you might try and force to be.

I have taken a number of ubers that I wish had been regulated better: Both from safety and cleanliness.

Yes, the taxi medallion issue is wildly inappropriate at this point in time. But it obviously served a purpose.
Is it unethical for stores to advertise "savings up to 50%" and have most items not be on sale for 50%?
The problem is that when a 45yr old man dates a 25yr old girl all the women rabble and call him a pig, but when a woman will only date a man who 'can provide' its 'only natural'. You see the same issue crop up in tons of things. They tried to ban 'lad mags' in the U.K, but there was no talk of banning so-called kitchen romances (the shitty paperback stuff middle-adged moms love to buy in the supermarket). Iceland tried to ban strip clubs. Or imagine the backlash if there was a 'Magic Melissa' counterpart released to Magic Mike. I can already practically hear the feminist outrage..

Women of the West have succeeded in perpetually shaming men for enjoying life its vices, whilst simultaneously enjoying (and pretty much demanding to be celebrated for it) their own equivalent vices. Pretty disgusting when you take a objective look at it
Probably gonna be downvoted to hell by virtue signallers too.. I'd rather have a decent dialogue but oh well, can't win 'me all.
Then it's reasonable to keep these blocks as is! The definitely bring in more money into the city budget than an average block, and cost much less to maintain (no garbage collection, etc).

From that money, the city can finance things useful for the actual city inhabitants.
Pump and ..
My very uninformed and probably incorrect hunch is to increase the amount of water flow in your body before bed - i.e. drink a glass of water or two. Counterbalance in the case of any frequent urges to wake up in the middle of the night to urinate..
That I agree with.
It's not just capital controls. There is a lot of fraud in China that ends up being laundered in real estate here in Canada:

http://theprovince.com/business/real-estate/mysterious-wheel...
If you recall Maslow's hierarchy from high-school psychology, you will understand that if non-working men still have shelter and food (and television and internet in many cases) they have their most fundamental needs met. Internet (porn, games) provides sexual satisfaction and a sense of winning at something, leaving little in the way of motivational pressure to do more. TV is there as catch-all distraction in case lingering guilt remains.
(Bioinformatics) I wonder if he means not that evolution is false/unfalsifiable/irreproducible, but that it is not really a very predictive theory. I agree there is a lot of evidence that it happened and continues to happen, but predicting how it will happen, i.e., how an organism will evolve, what genes will mutate etc, in a certain environment, is very difficult and really basically impossible.

> What about the beatiful correspondence often found between the principle components of genetic variation and geographical position (isolation by distance)?

Funny you mention this. There is a student I work with trying to observe this with metagenomics data with much less success than you might imagine.
As far as we know, only at certain length scales and to a certain precision.
It sounds like to me randomdata is suggesting that personality or psychology is the 3rd missing variable, and that this psychological or personality trait leads to both joblessness and poor education.
> The workflow makes the sound. The lack of automation forces you to make choices. Forces your hand, literally.

You raise an excellent point here. A full-blown DAW is practically without limits: hundreds of tracks, unlimited effects on every track, any signal chain is possible.

But making art is about working within constraints. Most of the best art derives from the constraints as much - or more - as the capabilities of the devices or instruments used.

However there is a technical reason why these devices do sound different, and that is that they all impart euphonic distortion. Bass sounds "bigger." Treble sounds "clearer." Mixed tracks "glue together." Vocals "pop out." A sense of "depth of field" may be imparted. Technically speaking this is all "distortion" of the original signal.
This makes no sense, while Vox might sometimes post video stories on their discover platform, it's not particularly common that they do when compared to other partners such as mashable or buzzfeed.

Regardless, you see similar articles about Snap on websites that don't share any major investors with the company, so this argument doesn't really make sense.
Haha, I've always suspected that fastidious housekeeping could be a sort of Fisherian runaway [0], except it affects females more than males.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherian_runaway
Everything - since you have to cut corners and can't be involved %100 into each and every single task, you have to work extremely fast in order to make it look like it's moving slow. And of course you can't go faster than slow.
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
People using 10x leverage to get homes, what do you expect?
Yep. A Korean friend taught me the alphabet in high school and without any practice I can still remember it and slowly (slowly!) pronounce Korean writing today — it's nice and straightforward.
Pedantically, they'd still be reliant on MasterCard's systems, and their connectivity to them, but if MasterCard went down Monzo wouldn't be the only one with problems.
From the CEO's perspective I'm not convinced it is broken. See the top comment [1] from a recent thread:

"Every part of the UI has been A/B tested and placed there to maximize what linked-in values."

[1] Ask HN: Why LinkedIn's UI is so terrible? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629283
In Lisbon there's been quite a bit of foreign investment due to their visa program so you have the property market propped up from that.
Depending on the category of the merchant, the network charges an interchange fee, the cost of which is split between the issuing bank (which takes most of the cut), the card association, and the acquiring bank.

This isn't entirely correct. The interchange is the part of the transaction fee that goes to the issuer. The card network gets a scheme fee, and the acquirer/processor charge a fee on top of that. If a merchant pays the same rate, regardless of what type of card is used, (credit/debit, consumer/business) then the processor or acquiring is basically rounding up.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13796757 and marked it off-topic.
SAS is also a huge iceberg, without much in the way of open source culture that lends itself to visibility. A lot of SAS happens behind closed doors at megacorps.
Enough to be considered imperfect.
Hmm, that "forcing your hand" to do something is a point i maybe have underestimated. I'll adjust my judgement, thank you for your answer!
Care to explain why? What is this "nature of monzo operation" that solves errors quicker?

If anything, a small startups who has to redo everything from scratch with limited resources seems like there is huge room for errors, and not many people to support and fix them 24/7.
Your post also seems like a wild generalization, to be honest.

I spent some time living abroad in the Bush years, in a variety of places where Westerners almost never go. (I hate the beaten path...if I can see photos of it on Flickr, I don't need to go there myself. That should help you figure out where all I've been ;) )

Based on the anti-American sentiment I saw there, then, anti-American sentiment in many parts of the world would not at all surprise me now.

And I didn't sew any flag on my backpack, but I sure didn't tell people I was an American; I speak another language well enough (and with an indistinct accent) that I usually told people I was from a non-Western country entirely.

If for nothing else, the haggling. Just passing as a non-Westerner got my prices in North Africa cut by 90% every. single. time.

Hah, maybe they just liked your money!
Can't recall ever getting a customer support notification, but do get notifications on spend and other expected events.
What Are Sum, Product, and Pi Types?
> One generation behind us, women still sort of relied on men, and now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise.

You mean the system was heavily stacked to make women reliant on men. I won't call that a compromise.

The tables haven't turned, the game changed. We have drastically removed many of the forces meant to keep women as dependents of men. If the tables had turned, then men would be systematically be kept out of jobs, particularly high paying careers. They most certainly are not being kept out of those jobs.
Laugh all you want. Your kind is being outbred.
Very true. It's definitely now a situation where we are dealing with the fallout from years of not dealing with the problem. Yea I recently read a story where a factory tried to hire around 50 people and could only hire a small number due to the vast majority failing drug tests. I was actually fairly surprised to hear that. So yea now we are dealing with the problem that has been festering and getting worse for years..
Being a regular vergecast listener they regularly disclose that the verge which is part of vox is invested by comcast. It's interesting that vox wouldn't when it's other publications do so even when they are just riffing in their podcast.
We also spent millennia believing the earth is flat. I see your point that "Religious people who live according to traditional gender roles then outbreed the atheists" which is definitely a worry of mine too. I've recently begun wondering about the value of my parents' old fashioned values, that if you're a productive member of society and you don't have kids, you're a drain on society. The problem there with that argument is the same problem with the "if you don't vote don't complain" argument but there is an element of truth to it.

I also think that if women provide, nothing prevents them from having children, whether with men or otherwise. Men will still have to protect and provide in relationships, but it will be as partners in relationships do, not as men being men. A far cry from useless.
Sure, provided that the long-term consequences of her actions are carefully discussed.