skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between Tyson and my HN account is that I do not have the platform to influence anyone of anything. Tyson actively goes out of his way to influence people (with good intentions!) and bring science into their lives. He has the responsibility to not make it seem like all academics walk around with an aura of "i am very smart". Academics have a hard enough time with their public perception.

The behaviour he displays -- and is admired for -- seems overly destructive for no benefit. You may disagree.
blackbird_tm is right that there is no high-res display capability, but if you are ok with alternative methods of interaction, such as audio, OLED display, VNC, web, etc., it could be used as a "computing device." You could also use a USB video card from what I've heard, but of course that would be a rather lame laptop. It has a fair amount of storage, decent CPU, and runs Linux well in my experience.
In AWS, so we understand there will be some extra costs sending data to BigQuery.
That depends on how much of that data is still on a server somewhere.
Would love to read more about this anecdote.

Either way, I'm not sure that it points to marketing as a core competence over apparel design (though it may point the focus of the design away from the athlete).
Is it so much to ask for silence at my own desk?
> Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]

I know people who gleefully say 'ice cream burns calories!' while scarfing down a huge portion of desert. It's thanks to these fantasy articles where doing something easy or damaging is the same as exercising or eating healthy.
If I'm a Trump supporter who sees a fake story about how Hillary's email are proof of treason why would I did into it? It tells me exactly what I want to hear.

This gets even easier if you are misleading and manipulating facts rather than outright making them up. The pope endorsed trump sounds immediately made up, and has nothing to back it up. Hillary conspired to keep drug prices high, when "backed up" by emails is easier to believe. If I already believe she's corrupt then why would I doubt more evidence.
Libreoffice can do this so I guess Latex would be able to do that too.
One reason to optimise is to try and get it to fit into cache. I don't know if this tool would help with that or not, but it's an excellent way to try and optimise cache residency of your binary.
Brand ? Link ?? (Thx)
no to all, because any risk is bad, because marginal utility is decreasing.
(said by a third party, Samuel Butler)
"his iconic column from those tumultuous days. “A Death in Emergency Room One” chronicles Nov. 22, 1963, from the attending emergency-room surgeon in Dallas."

These are important documents. Written within 24 hours of the JFK assassination, the information collected by a trained journalist reporting from first hand witnesses in print. This: Large hole in back of head, you don't see this in the Zapruda film. First time I've heard of a .25cal round being reported; 7.65, 0.223, .45, 6.55 but not a .25

"The occipitoparietal, which is a part of the back of the head, had a huge flap. The damage a .25-caliber bullet does as it comes out of a person’s body is unbelievable."

then this: Already the press is reporting that a lone shooter is known and confirmed.

"The ugly kind of factory window. Particularly at the corner window on the sixth floor, the one where this Oswald and his scrambled egg of a mind stood with the rifle so he could kill the president."

Think about this. Hole in the back of the head, but we have a lone shooter from ^behind^.
Having recently read "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" [1] by the brilliant primatologist Frans de Waal, the whole introductory paragraph reeks of the "humans only" dogma.

Even the link to the Wikipedia article directly contradicts the statement of humans being the only species to bury their dead.

How counter-intuitive it is: so many aspects of evolution we accept as continuum with shared phenotypes (and extended phenotypes) all the way through, yet when it comes to our intelligence and specialness, we forget all of this.

[1] http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-...
Getting Started with Machine Learning for Data Quality
>I think the "same metal at the cathode" might be an artifact of putting the springy foam block in to keep the boulders intact. You couldn't switch the anode and the cathode any more easily than you could swap the elevations of the ridges and the valley. That is, it takes as much energy to do the physical rearrangement as it would to charge the system electrically.

That is the case in normal batteries, but in this battery the start and end product are both just lithium metal- not intercalated into graphite or bound to sulfur, literally just solid lithium. There's no (obvious) place for the energy to be hiding. It would appear that you could just scrape it off and receive free energy.
> Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.

With a very important caveat in the report:

> Because all of the studies in the evidence base were observational epidemiologic studies
with no randomized controlled trials, the data cannot prove causality of effect.

People who don't feel that great when they exercise (despite everyone urging them to exercise) are probably not in the best health. The pervasive advice to exercise more will by itself confound the studies, because healthier people will tend to self-select into the "exercise" group.
The article was talking about corporate income taxes. The fact that they also paid property taxes doesn't add much to the conversation, and that's even more the case about whether their employees happened to pay personal income taxes.
It's only rock 'n' roll but I like it ...
LOL

I actually don't use differential privacy at all!

My software implements legal requirements as stated by the agency providing the data. Which are equivalent to a stronger version of K-Anonymity.

I am not at all against Policy Research, the issue is that this particular paper is a spectacularly BAD example of Policy Research. Policy research should not be driven by FUD around AI (e.g. the quote "did not constrain the company from using AI analytical techniques on the data") or some corporation.
If you're replicating a study with your rig, you aren't doing something else with it.

Moreover, replication by the same team isn't what's usually understood by "replication". A large part of the point is that others confirm a scientist's findings.
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This is a discipline where machine learning could vastly accelerate productivity. Imagine having automated interpolation between frames. Hand-draw every 5 frames, render out to 60 fps.

Not to mention automated style coherence between artists.

Future artists will likely indirectly manipulate their art, influencing various forms of machine learning that will do most of the leg work. In a way, matte painting artists already work in similar fashion. Their art usually begins as pre-existing images that are manually blended into a coherent image, with original work added later.
Some of our services are basically just a Dockerfile and an executable. Shrinking a 14MB binary to 3MB takes 10 seconds with upx and is just another step in our build process.

I'd rather send or receive a 3MB file instead of a 14MB.
Yeah, categorization helps, but how would you address this with respect to a mailing list? Currently I send one message to all per post. Personally, the blogs that mail me multiple small posts per week are the ones I filter (then rarely or never read) or unsubscribe from. Perhaps there'd be value in letting people subscribe to "all posts" or "big posts only".
Well, yes and no. Yes, to a certain extent papers don't have enough details for replication, but this is mainly because you just can't fit enough details into the scope of a journal paper. In a PhD thesis, you should be able to.

And no, it's not that replication becomes a guessing exercise, but it's the fact that the time spent setting up, debugging and then running a replication of even a perfectly described benchtop-style experiment costs much much more than the actual equipment involved. And the ROI is poor, since replication studies are hard to publish.
Amusingly, I find point #4 (which you skipped) completely reprehensible and unambiguously the worst offender. All these sorts of arrangements are done within a legal context. If they satisfied the legal requirements, then the other points lose their punch.

3. If you want to learn new insights, you — by definition — need to include data that a priori don't seem directly related. This point even notes that the data was technically and legally well-scoped.

5. Sounds like they were within the terms of the existing data privacy agreements given 6. Again, I don't know UK privacy laws.

6. My impression from the paper is that they're not only trying to manage AKI but also improve the detection of it. Ok, sure, they're not going to improve detection in deceased or transferred patients. Those probably should have been minimized.
I'm always pleased to see ecommerce thats more simple than Magento et al.

Good luck!
Actually 20% is dwarfed by other interventions. "Swedish study demonstrated that over a 20- year period, women who avoided the sun were TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE OF ANY CAUSE, as women who were sun-seekers" referring to:

Lindqvist PG, Epstein E, Nielsen K, Landin-Olsson M, Ingvar C, Olsson H. Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort.
J Intern Med. 2016 Oct;280(4):375-87

Lindqvist PG, Epstein E, Landin-Olsson M, Ingvar C, Nielsen K, Stenbeck M, Olsson H. Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality: results from the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort. J Intern Med. 2014 Jul;276(1):77-86
> I don't understand how secrets being committed to the same repository implies anything you've written. They don't have to be compiled in.

If they're part of your repo and built with the app, presumably they're baked into the final tarball or whatever artifact you're composing. Modifying them would require expanding out the package, replacing or adding a file, and packaging it up again.

Compare that to having an entirely externalized setup where the application knows nothing about where it's config comes from. Switching things out is purely externally. This means that setting up a new environment can be done using the exact build aritfact that was deployed to production.

> Yes, you have to create a new build for each config change, but in reality code changes are much more frequent than env changes so we didn't find this being an issue at all.

All the more reason to keep them entirely separate. Changing code shouldn't involve changing configs and the people who have access to them aren't necessarily the same set either.

One more point on this, is if you happen to support an enterprise / on-premises use case. It'd be pretty silly to have env.tom.on-premises-customer-A, env.tom.on-premises-customer-C, env.tom.on-premises-customer-C, ... checked into source control. Yes you can have a separate package step for on-premises that cleans it up but if it's not there in the first place, you don't have to.
>Whether one believes this is morally right is one thing (whether the rich should have a louder voice though their resources), but I do think the intent of the rich is less sinister than we often frame it.

People by default seem to put their faith in a works-based salvation, and this may explain why so many religions also tend in that direction (Judaism, Catholicism, many-Protestant bodies, ad infinitum). The end-product of this mindset, especially in cases of magnificently wealthy benefactors or societies, is more often than not a meddling--and ultimately misanthropic--Pharisaism tending toward vainglory.

Lurking somewhere behind the Puritans' stocks and gallows, the Jacobin Club's guillotines, and the Abolitionists' fiery marches-to-the-sea was a prospering, yet militant, charity directed anywhere but inward. Likewise, the works-based religion of today's Soroses, Rothschilds, and Rockefellers, while on the surface resembling the myopically raceless utopia of Star Trek, will likely violently unravel as has most movements led by uncritical men convinced of their own ability to earn salvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_fide
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"In July 2015, clinicians from British public hospitals within the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust approached Google DeepMind Technologies Limited, an artificial intelligence company with no experience in providing healthcare services, about developing software using patient data from the Trust."

Actually, the institution which collects and stores the data handed it over without due process. The article keeps trying to blame DeepMind, I guess criticising the NHS is a little stale. I think this is in a journal because it is too long for an op-ed but not substantial enough for a long form article.
The promise of future trillions doesn't help when you need, say, 300k right now, not to mention that you can't pull requisite expertise out of thin air.

Again, replication is crucial. It's a Good Thing. It's just not a trivial thing that we can expect to "just happen".
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Also for anthropomorphizing atoms. Sulfur seems very grumpy.
If one assumes the article is false - but in any case I can assure you that excuses not to exercise aren't rare or hard to find. I'm using one right now!
Yeah, it has its weaknesses and also from my comment below: "So I read the study for fun and the non-adjusted rates are 3.84% death rate (cohort study) in no exercise vs. 2.35% in 1-30 minutes and 2.08% in more. And that's not adjusted for pre-existing conditions if I understood correctly. So meh. Even though 20% and 20% sounds really great!"

I didn't find anything there for longer periods of time but odds ratio is not a great indicator if your base chance of dying is already really low. Or maybe spend the whole week exercising to squeeze that last 0.1% out of your chance of dying.
Really, got any references for that? Specifically Australian law please.
Smaller code/data fits better into lower level caches, which are faster than the disk/ram.

Also think of smartphones. People often complain about app sizes, because they often just have 16 or 32 GB.
Disavowing definitely hurt my website. I disavowed a handful of the most spammy links and I dropped from the consistently 2nd search result to 4th quickly. I "un-disavowed" and now back to 3rd.

Problem for me was I didn't know if I was getting hurt by the spammy links or not. You don't know if you have a problem or not.
It did come across as xenophobic, and as a remote developer I found it a bit insulting, although I understand where you come from.

Yes, you have to weigh the risks and rewards, and if having your app source code disseminated would break you, then I'd want a high degree of control too. I have been given quite a lot of trust in my remote jobs and I haven't breached it, but I believe the companies involved would have been able to sue (so they weren't as helpless as an individual coder), and even if I had turned out to be morally corrupt, it wasn't something where stealing it would have given me much of a material advantage anyways (enterprise code is very much tailored to fit).
> I disagree, the advantage of Docker is that you can slap an image together by doing essentially what you were doing - running a couple of apt install commands, pip install -r requirements.txt, copy a few files and it's done.

IMO that is the problem with Docker. People think that Docker somehow does anything for dependency management. It is an illusion because when you make or move a project into Docker you are essentially starting a new project, and new projects do not have dependency management problems. In a couple of years as people start upgrading components in their Docker-hosted apps dependency management and version conflict problems are going to appear, and will now be harder to resolve because image layering adds many possible failure points (not just at each layer, but also interactions between layers).

Docker is a convenient way to deploy Linux containers, but IMO it is a ticking time bomb when it comes to dependency management.
>binge drinking is good

We all wish. Binge drinking is great if you want to put on some fat :) Sorry, I have some bad news for you.

The evidence here is unfortunately pretty strong - binge drinking causes all sorts of negative effects, upsetting your metabolism and muscle synthesis.

Population studies of alcohol consumption overall show that even minimal drinking habits (1/day) increase your risk of death from various cancers and issues. It's offset by reduction in cardiovascular deaths until a break-even of about 3/day for men.

Most of these studies are self-reported, based off correlation not causation. Health problems lead some to a reduction in drinking. I'm unconvinced the benefits are real. We just enjoy drinking too damn much.

A standard drink is often much less than what we'll consider a drink. A 20oz pint of some strong craft beer can hit 3 standard drinks. Optimal dosages based on a health Canada study were 0.25 drinks for women and 0.5 for men. Enjoy your half-can of beer!

Don't drink for the health benefits. They're at best overstated and, if they do exist, are likely better obtained by doing something we've actually tested for causality.
Of course I look for cars before crossing the street. It is not a question of wandering through life like some errant child doing whatever I please; to the contrary, it requires the full engagement of my human faculties and abilities.

At the same time, I am not so arrogant as to think that I have control over the larger circumstances in which I find myself. The economy could collapse, my family members could fall ill, war and famine could break out, society could become degraded and violent, the government could oppress me and those I love because of our beliefs. To me, it is far less rational to think that insurance or any of the other social structures available today will be of any assistance in those circumstances.

And it is completely irrational to believe that man has created all of the universe, or that somehow order was imposed on chaos without some divine intelligence directing things. On a more practical note, it is also irrational to assume that the very favorable (at least for a majority of the people) circumstances that have prevailed in the U.S. for the last couple of centuries will continue indefinitely. History demonstrates that the opposite of that is more likely in the long run.

But you're right, there's probably not much point in arguing, since you're not coming at it from a rational perspective to begin with. ;p
For those in Vancouver, it is playing at the Rio Theatre tomorrow as part of a double-feature.

See you there!!
Then you can't offer the features and efficiency that the competitors' models do. Replacing the simple mechanisms of yesteryear with microcontrollers and sensors is how our appliances have become so much more efficient, just like humans have become the dominant species on this planet by having the most complex brain, instead of trying to get by with the mental abilities of an amoeba.
This. Its like learning how to do anything else using edges like surfing, ice skating, skiing. First you learn how to balance and then you learn how to turn. After that, you can basically ski 50% of most mountains (that is in bounds terrain). Just keep falling and watching how other people transition between edges and you'll figure it out pretty quick.
> Yes, CIG is absolutely the most transparent game studio of all time. I say this with over 13 years experience in and around the games industry.

If that's the best you've seen, I would recommend you to Riot Games excellent series of blog articles on their game design (principles, practice, front end, back end, player management etc). Or... Elite's dev blog and forums, which were excellent?

> As for Elite, that is an excellent example of a project that failed to deliver what it promised.

Uhhh.. no? I think it delivered everything I hoped for, and more? As a player of the original I've been delighted by the scope of the game. Feel welcome to disagree of course, but let's be clear that we're talking opinions not facts.

One thing is for sure: they delivered a game that has given me a lot of fun for a long time.

SC has delivered posts as you say, e.g. about deadlines - that they've missed - it's really much less useful for me in terms of my personal enjoyment.

> But game development is hard

Yes, but looking at peers with less money and grand goals, those peers actually achieved their goals, let's celebrate that maybe a bit more instead?

> So it really pisses me off ...

That's not actually an OK excuse for how you've been writing on here.

> It's possible to fail. You're on a forum where people build their own companies from scratch. Most of these people fail.

Sure, but it's not the 1970s. We should not be celebrating game companies that are in the process of possibly failing, holding them up as gems of the industry (as you appear to be doing, from my perspective), especially when many of their choices lead directly to missed deadlines and the absence of a game for me to play.

> You want points of reference, I invite you to look at game studios that actually "take the money and run". Start with Zynga, see how deep that rabbit hole goes.

Zynga delivered, over and over and over. What they delivered wasn't a game, arguably, more a skinner box, but you'd have a pretty hard time convincing me they entertained fewer people than SC has.

If I can sum up your arguments:

- Elite: a project that failed to deliver what they promised
- Zynga: a game studio that took the money and run

I simply can't see that you would get widespread agreement with those views. They are both profitable companies with hundreds of thousands more happy users of their products than SC has. Zynga in particular didn't even charge for many of their products, so it's a bit hard to claim they 'took the money and ran'.

Anyway, why don't we leave our discussion here. You can post again if you like but I won't respond to it, I don't believe either of us is presenting information that will persuade the other person of their view.
Or maybe maybe I have deeper knowledge of intricacies & current state of healthcare data.

Even the expert from Wellcome Trust thinks its “overly-critical”.
Interesting article, still a lot of unanswered questions and open areas for discussion...

Most of my life, I was pretty unemotional. I didn't cry watching movies or TV, and even personal matters never brought me to tears. At some point, just shy of 30 years old, everything changed. I was always empathetic, but, that went in to overdrive... Seeing someone else cry or watching a powerful moment on TV can trigger an instant welling of emotion.
Bryan Cantrill has a nice talk which starts with a bit of history on containers (chroot, FreeBSD jails, Solaris zones, etc.). https://youtu.be/hgN8pCMLI2U
I definitely agree with this. If nothing else, I like the idea of re-using bits of content across mediums. The blog just seems to be the easiest way to hit the masses without the constraint of a once a year conference schedule.