skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only have my resume on indeed. I used to have it on other places, but eventually removed them.

The other comment is correct, I meant sending out my resume, not posting it.
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Look, you obviously have an axe to grind. And you are conflating too many different things.

So I'll limit myself to the original point.

Science, particularly modern science, even with all its baggage and flaws and politics, is evidence based.

Evidence in this case is statistics and data. Those are not present, from many reasons (as an aside, I don't think there is any evidence of statistical trials being performed in the Vedas).

There is no work in medicine in the Vedas that satisfies this criteria. Ergo, it is not yet evidence based science. It's observational. Now, if the govt. through AYUSH [AYUSH added in edit] actually invests in performing clinical trials etc. and publishing them in peer reviewed journals, then your argument may hold water. You are conflating correlations with causation / evidence.
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I would bet that the ones that pay are probably more valuable for advertisers than the ones that don't pay.
>> there is no magic algorithm that bypasses this fact.

> Maybe there is

No, there isn't. We actually have a mathematical proof (which is quite simple) why this is impossible.

Specifically, following conditions can't be true at the same time: 1. groups differ in base rate 2. prediction isn't perfect 3. decision is correct at the same rate for groups 4. decision is correct at the same rate for groups, restricted to positive/negative class.

1 is a brute fact. Your toy example insinuates at 2. 3 is called calibration and what is usually optimized by machine learning. When people say algorithm is unfair, it usually means 4.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807
Probably. "Signs and statements that limit, or seem to
limit, consumers’ rights are unlawful"

https://cdn.tspace.gov.au/uploads/sites/60/2016/05/0553FT_AC...
There is no cost of fairness here. They're playing percentages. I'd rather have an algorithm make predictions than a human judge/prosecutor. If a certain group of people are disposed towards recidivism or not showing up for trial, it doesn't matter how much they've suffered in the past. That's a policy decision to reach out to them.
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>>One thing I’ve noticed is that nothing humans have invented or discovered is hard.

That is true if you are discovering or inventing it. Trying to understand what other people discovered or invented is hard as you are skipping the journey and arriving straight at the results, without going through the dead-ends, u-turns, restarts and various other ups and downs in the journey making many side discoveries including many meta discoveries alone the way.

There is this anecdote from the life of Richard Feynman, that he sort of put his physics textbook aside and worked through all of that on his own and discovered all of it on his own. The reason being its impossible to truly understand things in a deep fundamental way unless you discovered it yourself.

You can learn anything you want. But you have to embark on the journey of rediscovering all of that on your own.
As you posted yourself it's matter of taste, but I for instance simply can't stand another "Gandalf come and save the day" situation because everyone except very good authors heavily abuse such tropes.

I perfectly fine with this kind of stuff in something like Discworld because of nature of these books and how I read them, but for epic fantasy with more or less serious themes I expect events to have logic behind them. Sanderson's books still have mysteries, but they just served by the ways other than generic "magic". So there is plenty of things to make theories about during and after reading.
Incidentally "Driving While Black" is a fairly well-known phenomenon.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_while_black
>>But what if geography does have an influence on behavior because incidentally there is a lead-acid battery manufacturer who is a bit lax about dumping

I don't want to punish people for living in polluted areas therefore I don't include that data in the training set.

>>Or let's say the algorithm is deciding on insurance of some sort's premiums and someone is living next to a SuperFund site.

I am not ok with doing that therefore I don't include address in the data.

Am I ok with punishing people for living in poor/dangerous neighborhood? No? Then don't include that in the data. Am I ok with people paying more for car insurance if they drive in a city with more cars/accidents/worse driving culture? Yes? Then I include it in the data there.
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I recently bought some Bose headphones and saw that they had a big booklet of warranty terms and conditions. Then on the front of the booklet it said they none of it was applicable in Australia or New Zealand.

I expect this is due to the same "don't mislead the consumer as to their rights" issue.
For bigger brands, I am sure advertisers can use the audiences browsing patterns to predict their buying patterns and so therefore which ads to show them. An inversion of the basic advertising model.
> There are so many factors in morality that I think individually, case by case judgments are likely the best option.

What are the inputs to "case by case judgments" except Bayesian priors and observations about a specific case? Your brain isn't doing anything a computer model can't in principle do. My point isn't that any particular bail pricing model is acceptable. Instead, I'm arguing that a desire to escape "statistics" by giving up on models and punting to the brain is futile, since the brain is just going to use its own statistical model whether the owner of that brain is aware of it or not --- it must, since statistics is baked into the structure of knowledge, and the brain has no private source of truth.

There is no accessible realm of knowledge about the real world somehow exempt from statistics, since we never have complete knowledge, and statistics models our uncertainty.
If that were the gp's argument, I'd have no problem with it (heck--I'd agree with most of it).
I know but, when you are selective breeding for stuff like dwarfism, malformed skulls and other plethora of "cuteness" which are not exactly beneficial for the animal.
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See the iOS Security Guide page 55: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

It sounds like (although I'm not an expert) that it would still be impossible for them to encrypt files in higher data protection classes, since the iCloud backup keys are stored within iCloud Keychain, which is end-to-end encrypted.

Edit: and honestly if I'm misinterpreting that and it's an issue for a specific person, they should just use iTunes encrypted backups and not rely on iCloud.
haven't seen cayenne pepper studies. While for example drinking baking soda - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19276390

significantly slowing cancer spread with for example 4 months survival result - less than 40% of controls and more than 80% of baking soda drinker mice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834485/figure/...

The study has all the statistical bells and whistles. And its result perfectly matches our understanding of cancer spread process - local overproduction of acid from glucose aerobic glycolysis (dominating way of glucose consumption by cancer cells) results in dissolution of the ECM (which is mostly collagen) - and the probable mechanism of action of the baking soda on it.
In this case you're also exhibiting short-sightedness: why stop at the level of value for companies, why not think about what it takes to have a successful, stable, sustainable society?

What if in a few years for 80% of the people there will be now way they can add value to companies? Let them rot in the gettho's? Is that the society you want?
It sounds like you'd benefit from AWS Batch better for the scheduled tasks.

After everything is up and running, all you need to do is submit a job (from a lambda function, CLI, whatever works best for you).

Then, in cloudwatch event rules, you can setup a new rule that only triggers on failed jobs, which can then have a SNS/Lambda target.

Or, alternatively, setup a cloudwatch alarm on the actual event rule invocations.
There is Apple-accessible iCloud data, like anything accessible via iCloud.com. The “all” part of that is probably just over broad.

Like I said, technical people would be able to observe if Apple secretly changed their security architecture for China. Apple would also get sued if they didn’t disclose that your iMessages are no longer end to end encrypted when messaging someone in China. China just hasn’t cracked down on it because it’s not that popular.
>"Am I ok with punishing people for living in poor/dangerous neighborhood? No? Then don't include that in the data. Am I ok with people paying more for car insurance if they drive in a city with more cars/accidents/worse driving culture? Yes? Then I include it in the data there."

I'm not sure I can reconcile that.

1. in the first option, we're not applying the consequences random people, we'd be affecting those already found to have committed a crime.

2. in the second option, if we think we'd be affecting innocent people in option 1. why do we think we would not be affecting innocent people (good drivers who happen to live among poor drivers) in options 2?

That's to say, either both are right or both are wrong. I see the same effects in both.
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Yeah I know, they have LOTS of people, around fifth of word population
I'm sorry to say but I am happy to see that this is coming to an end.

These guys have delusions of grandeur. At best, they're good researchers looking into new and simpler programming paradigms. But the way they're talking about it is just horrific to me. It's full of "imagine a world where you could just..." and "we're building that world for you" BS.

I just hope Eve's failure is going to be a lesson in humility.
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I really enjoyed the blogpost!

> we knew we had to get with the times

There are already too many of us working on the web side of things! :p It's lovely to see someone crafting a fast native application instead of yet another electron app. Speaking of which, do you have any recommended literature for learning more about the things you're writing about?
How does this work with multiple monitors? Can I request the option for more control & longer record times? i.e. be able to set it any where between 1s-600s?

For context I downloaded OBS as much like you I was playing Fortnite BR and getting tired of having only static screenshots showing my win. OBS is ok but a performance hog. So your program looks awesome except 60 seconds is to short, sometimes the awesome play I want to share took longer than 60 seconds..

Also I play using an egpu on a second monitor so I only want to record that monitor playing. No reason to record the monitor showing discord.

Edit: I see you recommended quicktime for videos over a minute but as you've mentioned that takes up way too much diskspace to just leave running while you're playing. So I'm really hoping for some more options on the recording length.
You mention that you hear about most things through social channels. What are the chances those channels found out about those products through ads?

I don't necessarily see ads as a bad thing. As a consumer, I want to know if there is something that can improve my life or that I want. Once I canceled cable in my house, I found I stopped going to movies. This was actually a sad realization as I wanted to see a lot of them in theaters, but missed that window by quite a lot because I had literally no idea they were out.

As a creator, obviously ads are a fantastic way to get your product or service out there and get the ball rolling.

I don't want ads to be disruptive, but I also don't want them to be ignored completely. Finding that line is the hard part, and I'm hoping it's possible.
>>Sounds like a terrible idea. What if there is a community which just doesn't contain many dangerous people at all? If someone from this community commits a crime once in a blue moon they will be unfairly punished.

Now imagine if people were unfairly punished based on something they were born with and not where they lived.
The moon is tidally locked: rotates at the same speed that it resolves around the Earth. Therefore the same side always faces the Earth, modulo liberation.
I could pick some random piece of intrinsic tech you know nothing to devalue you quite easily. I work with TCP at a protocol level every. single. day. and I don't doubt that a decent mid-level SWE could pick it up in a less than a week, and be making clever modifications in less than a month. Standards aren't hard. Code isn't hard. Willingness to ask questions is hard. Knowing when you need to stop and think is hard. Dealing with people, in a way that respects their perspective and experience, is hard, and is the primary talent of any engineer, software or otherwise.
Since 2015

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/02/steam-refunds/
40 hours is not a good guess at a game's play time. Many indie games are around 4h long. I've played a story game that was only 2 hours long
Not always. High profits largely depends on the kind of competitive advantage (trade secrets, patents, market share etc) that can be deployed in one's sector, it is independent of industry.

A few counter-examples that illustrates my point:

1. Having a trade secret that allows only you to manufacture a good exclusively with high margins. The best known example is Coca Cola. They enjoy average gross margins of 60%.

https://ycharts.com/companies/KO/gross_profit_margin

2. Intel enjoys a near-monopoly in the hardware industry selling server CPUs. They enjoy 63% margins on ~$16b in quarterly revenue.

3. Professional services. I believe this one is self-evident because you can mostly get away with charging value-based prices instead of cost-based prices that is predominant in industries like manufacturing.

IBM Global Services contributes more than 60% of IBM's revenue which allows them to enjoy about 50% gross margins even though IBM GS has only been around since 1991. If industry maturity were truly a dominant factor, 26 years is more than enough time for their industry to "mature".
I am not a historian.

They may have been ahead of the Europeans in the past. But that’s irrelevant now. They are not ahead of modern civilisation.

And perhaps there’s some lost knowledge, but these alternative treatments as practiced now have never been shown to be effective.
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I don't quite understand your point. Race is explicitly not a factor in individual pre-trial detention decisions.

People are being placed in pre-trial detention because they're flight risks, as determined* by their marital status, whether or not they're unemployed, accused of a violent crime, with criminal records, etc.

As it turns out, people from race A overwhelmingly meet these criteria, leading to outcomes that the authors believe are unfair.

In fact, the authors are suggesting that race should be explicitly considered in these decisions, in order to balance intra-racial representations.

Given two people accused of the same crime, with the same job, marital and criminal history, the authors would detain one and release another, purely on the basis that one is white and one is black.

As I said, I don't think many people would agree with that definition of "fair."

* I don't know exactly what the model inputs are, I just made these up for demonstration purposes.
> In other words, the broader community should tolerate laxer pre-trial sentencing standards applied to people of race A, precisely because they commit more crime than people of race B?

Define "race".
Downvoting this comment is childish.

While you might disagree with it, it is relevant to the topic at hand that someone from Pinterest is willing to not only comment on the matter but enter a dialogue.
What if the game has a showstopper bug in hour #3 of gameplay?

It’s not fit for purpose.
Non-stop in the sense that there aren't any staged pauses, but she undoubtedly stopped to sleep at some point. What really blew my mind is that she finished 10 hours ahead of the next competitor.
Some good discussion in earlier postings too: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&pr...
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Truuue that. Not comp sci but ended up taught myself math, coding, and some philosophy.
I just saw another article[1] on a study using the same data set. It concluded that the COMPAS algorithm is no more accurate than random people given the task on Mechanical Turk.

Those researchers also designed a simple predictive model using only two factors as inputs: age and number of previous convictions. By comparison, COMPAS uses more than a hundred. To me, it doesn't sound like those extra factors end up contributing much.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217349...
> Sounds reasonable?

Not under the Australian consumer law. We’re (rightly) quite proud of the level of protection it affords consumers.
That's a key question - if dropping NN benefited just the titans, that would certainly be stifling the competition. But is it?

The most infamous example in the US is TMobile's Binge On, which has a pretty big list of participating services [1] including even a few porn sites. I just don't see evidence that this is tilting things further towards entrenched powers (yet).

1: https://www.t-mobile.com/offer/binge-on-streaming-video-list...
I'm playing devils advocate now. It may be securely stored today, but we cannot audit the system, and we cannot audit the updates to the system. If Apple wanted they could change this overnight without telling anyone.
He raised a seed funding for a programming language, that itself deserves credit. I think with your attitude, many innovators would have quit from their first or second try? Get a life buddy.
Sure there are lots of stuff I don't know, but I do want to learn at least the basics about them. Not even saying I think it is something wrong with people that don't think like that, only that they in that way are different. Different is good and is what bring progress. I hire people for doing stuff like electricity and doing service on my daily driver, not because I don't know how to do it but so I can use my time on other things. But to me going out to the garage and work on an old car is therapy, it is relaxing and take my mind off everything else
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How did he combat hypothermia?
It is different in important ways from the modern scientific method [1].

In particular, it omits (or has long since stopped):

- Developing testable (falsifiable) predictions

- Gathering data to test the predictions

- Refining, Altering, Expanding, or Rejecting Hypotheses

Modern science is actively doing all those things: constantly re-evaluating its own prior conclusions and testing against the most recent empirical data available.

Ayurveda, like many other traditional health practices, is an interesting source of hypotheses that can be tested by the modern scientific method - and we might learn a lot from doing just that - but it's by no means a fully verified system of knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#/media/File:...
>I don't think that's true at all outside of Mathematics.

Quite a few great math papers are written by people over 40, despite the flashy age restriction on the Fields Medal.
"Linux on a laptop still seems like an endless stupid time hole - I had the Ubuntu installer reliably kernel panic on me the other day."

Reading comments like this, I can't help but feeling that somebody is missing a trick here: I don't doubt your experience, and I've seen similar comments, but they don't match my experience at all, which is that Linux works with no tinkering. It would be really interesting to collect experience reports from folks like you, to see why there is such a divergence, and figure out what could be done about it. Back in the day, the worst cause of Windows crashes was basically a single problem: the quality of ATI drivers were bad, and once that was clear, it got fixed.
The author is trying to have some fun. Perhaps she’s trying to empathize with a beginner getting their head around what ECS is.

We all have different perspectives because the lenses with which we see the world are different. It’s possible you didn’t enjoy it because you’re not avid fantasy explorer gamer. Maybe you didn’t need an introduction to what ECS is.
Chill. You’re extrapolating incorrectly from that brief support document. It doesn’t say that Apple can read the other encrypted stuff. The security whitepaper notes that things like iCloud backups are encrypted with keys that are stuffed into the keychain, which is then transmitted end to end encrypted.
Call me paranoid but y’all seem petty unfazed by the seriousness of what’s being presented here.

Google and Facebook are going to stop growing in the next ten years which means unless cars start driving themselves soon, the gravy train is coming to a screeching halt.

That’ll be a site to see.
Are you suggesting that we discard notions of justice / law due to historical sentiment? Or do you mean that we should address issues or biases which might be formed because of these events?
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Thank you for your informed comment.

I don't' work in the field so I find it hard to interpret these studies. What's your opinion about the size of improvements in practice?

For example, How meaningful is the 20.3 point difference in Buschke SRT test?

Cohen's d (mean difference divided by SD) above 0.60 with the memory or attention seems good (73 % of the people who take the dose get above the mean test score). But difference that is detectable in a test is not telling me how big the effect would be in the daily performance unless I'm familiar with the test.
Oftentimes planned deliberately to achieve something that might not be obvious from the content or presentation of the paper.
What is effective prose? Understandable? Understandable with a little effort? Understandable with considerable effort?
Iterative parsing is your friend: http://boscoh.com/programming/reading-xml-serially.html

There used to be a big argument between DOM and SAX parsers, but iterative/streaming parsers nowadays offer a pretty good compromise.
They influenced swift and a whole bunch of other interactive IDEs with the research they did. Don’t use iPhone or Android if you don’t want to use these new languages
The refund rate on steam is like 10-20%. I'm sorry but that really only makes sense if people are using it as a demo/abusing it.

The products certainly aren't defective at that rate.
>In this case, for instance, turmeric has been used for medicinal properties in Asian cultures for centuries. Theories of evolution suggest that this wouldn't be the case (and it would've died a natural death), if there wasn't some merit.

Lots of things that are completely useless have been used for thousands of years for their medicinal purposes. The evolution argument only holds if there were some negative effects here. Anything that doesn't do harm to the body can easily integrate into the huge body of knowledge called superstition. Eating it is tasty and doesn't hurt, there's nothing more needed to explain that Asian cultures have it as a medicinal herb.

If it for example was good for you but caused somewhat unpleasant side-effects, your evolutionary argument might have more merit. Anything that works as well as homeopathy (it doesn't), but doesn't harm either (like homeopathy), won't be sorted out.