skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with all of this is that the reducto-scientific paradigm for understanding science has long been extended to communicating and teaching about science.

As the author does a really nice job explaining, and as seen in the Fisher quote, these articulations of heuristics and guidelines are often taken as closed form rules.

Look beyond statistics and you see it everywhere. Common ones include entrepreneurship and design...in both areas, experts' ways of thinking are often highly situated, highly metacognitive, and the actions they take are inherently inseparable from their thinking process. However, because of the academic drive towards objective/deterministic/observable phenomenon the research tends to report and attribute only the actions. The result is that those actions, rather than the underlying thinking processes, are valued and taught.

The result is simulations of expertise masquarading as knowledge. Its one thing when its students, but as you are seeing in psychology's 'replication crisis' (which, side note, is kind of a metaversion of its own critique) it can create real problems when surface level understanding is accepted and generalized as a normative 'truth' in a field. You see it in economics and business a lot...strive to appear scientific, but do so in ways that inherently betray the underlying structure of what you are studying. It comes from an underlying value in those communities, and society, that the only truth is objective truth.

If I have an experiment where I am screening 5 possible predictors and I get p values of .9 for 4 of them and .52 for 1...I would be an idiot not to pursue the 1. if I get 4 .49s and 1 .00000000001...same thing. Statistics is relative, literally.

[happy to provide citations...not sure anyone really cares]
I do the same thing! I'm also a taichi practitioner and am constantly working on my gait and posture.

What kind/style of taichi do you practice? I do Chen style under a guy in Montreal and try to get to workshops when the big guys are in the northeast.
the metropolitan North East pooh-pooh-ing the West

That's the other side of the historical pattern. It also happened between Europe and the "New World."

My Louisiana Creole girlfriend (at the time) and I showed up for a concert with Joanna Newsom and Phillip Glass. Let me assure you that there are older West Coast elites who can wonder aloud about you and look down their nose at you just as much as Mainline and old New England preppies. (Basically the fans of Phillip Glass wondering about the Joanna Newsom fandom hoi polloi.)
I stopped sitting on toilets about 14 years ago after a camping trip when I realized how much I preferred squatting. I will never go back unless forced to due to injury.
Maybe there are people who don't "need a team" - but it is exceptionally rare to find people who aren't better with a team.
Well, you don't have tech workers offing themselves with fentanyl in record numbers, at least.
Sounds phenomenal - hopefully you can spin up a few more servers so the home page will load under all this interest :)

UPDATE: the tutorials just loaded... looks AMAZING!
I know the question may not be directed to myself, but I will answer why I believe in Bitcoin.
The real value is in the Decentralised/P2P store of money. This allows not just people, but entities and even software can "own" bitcoin.

For example a coffee machine that accept BTC, it can then pay for the water, electricity and buy more beans, milk etc from the Bitcoin it earns itself without human attention. Arguably easier to track the profitability and economics of the machine, with less effort - still needs to be cleaned and refilled (for now!).

You could take this one concept and apply them to things like self-driving cars or mobile phones.
Weird. I never read these kinds of articles. I always assumed they were just promotional material for whatever the subject has lined up. I came away liking Donald Glover less. His outlook on the world is pretty negative for someone who has been as successful as he has.
I thought they same reading this thread, but there's two huge problems with that:

a) Once you know the chunk size, you can determine based on pricing whether another customer has that data, which can have huge privacy implications.

E.g. let's say we both work at the same company and get the same salary statement PDF aside from the dollar number & your name (which I know).

I can simply brute-force craft a file that changes that number around and upload it to iCloud, when I stop paying for storage I know I've cracked what's on your drive.

In any case, I'd be surprised if Apple's not already leaking this information due to caching in a way that could be revealed via timing attacks.

b) It'll lead to hugely erratic pricing for consumers. E.g. let's say you download 100TB of movies from BitTorrent, now you pay almost nothing for it, but if everyone else deletes their copies pricing for you will go up.

Apple could mitigate that by never raising the price on a given chunk, but that just leaves them paying for it, and it's easily abused. Open two accounts, upload the same data, then delete it from one account, pay 1/2 for storage.
Yes, an octet is basically a byte (B) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)). Note that it's less easy to confuse it with bit this way...
I had a professor some years ago who summed up Atlanta perfectly for me - "[...] it's the biggest small town in America".

Having spent the past 15 years in the region I think he hit the nail on the head. I believe the biggest message Atlanta is sending out is one of music - musical arts are alive and kicking in Atlanta in ways that are very different to the other big music cities. I'm really hopeful that the general creative vibes continue to flourish there.
Yup, seems very much like a wet-pavement-causes-rainstorm story. There is simply no way these phones weren’t in the pipeline for at least a year.
> "...learn survivalist skills (how to make a fire, make a shelter, grow food, treat disease, make medicine, etc.)"

These used to just be "normal" skills that people knew...funny how things have changed.
Same here. Really disappointed in the lack of communication from Mazda. There is some open source software for the Mazda head unit that runs Android Auto, but nothing on the CarPlay front yet.

Most of the CarPlay specifications are locked behind the MFi program which makes it difficult for an open source solution to exist for it.
Thanks! Just fixed the link :)
I would love to see somebody hold analysts accountable for their projections by keeping a record of accuracy.
Yup, download GeekBench and do a test

My iPhone 7 was had a crippled batter after one year - it performed like an iPhone 6..
I don't know much about the 17th century, but late-19th century "peer review" was definitely way more fun than today. There were a ton of published criticism by peers, often with colorful language and creative ad hominem attacks.

As an example, the exchanges between Heaviside and Preece are highly entertaining.

> Mr. Preece is much to be congratulated upon having assisted at the experiments upon which (so he tells us) Sir W. Thomson based his theory; he should therefore have an unusually complete knowledge of it. But the theory of the eminent scientist does not resemble very closely the eminent scienticulist." (Heaviside, The Electrician, 1887, qtd in Nahin's biography)

Heaviside commonly referred to Preece with names such as "the eminent scienticulist," the "unscientific speculator," and occassionally "the Nameless One."
I'm guessing it's this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALd-ApLeIxQ

It's a beautiful video
White trash drugs? Benzodiazepines, of which kolonopin is one are used by over 15 million people in the US and over 10 in the UK. It's one of the most widely used, widely prescribed categories of drugs and kolonopin one of the top prescribed in the category. And opiates? Who uses opiates who isn't addicted to them? You think being rich gives you a pass on addiction, and chronic pain?
I make it 4ms [1], not 40ms.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=800mi+%2F+speed+of+ligh...
San Diego Investors and Startups
Looking to connect with SD investors and investment opportunities in the San Diego area. There are a lot of startups here, but the community is very fragmented. Currently affiliated with a couple local organizations and actively seeking opportunities to invest and contribute to the success of companies in the area. Currently active in a diverse portfolio of 70+ startups. If you are working on anything interesting and in the area definitely reach out.
Through a different markup format and set of tools that follows the unix philosophy.
> a little over 6% of the population work in the tech industry

I'm sure many people are cooks, janitors, bus drivers and the like and I'm sure a many people work for the the state, county or city (especially including healthcare). Any city needs services both private and municipal -- but they are not the driver of the economic engine.

I imagine that 6% would be much higher if we excluded non-service, non-municipal jobs.
There is a population of media developers that are fairly heavy marijuana users. By 'media developer' I mean animation, VFX, games, and other graphics & entertainment related type of software. We tend to be older, having been in graphics and media for 20 to 30 years for most of us pothead graphics junkies. We have bongs and all the typical pot smoking accessories out in the open at our offices, and they are in active use throughout the day, from the moment the day starts.

In general, we are people that write the core software of the renderer, the simulation, the shaders, the production tools, or other somewhat overly complex yet creative element of our work. We've been leads for 20 years, at least. We're all people that enter into deep states of flow when stoned, and many of us believe the pot is required to quickly enter flow and then stay there for hours on end as we develop.

We're split between people with pot belly and people that actively work out. The only consistency of this crowd is we all use pot to isolate ourselves into our work, and we're working in media production.

Now media production itself drives many people to drugs, simply due to the pressure of that ever present deadline. I'd like to clarify that the pot smoking developers I'm talking about typically ignore this pressure, mocking it, because they have already adopted an obsessive developer lifestyle. These are basically creative stoners that would work like this anyway, and are glad to get paid well doing what they love anyway. Also, this is all we do, pretty much 7 days a week. We're obsessive, the pot seems to aid that obsession, our employers like our productivity and look the other way towards our open smoking in the studio.

Personally, I smoke about 1 oz of high grade Indica per week. The typical pot smoker is 1/8th that.
I'm wondering if it's life conditions in many cases that is part of the reason for using in the first place? Yes, needing to work long hours is very real, but maybe the drugs also help to avoid life conditions that we don't want to deal with...
> The size and scale of technology companies now surpasses that of most of the industrial, energy, and finance companies that dominated the American economy during the 20th century. The Valley’s close-knit groups of funders, founders, CEOs and listed companies seem to think they can remain both insular and dominant without either government or social backlash. That was always far-fetched, and is now utterly absurd. It’s one thing for renegades to re-invent the operating system for society. But once those renegades become the rulers, the rest of society will—and should—demand a greater say in how these technologies and services shape our lives and consume our time, energy, and money.

> ...

> In his unartful way, then, Thiel is warning that the Valley’s tech elites are arrogantly unprepared for what’s coming. The government is eyeing them for the same reason robbers target banks: that’s where the money is. Tech will have an opportunity to shape the likely regulation, but only if it acts, rather than reacts, and offers real solutions that take the concerns of both government and citizens more seriously.

I can't say I disagree. People can form their conceptions of the world in one set of circumstances and often continue to hold onto them even when those circumstances change drastically. SV is not longer the scrappy underdog and I'm glad it's starting to get the scrutiny it needs.
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You don't reach everybody. I also got the original Wolfenstein back in the days, long before Internet.

However the reason for the regulation is relevant: This Nazi stuff shouldn't be fun or anything. Playing with it makes it simple to forget that those symbols represent evil mass murder. Also going back to the times where the initial versions of those laws were made: Back then Nazi symbolism was everywhere in the county and the Allies didn't want to allow any Nazi-heroism. Balancing this against "legit" use is tough, especially in context of historic games.

The self-censorship mentioned in the article above is the result of a publisher trying to avoid hitting a law but still selling as much as they can, without really thinking about what they were doing.
Adrafinil has side effects on one's liver. It would be wise to do at least some cursory reading on it before taking this advice.
> ASP increased to $800 dollars (!) which would point to the iPhone X doing relatively well, despite not being available for the entire quarter.

I'm not sure that is necessarily true. The iPhone 8 pricing ranges from $699 to $849, the 8 Plus from $799 to $949 and the X from $999 to $1149. A higher ASP doesn't necessarily indicate that the X has performed well, as it's possible the higher priced 8s have contributed to the overall increase.
You have, they just haven't told you about it and you haven't spotted it.
Good point. And I'm interested in knowing how being in SV, as opposed to outside that particular fish bowl, affects drug use
Setting up a node env is arguably easier. An installer from the NodeJS downloads page includes both the Node runtime and NPM. One executable to get started.

Python, on the other hand, requires a python installer, then a pip or conda installation script. Not to mention python vs python3 decisions.
FDR would have been 16 years, but he died after 13.

But he didn't repeal a term limit. There was a two-term limit in precedent, but not in law, so FDR didn't have to repeal anything. But people saw that, and put a two-term limit in law. Any future FDR or Xi in the US will have to change the law. And yes, that will set off warning alarms in the US, if it ever happens.
Same here. I'm in Europe - i wonder if the name gets attached to whatever the nearest ethnic minority that practices it is?

It's even got a subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slavs_squatting/
University researcher unveils 'Creeper' business tool
New iPhone SE is $160 new or $110 refurbished from Consumer Cellular. So ???
This is really not big news. If I were Apple, I would also sort cloud storage vendors by price including building the whole infra in-house, throw away the non secure or risky ones and pick the cheapest.
Doesn't work on Firefox
From Application Developer to Big Data Engineer
Are the 2-for-1 deals directly from Apple? As far as I know this is from retailers who already purchased the stock in bulk from Apple. Even if there's less interest causing deals like those, they're already technically "sold" from my understanding.
I had some issues with a relatively slow iPhone 6 recently - it didn't register as battery throttling. So I made an iTunes backup, factory reset the device, and restored from backup.

That got it back to about the speed I'd expect it to be. I still suspect that I'll take it in for a battery swap before the end of the year - but it might be worth trying if it's the slowness is a hindrance for you.
Image processing algorithm for mapping the blood vessel networks in the eye
Maybe they already have a Node environment set up and appreciate not having to context switch?
These same people come out and tell you to buy Apple stock. Apple doesn't seem to mind it then.. :)
NASA has also done some reseach into ZBLan fabrication on earth using magnetic fields to eliminate crystal formation (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201200...). This seems to be an expensive effort to duplicate the same effect.
Only thing I'm bothered by is the speed of the fingerprint scanner. It's the same scanner from the 5s, so 1st gen touch ID. Makes for a less than ideal wait time for what is a generally snappy phone.

Battery life is fantastic as well. I paired mine up with a thin silicone case and Qi receiver for wireless charging.
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Apple finally having a supply chain that can keep up with demand != lower-than-expected demand.
I consider such questions to fall under the purview of sexual morality. As such, they are complicated questions that are very poorly served by draconian policies that people who can't afford a kid just should not have one.

Taken to its logical conclusion, I see no reason why that would not lead to a society where murdering kids up to a certain age is the expected norm when the family falls on hard times. If there is a god, I would hope he/she/it would go all Sodom and Gomorrah on it.

When we make public policies, we need to start from a baseline assumption that human sexuality exists and sometimes babies happen and those policies need to respect the privacy of the couple whose coupling created that child and their right to make a hard and complicated decision balancing multiple different interests. Sweeping policies of "just don't have kids" go horrendous places, including forced abortions of late stage pregnancies which are essentially murder because the baby is developed enough it would be viable outside the womb if the mother went into labor.
Well, direct navigation worked when I tried it now and I can't seem to turn up the blog post I thought commented on the situation, so my recollection here may be in question.
> That's exactly how every human-vs-AI evaluation is measured.

No, it's not. For instance, there are comparison on games with fixed definite rules.

And even if it was, the fact that a methodological weakness is universal in a field doesn't make it not a weakness, it just makes the field problematic as a whole.

> For example, if you have an AI detect whether an image contains a cat, your first step is to have a person manually check every image.

Sure, but the thing is if you are comparing humans to AI at finding cars in pictures, you are usually testing against lay humans with no special expertise, so the assumption on which usefulness of the experiment rests is “an academic expert evaluating pictures for the presence of cats approximates perfect accuracy near enough that it is unlikely that the score of either lay humans or AI against that expert significantly misstates their accuracy.”

With the legal case, the assumption is something like: “an academic expert evaluating the legal effect that a court would find in a set of contracts approximates perfect accuracy near enough that it is unlikely that the score of either experienced lawyers practicing in the the field or AI against that panel significantly misstates their accuracy.”

The former is, of course, not certain, but I think most people would accept it to be more likely than not to be true.

The latter is less believable (unless, for example, the expert used as the oracle is actually the Supreme Court of the jurisdiction whose law is to be applied in evaluating the contracts.)
They lease in carrier hotels from people like Equinix, Interxion, and Coresite for edge connections and peering.

They also buy on the wholesale market taking over entire buildings and campuses. DFT had a great business model. Leasing out entire campuses to hyperscale players on 30 year leases before even breaking ground. Pre-determined interest rates means you know exactly how much you can charge per CRSF and make a good living. Honestly, I was pretty pissed when DRT bought DFT.
Yes, I use all three. Paper's focus on content vs formatting make Paper feel more elegant and more "meaty" for product development/engineering purposes. Admittedly it's a tough sell over Google Docs for much the same reason that Google Docs was a tough sell of O365 a few years ago—it just doesn't have the functionality to fully replace it. That said, Paper has an elegance about it as a product that reminds me of Facebook vs MySpace ca. 2006, or Slack vs HipChat ca. 2014, where it serves a modern use case in a fundamentally better way, less of a local maximum if you will.
Making data storage personal with #MemoriesInDNA
I'm sure you probably tested this with your particular needs, but just in case you haven't: five seconds is a long time and there are many forms that can be filled out by humans in less than that. I stepped on my own toes once setting what I considered to be reasonable minimums until I tried to use my own site and found myself getting blocked because I was submitting requests too fast.
Good point, I didn't share some follow up googling. Here's a better showcase of them assembling planar shapes:

https://vimeo.com/103329200
But some version python comes pretty much with every system, then you only need to install tensorflow with pip.
When I lived in Taiwan, I could from a distance tell a Chinese American apart from the local Chinese simply from the way they walked. Most of us could. It is very cultural.
Not sure what there is to set up for a new python project, but on Node, all you have to do is `npm init` and then `npm install propel` to get started.
I keep wondering when Apple will bite the bullet and make a phone for the emerging market. The smartphone market is getting more and more mature and if Apple want's to keep sales up I think segmentation will be key. I would not be surprised if there is a philosophical battle going on in Apple right now about whether or not to make a phone for India & Africa, but the market is there.
Machine learning with limited data
Typescript support? (Please)
Yeah, we hear this every 1Q's. Apple's sales peak during the release quarter and steadily declines over the next three quarters, until the new one comes out next year. I think this natural decline has been misinterpreted by reporters who really don't know any better and misreported as "declining demand."
> Faith requires, by definition, that one accept as truth universal aspects with no evidence.

FWIW I'd disagree with this definition. To give a really simple example: believing in an intelligent creator based on design in nature. That's not "no evidence". Holding to a naturalistic theory of origins that explains apparent design by a long sequence of chance occurrences is equally a faith commitment.

> Over coffee with one of these chaps i'll never forget his saying "Well, there's my professional system of belief, and there's my personal awareness, and I strive to keep them separate at all times." Just for the record, i couldn't manage to do that.

I agree there. One of the underlying causes of the scientific explosion around the Renaissance is the idea that the universe follows rules and can be understood, and it's because it's created by God that motivated many Christian scientists like Newton, Kepler, Pascal, and others to believe that we can fruitfully explore and understand its workings. It's bizarre to me that someone would try to hold in mind a universe where different aspects are actually at odds with each other.

Edit: for instance, here's an example of Kepler's motivations for scientific discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#Christianity
Researchers created a tool to spot duplicated images across thousands of papers