skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also (sort of) the crux of one of my favorite horror manga, Biomeat: Nectar, which is about a genetically engineered animal that eats "garbage" (basically anything but metal, glass, and stone IIRC) and can be harvested for food, but escapes from the garbage plants and starts going after people. They're not microbes though, but more like nightmare fuel looking bugs about the size of a face, with the mouth on the bottom, and they reproduce via budding (like a hydra).
Yes, but not that's not the whole problem. There are plenty of special interests that want their carve out. But honestly that's not even the major source of cost. The major source of cost is processing returns at all. If the IRS was allowed to do return free filing then it would massively simplify the majority of people's taxes because they don't have anything that requires the full 1040 for. That means only people who have significant and complex finances actually need to file a return.
Clots blood and eats rubber, but ok.
All bad laws. edit: I am not saying the idea behind GDPR is bad - it is amazing. But execution is really bad.
Their employees can with labor organization. Strikes to end these kinds of abuses at Google and Facebook would end them. The thing the management of these companies fear more than anything is their employees realizing the power inherent in collectively withdrawing their labor from them.
You can't really compare governments to companies. A state exists by its perceived right to rule over its citizens' lives, something that's generally only nullified by war or an armed rebellion of some kind, both things that result in massive casualties and wanton destruction. Companies are born and die all the time, not to mention combined, split apart, and traded on the marketplace like barrels of oil every day.
I'm a big fan of CLI accounting software (Ledger, Beancount and hledger) for my personal finances. Allows you to use a plain text file for recording your financial data. If you live a large percentage of your life in a command line environment, and you like your life scriptable, check it out. I personally use hledger, but would recommend that folks check out http://plaintextaccounting.org/ for a great overview of all cli accounting packages.
Can someone post or link to strategies for optimizing for local google seo?
> doing enough "independent" studies until you like the result, then report that one study only

This happens not only in which studies get submitted to the public, but also which submitted studies get chosen for publication. Journals are proving to be a poor way to handle the amount of science humanity is doing.
Heuristics: use what has worked in the past and keeps working well enough today? You don't need to fully understand why it works. Aka "conservatism" in the broadest sense.
Sorry, you are the one with the wrong math. The building is out 14 inches at the top. You divide that by the height to get the angle. What you calculated is the lean for a building which sank 14 inches on one side. That would be way worse - an excursion of [edit] 6 feet at the top.
Out of curiosity, what options beyond nokogiri, mechanize, etc. are you referring to? Something open source, commercial, or custom?
I think your point was a straw man. You can tell if your model is good by measuring its predictive power on data outside your training set.

You seemed to be arguing that only way to know the model is wrong is to insert a human who just knows a priori that the model is wrong and what "correction" to apply. But I think this is a false analysis. You can measure a model's accuracy by seeing how well it predicts data outside the training set. If the model is highly predictive, you have a good model. It doesn't take a human's subjective analysis or principled intervention to determine whether the model is accurate with respect to the available data.

This article concerns cases where the model is admittedly accurate (with respect to the available data), but is subjectively considered objectionable. That is a totally different issue.
Am I being crass to also suggest that YouTube, perhaps more than any other platform, is a magnet for unstable people?

I'm not trying to make a blanket claim regarding mentally unhealthy people (who I have heard are less violent as a group than the general population) and not trying to absolve YouTube of their role in this with their "marketing decisions" but it seems that YouTube specifically should maybe tread more carefully than other platforms.

Besides the monetary angle there is the dangling chance at fame, an audience, acceptance that draws, in some cases, maybe more fragile people.
Even if science were perfect it couldn't tell us about moral axioms or value judgments.

Additionally, using science and other expert judgments can easily tend toward simply choosing experts and studies that align with whatever policy you want to push for unrelated reasons, or outright seeking to manipulate research for political ends.
Some of the comments miss an important distinction.. Science in the popular press, often refers to science versus completely non-science ways of forming an opinion or deciding policy. Meanwhile, science within a technical community, is subject to human error and manipulation, and relies on a reproducible result, as well as peer-review, to find answers to conflicting claims.

There are certainly non-Science ways of forming an opinion and deciding policy, in many cases totally legitimate. But once science is claimed, then of course it has to be subject to science rigors.
Absolutely. Science is the best mechanism we have for differentiating truth from falsehood when considering what is.

But science tells us nothing about what should be. That’s the realm of morals, ethics, and its applied (mis)application: politics.
Telegram may be a better example than Apple phones given the SB FBI case and previous articles shared here about hacks. As a service, device, implementation of encryption gets more use it also will get more eyes from state actors on how to find cracks in the armor.
> die ausschließlich privaten oder familiären Zwecken dienen und die keine Auswirkung auf den Markt haben

which exclusively cater to private/family needs/affairs and [thus] have no impact on the markets.

> I took "privaten" in the second sentence to imply private as in "password protected / not publicly accessible".

No, privaten Zwecken here refers to personal affairs.
Ad hominem has never been a valid reason to disbelieve something. I quite enjoyed reading the report - it includes XKCD references and everything.
I'm an ancap, and live in rural Arkansas. I wouldn't describe myself as "leftist"... but many of the people around me probably would.

When I was in Charlottesville, VA, many of the people around me there would have described me as "right wing" or even "alt-right".

In our binary political system, people have a hard time describing people who oppose them without assuming they are members of the "others".
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It definitely change, although I can't say to which direction. He makes the system legitimate, so any successor would have either to be more open and earn some political trust in a normal process or just close the country even more (deploy martial laws, etc.)
The IRS isn't limited by raw money. It does not have the authority to hire whomever it wants, to invest money in whatever it wants, or to set its own salary levels. That all requires approval by Congress. I wouldn't say that a lack of communication between the IRS and Congress is a sign of "bureaucratic incompetence".
That's a bad example. It's a much more complex scenario, where the drugs that fight the expected cause of the disease does in fact help protecting against it. Confusing causality is very hard to solve.
Those views really were thought to be rational and scientific at the time they were promulgated, though, and Nazism was only their most extreme expression.
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sure you'd get a lot of pissed Upper East Siders,

The owners of the forever destroyed street-level businesses, you mean?
Please read the comment again. I address this in the very next sentence.
Sure, but it is also harder to be a whistleblower or to speak out against a powerful government or business when they have the power to retaliate against you.
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That's obviously false.
Acknowledging that you included the word "blindly", but still: the alternative is what we're using now, which is ideology, and it sucks.
it is a shitty site which shows out of date shit.
I tried Hetzner based on other people mentioning it on HN. Total disaster.

They managed to erase my entire environment, not have any way to recover anything, and once my case got escalated within their company the responses I received were the most unprofessional communications I've received in my career.

Honestly, I am amazed that this is a German company at all. You usually expect Germans to be more organized.. but I guess no matter where you go, the old saying is true: you get what you pay for.
I think this is a crucial distinction. Netflix has a relatively unique architecture for their content delivery system compared to other online video providers, which is worth considering in context of this article.

With Netflix's Open Connect (https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/) system, most residential Internet Service Providers have appliances at the regional point of interconnection. These appliances are inside of or directly connected to the ISP's network in the region. Back in 2016 they had appliances deployed to over 1,000 locations. Content is pre-positioned during off-peak hours to the appliances.

Previously Netflix has been open about how they use AWS for "generic, scalable computing" including "all of the logic of the application interface, the content discovery and selection experience, recommendation algorithms, transcoding, etc."

At the time, they claimed that one of the advantages of doing this was the ease of use and growing commoditization of the “cloud” market, so it makes sense that they are evaluating alternative cloud providers for these commodity services.
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Does the FDA conduct code reviews? And how do they guarantee that the code or the training data does not change over time without them knowing?
Thanks for mentioning this! I was a GC user for quite a while on linux, but the register rendering (fonts) was so bad on macOS I abandoned it, checking back for updates every so often. Looks like this is better now.
For years Dell would let it "leak" out to the press that they were looking at supporting AMD chips. It would happen every year like clockwork. Then after a month you'd hear that Dell and Intel had come up with a new deal to remain Intel exclusive.
How does that work when there are other companies also working on their branding? Why would one company's effort to create a good online brand work better than another company's effort? That is SEO - working out what has a material impact on search rankings and implementing it.
Absolutely not. I moved from there in December, and it is the most hostile place I've ever experienced. If you aren't an acceptable class of Progressive, you're a "Nazi."
It looks like Windows IoT Core is currently between Commercial Licensing Terms (it currently just links to a survey form to fill out to request info): https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/getstarted...

For a while it was basically free (as in beer) up to an absurdly high volume (IIRC, million-ish devices?).

Maybe you are correct that there might not be a huge interest unless the solution is also free as in speech simply because of auditing needs of some of the IoT manufacturers.
I agree it shouldn't be used blindly but that seems like the extreme. In fact the science side of things would say don't use anything blindly. Science isn't some infallible entity it is a process that is supposed to be self correcting over periods of time. That includes falsehoods from human bias and input. It doesn't always work and it is a slow process but in science's essence it is supposed to be minimizing those errors.

But again, getting back to agreeing, scientific findings should not be used blindly, they should be used to inform. And as reproduction of findings occurs, the the topic that is being informed gets re-enforced or course corrected. It is very similar to policy, you have to try things. Some times the policy does what you want, other times it doesn't, and the process should continue and be correcting.
The only people that seem to have this problem are:

(1) the ones that didn't bother to read the text of the law (which is surprisingly accessible)

and

(2) armchair lawyers that come up with all kinds of outrageous edge cases that nobody really cares about but that then get used to discard the law saying it's incomplete and that 'nobody knows how to be compliant'.

For real businesses that are affected by the law the vast majority of the impact is crystal clear and if they've done their homework they'll be more-or-less compliant by May and will at least be able to prove they made a good effort to comply.

I really should work up a to-do list that will get the average SaaS start-up to 90% compliance with the minimum amount of work.
Really playing these companies against each other would mean dynamically balancing your services across the providers based on pricing
Liquefaction mitigation is possible (ground replacement cells, compaction grouting, etc). It costs a lot and the only place that we (my company) have done true liquefaction mitigation is on large state funded jobs. The preferred alternative for the Bay Area is to sink foundations through liquefiable soils, discounting any strength from these soils, and rely on empirical studies that have found that liquefaction does not necessary result in loss of confinement which would induce buckling failures in the piles.

I share the GP's doubts on the article. The practicing specialists they talked to certainly don't think there's a gamble: they actively pursue and design sky scrapers in the City. I think their words are being misused in a way that makes them seem like they agree with the article's premise.
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Why a 'Lifesaving' Depression Treatment Didn't Pass Clinical Trials
Until SpaceX launches its low-orbital fleet of internet satellites... That would be fun to watch.
I find the cars online, then just go into the area, and always remember I can walk out.
That is why, as a (global) society, we should spend our resources in making sure the data we have is accurate by funding research and repeated studies, and that data should be open to all to verify and build upon.
There is a vast army of wonks (mostly in executive departments and agencies) that are doing most of the “telling everyone what to do.”
Cobra Kai is a pretty good example of the future of YouTube Red: actual Hollywood talent and directors, instead of YouTube stars with higher production values.
"the utter lack of exploration in computer science of highly parallelized/concurrent processing"

I'm not so familiar with such efforts myself, but that seems like an overly general statement to make. Surely there are countless examples of exploring parallel/concurrent programming and processing?

"I would have loved to have made a career of it but now there's no time"

Who knows, as you pointed out, it's becoming easier than ever for non-experts to start playing with machine learning, with access to inexpensive and powerful resources.

"..there will be a repo on GitHub where you can download a brute force AGI and see how fast it can do your homework."

Haha, yes, I can totally see that!
> In order to protect its citizens and monetary interests and obligations most modern, well-functioning markets are regulated by these nation states.

It's hard to take this 'protection' seriously in many cases. It's for more often the case where nation-state protection is extended to one company against other companies within the state than it is for one country's industry to be collectively protected against other countries'.

Protecting your own company against both the state and other companies is the CEO's mandate.
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Most scientists in my profession look for converging evidence from multiple lines. While the same study is rarely repeated, the same concept does get tested multiple times with different approaches.
How long ago was it that science was controverting centuries of populist knowledge that carbs are what made you fat, not eating fat?

Talk about science creating a mind boggling ongoing health crisis by telling people to limit their fat intake and replace it with cereals and bread.
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They also generated startup-style returns for investors. Startups use stock chicanery practically by definition to create giant returns on paper for early investors with comically inflated valuations.

I thought this was an unusually heart warming success story about how a company used technology and the 'damaging admission' sales technique to a happy result.

The 'damaging admission' is the sort of technique a seminar speaker person uses when she tells you have how 13 years ago to the day she was licking spilled cocaine off the bathroom floor while the cops were breaking down the door to arrest her, and that now she enjoys a successful career in real estate.
They generally treat compute devices as black boxes. Performance is all that matters. But once an artifact is submitted, it's locked down. That and only that will be approved. You change a resistor, an if-then, it goes back to FDA.
Well, everybody has their own ideas about what good code looks like, but I think the following advice would get you pretty far along:

1. Develop a consistent coding style. Indentation, variable naming, commenting. There are many schools of thought. If you're writing in a language with a large community, pick a widely represented style convention. If you diverge from that, do so consistently. Space-users aren't going to pass on you for tabs, and vice versa, but nobody's going to be impressed if you mix them willy-nilly.

2. This is the next step up. For the languages you use, understand the conventional ways language features and standard libraries are used. Use them in the appropriate context, don't show your ignorance by not using them where appropriate, use them in a way that shows you understand the performance tradeoffs involved. What makes sense in one language may raise red flags in another (e.g. using lots of exceptions in Python versus using lots of exceptions in C++).

3. Organize the overall project in a way that makes sense. Is the organization of the project in line with the conventions for the language you've chosen? Is it clear how to build and distribute the project?

4. Write something that looks like somebody would actually want to use it. If it's a library, it should have an API without obvious footguns. If it's a CLI program, its arguments shouldn't clash with each other, they should be well-documented and unsurprising in their behavior, and you shouldn't spam the console with status information unless the user has activated a verbose flag. If it's a GUI program or website, value clarity and simplicity over graphical flourishes. You're looking for a job as a programmer, not a designer. Also, make sure the thing you wrote looks like it's actually useful to somebody, even if it's a really specialized audience.

I've only indirectly referred to stuff that gets taught in a traditional CS curriculum, and only in point (2) about performance tradeoffs and appropriate context. But there's a world of important stuff there. Choose a dictionary when you need a linked list, or a linked list when you could use an array, and you showcase your ignorance. Know what these structures are, how to implement toy versions yourself, and when you should use them. (But don't use your toy versions in your portfolio!) Also learn enough about graphs to know one when you're looking at it.

Best of luck!
Based on what I've read, this is the reason why we don't have meaningful change. I remember Paul Ryan showing the "postcard" tax return form on TV - of course we all knew/know that was complete BS.
Plus no Cortana bs.
That’s like saying Apple didn’t transform the cell phone industry but only led the industry by 2-3 years before Android followed.

Or that Apple didn’t innovate because they merely used known technologies like phones, batteries, and touch screens.
From the HN guidelines:

>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I find it nuts that a CEO, and somebody who had to write and defend a dissertation, would attach their name this hack job of an article. The entire argument exists in a couple sentences, with no proof or citations:

"While talented grads with a bachelor’s degree may have the knowledge necessary to fill an entry-level position, they often lack the in-depth knowledge and design experience necessary to take on challenging assignments that would lead to rapid advancement. By definition, the course work for a bachelor’s degree comprises a wide array of general studies combined with a limited set of major-specific classes. This provides the grad with important preparation for wide-ranging career choices but limited expertise in a specific field.

In contrast, a master’s level graduate program in computer science offers students the opportunity to tackle advanced topics, such as distributed computing and operating systems, and to obtain the design skills required to architect and implement complex systems and applications."
Yeah in all honestly a couple extra $ wouldn't put me off using them, I was more wondering if there was a decent reason behind it. Having said that I'm paying almost $20/year less for my io domains at Namecheap, that one's a bit of a steep difference

Once a domain is registered all they need to do really is process auto-renew payments, notify me if my card was declined for any reason, and make sure it's kept registered at the registry.

Unfortunately in any case though I've stopped at the gate, they don't appear to have an API
The distinction has to be between exclusive ethno-nationalism and more inclusive forms of civic nationalism. It can't just be for "ordinary people", it has to be for everyone, with a minimum level of rights protected by law. That's how we avoid collapsing back into ethnic cleansing.
The first entry seemed to imply that the post would be about (or at least include) natural language parsing, but it only focuses on the formal language parsing used in compilers.
.. that is how the snowball started rolling.. and that was years ago !
The issues mentioned in the introduction affect entire fields, not just individual studies:

> Improper use of statistics, arbitrary research techniques, lack of accountability, political groupthink, and a scientific culture biased toward producing positive results
I feel like this has the same promise as self driving cars - raise the floor for the quality of service while also experiencing random unexplained failures that its human supervisors fail to notice in time.
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