skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for reading my article. I don't say that, though the distinction is tricky. PEG is relentlessly deterministic, but that does not mean that the user can determine, in practice, what choice PEG will make.

It's the difference between my being able to tell you that Jimmy Hoffa is definitely in a specific place, and my being able to tell you where that place is.
One of the things I didn’t appreciate until leaving college was how much the world narrows. In college you’re surrounded by people at similar life stages who are more open to new experiences and to meeting new people (or at least more so than after). It’s a lot more difficult to form new friendships after college and that seems especially true now that phones and other entertainment occupy downtime attention. Texting has emerged as the dominant form of communication and it’s easier than ever to flake on plans since all you need to do is send a text. People seem to be increasingly isolated, lonely, and unhappy.

And this is all very new having only really emerged around 2009 - 2010 or so.
A few months ago, a few folks were kind enough to give me some feedback on self promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16130473

I don't know if this belongs under Show HN, but a second Ask HN didn't seem to be the right thing. So here I am.

One thing I have recently realized, I just wasn't charging enough and that signals to people that I'm no good at what I do. I think I am a good writer, but I suck at the business end of things. I am working on that.

I appreciate the support I have gotten on HN more than I can express. I have a serious medical condition and making money online is critical to my ability to stay well. This helps prevent me from running up massive medical bills.

Now, I just need that income to hit something resembling a middle class income and it will be all good.
The google webmaster tools give you the detailed search results for your site on a daily basis. I'd say you can make week to week comparison at best.
> What this isn't, is diagnosing a patient based on taking a history and inputting examination findings and labs, etc... We are still quite a bit of a way from that but I'm sure people are working hard on that as well.

This is one of the classic AI application domains -- for example this is why Stanford's Knowledge Systems Lab was near to the medical school and why the mainframe Zork was developed was owned by MIT's Medical Decision Making group.
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It seems to me that there are no more undergrounds any more - it's very hard for something to be both "popular" and "undiscovered", and there's an entire industry of trend-hunters looking to monetise new scenes the second they're discovered.

Similarly the mainstream is not so big any more. Back in 1977 half the UK, 28 million people, watched the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show live. That was our peak mainstream, a shared set of jokes everyone could be expected to know. Now peak programmes reach about half that audience.
This seems to be the most plausible, if least satisfying explanation.
The war on drugs was never about legislating behavior. It was about criminalizing "undesirables" (blacks, hippies, etc.).
I'm more worried about the false-negatives.

What if you have the condition, the GP runs the test, and it turns out negative, and then the GP decides to not send you to a specialist ...

Can anybody infer what the confusion matrix looks like from reading the text?
I don't buy this statement. It might USA idea like how they sold AIDS medicine (which still I am not convinced).
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Clickbait titles does a disservice to the purpose of the body of an article in the sense that it gives easy ammunition to naysayers who will default to pointing out that the degree to which the argument is valid is incorrect. Yes, algorithms may have influenced personal taste in some ways. But has it "destroyed" personal taste? No, that's probably too extreme.
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The more likely explanation is that they are all organic, artisanally-prepared food hipsters.
Plaid's Bank API [0]

Its free for 25 accounts and connects to most banks [1]. The only bank I've found it doesn't work for is Barclays. I have most of my accounts (credit cardd and banks) hooked up to pull transaction data.

It returns JSON including category of spend. I don't know GNUCash, but you could format that any which way with a little scripting.

0: https://plaid.com
1: https://pastebin.com/WBKLMb1H
> The only thing which works for me is a description of Domino's digital strategy. The Pizza tracker has worked in Dominos favor. Though I am a fan of the tracker, over time it has become increasing clear it is just a psychological trick. Show some progress bar to make people happy. Many times I find the tracker stuck at "preparing" and only to update delivered directly.

Back when we were ordering pizza semi-regularly (university), one factor in choosing Domino's was that they were the only place that could give a reliable delivery estimate (+/- 10 minutes). Regardless on whether or not the tracker itself works, they clearly had the basics of that down.
I believe so, yes. Hopefully better filtering solutions will be devised.
I think the advice should be: write good content that google can recognize.
It should never get that far. It's much harder to abuse a population of which a subset can fight back. If you can't oppress the small groups you can't establish a baseline tolerance/acceptance of abuse. Without that it's much harder to build the corrupt house of cards that precedes a total collapse.

It's not about armed revolt. It's about creating a set of circumstances that prevent the oppression that leads up to one.

Other amendments on the bill of rights have similar effects. An abusive government needs to control the narrative and shortcuts to bypass due process at scale. The ability to do those comprehensively are severely handicapped by other amendments.
Have your book list posted on HN with Amazon (affiliate) links => Profit :)
Perhaps what she is suggesting is the exact opposite of what you're describing: trying to actually, intentionally speak to another person without it being the prelude to something (sex, social media post about "Look at the fun we're having", etc). When we see each other as inputs to a transaction, something has been lost. There should be joy from interpersonal contact.
The key here is governance.

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I think if you click into the linked post, you get the analogy regarding governments and governance. Web platforms have to concern themselves with governance of their users and the respective eco-system that their users operate on.

The point is less to be abstract or symbolic, and instead look at the concrete decisions they have to make. Corporations or general relationships do not have to consider these points to the same degree for survival.

In the past, governments would create policies, laws, and make decisions that would determine the well being of a citizen. Now, web platforms are more commonly making decisions of regulation, censorship, interoperability, which all fall in the realm of governments.

"So as you watch the large web services evolve, think
about how they are balancing the relationship between
the state and the private sector? What does Facebook's
introduction of Facebook Credits say about its monetary
policy? What is Apples foreign policy? Do they act
unilaterally promoting their own proprietary standards
or do they act multilaterally embracing international
standards? What is Twitter's industrial policy? Do they
invest in state owned services or encourage decentralized
economic development? The choices these platforms make
reveal a lot about who they are, and ultimately how well
they serve the companies operating in their economies and
the citizens who live there."

Companies or corporations in general may have a degree of these problems, but not in a way that their survival depends on.
I have worked for a number of ad tech companies over the years.

If this really is happening (and it seems possible it could be coincidence) the most likely explanation is cross device targeting using IP address.

So, most ad tech companies do cross device targeting, using device maps bought from other companies (Drawbridge being one). These companies attempt to assign a variety of devices from the same person to a single advertising profile. The simplest way they do this is by IP address. So if they have an IP address with a small number of devices, they decide it is probably a household and assign all those devices to the same advertising profile.

So, by being on the same wifi together (either at your place or hers) they will show ads on her devices based on your behavior (and vice versa).

The other explanations are possible, but I think this is the most likely
Summary: "There is a great deal of thought and domain knowledge behind every programming language. Most languages were designed to address a need and every one brings novel approaches and solutions to problems their designers faced. When learning a new language we are taking part of this expertise behind every single design decision."
No, the article is quite explicit about there being a significant population who are getting laid but have never ever been on a first date with a (relative) stranger before that. "hookup culture has become so dominant on college campuses"; what you said used to be true but now is not. It's plausible that some couple might start with a hookup and get laid, and only later start going on dates as they form a serious relationship.
Ok, We'll start :)
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As I understand it, the Investigations arrives at opposing conclusions to Tractatus and Wittgenstein believed he was mistaken in his premises for the earlier work.
Honest question - is Amazon really seen as a competitor here? Every time I've attempted to use Prime video, I'd scurried away terrified of their awful ui. I guess it's hard to gauge subscribers since it's 'thrown in', but I'd be curious to know how many people really use the service.
Being and Time was published in 1927. They were limited to books published after 1950.
Never mind the WHOIS, those other anti-spam databases may be GDPR-violating, as well. Did that spammer affirmatively opt-in to having his origin addresses/domains/IPs and response phone-numbers/etc tracked in your anti-spam data? Probably not!
Users have to back up a 12-word mnemonic phrase, a la BIP39. We also email users an encrypted copy of their phrase (where their password is the key)
Nice try Mark.

Jokes aside, these issues are happening way too often for it to just be a coincidence. I've seen multiple friends and strangers, as well as myself, reporting that they were talking about something and then an ad shows up about that.

EDIT: typo
Even if that's true, that only science that can have a profit motive slapped on it can be done effectively in the current system is a problem. If only such science were done, then we would have different crises of science to deal with because profit seeking is at odds with much science, in particular basic research.

It's also quite obviously the case that profit seeking research has incentives to be bad science in other ways.
Huge sample studies with high stat significance can have very low effect sizes, though. If an effect is shown on a small sample, it means it is a really big effect, and will likely be reproduced in a bigger study.
"But Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn't a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design. The scandal is that the world finally understands the ramifications of that state of affairs."

But could the world "understand the ramifications" based on reading terms of service and click-through permissions or did the world come to understand the ramifications through disclosures from "whistleblowers" and investigative journalism?

"We don't sell people's data. Period." - David Baser, Facebook

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/

According to the former Zuckerberg speechwriter, Facebook shares access to people's data with third-party app developers.

Does Facebook share people's data with academic researchers?
Why? Can users opt-out of this sharing? Are they opted-in by default? How much data has Facebook shared in the past?

Do Mr. Zuckerberg, Ms. Sandberg, Mr. Baser and others at Facebook believe people would only be concerned with "sale" of their data, but not with sharing access to it with unidentified third parties?
Regardless of the reason they did it, the end result was the same: failure to regulate behavior.
Sure, if you happened to buy in at the absolute lowest price, you would see a 90X change, but most people would have bought either before or after the absolute lowest. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out the volume/value calculations.

The headline comments are just something to look out for. If you are told one, check the other. For stocks, check the context and history.
The Facebook app tracks location and other peoples' locations, and makes assumptions based on people being at the same place at the same time. If Facebook (or whoever) knows that several other people are all interested in new houses, and all those people + your girlfriend go to the same place(s), Facebook decides that your girlfriend might have the same interest as all those other people.
What does AGI mean in this context?
No. It's really not. The technical puzzle pieces are all there and well understood. Anyone who can amass the political power could get it done. Done fast or done slowly might require differing amounts of power.
The list is analytically tilted, but you're talking about early 20th century philosophers for a list of books 1950-2000.
Yep, but the problem is my moral compass is potentially out of whack. I'm 100% confident I could control using the card, but fundamentally I don't like how credit card companies are ran. Plus I don't agree with a company keeping tabs on my financial transactions and then profiting from that data on my behalf.

With that said, the 2% is nice but it's not enough to make me reconsider. There probably is a number where I would give in, but since that's never going to happen, I don't bother thinking about it.

On the other hand, debit card theft is a real concern. I partly combat that by keeping the minimum in that account. Fortunately I haven't misplaced my card in the last ~20 years. I'm hoping my bank would resolve it. They did really well in a few cases where an online vendor didn't honor their own policies (they helped me recover the funds without it being a huge deal).
I don't know that algorithms are the sole cause, but this behavior, where nearly everyone has the same opinion, really annoys me. As you said, Beyonce worship is a common one. Or that Empire Strikes Back is the best of the original Star Wars and Return of the Jedi is the worst. I hear these ideas all over as if they were facts rather than opinions. Just have an original thought people.
Of course, I have nothing against saving bandwidth. I just didn't expect to see an iPhone user non-ironically calling Android users as "regular people" these days. What year is it now? :P
To philosophers discredit. Her work changed the real world and that makes it important. It should have made the list.
> they also allow for a free-range wandering over the stacks, rather than keeping you in one specific area of "you may also like"

You mean like the "Random" links on Wikipedia and Reddit?
I looked at blockchain and couldn't find information on how identity management works. I assume identities are stored on centralized blockstack servers. And how do I recover if I lose my passphrase or password?

How does stealthy address this issue?
> equivalent to saying bike-sharing should be banned

Yeah, I said this in my root comment. I hope the city I live in bans bike shares like SF did. I addressed more issues than the helmet there too.

Edit: Reasons why I don't like bike shares as mentioned in the root comment.

* I think local DOT is expecting more ridership than will happen. This will cause us to miss our carbon reduction goals.

* They consume sidewalk space

* Heavy bikes are a bad option for a hilly rainy city. Rain gear and lighter multi speed bikes are required to effectively bike here.
A universal basic income is guaranteed no matter what; but it's certainly possible to have basic income schemes that are not universal but limited to some (small) subpopulation, and the criteria for being in that subpopulation can be gamed.
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The argument is not that all is perfect in science. It is not. The argument is that strong replication for each study is not required for progress. Back to my analogy to the algorithms like Adaboost. Why ever aggregate over a a bunch of weak classifiers over a single strong one? Well, please correct me if I am wrong (machine learning is not my field), but the primary advantage is computational cost. Sometimes, for the same overall classification performance, training hundreds or thousands of weak classifiers requires fewer computations than training the strong classifier.

To me it brings up an interesting point. If we view experiments as classifiers, then how would a machine learning expert set science policy and practice?

Also viewed this way, it makes me wonder about p-hacking, which increases sensitivity while increasing false positives. Since negative results are not generally reported, I wonder whether p-hacking diminishes replicability at the study level for efficiency at the aggregate level. This is an empirical question, as ethically it is of course a dubious practice under current understanding.
1. Doing this could basically cause the same result, as the cost of more support could easily make it so that they need to start charging or denying who can be a content creator. Neither of us have numbers, so it's all just guesses, but I'd be willing to wager that spending a TON of money and training on new CSRs wouldn't really change all that much, especially when telling someone explicitly "you were banned because X" is almost never a good idea, all this would do (in my opinion) is create a much more expensive, slower, and more annoying version of the same problem.

2. I think this would help, but it's not going to prevent mentally ill people from being mentally ill. They aren't going to say "oh well this removal was justified and was consistent with the others", they are going to find a perceived wrongdoing and will latch on to that, because they are mentally ill.

3. I've come to the conclusion that this is literally impossible. You can't be politically neutral. People aren't politically neutral, and therefore the things they create or moderate can't be politically neutral (whether they mean to do it or otherwise). Even algorithms that are created by people can show biases.
Nice try? Read this first: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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Great analogy that makes a lot of sense, never thought about it like that before.
Not just with facebook, there are more options:

You can geofence users (probably the realtor does it) and then send targeted ads to audiences that touch more than one geofenced area.

For the kung-fu panda and martial arts. Do you share wifi and (public) ip addresses with your girlfirend?
> North Carolina's annual budget for providing all of those services is $23 billion - only twice the budget of the IRS.

NCDOR—the North Carolina analog of the IRS—has an annual budget of $177 million, compared to NCs total annual budget of $23 billion, or about 1/130 of the budget of the government it gathers revenue for.

IRS budget is $11.5 billion, compared to the US annual budget of $3.3 trillion. The IRS costs 1/286 of the budget of the government it gathers revenue for.

If you are going to try to say that NC makes the IRS look too expensive for what it does, you are going to need to do more than just point at the size of the state budget to make your argument.
> which deals with the nature of language as it relates to our ability to think and formulate ideas, is undeniable

Except by Wittgenstein himself, who largely renounced this philosophical project in the second half of his career. Still essential reading, though.
I am confused to your feedback. What is the difference?
This is a well-known psychological phenomenon, not a joke or coincidence.
Can you mention some insurrection where armed protestants won over a well-equipped state? Even in Syria the serious opposition was due to outside heavy armament supplies and looting of army materiel. For me this reasoning for the 2nd amendment comes out only as a power fantasy which, if it was to actually play out, would simply leave the country worse off (versus unviolent opposition that may need outside support to succeed over a longer term).

Finally, even in the unlikely case that a revolution was successful, it would be unlikely to promote liberty but rather just install another autocratic ruling class [1].

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1043463970090030...
They didn't consent though, not by the standards of the GDPR, so their personal information cannot be published in WHOIS. So, no, paying extra for an anonymizing WHOIS service is not necessary; this will be the default level of service from a registrar.

I'm not sure what your intended argument is; can you rewrite in plain English and without scare quotes?
If you don't want it, then you can use pretty much every other registrar that doesn't build it in.

But an issue with whois privacy is that if you ever don't have it for a period (like you forget to renew/autorenew), then it's now saved in a number of DNS/whois history services.
This may or may not be helpful to you but one thing I really want is a good typing practice site for coders. I learned to touch type through typingclub.com, it works and it's free. The issue I had with typingclub.com was that I didn't really learn how to use the keys that I often use for coding efficiently (brackets, square brackets, curly braces, etc.) because it is intended for general purpose typing.

I can't see why a freelancer or content writer would care so much to show off their typing speed (I am not one so take my comments with a grain of salt) as I can't imagine the speed at which they produce good work has that much to do with their typing speed directly. If I saw a content writer advertising their typing speed it would probably put me off as they are not highlighting the things that matter (actually producing good content in a reasonable time frame).
No. You read this first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
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Pretty much exactly my experience in Toronto, but I never experienced that in my visits to LA. Perhaps Toronto is not "far more" diverse, but I still maintain that it is more diverse.

I imagine that in both cities it matters a great deal which suburbs you include in your census when measuring ethnic diversity so it's really hard to compare directly.
Does anyone remember the first Doomwatch episode, the Plastic Eaters?
I managed that before r9k debuted... and I'm still socially bankrupt. There is no escape.