skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a growing culture of reaction videos on YT. People watch other people watching and reacting to stuff. That never sat well with me. And I always wondered - are people so alone or insecure that they need to watch other people's "reaction" to feel better? Given the rise of reaction channels on YT, I guess the answer is resounding - Yes.
> We need a journal that exclusively publishes papers with results that were totally contrary to the hypothesis.

No, that won't help. You'd end up with the Journal of Creation Science and things like that.

What we need is pre-registration: https://cos.io/prereg/

We also need to change the culture so that positive results are not disproportionately rewarded.
They do:

http://semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html

With all that, what do we need another parsing tech for if it's programming related? ;) GLR was also used for NLP. The Elkhound approach mixes (IIRC!) GLR and LALR to get benefits of both with it easily handling one of hardest languages out there.

A little weird to leave off the list one of best techniques around.

Also, silentbicycle countered with it and some other on top of that here:

https://lobste.rs/s/pkfdah/parsing_timeline#c_suirwn
Why do I have a data lake if I can't leverage that for insight nuggets?
AWS's ELB/ALB have been rock solid for us. Not sure what you are referring to when you say 'antiquated infrastructure'?
What literal or figurative signs were there that he should not have accessed the private information? By all accounts, most of the information he retrieved was clearly intended to be public so there would have been no way for him to know that he wasn't supposed to access the small portion that wasn't intended to be public.
That is not the sense of the question I asked. The question is, if the pollution is stipulated either way, why do you desire the outcome?

You are hypothesizing a choice between a world in which pollution is 134 units (done by the human machines) and humans have machinery, and one in which pollution is 134 units (done by bacteria) and humans do not. You do not seem to have any non-misanthropic or non-Puritan reason to prefer the latter.
No. Temporal correlation is "changes in A precede changes in B". This is not causation, you more or less correctly describe causation when you say "Changes in A cause changes in B", but a better way of putting it might be "all else equal, changes in A cause changes in B". The difficulty here is controlling for all possible C.

As a simple example:

If A causes a change in both B and C, but the change in B happens more quickly, "temporal correlation" would imply that B causes C, when that's not the case.

This is especially obvious with cyclical phenomena. The tide going out does not cause the sun to rise, for example, even though I'm sure I could draw a temporal correlation between them. Nor does my car being in my garage cause me to go to work.
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There is a reason I moved from cold and rain to an earthquake risk city.

Some people will take death over ever having to shovel again.
vim and some plugins. sublime when I have like 10+ files to look at.
People make poor decisions all the time. We can create policies that nudge people into making better decisions. We should do this because it makes society better. Yes, I think the decision to ride a bicycle with a helmet in an American urban environment is a fundamentally better decision than to ride a bicycle without a helmet. I think we should not allow business to operate if they encourage biking without a helmet much the same way it is illegal to rent cars that do not have seat belts installed.
It's not bad. Pretty stable. It still feels very much for the hobbyist though.
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Also keep in mind that if there are positives general practitioners would refer to a specialist anyways for treatment. These specialists would be more than equipped to detect false positives. Teleretina imaging is becoming more and more prevalent as well with eyePACS and Welch-Allyn having dedicated interpretation services, so patients wouldn't have to necessarily go somewhere for verification.

I'm more worried about the 87% accurately detected as having the disease, i.e. 13% of false negatives (FN). I don't know how many general practitioners would actually send a patient to a specialist if the device did not detect changes.

The retina seems well suited to AI approaches, though, so I'd be interested in what comes next from companies like this, DeepMind, and other researchers/organizations (look out for Lee et al over at the University of Washington)
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AWS is catching up as far as Kubernetes support. I might agree that GCP is better positioned for some of that architecture, but they are still comparable. There are also some advantages to AWS. For example, I think that their RDS product is still more mature than Google Cloud SQL.

It's all trade-offs.
Perhaps long term, that would be an issue. But short term and even medium term, I don't see Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube Red as competition. Their real competition is cable/satellite and as long as Netflix helps round out a cord-cutting bundle that convinces people to ditch cable, it's a net benefit to Google/Amazon. And as cable dies, especially given the recent FCC direction, you can expect them to start to play more games with the internet connections they also provide to customers. I think Google and Amazon realize that Netflix will be much more sympathetic in that fight than either of them will be. So it makes sense for Amazon/Google to support Netflix as much as possible so they can use them as a proxy in the upcoming fight against the cable companies.
Goldman Sachs just purchased Clarity Money, an early stage FinTech company. GS is making a bigger push into the consumer finance / financial planning space via its “Marcus” on line platform. Does anyone have any further intel on what the terms of this deal were? Further, does anyone know why Adam Dell, the founder of CM, was willing to exit now?
Prato is one of the most talked about because of the high contrast between irregular workers (wether legally resident or otherwise) working for the high margin high fashion industry, but there are a lot similar realities like these to be found everywhere.

I.E a big earthquake happened a while ago in romagna and the most surprising fact was that once the chinese sweatshop were evaquated the local pupulation found themselves almost outnumbered by them in certain areas.
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I'm wondering if it is possible to make this code open source.
Came here to also recommend YNAB (just an enthusiastic customer, in no way affiliated).

I was a little disappointed in the annual fee increase recently but I can say with absolute certainty that YNAB has saved me waaaay more money than the cost of that fee.

Top features for me:
1. Operates like Virtual envelopes - shift your allocations around easily. Totally account agnostic keep your actual money wherever you want while still tracking it for a specific purpose.

2. Goals - Create goals for your categories- virtual envelopes that remind you how much you need to add monthly to get to your target level by the desired date. Great for specific savings projects.

3. Credit cards - I used to just spend on card and feel good that I would always pay my balances in full. Now I first allocate to specific categories and when I spend on a credit card, my allocated money from that category view to a virtual envelope for my credit card. I’m accounting for my current spending now rather than a month from now.

Great mobile app too for iOS.
my thinking as well
Ordinary people don't access Freedom of Information requests. The whole site exists solely for the use of people who are not ordinary.
This is just corporate-speak to motivate the minions. What he meant was "My top priority has always been to increase profits and shareholder value by bringing in more eyeballs that we could sell to marketing and advertising agencies. By getting the eyeballs to share their private information, the value of our platform - and our revenue - increases", which is in line with his job as CEO of a publicly traded corporation.
The latest More or Less podcast episode covered this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06478pz
I worked for a company that does internet marketing, what I can say about SEO is that there is only one strategy that will work.

If you want to be featured at the top of search results you need to have content that is actually relevant to the search term. It has to be genuinely relevant and of high quality and ideally, linked to by other respected sites.

You can spend all the time and money you want on the gimmicky stuff, google will update the algorithm and wash away any progress you make.
> At least there's ability to enforce governmental responsibility through elections and free press.

Yes, for example, voters in the U.S. elect presidential candidates who promise to scale back our military presence overseas, and then it happens! Voters also get what they want when they elect candidates promising to reform Wall Street, make government more transparent, or end the culture of graft & corruption in Washington.

Or take the issue of NSA surveillance, mentioned above. Since there were zero candidates on offer from either major party who promised even a sliver of reform, and no major media outlet even raised the issue, we can conclude that the voters have "opted in" to this program, and we should all learn to just live with it.
If you go with partners, though, swapping them out may not be too painful. I mean, working on twenty year old cold is always painful, but at least for some of my demo devices, when Autodesk's iot platform was retired, I swapped it to Microsoft's pretty easily. It's just data.
Yes, I too would like to know if this exists?

Very much doubt it would be OSS even if it did.
One incident is all it takes to open the door. And the fact that this is being seriously considered rather than rejected outright is troubling all on its own.
Do they actually make better pizza now than they did at some point in the past? I haven't noticed. I'll gladly eat frozen pizza before Domino's.
>Also the money was spent less wastefully so it might have ended up having larger effect than assumed.

My understanding is the opposite. First, money was spent on both sides. Yes, the majority was in favor of Trump but at least two anti-Trump rallies were allegedly started by Russians. Second, not all the money was spent in swing states. Third, at least according to one FB executive more than half was spent after the election.

I'm not suggesting that Russian ads didn't affect the outcome, this was such a close election that even small things could have swayed it one way or the other. At the same time we don't need to exaggerate what really happened.
Have you seen the comments on any Elon Musk related post?
Small correction. A basic income is guaranteed no matter what; there’s no means testing or anything like that. You can’t game the system because there’s nothing to game: you get the money regardless. You seem to be describing the system we have now, where you’re paid for results.
Crypto is the pinnacle of human dogshit, but we'd probably be no closer to curing disease or finding ET
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Why would the strength requirement for a 5 story building be different from a 50 story building? Do the building materials behave differently when you increase a number?

The Millennium Tower is not a "counter proof" to my argument, although it has become a bellwether for exactly the kind of posters I call out in my original post. My argument is that people on here who do armchair structural engineer and make comments like "the building code is too lax" are ignorant and full of shit. All the Millenium Tower proves is that, even with a building code, it is still possible to get unintended consequences. To the rest of your post about skyscrapers getting a lot of leeway - they don't get any more leeway than any other structure, they just have the money it takes to invoke portions of the code that allow alternative analysis methods. It just doesn't make sense financially to do some of the complex modeling for a 3 story building to shave 5% of material costs.

If anything, the building code is more stringent on skyscrapers because it does require more advanced analysis. This analysis is NOT precluded for smaller buildings, it is just not worth the money.
Noam is on the short list of the most intellectually impactful human beings of the period since Descartes: Newton, Darwin, Smith, maybe Ricardo, Marx, maybe Frege or Russell, Einstein, Turing, Keynes, Chomsky, and a scant few more.

His politics may motivate people to disregard him, but mostly he's just come to the devastating conclusion (for solid reasons) that people working on language outside the Chomskyan tradition are not doing science; semantics, linguistic anthropology, and some areas of psychology are just wind. People who do such work will not understand his criticism because their academic standing depends on their not understanding it. There is thus a supply of motivated PhDs ready to dismiss and de-emphasize his contributions. Some of the same applies to philosophers who work on language.
OFX is supported by GNUCash, but there's a long long tail of UI issues. GNUCash uses aqbanking to speak OFX to banks, but you still need to know a lot of data your bank doesn't publish in any obvious place.

And the aqbanking setup UI is completely separate from GNUCash, and really, really clunky. The good news is once it's set up, the normal import window UI is used. The bad news is there's no zero click process you can background. Some of that is because you may have conflicts between transactions you create automatically and the data source.
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"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Depending on the amount of data and time of travel etc, it might be more economical/reliable to do this than do it over the wire.
Hi, really great work on SourceGraph, I absolutely love using it for Go on Github. I'd also love to try it at work for a somewhat large C++ code base. Do you have any update on C++ support?
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How big doesn’t netflix have to get before it’s in their best interests to build data centers of their own?

Toolchains are maturing. They’ve figured out ways to get multiple uses from the same hardware. They shouldn’t be beholden to the rollout or geographical plans of two cloud providers.

I don’t even mean build out their entire infrastructure. I think even running your base load on your own hardware makes you understand your cloud situation much more profoundly.
You know what they say, "scratch your itch".
... I remember ordering pizza on the internet in the late '90s or perhaps early '00s, much less than 25 years after the first GIFs. "None pizza with left beef" was from October 2007, so ordering pizza on the internet was well-established by then.
> Does anyone here believe that the IRS is a good thing?

Maybe.

> The tax code could be greatly simplified helping business owners to boost the economy.

Simplification might be good, but I'd the focus is on tipping the system more in favor of capitalists, probably not.

But you still need the IRS; The complexity of the tax code is not their issue, anyhow, it's Congress's.

> If you need more auditors, perhaps you're doing it wrong.

Undefunding compliance monitoring is “doing it wrong”,yes.

> Imagine a "Revenue Service" that actually helped companies increase their revenue instead of being a parasite.

Even if you have an office designed to promote returns on domestic capital to reinforce the wealth of the domestic capitalist class (and we do have several agenciy with this overt purpose in the US government, including the Office of the US Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce, among others) you still need an office dedicate to assuring that the funding to support that effort comes in as required.

> A one page form, simple questions, simple tax code.

The main lobby against a one page form with simple questions, which given the requirements for information to be submittes to the IRS separate from tax filing can be done with the existing tax code, is business owners—specifically, owners of businesses that make their money selling tax preparation software and services.
You do not "indent 12 spaces", you have levels of indentation. If you indent code only using tabs it doesn't matter whether you set your tab width to 4, 8 or 20, it will always display properly. Feel free to change your tab width hourly, still no problem.

The only valid argument is that mixing spaces and tabs for indentation messes things up, but that argument works both ways so doesn't support either side in this never ending argument.
I've been waiting for a revolution there for a long time.

I dont know when or if it will come.
I was repeating this to people (typically I was downvoted, the same way I will be now), but the hype is just too huge. People need superheroes, in comics and in real life, they need to depend on some preacher, that will show them illusion of better life. And the marketing is using that, again we are in same scheme, instead of listening to technical people, everyone is relying on marketing which will say everything to boost up the stocks. <slowly clapping> Bravo! (I never had a driving license, I do all my "moving" with public transport or bike and self driving car would be usefull, but not yet - or sooner than in 10 years)
The history of government attempts to get people to eat "healthily" is a pretty good illustration of the many ways that government policy is a bad tool for addressing these type of issues. Government policy tends to have a lot of inertia and is bad at adapting to changing information. This is particularly evident when it attempts to track evolving scientific understanding of complex topics like nutrition and diet and their relation to health. It is also prone to being overly influenced by special interests and this particular area is full of textbook examples of regulatory capture and public choice theory.

I certainly believe that some individuals will be better informed and better able to translate that information into the best course of action for themselves given their goals than governments, especially "governments" as represented by a patchwork of laws and regulations the impact a complex thing like individual health. This is true even at the time that new policy is enacted and tends to become more true over time due to the inertia of government policy that goes down the wrong path.
>When did this become a "standard"?

Most people would say in the 20s and point at Fischer's publications, though you can have arguments for later and earlier.
Some of that is mentioned in the Wiki page, and you can see 0.05 all over the article [0], and the other related wiki pages[1]. You can find some key quotes there:

"The significance level for a study is chosen before data collection, and typically set to 5% or much lower, depending on the field of study"

"In 1925, Ronald Fisher advanced the idea of statistical hypothesis testing, which he called "tests of significance", in his publication Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Fisher suggested a probability of one in twenty (0.05) as a convenient cutoff level to reject the null hypothesis.In a 1933 paper, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson called this cutoff the significance level, which they named α."

If you mostly see lower p-values, that most likely means that you usually read non-social science papers. I guarantee that most social science (and related) fields use 0.05 regardless of the respectability of the journal.

As an example of fields with lower p-values - 0.001 is common in medicine, and physics commonly has even lower values.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#History
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance#Histo...
There's already a lawsuit from 4/2017 covering "Enhanced" Autopilot...

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...
Tesla’s Marketing and Sale of Vaporware
21. As Dictionary.com states, vaporware is “[c]omputer software that is advertised but
still nonexistent.” Tesla advertised vaporware to consumers, knowing full well that this particular
come-on would particularly excite its target market of high-tech aficionados.

Now we need one for self-driving for those who were duped into buying a Tesla just for that.
Jerome K. Jerome identified the problem some people have with self-diagnosis - and the Internet only makes it worse.

http://three-men-excerpt.pen.io/
The doses given therapeutically are lower than recreational ones.
Negative results are really hard to do right, and even harder to do interestingly. There are so many possible confounders in experiment design and execution that they generally aren't worth evaluating.

So we choose to spend our time reviewing and evaluating those experiments that do seem to have at least some chance of saying something interesting. Even then, though, depending on the discipline, if the researcher did everything perfectly, they're still saying that there's a 5% or some% chance that they just "got lucky" and there is no underlying effect at all.
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Neither surprising, nor new.

This has been going on for years in a number of countries (Spain, Italy, etc...) just so the goods can be marked "Made in *". The TV image of the careful old craftsman hand-sweing your luggage is a falsehood. It's sweatshops all over again.

It's even happening in the United States. Louis Vuitton does its repairs with immigrant labor in southern California so it can say the work was done in America. (The whole thing is tremendously complicated because of California laws about handbags and leather goods, but that's off topic.)

There are compounds in some states that are essentially isolated towns surrounding a factory where Chinese laborers put things together so they can be marked "Made in USA." The laborers eat, sleep, work, and live without ever going outside the compound. It's like the horror stories we see about China, but on U.S. soil.
Could an internationally-distributed, loosely-affiliated group of people use this to orchestrate tipping an election for some quid pro quo without leaving a paper trail? Asking for a friend.
Why should China care if Alibaba can not expand in the US? It is largely owned by non-Chinese investors.
Third hand knowledge - since I was not a part of the negotiations - fair warning. The company I worked for was getting discounts in the 40-50% range. It was the only way they could afford to use AWS, frankly, since it was all static provisioning (i.e. no elasticity in the workload). They were also approaching a petabyte of data stored in S3.
Vim and Atom.