skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that it's not easy for the populace to tell the difference between 'science' and science in a lot of cases. You see this on all parts of the political spectrums. Soviet Lysenkoism, left wing anti vax crap, and neo liberal austerity.

EDIT: Krugman had this to say about the R&R austerity paper "What the Reinhart-Rogoff affair shows is the extent to which austerity has been sold on false pretenses. For three years, the turn to austerity has been presented not as a choice but as a necessity. Economic research, austerity advocates insisted, showed that terrible things happen once debt exceeds 90 percent of G.D.P. But "economic research" showed no such thing; a couple of economists made that assertion, while many others disagreed. Policy makers abandoned the unemployed and turned to austerity because they wanted to, not because they had to."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

Particularly telling: "The paper was published in an annual 'Papers and Proceedings' edition of The American Economic Review that was not subject to the same peer-review standards that other editions use before publication"
Are you claiming that reproductively is unimportant when multiple studies cover the same area? Do you think so because you imagine errors in the studies would be uncorrelated? Not the case: look at the social sciences. Errors are very much coordinated.
Yes, thank you for saying this. I feel like, often, people use science as some ethereal being. It is a process that has to be used. If that process isn't happening it isn't science. That doesn't mean everything has to be science, but things that are science should be held to a certain standard but should also be taken with the extra weight if that standard is met.
You can absolutely build your app once, tarball it up, and distribute it, and some people do/did it this way.

But you will have to write that system yourself, and there are some challenges involved. For example, if you have binary dependencies (either executables or shared libraries — even if you use an interpreted language like Ruby or Node.js, third-party packages often pull in shared libs), you will have to make sure they're (1) included, and (2) either statically linked, or that your servers are running the exact things they depend on (things like libc), and (3) that the architecture is the same (probably moot in these 64-bit days). It might be possible to write a little script that finds all binary dependencies and includes them in the tarball.

That said, packaging and distribution is the more trivial aspect of all of this. Running an app is the hard part, and that's where Kubernetes really shines.
Or, increasingly, simple convenience
Issue is that again by overly focusing on convienence they might lose in pizza taste as their competitors like Pizza Hut are focusing more on different things and can overtake Dominos.
Any registrar making money on whois privacy has an option and motive to autorenew the privacy with the domain. If anything Namecheap bugs me with it because I don't want whois privacy on my domains!
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Exactly. Traditionalism isn't perfect, but it acts as a sort of long-term experimentation. That which has worked over long periods of time can be a good default to stick with. Environments do change, but the nature of humanity and society also has constants over time that are important to consider.
What are these cases that affect typical usage? And it’s not where the ‘US government thinks’. They need to show probable cause and get a warrant. Generally, when you get to that point, going from one developed democracy with fairly robust rule of law to another isn’t going to help.
The shameful history of "redlining" (housing segregation) was driven by policy, not market forces. Black people weren't being judged non-credit-worthy, they were being explicitly prohibited from borrowing and buying by FHA policy and housing covenants. So this history, while awful and something that we should not repeat, does not speak to my point that making rational decisions about credit-worthiness is good business sense.

> Following the same line of thought, would you be ok with an AI system...

You didn't answer my question. I asked it because I want to know if the people most vocally arguing that de-biasing is a moral imperative will admit even one case where there might be a compelling reason to see the world as it is, even if that association is considered "problematic".

If people will admit this, then we can argue over where the line should be. But many don't appear to admit that a line even exists.

I will admit that the line exists, and that an incident like this is a clear example where removing hurtful associations is proper. This was a case where a ML model reinforced a loaded and racist stereotype, and the harm of removing that from the model is almost zero: https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8880363/google-apologizes-...
This could be a game changer...
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They'll play a few games with contracts to spread the costs around (e.g. giving n% discounts for m years of reserved capacity). You probably won't get much just by saying "I can just go to GCP" and asking for the world. The more you spend, the more distinct services you buy, and the longer you want to commit the steeper the discount. I've seen up to 10% but I'm sure they do more for bigger customers.
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There are a lot of "new" articles that are just a small tweak of a previous article with a lot of hype to make it appear as a groundbreaking result. So there is a lot of implicit informal reproduction.

You can't trust blindly the previous studies because they may be wrong, or have hidden assumptions. A well known case is the use of a control group. If you want to study a new drug, you must compare the results of the patients with a similar group that is taking the previous drug and/or a group that is taking no drug. You can't just trust that the cure rate of the previous study is 23.573% and compare it with your results. (And there are some trick to get more reliable results, like using a placebo instead of no drug, and doing a double blind study.)
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I guess it takes a lot of time. Change a thing, wait for Google to crawl your site, then inspect the results and repeat. Most of it is waiting for Google. So yes, I suppose you can do it on the side.
The goal of ml isn't to accurately model training data. The goal is to make something useful. Correctly doing the former can hinder the latter.
I kind of disagree with that though. They knew their core product was bad and that it was severely hurting their business.

That's a lot less difficult to find the courage to take a risk on changing than when your core product is decent/good but not as great as it "could" be.
You've just described embedded systems engineering.
Certainly better than when Walmart tried to hire Cucker for responsive web templates. A lot of talent in Bentonville the home of Walmart. I'm excited to see Walmarts new e-commerce focus make Amazon more competitive.
Any chance you could share some ideas? Is it just getting it linked on other pages? That appears to be what a lot of "consultants" online suggest. Or purely content optimisation?
The company is saying you don't need a specialist, but after bayes theorem (using 90%TN 87%TP and D(A)= 200,000 complication / 29,100,000 diabetes), the chance you have this condition after the machine says you do is 0.83%.
Seems like they are using this to get a proper referral to a specialist rather than using this as sole diagnosis. The code itself is probably 15 lines using Tensorflow or other framework I'm guessing, but could be wrong.
I just don't see what relationship the second thought has with the first.
We did an article trying to help people be better critical thinkers when they hear about psychology research. I thought the author did a good job getting into how these studies go wrong and also the types of magical results you should be suspicious of.
https://medium.com/@jhreha/most-psychology-research-is-bs-73...
Gorleben is thirty years old, and problems with it are hardly indicative of current technology. Chernobyl, also decades old, catastrophically melted down, so “decommission” seems a bit rich. Fukushima was hit by a historic tsunami, and then partially melted down.

That’s not so much sarcasm you’re employing, as misdirection.
I do have mild red-green color blindness although I'm not completely sure how the game is even supposed to work. So once you get a word wrong it shows new words that are still connected to the one you're trying to eliminate? But yes once the old words moved out of the green top 4 box I could not distinguish them from the rest.
So you'd ignore one of the most horrific and important examples of widely accepted science going wrong because of an internet meme?
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If we must make this comparison, most actual companies are totalitarian dictatorships.

> We can all opt out of Facebook.

Can we? What is the practical effect of doing so? Will they stop tracking us on the web? Will they stop gathering data about us via people with whom we are associated?

Facebook is a crowd-sourced global surveillance program from which there is no real opt-out and over which there are no checks and balances because most of the people running it don't even think they're running a surveillance program.
Perhaps these problems that require out of the box thinking should be approached like the DARPA self driving car challenge. Set up the problem and winning criteria and give a 10 million USD price and contract to whoever solves it the best.

Might be better to have 10 teams of 10 people trying different approaches than one team of 100.
> What role does Youtube have in making a kumbaya kind of experience?

Why would any corporation want its customers to be happy?

Some businesses certainly don't need to care. A restaurant in central Rome has an infinite supply of new tourists to feed, so they don't need to worry about whether anyone wants to come back. At the other end of the spectrum, a monopolist knows that customers have no choice and must come back regardless of how they're treated.

YouTube has elements of both: there's a near-infinite supply of hopeful Internet video stars, and they also have a near-monopoly on video viewership. They might still want to keep stakeholders happy because these issues tend to brew for a long time until they blow up into public consciousness. (Facebook's promiscuous spreading of user data was known ten years ago, but they only took action now. Damage control would have been easier earlier.)
Sorry to be that guy, but this is probably not true.

the notion that ingesting certain products like B vitamins (or garlic, for that matter) might repel mosquitoes is common, but unfounded. Based on scientific studies I was able to dig up, B vitamins are not effective mosquito repellants, and vitamin B12, specifically, is not well-studied.

What scientists know more about is another B vitamin - B1 - also known as thiamine. As part of a larger survey of effective mosquito repellants, a 2002 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that, "No ingested compound, including garlic and thiamine (vitamin B1), has been found to be capable of repelling biting arthropods."
-- http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/21/can-vitamin-b12-pre...
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Yes, but I think we're all intelligent enough to understand what the parent means.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that this happens particularly from washing synthetic clothing in washing machines where the waste water carries the microplastics into the water supply where they can't (yet) be filtered out.
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Thanks for introducing me to Oyez as a source for oral arguments. The audio is much easier to follow when it's paired (and synced) with the transcript.

This is probably the best we can get until that fabled day when they finally allow cameras in the courtroom.
And drive the other half of people to insanity. There is, in support terms, not much worse than an obvious chatbot or support personnel that only has canned responses available. You explain your problem, they come with a canned response that suggests doing what you already did AND WROTE THEM, you reply back "I already, as you advised, did XYZ and wrote you, this does not help" and get the SAME canned response bullshit back.

For what the fuck did I just invest half an hour in a detailed bug report when you're not even bothering to literally read it?!
> Europe in general has done away with gun rights debates

One side has won, but it's hardly been "done away with". Even in the UK there is support for relaxing gun control. There are some countries in Europe with fairly strong laws protecting gun ownership as well, like the Czech Republic.
Of course science can and should be used to inform government policy, but that's a bit removed from technocracy, which I think is what the OP means to describe.
tbh that doesn't sound like a huge problem to solve. Setup some working folders that the PWA has R/W access to and leave it at that.
I think we're passed the point where studies can be reproduced effectively. I actually think the scientific model is falling apart. We've discovered the easy things, and those studies were easy to reproduce. We built a model of science around the low hanging fruit.

How are you going to reproduce a study about a cancer drug? Synthesizing the drug itself is a huge endeavor, never mind finding a group of participants with the exact cancer you need. How would you reproduce the Large Hadron Collider experiments? You'd need to rebuild one of the most technically challenging, most expensive scientific instruments ever made.
- exoscale.com (based in Switzerland)
His point was that control theory is a mature field and that we field very sophisticated control systems in daily life that may be far beyond what's needed to land a rocket vertically. However, the vast majority of those systems are embedded in industrial machinery that doesn't seem particularly exciting from the outside.

Engineering students build inverted pendulum control systems all the time for fun and for class projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJHcI7UcuE

If it helps, bear in mind that John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace was landing rockets vertically about 17 years ago. And that was a garage operation of about 5 people.
I second that.

Also, leverage.
We know that weak classifiers can be bagged to produce a strong classifier al la Adaboost.

Each study is a weak classifier and would have a 'reproducibility crisis' if retested on new data. However after lots of studies of similar phenomena, a strong classifier emerges. In the field, we call this converging lines of evidence.
Hard to say without knowing what is it you architect for. Can we get a bit more details?
Interesting post - who benefits from this most?
To the downvoters: please explain your reasoning. I think I raised some good points here.
Their CDN is in-house [1]. They use cloud services for general computing.

[1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
I’ve been a fan of GnuCash, especially double accounting and multi-currency. But the lack of having an online version limited me. I couldn’t share anything. My CPA couldn’t take a look at it etc.

Advice there?
I'm not studying my Masters in Europe, and here the the norm is to enter a Masters Program directly after finishing your bachelors. I have already worked for a few years in America and while I'm still in my 20's, I am one of the oldest students in the class.

The biggest reason I could not enter into a graduate program straight out of university was the college debt I had already taken on for my bachelors. I worked for a couple years making student loan payments and then as I always planned, I began researching Masters Programs. After seeing the price tag, it was very hard to walk away from a comfortable salary.

To avoid this, perhaps it is best to go straight from Undergrad to grad before you start enjoying the the young professional lifestyle and work on paying off a larger debt upon graduation.
Yeah, my friend works for a decent sized company that writes banking software. He mentioned that some of the larger clients send a person everyday by plane with a tape for their daily data load. Seems strange in today's world.
To be fair, I took a step back from saying Hitler, and I said Nazis, I was one step removed from invoking Godwin's law in its formal definition.

More seriously, it wasn't just this group that believed in this stuff, it was the many many institutions in the western world, as emodendroket points out. Certain departments at Yale, most notably, supported eugenics.

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/american-eugenics-society-1926-...

edited portion in case people think I meant all of Yale, bad generalization, my bad.
The same Krugman who pronounced the markets would never recover from Trump's election or that since we didn't pass a large enough stimulus we were doomed to low GDP growth rates forever?
Is that because you need iterations to figure out what Google values or do they just punish new domains?
SEO works but actual focused content is better.
If a decision has to be made then science as a guide may be the best option but much of the time it would be better for government not to try and make policy at all in complex areas. Using "healthy eating" as an example, governments might try to influence what people eat by taxing or even outlawing "unhealthy" foods or subsidizing "healthy" foods. Instead of arguing over whether and how much the government should be imposing sin taxes on fats (and what kind of fats?) or sugars (and what kind of sugars), the better approach would be to do nothing and let people make their own choices based on the best information available to them at the time.
Saying you are left wing or saying you are right wing wont get you a job is my summarization, its interesting dinner talk.

I cant directly survive on left or right wing politics unless Im a political commentator but you're right in that I'm indirectly affected. Its almost like religion, just because I'm Christian doesnt put food on my table but Christianity affects the culture and society I'm in but I have to be a programmer to actually get a job that pays.

You cant apply to jobs saying you're right wing or left wing, all in all people overestimate the 'wings' for their own life.

What I hate about modern politics is that people treat it almost like religion, and never question decisions just because its in their own party lines and to follow their party leaders.

Left wing, liberals, right wings, or conservative, these are just titles now, but can be fought like Christians and Muslims in the Crusades. Politics isnt blindly following a doctrine or a party like a religion, if people lose the ability to question their own leaders' decisions and instead just faithfully follow, what is the point of separating church from state.
> It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world.

I don't think that's the case.
Trivially easy to solve violent threats?
> A standard approach for tall buildings is to incorporate either a dynamic weight high in the tower to counterbalance the sway so it doesn't go critical, or incorporate dynamic elements in the foundation system.

As a structural engineer on the west coast, I can say that neither of these are standard. Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are commonly used for reducing wind-induced vibration, but not for seismic applications. Nor have I ever designed, seen, or heard of 'dynamic elements in the foundation'

The reason you can't rely on TMDs is because they are tuned to a structure's elastic period of vibration. That is to say, the materials are still in their elastic range. When a ductile structure is subjected to a sufficiently large earthquake, elements of the seismic force resisting system (SFRS) will yield. Hence the period will elongate. Hence the damper will be detuned and may not provide any benefit at all.
I have a really bad personal experience of that. Mental health should be way more important than saving some money on doing your account yourself. I hope everyone here follows your advice!
I was just talking with my wife about this the other day. I've had Domino's a few times in the last ~2 years, and it's okay pizza, but I would never go out of my way to purchase Domino's pizza.
>the buzzword collider we had last week about how movio saved 50K$ by moving to a Go-microservice-InfiniDB-neural-kubernetes-something-something, that turned out to be a lack of basic knowledge on how to use databases.

even the rudimentary experience/skills with the former gets you hot $400K+ jobs while even the advanced experience/skills with the latter gets you only $200K jobs.
Ordering pizza on the blockchain.
People are more likely to be killed by flying glass in the Financial District than skyscrapers collapsing. A good approximation of how far glass can be thrown downtown is roughly 2x building height due to the winds coming off the bay.
Ridiculous. I work in security. Public facing security names often get threats from organized crime. I'm not at Google, but is what I do evil?

The existence of threats does not mean what you are doing is evil.
On my machine right now, Cortana is Disabled in settings and Group Policy settings (you can't disable all of Cortana from regular settings, only the "Hey Cortana" and various ad popups) but the UI is clearly still visible in my taskbar.
I recently experimented with this [0] - there is some overhead but it's acceptable. I noticed that the more arguments you pass over into a Wasm function, the slower things get (see .set test).

Note: I'm either bad at doing correct benchmarks or the Javascript compiler is pretty sneaky at optimizing things.

[0] - https://maierfelix.github.io/glmw/mat4/
I am curious. Is there specific regulations that apply to software on nuclear energy? Since, we are dealing with the "N" word.
That implies there's no systemic, institutional, bias. Which is clearly not the case.
I wonder what factors made this decision possible? I love the idea of automated diagnosis but the performance rates are 87% true positive and 90% true negative in the article. Seems a bit low.

Maybe people aren't getting diagnosed at very high rates? That would be a reasonable justification for deployment with somewhat less than perfect accuracy. Anyone have any insight?
Why are specialists immune to those same statistics?
I think he is referring to base isolation which, I agree, is non-standard.
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So... this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2018/04/10/pizza-unc...
> Today, W3Schools has largely resolved these issues and addressed the majority of the undersigned developers' concerns.

Seems to me like it's a decent resource nowadays.
I'm using it in Sweden as well. I wrote a Python script to populate the accounts from a list of accounts I received from my auditor/tax consultant, as such I don't know exactly what flavour of BAS it is.

I use a letter prefix for my transaction sequence numbers and GnuCash doesn't seem to understand it or put any value in it at all. This is definitely a weak point in my eyes and I'd love to have GnuCash support categories for transactions and strict sequence numbers.
Here's a table showing the "old" lost technologies with the new ones that have been replacing them https://indieweb.org/lost_infrastructure
I disagree; all complex laws. That's the main reason for the existence of supreme courts; to decide on a reading when courts below disagree ("circuit split", in the US).