skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called Granger-causality (and work on it led to a Nobel prize, so it's important and useful)... it's stronger than just correlation, and way easier to determine than true causation, but it's possible that z causes both x and y, and z's effect on x is just more delayed than its effect on y.

But it at least rules out x causing y, which is something.
Food Network moved all their stuff to Hulu, so Netflix is going to have to fill out their offering to replace it.
Are we?

It seems quite the opposite, that the vast research reserves of AI, now heavily funded and employed by industry, are applied to pathways on hills that credibly seem high enough. Current deep learning approaches are sufficient for systems that work well enough to make profitable products, and that's it, there's no claim, expectation or necessity for that to be even a local optimum, much less a global one.
Exactly! I'm never going to give up Emacs, but I'm sure as shit interested in the technical aspects of text editors.
Except that it doesn’t, or at least not in any significant quantity to merit mentioning.
> I think Feynmann would disagree with you.

I cleverly added so many qualifiers that the comment is unfalsifiable:

> In modern physics of this type, where experimentation is not practical ….

Anyway I am a mathematician and not a physicist, so of course I am biased in my evaluation of the ability of mathematics to model reality.
> As an end user, I don't care what language a program is written in. I care about features, usability, accessibility and many other things- but not how you did it.

That's great advice for production software.

At this point, it looks like the editor is firmly Alpha quality, and they probably care more about new contributors than new users. I'm sure they'll update their messaging once they're more polished.
I thought the same thing. Like, I get why it's cool that it's in rust (been waiting for something to hack on) but tell me about the product man!

So I created: https://github.com/google/xi-editor/issues/668
Hi thanks for his very interesting,

What I think is a big problem this stuff about requiring consent. This is a big issue at the moment for website owners and app developers who have on line advertising from vendors such as Google (Admob/Adsense) and use e.g. Google Analytics for development support. These guys do not record individual user details and have no interest in doing so.

Specifically for such people there is an issue where personalised advertising (according to to Google and others) needs an opt in, fine but for app developers and web site owners they don't have any user details other that maybe ip address so if they put up a pop-up and record consent how do they know who the user is if they don’t have any other users info.

This is leading to absurd discussions re for example Google Analytics used by millions of websites and apps. There is something called client id which GA uses to identify unique "users” or website visitors. Now apparently as it is unique this is personal data so should require consent according to some experts I have read. But as it anonymous how can it be identified who it “is”. If a user demands to know what data a website/app has and mentions the client id info well who knows for sure what any client id represents in the real world ?

More to the point what is the likely legal/financial consequence if a user claims that the website id did not ask for consent for this client id to be recorded (how would they be able to prove which one it was that was theirs anyway) ?

Would they be able to sue ? I presume not. So is the IC going to be interested in this apparent breach ? And if the developer/website owner had a data breach where they GA account was compromised would they have to inform all the Client ID individuals ? Again obviously not but you see how these discussions are going !
Sense8 got axed because it was a $1 million niche show. The same reason they passed on The Expanse. at $700k an episode. They are both wonderful television, but the masses want Survival so that's the garbage we get. At least Netflix and HBO still show actual TV.
He just doesn't grok it does he?
>"Go can be seen as Java done right, for a different definition of "right"

Can you explain this? In what sense is Go "Java done right"? The OPs comment isnt offering me much insight into your comment. Thanks.
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They can't listen to your calls without cracking the keys shared between the phone company and your phone...though I do remember reading a while back that "someone" managed to steal the list from sim card manufacturers on more than one occasion.
> it's plausible the culture of the field has changed (nm that feynman wasn't the arbiter of culture to begin with)

To be fair to monocasa's objection (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101892), the rebuttal was not of a claim that the culture of physics was mathematical but literally of my claim that (certain) physics was mathematics.
I think it depends on the business and its characteristics. You can have a high-turnover restaurant (cheap Chinese, cheap Mexican) or a low volume expensive restaurant (could be Peking Chinese, or heute Mexican). The former will be very annoyed of you overstay beyond eating. The latter are used to long dinners extending into long convos, enjoying the high margin extras.

For some businesses having loiterers may be good for business in creating a "hang out" like '30s soda shops, others may have a clientele which wants a more relaxed atmosphere.
Interesting that you mentioned political topics since I find Wikipedia a much better source than news agencies that are openly aligned to one specific political platform. For news here in Sweden its not uncommon to hear the national radio say "in the political aligned left/right news paper xxx, they wrote ..., while the political aligned (opposing side) wrote ...".

Fact checking sites are naturally better and usually go to great length to differentiate themselves from normal (political aligned) news sites and affirm that they are political unaffiliated. Sadly their time and scope is limited so Wikipedia work as a nice middle ground.
It solves the decentralized chicken-and-egg problem. You can't expect every appointment-place in the market to implement an appointment system that will work according to some common standard (which doesn't really exist yet), and the booking service isn't particularly useful until (and unless) a critical mass of service providers are compatible.

This approach, however, uses the "existing standard" (phone conversations in English or near-English) and can be eventually replaced by directly making an electronic booking for the places that will support it.
The examples in this article are all straw men; where's the compelling specific case where 5 whys lead to some demonstrable mistake?

Nothing to see here.
The rule of thumb I give people is that if there is a different path that gets you to the 5th why in two steps it’s not really the 5th why.

However, it’s still very possible to set a narrative with the five whys, because you can steer it to different contributing factors (most problems really do have more than one cause).
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A lot of user ids are literally randomly generated data (for example any UUID used as user id). That doesn't make it less useful.

But that doesn't mean that everything is personally identifying information. "I am 53 and like Harry Potter" isn't enough to identify me, so it isn't PII and isn't covered by GDPR. My Blizzard username is enough for Blizzard to identify me, so it is PII.

The important concept here is that in Europe, data protection laws are not only protection against corperations, they are also protection against nation states. We had a few bad experiences with the effects of government surveilance, and we had a few bad dictators in the last century.
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Does that mean network quality will significantly go down if we shut down the stingrays? I mean when you have 5 nation states deploying a network of stingrays in DC, all trying to compete on being the relay nodes, that does add quite a lot of bandwidth.
So what's more important "semantic correctness" or having a readable post?
I'm fairly certain the US legal system, when interpreting domestic cases (the purview of HIPAA) doesn't care about the GDPR. If a case crossed international boundaries, sure, but to say GDPR supersedes HIPAA is false. They apply to different jurisdictions, which are mostly, if not entirely, separate.
We didn't start the fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
Haha! I was in the process of spinning up my little blog, and I had a similar experience trying to get dns configured, had I merely checked my provider's knowledgebase instead of going through github's more generalized procedures I would have accomplished what I was trying to do within an hour instead of the 5 I spent scouring every bit of github's docs I could find. Urp.
Occam's razor says that these are all run by the various agencies of the United States government...

Any foreign embassy running one, has no right to radiate beyond the border of the embassy, where it is US soil and not foreign.
Here in the states we use the word "freedom" to mean "the person with the most money gets whatever they want".
Since it's all the same, maybe we should advocate the US pursue the same tactics and methods the CCP utilizes --I bet if the US went that route, people would not say, whelp, there is no difference, yeah, I welcome us becoming more like the Chinese gov't.

There may be some tiny overlap in some areas, but in my estimation, it's massively and significantly different and equivocating is highly misleading.
Why would you do it? Why not find new job before quitting? I understand that some people can thrive when poor but it clearly does not work (based on this comment) for you.
My ops postmortem template tried to elicit breadth. Once you’ve got a forest of causes, you can apply Five Whys to add depth.

There’s some overlap among the following questions. The intent is to elicit observations and ideas, not to uniquely categorize them.

* What are all the factors that could have prevented the incident?

* What are all the factors that could have detected the issue before production?

* What are all the factors that could have detected the issue sooner when it did occur?

* What are all the factors that could have accelerated mitigation? (Including, especially, changes that could have reduced the risks of mitigations considered too risky to apply.)

* What are all the factors that could have accelerated remediation?

* What could have reduced the scope or impact?

It’s common to come out of this with a laundry list that overfits the last incident and, if applied, would increase the complexity of the system and add risk. We’d typically apply one or two fixes, and stockpile the rest to see if any of them would have addressed any future incident. Usually most of the “solutions” turn out to be specific to the single incident that prompted them.
They were significantly lower during the no-poach agreement. After it ended, Google immediately raised all its engineers' salaries by ~15%, and salaries quickly increased from there.

Look at self driving car engineer salaries today. Those wouldn't have happened under a no-poach agreement. Compare to the mobile OS race, with tens of billions of dollars (at least) on the line. The no-poach agreement between Apple and Google prevented them from beating each other with engineers, so the money poured into lawyers' pockets through litigation instead.
No, it still has springs as I understand it. However the dampers are replaced with some sort of linear actuator so the degree of damping and even the position of the suspension can be controlled.

If there were no springs it'd bottom out when the car was switched off, you'd still need a normal ride height when getting in to the car.
Yes you're right. I was setting some facts straight and answering my parent post's question. I wasn't voicing my opinion on whether or not I agree with those laws (I don't) and think they're well-designed (they're not IMHO).
Back when I was in college, I saw on reddit this quote and a wonderful response to it, which I'll try to recount it fully.

There is a species of birds in Europe that time their eggs' hatchings to a particular point in spring, which coincides with the hatching time of a particular type of greenworm that the birds and their young eat. Because of global warming, the timing of these birds' egg hatching has not lined up as well with the greenworms, and their population as a consequence is in decline. If the birds examined their own methods of timing the egg laying and hatching, they could realign it with the greenworms, thus allowing them to improve the survival rates of their young. Thus, orthinology can be useful to birds, and as per Feynman's argument by analogy, philosophy can be useful to scientists. :)

Philosophy of Science concerns itself with the process of doing scientific work, how to do it well, what determines scientific and unscientific work, what kinds of traits make a given scientific theory better than another. At a time where scientific fields are becoming more concerned with reproducibility, papers are published just to inflate citation numbers, junk journals abound, pressure exists to simply publish quantity... Does it not seem like examining the method and process of scientific work is becoming more necessary?
That's what I took from it too. But I've noticed an increasingly growing segment of HN commenters wearing fashionable hats made of foil.
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> Fortunately, we're building an in-memory database, so we don't have to worry about any of that!

If I wanted to do something in memory, I'd just use data structures in my process. Not so much a database if there is no persistence.
Or have private-key encoding. That’s the case for HDMI: No-one can manufacture devices that aren’t approved.

Of course the funny part is, it’s designed so pirates can only send HDMI output to approved screens (=not recording devices), but for backwards comparibility, they has to allow HDMI-to-SVGA adapter with decoding, so the breach is wide open. But you get the intent: HDMI was supposed to bea fully-encrypted standard with only preapproved devices.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/08/homogeneity-their-str...

The National Review is definitely not a bastion of liberalism.
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One of the indisputably nice things about WP is that there's a record of everything that happens. Can you cite an example where a simple spelling mistake was reverted, so that the page right now is running the incorrect spelling of something?
The founder of Xiph says this is the norm for codec patents. I am inclined to believe him.
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OP was quoting.
Exactly; it's an error (a deliberate error, now what's the word for that, again?) not a mistake.

Reminds me of a very old grammar joke, husband interrupts wife in bed with another. Wife: "You startled me." Husband: "No dear, I am startled. You were surprised."
That's not what 'identical' means. Although this thing isn't even similar, never mind identical.
It ends up screwing over Turkey massively, which unsurprisingly hasn't signed.

Turnabout is fair play, you know.

Unless one wishes to pretend that certain events in 1974 have no role to play in the equation.
As the author apparently felt that he needed to write such an article, I am assuming there are -- or were, at least (the article is from 2011).
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Business class internet at home often will reassign it to your full name and address, for example.
One of Cross' targets attempted to edit his page and his changes were quickly reverted by Cross due to conflict of interest. What it seems you're suggesting here is that those unfairly targeted on Wikipedia, as Cross is doing, should learn the labyrinthine processes Wikipedia expects to correct their entries. And then presumably to put in the same amount of time Cross is putting in (hours and hours on weekdays and weekends) to monitor their pages for more abuses from him.

Should we not be more concerned about blocking those who are clearly in the wrong here?
Don't forget that Linq operates over duck-typed extension methods, so you can also define your own wizardry there.
I think that 5W and 5W2H are means to develop a network of logical reasoning. These diagrams ( fishbone and Ishikawa) are used as a means to discuss what attack areas you have concerning a problem. They are used in many ways and in many different fields. They are very useful when designing experiments (DoE). 8D and 10D teams use them extensively in (high tech) manufacturing.
In what sense is a process being used by experienced editors against an inexperienced one here? Again: all I see is a person being told where to file grievances, and a general set of expectation about "Conflict of Interest" that doesn't in fact match the project's COI guidelines.
I’ve noticed that long hours hunched over a desk coding without good breaks/posture triggers TOS-like symptoms for me. Every few days I’ll foam roll the shit out of my thoracic spine and it helps a good bit.
What if that’s exactly what this guy is trying to resist? I don’t have a whole lot of information, but it seems like many of ths guy’s “targets” are “journalists” for Sputnik, which is part of Russia’s propaganda apparatus. And I’ve developed a strong, deeply-held skepticism towards any obvious attempt to fire up the ol’ internet outrage machine against some particular person.
Why 3rd derivative? Do you think that because we don't typically work with 3rd derivatives to explain physical phenomenon that there is a lot we are missing? Or are there particular scenarios where you see 3rd derivative as being critical to causality? 1st derivative = direct causality, 2nd derivative = ability to affect change, 3rd derivative = ?? tertiary causes.

Wait. Doesn't a derivative mathematically define a causal relationship?

EDIT: nevermind re: derivative = causal ... that's just a correlation relationship. dx/dt. Still I'm curious as to what is special about the 3d derivative (besides jerk).
We can't just jump to conclusions like this. We can't take a single story about a single bad editor and make blanket rules. You have to take a look at the whole dataset of people who make crusader efforts and then see if there's a pattern.

Even if there is, you then have to ask yourself if it's something that people will just learn and work-around.

I'm not disagreeing Cross was likely a net negative for wikipedia, but gut reactions to a single bad actor don't justify large theoretical changes to a largely-successful system.
Would you rather Google created a non-standards-compliant system for preloading articles like Apple and Facebook did? I have yet to hear a cogent argument for why AMP, built on existing web standards and supported by Microsoft, Baidu, Twitter, Pinterest, and Cloudflare (among others), is bad.
Ask a medical doctor or dentist how much they pay for the various technology they use in their office. Even electronic medical records, as useful as they are, will have some negative effects for patients via the economics of medicine. EMRs are net positive, of course.

Perhaps some day, the medical field will experience the same boom in open source and inexpensive services. That day ain't tomorrow.
Depends who is controlling (or trolling) wikipedia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109290
Isn’t that pretty generally accepted (at least in this community)?
> Black Mirror has gone downhill in an effort to create a mass audience. (Mostly the fourth season)

I just wanted to say that I strongly disagree. "USS Callister" and "Hang the DJ" in particular were great episodes in my opinion and very well received overall. "Black Museum" was also quite good. And "Metalhead", together with the black and white versions of Fury Road and Logan, presented a very interesting view of a mostly hopeless future.
With as much insanity seems to come with the modern web (and "smart" devices), I feel like there might be a (niche) market for going back to something like Gopher (or a newer, similar variant) where I am imagine this sort of tracking and profiling is harder (and hopefully the content has a higher signal to noise ratio, and is more like the original grassroots web).
These notable persons (Craig Murray, David Edwards, George Galloway etc) who are reporting their personal biographies being edited unfairly on Wikipedia, are in fact well known as prominent humanitarian and anti-war activists and writers.

For strategic reasons at least -- Russia's foreign commercial news stations are also of late "sympathetic" to anti-war and progressive themes (such as arms reduction and peaceful conflict resolution). Opinions may differ here about the nature of Russia's support for those subjects, but that is a very orthogonal concern.

I don't know of any substantiated connections between the persons involved here and the Russian government or media. They certainly are "anti war" in the popular sense of the term.
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