skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As examples I've encountered, virtually anything touching on the Kochs, Koch Industries, the Koch foundations (and other "charitable" organisations), or their interests, particularly global warming topics, and most especiaally their stable of denialists.

It's not that valid and truthful information cannot be added, but it runs a fearsome gauntlet of protectors.
my ignorance and naivete are really annoying me. How do you write an ad to 'target' a person? How do you personalize spam??
I just googled the netherlands and I see a completely different system than the one I was told about. I completely retract the reference.
This has been my path. I love Python, but I ignore all this other stuff. I have better things to worry about.
I can understand the frustrations at the ads after I said it was like reading microfiche...

but the scrolling is like reading library microfiche.

That left bar could use some work for sure though.
>implies that the requester's time is less valuable than the project maintainer's

It is. In large projects, there are relatively few maintainers responsible for evaluating the requests, reports and code from lots of people. They're scarce resources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeH7wqOwXA
https://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/maintainer
I meant in how people talk about "causality", it is always poorly defined. It seems like there is a implicit assumption about irreversible systems at play.
What's your point? Would you prefer to be ruled by Jeff Bezos and the Walton family without the semblance of checks on their power?
Sorry, could you unpack and clarify that?
Well, one never knows. From one of my IVPN articles:

Sabu’s downfall clearly illustrates the roles of intentionality, trust and time. Sabu (Hector Xavier Monsegur) was born in 1983, and started hacking in his early teens.[0] He reportedly hung out on EFnet IRC chat servers. Like most n00bs, he was careless. At least once, he apparently made the mistake of logging in without obscuring his ISP-assigned IP address.[1] And someone, perhaps the admin, was retaining chat logs.[2] That’s to be expected. But based on those logs, they could link his various IRC nicknames, over time.

Years later, Sabu became famous through LulzSec. I gather that he was playing elite hacker to a crowd of script kiddies. That apparently offended some of his old EFnet associates.[3] Plus the fact that LulzSec was causing trouble for them, professionally. And so they considered him a jerk, and eventually doxxed him.

0) http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/...

1) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/07/lulzsec_takedown_an...

2) https://sites.google.com/site/avalonlogsefnet/

3) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/doxed-how-sabu-w...
I’ve been in so many meetings where a “someone should...” statement got quietly dropped and never acted on and then forgotten. Establishing that “someone should do X” is an executive decision to be carried out ASAP, in a way that’s clear to everyone in the room, is effective in the long run.

I’m willing to bet everyone else in that room, from that day forward, whenever they heard Tim Cook say “someone should” take charge of a situation that they were responsible for, just said, “I’m on it”, immediately stood up, left the meeting, and made it happen. And that’s a scalable, sustainable, well-oiled machine. The fact that Tim could set that up with a single cold, pointed comment to demonstrate how he expected his staff to respond to him is what makes the story.

The meetings where Tim said someone should do something and someone just did it without any further bureaucracy or follow-up emails about action items or specific allocation of tasks to individual people: those meetings don’t make a good story.
Without trying to support the piece, the DNA question has a rich history of being explainable via the panspermia theory.
Worse? Germany takes that shit seriously. The first amendment (absolute freedom of speech) is not a worldwide thing.
Some of the Xi guys have some really good talks (or maybe just 1, I dunno) on YouTube. I really enjoyed them.
There is frequently a "Controversies" section. Also the Talk page and revision history.
Let’s just get this out there: there is no long term randomized controlled trial that has ever been conducted which is capable of proving that one diet is better than other diets.

Period.

Nutrition science is a joke. It’s basically all short term studies which tell you nothing about long term effects of diet, or it’s long term epidemiological studies which are fundamentally incapable of controlling for confounding variables.
Vinegar is made by first fermenting sugar into alcohol with yeast and then a bacteria converts the alcohol into acetic acid.

White vinegar is distilled so it contains to a certain level of purity only acetic acid and water.

Apple cider vinegar uses apples as the source material and isn't distilled so it contains some apple flavor.

Apple cider vinegar is just white vinegar with a little flavor.

It's also a favorite of health wonks. It don't mean the opposite of everything the crazies say is true, but you get a lot of people with virtually no information "teaching" each other about apple cider vinegar which leads to the silly idea that apple cider vinegar is a base.
Data science is not a PhD level job. PhDs may be well suited for it, certainly, but 80% of data science can be done by peoplenwth bachelor's degree in stats / math-heavy science.

There's always a domain specificity that sometimes comes from grad school, but data is data and industries are filled with SMEs who understand the domain.

Source: I hire data scientists for Fortune 500 companies.
Honest question: If two models are each trained with a single training set, tested with a single test set, and used only to predict a single stream of data and predict it approximately equally as well, is there any formal way to say one model is engaging in "casual reasoning" and another isn't?
I like the idea of an online bank, so I signed up for Simple. They sent me a credit card with my first name and middle initial, instead of first initial and middle name, as I had filled out their form, and like every other credit card I have ever had. I asked for a card with my "name" on it, and they told me that was impossible.

For the bank that was supposed to be the future and all high tech, that was an utter fail. I never bothered funding a dime into the account.

Business pro tip: Don't mess with customers' names. We take it kind of personally.
> If octopuses are so smart, why aren't they more social?

Because they are so smart.
Good point and I gully agree.

It's just that the most people who encounter mathematics in some shape of form (before college for most) aren't even aware of the non-mundane parts.
Just Reddit for the most part.
Software Design and Implementation
You'll need to apply some SSD specific methodology to correctly characterize their performance. Writing zeros to some SSDs will trigger special logic in their flash translation layer (FTL) that will prevent the writes from hitting the flash media. They simply note in the metadata that you wrote some zeros, and reading them back will also be impossibly quick.

This isn't the case only on new-fangled NVMe devices...
A lot of the comments have mentioned the lack of documentation this project has, and then they've received replies of the form "you should submit a pull request, the author doesn't owe you anything". Here's my take on it: I don't owe the author anything either. But if I'm considering which project to use, I'd probably choose the one with documentation, since it signals better goals and higher code quality. It's absurd to think that I should just pick up a random project and be obligated to make it better, and that I should be called out for giving advice on how I think a project can be improved. This isn't to say that I've never submitted an unsolicited pull request to a project to get it improved–on the contrary, this is something I do very often–but I do this because I feel that the project has something of value and can be improved. I shouldn't be forced to make a contribution to a project if I just don't think it's doing everything right. (This comment isn't mean to be aimed at this project in particular, by the way, it's just a general response to all the people in this thread.)
Somewhat related: Since a few weeks I'm regularly getting a Facebook ad with the title "I want to work at [company name]. Can you help?" from someone who seems to be interested in a job at the company at which I'm working.

Anyone else who noticed similar ads?
20 cents? That's cheaper than a stamp!
For my sibling comments: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
Not sure if you’re aware of this, but dairy has been a fundamental part of European diets for thousands of years. Plenty of Europeans live to old age.
What is nuance and actually reading what these titles say? It's all written out for you and there's no contradiction. Also, no one actually uses the disrupt point like that.
>Evolution suggests the next step to language and reason on the right architecture is comparatively easy.

<Something> suggesting the next step to language and reason is the right path and easy is the rhyming history of AI for sixty years.

"This time it's different."
I don’t think there’s any such thing as a ‘python community’ and the vast majority of people that use python don’t know about any of this political bullshit.
> some scolding was needed

Was it, really? I think the parent comments did a good job at pointing out a potential, actionable, flaw in this project. That doesn't mean that they should be "scolded" for pointing it out or that they themselves need to fix it.
Apple cider vinegar is made through the same fermentation process as regular vinegar, just using apples to create cider and then further fermenting it to create vinegar (hence "apple cider" vinegar). All vinegar is made through the fermentation of ethanol (and that ethanol is fermented from a variety of sources depending on which type of vinegar you are buying). Furthermore, the Wikipedia page[1] clearly says

> Acetic acid and malic acid give [apple cider] vinegar its sour taste.

Not to mention that bases don't taste sour (they taste bitter or soapy), and given that you can use apple cider vinegar (as with any other vinegar) to add sourness to food I'm a little confused why you'd think two types of vinegar have fundamentally different chemistry.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_cider_vinegar
How many years have you been at this? How do/did you learn the more architectural problem solving skills? I ask because I am pretty skilled technically, but only down in the weeds. Reading your blog post about the two techniques and how to combine them, I can understand, but I would not come up with this myself.
these numbers are skyrocketing; within 10 years (should the trend reach its logical conclusion, which i doubt that it will), there will be zero japanese interested in sex.
Somehow pipenv got endorsed as an official tool by PyPA far before it was ready for production. The documentation for pipenv and Python packaging didn’t make it clear early on pipenv was for applications, not libraries.

Also the pipenv maintainers were very rude about closing bugs. This has lead to a lot of reasonable criticism about the tool and how it’s maintained.

Despite marketing the tool heavily, Reitz is taking all of this personally and is blaming others or his mental issues.

Now, Reitz has posted this 3 times on /r/python in the past 2 days, and hosted a hangout while also saying he doesn’t have time for criticism.

And he and his PyPA buddies are all posting in all the threads and making passive-aggressive tweets.

To top all this off Reitz has now made and mods /r/positivepython in an attempt to imply the original is somehow not “positive”. And in my opinion to exert more power over the python community.

Before all this I really respected him, but this childish out burst will really make me think about how well design or endorsed his work is in the future.
Some people just want to use a library. Not everyone wants to build a library. When evaluating a candidate library, it’s perfectly reasonable to look at things like documentation completeness. “Don’t discuss weaknesses; fix them” isn’t helpful or constructive. There is no moral commandment to pretend all open source libraries are without flaws.
As a professional cyclist, my little brother has been doing this for many years
There was an article on HN of a writeup from someone that pulled this off recently. I think the post was probably someone in the neighborhood of 4-6 months ago.

I don't recall the company or the person that was targeted though.
Physics doesn't need philosophy. Physicists do.

High energy physics and cosmology have run into the limits of what can be tested experimentally. Theorizing in advance of the data has become mainstream. Hence string theory. This is a jobs program, not science.

The experimental action seems to be down at the low end, around absolute zero. Many new interesting results down there, some of which are turning into useful technologies.
That's just the opposite of what I'm saying.

The definition of entitlement is "the fact of having the right to something". I have a right to social security. I paid into it forcefully money I could have saved for myself.

Welfare is not an entitlement.

Politicians who want to cut social security and Medicare purposefully conflate it with eelfare so they can cut it and still get the approval of voters.

These are the same politicians who have people riled up about Medicaid and saying they need to get a job. Until I try to explain that Medicaid is also used to take care of granny in the old folks home. Are they going to tell thier 90 year old mom to get a job?
Newton's famous science book uses 'the philosophy of nature' in its title, not 'science'. I think those two terms tend to have different connotations these days.
i'd say culture is responsible for some of it, but there's probably a biological cause for the rest.

the chemical environment people grow up in today is different from the one 10 years ago, or 30 years ago, etc.

we may very be improving in some dimensions -- like removing lead -- while getting far worse in others (plastic and anti-androgens).
In the paper they mention both (paper was linked in the article):

>
In our considered view the totality of the multifactorial data and critical analyses
assembled by Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe and their many colleagues leads
to the bare minimum yet plausible scientific conclusion – that life was seeded here
on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to flourish
(at or just before 4.1 Billion years ago); and living organisms such as space-resistant
and space-hardy bacteria, viruses, more complex eukaryotic cells and organisms (e.g.
Tardigrades), perhaps even fertilised ova and plant seeds, may have been
continuously delivered ever since to Earth helping to drive further the progress of
terrestrial biological evolution.

EDIT: Further in the paper they talk specifically about the octopus in more detail:

> Thus the possibility that cryopreserved Squid and/or Octopus eggs, arrived in icy
bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted (below) as that
would be a parsimonious cosmic explanation for the Octopus' sudden emergence on
Earth ca. 270 million years ago.

Full disclosure: I'm a software engineer not a biologist, so the next bit is my interpretation that could be wrong:

As I get it from the paper they seem to suggest that octopi came into being either due to genes inserted into a terrestrial ancestor whereby the genes came from space. OR by the landing of extraterrestrial eggs on our planet.
If you think it's another "thing for specifying dependencies" in the category of the pipenv Pipfile, you have not understood the purpose of pyproject.toml.
I had the same awakening when I flew off my bike into a tree a couple years back. Just ever-present pain, not debilitating but enough that it couldn't be ignored, for about a month and a half. Until then I'd never even come close to understanding the hell that chronic pain sufferers must go through. It changes everything. There isn't a choice you make that isn't in some way impacted by the pain.
Complete sidebar: octopuses/squid are on my short list of "things in American diet I don't eat because they are too smart" (pigs being the other).
My guess is that the real explanation for this conundrum is that “associated with” is not the same thing as “caused by”. Nutrition science and especially reporting on nutrition science makes too much of correlation because randomized controlled trials are expensive.
For constructive criticism on the content of this article, there's a quartz piece -

https://qz.com/1281064/a-controversial-study-has-a-new-spin-...
I may actually have a use for this. Thanks for releasing it!

BTW the use of functional maps, such as those in [0], might have advantages over things like StackMap. Of course it would require some restructuring of the code.

[0] https://github.com/slburson/fset-java
> I have witnessed free software/OSS have tremendous amount of positive effect on the world, however as the years go by I can't help feeling that we have trained a generation of users to act in an entitled manner towards software that is free and often the labor of love of some fellow developer trying to get better at their craft

The only issue I see with the parent comment is that it's a bit harsh. But it's good advice to someone "trying to get better at their craft": writing software, especially one intended to be used by others, without documentation, is generally poor practice. It's not entitled at all, as far as I can see: it's not saying "I should have documentation for this project I use for free"–as far as I'm aware, they're not even using it at all. They're just evaluating whether as an interesting project they might want to take a look at later.
“self-driving” databases (ML as DBA)
The bicarb is what really matters
They mention that they kept asking her for different forms of ID and then a clearer picture. Here's a scenario that's consistent with what they've said:

She shoots a porn in an AirBnB rented by someone else. At some point the host pulls up some porn and recognizes his house. He reports this to AirBnB. AirBnB looks at the porn, suspends the account of the person who rented it, and then tries to figure out who the performers are.

They get the real names of the performers, and then search their system for people with that name. "Jay" matches the search, but they want to make sure it's the same person as in the porn, so they ask for a clearer picture. After they're confident that she is the person who filmed a porn in an AirBnB without the permission of the host, and they discover that she's also listed on an escort site, they suspend her account. If this is what happened, and I think it's pretty likely, AirBnB did exactly the right thing.
I just started reading The Book of Why too, so far so good. I pre-ordered it once I found out it was coming. I've been telling people my view of it is it's like the primer to the primer (Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer) to a subject-introduction paper (An Introduction to Causal Inference) to the OG math book (Causality). I'm hoping to eventually get back to the nice Causality hardcover I've had on my shelf for too long.
After seeing so many past failed attempts at revitalization (New Center Area, People Mover, etc.), it is refreshing to see a sustained turnaround. What was most surprising on my last trip back was the amount of activity in the downtown area on nights and weekends. Foodie joints, micro-breweries, all 4 major sports teams, casinos and all kinds of other places have popped up. I remember the State Theatre and the Shelter were the only things going on dtown.

BTW - Are you involved in the startup scene in the D?
Computing with Text-Graphic Forms (1980) [pdf]
The feature would be useful when you want all columns except one or two specific columns.

If new columns are created they should also be in the result set.

If that breaks your code except was not the right call because you specifically needed a subset of columns, not the inverse.

Your laziness and abuse of the inverse is the problem, not the feature it self.
Sure, but I hope you agree that I have no obligation to submit a patch, given that I'm not using this software, just as the author has no obligation to provide documentation for me either.
That's nice, but falls quite short of proper documentation.
Protip:before you start, make sure to change your name to nudeCelebsForFree.

I can't check, but does FB even allow name changes anymore?
How would donating source code/software that people couldn't legally run be better?
I wouldn't trust anything from that website. That scientific journal sounds sketchy, too
You've apparently read too many homeopathic pamphlets.

Get pH paper and test them both. They're both acetic acid and low pH. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be vinegar.

If it was basic, it would be some acetate salt.
ln -s /proc/`pidof Xorg`/fd/1 here-you-go

Really though, it's the file descriptor that matters. This is the abstraction that lets you do things like pass a socket between different processes in the same way that you'd pass an opened directory between different processes.

The few places where this abstraction is missing are painful. A good example is ptrace. You can't pass a ptrace between processes. Handling it nicely in poll or select isn't easy.

The use of file descriptors might not seem so amazing today, now that Windows has the HANDLE and MacOS X has the Mach port, but it was revolutionary when it was introduced. For about 15 years, it was just a UNIX thing. MS-DOS had separate ways to deal with everything: files, directories, each different vendor's network stack, etc. Every other OS was like that, more or less.
The Simpsons weren't too far off
"[The authors] present a fantastic overview of the various hypotheses about the evolution of life on our planet and the contribution of extraterrestrial elements. The review includes many references, several different opinions and ranges all the way to the up-todate literature...The authors take, however, one more step. Their view differs from common scientific concepts and available evidence, claiming that the origin of viruses, microbes and even animals all the way to tardigradus - originate from space."

"There are several explanations why the Cambrian explosion occurred...but the notion that viruses from extraterrestrial space are the main drivers - is uniquely presented here in this article. The authors believe this and use strong expressions, describing it as evidence-based, yet without any of the necessary evidence. As an excuse they point out to other previous unconventional ideas during history of science which turned out to be true later - this is the argument the authors use. They even find their idea “plausible” - but it is hard to follow their thinking in this respect. So this article is useful, calling for attention, and it is worth thinking about - yet the main statement about viruses, microbes and even animals which came to us from space, cannot be taken seriously."

Commentary to: Cause of Cambrian explosion - Terrestrial or cosmic? Steele, E.J. et al.

Karin Molling, Max Planck Institute Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961071...