skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know Netflix doesn’t believe that measurement is good for their company because they spend as much as possible on content and give creators more control than traditional publishers to make the content better.

They also talk about their competition being sleep, games, YouTube, etc.

These aren’t the actions of a company that wants to give users “just enough.”

I think the only time they’d apply this idea (the only place it’s appropriate, IMO) is when reaching the limits of their budget and prioritizing one market over another. In that case it would make sense to avoid dropping below a threshold of attention. However, as in the article, they do what they can to make content watchable in all markets at once so they don’t have to take that risk.
Well-stated and accurate. In this case, the editor in question seems to 1. have lots of time; 2. relish a) removing already-contributed material s/he doesn't like (always subject to that action if not adequately-cited), and b) adding cites to material s/he does like.

IF this person is busy taking the 'N' out of NPOV all over the place - as the article claims - that ought to be obvious to the WP 'court'. In which case, a 6 month suspension for abuse seems appropriate. Further abuse means s/he'll have to find a new IP to abuse from. Rinse and repeat.
I heard it that the Mediterranean diet is the most studied of them all, and it seems [1] that all studies are within 5 years of length.

So yeah. No long-term studies. It's not even clear if we have hope for such. The military could summon the discipline, but soldiers do retire early. Maybe the officers, I don't know.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/5-studies-on-the-medite...
What's more: he concludes with "P.S. I am out again looking for new opportunities". So besides being excellent at putting his work in front of his target audience, he may go 2 for 2 on the job front.
Evolution will solve this problem.
Here are the slides accompanying the talks:

- Andy Pavlo: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/slides/selfdriving-sfo2018.pdf

- Siddon Tang: https://pt.slideshare.net/PingCAP-TiDB/building-a-transactio...
As much as I love the concept, I can only imagine what a professional with expertise in cephalopods and their DNA would think while reading this article.

If you've ever read a popular press story in your area of expertise, you immediately see how many things writers oversimplify to the point of absurdity, or just get plain wrong.

I'm guessing the authors of that journal article, were they to read this news story, would simultaneously hyperventilate and strain their necks from the excessive sighing and head shaking.
It's unclear whether you mean you're German, and your German classmate was leaving Germany, or you're foreign, and your classmate was entering Germany.
But Germany and other countries without the concept of free speech are regularly ranking a lot higher than the US on the Press Freedom Index. How do you explain that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
Perhaps it's not the only way, but it's a way that people outside of "academic mathematics" usually aren't even aware of (from my experience explaining it).

The way most people know math is the way it is presented in the article: "Math is pain. Studying math is masochistic." (literal quote).

There are many ways to appreciate math, but perhaps the ones described as "masochistic" aren't the ways we should actively spread, in my opinion. And yet, we do.
Due to the acidification of the ocean, there's an overpopulation of squid in the seas. It would actually be beneficial if people started eating more of them, because they're predators of other fish species that we ourselves are already overfishing. Note: I'm not an environmentalist, it is just something I noticed.
you're asking human questions of a possibly alien intelligence. The assumption that alien life would behave and have the same motivation as earth life is a fallacy. This paradigm may not even apply.
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Carbs are the easiest thing to break down and digest.

Pure glucose would be ideal, from a 'breakdown' perspective.
Ok, then the point of the piece, that the Octopus is special in being 'alien', becomes moot? Everything is 'alien'.
Well, if a computer scientist only has a bunch of data, is there any conceivable way to reason about that data that doesn't ultimately boil down to a data optimization problem?

I hear that correlation does not imply causation but also that you can't distinguish correlation from causation merely with a stream of data. Is there any way out of this situation with just data?
True. Not for iOS though, atleast without a jailbreak.
Formaldehyde is such a small molecule that you'll never avoid it. It forms pretty easily.
That was a refreshing read. She concluded by pointing the reader to statistics (or lack thereof) instead of appealing to emotions or socio-political views.

I don't know how things are for women or any group of people at amazon but I am glad to hear women that worked there didn't have too much trouble finding a job elsewhere. Being stuck at a company that rejects you is worse than merely running into one.

I like to think that to some degree competition can mitigate bad companies.The best and worst companies I worked at have both been fortune100's with the best one gaining a competitive advantage if they kept a good employee retention rate. Amazon lacks a healthy dose of business competition, the only area where it faces sound competition is cloud services (and people I knew that work on that side of the business seem to like it)
The question at hand is whether Cross is editing wikipedia beneficially. You instead focus on the political views of the website that published this piece, which is irrelevant, and also creates a distracting us/them mentality. None of which has any bearing on whether Cross is editing wikipedia beneficially.

If you think the piece is unfairly critical, then dispute the facts of the case (the merits of the edits he made) rather than the character of the speaker.
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This article gives direct quotes from the authors, and the quotes are exciting, (33 authors FWIW)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/958247/alien-octopuse...
This kind of thing is absolutely not helping me see the merits of our health care policy.

Medicare For All. Like yesterday.
Machine translation is getting pretty good, simply from crunching on enough text. The complexity of language looks finite. Translation between all the European languages works fairly well. Asian languages, not so much yet.

Strong AI still doesn't work. "Common sense" remains hard. Unstructured manipulation is still not very good. But legged locomotion is much better, as is vision processing.

Combining machine learning and geometry has promise. Look at how Waymo does automatic driving. (Not Uber or Tesla; they have no clue how to do it safely, as their crash record demonstrates.)

We're way ahead of where things were in the "AI winter", 1985-2005. This time the startups make money and do useful things. Progress will continue because there is revenue. AI used to be tiny - about 20-50 people at MIT, CMU, and Stanford. Now it's at least a thousand times bigger. Progress will be made by brute force.

(Me: MSCS, Stanford, 1985. I met most of the greats of classical logic-based AI. Trying to hammer the real world into predicate calculus just doesn't work.
The expert systems guys were in denial big-time about this.)
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My conclusion is that humans are poorly adapted to modern life. The specific mechanism is, I think, that our extensive media diets are scrambling the circuits that kick the reproductive mechanisms into gear. IE, we see the curated versions of other people’s lives on our Facebook feed and it makes us feel like we aren’t established enough to be able to properly support a family. Or we watch too much porn and then we lack the drive to do all the stuff required to actually attract a mate.
Self-reporting about sexual activity might not be the most accurate. What we can conclude: its become more popular to claim to have an aversion to sex.
The comment above is getting downvotes, but it isn't implausible. The western world has seen declines in sperm counts, testosterone, and age of menarche.

We don't know the cause, but environmental hormonal causes are one hypothesis.

Here's one aspect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_dysgenesis_syndro...

It's easy to see how lower testosterone would lead to less sex. It is very unlikely to be the only cause, but it likely has some impact.
Be careful, from my understanding if you keep doing that, your body cranks up the acid production in response. My wife's father died just before we started dating from esophageal cancer and he had gerd and ate lots of tums.

Zantac is what works for me, with maybe Prilosec every now and then if it gets bad. That and don't eat for 3-4 hours before bed.
My point wasn't that I'd be a-ok in the homeowner's shoes.

I'd be pretty pissed off if people rented my place for any business purposes under the guise of tourists.

...Newman.
Edit: re-re-reading here, I now see I misunderstood your response and I'm sorry. I do think you're using "entitlement" in a way different from how most people understand it in a political context, but I also now understand that that seems to be part of your point. Apologies for the confusion (I'm leaving my original response here for context).

I understand what you're saying — and as I said I agree with the thrust of your post — but your use of the word "entitlement" is not universal.

The courts, in particular, disagree with your use, and specifically distinguish the concept of a property right from things the government has promised to give you. SCOTUS has ruled that SS is the latter and not the former.

The fundamental difference, in my lay understanding, is that the government needs to use an argument like eminent domain to deprive you of a property right, but can arbitrarily stop or reduce social security at any time if they so desire (as they can with welfare or medicare).
If I am still able to see it afterwards, I think we have different definitions of "permanent and irrevocably deleted".
But in this case, the leap in complexity is so obvious we can tell it's alien (they say.)
People suck at communicating, but people want to communicate. People love to complain more than they love to fix things. A lot of the time a complaint is half frustration, half trying-to-be-helpful-suggestion. Sometimes it's just people complaining about other people complaining (like the "fix it yourself" crowd or the "didn't you reflect before posting that the issue of X is already a known concern?" crowd) but this just goes back to people wanting to communicate.

I suppose all I really wanted to say was that maybe people in general should open their mouths / comment boxes less. (Yeah my comment sucks, doesn't listen to its own advice...)
About 30% of single males have not had sex in six months. It's slightly less for women, btw, 25% iirc. Rates are higher among the educated. Don't ask me how I know that.
I think apart from the work Pearl and others did with the do-calculus, all you can do is suggest experiments. You can only ever have a true ai if it can interact and ask questions about the environment.
> I have found that most US people are brain washed by their government.

The wonder and the beauty of the American system is that we brainwash ourselves. (In fact, I think most people in government would prefer that Americans were a bit more grounded in reality, not electing Yosemite Sam and whatnot.)

If you want to understand how America really works you have to watch "Deadwood" (the HBO series. I'll elaborate if asked.)

> But it is worthless if nobody is listening.

Bullshit. It's infinitely harder for a society to change if people are thrown in prison for even bringing something up. You or I may not like something about the U.S. but I would argue that its government is objectively better than e.g. the CCP, which tries to actively control "history". Here in America we can, however slowly and painfully, process our shit (and we have some messed up shit to get through.) But if the Chinese people can't even talk about e.g. Tiananmen Square..? That's effed up.
It’s crazy because diet is probably the most important thing we could study right now. Surely the astronomical cost of a randomized controlled study would be way less than the healthcare costs associated with not understanding what diets are healthy.
How can you constrain it to a specific domain if I just want to to dictate a text message to someone? That task is far from solved.
This is savage :)
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In fact, I have a modest proposal to share with you on that front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Just my own perspective: as one who believes God is responsible for the origin, complexity, and diversity of life, this article makes me chuckle. The theory of evolution as an explanation of the origin of the major taxa of life really paints us into a corner from which it is difficult to wiggle out.

In my opinion, the panspermia/alien origin hypothesis (and its persistence as an explanation in some respected circles) illustrates how strictly limiting ourselves to natural explanations leaves not just a "gap" in our ability to explain origins, but a massive gaping hole. (Also, the insistence on a distinction between "alien" and "divine" has no rational basis.)
Stats are probably similar for those who have been married more than a few years.
They could run it - they'd just have to buy a computer that licensed any necessary patent rights, or bought the chips from those who owned the patents on their innards. (re hardware patents.) BSD projects have always used software that only works on patent-encumbered Instruction Set Architectures of CPUs.

I'm fine with requiring contributors to state whenever they are submitting anything patent-dependent, and not accepting code if the tech isn't interesting or useful to users.
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Is this the same Bose that (primarily) works on audio technology?
No claim was ever made that the superhero archetype was exclusively American. I used the word "rather" carefully.
I assume the "postponed" in condition 2 at that time actually means no body should legalize the ownership for themself one-sided, until solution is found.

Personally, I hope neighbors around the South China Sea can eventually found a way to share the area once and for all without causing new conflict. Many treasures has been turned into shitty hot potatoes because of that sea already, that needs to stop.
A few billion years is like, a pretty long time.
I'm Korean so dried squid is my favorite snack but it costs $50 for 10 of them in NYC. Would not recommend this snack though, I hear it's pretty harsh on your teeth.
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What about for 9 years starting at 18?
There's nothing inherently wrong with a low birth rate -- except that modern economies seem to be massive pyramid schemes that require a never-ending stream of fresh blood to remain solvent. It's not like the Japanese are at risk of going extinct; once the population falls below a certain threshold, the birth rate will start rising again. They'll survive. But what may not survive is the economic system that borrows against its own future -- a system that is only sustainable if growth continues, unabated, forever.
Zeus was practically an anti-hero, and iirc there are arguments that ancient Greek culture treated them as such by way of using them as cautionary tales
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FF on mobile supports ublock. Not going to help in apps, but you can have everything open into FF.
I think the editor may have been trolling these people, yes, and the people offended should escalate the issue. But so far that's been Wikipedia's response so I don't see any wrong-doing from their behalf. Just from one editor.

But instead of going through the proper channels and attempting to resolve this within the Wikipedia protocols these people seem to be launching a campaign against Wikipedia which, in my opinion, borders on propaganda.

Some of the debate here was also over a subjective accusation that the targets were "anti-war" when in reality the commonality seemed to have been pro-Putin. That distinction also stinks of propaganda. Again, just my opinion.
My pet theory is "refined sugar and other simple carbs'.

Simple carbs spike up blood sugar through the roof, the body responds by dumping insulin, the insulin causes blood sugar to be sequestered in fat and muscle cells (as intended), but if the dump is large it may overshoot and the blood sugar falls through the floor. Aka "sugar crash". The crash will of course make you crave food again, the same simple carb kind. Vicious cycle.

This sort of see-saw messes you up real bad. So I was told [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259
Circling - as said above I base that on not knowing any alternative.

Should we listen to what you think? I think even I get an opinion and fairness that ignores numbers needs some justification. Seizing is a different topic - I was the one who said following the seizing small islands theory of sea law was a bad idea, remember?
Well, even if an AI can interact with it's environment, how can those interactions not simply also be correlations between input and output. We have for example, recurrent neural networks which seem to do this already.

It seems like saying "it's not optimization" has to boil down to "it's not generic optimization, it's a special kind of optimization." But maybe there's some formalism I'm missing.
Quote from article: "I’ve never shot porn in any Airbnbs in my name, and I didn’t have any complaints" - Sara Jay.

The report and Sara Jay say they have never done a porn shooting in an AirBnB, although this could be a he-say she-say scenario, because will need an investigation. But shouldn't have immediately stopped the account before notifying the actual Airbnb user and then proceeding with an investigation.
But what is philosophy? To say that physics excludes philosophy is philosophy. Physics, at its core, is based on a philosophical statement. To choose empiricism as physics' main epistemological method is philosophy. Then there is physicists' discussions of the oldest scholastic and philosophical subjects of time and space. And physicists' love of cosmogony, another tradional philosophical topic.

So why physicists claim that physics is not philosophy while the evidence shows that physics studies old philosophical topics? The reason is simple. To hate philosophy is a tradition of the profession. Why? Because physics became a profession when people who used to call themselves "natural philosophers" became "physicists". People like Faraday objected to this change because he thought this reduced physics to a profession like "pharmacists." Like most natural philosophers at the time Faraday considered himself a philosopher.

And there is also the textbook story that physics was born as a "scientific revolution" against those scoundrels and enemies of science called peripatetic Aristotelian philosophers. Since most physicists' knowledge of history of science comes from sidebars in physics textbook they studied at school, they still fight this old fight: physics is the opposite of philosophy because philosophy is nothing but writing yet another commentary on Aristotle. Therefore physics cannot be philosophy.
It means de facto ownership and ignoring the legal determination of the United Nations that's already been handed down. It's a kind of "Give me your car and I'll let you borrow it sometimes." offer.
For that matter - you don’t keep your toothbrush in your bathroom do you?
I haven't seen as much evidence for squid intelligence as for octopuses.
Reminds me of a clever approach a former colleague used to land a job, connecting famous / high-profile people:
http://katelynfriedson.com/post/70127031536/how-i-used-custo...
You’re presuming no external existential threat. The Chinese have a large, but aging population. They could move into a weakened Japan within 20 years to take their infrastructure.
> Right, but LFS can't be used in asymmetric cases at all - it assumes anyone with access to the git repository has access to the LFS storage area.

Wait, really? I thought that Git LFS let people with push access push files to the LFS area, which can then be read by anyone. That's asymmetric in the way everyone expects from GitHub. But I didn't use Git LFS because it's too expensive.

Yes, I probably encountered extra weirdness from git-annex, from the fact that the codebase was on GitHub, which doesn't support git-annex, so _everything_ in git-annex had to be on a different remote.

If it was meant to be used with the upstream as the only remote, that makes things make a lot of sense, and explains why my attempt to use it felt a lot like early Git, where there was no good upstream service like GitHub.
In your scenario, how is air bnb doing the right thing? She doesn't have a contract(nor a terms and condition) with airbnb. But you think it is OK to suspends here account because someone else broke the rules?
Other Western nations came in after that. Interesting history. Then finally China and Japan got interested. I've read a book entirely devoted to the history of the island.
Maybe… but I've never once asked to see the lease at a client site to verify the terms under which they were allowed to do business there.
Anecdotal, but I personally don't block ads on Facebook because I want to see what other people are advertising. Perhaps he has the same philosophy.
> If this is what happened

If. That's one way it could have happened. There are several others, all less reassuring than that. In light of what we know about privacy practices throughout the industry, and about Airbnb's practices in particular, I don't see how your optimism is justified.
Here's a link to this article with working source on GitHub: https://github.com/dxnn/dagoba

Really useful to see it all put together.
U is a class name, which is given as a template parameter. The braces are the new uniform initialization syntax, which basically means U{} constructs an object of type U. U{}.func() then calls the member function with the name "func" on the constructed object. decltype() returns the type of the contained expression. So I think it should return the return type of the member function. Then "using" assigns that type to an alias, as some typedef.
In the context of Google Duplex, I'm almost willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. Understanding text well enough to parse intent is relatively easy once you narrow the domain to making appointments. It doesn't take sophisticated AI just a lot of data and a standard rules engine. Even parroting back text answers in a limited domain is easy to do and make it sound human.

When I say "relatively easy", I don't mean "some guy in his basement". I mean a bunch of capable developers.

What I'm not convinced about is that speech to text is good enough once you take into consideration accents even within a limited domain. Especially when the person on the other end doesn't know they are speaking to a computer and are not going out of their way to speak clearly and simply.
Chris got Steve's attention but never worked at reddit[1], Nina got Brian's attention[2] but never worked at Airbnb[3] and Feross got Chad's attention[4] but never worked at YouTube[5] even though TechCrunch jumped to report he accepted the job[6].

None of them was actually ever offered one.

Make what you want of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110763

[2] https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/590561521576587265

[3] https://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the...

[4] https://twitter.com/chad_hurley/status/24129459657

[5] https://www.quora.com/Why-would-Feross-Aboukhadijeh-turn-dow...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/youtube-instant-instant/