skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more stringent significance level just means it costs more money or the data is much cheaper to collect. You can look up "NHST controversy", "NHST pseudoscience", etc to find many people discussing the problems for over 50 years. Here is a decent start:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ttvnPRTxFyru9Hh2H/against-nh...

I've been lately seeing that this practice is infecting particle physics, which is not a good sign. I do not think they are overwhelmed yet though. Here is how it has gone in every field so far (education research, psychology, medicine, etc):

Eventually the field will stop caring about all actual quantitative predictions (some barely funded crackpots on the edges will publish in ignored journals) and researchers will only test a "null hypothesis" that everyone knows is wrong (eg, in the physics case a world where the standard model is assumed true but has no higgs boson). Then upon rejecting the (known to be false) null hypothesis, they will conclude some theory only capable of vague/malleable predictions is correct.

The way it works is simple, the null model acts as a strawman. The confidence in rejecting the null model is somehow translated into support for the researcher's favorite theory. How does changing the significance level address this problem?
The population has increased from 59m to 66m in this period (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/population), an increase of 11% which is hardly overwhelming.
This is exactly correct. Additionally, qualitative data needs to be factored into policy decisions as well.

If a city looks and feels unsafe, dirty, deserted, and so on, then it probably is those things. No amount of statistics can explain away the experience of any unbiased, reasonable observer.

Park your car in the center of town somewhere. Hang out and eat a sandwich with your windows open in your car. See who walks by, hear the noises, the beeps, the sirens, the shouting kids or quiet wind.

Then you'll know what a town is really like.
Note, it's at most 1% per year. The HN headline is actually a quote from the body of the article:

> In most rich countries, real pay has grown by at most 1% per year, on average, since 2000.

The next sentence breaks out one piece of that average:

> For low-wage workers the stagnation has been more severe and prolonged: between 1979 and 2016, pay adjusted for inflation for the bottom fifth of American earners barely rose at all.
I agree that housing costs should be included in some way, but this is hard to do correctly because – at least if you buy – housing is an investment good, not an expense. In the US the bureau of labor tries to calculate the "owners' equivalent rent"; the EU on the other hand considers the cost of housing and inflation to be strictly separate measures. Rents are generally included, though.
I read through those while working at a Fortune 500 company. It sounded so close to truth, like the author was observing the same interactions I saw. Turns out he was at the same company at one point.

The fact that those stand the test of time and resonate with so many people working in large organizations really helps with perspective.
Is your dog named as a Homestar Runner reference?
There's still a benefit even if only a small amount of people read it, because they can call it out. You don't go to the production areas of packaged food you buy to make sure you know they're not making any mistakes/pumping sawdust into the food, but you trust that because everyone else is buying it and no one is getting sick that there's a fair chance you won't either.
don't care, still unhappy, vote far-right, those guys will fix the economy.
So are we going to lose access to Google and most other services? Because they are effectively "pay with your data"
Yes and no.

My current company favors consensus over correctness. They don't realize they do this, but they do, largely because most of the decision makers deal with subjective things, where you can spend hours bikeshedding. When they then hear disagreement on objective things, technical things, they want agreement, and view arguments over technical things as being disagreeable.

As a manager I could take that value, consensus > correctness...but I choose not to. Instead, I create an environment where my team instead chooses correctness > consensus, hashing it out internally, hidden from the rest of the company (thereby specifically eschewing 'transparency' as a value, even though it is both one we value internally, and one the business claims is a corporate value), reaching out for more information as needed but not venturing or asking an opinion until we come up with the 'one true decision' that we will pitch to them, saying it has everyone on the team's backing. At that point, the pressure to achieve consensus usually leads to all the stakeholders agreeing, too.

This is, obviously, not ideal (to where I'm looking for a job elsewhere), but it's the best I could come up with given the realities of the values the business has taken hold of. But my team's values, both their declaration and their interpretation, are not the company's values.
I deleted my FB account a long time ago when it became apparent how bad their business practices actually are. I wonder how much longer before they run aground?
> housing cost and health insurance aren't counted in inflation.

Generally, that's simply not true. There are infinite different measures of inflation and it's up to the synthesizer of the inflation metric to include or exclude things, but generally housing and medical care are part of the equation.
Yes, if I am interested in European history, and after reading the novels of Sofi Oksanen, I feel as if the past is illuminated by the stories like Estonia's. It is hard for me to truly understand the massive shift in 'way of life' and worldview that occured in the early 1900s. The death of the aristocratic, monarchical, peasant-and-master way of life, which these manors represented, transformed within a few decades to the idea that more democratic style of life was normal and everyone should have it. Watching the crumbled manors is a literal embodiment of a shift in human consciousness, where the way things were for hundreds of years suddenly ceased to exist and simply rotted away. Estonians were essentially ruled by a German overclass, and its history is intertwined the Nazi history and it's obsession with restoring the "old ways". What do we have now that is considered normal that will fall away in 500 years? or 50? Will people say 'such and such building represented the old society, where poor people were not allowed to go to the doctor'
>which increases net harm, for which I have no answer.

Find a desert under the sea and drop them all there. Some place that's basically water and dirt. It's probably going to be large enough that you could dump all of humanity's data centers there for the next 100 years and still have room to spare.
This sounds like it was an assassination attempt. I'd move out of the country.
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How so? The users just have to give their consent for it.
Switching to ARM might be a bigger efficiency gain, but nobody wants arm. Azure already offers ARM servers. Moreover, these aren't exclusive - one can easily sink an ARM server just as easily as you can sink an Intel one.

But the efficiency gains are such: Air conditioning is actually inefficient, especially with air cooling. Water cooling is more efficient. Water cooling traditionally uses water as an exchange medium, but is eventually water-cooled-by-air anyway, just in bigger batches. Here, they can take in new cold water and throw out old hot water without actually bothering with any air exchange at all. Or at least, that's the plan. Maybe it'll work!

(If "nobody cares because energy is cheap", we wouldn't have tried this in the first place.)
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I can't seem to find that advertising spend number. Got a link?

That role looks the same role as any medium/large company would have for social media engagement.
Exactly this! If you are learning algorithms, you should be implementing your own trees rather than relying on a library like this that does the work for you.

The real benefit of learning algorithms comes when you put the hard work into it to build the data structures in a bottom up manner. Using someone else's tree generating library eliminates this experience which is a vital experience in the journey of learning algorithms.
Television and in some movies. don't under estimate the influence that has on some who want to harm themselves but lack the conviction to do themselves in without harming others.

The idea that cops are trigger happy is ignorant, if that were even remotely true the number of shootings and deaths by cop would be so high as to not warrant news stories. As in, it would be common place. Fortunately we are far from it being commonplace that shootings and even weapon discharges by cops are news worthy.

Yes we have bad cops just like we have bad actors in many other occupations. The difference is that we don't put people in other occupations in harms way on a day to day basis. that isn't to say being a cop is the most hazardous job you can have, work place deaths are higher for many other fields. We also cannot say that cops cause an unreasonable number of deaths by their actions, if anything we need to account for all the deaths they prevent by their training and mere presence.
> Google had (has?) a monopoly on search before it diversified.

Search is not Google's product.
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I believe this is because the domestic markets of most rich countries are saturated for stuff non-technical workers can supply. We have transportation, we have food, we have energy, we have sanitation, we have retail stores all within our grasp. The stuff we still will always need more of, such as automation and better health care, require highly specialized and skilled individuals and that's something very hard to adjust to.

Meanwhile, the other economies of the world has a huge demand for the basic services and goods and thus their economies have risen dramatically.

I think we are seeing a levelling off of the world's richest economies because a lot of our growth has been from capital investments into broadening international trade and leveraging. I have actually moved my investments away from Europe for now because the interest rates are so low, the innovation is so low and the political climate is becoming more and more polarized that I just think it's too risky for now.
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This is true -- but almost every company monitors social media and has people post on it in an official fashion. There's no harm in watching twitter mentions for "my Tesla is broken" and reaching out to people.
> most of the increases in wealth since the 70s have gone to rich people.

That itself isn't enough to state poor people became poorer, only in comparison to an ever increasing moving goalpost of what poor means is that statement enough to say poor get poorer.

Median personal real income has grown by about 35% or so in the past few decades. The average is quite a bit higher, I'm just talking about the median.

Household income usually isn't as good an indicator because household size has shrunk.
I always wondered if we could steal every piece of private/personal data the politician demanding these laws has and expose it for all the whole world to see, what that might do to their attitude. We might even find some real criminals this way.
Threadreaper's TR4 socket is LGA socket with 4094 contacts.
>Globalization, free trade deals, and illegal immigration only benefit corporations and shareholders

I'm sorry, but that is obviously not true.

In the case of illegal immigration, the illegal immigrant is definitely better off by finding a higher wage and safer life than in his/her home country. The average Central American working illegally in the US, while not afforded employment rights like a legal worker, is still unequivocally better off than his/her options in his/her home country.

Similarly globalization has been a major benefit to the poor in many developing countries. If you compare the median per capita GDP in countries like China, Vietnam, or any African country, it is immediately obvious that economic development and globalization has been good for them.

I think what you are referring to is the it has not been good for the average American while it has been good to elite/wealthy Americans.

But please don't misrepresent that it has only been a benefit to the few simply bc it hasn't helped the majority of people in developed countries. People in developing countries have been benefitted immensely.
It was clear to me as well as some other commenters here that the point in this library is to practice algorithms on binary trees and pretty print their output.

Studying algorithms while using a library for the implementation of the underlying data structure is still very much "learning by doing." This assumption being that you already understand how to implement that data structure and would like to concentrate on studying algorithms on that data structure.

It's very odd that you have chosen to declare this "improper" and discredit it as a result of your own misunderstanding. The documentation clearly states the author's intentions:

"It allows you to skip the tedious work of setting up test data, and dive straight into practising your algorithms."[1]

[1] https://binarytree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
I'm looking forward to seing the first non-EU company (that has no EU offices) fined by the EU and the middle finger that will ensue.
Unrelated to the story, but I got this when (trying to) opting out of tracking:
https://imgur.com/a/sw9wFY0

Besides opt out not really being ok, the processing took a good minute or two. As in the progress meter arbitrarily increased. That must be bullshit right? And after completion, the request to set preferences failed anyway!

Does anyone have an explanation?
The full sentence from the article says "on average", which I take as "mean", because later they make a distinction between "average" and "median".

> In most rich countries, real pay has grown by at most 1% per year, on average, since 2000.

Later:

> Thus labour productivity rose by 75% in America from 1973 to 2016, while average pay rose by less than 50% and median pay by just over 10%.

But the article is largely an opinion piece; the statistics are not completely fleshed out.
Are most of those 7m moving to Brockenhurst? No, they're piling into London, and new domiciles aren't keeping up, so prices are skyrocketing and pushing up the "national average".
I am not an economist, so anyone more familiar with this please educate me on this matter, but surely a single number like inflation can't capture difficult issues like rent going up very quickly, or any other issue that basically affects specific subsections of society disproportionately? (and I'm not even mentioning the issue of housing shortage)

EDIT: I probably should have used "express" rather than "capture", apologies.
It's all very clever, but think about the cost and complexity. Installations, management, real estate, physical security etc.

I'm quite confident that even making optimal use of the excess heat you would end up with less money than with their solution. I don't think companies want maximum energy efficiency. They want maximum cost efficiency.
The point is that if you are exercising the law to it's maximum extent then it is next to impossible not to collect personal data, even if you have no intention to.

For example, some hosting providers in Europe now automatically disable webserver logs unless the customer explicitly activates them to make sure they don't accidentally collect user data.

Now you might say, well if you run your own virtual server where you control all the services and know for a fact that no personal information is collected you won't run into that problem. But then you might still collide with the law because some network monitoring of the hosting provider might store connection logs. And it is on you to make sure that the companies you use for your business are compliant with the GPDR. You even need to have a contract with every single one of them with which you instruct them to process your users data and that they have to comply with the GPDR when doing so.

And even if you think everything you are doing is correct there are still some law firms that try to extort money from you by claiming some violation. In Germany this game of cat and mouse has already begun (and I don't mean the well known cases against Google, Facebook et. al)
Really? You start navigation and go straight to your place. You do not get lost and do not waste fuel. Here you saved some money for food, fixing your car (oh yes, you are driving less so less to fix), you maybe even have avoided shady area with help of navigation and BTW you have reduced lead in your water by driving less most probably.

And I have covered only one minor thing supercomputer in your pocket does.
Have you deleted your StackOverflow account due to being unfairly treated?
It's not exactly news, new users getting harassed, downvoted without any explanation and generally feeling unwelcome in SO but I believe I've had my fair share of it already. I'm just a step from scrapping my account and all my input there (as far as I can) and close the door behind. Have you had similar experiences/grievances?
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Ah, interesting! Thanks for the correction. I was off the project before we put in the drives obviously. ;)
Technically, we're already there—in a world where iPhones are made about as easily and cheaply as they used to make pewter teapots.

Or worse. The amount of control and capital on that 'wealthy noble' side is way more than it's ever been at any time in history, and we are watching the kinds of damage they inflict when they're capable of that much more than just 'buying fancy tulip bulbs'. All it takes is a few crazy ones deciding the best thing to do is kill all the serfs, and their real power will show. We're already seeing it.
From that list, I only used TeamViewer on Linux so far, and never had an issue. Apart from the Windows VM another idea might be switching distro if you don't feel that that's already too much hassle. Fedora or Suse would seem a viable alternative.
I don’t know which calculations are you talking about precisely, but usually (US,EU,OECD) the hosing costs are included in the form of actaul rents, imputed rents, and maintenance costs.
It absolutely has to be that way, and is true for every language, including C.

If you don't have a binary executable of a C compiler, you can't compile a C compiler, such as GCC.

Since Guile requires C, you need a binary C compiler at the very least to bootstrap it from the bare minimum.

Chez Scheme requires a compiled Chez Scheme whereas Guile requires a compiled C compiler.
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Why do we let the insane roam free? Perhaps if the insane were properly secured, they wouldn’t be getting shot by the police when they have an episode?
I'm hiding this in my source code somewhere as we speak. Very well written.
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Because it's not any different to any other group of people. You can find evidence that we're bad at long-term investment or planning all around.
Well I'll be damned, look at that.
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The real lesson is statistics used in political discussion are ALWAYS manipulated into meaninglessness. If you can hear an axe grinding in the background you know the numbers are have been carefully and methodically rendered meaningless. The trick is to find statistics that aren't used (or aren't used as much) in political discussion. What is the ... divorce rate, or percentage of psychologically medicated people, or suicide rate, or addiction rate or average children per women, crime rates, immigration in or out of an area, job market trends by occupation and pay rate, ratio of local school academic spending to athletic spending, or similar non-headline metrics of success (or not success).
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There are 5 billion impoverished people who would move to a first world country and depress natives' wages to nil if given a chance. Those who haven't done so yet shouldn't be discounted either.
Real wages increasing means that living standards aren't just steady, but growing in real terms - ie, people have more stuff and services than they did last year.

Now, picking on the US, primary energy production has risen by less than 1% /edit: per annum/ since the year 2000 [1]. I suspect manufacturing growth is of a similar magnitude [2]. There was a report making the rounds a while ago saying that US infrastructure isn't in a great place. It isn't obvious how you could generate real increases without an increased real production to back it up, no matter how good your strongarm negotiating.

I don't see how the Economist came up with a position of the problem being disorganised labour. The issues in America are that whatever people are doing isn't creating real wealth. Maybe they're finally hitting resource limits, maybe there are capital allocation issues.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/#summary
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
The litography is just one part of the manufacturing process and there are many ways to apply the same tech.
Also the development as mentioned below is completely segregated between teams.
> I wonder how many police officer killings are due to "suicide by cop".

I don't think this is really relevant, because "suicide by cop" is a great reason why police should not take the lead in responding to suicide threats. You never hear about "suicide by paramedic" or "suicide by social worker."
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when ico?
I disagree. "it will probably take Microsoft at least a year before they can start squeezing" you could squeeze Github with a streamroller and still never see over seven and a half billion dollars of profit out of it. If you think Microsoft bought this because they want Github alone to make this money back in any sane time frame then you utterly deluded.

> Microsoft never was and never will be trustworthy. Replacing a loud (“Linux is a cancer”) with a charismatic CEO (“We love developers, and we love open source developers”) does not magically change a corporate culture that has been cultivated for years.

For decades but yes a corporate culture can and does change. I am willing to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt. Seriously, after bringing SQL Server to Linux, Linux to Windows, open sourcing Chakra Core and so much more ... what would they need to do before you believe them?
Says who? They generally do.
If making use of those rights ends up being a distraction to the company that hurts it more than leaving well enough alone, then you're only losing money for yourself. Just because a shareholder has decided to exercise shareholder rights, it doesn't mean it's actually a good idea. Sometimes activist investors have the right idea. Often they don't.

> * If you don’t want other people to have a say in your company, why would you make it public?*

It's a trade-off. You get money in return for greater public transparency and oversight. You don't have to like it to see the need to go for it.