skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This kind of innumeracy is distressingly common.

I would say it certainly doesn't help that science reporting essentially never gives the numbers that matter, nor explains what they mean.

> Covering 33 randomized clinical trials with 1,877 participants

That's an average of under 57 participants per clinical trial, which seems a bit sparse to me. Still, that's not my point so much as that those are the only numbers about the study in the article. Where is the mention of statistical significance or uncertainty?

It's also difficult to teach, since I don't think we're naturally geared for intuiting about numbers bigger than we might encounter in nature. Also, anecdotes about people we know personally are more likely to resonate with us than mere statistics about faceless strangers (not that it explains why a few hundred Anthrax vaccine deaths of strangers would have been more objectionable than the routine tens of thosands of annual road deaths of strangers).
I'm surprised they don't make lossy GPUs that have a few defects among the obscene amount of transistors. Consumer graphics you wouldn't know the difference.
Longtime D3 (even Protovis) user here. I think you're very correct in that D3 itself is not a good choice for "a simple chart or graph". If that's all I needed, I'd stick with HighCharts, or ggplot, or any of dozens of other libraries that do simple charts well, and often with a lot more batteries included. My unsolicited advice would be to consider staying away from D3 until you need it.

But if you're doing anything remotely bespoke, with any sort of custom interaction or transition, or anything in which you need to multiplex several datasets in a single set of visualizations, this toolkit is hard to beat.

My favorite personal D3 use case so far is modified animated scatter plots/beeswarms using force layouts. Immortalized for me in the "Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal" ( https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012... ), I've found that set of techniques useful for visualizing business processes in my own work over the years.

I've yet to encounter anything else that comes close to enabling those kinds of data visualizations. It's the "funky abstractions" some folks have trouble with that enable me to swap out X or Y scales with intuitive animations by literally replacing a single object and then re-invoking an idempotent render() function. Working with D3 is the most productive I've ever been in my life from a data visualization standpoint, and I suspect that will continue to be the case for some years.
What these calculators never seem to account for is difficulty factor. That dollar-a-day today rapidly approaches zero as more and more people bring more equipment online. No way you're making a dollar a day 600 days from now.
"Expect that" is not quite the same as "depend on".
If a little freebie trinket USB device represents such a terrifying existential threat, then there can be no trustworthy device on earth.

All of these things are the enemy. The hostile weaponized devices, and the violated victim devices alike. Anything with a circuit.

If anything can be threatened by this device, then all such things are worthless. Have fun with your hysteria and fire drills.

You sold me total shit. It's all garbage. I fucking quit.
Partly because we don’t want to be locked into using Intel for both of DOE’s open science machines. In the lead up to the exascale or near exascale machines (2012-now) I don’t remember hearing much about AMD, so presumably Intel and IBM were the only vendors supplying general purpose CPUs.
I'm saying that this article would have been a lot more forceful and compelling if Microsoft wasn't able to completely bork the author's favorite OS by installing a single third-party package on that OS.

Compare:

"Holy crap, Foo's web IDE pulls in 20 megs of frameworks and is made up almost exclusively of eval functions! It takes like 10 seconds to switch to another tab where I have open a probably still secure online banking session. LOL"

"Holy crap, installing Foo's sloppy third-party package on my OS could completely bork my OS-- like any other third-party package! LOL"

> The exception is locked down hardware such as iOS devices.

Or a Chromebook, which has an escape hatch for installing whatever less secure system you want on it, including Debian.

Or Qubes.

Or possibly GuixSD which-- while I'm sure it's not resistant to a bad faith package-- has user-level installs and transactional updates to recover from an accidentally borked or sloppy package.

I'm not even dogging Debian. I love and use Debian. And no doubt most other OSes have similarly brittle system-wide package installers. But the members of those other OS projects didn't write an arrogant and condescending critique of a third-party package. A Debian member did. So here we are.
> Would the downvoters care to explain why? It's not a surprise :-) but hearing why would be....enlightening. Thanks.

Your comment has a condescending tone towards the people you claim to like. As if they're some king of exotic animal that you are so priviledged to watch in their natural habitat, and shame on these crazy western people who are oh so racist! There's plenty of tourists like that here in Brazil, and it rubs plenty of us off in the wrong way.
Yeah, I’m familiar with the concept of salaries.

My questions were: 1) is this an established metric that’s commonly used to predict football (soccer) results and 2) what salary are we talking about, the amount the nation plays to its team’s players (e.g. Brazil pays more than England) or the amount a nation’s players earn on their club teams (e.g. Neymar earns more at PSG than Rooney does for Everton)?
“x
"><x oncopy=confirm`1`>x</x>
Nvidia was probably under contract for this before mining blew up to where it is today. Provisioning for these machines starts 5-10 years before they ever come online.
Thanks for the great feedback.

The paper by Sproat and Jaitly which introduces the challenge rightly notes that the acceptability of errors and quality of output is more important than accuracy for a real application. The number of instances in all of the critical semiotic classes is too low (1-2k for some, even less than 100 for others) for a meaningful comparison in accuracy.

But you are right to point out that the 'unacceptability' of errors could be analyzed better. However, we could not think of a way to quantify or form a metric that measures such errors. These 'silly' errors are subjective by their very nature and depend on a human reading them. As you have suggested, we are working on preparing a table of sorts to summarize all these errors and show a link between the availability/frequency of particular types examples to the performance of our model on those particular types. Something of this sort for example:

* The training set had 17,712 examples in DATE of the form xx/yy/zzzz. Upon the analyzing the mistakes in DATE class we did not find any mistakes made in the dates of the above form.

* On the other hand, if look into the mistakes made in MEASURE class we find that the DNC network made exactly 4 mistakes. The mistakes were reported in the units (g/cm3, ch, mA). Upon searching for the occurrences in the training set of these units, we found out that 'mA' occurs 3 three times, 'g/cm3' occurred 7 times and 'ch' occurred 8 times, whereas other measurement units like kg occur 296 times and cm occur 600+ times.

If you have any other ideas on how to analyze and report the results, please let us know. We will be glad to improve the quality of our work (By the way, we are undergrads and this is our very first research paper). Thanks again!
I’m not ‘tptacek but I am a Latacora principal.

It is partially. The problem with the question of what you should use instead of JWT is that it presupposes a usually-wrong assumption that you actually want something of the same shape as JWT, which is usually not true. JWT is a bad answer to the wrong problem: addressing the bad answer part doesn’t address the wrong problem part.

To riff off of jackhammer questions[*], just because chainsaws like PASETO exist and a chainsaw is more effective than a jackhammer at a specific task, doesn’t mean you really wanted a chainsaw.

We will be following up :)

[jackhammers]:
Did I miss this year’s World Cup? How can something be predictive for an event that hasn’t happened?
This was one of their previous attempts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740

I hope these GPUs will be far better documented and have very good open-source drivers --- Intel has historically been much more open than ATI/AMD or nVidia at releasing public developer information.
I believe groupthink killed those astronauts. However, I'm not really focusing this argumemt around the idea of bringing leaders at NASA up on murder charges.
I admit it is not a precise argument, but eradicating religion & denouncing your nation's culture as a tyrannical, oppressive force were the two major ingredients for the revolution that led to the slaughter of 60 million Russians. The two motivations that led to the communist revolution are alive and well in our present culture.
It's no more possible to do that than for a schizophrenic to explain his delusion.

The difference between a psychedelic experience and mental delusion is that the former brings a newly found perspective on and (knowingly or unknowingly) appreciation for the "big illusion". The latter usually reflects a degenerative condition and the delusion may never end.

Both no doubt lead to fascinating experiences but they're intrinsically non-sense. There are tantalizing connections to be made that are _just_ out of grasp, and always will be.

As a child I once had a fever so high that Lego blocks began to fall from the ceiling and stack up around my bed. I ran out of the room before I could be crushed. Also as I child I learned how to lucid dream; only marginally less non-sensical, though at least there's the interplay between conscious thinking and the dream world. I've also befriend a few far-gone schizophrenics over the years; quite fascinating but, again, it's pointless to try to unpack the delusion. For me these personal and recounted experiences _reinforce_ my appreciation for the "big illusion".

What bothers me about people who promote psychedelics is that they ignore the utter fragility of the human mind. Most people will come back from their experience but in others it can instigate or hasten mental decline (e.g. schizophrenia, psychological dependency). That may or may not have happened regardless, but if you want to promote self-knowledge, IMO the most important thing to _know_ is how precious and fragile the "big illusion" is, and maybe lead with that.

It's sort of like promoting fasting by exclaiming that hunger is awesome. I don't think starving people think hunger is awesome. Fasting isn't a way to learn that hunger is an illusion; it's a way to appreciate what you have and your relationship to it. (I've also experimented with fasting.)

I've never taken psychedelics and wouldn't do it recreationally because, frankly, I'm too scared. And it's unnecessary. More power to people who do but it'd be nice if they were less flippant about it.
I find the distinction not very relevant to this question.

Of course, there's more justification in more rigorously vetting someone's credentials and abilities who is building a bridge or performing surgery (although software development work has absolutely caused loss of life).

However the question posed here is the value added by a solid theoretical grounding, and I believe it's not too different in terms of pure skills benefit.

I bet I could wing it in a lot of professions whether it be developer or surgeon, the main difference being more people would die in the latter example. Considering only the benefit to a person's abilities of more rigorous training, I see no reason why skills would not increase similarly.
Hah. I know the questions are tongue-in-cheek, but I started this project because I came across Pinboard and thought it did bookmarks almost exactly the way I was looking for (not an app, web-based, no fancy AJAX) but didn't want to pay $11 a year for something I could probably implement myself (very cheap of me, I know). I also wanted to work on my Python/Django skills and I think a bookmarking website is the perfect size for a side project. That's probably why there are so many of them.

Now this is all pretty obvious, but the reason I decided to post it here is I've been using it for nearly a year and even though Pinboard seems much better, bmarks works pretty well for me, so maybe cheapskates like me could find this subset of features good enough too. Also, I really wanted to have a high-density view of my bookmarks (like Chrome/Firefox's explorers).

Regarding the ideal bookmarking solution, I understand the search approach, but IMO tags can be useful if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. For instance, here's [0] a list of designers/studios I often come back to when I need some inspiration and a a list of lists of films when I need something to watch [1]. You can definitely use metadata to simulate tags though. That's what I do for my music library.

And thanks! I really appreciate it!

[0] https://www.bmarks.net/felipecortez/tag/people+design/

[1] https://www.bmarks.net/felipecortez/tag/film/
I had to do this once. Blown alternator, dead battery. Luckily had a backup battery and it got me home 10 miles away.
Sure, I guess I don't understand why someone would only question without searching out answers... but you should dig, then dig further, then dig some more.

I mean there have been too many times when I learned about a topic (eg historical event) from one source and internalized it, but then another source that focused on different details (not even conflicting details) told an entirely different story.

Regarding the bible passage. I just cannot imagine a mindset that fails to make the connection between the sun and the source of light, so what in the world does that passage mean? Perhaps its just another bad translation (another way to totally change a story).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jackson_(activist)
Those are internal TLS versions used only by Chrome; they're not being promoted as a "standard".

I don't know if this is an instance of it, but there's an annoying phenomenon where people on message boards like to pretend that standards have near-statutory authority; that once a standard is issued, every vendor has to adhere to it no matter what their purpose.

Were that to be your argument here, you'd in effect be arguing that Google can't deviate from the TLS 1.3 standard even to help TLS standardization efforts.
This is pretty much my favorite misfeature of modern American food service jobs. I never want the people handling my food to sneeze. Alas, that’s not the world I live in.
In the West (at least some of them, the future Mughals), they were Turkified, then Persianised, then Indianised.
Most of us brazilians see ourselves as western... It's not a question of being a member of a club, it's how most of us define most of our heritage, so somebody denying that seems at best very awkward and at worst very offensive.
Sorry if my last point wasn't clear, I was speaking strictly of Google/Treble. Fuschia seems to be coming right along, I can see them going live with it within a few years.
I remember the first time Intel tried this, in 1998, when they introduced the i740 AGP card. [1][2] The data sheet is still out there if you know where to look. [3] It made everyone in the industry from S3, Matrox, ATI, Nvidia and 3dfx all tremble. In the end, it flopped.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/202/3

[2] https://assets.hardwarezone.com/2009/reviews/video/v2740tv/v...

[3] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
I think it’s UBI that’s the fantasy intended to prevent people from rebelling against this reality.
See this is a really cool coin. I believe heavily in ASIC and even gpu resistance where possible. I'd be happy to operate an exchange and set up some basic crypto services (gambling) using this coin if you guys have a community of users.
I'm fuzzy on token binding versus channel ID, the preceding (and, to my eyes, more useful) extension. In neither case do I anticipate widespread use. But it's good to know that it's there.
Wheat and gunpowder were also major ingredients in the revolution. The fact that the revolution was anti-religion tells us nothing about the wisdom of being anti-religion, any more than the Crusades tell us about the wisdom of being religious.
> the guy running the panel "didn't want individual contributors".

That may be a reasonable requirement, depending on the panel topic.

But note: Plenty of EEs aren't individual contributors! An EE can be a "team lead" for example. Basically if you have any responsibility for directing or managing other people, you are already not an IC.
It is certainly true that Religion is not a purely Western invention, but I think the point was that only in the West do we see these denunciations of it as a great tyrannical patriarchy.
Ask HN: Best way to manage env variables across various personal projects?
The problem is I may host/deploy the projects in difference places (Heroku/Firebase) yet want a central place for managing them. I also may want to change how its hosted later.

Obviously I don't want to store them in my project/github.

Thanks!
> Remember rent in malls is very high.

Uhh ... Did you forget what article you're commenting on?
I'm pretty sure 3M and DuPont sell more than 2 part repair epoxy.
كلمات اغنية حكيم دويتو تيجي تيجي Tigi Tigi مكتوبة كاملة
The qualifier should be ": Hypothesis", there is no study that points to this conclusion.
I stopped reading at "Central to AV testing is the “trolley question”. No, that's not a central problem. If it was, it would be covered in driver's ed and driver testing. It's not. Most accident avoidance is pure braking.

On the evidence, the central question in AV testing is "can we trust the human to take over fast enough when the automation does something bad?" The answer appears to be "no".

He also parrots Uber's whining about California's "regulation" of AV testing. The California DMV autonomous vehicle testing rules mirror those for human driver learner's permits. You have to get a license. You have to show proof of insurance. You have to report accidents. You have to have a licensed driver on board. DMV can pull your license if you have accidents. You can't carry passengers for hire. You can't drive a heavy truck. No surprises there.

DMV does require reports of minor accidents and of disconnects, and they publish that data. That's what irks the companies with bad automatic driving systems - public disclosure that they suck.
How is it that the executive branch is acting in a more principled and competent manner than the judicial, in this case?

I suppose it could be good for the economy and general welfare of the nation that the price of good TV will go up, if it means people will be watching less of it.
Why can't you code you implementation to safely ignore new protocol elements? They aren't asking you to support the new elements, just ignore them.
>The fact that the revolution was anti-religion...

It's more helpful to think of Communism as just another kind of religion.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are not the "same thing". To say so does not "oversimplify things just a little bit": It is grossly inaccurate. Expert systems, pattern recognition, robotics and fuzzy logic- all part of A.I.- do not, per se, involve learning (though they may).
Panasas, who open sources pNFS, is a serious scale company competitive with Isilon and NetApp

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2135264,00.asp

https://www.panasas.com/
I think the answer is no; for example one can use document.createElement(). I found that D3 was doing the equivalent of setting innerHTML.
Wow. That's both jarring and a great example of machine bias.
Indeed. The structures are more or less the same, just the names change.
[Citation needed]

Whats your line of thinking here? Are you saying that all crypto currency wont exist by then or just BTC?

Why 2020 as the time frame? What is going to happen between now and then thats going to make it so that it wont exist?

Can you qualify what you mean by wont exist? All the code is open source so I've got copies saved locally, and I've also got enough hardware to run the the whole network myself. I could, if need be, single handedly restart/run BTC.

It's my opinion that the only people more ridiculous than those that insist Bitcoin will replace all other fiat currency in the future are those that continually insist on its constant demise and absolute lack of value.
For some of the history of that time, I suggest checking out "Masters of Doom : how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture", by David Kushner. The book is 15 years old (!!!) at this point, but I think it's still a compelling read.
>> It's just math.

Good way to start off this rebuttal.

>> The amount of electricity needed to secure the network is directly proportional to the price

OK, this is a good argument, actually. But you are neglecting future improvements in energy, adoptions in solar, and the fact that electricity is not a statically-defined generation amount; there are many, many megawatts available that are not being tapped into - particularly in hydro - due to infeasibility of transmission. This is trivially evident in the number of people moving to Chelan County, Washington, as well as Quebec, amongst other initiatives and movements.

Your "just math" argument neglects... a lot of math, which is what I figured.
Can’t see due to paywall. Who’s on the list?
This argument is tendentious nonsense, and simultaneously an attempt at starting a religious flamewar and a culture flamewar. That's not discussion, it's arson. Find another place to wave this bloody shirt.
That's not how it works. (1-1%)^100=37%
Correct, they are not used to mine Bitcoin.

However, they are used to mine other crypto-currencies, which use different algorithms for which there are no ASICs.
>> Blockchains don't scale

They don't need to scale linearly with off-chain transmissions acting as a secondary transmission network.
Yeah I'd bet they also think "You know how many styles of shoes we have?!" when you first ask then realize how limited the options are once they actually go back.
The Lightning Network is one such initiative for BTC.
Not a Nobel prize winner, but still interesting, Albert Hofmann, of LSD fame, lived to be a 102.
Adding your own skins, modifying the config files... it was so easy to feel a creator.
Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer
A bond ETF doesn't hold all the underlying bonds. Someone picks a subset and hopes they track the index.
As many people find out the hard way, online forums become part of court proceedings rather easily through the miracles of discovery.
I guess this is what's meant by "antifragile" -- not merely durable in the sense of "resistant to stresses", but actively improved by exposure to stress.

Clever! I like it.