skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually runs deeper - the reason 'probability of fraud is higher' may as well be called 'probability of buyers remorse' is higher. In the industry we call it friendly fraud. When a customer finishes what he came to finish doing, the regret of spending 50 bucks can often result in a call to the bank. Some credit card providers make it even easier you can just click 'dispute' online and pretend like it was fraud to get a refund.

Interestingly, 3D Secure (verified by visa etc) was created to solve the issue of friendly fraud, but whats mystifying is it applies for all categories except for Adult.

Of course, this isn't the whole story, there's other factors like aggressive affiliate marketers - but it's a big part of it.
reaperducer's point was that jacquesm almost certainly hasn't done so, and so can't be entirely confident of not having been the victim of corrupt text.
I hear you. For me, the abstraction is the Linux distro. Build scripts abstract out creating a clean, secure box before installing any custom software, so regardless of the provider, every machine is exactly the same.
While of course it's an issue with any scanned docs, the DjVu compression method makes it harsher, as, say, you can end with _all_ '8's in document replaced with '3' (or, say, 'h's with 'n's), at the same time keeping seemingly decent appearance so that you don't suspect that something is wrong.
Probably cheaper, as you can start negotiating discounts when you get to this size.
I find it depends on the PDF and also on the software. On Mac OS PDFs are very fast.
> ability to rent

Netflix are clearly only interested in the subscription model, but if you want a la carte rentals, they're available from Google/Amazon/Rakuten/Sony/Microsoft/Apple.

> such rental it's not going to happen because companies want to hold their deck of "cards" and refuse to share it with other tables in this video streaming casino

From a more optimistic angle, it's neat that Netflix can exist at all at its current pricepoint.
Yeah. I use Kybook on iOS.
If it's possible for us to coexist with our own super-intelligent AI, it might make sense for them to act as intermediaries when communicating with other intelligent beings out there. It might mitigate some of the risk to ourselves by keeping our true nature a secret as well as signalling our capability to deter them from getting funny ideas. That is, unless our AI is given its own agency which we allow to supersede us or if we "merge" with it, whatever that means.
I bridge SMS to matrix, I currently have no use for slack, but if I were forced to use it I would bridge that to matrix as well.

Of course the matrix IRC bridges are also quite good. I'm in a couple of bridged IRC rooms.
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Modern advancements in physics over the past 100 years have opened a can of worms. We still haven't even scratched the surface of quantum systems in applications.

It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of physicists are now leaning towards applications and less "fundamental" disciplines. Newton and Einstein were two centuries apart! I think the past 100 years of physics will still run us another century before we make any more groundbreaking advancements in theory. It's not even as bleak as it sounds, because we're really at the tip of an iceberg here already.
Completely agree - in fact I am starting to look at fats and sugar as drugs at least as harmful long term as some "real" drugs. When you look at coca cola adverts and big supermarkets as pushers, things start to become much clearer and the scale of the struggle on obesity really is startling.

So yes, I am in favour of democratic nanny states.
Congratulations to SiFive for managing to do this !!
I assume that you haven't seen much enterprise environments lately...?
> It seems to be clearly in the interest of each provider to try to obtain all X of those hours.

Not so. You're confusing subscription-based revenue-stream with advertising-based revenue-stream.

Netflix's subscription is a flat rate, and they have no ads, so unlike YouTube they don't make money per hour of viewing.

The ideal case for Netflix is if I pay my monthly subscription, but don't watch anything at all. They get their money, but it minimises their server load. Of course, in reality, if they want to persuade me to keep my subscription, they'd better offer good content - if I'm watching nothing at all, I'm likely to cancel.
Design of toilets especially... The traditional Dutch toilet bowl has an inspection platform at the back that your poo lands on... [1].

Whereas American toilets have huge bowls full of water so whatever you excrete bobs around disconcertingly close to where you are sitting!

[1] https://www.expatica.com/nl/insider-views/Everything-you-nev...
Note that Netflix in their mainstay countries is also full of filler - there’s actually only a limited catalogue of well-known TV and movies in general. That’s a huge part of why they’re doing their own shows now, so that they don’t have to fight for licensing.
Recommend items that are bought together. Other customers who buy these sunglasses could be shown the shoe and the book.

It's a lot less stupid that recommending to buy the same item again and again.
You have to take responsibility for your privacy policy though, and make sure it reflects your actual policy.
It seems like there may be a more general takeaway from what Hossenfelder is saying, which is that fields that should be driven principally by empiricism can be led astray by the development of a set of shared aesthetic preferences that is used as a barometer of a theory or technique's attractiveness.

Such ideas of "beauty" may begin as a useful shorthand, in that they initially incorporate experienced practitioners' intuition of what theories are more reasonable, based on the history of their field and their collective knowledge. But they are only useful for so long as they remain subordinate to actual empirical evidence in the ultimate judgement of a theory or technique's truthfulness.

But when the actual application of strong empiricism is difficult or expensive (or becomes so, as has been the case in theoretical physics over the past half-century), or just impossible, the aesthetic barometer can gradually supplant evidence entirely. This may be the true measure of a science's softness or hardness.

In the field of software engineering, there are concepts of "clean" and "beautiful" code and languages. But how rigorously are such terms defined? How closely does our subjective impression of a codebase's aesthetics mirror its actual quality on those metrics that should matter most, such as its performance, maintainability, quantity of defects, etc.?
What are you trying to achieve by being an employee at startups?

Is there an alternative strategy for achieving this goal?

e.g. if the goal is "save a bunch of money and retire to do $whatever_youd_prefer_to_do"...

> At a big company, we have a career's worth of income in six years with high probability once you get your foot in the door. This isn't quite as good as the claim that you'll be able to do that in three or four years at a startup, but the risk at a big company is very low once you land the job. In startup land, we have a lottery ticket that appears to have something like a 0.5% chance of paying off for very early employees. Startups might have had a substantially better expected value when Paul wrote about this in 2004, but big company compensation has increased much faster than compensation at the median startup. We're currently in the best job market the world has ever seen for programmers. That's likely to change at some point. The relative returns on going the startup route will probably look a lot better once things change, but for now, saving up some cash while big companies hand it out like candy doesn't seem like a bad idea. [1]

[1] -- https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

Strategically, it's not great to end up in a position of having to pick winners, particularly when there's lots of idiosyncratic risk --- it'd be better to be able to invest in a diversified portfolio of reasonable looking bets. you can't do this as an employee of startups --- startups typically want you to work at least 5 days per week, and pay you for at most 5, so its a bit hard to diversify. you can diversify your capital as an investor, if not your time. also, investing in things that arent your day job reduces the correlation between your main source of revenue and your assets (less risk of both getting wiped out due to a single event like your employer going bust).
That's pretty misleading.

As the article says: drinking ordinary hot drinks is fine. Drinking scalding hot drinks is harmful.
So... about those synthetic opioids...
The premise for this article is wrong!

The author describes using SQL to pull facts from history; who was the number one customer the last week, who abandoned online orders and so on.

The premise should instead be how to fit a model onto your business data so that you better can guess who will be the number one customer next week, what (s)he will order and so on.

The problem that ML addresses is how to arrive at that model, under the assumption that you can use historic data to pick either model or parameterise a model.

SQL has it merits, as does the relational database model, but this has nothing to do with creating models (even though we are modelling the data itself). The author gives some examples that are, frankly, trivial.

But he has a good argument around namedropping "hot" technology when your business need does not incorporate distributed trust (blockchain), modelling behaviour (or some such) using ML and so on.
The article is from 1988 but nowadays there is coca cola zero which -as the name implies- contains no sugar.

The problem with cola though, is its acidity and Co2. These are bad for the teeth.
Azure Sphere looks promising but the Microsoft $85 Linux dev board SDK requires a Windows 10 device with Visual Studio for development. Hopefully this is not another "Apple does it, so we can too" posture.

If Sphere succeeds, many people will be happy to buy a network router that comes with 10 years of Microsoft Linux security updates.

MS demo of BASIC on the Sphere cpu in an Altair:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/05/21/azure_sphere_go...
Looking at the linked list of sections, it seems the overall stretch is still called Pflanzgarten, just a subsection of that (Stefan-Bellof-S) was renamed in honour of Bellof.
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Inability to recall what you have read maybe is not that all is lost.

Reading changes your brain; in brain connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer in use degenerates. Or in other words you are a very different person today just by reading all those books in all those years, that you don't remember anything of now.
Now all they need is a mobile IRC interface to close the loop? :)
It should be interesting to make it in different langs. Following my experiments, pretty sure that last php versions are faster, but of course, need proof^
All the big cloud providers are offering pre-trained models for currently popular AI/ML use cases, such as image labelling, face recognition etc. I think this will be the easiest way to apply AI/ML, combined with transfer learning so that the provider can pre-train the basic model and then provide a way for the customer to customize it further for a specific use case.

Of course this can also fail if the pre-trained generic models don't offer enough value and you end up having to develop your own models, but we'll see how it goes.

Btw, I've published a short Kindle book that aims to provide an overview of these pre-trained services currently available on various clouds, it can be found on Amazon by searching for AI ML Managed Services 2018. It attempts to save you the trouble of scanning through all the online documentation to find out what they do.
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Or make friends with someone who commutes by car
> Netflix merely replaced the ads with subscription and remains the same cognitive parasite TV was, pumping out stuff that you're better off not watching at all.

I fundamentally disagree - there's plenty of absolute gems on broadcast TV that are rendered unwatchable by ads and requiring a specific time. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one I'm watching right now that I'd never watch on either TV, buy the DVD of or watch a limited selection of episodes on any of the broadcaster's streaming services that have ads.
Lengthy as it is the article fails to mention how the Libor fraud actually worked and that it had two very distinct motivations.

Understating the interest a bank had to pay during a short dramatic period in 2008 when there could have been disastrous bank runs was the less problematic part of it. In my opinion, breaking the letter of the law to avoid a run on a healthy bank is the right decision.

But that's not all there was. The article fails to mention the second part, which was traders trying to make a profit by colluding with those at the same bank who were in charge of setting (or rather influencing) the Libor rate.

The bankers knew that they would be forgiven for the first part, and that's why they tried to use it as an excuse for the second part. That's also where Bob Diamond's claim about the BoE comes from.
He has a completely valid argument—Friday can be excluded (that wouldn't be a surprise), Thursday can be excluded (since he already excluded Friday, it wouldn't be a surprise), and so on, until the last day left is Monday. So he can conclude the execution must be on that day.

(In fact, he has a valid argument for anything he might want to believe since the original statement made by the judge is self-contradictory.)
Sugar, absolutely. Which fats do you have in mind?
“LSD comes from bacteria.”

This is wrong.

LSD is synthesized from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye.

An oversight like this throws the authors entire credibility into question. Know your subject matter.
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I'm the same. I have noticed that more and more, if a web-posted article doesn't get to the point in a couple of sentences, I move on.

I don't find this to be the case when I'm reading printed matter such as books or newspapers though.
> What is the state of it? Who uses it?

In the Netherlands the businesses (shops, restaurants, and general businesses) are more complete than OpenStreetMap, but not as complete as Google because everyone sees Google as the de facto standard and they push owners to add their info in the de facto Google search.

Bing Maps is fast and responsive (unlike Google Maps on anything other than their own, proprietary platforms such as Google Chrome, the Google Maps app, or Google Earth), and has aerial imagery and traffic info (unlike OSM).

Bonus game: turn off labels on satellite view, zoom out to world view, and try to find your house or other places. Surprisingly hard!
The pyroclastic flow can reach 1000C. He has a good chance of being burnt alive instantly.
My favorite example of the unexpected practical benefits of primary research is the first paragraph from the original proposal for the web:
https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

> This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.
Some people forget that 50 years ago punched cards was still the ubiquitous format and people were only just switching to magnetic tape.
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I've noticed that weed from legal shops is dressed up and made to look great. More than half the time, I'm disappointed. Sometimes it'll be rock hard or it will look great and taste like garbage. I really miss the black-market stuff I used to get in college. Back then, if it looked good, it was good and if it looked like crap, it was crap. No gimmicks.

I still remember when I could touch and sniff weed before I bought it. Weed's hyper-marketing and strict regulations are making it much less appealing to me. I'd rather get weed directly from people who grow it, or just grow it myself. This is a rare case where a peer-to-peer service actually makes a lot of sense to me. When weed is entirely legal, I would not be surprised if there really was an Uber for weed, even though "Uber for X" is kind of joke these days.
The author says in another post from 2017 that they had to abandon Google Voice when they moved to Europe. I had no idea.

I'm in Europe and I've used Google Hangouts to audio and video call people with Android phones for longer than 2017 so I have no idea what the author is talking about. Clearly Google Voice must be something different because Hangouts most likely "dials" over data.

Quick googling says Google Voice is PC to PC so no mention of SIP or GSM being used.

Either way I think using IRC seems a bit outdated, especially when you're trying to accomodate non-technical people.

XMPP would give more support for modern clients like Conversations for example. And it's just as easily scriptable as IRC imo. You don't actually touch XML, you use client libraries. So even if IRC is simple on the protocol level XMPP is just as simple to script with.
For more than year station air has been contaminated and nobody has done anything.
Yes it can be compressed (I just tried simple /usr/bin/zip w/o flags on a 10 MB PDF with results of ~10% file saving), but then it has to be uncompressed before usage. Its better to use some kind of transparent mechanic from within the OS (e.g. filesystem or compact.exe/CompactGUI [1]).

[1] https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI
Yup. Has happened to me multiple times as well on AWS. GCP OTOH offers (optional) live migration of instances.
Absolutely! I can identify with the author of the Vice article. I worry that the liberalization of drugs will lead people that are "wired" differently to experiment and screw up their mental and cognitive skills.

Weed definitely changed me.
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Reason? We're talking about religion.
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Nothing. We are centuries away from using anything in HEP in tech application. (If someone thinks otherwise I'd love to hear counterpoints!)

The thing is, subatomic stuff is extremely energy dense and packed very stably into particles and atoms. Even to just crack open that package we require massive machines like the LHC. Even if we could control things there it's not clear that it's even possible to rearrange the parts into other configurations. All such configurations would be extremely energy dense and intrinsically unstable, with QM making sure they decay quickly. So figuring out what stuff is made of doesn't give us more ways to interact with it.

The good news is that we're far from done understanding how atoms can combine into interesting structures. Like _really_ far from done. From topological states of matter to meta materials there are lots of surprises.
> It may even be bumpier than the current standard for German public roads, which are generally of exceedingly high quality.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/794/698/475...

> But the real fun is that the general speed limit is 100kph (62mph) off the autobahn and outside of towns, even for relatively small and curvy roads.

Well they certainly remain to exist, but sadly there is a tendency since ~10 years or so to stick a 70 speed limit anywhere where the road deviates the tiniest bit from a ruler. Nowadays they are often coupled with "no overtaking" signs. Apparently the level of driving skill has sunk so low, that people neither know how fast they can drive through a curve, nor can they realize for themselves that overtaking in a curve is forbidden anyway and they shouldn't need signs to remind them of that.

> I'm in southern Germany at the moment, visiting my girlfriend's family.

In the south road conditions are a bit better, but still many municipal and country roads are in either poor or piss poor condition.
Cataclysm: DDA is a great, open source roguelike zombie apocalypse survival game. Featuring open world instead of dungeons, and absurdly large number of crafting recipes.
What? not having to choose either or, actually using good tools for the job, solving the problem instead of mindlessly following the hype? /s
For some reason my favourite was always watching Sabine Schmitz trying to drive a transit van in under ten minutes.

Part two is the one to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc
I'd love to see some concrete examples.

I totally understand how this could theoretically happen but it all hinges on it actually happening in the documents that I'm working with and to have a test case where it happens for sure would make all the difference in determining whether or not the documents I'm working with are at risk or not and if so if I can detect which ones are at risk (that would be half the battle won).

It would have to be a case where a human would see a 3 or an 8 (or a similar transposition with other glyphs) resulting in a document that is corrupted in such a way that afterwards the human would see the (invalid) alternative.

Even a single instance of this happening would be very relevant.
Sorry, that is my first time. Well paid with negative points though.
For me, "beauty" is an inverse function of entropy or disorder. The fewer the arbitrary constructs in a system (or theory), the more "beautiful" (or more accurately, elegant) it is. After all, the laws of physics are about finding recurring patterns in a mass of random observations. So I think it's reasonable to prefer theories that can explain a large number of random observations with a fewer number of laws. However, I suppose the argument of the book is that when we try to make our theories more simpler than reality actually is, we have a problem?

Edit: to try to answer your question, the goal of elegance/beauty in code is entirely about comprehensibility and not utility, is it not?
Yes, but we're all basically familiar with elliptic geometry, and as a result it's not terribly interesting or surprising.

Hyperbolic geometry, on the other hand, is alien to most people, (especially fractal like the projections into 2d and 3d), so when people wave their hands and say 'non-Eyclidean geometry!', that's what they usually actually mean.

Try actually watching some of the hyper-rogue gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5eCfRSCKY

I assure you, it's more interesting as a geometric visualisation than planetary annihilation is.

More technical reading here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1407550/what-hyperb...
Jon Ronson's "The Butterfly Effect" covers this quite well. It's free on iTunes and quite an entertaining listen.

http://www.jonronson.com/butterfly.html
As with any religion it simply depends on what your church/community agrees is right or wrong. In some cases if you were caught drinking cold brew coffee you might be chastised for "undermining god", in other cases you might be lauded for having found the way god clearly intended coffee to be enjoyed. Depends entirely on the whim of the people around you.
> Anyone else remember imponderables (the books)?

I used to read those voraciously in the late 80s/early 90s. Going to the book store and seeing that there was a new one was such a treat.

I wonder what experience will be similar for my kids.
You're not alone. I worry the same about many things, but everyone just thinks I'm a negative nancy for discounting THIS AWESOME SERVICE with these awesome, 100% non evil people behind it!