skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the whole bone of contention with the statement is pretty much a semantic argument.

What is "trust"?

In your scenario, I wouldn't classify it as trust at all, yet I know I've used that word to describe something similar when describing building software.

But if you wanted to pin me down, I'd waffle and say, yeah, I'm not really talking about trust. If I trusted function X, I wouldn't check anything about it, I'd assume it's right.

So in your scenario, I wouldn't classify what you were doing as platonic trust either. I wouldn't call it trust unless the verification came when the deliverable was due. But then by then, your trust has been violated.

For instance I ordered something online. I trust the information FedEx gives me is accurate. It says my package is delivered. I am going home and I expect to see the package at my door. I trust my neighborhood/apt complex enough that I don't expect it to be stolen. That is trust. I don't have anything to confirm what I currently believe, but I still believe it.

In contrast, I stopped trusting the USPS at my old apartment. Because a couple of times, they've claimed a failed delivery attempt even when I was home. So I stopped expecting things to get delivered when they said they would be when they would come through USPS.

And I never trusted packages to be delivered to the house I lived at before that place. I'd get things delivered to work.

When people tell me they "trust, but verify", I tell them it's either or. You can trust or you can verify. When they tell me they trust the results of my work but want to verify it, I explicitly tell them, "I don't want you to trust it, I want you to double-check me to make sure I got it right. I don't fully trust myself. Accuracy is important, I want a critical eye on this in case I missed something. I don't mind being wrong if it means we are right."
Not OP, but I can answer for me. I am early 30s, single, don't have a long commute (15-20 min).

I play D&D once a week for ~2-3 hours per session (this is at a local gaming store), and I find that I can just carve out a night a week for it. The store provides several nights that you can play once a week and at differing times (for different schedules). If I did not, I would not be able to play nearly as much. I also have friends that have spouses/kids, and we have been able to carve out typically once a month in order to play (usually it is an all day thing). We also take care of the kids (toddlers to tweens)and they are able to go out and do something as well.
> Differences are imperceptible.

That argument sounds very postmodern. The main issue with perception is that it easily tricked and even more, it can be strongly influenced by bias.

The cumulative effect can surely be measured and reasoned about.

It is very different to program for your new startup idea where adding features faster than your competition is more important than anything else in order to grow your user base, compared to improving an established product already being used by millions of people.

Different needs, different approaches.
I don't think the author has read two other lists of best textbooks... dubious methodology
Alternate link with better caching: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-bes...
Wow I'm a total novice but as far as I know most of the optimization methods for models (Pruning, Weight Sharing, Quantization, Low Rank Approximation, Binary / Ternary Net, Winograd Transformation) aren't really implemented in most ML frameworks. Would be fun to try it out one of these weekends
[makes side-eyes at React team to utilize webassembly]
New Study: Omega-3s Can Help Keep Kids Out of Trouble
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> 10 PM, do stress management, exercise a little, eat well a

Most people won't do those things, but will take a pill. Also, there's no need for a whole company to invent clean living or whatever, that's mostly the purview of TEDx talks and self-help authors.
The above link actually only has the raw sgf files (game records). The actual training data (output of MCTS search) is here: https://leela.online-go.com/training/
In a sense those users explicitly opt out from having their voices heard. Any other way to gather information on feature usage would most likely be massively more biased than direct telemetry.
The point is that "trust, but verify" has two too many words.
How to invest in US stock market [2 min]
Things may have changed for today’s teens, but having been a teen through the 00’s that would’ve been too expensive for me. It was hard to even justify a WoW subscription at $15/month even with the near endless entertainment value that provided. Also, with the CC subscription setup, if you stop paying you lose access to your creations. That’s not too big of a deal for working adults, but for a teen with tumultuous cash flow, it’s a huge dealbreaker.

I spent hundreds of hours in Photoshop as a teen, but I likely would’ve have bothered with it at all if it weren’t easily piratable.
A game of connecting different topics on Wikipedia: https://thewikigame.com

The public game room has lots of general random topics, or you can create a private group and make your own challenges with any topics you like.

This is a personal/passion project of mine (and has gotten fairly popular these days). I'm actively working on improving the game, by adding category specific games, different game modes, etc.
In the US this isn't reliable. I just got a new phone and learned the hard way it doesn't support NFC, and even if it did a lot of merchants disabled their NFC readers waiting for more merchant-friendly rails to reach the market.
How the #$% does the internet work?
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FWIW, there is a very nice sidebar-based Firefox RSS add-on called Drop Feeds - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/

It is very similar to the pre-WebExtensions Sage/SageToo/Sage++ add-ons.
This is the most preliminary evidence possible. Just a couple of case studies. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out with larger trials but there are plenty of Alzheimer drugs that have had far more evidence for their effectiveness then this regimen, and ultimately failed to make any meaningful difference.
for Computer Science, domestic students usually don't need a masters if they already have an undergrad CS degree. For international students, they usually obtain a masters for visa reasons and to stay competitive against domestics in the American job market.
I kinda feel the most ethical thing for an author to do is focus on a recommendation for the best book that isn't theirs (e.g. besides my book X, I'd recommend Y for Z reasons).
Does "training process" concept in this discussion includes the whole process of starting from scratch and reproduce leela zero from tabula rasa, or is it just the training of the latest network from available training data?
>Pure semantics. You can replace "choice" with "the action that occurs" in the context of my point.

When we talk about "free will" it's all in the semantics. The term must have a specific meaning -- else we're discussing in vain.

The action that occurs is either a:

1) a conscious choice (i.e. free will)

or:

2) a predetermined / random action (i.e. no free will)

In either case, (2) is beyond the subject's control, and that's not a merely nominal or semantic difference, it's a very real difference. In fact, it's exactly what we're debating.

>> If free will doesn't exist, then evidence and argumentation doesn't matter -- as those are not the causes that shape our beliefs.

> I genuinely don't see why not.

Probably because I didn't clarified that. I use "shape our beliefs" in the meaning that we would use the term everyday: that they enter our minds, we judge them and consider them, and through this we are influenced by them in our beliefs.

They could still "shape our beliefs" in the sense that kicking a ball will make it move.

But not in any way in which our conscious self participates in that shaping. More like a trauma would "shape" our beliefs.

>I think I'm starting to understand your perspective. It's like you're so entrenched in a belief that free will exists that you're clinging very tightly to definitions of words/concepts that somehow presuppose the existence of free will.

Not really. I'm actually pointing the consequences of free will not existing. I don't believe it exists except in a very specific way myself, which is in accordance with a deterministic universe (to sum, that our free will is exactly the inevitable choice we make because we are who we are -- i.e. directly the sum product of our prior space-time history -- and that it's both free -- as in uniquely expressing our self -- and inevitable).

>For example you seem determined that the external state of the world cannot alter our internal narratives unless we have the "free will" to make that alteration ourselves.

I gave the example in another comment on this post about a person being surgically altered to not have free will, which is the different side of the same coin.

The actions of that person would indeed be controlled by the outside world (e.g. the surgeon). But without free will, in other words, without an agent, there are no "internal narratives".

What remains would be an internal "program" -- like the bots in your example.

But a program is not a narrative in the sense of an agent consciously talking to itself.
While I can get behind many of the use cases for FOAM's proposed product, avoiding interference isn't one of them.

LoRa is particularly susceptible to jamming. Given the frequencies used, accidental jamming by legally operating transmitters is a very real possibility.

It also turns out that LoRaWAN is vulnerable to selective jamming, but I'm not sure whether or not FOAM is looking to make use of the LoRaWAN layer.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02141
I'm reading this as ending support for live bookmarks and feed preview, but not necessarily for the "open with" feature in Preferences > General > Applications that lets you pick a reader; just that Live Boomarks wouldn't be one option

Anyone knows for sure?
What's even better about WASM than JS in this case is that it can be compiled as it is being loaded. With JS, the entire file needs to be downloaded before being executed, but that's not the case for WASM, resulting in even more performance improvements.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...
But there are plenty of ways for my phone company to verify that it was my phone. (they might verify a clone of my sim, but that is a different problem that they already have to handle)
Be wary of believing any account when it comes to nuclear weapons procedures. There is much misinformation. Changes happen all the time. Some of the public stories have been adopted strait from fiction. The letters have been the subject of so many spy thrillers they are now more myth than functional.

The very concept of the letters presupposes that sub crews have full control over their missiles, that they can fire them based on instructions in a hand-written letter. That does not mesh with the safeguards surrounding other weapons that require external command/codes prior to launch.
How to enable Chrome’s new Material Design refresh on desktop and iOS
Worth looking at this article that includes embedded tweets of mock bios for men written in the fashion bios tend to be written about women:

https://www.sciencealert.com/someone-on-twitter-is-writing-a...
You shouldn't trust a book recommendation of the recommender doesn't explain why they are recommending it.

If you write your own textbook, you had better be prepared to explain why your book is better than other books on the same subject.
ACLU says Amazon facial recognition associated Congress members with mugshots
This looks great!
Extra kudos for it working on mobile (iOS 11 anyway). I’m usually checking HN on my phone and these things rarely work there.
I don't think browsers make the best feed readers, but it'd be nice if they at least offered a button to detect them by default. I guess its fine to want an extension to do that, but anything that gives RSS more visibility is a win to me, even if its best consumed in a different app.
Yes, during the work day, many people would like to commit their changes, often during the same timeframe. Every step takes a second or two, so there's plenty of room to get conflicts (I moved closer to the git server, so now I have an advantage!)

CVS was nice(ish) since changes were independent, any number of people could check in code to limit of io parallelism. Svn was nice, the server would wait for a lock and if my changes didn't conflict, they would be applied after the rest of the pending commits. Git is a PITA, large companies build elaborate systems to queue commits, but we're not big enough to use that yet.
The near-monopoly of GCC was leading to stagnation. Clang's competition seems to have reinvigorated the GCC project, which is a fantastic outcome for users: two great compiler teams riffing off one another's improvements, and we all benefit from their work.
You have to name the grid elements yourself. Check the article here to see what you do with those single periods.

https://alligator.io/css/css-grid-layout-fr-unit/
Yes they accept that large trials are obviously needed.

> The results suggest that memory loss may be reversed and improvement sustained with the therapeutic program, but Bredesen cautioned that the results need to be replicated.

> “The current, anecdotal results require a larger trial, not only to confirm or refute the results reported here, but also to address key questions raised, such as the degree of improvement that can be achieved routinely, how late in the course of cognitive decline reversal can be effected, whether such an approach may be effective in patients with familial Alzheimer’s disease, and last, how long improvement can be sustained,” he said.

From http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/memory-loss-associated-wit...
The truth about that is ironically enough exactly the opposite. I can't find a link to it right now, but there was a great story in the science news about a month ago, about how many of the images from the Apollo era were intentionally low-resolution and grainy, because the US didn't want to reveal to the Soviets just how advanced their remote sensing technology was. NASA had access to the best military-grade satellite surveillance technology, and the government didn't want to tip off our cold-war adversaries.
Having the best product and corrupt practices aren't mutually exclusive at all.

I mean this in general, this example here where an author is promoting his own book without hiding his name is borderline. Says more about the site's reliability than the author's honesty to me.
"story"
Trolling 5 year olds is a long established tradition.

http://www.s-anand.net/blog/calvin-and-hobbes-dad-explains-s...
Another thing I’ve noticed is articles using large headshots of women for companies where they could use product photos. With men it’s much rarer... they even prefer to run cheesy graphics of “AI” instead of headshots.
I was playing Flexbox Zombies for a little while and really enjoyed it.

> This is a Mastery Game. Each section unravels part of the plot, gives you mastery over a new flexbox concept, and presents zombie survival challenges that force you to solidify your new skills like your life depends on it.

https://flexboxzombies.com [free]

He also has a new one called "Grid Critters", which I'm unfamiliar with but it looks like it's a similar thing but space themed and for CSS Grid instead of Flexbox.

https://www.gridcritters.com [paid]

His blog is also really awesome too: http://gedd.ski/
Defensive metrics are very difficult for a couple reasons.

The first problem is the data. The soccer viewing public is largely familiar with event-level data, typically provided by (my previous employer) Opta. They've done a great job normalizing soccer statistics on the cultural level, but the information they've collected at scale isn't that useful for creating good defensive metrics.

Other companies have sensed an opportunity here and have started providing more detailed data around things such as defensive pressure. Suddenly, you can contextualize each offensive event with the level of defensive pressure applied to it. I think this will be a game changer, but we're in early days there.

Other companies provide player-tracking solutions that give you real-time position of all players on the field. This is great because you have a "complete" picture of the game, but it requires a lot of work to build more sophisticated spatial/geometric models.

There's also the "Howard Effect", coined largely as a basketball term, but it's similar to the Maldini example you provided. Some defenders are so good that they don't have to be "active" defenders. That's something which is really difficult to adequately control for.
Wikipedia has a bit on it:

>"Amyloidosis is a group of diseases in which abnormal protein, known as amyloid fibrils, builds up in tissue.
[...]
The presentation of amyloidosis is broad and depends on the site of amyloid accumulation. The kidney and heart are the most common organs involved.
[...]
AA is suspected on clinical grounds in individuals with longstanding infections or inflammatory diseases."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis
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The article looks like it's just a generic sports' journalist reporting on a novel statistical technique, with cross language translation added into the mix for extra confusion. I wouldn't take it too literally.

I'd guess that either "Impect disregards all passes that go backwards or don’t beat any defender" would be better phrased as "Impect disregards passes unless they go forward or beat defenders" or the statisticians would defend the original solely in terms of it being a heuristic that makes the problem more tractable.

Additionally, your linked example, with #25 picking up the ball in a danger position after a deflection, is the kind of "penalty box slop" that, naively at least, seems extremely difficult to handle analytically.
MS makes their training videos, and they were amazing this and last year. I'm actually looking forward to training next year to see what happens in the story.
> I wouldn't be surprised if GCC is abandoned eventually, but it will be at least 10 years.

Let's hope not. The healthy competition between the two projects has been a huge boon for the OSS community.
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I only mentioned Linux because I knew that my argument wouldn't work for BSDs! But in my defense the situation, at least originally, was more political than technical (at least as far as FreeBSD was concerned, I don't follow the other BSDs too closely). GCC switching to the GPLv3 was a big no-no for many people in the BSD world. As a result they were at the forefront to port the system to clang since they were stuck with an obsolete GPLv2 GCC version.
It's too bad that being 16 years old, lots of the suggestions are now outdated, like the complete absence of bufferbloat.
> Packing is the measurement of how many opposition players are beaten by a pass (or dribble or other move).

This is what the Italians really do well with their "verticalizzazione" (I guess "verticalization" would be the closest English translation, even though I'm not sure that's a word yet), i.e. deep passing when you're (usually) 30 to 50 meters outside the opposing post. For an excellent example see this YT video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWr1tTFt7a4) of Sarri's Napoli doing it (Sarri is now Chelsea's coach, that should be interesting).
The textbook industry is well known for its shady practices that go beyond "just doing business." Try this: https://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy
very nice. very good click interactions for defining a grid area
Wow thank you so much! It's crazy how much this project is changing[1], especially and more and more users/companies/projects are starting to depend on it.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/blob/77110ed5da89823fa5954e47...
It was also a useful proof of concept of what could be done. Without Flash, would there have been the critical mass of users who wanted video in their browsers at all? Or the content?

I think that we would have gotten there eventually, but probably not as fast. The close - but not quite good enough - implementation of video in Flash was as much of a catalyst as it was a crutch to lean upon.
it's so cheap and readily available that they don't have to
this is because it is legal
I could not disagree more that Twitter is as necessary as phones ever were in the last 50 years.

I don't ever visit it and am a happy, productive tech worker. I never miss it, and no one I know talks about it in person. I don't personally know any active users.

Its main influence on daily life seems to be when real media re-broadcasts the Twitter speech of famous people.

Facebook could be argued to be essential much more easily and has an order of magnitude more MAUs, but I'd disagree even with that. Lots of normal people I know (including many reading this) have quit FB and not looked back.

Someone who quit landline phones in the 90s would've been considered a nut or a recluse. The only alternative for communicating with them was the postal service, and there was no instantaneous alternative.
Factorio is a fantastic game for learning systems engineering, and thinking in abstractions. It’s a crafting game similar to Minecraft, and a building game like roller coaster tycoon (but factories instead of theme parks). It’s also very very fun!

This game challenges the player to create more and more complex automated systems.

If you liked Technic Mods for Minecraft, you’ll love Factorio.

https://factorio.com/
Not sure what they're running. They do hand me a dynamic IPv4 address, but unless the modem is offline for more than an hour or so, I get the same address.

For whatever reason I get a new IPv6 prefix every time the modem or router reboots.
I'm sorry, this is simply not true.

Elixir sits right now in a stage of its lifecycle where adoption is increasing, lots of developers are interested in picking it up but don't have much experience with it yet. Rails went through the same thing circa 2008-2010. I've introduced it now at several client companies which have gone on to readily adopt it more widely within the company, and positions on those teams that have adopted it are greatly coveted. Moreover, learning it well enough to be productive (though perhaps not proficient) takes only a week or two of coaching from a motivated developer.

I'm not sure what experience you've had with it that leads you to this conclusion, but your position is by no means definitive.
Sure, they’re all mitigatable, but that technical training is competing with a lot of other considerations within the limited brainwidth of a scientist.

From the scientist’s perspective, a lot of this can start to feel like yak shaving. The opportunity costs are real.
If resources were infinite and there were never any trade-offs, most people would agree with you.

But what's your game plan under other circumstances? Do nothing?
> Any ill that would befall GPS could easily also affect those

The linked article that we're commenting on was about a software bug in GPS only

The root cause was a bug in the GPS network. When the U.S. Air Force, which operates the 31 satellites, decommissioned an older one and zeroed out its database values, it accidentally introduced tiny errors into the database, skewing the numbers
It's just business. Recommending your own text book is not crooked and corrupt. It's business. Forcing your users to acquire all apps for your iPhone through your own app store is also not crooked and corrupt. It's just business. Everyone tolerates it because money talks.
It's also fairly well documented that UK Trident sub warheads do not have Permissive Action Links - the crews of the subs do indeed have the ability to launch without receiving any codes.

The justification for this is pretty simple - timing. In the event of a launch from a likely enemy (the Soviet Union in the bad old days) there simply wasn't enough time to guarantee that a code be transmitted before weapons bursting.