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And the brits would be wrong, for the reasons I have already mentioned. The remains of their empire are more visible than that of any other.

Again, I do not claim that there are no ecological problems. I just think that they are solvable if we put our minds to it, because they have always proven to be so before. I may be wrong, but I don't see any better plan of action than being a rational, action-taking optimist. :-)
How does standardized testing contribute to the inadequacy of education? If anything, it shows which students need help, as opposed to grade inflation and throwing out A grades to everyone that hands in a homework assignment on time.

Local parents can influence grades, but they can’t get past standardized testing (which is why colleges use SAT/ACT/AP grades to filter rather than GPA).

Perhaps funding as a result of standardized testing is a problem and distracts from teaching. But the actual problem is children who grow up in unsupportive environments with lack of parental guidance. That socioeconomic class divide exposed by standardized testing isn’t going to be fixed by getting rid of standardized testing.
What do people think of OpenMined related to "Federated Learning" ?

https://www.openmined.org/
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React is unfortunately quite big indeed. However you can actually replace React in ReasonReact with an API compatible alternative via Webpack.

I tried this a few weeks back and have to say that it only worked with Inferno.js though, not Preact (lack of React 16 feature support) nor Nerv.js.
The "you don't rat" mentality is also very prevalent in ghettos or "the street" (as well as in left-wing activism circles). A well written account on it is the HBO series The Wire.
I'm touch-typing what my OS thinks is an American keyboard layout on a German keyboard. Physical muscle memory counts for a lot more than mere efficiency, in my book. However, if I were to need to switch to a different layout for physical health reasons, I have no doubt that my brain would adapt, as it's the initial part that is difficult, in that regard.
Correcting for confounding is probably the hardest thing to do when you are building statistical models. There is no true consensus with regard to how you should go about correcting for confounding.

Did you know that if you correct wrongly for a confounder, you actually introduce bias?

As a very modest medical researcher myself, I have become very careful about the conclusions I make with any model I make. While it is very appealing to make conclusions about causation, they are very often wrong.

For more information, I think this might interest you: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-...
Check-list for the other side of the equation: would I be happy with never settling down at all, always on the move? What conditions would it take for me to stay put? If the first answer is no and you can't give a reasonable answer to the second, you might want to reconsider change until you can.
I think what I originally read was someone else’s post or tweet or something inspired by this specifically in the context of cofounders.

It is pretty widely held advice in investing, at least.
Why not switch every 60m? That'd be much better for concentration. How did you decide that 30m was optimal?
I think it's simpler - we just want to know that whoever leads understands our perspective. Being relatable is a very strong (and yes, fakeable) signal.
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I understand that the point of view that "kill all men" is not hate speech exists, and it's ok to interview someone who holds that view.

But when the hosts themselves started talking about how it's not hate speech like it's a very reasonable view to hold, I was a bit shocked. I never enjoyed radiolab or listened to much of it before, but I used to think it was a legit show with respectable hosts, even if I didn't like the format.

Would they also say "kill all Americans" is not hate speech because Americans are not "historically oppressed"? Sure, it's safer to talk about Japanese in China on the American radio.

(I haven't listened to the whole episode yet, in case they address it later.)
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I'm not a project manager, and I most certainly haven't been involved in huge IT projects.

That said, from my POV it seems a lot of software related IT project failures is often correlated to two factors:

- Doing too much at once. Like replacing 6 different existing specialized systems with a single new one.

- Unwillingness to change the business procedures/workflow to cater to software.

The lure of the single do-it-all system seems strong with certain people. But at least in my experience, one could draw from software engineering and how good software is written as separated modules with well-defined interfaces at the boundaries. If you have multiple systems with good interfaces for data exchange, it's much easier to specialize where needed, and replace outdated or broken pieces.

The unwillingness to adjust the business procedures/workflow to software needs is a huge one. Complex software is fragile. By having complex rules in the business procedures you force the software to be more complex, thus invariably making the software more fragile. If business procedures were changed to be software friendly before the software is written/adapted, the software can be simpler and thus hopefully less fragile.
I don't know anything about coral, but I do know something about plants. Many botanical gardens have similar disclaimers about touching plants, but invariably what they actually mean is "Touching is fine, but some dumbass is going to take it too far and kill something, so we'll say no touching just to ensure it doesn't get to that point". Of course the vast majority of plants are safe to touch for you and the plant, and even those that are delicate or dangerous in some way can be safely touched by experts or researchers.

Maybe coral is similar to this, maybe not, but by analogy I don't see a problem in offering the public a more conservative version of safe guidance.
Caps don't manage capacity. Capacity is saturated by simultaneous usage. That's managed by limiting bandwidth, not by setting a monthly data cap. In practice caps are simply a rip off, masked under the need to manage the network.
Less black box, more reproduciblity / generalisation is what people ask for these days, so ablative studies exposing how the bricks in the model work individually? In old terms, sensitivity studies.
> Is this sarcasm? The existence of guidebooks, in itself, ensures that multiple people will do what the guide says. A "better" guidebook will just ruin those "better" experiences too.

That assumes the guidebook is the same for everyone. In today's world of smartphone apps it's not hard to imagine a "personalized" guidebook for each tourist. You could even take it a step forward and make it fully dynamic and "re-route" tourists based on site congestion - sort of like Waze for tourists.
On the other hand, I interviewed at Google some years ago and during my conversation with an HR rep, my very first meeting in the day-long interview process, she noted my lack of CS degree and said point blank: “You know we place a lot of importance on degrees here, right?”

(And this was for an ops position, not development)
There's no reason you can't find the new job before ditching the existing one.
Common logic mistake, you inverted my arrows.

I didn't say haskell is mathematical (and i do agree to your point), i said category theorists probably know haskell of all languages because of the deeper understanding/intuition they will naturally have for it. There is no denying that haskell is laid on category theory foundation and that understanding these will help you. But of course well designed things do not require you to understand their foundations to build intuition/understanding.
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In social sciences (speaking as an economist), the goal of statistics was always testing theories and hypotheses against empirical evidence. Once you have a solid theory, then you have an understanding of the subject matter, which allows you to make predictions and counterfactual hypotheses. So the primary goal was understanding the data generating process, finding causal relationships between variables, and so on. The goal was specifically not making predictions. One of the first things I learnt was that a bad model can make good predictions (for a while). The ML crowd appears to be taking the opposite approach, focusing on making predictions and disregarding everything else. I suppose it has its uses, but I wouldn't call it science.
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Many instances of media are giving a spin on horrible historical events for the sake of entertainment. These are never meant to be "tasteful".
Does Wolfenstein condone the holocaust?
All the Dracula books and movies make Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, a charismatic character, even though he murdered so many innocent people in such a cruel way just to secure his position.

They do put a tasteless twist on a horrible event - that makes this thought experiment so intriguing as a setting to explore. What if the Nazis won? What if Vlad The Impaler was an interesting and charismatic person, what if JackTheRipper was a hero under cover. It's all stupid, but interesting at the same time.
That does not mean they disrespect history.
It’s amazing that 4 R5 disks could break down in the first place. Apparently they had triple redundancy and STILL managed to make it fail.

Though I bet it was just nobody ever checked if the disks were still working.
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Your "compensation" is a functioning legal system.

You might lose a job by police stopping traffic after a RTA and so being delayed by several hours. Should you get compensation for that, or should you just accept it as part of a functioning road network/emergency service?
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And if they do that, it gets noticed and fixed. The process is imperfect of course, just like it is imperfect in human organisations.

I maintain that the core difference is the way these technologies are being deployed in a centralised fashion by human organisations, but the technology itself is no less capable than actual human decision-makers.
The article has an interesting premise, but ultimately fails to deliver. It's feels like someone venting or feeling insecure about a recent experience, and now I'm just left wondering what it was that upset them.
Human brains are even more closed, than closed source software. That was my point. With closed-source software, at least someone has access to the code and data.
> Is it just me or is this terrible advice?

Yes, it's glorified impulsiveness. Quitting is one solution. But it isn't the only one.

The study itself is better reading. It finds "people may be excessively cautious when facing life-changing choices" while conceding "that the research subjects who chose to participate in the study are far from representative...as there may be sample selection in which coin tossers complete the surveys, and responses might not be truthful" [1]. Furthermore, in allowing participants to choose the question they wanted to answer with a coin flip, it selected for questions to which thought had already been devoted.

The conclusion is best interpreted as "if you've thought through a big decision and remain unsure, there is preliminary evidence that you might want to risk going for it." Not that the moment a trace of dissatisfaction crosses your mind, you should give up.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22487.pdf
How about we grant that luck is a factor and that you need to be in a situation where you're able to at least try? That still leaves roughly everybody here in the pool of people who can build a software business in their nights and weekends.

The important takeaway is that so many people, yourself included it would seem, use confirmation bias as a shield they can hide behind. A way of proving to themselves that success is impossible, and that therefore the best course of action is not to try at all.

That's a shame, since it's so self-reinforcing. If you never even try, it doesn't matter how good the odds are. You still won't get there.
Exactly. In the UK right now there is a push to sell wine and gin in plastic kegs. Take your own bottle and fill up for less. Packaging these products in bulk significantly simplifies distribution and reduces cost.
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As a poster above alluded to, selling the status quo to people have suffered a loss of economic and social standing, is a losing political argument.

Even though I think the Democrats have more to offer, say, the rural communities in WI, than the Republicans, they cannot change the demographic and technological forces that are at the root of such voters disillusionment. The Democrats, for better or worse, attempt to stay tethered to objective reality.

Trump came along with grandiose promises of restoring the status of rural and working class Americans, and (apparently) some voters were so frustrated and angry that they voted for this imbecile.

Whenever I see “man on the street” style reporting on Trump voters, the voters themselves come across as imbeciles. I’ve seriously wondered if this was some kind of editorializing (maybe unconscious) by liberal news editors to make Trump voters look bad.

Really,they got nothing from Trump. Set aside all the culture war baggage, and the core argument of substance that Trump voters offer is that Trump is somehow going to “bring (good) jobs back.”

In reality, Trump has been a political wrecking ball, and is riding in the success of all the workers who actually keep America functioning. (In government and private sector.)

He had made everything worse that he gets his hands on.

Like half the population in the US, I keep wondering when Trump voters will wake up to see the naked buffoon, stomping on everyone he can as he fights for survival. I’m worried now they won’t, and we will see more people succumb to totalistic conspiracy mongering. (Like the Qanon fiasco.)

In the meantime, elite workers with the opportunity to exploit the system to their own benefit, will simply continue to do so.
How is it selfish?
Yes, the first macro is the common trick, and the second is the mistake (wondering, but it works). I update the code. Thanks a lot for pointing it out!
> And legal is about what recourse we can seek afterwards, when we understand we've messed up the implementation and security had failed.

Not at all. Legal rules are about what we "should" do, what's right and what's wrong. However, legal rules need to be enforced to be effective. If you create a legal rule that's impossible to enforce and everyone flouts it, not only does your rule not get enforced, but it also creates doubt in the entire legal system.

So legal rules ought to consult with what's possible and impossible, but they should not be dictated by them.
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I myself is against idea of small scale nuclear. Economics is not of its side. Every single nuclear facility is has a lot of fixed expenses to keep it running. Think of the amount of qualified cadres needed to run it: every nuclear power station is effectively a small science institute on its own.

Multi-gigawatt facilities are the ones where nuclear has biggest the payout.

The few nuclear power stations that are being completed these days are single reactor designs and effectively experimental plants. This is why digits on economics got unfavourable recently.

Fuel costs are negligible in comparison to every other operating expenses. This way, simple PWRs and BWRs on multi-gigawatt scales are the only designs making sense economically. Next gen CANDUs make great sense for fuel economy (and economic costs of refuelling), but even then, frequent refuelling needs are not as dramatic as the higher costs of CANDUs. Heavy water price has only been going up - and even something like an international initiative to setup a global heavy water "bank" will help little.

4th Generation reactors - the first few reactors are assuredly can't run at profit. Their sole purpose are to be research facilities. Any nation constructing them should have full realisation that constructing gen 4 only servers the purpose of advancing its science and industrial competence, not and making money in any immediate future.
I've been successful way beyond my control and I understand that. This guy doesn't and blames people who weren't for making him feel bad.
This already exist since years in france: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law

In practice less than 20 peoples have been disconnected because of this law in 9 years
We're past the tipping point to run away warming according to some reputable climate scientists. Im not saying we can't reverse it but we're not even attempting to at the moment beyond half hearted deals like the Paris climate accord.
BSD kernels almost as a rule tend not to be portable between LIBC(s) and/or userlands. The Linux kernel is more used, faster, more portable.

The BSDs had a major head start on Linux 20-25 years ago but they just sat back became lazy & laughed at Linux, while Linux ate their lunch.
China’s well more than 4x the population of the US.

Those stats, from 2012, are quite outdated, too; while still the largest users of coal (but again, largest country) they’re rapidly and aggressively investing in green energy and cutting back on coal use. The Chinese produce much less carbon per capita than Americans do [1] and recently hit their carbon reduction targets well ahead of schedule [2].

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-climatechange-carbo...
> why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis?

Because then someone with a business school education (and zero formal statistical training) wouldn't be able to do it. I joke about waiting for finance's Excel models to be rebranded as AI, as I've already seen a handful of hedge funds rebrand their analysts as data scientists.
Interesting question... I just calculated that
for the modified Fibonacci sequence (last method): 2.95 < d_N < 3.12.

Technically d* does not exist, because as N-> infinity, d* alternates between 3.03 and 3.07 (depending on if k is odd or even).

Compare this to the canonical fibonacci sequence gives a value of d_N = 3.07 for all values of N, and so d* = 3.07
The big software projects I’ve seen go bad don’t feel analogous to the bridge failure mentioned in the article. It’s more often poor project management, unclear requirements, and sub-par communication rather than a specific engineering failure.

Despite the lack of public post-mortems, poor project management seems to be widely recognized as a problem. But there isn’t a clear cut solution. Agile promised to save us all but seems to be implemented poorly more often than not.
No one is sure of anything, this is a pretty obtuse and ridiculous recommendation.

A better recommendation, would be: trust your "instinct" and act on it with purpose.
Efron, Hastie, Tibshirani (basically Stanford stats).
In Germany the minimum notice period is 4 weeks and increases in steps (after 2 years it’s a full month, after 5 years it’s two and tops out at 7 month after 20 years of continued employment). Since germany can’t go below European minimums, that’s an upper bar for those. It’s fairly l common to see 3 month as a minimum though. Keep in mind, however, that during that time you’re employed and expected to work, though the employer may decide that you don’t have to show up (common in security critical employments). You still can’t take another job. If you don’t show up against the employers will, that’s cause for immediate termination with no severance. Severance payments are still uncommon.

If a company folds, notice periods are capped at three month, and no, officers will not be indicted for any future failed payment. Officers may be indicted for delaying the an Insolvenz, failing to pay taxes or social security or embezzling money in the process, but costs for future wages are not on the list. There is something called Insolvenzgeld which may pay for some of the wages, but it’s capped to 5400 EUR/month and covers the outstanding wage payments for the three month _before_ the company was declared insolvent.

However, the whole social security system makes loosing or quitting a job less of an hardship. Even though quitting a job yourself now means that you’re not receiving unemployment payments for the first three months, you’ll still be covered after that, lowering the overall risk.
And Maxwell's equations are an artifact of this formulation, whereas in geometric algebra they become one equation. From an older duscussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232052
Thanks for the recommendation. Im cautiously optimistic tbh but this summer in Europe didn't look great. 3 years ago in Indonesia was a disaster of biblical proportions and i guarantee you must people don't even know about it.

I read another book recently that was quite indirectly enlightening on the subject. Energy by Richard Rhodes
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> This narrative about GDP not really being a great indicator of anything coincides very conveniently with the reported GDP numbers that were previously touted as impossible by "experts".

The narrative about GDP not really being a great indicator has been a constant refrain on the left since the statistics about stagnant wages even in the strong expansions periods of the 1980s became something of wide note by the early 1990s, and have been particularly strenuous since the poor distributional measures in the expansion after the 2001 recession (which has been repeated in subsequent expansions.)

> I am quite confident that record (low) unemployment and GDP numbers like this under a Democratic President would not be framed in this manner.

The better quarterly GDP growth rate numbers in the 2011 and 2014 peaks under Obama were, in fact, frequently framed this way (by the left), whereas the right dismissed the consistently declining unemployment rate through the whole Obama administration (while the left acknowledged it was real while minimizing it by arguing that declining unemployment wasn't sufficient to be happy about if it didn't drive broadening distribution of economic gains.)

Of course, if you think there is major left-wing media—especially economic left—in the US (and particularly if you think NPR is part of it, then your bigger problem is mistaking the dominant, neoliberal corporate-capitalist wing of the Democratic Party with the left.