skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how the author came to the conclusion that they reached. As a person whose livelihood depends on the pound being strong against the yen, I'm not a fan of Brexit by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't understand what the difference is between pro and anti Brexit videos in this context.

IIUC, the author is saying that divisive (i.e. controversial?) videos lead to longer watch times. Longer watch times lead to more ad breaks. More ad breaks leads to Youtube making more money. Videos with longer watch times are recommended over videos with shorter watch times (because Youtube makes more money that way). Thus, divisive topics are recommended over non-divisive topics.

But pro-Brexit and anti-Brexit are two sides of the same coin. Given that Brexit won we could even conclude that the anti-Brexit stance was more divisive (controversial?). So I'm not sure what the author is saying.

Again, to avoid a flame war, I'm not trying to make a political point. I'm just trying to follow the author's logic. What makes pro-Brexit videos more likely to be selected that couldn't also be utilised in an anti-Brexit stance?
There's two different things called physics: first there's the set of concepts, equations, techniques, and models that we as humans use to understand the world. Second, there's the way the actual physical world works.

As a human endeavor to have our brains predict things about the physical world, physics has to "run" on the human brain. In that sense, evolution shapes the physics that humans can conceive and understand. Evolution doesn't change what actually happens physically, so it doesn't affect physics that way.
Funny that this discussion, extremely relevant to tech and start-ups, has now been flagged on hacker news. It looks like our town square has a biased censorship problem too.
I understand that it may be difficult for you, but the people we're talking about don't have ADHD, they're just lacking in basic life skills.

A lot of people spend their first 18 years with no responsibilities, they always had a parent or someone else to do things for them. They are then rudely awakened when they leave home and have to fend for themselves.

A lot of the skills that they were missing were things that I had been doing for years, because I was fortunate enough to have parents who taught me how to do things rather than just doing it for me. I disliked it at the time, having to do my own work, but it was important to learn.

Often the skills that my friends were lacking were just basic life skills, such as being able to sew on a button or a patch, how to operate a washing machine properly, how to change a car tyre or their oil (or at least check their oil), how to iron a shirt, etc. etc.

They were also lacking in more important life skills, like being able to budget properly and look after their money. I knew a group of girls in one house who ended up spending hundreds of dollars a month for electricity in winter, because they were running heaters in every room 24/7 to try and keep their uninsulated house warm, they just didn't even think of what their power bill would be and were shocked when they received it. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was more than double what me and my housemates were paying.
I tried both for a while. I liked The Citymaper UI better, but Transit actually shows the live position of the bus. Transit wins. This is with VTA in Santa Clara, California.
It didn't even succeed at that. The same data shows that households are keeping more of their savings as cash, rather than less.

Much of the impact of demonetization was experienced as an acute cash shortage, with restrictions on accessing money in bank accounts and difficulty withdrawing cash from ATMs, whereas actual cash could be exchanged relatively easily on the black market. The lesson learned was, quite correctly, not "keep your money in banks where it'll be safe from future demonetization attempts", but "keep your money out of banks where it'll be safe from future demonetization attempts".

It was a failure on every level.
Anything else is not unitary evolution.
Map information doesn't say anything about a company other than it exists, so it seems there's no speech issue on the part of the company. If Google chooses to suppress, rather than accidentally omit, there might be a commercial issue, though.

It would be tough to prove, though. Maps are rarely guaranteed to be accurate at all times.
Has there been any studies of Modi’s allies’ cash flows. It would be interesting to see if there was an uptick in connected people converting rupees to real estate, foreign currency, right before the cash crackdown was announced.
Most of Europe is way denser than most of the US.

Parts of the US where density is high, like the Northeast, or areas around Chicago or Seattle, did and do have rather decent mass transit, much / most of it initially privately started, that is, seen as lucrative, in high demand.

Most of US railroads were, and are, cargo-oriented. They haul a lot, but passenger trains are few, except in metro areas. Again, in dense areas like those around Philadelphia / NYC / Boston, commuter trains are a norm.

But once density lowers, keeping up train infrastructure becomes unprofitable, and can only be sustained bu subsidies. Even countries with very high train penetration and very high average popular density, like Japan, sometimes have to stop subsidizing lines to some stations where ridership is too small, and close them.

In US in particular, land is abundant in most of the territory, and home ownership is seen as a status symbol and an investment, so "proper cities" with sufficient density do not form, or form partially, with a lot of city territory being effectively suburbs. This makes investment-heavy public transit not a great option; buses suffice, since roads are already present.
In this case the thing being criticized is a book, which is a somewhat different case. Reputable academic presses do send out book manuscripts for review, but it's a very different process from paper reviews, often involving only a partial early manuscript. I don't know how every press does it, but when I've reviewed for an academic press, I was given a draft of the first three chapters, and asked to give a recommendation for whether this was a serious academic book worth publishing, along with my positive and negative comments on the partial draft.

There are obviously some things I could usefully do there: it's often possible to identify and reject total crank books, to notice some early tendency towards overstating claims, to give general feedback on the direction of the book and whether it is likely to reach its audience, etc. But it's not the same as a journal, where you have the full paper to review and are expected to read it and give detailed feedback (which is also a more reasonable thing to ask of reviewers, because the text isn't as long!).

This reviewing approach is pretty traditional (it's how most famous philosophy books were published, for example) and relies heavily on good faith. Reviewers are supposed to judge whether this is a serious historian writing a good-faith book, but if they say yes, then you let the historian publish the book they want to publish without a lot of further rounds of vetting. It isn't expected they'll get everything right, but it's expected they'll make an earnest effort to get it right, perhaps even by employing research assistants themselves to do fact-checking. Anything they get wrong can then be corrected in the literature by someone else writing their own article or book in response.

One exception are books which are adaptations of dissertations. In that case there would have been more substantial review of the claims, by the dissertation committee, assuming nothing fishy happens between dissertation acceptance and adaptation into a book. The first author of the paper linked here (Lieberman) has a book out on the history of sex toys that's an adaptation of her dissertation, and tells a pretty different history than the one she criticizes in this paper. The book being criticized (by Maines) is not a dissertation adaptation, though.
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This isn't like using Kotlin or Scala in order to use an alternative to the "original" language. The power of TypeScript is that it is designed to be less an alternative programming language per se than a dev tool for JavaScript. Instead of choosing different semantics, you're being somewhat more explicit in specifying your JS semantics. And you aren't switching to a different ecosystem, you're making your tools more powerful when working with the JS ecosystem.

Since the nature of this "tool" is an extension to the syntax, there is a bit of risk that there will be an conflict with some future JS, but other than that, the 2-factor (same but more explicit semantics, same but fortified ecosystem) analysis seems to show why TypeScript is popular.
If you think of the pursuit of new physics as an optimisation problem then the bias toward "beauty" is a guard against overfitting. Additionally, part of being "beautiful" to a physicist means that it gives insight into the "why" of the problem which helps in the pursuit of the next bit of new physics.
" |u> can evolve independently of |v> "

This is not unitary. Quantum theory has two parts: unitary evolution, and measurement processes. That's it.
> ...essentially you will be conditioned to follow orders and you then need to hope that those orders will result in a net positive where you will end up holding the bag if they don't.

You are required to follow legal orders. Illegal orders, not so much because "you will end up holding the bag" as "I was just following orders" isn't a valid defense.

As for net positive/negative that really up to the politicians since (in the US at least) the military is commanded by the civilian government. One hopes one is engaging in a net positive but, as they say, hindsight is 20/20.
Having grown up in the UK and known people to have been convicted of crimes, it's never struck me as disgusting or something that is particularly unfair. You're within your rights to refuse to answer a question, but this could be used against you in court.

"Where were you on the night of the killing?"

"..."

Prosecution could well use your initial refusal to answer this question to aid their case in court, even if you then provide some answer within court.

I am very unfamiliar with American law concerning these matters, so I'm not sure how much of a divide there is between America and the UK when it comes to this.
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An objective* way to quantify the elegance and parsimony of a hypothesis is through algorithmic information theory, specifically Kolmogorov complexity.

* Certain conditions apply.
I have yes. Emailing the file to an address associated with the Kindle is also a standard way to upload a book. That's why I was thinking that this must be some sort of bug. BTW I tried to upload Pride and Prejudice.
There is - and I don't mean to pun - plenty of space in space. Space stations could be quite roomy.
Anti paywall/geoblock link:

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I doubt it'd be significantly smaller than the diameter of the earth already. Can't think of how to set it up but the the ISS is only ~250mi above the earth so my guess would be only a couple hundred miles shorter than the earth's diameter at most.
Housing is only one part of the problem. Infrastructure and public services also have to be scaled up when population increases. Otherwise you end up with third-world type cities.
Really? how would you feel if Google would remove abortion clinics or family violence shelters from it's search results?
you're already experiencing a constant 1g right now :-)
I use a wheelchair. It would certainly suck to have a scooter blocking my path.

But I don’t think scooters parked in the sidewalk apply to me very much. If we’re moving, they or I move around each other.
It wouldn't be surprising, but since nobody rich seemed to have the slightest trouble converting cash after the crackdown either, it hardly matters.

Central bank data shows 99.3% of the demonetized notes were exchanged; there was effectively zero "dirty" money destroyed via demonetization.
> "The Governments of the Five Eyes encourage information and communications technology service providers to voluntarily establish lawful access solutions to their products and services that they create or operate in our countries"

Voluntary compliance isn't going to work, so why don't these five governments create legislation to force companies to comply? In other words, any "information and communications technology service providers" are forced to comply otherwise they must either shut down or change countries.

Let's see how well that works out for them...
Such forums always seem to end up a hive of racism and (((jew bashing))). (See: Voat)
A huge fan of Boyan and TOC!
It's unclear to me if this is real or the continuation of a publicity stunt from Obayashi (who has been getting press about their plans to build a space elevator for years).

I'm as excited about the theoretical concept of a space elevator as anyone. But the problem remains that no one can produce a cable even close to strong enough. This article has a good description of the material science problem: http://www.spaceward.org/elevator-when. Basically, we would need to find a material that is at least 10x, probably 25x as strong as any cable today.

Carbon Nanotubes are theoretically strong enough, but no one knows how to manufacture them. The longest carbon nanotube tether that has ever been manufactured is only a few inches long, a millimeter in width, and not particularly strong due to imperfections in the manufacturing process.

Obayashi is planning a 10m cable. Even building a 10m cable made of carbon nanotubes would require a Nobel Prize worthy breakthrough.
Another example is Neocities, the old 90s Geocities personal webpage culture brought to life again.
Well, ask yourself why people are using cryptocurrencies over the things you listed.
Hacker News isn't a town square. Hacker News' entire premise is preferring intellectual quality over quantity in comments, and aggressively moderating towards that end, which is the antithesis of what the free speech of a town square represents. It's a symposium that doesn't check the door.
Obviously, this thesis is much more in depth but it reminded me of this fun video titled, "Why Every Movie Space Battle Is Wrong! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea89t9U2ZJk
They will for enough Bolivars.
At quantity 1, though, most of the cost is from the person who has to package it. Qty 100 will give you a much more accurate price.
I'm just glad you can't see the # of votes here for other comments. Helps prevent bandwagonning, though that still happens for downvotes once the css kicks in.
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Decentralization will win. I promise.
Wasn't 2048 based on a game call Three on iOS? It was a blatant copy over to Android. Or maybe I got my wires crossed.
Because obviously all moral, right-thinking people know that Remain is the right thing to do. The fact that Remain didn't win just proves that some people were tricked by divisive videos in favour of Brexit.

The videos in favour of Remain weren't divisive, because being in favour of Remain is the moral, right-thinking stance.
Why do you think I didn't respect the technology?
people have used algebra since ancient times. it just took 1000+ years to formalize it in a way that is more concrete
This is false equivalence.

Anti-Brexit is the status quo. It's by definition not controversial since they can't do anything other than advocate for how things currently are.

Pro-Brexit is by definition controversial since they were advocating for a complete upheaval in the relationship with the EU constructed over decades. And it was always going to be tinged with xenophobia and nationalism since that was the entire premise for the Brexit vote to begin with. And it doesn't get any more divisive than xenophobia.
They can say what they want - when mathematics and the state of reality are against you, your not going to win.
High quality free and open source cryptography software is readily available and no joint statement is going to change that.

They can throw someone in jail for failing to reveal a single password - but if they are given a password and cannot prove the existence of additional unrevealed passwords, there is very little that they can do.
Right. I meant to encompass this in my sentence "And for even larger sums of money, on an ongoing basis, it's not uncommon for an organisation to setup a local headquarters."

PayPal claims¹ to be available in more than 200 countries/regions and support 25 currencies. Does PayPal in Brazil not accept payments from PayPal users in The USA?

I'm not saying some people aren't underserved by money services, though.

1. https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide
The only problem is it's guaranteed to fail for any non-trivial workload.
I'm a bit confused the ISS is only 408km from the earth's surface so why would it take 8 days at 200kph? Unless they are including the speed of orbit in which case the earth is already rotating at 1600 kph. What am I missing here?
Alcohol: It provokes the desire, yet it taketh away the performance!

(I mostly appreciate that line (from Macbeth) because it's just extremely relatable.)
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I may be misreading, but I think he's talking about pro-Brexit videos being heavily promoted relative to all other videos, as opposed to relative to anti-Brexit videos. Which still means they were heavily promoted.
If by "Does it escape that?" You mean "would a space elevator not be subject to the rocket equation?", then yes, it would not be subject to the rocket equation.

The rocket equation is about reaction mass that is carried by the thing expelling it. It does not apply to climbing a rope, nor does it apply to the flight of a helicopter.

Regarding pulling the satellite down,

Pulling down on the weight at the end is something we have to do anyway to keep it from flying out away from earth.
99% of the comments about this story online think that they're talking about making one NOW. They don't think they can do it now. They're starting initial research into a few isolated systems required to do it one day in the future when materials science and all the other aspects catch up.

It will take decades of R&D, but someone might as well start on the bits we can do now, like a system for climbing the tether (which this is, and it's being done purely in space).
Maybe it's my terminology that's wrong, but when someone uses the term 'free speech', I assume they are talking specifically about a first amendment issue. Because if they weren't talking about the 1A, why would they use those specific words? It's always going to muddy the waters and at least imply potential legalities to at least some readers.

Also, even though the words 'free speech' having meaning outside of a legal context, all of those contexts have better words already that don't introduce legal ambiguity. Maybe it's not a free speech issue, but it is an issue with censorship, or overly aggressive moderation, or they could claim unfair prejudice or even corporate oppression. Just don't say 'free speech', because there are always better words to use with less legal or moral ambiguity.
In NYC in particular, the subway is run by the New York State-owned corporation, MTA. It's not that bad, but it's known for slowness and huge cost of any projects it undertakes. Half of its budget is subsidies.
From that page...

> We are also increasingly seeing the use of online spaces to spread disinformation, sow division, and undermine our democratic institutions. The proliferation of interference activities and disinformation undermines the trust of citizens in online communications and information, delegitimizing the benefits and opportunities that communications and social media platforms create.

Sigh!
Nearly ten years ago I ran into a researcher from UCSF who was working with StemCells where she had designed a fluid-matrix that she 3D printed, then wrote a python program to control valves which released certain proteins to the cells to determine how to get them to express into a certain type tissue/organ cell.

I just point out how cheap off the shelf tooling that we take for granted in our industries and hobbies are also fueling this wave of change and how readily available they are

The tools and materials to build something like this are free and open to literally anyone on the planet. So it makes sense that given enough exposure to human ingenuity, with the right tools freely available, any reality is possible.
Shakespeare is good enough that they keep ripping off his plots for movies, including my guilty favourite: 10 Things I Hate About You.
umm, is it not? Literally 1 week into an EE major.
I don't know. If people learned that banks are not a safe place to keep money, I'd say it was a win on at least some levels.
Yeah, I wasn't thinking about what goes into a connection to a DB vs a stateless service. Thanks.
I had the opposite experience. I saw Shakespeare plays every year as a child and enjoyed them a lot. As I got older, however, I began enjoying them less and finding more issues with the plays. I think it would be worthwhile for people to explore more playwrights rather than simply focusing so much on a single one; you never know which one will resonate with you.
Sure upgrading infrastructure is possible but the costs are huge. It's subject the same inflation as everything else, plus city worker unions have a lot of political power. Once a sewer line reaches capacity we can't do a minor increase; the whole thing has to be ripped out and replaced which is tremendously disruptive.
Because the price of RAM went up by over 250% since late 2016.
ASC is a textbook example of what not to do as a company. I honestly think their technology will be better implemented by someone else in a few years, which is tragic given how much of a head start they had. Eh.
There is no important difference between books and functions.

Let me present a challenge to you: Pick a uniformly random number between 1 and 2. Now tell me what it is.

No 'coincidences', like getting exactly 1.34 or the square root of three. It has to be properly random.

The odds are 100% that you picked a 'normal' number that goes on forever with no pattern. A number that cannot be specified in finite space. In other words, a number that can't be computed.
Most (if not all) games can be played algorithmically, some can be solved (ie. have a known best move for every state). As far as I'm aware 2048 is far from being solved, however expectimax implementations fare quite well.

From playing the game with your algorithm, you won't have a high win rate.
it was to boost paytm and papa buffet now got a stake in it. i think its blood money
And hopefully they will take a minute to explain to you that the reason you are free to pursue your software business is because people like them have committed to the business of keeping you and your country safe.
What do you mean?

Let u and v be qubits. Apply a Hadamard gate to u while leaving v unchanged. Then they have evolved independently (but unitarily): u according to H, and v according to I.
Well call it autocmake!
Yeah I've written a ton of plpgsql for the application I've been developing for the past 5 years. In some cases it is much much faster than any other solution I've found due to data locality. Even if the language itself is not fast in many respects, being right next to the data can do wonders in some cases. As others have said, debugging leaves a ton to be desired. As does testing. It's a great tool for the right problems though.
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