skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could just be shitty devs? There's a reasonable amount of evidence for that: their android client is extremely buggy, and one day they deleted all my partner's playlists. On mac, I regularly have to close the client to force it to sync playlist changes, and sometimes playlist changes just disappear when I quit the mac client. I recently found 3.5g of old spotify updates sitting in ~/Library/Cache on an older, ssd space constrained mac. I have multiple performances of the same songs from several of my favorite artists; their client occasionally confuses different performances with the same name. You have to delete and re-add to get them to match correctly. I can continue...
The "open ended stops when you win" method, has to take into account contrary evidence into account. If you make 10 experiments, and 3 of those say your new and improve medication doesn't work, you have to take those into accounts, or else you're just cheating.

The only remedy against publication bias based cheating is to publish everything, including the failures. That will take care of the "wait until I get a 1 in 20 fluke" just so you can get past the p<0.05 threshold.
I think they have internally tools for humans but the open source project only produces the machine-readable information intended to be consumed by compilers. If you look at their slide deck they have some kind of visualizer that explains dependency and port dispatch for a short snippet of asm.
It's arguably Machiavellian: "Hey you, minimum-wage security guard, you know all these engineers you greet at the gate? Each one of them is making x5 your salary! Capitalistic pigs, eh?"

(But let's not talk about the executives you never see, coming in through private entrances straight from their private landing strips and making x1,000 your salary.)
This paper, which was inspired by Hawkins' work, is interesting to me:

Feynman Machine: A Novel Neural Architecture
for Cortical And Machine Intelligence

https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SSS/SSS17/paper/download/...

Details in the previous paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03971
"of yearly profit" is not the relevant comparison. What is relevant is the amount of money they made from the cartel money laundering. I am preeeeety confident that HSBC didn't make ~10% of it's profits from these transactions.
this is why I automatically go into reader mode if I don't need to interact with the site
Identity inference of genomic data using long-range familial searches
I cast a super wide net to show how ridiculous the original statement was.
> In order to "tackle misinformation" humanities have zero solutions to offer. Any mediocre engineer would be better.

Engineers are just as prone to misinformation as any other field. They just have more trouble recognizing it, due to a lack of training, and a mistaken belief they are immune.
Well, I'm part of a team that maintains a VMX driver, and we've looked at what the competition did. It's been a while since we did that, so change is possible. Hyper-V might be special.

We could be talking past each other. Here, to clarify, are 3 methods:

x. The driver never does VMXOFF.

y. The driver does VMXON when asked to run a guest. The driver may handle events from the guest (such as page faults or CPUID emulation) without doing VMXOFF, but the driver will do a VMXOFF prior to letting other host processes and drivers run.

z. The driver does VMXOFF every time the VM exits.

We found that choice x was not normally used. If it were, then VMX drivers would not be able to coexist with each other. I'm not saying that everybody uses choice z. Choice y is probably also popular.
Air Canada IFE pro tip:

You can skip the ads. Just scrub ahead.
It might be more fair to compare to public broadcasting stations. BBC doesn't have paid commercials but they do advertise their own programming between shows.
Hacking Team Still Alive Thanks to Investor from Saudi Arabia (Jan 2018)
I have nothing against Zig, but... am I the only one feeling "new programming language fatigue" lately? Seems like there are several new ones per week these days.
I'd agree with you, that context is important - just that the gender of the user of the word ought to be unimportant.
> Consumer genomics databases have reached the scale of millions of individuals. [...] We project that about 60% of the searches for individuals of European-descent will result in a third cousin or closer match, which can allow their identification using demographic identifiers. Moreover, the technique could implicate nearly any US-individual of European-descent in the near future.
"R&D" is what SWEs do. If you're developing anything new, such as a new software system, then you are doing R&D by definition.

"Production" is something like building the same factory that was built thousands of times before, to fabricate the same widgets that were fully designed by an R&D team.

The actual top researchers at a place like Google would be making way more than $250k.
I've been meaning to read this book, is it actually good? Is it reliable, or are the contents controversial?
The combo is a great idea. As a founder who has contemplated both paths, pure equity would be a potential deterrent because it could require a level of dilution that might make it harder to raise capital later on. But that could be tempered by the cash flow piece.
Photoprism: Personal Photo Management Powered by Go and Google TensorFlow
They are very open. You can basically just show up in their hangar and have a chat with whoever is around at the time. At least it used to be like this, I haven't been out there for some years.

CS are already very well known in Denmark. Everybody with any sort of engineering or science interest here knows about them.
Far more frequently, I see Facebook ads for rebranded and heavily marked up Chinese products.

In a way, the Western resellers are providing a service with their ad spending, in that I sometimes see products I like, trace them back to the original manufacturer, and buy them there.
It doesn't convert to exceptional public services? Over here in the Netherlands we have practically no homelessness, extremely low crime, public transit that can take you nearly everywhere worth going very quickly and reliably, a great primary education system that will leave you bilingual (with working knowledge of a third language!) by the time you're 16, a great university system that only costs €1800 a year, and a great social support system in case you no longer make that high salary and need support from the government.
> Note that the key competitors to the patented MPEG technology is coming from "benevolent monopolies" like Google.

That may be true in the abstract or in the case of MPEG's multimedia technologies. It is not true in this specific case of genomic file formats.

The existing formats in use in the field (BAM and CRAM) that MPEG-G is looking to supplant come from the genomics community itself. They have come about in the course of bioinformaticians' work analysing sequencing data or as bioinformatics research [1]. Thus this R&D has primarily been bankrolled as scientific research; the funding comes from scientific charities or other scientific research funding.

That is to say, it has come from collaboration.

[1] CRAM originates from "Efficient storage of high throughput DNA sequencing data using reference-based compression", published in Genome Research in 2011. <https://genome.cshlp.org/content/21/5/734.long>
a good bit from chapter 6:

"If you wait for your parents’ permission to do something, you’ll probably end up waiting a long time. You’ll say to yourself, “I’ll get going when I’m 20.”

20 rolls around and you’re still living your parents’ life, and you think, “I’ll start when I’m 22 and out of college and finally in control.”

22 rolls around and you get too busy working at Goldman Sachs, which makes your parents proud, so you can’t quit, and you think, “Okay, I’ll start when I’m 30 and have enough cash.”

The longer you wait, the stronger you buy in to the default narrative."
In sexual assaults it often is she said, he said - and that's just kind of the brass tacks of it - what I don't like is that we're seeing lives ruined, and careers destroyed over single accusations, unproven ones even - that are taken to the court of public opinion instead of a court of justice.
I still don't get why they provide a warn() to stderr but no print() to stdout. [1]

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Hello-World
Amazon provides government there own portal to view the video footage via an app. SO at least google makes the government ask before handing it over...Amazon gives it to them plus the upset on their facial recognition tech.

See their marketing video to police on the portal here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83gyclt497fi8t/Ring%20Neighborhoo...
As a software engineer, I make approximately the median income for my county. I don’t know who these top-10% tech workers are, but they’re certainly not my colleagues.
We should just remove healthcare and replace it with effective altruism. That would work right?

The problem with effective altruism is that it requires people to invest in things that sometimes would go against their own personal interests. For example I have no reason to invest my money in improving the public transit of towns I can never see myself living in, instead I would invest that money in places that I or my family lives in.

The flaw of course is that it leads to companies heavily investing only in regions where they're located which are usually heavily gentrified and upper-class neighborhoods.
I look at all the energy going into ridiculous password requirements and super esoterica attach vectors and of course the real compromises are in plain sight.
Peanuts. I don't subscribe to sky tv in the uk for £30 a month because they also get £5 a month extra from 30% of the time showing ads.

The same subscription with out adverts would be £35 a month, basically the same price.
The entire debt-based economy is based on extracting more money from consumers. Worth mentioning is this is not long after stagflation occurred in the late 1970s. As a side note, I have a strong feeling that in large corporations like Google expenses always tends to increase with revenue. One example would be housing and salaries, but there are probably others.
This. Also, money doesn't grow on trees if you're a normal business. Rising wages means many businesses would have to close. It wouldn't matter to employees, because by corollary they'd have better opportunities, but if you were the owner of such a business, you'd be crying too.
Miller 5.4.0: New data-cleaning features, mlr.exe, localtime, and bugfixes
This is common sentiment but I disagree. As a tech person, I’d much rather partner with a non-tech person already selling and raising funds. Sounds like a winning combo but the parent just didn’t want to go on the path this specific person was heading down.
This is strange. I've consistently heard that it was a total myth cable was ever ad-free.
It's not a rumor, they already do this. At least when you watch their original programs you see ads for more of their original programs. Thankfully you can skip them, they just try to show a trailer for one of their own shows / movies basically.

Edit:

I usually see it during the phase where Netflix is about to autoplay another episode, it tries to show it through then, I usually skip it cause it's stupid, I don't want to be fed the same trailer 500 times...
>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to love the sinner (content).

No. I’m not.

What’s bogus is you spent this many paragraphs attacking a strawman consisting one sentence instead even one actual point I made, but I digress.

The content and the content creator are not the same.

The content doesn’t “sin” and I’m sure you knew how ridiculous that sounds the moment you typed that. (But of course you also couldn’t say content creator because... that’s clearly not what I said.)

The content creator puts their content on a platform belonging to a content provider.

The content creator and provider both want to make money. My comment is referring to how the provider makes money (which, wouldn’t you know... pays to deliver the content!).

You can support someone on Patreon that then in turn uploads to YouTube (it’s not even uncommon). You’re then funding to two separate entities separately.

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But you know what? Now that a I think about it I’d even go as far as to blame the content creator a bit more since they chose the platform.

I mean take your “better meditation” example. Is there a reason it’s intentionally uploaded to the platform with mid-video ads? Then monetized it and enabled ads?

You know ads are enabled because the uploaded chooses to monetize be video right? They chose to subject you to those ads because they want money.

They didn’t choose the ad, but they know video ads are allowed to interrupt their content, it’s no secret.

So I won’t even say they’re faultless.

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>it's probably beneficial to YouTube to hear the conversation about what users block and what they dislike

Yeah... they already have ways to do that.

You can dislike ads, you can click the info button and let them know when a topic is no longer relevant to you.

From time to time you get ads that are just asking if you actually cared about an ad topic “Which if these have you seen an ad for recently?”

You can go into your Google profile and select interests in a much clear way than their guessing.

I do these things and now instead of a constant reminder of the car I bought months ago I get interesting movies I wouldn’t have heard about otherwise, or useful products.

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So in summation...

>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to love the sinner (content).

No.

>You're saying that if you hate the sin (intrusive ads), you're not allowed to support the sinner (content provider) by consuming content on their platform.

Yes. I mean, you’re allowed to do whatever you want, but the alternative is simple hypocrisy if you try and paint it as something noble meant to change how they do business.

The funny thing is I don’t think Adblock in itself is hypocritical. It’s just when you add in the virtue signaling and “we’re just trying to make YouTube a better mousetrap!” that my eyes start to roll back into my head and the irony hits a little too hard...
The way I read this, the first two trials did not bring enough evidence towards the drug working, but they did provide some evidence. In the end, all three experiments taken together provide pretty massive evidence that the drug actually works, way below 0.05.

Of course, this all comes crashing down if the first two experiments happen to provide contrary evidence (that is, evidence the drug does not work). This would cancel out the results of the final trial somewhat, and not taking this into account is clearly cheating by publication bias.
Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016
That might not be the best example, though. You are more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die while skydiving. That is an activity which is similar to riding a roller coaster: it seems much more dangerous than it actually is.
Glycation Damage:A Possible Hub for Major Pathophysiological Disorders and Aging
Ignoring that you can opt out, if you can't understand the difference between information and advertising that is your own failing.
I do sometimes question where these people who say that any loss of temper should result in an immediate loss of job have worked. A little big of gnashing of teeth, frankly never hurt anyone, and can be useful in getting past some interpersonal problems with folks - should it be a normal course of business? no - but it certainly shouldn't be ruled out as something that shall never happen either.

I've always worked in high stress environments, if simply because the needs of the workload, is stressful.
I get what you mean, but Zig is a little different because it's not a naive, vanity project. All of its motivations are practical and related to the usability of the language.
If you’re a software engineer,
you’re likely in the middle 30% of whatever city you live in. Which, if it’s the Bay Area, probably does mean the top 10% of America.
If there's anything I'm trying to imply, it's that there is a problem that needs to be addressed first: communication of ethics to a technical crowd can and should be done in a more professional and constructive way. Ideally my bad experience won't be repeated too many times again. Otherwise you should expect more of the more negative comments here about "wrongthink".
> However, an important difference between old TV and current-day streaming is that it is much easier to pirate shows that are streaming.

As someone who grew up recording (and distributing to friends) one-to-many streams (a.k.a. terrestrial TV), I wonder how it got easier. Just because nobody is using personalized watermarks to prove copyright infringement yet, does not mean a redistributor today ain't going to get sued tomorrow.
This is a view of freedom of speech that seems odd to me. IMHO, you are free to say anything, but that does not mean you are freed from any and all consequences. You aren't freed from slander or libel laws. You aren't freed from criticism. You aren't freed from being mocked. The freedom of speech that allows you to say X allows everyone else the freedom to attack X, and seek restitution for untruths.

If you lie about someone, you bare the consequences of that decision. That is not an attack on freedom of speech, it is part of the same framework.

Any freedom of speech notion that frees people from consequences would only encourage lying and vendettas, and negate the true power of free speech, which is to let ideas out so that we can collectively muddle our way to a better answer.
I don't think the poster was just talking about money, although there may also be a time-value factor for other things (health, neural plasticity, etc).
Along with many healthy bacteria, no?
I usually agree, but at least Zig has something new to bring to the table (allocation safety).
I don't think Elon Musk deserves to go to prison for any length of time for that. I understand that he may have been very hasty and made fraudulent claims to investors (arguable considering you can't tell his state of mind).

The United States needs to reduce its prison population, not increase it.

Suggesting he be banned from serving as CEO would be much more reasonable, though I think the fine was more than enough.
damn. could've used this when I was in school
This is probably true for the IRS. I'm less sure this is true for th SEC. From the admittedly limited amount I have read about insider trading cases, it seems like the courts have interpreted the law extremely narrowly, and this has basically legalised many common forms of insider trading where there is no explicit quid pro quo. Similarly to how we have interpreted corruption.
It's probably not really feasible (problems of definition) but I'd love to see some statistics on average age of unsuccessful startup founders, preferably correlated with industry sector, as they've done here, and perhaps with some context of previous / subsequent success by the individual.

As noted in TFA, it seems likely the IT industry would heavily skew the results.
Re: “Many of us are surprised at what a powerful role plants actually play,” said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University. “The influence of Earth’s surface on large-scale climate is currently a really booming topic...

Frankly, I'm stunned. How can you stand behind the integrity of your model(s) knowing that you excluded key components? Mind you, you could argue that they weren't aware. But that makes it an known unknown, not a false assumption.

Editorial: This is a perfect reason why "science" is trusted less and less. You cannot pound fist to desk demanding respect for your authority and then be intentionally negligent (just so your paper fits a narrative on the path to being published).
> They make less than minimum wage in San Francisco.

Minimum wage in SF would be $30k. I very much doubt a strong AI researcher would be making less than that, even in the Ukraine.
> If this suit is successful, it will set a chilling precedent: That no conversation on the Internet may be considered legally private, and that any negative conversations may run the risk of a lawsuit-enforced doxxing.

This has nothing to do with "on the Internet". On the contrary, there's lots of suggestions here and elsewhere that "on the Internet" should be an ad hoc nullification machine that sweeps away and all legal precedent that don't comport with the cyberpunk ethos of slashdot in its heyday.

Come to think of it, now it's even spreading beyond "on the Internet". I've seen the term "doxxing" used to refer to a bona fide newspaper printing the name of a person that physically attended a rally. That's not doxxing. That's journalism and it's been going on long before Vint Cerf was a twinkle in his father's eye.
The average of the American worker is probably also roughly 45. Not sure what this adds.
> no, the worst case is that capital was misallocated,

Who is to say this isn’t happening already? I don’t see many signs it’s well allocated today. Look at healthcare costs in America. Look at our defense spending for little tangible return. Look at the homeless on the streets. Look at where VC investments are going (ads, lifestyle spending, and automation—little to no benefit to society as the productivity returns go to the capitalists). Look at the debt necessary to get what is commonly considered a base for any career, ie a degree. Symptomatically, cash is already misallocated for a society that bolsters values I hold dear.

> growth that could’ve happened, didn’t

Ahh yes, the “market before everything” philosophy. I don’t buy into it. If growth were meaningfully good we’d see wage increase adjusted for inflation in the lower class. We haven’t seen this for decades.
It was so exhilarating, that promise of maybe knowing ourselves. I remember watching the lectures on Youtube and getting On Intelligence from the library at another university department.

I was a student of linguistics when I discovered it, having started a move from theoretical linguistics to a masters in more computational stuff just as machine learning was beginning to become more widely used. Hawkins was one of a few things that combined to make me so completely disenchanted with the entire field of computational linguistics, especially as it was practiced at my university, that I just left and became a regular software developer. I decided I'd rather have to center things in CSS than throw progressively fancier maths at bag-of-words models and poorly annotated corpora and pretending it had anything to do with thinking machines.

(I don't regret this move at all since another major factor was I didn't want to go do a PhD somewhere far away; I do somewhat regret going into computational stuff in the first place, though - before that I wanted to become one of those Indiana Jones linguists who go to the mountains and write grammars of languages only spoken by a handful of 80-year-olds... that would have been really fun)
The Bayesian believes that probability represents our beliefs about the world.

The Frequentist believes that probabilities merely represent the long term frequency counts of events (for a given 'population').
I’ll give you healthcare: That can likely be improved while also lowering costs.

Unfortunately most evidence indicates that lowering costs and increasing efficacy also means increasing government involvement, so that’s effectively a no-go. So. We’re a bit stuck.
I do appreciate your broader point. But in the talk I'm describing, it was the ethnicist who lacked the empathy and comprehension to understand the scientists' concerns about dilemmas in their own work. There was no discussion of bias, even where that would have been appropriate. Communication to technical audiences needs to be done with a higher level of quality.