skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted the parent thoughts, and I think the Cosby case (and again I'm not commenting on his innocence or guilt here) is relevant to your thoughts.

Cosby was a major role model in the 90's and arguably a major force for societal good. The bare facts of his legal journey are that a stand up comedian caused rumors about Cosby assaulting women to go viral in the initial mass use of social media era. Cosby refrained from commenting on this at that time. Multiple accusations were made which were heavily publicized internationally in great detail, tarnishing his legacy and image.
Famous lawyer Allred said Cosby would need to put aside 100 million usd in compensation for his victims in 2012. multiple people came forward with claims of being drugged and raped, sometimes on multiple occasions, by Cosby. Allred attempted to bring 12 cases to court but only one, Andrea Consand, was allowed by the courts. There was a mistrial and then another trial which Allred won for Consand. several of the other accusers - who couldn't sue anyway due to to expired statutes - had their recollections misproven by the Cosby defense with no subsequent action taken for defamation. Cosby was of course jailed.

The broader effect of all this was arguably a trial by media, the destruction of Cosby and his businesses, and presumably costly compensation for Allred and Constand to come.

Cosby was worth 350 million USD at his peak, tried to buy NBC TV in 2012 and wasn't afraid to say what he thought. He has enemies. He was rich enough to pay for depraved sex every day of his life if he so chose.

Cosby may well be insane and illogically chose to drug and rape women, risking everything and losing. That is not my point. If someone who has 350m can be destroyed in the media over multiple years based on accusations, where does that leave the rest of us? what defense do we have if a predatory past acquaintance publicly accuses us of sexual assault? It seems we have no rights and little entitlement to presumed innocence- and as you rightly point out once you add politics into the mix weaponized sex appears to be an attack we are defenseless against.
We don't need a "crackdown". The problem with our approach to financial crimes is that it is based almost entirely on crackdowns -- splashy press releases that are supposed to deter all the thousands of other financial crimes that we lack resources to prosecute. Sometimes this leads to injustice, e.g., see the documentary film Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. The only bank to be prosecuted criminally for shenanigans in the subprime era.

What we do need is vastly more resources for financial regulators, as well as courts. Yes the laws and regs could also be improved, but that is a harder problem. The easy problem is that the people doing good work to combat financial crimes only have the staffing and money to go after a small, small fraction of likely targets. And the courts do not have what they need to handle a high volume of increasingly complex, technical subject-matter.
> I for one look at them as am I too old to be starting my own company or should I chill out because I still have time.

It's an "average" not a law.
Thank you very much. From what I'm used to, kebab would be a doner kebab in a wrap/sandwich. There are very few places doing that in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab
Monetary fines are not enough deterrent in many cases. Even short stints in prison might be better.
Cable television being another completely obvious one, you literally pay to be advertised to, and for the ability to fast forward through ads.
Section 7.3 of the paper describes several such examples.

On Sandy Bridge, for example, the result of the "AESDEC XMM1, XMM2" instruction is ready 8 cycles after XMM1 becomes available. If only XMM2 is on the critical path, however, the result is already available after a bit more than one cycle.

On Nehalem, the SHLD R1, R2, imm instruction has, according to Intel's manual, http://instlatx64.atw.hu/, and IACA, a latency of 4 cycles. Agner Fog reports a latency of 3 cycles. The measurements on uops.info show that the latency from R1 to R1 is 3 cycles, while the latency from R2 to R1 is 4 cycles.
here is a link

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9o0bcc/inequal...

A lot of software engineers think they are on the poorer end of inequality which is obviously not true.
Well, yes: if you leave enough crime by the well-connected alone for long enough, in a country with poor election integrity and unlimited campaign finance spending, then you get a country run by gangsters. It came about pretty rapidly in Russia where there was no established democracy to displace.
What is an actual example where you can make more money committing a crime than you would be forced to pay back if you are caught and convicted?

I don't think your assertion is true.
... and the mode is 1.

Measures of central tendency worth keeping in mind when talking "averages":

mean - what people usually mean by "average"

median - central point on a number line (ie, the same number of items are greater, and lower, than the median)

mode - the number which is most common in the set
He’s a timid and generally kind person (running theme). But also not sure of himself. Not confident in his work. Also understandable considering it wasn’t the best. Often times he seemed anxiety stricken.

This is the point at which you begin to realize the author is a bit of a jerk.
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The human lens already lets most infrared through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_crystalline_lens_OD...

Infrared is everything to the right of 700 on the x-axis, and ultraviolet is left of 400. Our lens already lets through about the same proportion of infrared as most of the rest of visible light. Presumably that means that our retina is just insensitive to it.
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marginal gain with manufacturing hurdles /shrug
That makes a lot of sense, actually. I mean I am totally in the demographic for the comp sci degree, I just already had it.
H. Pylori can also lead to stomach cancer, please get checked if you have acid reflux, as it is treatable and goes away after a course of antibiotics.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/share-likelihood-ratio...

Seriously, the main point of an experiment is to gather evidence. Coupled with prior beliefs, you get a posterior belief, but the most important point is how much evidence the experiment provides.

Sure, a full fledged posterior belief is needed to make an actual decision, like, what should we test next. And if a subject is deemed important enough that we need to be certain, we can replicate until we get enough evidence to trump any reasonable prior belief. (Mind publication bias, though, some replications are going to fail, and that's relevant evidence too.)

In the mean time, it would be nice if the papers just told "the experiment provides 20dB of evidence that A is wrong, and B is right", instead of saying "B is right (at p<0.01)". No you're not certain B is right just yet. Your evidence is significant, perhaps even decisive, but it is not certain. A one in a hundred fluke is not unheard of. Also, sharing likelihood ratios (instead of posterior beliefs) makes the whole debate a bit less heated.

Getting a double one on dice you just threw for the first time doesn't mean they are loaded to make you lose. It only provides about 15 decibels of evidence in favour of such a con job.
The thing is that the rich-poor gap has grown considerably as well. In this era if you don't have at least millions you can hardly get themselves/their family a comfortable life/retirement in a metropolitan area. Nobody feels secure anymore and it's only understandable that everybody wants to pull in as much money as possible while they can. Some works such as Capitalism in the 21st Century talk about this but you should also have felt it yourself.
Thanks David, this is interesting. I like that hero image, but not sure if the overall design might be a bit too dark.

Kind of interested to hear how anybody else in this thread rates David's version over mine?
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I use kickstart to manage my templates, including projects (https://github.com/Keats/kickstart/)
AFAIK Sylvan no longer does much Pony work. At least as far as the contribution graphs on GitHub show[1].

1 - https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/graphs/contributors
You are not served ads but even as a subscriber you are tracked by them and your information is traded. (source: their privacy policy.)
That's absolutely not true. You could just not use the service. I think what you mean is that you have no way to get the service without the ads, so you're willing to put up with the ads to get the service. Which is the whole point.
They don't claim that "us vs them" is left vs right.

What social environment do you think humans and our primate ancestors evolved in? Even if you believe in Blank Slates and attribute it to culture, would you disagree that most people operate in group/tribe-oriented thinking?

It's not ad hominem to point out that your opponent is not actually arguing against your points. It's pointing out specific, salient parts of the current conversation. Proper rhetoric should be able to stand alone.

You're... arguing against being able to respond to criticism? Or saying that all forms of criticism are equally valid? Surely an argument against facts or logic is more persuasive than one that only engages emotionally.

It's nice that you're happy that the loss of reasoned debate and rationality is bending the public dialog in your direction, or the parts of the public conversation your curated bubble is exposed to, but that's not a good thing.

People don't have time to spend on reasoning, but emotions can be effortlessly broadcast and repeated with the press of a button. This is a bad thing for humanity's future, if science and reason are needed to guide us.
“When the brain builds a model of the world, everything has a location relative to everything else,” Mr. Hawkins said. “That is how it understands everything.”

This is an exciting idea to me. I don’t fully understand it, but it resonates on some intuitive level. Makes me think of spatial audio, echolocation, our sense of balance, all these forms of intelligence that rely on understanding space.

Random trivia- I interviewed with Numenta back in 2007. Got an offer, was excited by the vision, but I didn’t see how they would have any kind of product within the next 5 years. 11 years later, they’re maybe about to launch something. Much respect for them pushing through on this wildly ambitious idea. I’m rooting for them.
Do you mean keto? Or does veto=vegan keto?

Either way, people are taking it seriously because clearly a low carb diet will deliver weight loss results. whether or not it's healthier in the long run remains to be seen.
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>The vegan diet could be full of white bread, soda, and seed oils, or it could be rendered less harmful by prioritizing higher-protein plants like legumes and fats from avocado or olive oil (and even some bivalve sea creatures!)

Really twisting the overwhelmingly common definition of a vegan diet.
If there's a willing buyer, and a willing seller, and the goods aren't stolen, and the seller isn't lying about what the goods are, then who is the victim?

If there's no victim, there's no crime.

(And, yes, identical logic does apply equally to illegal drugs).
Sure. I wanted to avoid the argument over Cooper rules versus NRA rules; I wanted to emphasize that regardless of the rules you use, you need to break multiple rules. The rules interlock.
I totally agree with this. Take the recent Tesla fiasco. Do you think a $20M fine means a damn thing to Musk? That's like $0.01 for most people.

Now a $20M fine and a year in prison would make them think twice. More often than not, they make more in the commission of their crimes than they are fined, so they still come out in the black. In other words, they aren't truly punished.
> If it's misinformation, shouldn't intelligent people of any background be able to identify and flag it?

Evidently not. Smart people from all sorts of backgrounds can fall for all sorts of scams, especially the ones tailored to them.
I like your attention to detail on this! I'm a bit surprised you don't include the overall probability of winning against each Monty with an optimal strategy. I think it's very interesting that the helper doesn't increase your odds beyond 2/3.
Legislation and regulation as a hard stop, ethics staff as guardrails.
Passengers in airline seats seem to make advertisers drool as you can't get much more of a captive audience and for that long in nearly any other situation.

I know for a fact, this is all coming and has already started, and is going to get even more invasive.
Most humanities do not understand or even argue against the concepts of statistics. It might well be that she even lacked the capabilities to make an argument like you just made.
To everyone making the obvious point: yes, obviously, there is potentially money to be made from this richer demographic. But that doesn't explain why they have to make the ads so intrusive or site-breaking.

Remember, something stops Ferrari from blanketing the dash with ads. Why doesn't that same dynamic apply here?
I think the paper that the NYT article is referencing is actually this one, published yesterday: A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/10/13/442418

Jeff Hawkins is scheduled to give a talk at the Human Brain Project Open Day[1] in Maastricht, NL about this paper.

The one linked in the parent is from last year, related to the mentioned story of him running his finger across the coffee cup.

[1]: https://www.hbpopendaysummit-2018.org/programme/keynote-spea...
Who should determine the metric of "what they're worth" if not the market? The engineers in Ukraine agreeing to work for the wages that Amazon promises them seems to me like a mutually beneficial relationship to me.
The meritocracy you describe is rare to find. Politics is everywhere, where output is less important than tribalism.
I want to know, how much does it truly cost for the same content without ads. What would the actual pricetag be, if we built in the overhead added by advertising and marketing into the fee for the product or service itself?
The GitHub contribution graph can be deceptive. The stuff Sylvan is working on these days tends to be deeper things that take a long time to get correct and often is a small amount of code.

He definitely isn't churning out tons of code for Pony these days. He is still, however, actively involved. From time to time, big new things from him show up. The latest one has been cooking for several months now and probably won't show up for a few more.
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Thanx will def. check it out
I still disagree on the IQ requirement for money, but looks like you're right about this. I was mistakenly searching for "average IQ by profession", rather than "average iq for engineers". Thank you for the link!
Are you chinese?
I don't know where you get this idea; they talk a lot about the connections between columns and how they reinforce each other.
Re: Ferraris - Part of the product is the aesthetic and function. The other part is that there are other vehicles just as sexy or cool looking as Ferrari - meaning, if there aren't good alternatives that don't have the advertising then they perhaps could get away with it; what an advertiser would be willing to pay a single fixed ad on a vehicle doesn't really put much of a dent in the cost of that vehicle, however ad revenue in digital form certainly covers a much higher portion of the cost of serving web content. Content that requires a lot of effort to produce however fits less of a Facebook average level of post content. It seems the answer is creating a competitive environment for investigative journalism, and then people will have options - if content is equal - to pay a platform that doesn't have ads.

For free products online that have an ad model, it's the VC complex perpetuating that model heavily - where the money is available initially and to scale quickly (because it's an easy calculation). The mantra isn't just "Move fast and break things" but also seems to be "if I don't do it - someone else will get there first" as part of the desire to be first-to-market (by any means) as a means to reach/capture a few of the main defense mechanisms of economies of scale and network effects; you don't need defense mechanisms if you have a good product however, and have a reasonable cost structure - it sure will be more profitable in the short-term though, not sustainable however. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica et al, perhaps needed to happen to wake people up to understand the importance of accountability and of community, moderation, and such.
As an example, I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as a third-party solution developer for Salesforce who is famous like this, but you can bet a lot of them are making good money. They probably skew older, too.
Not denying it. It has more I/O pins (pwm incl.) and it's easy to prototype, design/tune, though.
The idea is that the life experience you accumulate - and everything that goes with that - is often extremely valuable, critical to success. Zip2 got Musk started, it no doubt helped him accumulate experience and connections to start and run later ventures - training wheels for what came later.

Musk could build Zip2 at 24. I would say there's zero chance he could have successfully built Tesla or SpaceX at 24 (ignoring the capital requirements). I think that far more often than not, to start and build great companies, requires a small lifetime of accumulated experience and mistakes.

The media myth of the tech industry and its important companies being founded by 19 year old Zuckerbergs, is just that, a myth. The media loves that story because it sells, it's just not real.
It could happen if those people unionized. I don't think the company would do it because its heart is so big.
From the feedback wiki, it's clear that check/handle wasn't that well received. These requirements might illuminate a viable path.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go2ErrorHandlingFeedback
Well, the US government is literally run by tax dodgers right now, whether or not you think that is a good thing.
Individual sovereignty.

Drug approval services provided by government are there because we want added safety - not to be told what to do.
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The Bayesian-frequentist argument, unlike
most philosophical disputes, has immediate
practical consequences. Consider that after
a 7-year trial on human subjects, a research
team announces that drug A has proved bet-
ter than drug B at the 0.05 signifi cance level.
Asked why the trial took so long, the team
leader replies “That was the first time the
results reached the 0.05 level.” Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) regulators reject the
team’s submission, on the frequentist grounds
that interim tests of the data, by taking repeated
0.05 chances, could raise the false alarm rate
to (say) 15% from the claimed 5%.
A Bayesian FDA regulator would be more
forgiving. Starting from a given prior distri-
bution, the Bayesian posterior probability of
drug A’s superiority depends only on its fi nal
evaluation, not whether there might have
been earlier decisions.
"""

Is that right? At each next trial Bayesians should feed the probability from the previous one as prior. Assuming that the first two trials did not bring the required results - then the prior to the third one should be rather small.
Other than "bivalve sea creatures" don't the rest fall into a vegan diet?
Late comment though I'm not sure if point 2 about awards and press coverage is true. Surely you can't spend all your time on marketing but you still need to gain traction somehow? I would like to see some opinions on this.
thanks. direct link to pdf: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/13/442...
UK building firms built extensive blacklists of union activists. These blacklists were used for years to prevent those activists working in the construction industry. These blacklists were kept on paper. The first UK data protection law had to be changed to include paper records so that these anti-union blacklists would be covered by the law. Even with the change in the law the black listing probably continued into the 21stC.

This was a long running, extensive, campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/27/on-the-black...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(employment)#UK_Blac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulting_Association
Just because the overarching goal of a project is awful doesn't mean every detail about the project is awful. There are lessons to be learned from every failure, and like it or not the war on drugs funds itself quite well through asset forfeiture.

Case in point: no one would argue the Nazi regime was anything approaching "good", but when the war was done, we didn't throw away the V2 rocket and start research from scratch. We threw out all the horrible shit the Nazis did but kept their wildly successful rocket.

Likewise, it's possible to throw away the racist bullshit that perpetuates the drug war but use it's funding mechanism to fund prosecution of other crimes that would otherwise be financially infeasible to prosecute otherwise. If someone is convicted of insider trading, take all the money they gained from it and use it to prosecute other insider trading crimes.
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So in the bay area they found out that the largest employers actually conspired to not hire each other's senior employees. Which serves to decrease mobility for people and makes it so their wages become lower. When I worked in Canada it seemed like companies were very desperate for talent but weren't really willing to pay beyond a certain amount. It's hard to say if there is just a natural ceiling for pay or if it's actually some sort of setup to keep the compensation at that level.
I had same experience with an iPhone.
While Apple Store said it is a board failure and the only solution is replacing it with a refurbished or a new phone. I went to a repair shop. and it turns out that it is only a display problem and it was just 29$ to fix it.
This is such a strange article. The article mostly ignores any discussion of why vegans are vegan -- although it mentions religion at one point... which is not commonly associated with veganism -- and then the "Conclusion" is 75% a confused personal gripe about whether or not veganism is actually doing anything good. The author even seems to confuse veganism and vegetarianism:

"At first, a vegan diet seems to make complete sense for many people from the animal welfare point of view. This is in fact being challenged by more and more people who are coming to understand the devastation caused by monocrop agricultural practices. Animals are exploited for milk production as much as they are for meat production, maybe even more so."

Yes, animals _are_ exploited for dairy at least as much as they are for meat which is why vegans do not consume dairy.

"Yes, a keto vegan diet is possible [...] Preferably, and this is key, it should include eggs, dairy and bivalve crustaceans"

Then it's not a vegan diet! I can't trust nutritional (content marketing) advice from someone who can't even keep themselves clear on what diet they're talking about.
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