skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, thank you for the detailed explanations, and I think I owe you some more explanation.

I'm not sure how different are "Major" and "major in contrast". Sorry about my English, it's not my first language. It is my opinion that fake news and such are an important problem and it's prevailing in Chinese social media. I do believe freedom in press is great but freedom with no regulation would be very dangerous. I don't remember how many times I need to tell my parents "don't listen to that, that's completely fake" "seaweeds on the market are not made of plastic bags", "it's fine to eat persimmon",...

> It's too complicated to explain, so I take your word for it?
It's just something I don't feel like arguing, because why would you trust me instead of those news reports you've been reading all the time.

> Any intelligent human with a backbone cares about people murdered en masse, over decades...

I'd feel terrible about those people, of course, but ONLY IF THOSE CLAIMS ARE TRUE. I don't really buy their claims because the reporters themselves are very unlikely to have investigated the situations in person, and the stories are most likely coming from sources that either are anti-Chinese government themselves or seeking personal gains (like getting refugee visa in US). And the stories don't really make sense.

The official claim from Chinese government is: those are re-education centers trying to train muslim extremists so that they have enough skills to get a job and live a normal life instead of becoming terrorists.

While I won't simply just believe the Chinese government's claim as it is, but it is much more plausible and much more likely to be truth adjacent. If you know more about China, you'll know there are actually quite many muslims living in peace in China, and you can easily find muslim restaurants in most cities. Why would Chinese government even care about put muslims in Xinjiang into concentration camps? What would they gain from that? The background is that there had been more terrorist activities in the past few years in that region, and it's becoming more unsafe, especially for Han ethnic group to live there. That's what the government is most worried about. Re-educations are just a way of making extremists less extreme.

> I'll just note that so far you aren't really speaking for yourself, but refer to Chinese media, without even stating their explanation, and bring up "Western media"

I do bring up "Western media" a lot because I am so frustrated with them bull-shitting about China and that they successfully influenced people's opinions with tons of single sided stories and disinformation. I had friends asking me about whether I have need to worry about social credit score, and what can I say? "It's at most a proposal yet and it's far from being established" "How can there be so many creepy rules before it's established?" "You can't just believe whatever NPR says because you think it's neutral. Their sources could lie"
Teslas also like to accelerate into road barriers. It is hard to consider them a legitimate competitor in the self driving space right now.
Hah, I learned something about cat today. Thanks.

Amusingly, the BSD socket behavior can be disabled with the compiler macro -DNO_UDOM_SUPPORT, but as far as I can tell it is not documented nor hooked into the rest of the build system in any way since its introduction in 2001:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=83482
It's not trivial when we don't even know what sort of regulation will be required to maintain these vehicles' road legal status, let alone banking on future economies of scale. Would it be a simple license fee? Perhaps an inspection? An age requirement on the vehicle? Or perhaps the worst (and very possible) outcome, mandating that an undistracted driver be sitting behind the wheel at all times, ready to take control.

It would take one trivial piece of legislation to turn this technology into a souped up cruise control rather than the world changing technology that its backers insist that it is. How could you even fight that sort of regulation without your argument boiling down to 'we promise we don't need human oversight.' One lazy 'think of the children!' retort later, and it's banned faster than mango juul pods.

I don't understand the investor confidence here. To me this seems like basic research, critical for future technological developments, but a cash sink with no guarantee for profitability. Is this just a rat race between the giants throwing cash at this?
I still don't get your issue at all.
There are tons of different models and implications, and it depends entirely on your question how you interpret the model.

Often you will go after average partial effects in your sample. Or you have some correlated variables in mind such that you can just plot the partial effects. Sometimes you have different models, where you will plot a distribution of partial effects around a mean based on some prior assumption...

I mean, it really depends.
If you impose a more complex relationship, then of course you can not put everything in a single number. But no matter what you are interested in, such a model will give you the possibility to exactly determine the measure.

And what you are saying is also not correct. I may very often be interested in fixed values. Doing this regression, and not a quantile regression, for example, means I am somehow interested in a conditional expectation. That means I probably care about some sort of average impact, perhaps for some fixed subgroups. But those averages are fixed values...

I think the point is that in these models, we know exactly what we go after, how to get there, and what it means. We know exactly when our inference may fail.

If we both care about average effects, and I can convince you of my identification assumptions, then there is really no mystery left as to what my estimates mean.

In with Deep Learning, this is still more difficult.
I strongly dislike that they've done that. In their partial defense, the selection of recommended articles based on your browsing history is done on device.
>ings have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now.

On a statistical level, sure. On an individual level you can improve your person chance for survival greatly by not driving drunk and putting down your phone, the shitposting can wait. Also if you've made it past your teens your odds improve greatly.

>I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance.

That sounds absurdly high. 25% is 1 in 4. Assuming odds were equal or higher in the past then the average person has one grandparent that's been injured in a car crash.

Whatever the rates for injury/death are they're probably not evenly distributed among the population.
Except when it comes to getting a job. Forget any of the rest of your skills, because we all know the only thing that matters when interviewing is an ability to recite CS algorithms out of memory and solve obtuse puzzles while pretending you've never seen them.

I’ve been a professional developer for 20 years and have never had to recite CS algorithms or solve obtuse problems.

My last three jobs I had to whiteboard an architectural diagram of a system, come up with a 90 day plan to create a software development team (I didn’t know I was applying for a lead position), and describe how I would introduce Devops, redundancy, traceability, etc into a system

The closest I came to a CS style interview was my second job out of college when I had to explain high level different data structures. That was actually important since we were writing cross platform, C that had to be highly optimized.

I’ve gone on lots of interviews with only two rejections - the rest I took my name out of the running once I got the job.

I came up as a traditional computer geek - learned how to program in Basic and assembly on an Apple //e in middle school, fell in love with C, spent way too much time on comp.lang.* groups etc.

One of my best friends who I worked with across three jobs graduated from one of those infamous for profit schools, for years wouldn’t know an algorithm if it hit him in the face, but spent a lot of time on side projects, reading best practices from books, etc. and is one of the best architects I know.
Wirecutter doesn’t have endorsement fees
Tried this exact same thing. Unless you are a "fan" of noise, and the inability to sleep next to it, go ahead. It's not worth it IMHO. I ended up just turning it on whenever I left the house, but even then my roommate started getting annoyed from the other side of the apartment.
Assistant professor from Long Island, now writing from LA, thinks we should not reconsider entrusting billions in taxpayer's money to the richest man in the world.

He should debate David Sirota, or Nathan Robinson.
With pre-registration, while we're at it
abseil, folly and seastar are pretty great.
Wool fiber diameters are around 20 micron - HEPA can have glass fibers below 1 micron, and big box retail grades are often 5 - 10 micron. Smaller fibers = better filters.
Well another thing is that the genes aren't created completely novel. They try for selected traits when they transfer it and incidental mutations happen to everything. The odds of something of major significance occurring are extremely low low - given natural carcinogens and such that can and have mutated plants including viruses past practices had potential to be way worse for producing 'unexpected' results. There are technically risks to everything but they start to fall into the category of 'technically possible but downright absurd'.

Before targeted genetic modification there was atomic gardening. That was literally irradiating seeds and choosing what they liked of the mutant survivors - and a lot of seeds didn't germinate. Even doing something that 'randomizing' didn't cause those effects. As for health of food for people eating it I think we're technically already centuries if not millennia too late after repeatably breeding fruit for increased sweetness and lower fiber content.
Very disingenuous for Rep-elect Ocasio-Cortez to ask "Are there benefits? Can people collectively bargain?" Virtually every full-time job in the nation has benefits, and collective bargaining is enshrined for virtually all private sector employees since 1935 with the New Deal Era NLRB. This is the world (second) headquarters of a multinational corporation--do you think they are going to somehow staff it with world class engineers at low-wage, hourly, part time, no benefits...?
You're right. The other side of the coin is when owners in places like San Francisco or Brooklyn declare their neighbourhood "historic" and severely restrict building denser housing so they can inflate their property values.

In both cases, the arguments are either disingenuous or misguided.
I really don't think that follows. All you can tell from this is that politicians think it will benefit them, possibly (but far from guaranteed) because voters think it will benefit the region.

(FWIW I think it will benefit both regions, although I don't like the race-to-the-bottom competition and special treatment that led to it.)
That is some specious reasoning. The politicians are betting that NY and VA will benefit more than the tax breaks cost, but those calculations involve a lot of assumptions such as the politicians using rosy numbers to get votes in the short term or indirectly benefiting from Amazon after their political career is over. There’s a million ways the process could be corrupted.
Ah, so local data is not encrypted. It's only encrypted before packets are sent to the servers?
No, that requires full citizenship in one of the member states.

The only problem in preventing illegal immigration since internal border checks are reduced, but UK cash have the border restored to higher scrutiny without running afoul of Schengen.

What the Brexit move actually does is prevent influx of Polish, Czech, Greek, Spanish, Italian etc. citizens into UK...
Move of German immigrants into UK is almost certainly of no concern.
>I am struggling to reconcile how the pedestrian does not have the right of way in both these cases.

A pedestrian jaywalking does certainly not have "the right of way". That doesn't mean the car doesn't still have an obligation to avoid hitting them. The rules of the road are redundant for a reason, one party not doing what they're supposed to should not cause a crash.
This DIY version does not have the same pre filter as commercially available ones, and would need to have the filter changed more often at a minimum. There are studies showing the success such as this one. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9192919
> I don't really understand that even booming areas like Northern VA and NYC have to give a company subsidies to settle there.

Politicians see the chance for tens of thousands of high paying jobs to be a net positive for their city -> politicians compete to bring said jobs to their city. I don’t understand why this is so controversial. Even absent Amazon’s explicit RFP process, which was a bit tacky, you were always going to have cities falling all over themselves trying to gain Amazon’s favor. It’s no different than if you were buying a car and trying to play multiple dealers off each other, just on a larger scale. To think that NYC and DC don’t have to compete to attract business is naive.
Seems more equivalent to plugging in an EV every day. I wear clothes every day so putting on a pair of bike shorts and packing my work pants us a minor inconvenience.

I pump the bike tires once a week and that takes less than a minute, including the time to get the bike pump.

The water bottle takes a few seconds to fill.

A bike computer seems like a luxury, if you don't want to deal with charging it, don't use it.

In the summer, my bike commute prep is only a few minutes... Longer in the winter since I need more bike specific clothing
I think "mirror" is a more intuitive description of the problem, but essentially you reverse all of the left and right subtrees. This Quora question [1] has a few different approaches listed.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-algorithmic-approach-to-in...
One doesn't follow from the other. The politicians benefit from being able to claim added jobs, prestige, etc. The cities and states may or may not benefit and whether they do is almost certainly far down on the list of things the politicians considered, except for how it looks on paper.
Swedish tracing paper works well for a pre-filter. It's inexpensive for a long, seemingly inexhaustible roll, and can be washed numerous times.

It also works well by itself if you just want to cheaply filter large particulates. I used to use it in those cheap $40 Hamilton Beach air purifiers. The OEM filters for those cost almost at much as the new unit and wear out [for me] within a couple of weeks. That setup with Swedish tracing paper works well for dust, as a supplement for my HEPA filter purifier.
Wow so 4.6 million people seriously injured in car accidents in the US in 2016. Given an 80 year average lifespan you are statistically at 110% risk of serious lifetime injury using the most basic statistics.

4.6M / 330M = yearly risk 1.39%
x80 years = 111.5% chance of serious injury

I'm sure that includes things like whiplash though.
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I suspected something fishy was up with that the moment Ford mentioned she'd taken a polygraph. Even if it's not commonly understood by the general population (and I'm fairly sure it is) Ford is a psychologist and the hearing was full of lawyers - I'd expect that milieu to be even more informed on the shortcomings of lie detectors than the general population.
Plants don't remove particulate matter like an air purifier does
If `x` is a representation of a real number, how do you compute if it is above or below 2? Suppose you start computing its digits, and you get 2.0000000, you don't know if you will get a non-0 digit later if you keep computing.
Would you like me to edit it so it says "Now your service availability is tied to not just the global DNS system that literally anything that wants to exist on the web with not just an IP but a named host relies on, but a secondary routing entity that sits on top of standard DNS and does fancy things"?

Because I'm pretty sure we all know what I meant when I pointed out using Cloudflare means gaining a convenience at the expense of being at the mercy of third party outages.
How to Make a Robot Use Theory of Mind
I think you are seriously underestimating how valuable you are.

CS 101 data structures is all fun and great but the majority of businesses out there exactly require the skill set that you have.

Sure there are positions that demand deep knowledge on how algorithms but those are few..

You needn't to look further than Google itself.. they have many engineers that can apparently solve BigO problems, yet they fail to deliver a simple email client that works..

You deliver business value to companies, help them grow, create jobs and make profit.

This is something you should be proud of
Yes, for the most part. For passwords the story is a bit more complex (they're encrypted locally on all platforms, either with your master password (Desktop, probably Android but I don't remember), or a random key stored in the OS storage for iOS),

But we don't use the sync key to encrypt local data ever; many users never set up sync, and have no sync key
> My point being: Unix (and derivatives) encompass a set of people who disagree about what constitutes Unix philosophy.

That's certainly a Unix truism! It seems everyone has their own subjective beliefs about what Unix should be and decides their own beliefs constitute "the" Unix philosophy.
Because the needs of renters are pretty much the needs of young working people and the needs of landlords are the needs of the entrenched? 70's line of thinking doesn't work anymore, the world's vastly changed.
i used blueapron a lot when my wife was finishing her dissertation and we were remodeling our house... the quality of the ingredients is actually much higher than i would have expected, and (imho) at the minimum as good as you'll get at wegman's.

blue apron (or any service like this) needs to have the best quality food in the box, otherwise it's just not worth it... and at ~$10/person per meal, it had BETTER have good ingredients.

anyways, we just cancelled our blue apron account... it was definitely pricey, and where we live (berkeley ca) there are myriad amazing options for groceries. it served it's purpose when we needed it, tho.

it's sad to see them failing, but they chose a very difficult business model, so i'm not entirely surprised. :(
Doesn't pretty much any crash at a decent speed (even if the airbag doesn't go off) cause an injury like a bruise from the seatbelt or temporary sore muscles?
Wondering if those numbers contain a bit of an ambulance chaser skew in there?
As a YIMBY, I think it's unfair to label the backlash against Amazon HQ2 as a NIMBY backlash. Not wanting to dole out arbitrary tax breaks doesn't make you a NIMBY. Same for being concerned about the extent to which it will create well-paying stable jobs.

The concerns about rent and displacement are really the only NIMBY complaint (particularly the idea that building luxury condos for new workers would shuffle out existing residents from existing apts / condos).
I agree with most of what you’ve said. I would not consider a company with 2500 employees to be an early stage company.

Blue Apron’s high churn rate was probably tied to their offering of free deliveries. That’s how I found out about it and received my first delivery. I did not continue as a subscriber after that, though.
Not my area but I get the impression Amazon has done a lot of both of what the above two posts call "good" unprofitability and "bad" unprofitability.
Perhaps Queens should offer Amazon a pile o' money to build their new HQ somewhere else, anywhere else!
I don't mean this to side with any particular party or another and mean this in purely objective fashion: She really seems to have no clue about economics. She's had quite a few Gary Johnson "What Is Aleppo" moments when asked economy-related questions.
I wouldn't go. I think a little determination + the internet is a more than viable alternative and the savings would be significant.
They've publically stated that they do not drop traffic for any plans (at least as of 2017) no matter the size. So whatever you have seen is likely no longer the case. Unless you have sources that they are still doing this?
That's not what NIMBY is.
>but I don't see any cities approaching it from the other direction.

Can you blame them? There's barely money to maintain existing infrastructure, let alone rework it. It doesn't matter if it would pay for itself in 25 years, if that were the case we would be powered by 100% nuclear power years ago, investors don't bite on those numbers and republicans don't pass those budgets.

Maybe the driverless car players should work with the cities to improve infrastructure. They have all the capital, after all. However that logical reasoning isn't how the valley plays ball. Look at bird, look at uber, look at any 'pioneer' service entering these cities. They stomp their way into markets without trying to reach out to local governments and work with them, the city officials of course are annoyed and pass unproductive regulations, then the tech companies throw a tantrum and plead their pitiful case to their users. It's childish behavior that wastes everyone's time and money.
Latin root "con-" ("com-") meaning "with," or "together." As in, "concatenate" means something like, "chain together."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/com-

https://www.etymonline.com/word/concatenate
What? UK cannot just ask for an income statement or the you live as a proof, that's what you're saying?

Moreover the migrant worker has to pay tax in the country they're living in, so tax statement may be good enough.

Most of EU has "single payer, free at point of use" healthcare rather than US model of insurance.

And if they're not working, they can be elected after three months. Is three months slip enough to even put a dent in NHS budget? I'd say not at all. It's not like people are migrating to UK to get temporarily better healthcare. (It sucks compared to almost every other EU country.)

Additionally, for temporary stays, UK can probably demand reimbursement from the member country of origin.
Is "NY" the society or the high society for you? Saying "NY" is beyond vague.
It's specifically about being an academic because this is the comment thread discussing: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46146766
That's not true, as shown by the benchmarks where 10 lanes makes it go nearly 10x faster. Modern memory systems have a lot of banking and interleaving that allows several requests to be making progress simultaneously.
Is it though? MAD is a trivial counter example. The reason why you shouldn't nuke your rival nation even though they are communists/capitalists that you despise with every fiber of your being is that you would get nuked in turn for it.

Granted ethics has many differing frameworks itself.
Interesting... I'm not a networking expert, but I thought if you use a VPN, DNS is routed through the ISP of the VPN's DNS resolver?

Is there a way for me to check this assumption?
You'd think the US was big enough to find a city or location where Amazon HQ2 would be welcome. But no, it has to be some impractical location that's neigther wants nor needs HQ2, according to locals.
Look for blind races of Super Mario Maker at Games Done Quick.
Because it’s an unfair playing field. Government is supposed to be a check on corporate power - not guaranteeing it with unfair advantages.

On the non business side our tax dollars are going to support billionaires. At the national level this is pretty close to zero sum. Every dollar Amazon doesn’t pay is a dollar someone else has to. Discrepancies between regions would be solved more efficiently with transfer/equalization payments.
Yes but they were allowed to enter.

Then rules were then reinterpreted when they won.

That isn't very classy now is it.