skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Significant" here doesn't mean what you think it means, but rather it has a technical meaning. Basically, it means that if the intervention has absolutely no effect, then there's less than 5% probability that measured "benefit" is just a random fluke -- thus, since you actually measured benefit, you are now left wondering whether the intervention actually has an effect, or you just happen to be in 5% of possible universes where the randomness just happened to align this way. Of course, the first one is usually more likely, but 5% probability of getting result if no effect actually exists is still pretty high.

The simplest, most straightforward explanation for the mechanism, and why it's bad, is this:

https://xkcd.com/882/

In the old scheme of things, the researchers would have found and reported "significant" bad outcomes connected to green jelly beans. With required preregistration, they must preregister 20 studies, so if 19 similar studies show no effect, and 1 of them shows "significant" effect, then it's likely that you're just dealing with random fluke.
The galaxy note, and other "note" phones have a "touch" layer ontop the screen, which make it possible to use a high precision stylus. And the screen has a lot of pixels already, so you could already use it as a PC. Typing with a stylus is pretty fast.
The axioms are precisely what is not objective.
Is it possible that prior to 2000, the studies that found a null result, were simply not published? Hence why they are underrepresented in that chart? My understanding is that it's very hard to get null results published in scientific journals, though I'm not sure if that applies to clinical studies as well.
From the article:

"We propose ‘buying’, not building, the core of such a solution, and wrapping it in idiomatic libraries that we can use on all platforms.

We propose that LMDB is a suitable core (see Appendix A for options considered): it is compact (32KB of object code), well-tested, professionally maintained, reliable, portable, scales well, and is exceptionally fast for our kinds of load. We have engineers at Mozilla with prior experience with LMDB, and their feedback is entirely positive."
I cant help but laugh a little at the sites layout- showing a message from the CEO of Google- and then, the site is going into full knights helmet mode, shoving a add-bar up, reducing the readability further.

Whoever designed this, to silently mock his superior- i draw my hat.
No, but please open up an issue on Github and we'll look into making one! :)

https://github.com/openai/spinningup/issues/new
"Respondent Coburn shall pay disgorgementof $300,000 and prejudgment interest of $13,000, for a total of $313,000 ,to the Securities and Exchange Commission
for transfer to
the United States Treasury
subject to Exchange Act Section 21F(g)(3)."

"Respondent Coburn shall, within 10 days of this Order, pay a civil money penalty of $75,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission for transfer to the United States Treasury subject to Exchange Act Section 21F(g)(3)."

Total fine is under $400,000k. I am curious whether the enterprise was net positive factoring the fine into account.
They probably are a problem because of market segmentation (this has been a sticking point in other industries, at least). But piracy represents a larger problem.
Obviously, yes.
I have no idea what you mean by this comment. Or especially what ethnicity has to do with any of it.
Grin Privacy Primer
Israeli Spyware May Have Helped Khashoggi Killers, Snowden Says
The sentence is a bit contrived, but any Dutch speaker will readily understand it. Three infinitives in a row is quite common, four is not that rare.
Yes, cable had ads from day one (as the first sentence of your article hints when it notes that cable was never conceived as ad free.) Originally, cable carried the exact same (ad supported) broadcast channels as were available by terrestrial broadcast; it was a way to get them when you weren't in a location with good reception (which was fairly common, at the time cable originated, places that weren't close to a major market center with a flat line of sight to it; stations weren't expending more power to broadcast than was needed to meet the big markets.)

That article is actually quite odd; the then-existing cable-only channels it mentions were mostly also commercially supported from day one, the ones they report on considering commercial models are channels preparing to go online, not then-operational ad-free channels. While they point to a public expectation of ad-free cable, they don't point to any actual history outside of premium channels (that generally remain ad-free), and other than public access channels, few non-premium cable channels were ever ad-free (except PBS broadcast channels carried by cable operators, when PBS had public funding that allowed it to operate ad free, but that had nothing to do with cable.)
The problem is that pretty much the whole point is to go faster than walking speed. If you can't, what's the point?
Well, grouping errors in your example makes sense when all of them happened during processing a particular input which is expected to be invalid sometimes.

Could you share another example where accumulating errors makes sense?
> no amount of training is going to help.

That might be true, but what's your evidence? I'm not trying to argue one way or another, I'd legitimately like to know if there's research on the effectiveness of sexual assault training in the workplace.
Blind hiring techniques don't do much, for several reasons.

- They only work at the screening stages. Most hiring pipelines conclude with an in-person interview, and that can't be blind.

- People are very good at reading between the lines and can often infer race and gender from education and work history alone (or at least, infer deviations from their preferred norms).

- It doesn't address the problem of industry pipelines filtering against diversity before the applications ever get to you.

- A manager who doesn't want to hire women can just treat a blindly-hired woman badly until she leaves.

- It implies to the company that diversity is something that must be hidden rather than something that should be tolerated or celebrated.

- It implies to applicants that you have intolerant managers who need to be tricked.
As this project (then called Linux on Galaxy) was first shown on Note 8, but now turns out Note 8 is not supported, I'd wait for them to officially release it and then get a device that explicitly supports it.
It turned out beautifully, do not hesitate.
> but it should only motivate further research which specifically look for that effect

Indeed. But this doesn't disqualify looking for "something" as a valid and useful method of research to be a stage of the whole research chain. That ought to be allowed although research papers produced this way should make this clear.
Do you apply this reasoning to articles or comments discussing kernel development? Some topics have higher irreducible complexity than others.

More importantly, I can make whatever I want public, and I can do so with whatever audience I have in mind.
>>It's common in the U.S., and the second question is the sort of thing that would get you sent back to take the class again.

I have to admit I have never been in the US. So, what is the right answer for the second question?

I suppose it should be mandatory for all, but in the same time I have read too many stories about "classes to teach men to not rape" that I am in doubts.
I've always wondered why there is not a lender that comes in significantly below market rates (say 8%) and only lends to high quality companies with consistent MRR. Go for volume lending route instead of earning higher rates.

What percentage of companies default on their loans to justify rates upwards of 20+%?
How so? The project is building upon an existing key-value store (LMDB) to replace some custom data stores in Firefox using flat text files, JSON files, Kinto, and SQLite.
To quote a tweet from Brian Krebs, "Being in infosec for so long takes its toll. I've come to the conclusion that if you give a data point to a company, they will eventually sell it, leak it, lose it or get hacked and relieved of it. There really don't seem to be any exceptions, and it gets depressing." [1]

Sometimes I feel like to only way to win is to not play the game. I believe that is another quote from the movie Wargames.

[1] https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1045091640480804864
I can't even identify when people are black out drunk, for some reason. There's not always a slur, and I probably keep enough distance to not smell it. But I've been surprised when a half hour into conversations people have told me they're drunk. Twice that I recall.

On the flip side, people have made up stories of me being drunk after having 2 drinks, and my having had any drinks at all makes my side of the story have no credibility. No good. Like when a cop pulls you over and asks if you've had any drinks.

So I'm all for getting booze out of the workplace. I'd had my consumption limited to 2 drinks for my past 4 jobs after being fired for saying obnoxious things while drunk. A company holiday party where the tequila was flowing was the only exception, but I kept the volume down that time. I deserved the firing, no complains there.

It's my personality to say obnoxious things, having been raised on dark and vulgar comedy. My only way to joke around authentically now is without drinking, sadly, because of the nature of accusations against people who've been drinking. Just one example, I'm sure other people have personally entertaining activities that they always do but people think they must be drunk when they do it, no matter how sober. Dancing's another one... the more sober I am, the more people ask "bro, what are you on?"

My twitter is a good example of what I feel free to say while sober. Reading it, you'd think I'm always drunk.

I also am noticing after a year on break from drinking that all drinkers are mentally lazy to some degree, and some tell lies assuming that the other party won't notice and I'm likely guilty of that from my drinking days. It's like their memory isn't good so they assume nobody else's is, yet they claim perfect memory.

A little meandering, I know... but overall I think a no alcohol policy would be great.
Another neat encoding is the base-20 character set that Open Location Codes ("plus codes") use:

> The characters that are used in Open Location Codes were chosen by computing all possible 20 character combinations from 0-9A-Z and scoring them on how well they spell 10,000 words from over 30 languages. This was to avoid, as far as possible, Open Location Codes being generated that included recognisable words. The selected 20 character set is made up of "23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX".

https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...
IPFS: A Complete Analysis of the Distributed Web
Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at All-Hands Meeting
They are subnetwork masks! It's a formal way of expressing in which range you will find the addresses of a given network (for example: 3.0.0.0/8 is like saying "3.x.x.x addresses"; or, for common home networks you will find something like 192.168.1.0/24, which means "192.168.1.x"). I'm not an expert on the subject, but this site seems to have a complete explanation: http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/subnetting-subnet-masks...
To potentially clarify here:

Many home routers issue IPs using the follow netblock:

Network: 192.168.1.0
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 (/24)
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255

Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (the first valid IP in that block) or less often .254 (the last valid IP in that block)

So for the past thirty years, nearly _every_ network block issued by _any_ network admin used /24, to the point that some things simply refuse .0 and .255 as valid IP addresses.

The suggestion upstream is to set up the IP 3.2.1.0, within _any_ network block that can contain it legally. If you adhere to strict netmasking, that'd be (this is from memory, correct me if I'm wrong):

Network: 3.2.0.0
Netmask: 255.255.254.0 (/23)
Broadcast: 3.2.1.255

Which would provide a contiguous block of valid IPs from 3.2.0.1 through 3.2.1.254, _including_ the two perfectly valid IPs 3.2.0.255 and 3.2.1.0.

Those valid IPs end in .255 and .0, which is completely legal since they're in the middle of a /23, and the default gateway wouldn't be anywhere near them.

A lot of human-operated networks will blacklist issuing .0, .1, .254, .255 on the theory that it's simpler to just prohibit them and lose 4 IPs per /24 within a block, than deal with what's truly possible for a /23 or wider block.

EDIT:

Public BGP requires /24 or wider, and /24 cannot contain .0 or .255 as a valid IP, so the next widest is /23, which can contain even-numbered .x.255 and .x+1.0. If you're doing this on an internal network that permits narrower subnets, the narrowest available would be a /30, based (irregularly) on either .1.254 or .1.255:

Network: 3.2.0.254 (or .255)
Netmask: 255.255.255.252 (/30)
Broadcast: 3.2.1.1 (or .2)

With 3.2.1.0 as the live IP and either 3.2.0.255 or 3.2.1.1 as the in-network gateway for that device.
I've been looking for books that cover database implementation techniques such as this — the "memo" algorithm was new to me, but I'm also generally interested in query planning and optimization. Anyone got any recommendations? I started a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18410692.
Great story! That’s sort of the Ham equivalent of the XKCD with the “real programers use a butterfly”[1]

[1]: https://www.xkcd.com/378/
Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX
>And given the alarmingly climbing rates of chronic diseases, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, I'm also pretty sure that the health care industry has done more harm than good when it comes to chronic diseases.

I mean, can't this be attributed to other things too? (The way people live has changed in the past 20 years...)

I'd rather see some studies to show if/why those things have spiked rather than disavowing attempts to help it.

What else are we supposed to do?
I hope these exciting advances in science and engineering will lead to... DRAM that costs the same as several years ago.
I believe it means that this block is 1/2^n of the total address space. Basing this off people discussing how this /8 is made up of two /9s. And there seems to be 256 of the GE sized blocks in the map someone posted above: https://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/whois-map/imag...
I find it preposterous when pedestrians expect bicycles and scooters to expose themselves to life-threatening dangers, by sharing a roadway with two-tonne motorized vehicles.
> Haiku is an operating system which is known for its speed and being easy for anyone to use.

That's a fairly bold claim. Haiku is an OS that basically no one uses for any purpose. Why should I take any sort of design advice from them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
Yeah, it’s certainly not a freefall, but still scary. They pulled out of the descent at 928 feet, descending 72 feet per second. Assuming they were still accelerating, they were probably less than 10 seconds from the ground. Good thing the pilot reacted to the alarms immediately!

Of course, we don’t know if there were other systems to prevent this. But if there weren’t, and it was truly a situation of “if the pilot reacts 10 seconds slower here, everyone dies”, then they should likely put more sanity checks into the autopilot system.
I think the Pro w/o touch bar will probably get dropped sometime soon. I don't think the slightly higher performance of that MBP model will sell enough to warrant the SKU. Especially considering the keyboard differences. If the Touchbar-less MBP didn't warrant a model update with the newer gen keyboard, I could easily see Apple selling through their stock and dropping it.
> If you bomb an outdoor wedding party with dozens of visible women and children, and then return to fire again when ambulances are on the scene, that's not an "unfortunate accident". That's deadly negligence at the very best. You're trying to twist the second example into the framework of the first.

Is it? Do you have a sense of what went into that particular decision? Was the wedding party the target, or were they hit accidentally? Did they know it was a wedding party? Did they actually do a double tap strike in this instance?
Bring back Mork!

ducks
Indeed one of the biggest drains on corporate productivity are unaccountable bully IT departments. I recently quit a job because I wasn't allowed to escape aggressive antivirus software that made compilation insufferable.
There are certainly problems with this approach and it definitely isn't a foolproof way of stopping discrimination, but I'd argue there is a longer and more concerning list of issues with hiring based on quotas.

All I know is gender/race-blind hiring works fantastically for things like music auditions. For technology-based jobs where most of the interview process can be done in writing, over the phone, or over a shared virtual whiteboard or document (for coding or drawing diagrams), there's no reason why everything up to the in-person interview can't be as age, gender, and race blind as possible.
Frankly, 10k rows is something that an IBM PC from 1985 should have handled adequately, using SuperCalc.

Depends on what you're doing with these 10k rows, though.
I form my opinion about common practices in the US mostly based on internet stories (and they are often pretty wild!). Among my IRL friends no one ever attended a training like this.
>There is no objective answer to that question.

Prove it.
The Christian Science Monitor, while founded by the founder of the Church of Christ does not really represent the Church or push its doctrines. It has historically been one of the least ideological and most objective news outlets for a couple of generations.

So there may be irony in the name, but not in their practices.
> The term "village" is used repeatedly. If you think that--when there's an explosion in a village--it's reasonable to assume that the only people who rush to assist are terrorists, then you need to provide proof of that, not ask me to prove the opposite. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.

Do you believe that the CIA is purposefully targeting random villagers for drone strikes?

If yes...why?

If no...then you must believe that the CIA is intelligent enough to have asked the very same question that you have, and concluded that the likely respondents would in fact be enemy combatants.
> since you actually measured benefit, you are now left wondering whether the intervention actually has an effect, or you just happen to be in 5% of possible universes where the randomness just happened to align this way.

That still seems a good first step. It may also be curious to find out what were the things that have actually lead to the effect if not the one we were checking. E.g. it may happen that it the substance researched only affects subjects with particular features or that something else they were doing has produced the result on itself and knowing any of these still seems useful (some really important discoveries were made this way AFAIK).
The buffalo have been buffaloing for quite a while:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Buffalo%20buffalo%20buffalo%20...
The lament of an entitled little jerk, who does not feel an iota of gratitude for all that he was given, and is not in the mood to give anything to anyone.
I think you’re underestimating Apple’s chip performance. Going by https://browser.geekbench.com/ the best performing Android devices(Samsung’s special thing for single-core, Snapdragon 845 in a OnePlus for multi-core) appear around even with an A10 for single-core and an A10X with multi-core. If this/last year’s Android chips were enough to make Dex viable, you’d expect last generation’s iPad Pro and the iPhone 7 to be capable of running Apple’s solution.
It tells you how many of the 32 bits in your IPv4 addresses are fixed. The rest belongs to your space.

In binary, a /8 netmask would look like this:
11111111.00000000.00000000.00000000
and a /16 would look like this:
11111111.11111111.00000000.00000000

So 3.0.0.0/8 means only the first eight bits are fixed. Which gives Amazon 2^24 IP-Addresses to use (32-8 bit). That is huge because it's 1/256 of all available IPv4 addresses. It is small because it's only 16777216 addresses.
Try Finnish.
> Seems Popper would not have much issue with tolerating Damore, but tolerating things like Neo-nazi marches probably crosses his line.

Probably not even then! Neo-nazis are a tiny minority that's suppressed by public opinion. Now if they were to suddenly start gaining political power, then we have a real problem.
Thank you for correcting my misunderstanding.

The Ascii85 implementation in Python is 1/70th the performance of the base64 version, and the command-line driver to the base58 implementation I linked to is incredibly slower than the system base64. Profiling shows that the time is indeed spent on the two div/mod lines.

I assume that these are not the fastest possible implementations, but it does show that high performance is not trivial.
I’m saying it is not obvious that an authoritarian government that suppresses a minority for the betterment of the majority is bad.
If you have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, it's (theoretically) possible to use a smartphone as a desktop PC. That's also the least popular form factor for a computing device these days. Laptops or tablets would, even on the physical level, be much harder to pull off this way.
AI Makes Consumers Cautiously Optimistic
Many people are deeply uncomfortable with the inequality between men and women when it comes to the range of reproductive years. The motivation here appears to be to imply that men should also feel bad for having children later in life.
Nope, for some of us, taking breaks where we focus on other stuff is essential to perform better.

In my case, that's taking occasional walks to the coffeeshop nearby, despite their lack of inclusiveness of people with mobility problems and those who don't like coffee.
Yes, and those countries have really bad housing affordability!

3x is a benchmark of what is affordable, not a law or a specific financial lending regulation.
> Mandatory sexual harassment training sounds quite disturbing.

It can be, if it is done poorly. In fact, if it's done really poorly, it can look like it was carefully designed to cause a differentially hostile workplace environment based on sex, such as when every single example or reference to a victim or potential victim specifies a female worker or uses feminine pronouns, and every perpetrator or potential perpetrator in an example or description is male. (Which happened in the first such training I attended, in 1999.)

> Anybody can comment in detail how it is conducted?

It varies. A lot. Even as to whether it is mandatory sexual harassment training or mandatory harassment training that includes sexual harassment as a component.

> Is it really mandatory for everyone or only for men?

Where it is mandatory, it is usuually mandatory for everyonein the workplace, though there is often additional training for supervisory personnel over and above what everyone else is required to take.
How POLITICO built its election results pages
I always hate it when I hit the moon on short final...
That looks great, though it seems to be focused on the transaction processing part, and misses the big chunk that concerns querying (e.g. planning).
I'm really surprised LSM trees didn't get more commentary. 'All are targeted at server workloads' - sure, but they're also incredibly popular and appear to be as close to the 'one-size-fits-all solution for storage' as we've found.
White collar workers may actually work long and hard hours and be very exhausted by them. They may be unproductive, though. Or if they are “productive” in the sense that they complete a task, often the task itself adds little value.

The white collar workers actually aren’t necessarily lazy though, which is why the bullshit work thing is kinda tragic.