skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correcting these issues in a logistic regression is something you learn in undergrad stats classes and something any professional would do as part of their modeling.
Exactly it. Thanks!
Well I think there's an important thing to be mentioned here (something that I believe Nielsen stated in the past), which clogged the mind of many marketers - the effectiveness of a medium isn't bound to an action.

An ad doesn't need to be clicked, or have any form of interaction, to be effective, because there's no correlation between clicks and brand impact/recall.

It's like for years brands were buying snake oil and online advertising brought the truth forward, and was the only truly transparent medium - backed by data. Funny enough it has been increasingly showing itself as nothing but transparent... fortunately there are tools and organizations focused to help clear these waters (with ad fraud and viewability metrics).

Anyway, this all goes to say that, depending on the brand, a proper media mix for a brand communication strategy is quite complex. For a long time there has been data to back it up (though admittedly not the most accurate one - but still, it had something to support it).

In some countries radio is audited by declarative studies for example - it's far from perfect, and it has room to improve - but it's not a blind pick based on gut feeling.

Online advertising just created this odd gap between marketers and traditional media. Maybe because the barrier to access online advertising was lower, both in terms of cost as well as to the medium itself... but it has always been in use.

For an instance, luxury goods never stopped investing in OOH... Apple positions itself near such OOH communication as well, for a long time.

So, it's good media owners are focused on improving the measurement of this medium, and maybe should focus as well on the way it's bought (though they seem to do fine without the bidding system of online advertising).
And all Americans are okay with being called Texans?

England and Scotland are subsets of Great Britain, both physically (on the island named Great Britain) and politically (both countries within the UK).
So apparently IBM screwed up big time in the 1990s and failed to pay many of their Nordic employees pensions, now those people are retiring and noticing the missing funds. The debts have expired, so IBM refuses to pay up.
Medium makes reading comments extremely difficult. It must be intentional, i.e. it is a feature not a bug?
I'd be quite interested in those stats if you can give me a citation. I can come up with a few ways to explain that correlation off the top of my head that would not imply causation (such as "long guns are more commonly owned in rural areas, so have proportionally higher ownership, and such areas also tend to see lower crime rates per square mile due to low population density", i.e., a third variable problem), so I'd be really interested to see the underlying data.
>the audience most in need of this message are definitely the people publishing on Medium

That's a good point.
Many allergies are due to microparticles - which have individual features that are in the nano realm.
BSOD gets an entirely new meaning
The problem of individual news media accounts in China is that they are a major source of fake news, disinformation, and often uses exaggerated titles or suggestive images. I’ve seen too many of those articles floating around social networks.

When a western media reports this, of course it is yet another way that Chinese government “suppresses information”. But the reality is, the effort of fighting these content just what Facebook is doing right now.
Why did Alan Kay once say GNU/Linux was a budget of bad ideas?
You can't (at least not with some great effort), cloud depends completely on various aws services, that's the worst part of datomic IMO, cloud and on-prem are two different incompatible databases.
It’s accessiblity is pretty bad and it’s not tweakable. Why support sites which treat the UI as if everyone can see perfectly?
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I was just confused because the title does not mention that it is a video and the title is not descriptive of the content. I thought the submission may be linking to the wrong thing or that there is a link to a pdf of the content on the page that I failed to see.

Personally I do not find video to be a useful medium for displaying static visual information. If I want to see how someone does a flip then sure but for looking at code or diagrams I prefer text or something similar. A possible use case for your project among developers might be demonstrating a bug. If someone has a bug associated with their choice of operating system, for example, it may be impossible for those who use other systems to reproduce and excessively tedious to describe in text format. It could also be useful for screen capture that is going to be turned into a gif for project demonstration.
How often do the GitLab trending repositories update? HomelabOS has doubled from 130 to 260 stars in under a day, but the 'Trending' page mostly shows a bunch of repos with 10-30 stars.
I could be wrong, but I thought these were things Google used when ranking sites (especially for mobile).
What does Medium do for engagement that ye olde static site doesn't do? Is this something that can be done outside Medium?
Tobacco isn't nearly so bad as smoking the tar that is put in tobacco for modern cigarettes.
New data suggesting that a larger percentage would be willing to change their mind given reasonable evidence?

I know you're trying to be snarky, but come on.
Is blame really relevant?
For all we know, they subscribe to the Rules of Acquisition rather than the Prime Directive.
In (2) it's actually worse than that; any relevant predictor left out of the model affects the betas of all other predictors, even if it's uncorrelated to all other predictors.

This is a big thing most people miss when trying to interpret logistic regression the way they do linear regression. Logistic regression estimates are _conditional_ on the model spec in a way linear regression estimates are not.
Is your setup documented anywhere? I'd be interested in seeing those schematics and code.

You could always mount some of those fire extinguisher balls over the printers - no need for fancy electronics. Might ruin the printer though...
You can purchase things like AWS Direct Connect.
I'm not an expert on Amazon, but I do have friends working there, so I asked them.

They told me it's very rare for a new hire to come in as SDE3. Even a very experienced senior engineer is unlikely to get an offer above SDE2 level.

SDE3 is thus not just a senior engineer, but one who has been with Amazon for several years.

Per our discussion, that means very few of the new office employees are going to be above SDE2 level. The stated purpose of this office is to recruit new talent, which will be at SDE2 level at most.

Finally, "close to 300k" isn't very competitive for a senior NYC SWE who has been with the same company for years. I'm sure you know this is far below most other FAANGs for a similar position.
I'm quite the opposite as I appreciate the work towards supporting Tor with easy-to-setup onion fronts as alt-svc's and their work towards limiting their DDOS mitigation for Tor users. These are usually thankless efforts that don't affect their bottom line, or maybe even are a net negative depending upon the level of effort they expend.
Westinghouse Nuclear for one.
I learned about https://write.as/ recently. Heard about them on Mastodon as it seems it is also federated. The software to self-host is open-sourced as well https://writeas.org/
Could they mean that the material is suitable per 21CFR, but as you state, it would not meet the cleaning requirements. Benign material that could be single use, but a user should not be expected to be able to maintain a clean surface?
If the platform itself weren't so awful in many other ways, the blogging tools on LinkedIn are pretty good, and I've always had very good engagement with very little effort.
To me, Harleys and their equivalently ignorantly noisy UK cousin(Triumphs) should be legislated out of existence in their current form.

It's the equivalent of a child banging a drum for attention.
Very reasonable thought. I'd think Amazon is now expanding to level of IT consulting companies who send hordes of consultants to sell/implement pre packaged solutions of their own or third party.

This is not some SV level talent that Amazon will be looking for these positions. So I do not see why salaries will be SDE 2/3/4 or whatever.
And software can be deleted.
What hosting provider do you use for $0.19/mo?
How about you not have a relationship with Yandex? Since Russia is ...well.. you know..
I can't imagine that a ship traveling faster than light through an atmosphere would do great things for said atmosphere.
> "Many new tech startups never get the chance to compete with the established companies, because as soon as they prove their technologies, they are acquired. But startups aren’t the only ones suffering."

Some companies are willingly selling to some other companies, so let's forcibly break some companies apart. How is former a problem, and latter, a solution?
What other precautions did you take? Do you turn the air over inside the enclosure or wear a mask?
I used to use an Evoluent mouse at work, as recommended by my osteopath, and it would have been great except for the really crappy sensor they use which makes it really fussy to the type of desk surface it is used on. It is less precise though, probably due to the different muscles used to move it.
Well, fire is the really obvious one. I'd be very surprised if these put out more than a charcoal grill, much less a campfire. But of course everybody understands the need for proper ventilation when using one of those.
We have centuries/millennia/choose-a-time-frame of experience with what they do, how they tend to perform, and while it's not necessarily perfect, we know how to engineer around their limitations, again, with centuries/millennia/etc. of experience in that field.

Computer models are much younger, and we know they tend to have weird pathological corners, but unlike humans and their weird pathological corners, we have a much less firm grasp on what they are.

In many cases, humans have skin in the game, too. No computer model is yet sophisticated enough to be able to say that about.

There is also some irrationality in having someone to blame, etc. Certainly. But it's not the only part of the story.
Are you referring to platform generated content? The thing is, Medium doesn't do very well at that either.

I have a medium blog. I've had a few posts got >10k reads within a month. Almost none of those reads came from Medium itself, but rather from the various outlets that have linked to my post, and Google.

The only reason I currently use Medium is that people are more likely to open a Medium url when it shows up in link aggregators. People trust the familiar url far more than www.mypersonalblog.me - and it'll never get blacklisted / shadowbanned on reddit.

Oh, and claps. I like the claps.
Allow for more than one attacker.
On my Android 8.1 device, the "always on" and "no connection without vpn" options are in the VPN section of the Android settings app.
I use Jekyll and Forestry.io for my site but I’m also realistic and know that solution is a little too complicated for a lot of WordPress and Tumblr folks. The uptake in these tools are because of their simplicity, which honestly the design patterns haven’t changed in almost 20 years.
I think ISP selling user data is outrageous and should be illegal. Thankfully where I live (EU) I got 20 ISP's to choose from, allowing me to vote with my wallet.
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Choice and harm are two different concepts, the first is an economic context that is supposed to punish bad actors, the second is a societal concept of social harm which is an ethical concept like child labour.

In many cases the economic concept of choice is idealized and doesn't work in the real world. For instance what choice does a consumer concerned about privacy have beyond Android and IOS, or in telecom, oil and other polluting industries and other dysfunctional markets? The network effects of social media cannot be ignored and one may often be forced to participate in a damaging environment that does not respect consumers privacy and basic rights.

Consumers may want a privacy respecting Internet and products but there is no way for them to affect that outcome only through choice, so choice on its own is not empowering. You can only choose what is available. And this is where in democratic societies democratic institutions are expected to step in to limit harm.
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Users actually discover/browse Medium, and will hit content that isn't directly searched through their explore features/algorithms. Hosting your own site means relying on cross-posting/SEO/etc.
As I was reading I noticed that none of the complaints appear for me. uBlock Origin and uMatrix block all of it.
Amazon picks New York City, Virginia for $5B new headquarters
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> I think it’s best to accept that you can’t interpret these models very well in general.

But then, the classical question: How do you debug the models? How do you know they are actually predicting what you think they are predicting?
>And software can be deleted.

The software doesn't care and isn't intimidated by that fact... yet.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people commute more than an hour into Manhattan every day.

Just about everyone taking the LIRR or Metro North is commuting at least an hour and if they say they aren't, they're kidding themselves.
I don't disagree that there are companies that definitely know what they're doing, but on the other hand, we shouldn't put anyone in the financial industry on a pedestal. After LTCM, and the financial crisis of 2008, I've learned my lesson. Half these guys don't have a clue what they're doing.
Traditional publishers do a LOT more than Amazon does for a self-published author.
This seems weird enough to be an error of some kind. Not that Apple is likely to fix it, but enforcing this rule would exclude:

- All Reddit apps

- All HN apps

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Google News

- Any link or news aggregator

I guess even a browser wouldn't fly, since it "displays full articles from multiple news sources."
The 'research supply chain' will now start to close that gap. It typically starts with, 'Activity Y creates environmental challenge X' - and then someone else is left to determine if there is danger.

There is a big gap between aerosol science and the medical / biological perspective needed to determine the magnitude of the risk. It is great to have the likelihood - but it is frustrating to not have the whole equation.
How much private information were foreign entities able to collect from this?
If ad revenue increases, who cares, right?
The hardships of developing for closed platforms. At least your livelihood didn't depend on that App.
The underlying engine just got open sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327
> I buy other brands for ethical reasons. The chocolate is usually better anyway

I'd find it honestly difficult to buy lower-quality chocolate than Cadbury's. No wonder you can't find it in most of Western Europe - only Brits tolerate it, mostly because they had little else "back then" (pre-EU accession).
Or use a Cloudflare certificate (valid 15 years iirc).
One has to wonder if what Apple actually objects to is the display of logos (from the favicons) in the list of links. They’re an incredibly brand conscious company and almost certain have people scouting for things that could get them sued by the owners of other brands.
On the punishment for murder end of things, they neither know or accept Indian sovereignty, so applying Indian law on them doesn't make sense. As far as the Sentinelese are concerned they're being invaded. This is more similar to a case where a soldier that doesn't know the war is over kills someone. It doesn't make sense and isn't fair to prosecute them because they're working on old information that would make the murder they committed okay legally.

I completely disagree that it's wrong to not introduce them to modern technology. To do that it would require one of us to go visit them which would probably kill them because of our diseases. I would argue it's more wrong to kill them than to not give them access to modern technology.
Surely its enough to get a Hacker News person to give you a claim waiver or something? I mean, did you try contacting the HN folks?
Metaphor is important for reasoning and understanding, especially when it comes to systems.
Painful, but I guess it's up to the individual AppStore reviewer to figure out what is ok or not. I actually created a few years ago a HackerNews client as well for iOS, but it never got through the review process, not even version 1.0. I was surprised, since many other HackerNews apps with similar features were allowed. At that point I just gave up and put the source code on Github, for whole the world to see.

I believe this way it might still have helped me find new job opportunities, since companies could see a bit of my coding style. So I believe in the end not all work was for nothing.
What would it take for another platform to take over? What features would it need, in your opinion? How would it be promoted and monetized?
So, in my hometown of Austin, Texas, there are numerous billboards which once had advertisements, which in recent years go unused. Typically they will put up a public service announcement or just a random piece of art, but it's clear they'd rather be renting it to a paying customer. I am suspicious of the idea of a billboard "boom".
binary code formats are not more compact than text formats. SPIR-V is particularly fat - you need four bytes to refer to a variable, which is less than what you need in minified source.

WHLSL is a great compilation target so it doesn’t prevent you from using whatever language you like.
"Hosting" your own blog takes around an hour of setup for wordpress or github pages. Personally, I use vultr + wordpress for my blog[1], but I have technical expertise - it took only 30 minutes to setup and transfer from my previous provider.

Reason I like to host my own, is I control the content, the popups, the UI, etc. If you care about that, host it yourself. Medium is there to make money, we can't fault them for attempting to collect for their service.

[1] https://austingwalters.com/
Looks like Apple has a history of removing third party reader apps. See a discussion from a couple years ago on Reddit apps getting nuked: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/4edaee/looks_like_t...

edit: looks like that time it was for NSFW content....
Yep -- I was a paid Medium subscriber / user for most of this year. Discontinued last month for many of the reasons already cited. In particular for me, the content creation interface is absolutely horrible [even worse in the iOS version] and it's a chore to get anything done using it. Clearly the guiding UX principles were aesthetic rather than usability-oriented.
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A 0.3 micron filter will still remove some of the 0.1 micron material. Filtration works in lots of ways. Also, it is likely that the 0.1 micron particles here have a charge. The 0.3 micron test particle used for HEPA evaluation specifically does not have a charge. Using charged filter media is a common method to capture particles that are too small for the holes / pores in the filter element.
There must be thousands and thousands of apps that function similar to HN clients. Providing a wrapper of an existing site and some additionally functionality seems pretty standard.

This is another sad example of the power the internet giants have over developers when we're forced to build for their platforms in order to get users.
Even though it’s the draw, Medium has gone out of its way to make discussions a horrible experience: hiding them, breaking mouse interactions, promoting discussions out of context, losing scroll positions etc.
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Presumably a good test case should involve a scientific consensus that the average person could reasonably be expected to be familiar with. What you're suggesting does not seem to fit (to be honest, I'm not even sure offhand what a "long gun" is).
Does anyone have any real, solid proof that Russian hacking has had significant impact in a US election?
I think that's it. Ok for single use or for things that will only come in contact with food that will be cooked (like cookie cutters). Not ok for plates, cups, spatulas, etc. unless you seal them post-print with a food safe coating. I've seen people print both categories of things, though...

As for toys, I don't see a big problem. Even if you eat PLA it won't really do much harm. It's safer than the ABS most toys are made from.
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Agree. A good example is the Mongol empire, which I wasn't familiar with at all (it is barely covered by any european school history book). Dan Carlin made an interesting series of podcasts on the topic [1]. The Mongols barely left any written trace but wiped out entires cities and regions [2].

[1]
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-...
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-44-wrath-...
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-45-wrath-...
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-46-wrath-...
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-47-wrath-...

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...
If you're fortunate (but the aphids aren't) perhaps you'll spot the ants defending the aphids from other insect predators such as ladybugs.
Aversion to GMO is a sort of aversion to the unknown.

Something like "regulation of long guns (shotguns, rifles, other things that aren't handguns) in various states in the US has had a non-negligible impact on crime in those states" would be more on par with climate change denial because in both cases you really have to pick a lot of cherries to back up the claim.
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The Seven Years' War killed a million people. Napoleonic Wars 5 million. The Balkan Wars 150,000 (note I'm counting deaths, not casualties). Crimean War 400,000 and the Franco-Prussian War perhaps 200,000.

World War I itself saw the deaths of over 10 million people. The Russian Civil War half that and World War II quadruple that. These numbers are not 10x anything seen since the Napoleonic Wars, they are 100x.

The experience of the long 19th century was that wars would be short, decisive, localized in scope, and fairly bloodless. The Balkan Wars and the wars of Italian and German unification were not exceptions to this rule. The American Civil War and Boer Wars were exceptions, but discounted because they weren't European wars. The Crimean War was a partial exception (it was long and indecisive, but still fairly localized and fairly bloodless for the ambitions of the powers involved). The leaders were wholly unprepared for the long, bloody stalemate that would characterize World War I, or the incessant civil wars and wars of ideology that would characterize the wars between World War I and World War II.
> - Only show a portion of the article within your app and link out to Safari for the rest

Reading between the lines here, is the problem that ad tracking works less in these apps due to having separate cookies, so publishers are pressuring Apple to remove these apps?
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