skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And have appropriate stamps from all over the world.

People collect these so it may not go unnoticed.
How do you come up with that? It completely flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
Some do, including penicillin:

“Antibiotics that cross the BBB tend to have certain physical characteristics including: small molecular size, being lipophilic, binding to fatty molecules on cell membranes, low plasma protein binding and other specialized characteristics“

http://lymemd.blogspot.com/2013/03/blood-brain-barrier.html?...
> To aid reproducibility, we open source our entire approach.

Only the approach as how to do it is open sourced or is there an implementation associated with it.
How to practice privacy without slowing down
Tim is first of all targeting the issue of privacy in that linked article (which has nothing to do with monopolies), and it does it because Apple handles that issue the best among the other big players by not being really interested in your personal data (selling $1000 iPhones is good enough). Using Tim's quote as a support for author's further claims seems manipulative. Also, note that more regulation hurts small business more (future Amazons and Googles). Large corporations are usually already profitable and can handle hiring "Privacy Engineers" or whatever the next big issue is going to be, a startup that struggles to be profitable, very often can't.
If you are in - is there a reasonable process to appeal your condition? I doubt so.
Resist the urge to comment here with stories of the time everyone around you was illogical and inconsistent, and you were the sole voice of reason (or so you think). Much more interesting to think of the times when you were illogical and inconsistent, because it's a lot harder to spot in yourself.
I have neither Google nor Facebook account. So Medium is a no go for me.
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They're right.

Why would we put a NN in charge of anything important if we can't explain how a particular model works?

Would you want your car or an aircraft you're on piloted by neural net the actions of which can't be explained?

What if it encounters an unforseen event that causes a flash crash or worse an actual crash that kills people?

Do you want to trust something built from incomplete data and simulated annealing with your life and livelihood?
My jack Russell got into a pound of tootsie rolls. Found her twitching on the ground outside. Took her to the vet and she was put on an IV and she lived to 16.
"No mention of the TURBO 250 loader that dominated my childhood."

I'll mention it: Turbo 250D by Mr. Z of TRIAD!

(The "D" version implemented <-D or DSAVE, which could save a large file back to a floppy disk from tape.)

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=20633
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>> So yes it would be surprising if that was found to be toxic.

Tiny particulates are extremely bad for your lungs when inhaled and it doesn't matter much what they are made of. PLA is not "made of mostly corn" just because the material originates there. If you printed a corn-cob pipe with PLA it would still be plastic.
Pretty convincing. I didn't notice how bad medium was since I'm always logged in and have an ad-blocker. I also don't think they do much in terms of discovery. My blog [0] has about 370 followers and my posts only get about 10 - 20 views unless I put them on social media. Then they'll get between 100 and 10k+.

Does anyone have experience with an alternative platform? Preferably free and hosted.

[0] https://medium.com/ml-everything
"Events themselves are no longer interesting or semantically meaningful, because they're a single atomic change to a database field."

This isn't true; changes to datoms are not considered individually, but are grouped together into transactions. Additionally, you can add arbitrary keys to annotate the transaction currently being committed.

See: https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/transactions/transaction-proc...
Those would have hurt but they wouldn't have been a MAD-level threat. They could only reach the Southeastern US and there weren't that many.
I suspect that in every relatively developed country nowadays executing systematic requests of the kind you mentioned would get you some kind of personal attention.

That's why they invented it, right? To make sure the political status quo does not change. That includes political systems in the US, UK, China and Russia.
Thanks!
All the magic for the layout is thanks to LaTeX and the use of the R package Bookdown: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/

Bookdown provides a template to produce the pdf, and you can modify later on (for example customizing the table of contents, image positions, etc)

You write the book once, and it can be exported to html, pdf, epub (and kindle)...
Ironic that the company reporting this has security problems themselves. I was trying to download their cloud research pdf via google and spammers have gotten hold of them with hundreds of thousands of fake links: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athousandeyes.com+file...
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The BBC story on the event: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46183480
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Because it's a distorted market. There has to be tradeoffs here otherwise developers would already be doing the things these laws are making them do.
Disabling JavaScript and cookies for medium.com domain, and a bunch of uBlock rules [1] should do the job

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Even Assad pretends to be fighting terrorists when he oppresses his people. The Chinese aren't even doing that. They're targeting anyone who grew up in a religious household and they aren't even claiming to do it to combat religious extremism. Even if they did claim to be fighting extremism it would still not be appropriate to target such a broad group of people.

I guess this is such a small minority they feel they can oppress them without consequence. I personally fail to see how these people are in any way a threat to the regime and if anything it seems like the regime's actions will make them a bigger threat in the long term.
I'm reminded of my kids when they were little. In a angry, sobbing mess: "She made me [fill in the blank]!" Usually, my response was around the lines of, "no, you chose to react by [fill in the blank]."

A concrete example. It could start with a provoked action, like taunting leading to frustration, leading to an outburst where milk got spilled and the spiller blaming the taunter. "You made me spill my milk!" Nearly every time, I would attempt to explain that the spiller chose to react the way they did, and while it is not ok that they were taunted, it was their choice to throw a fit and it was their fault the milk was spilled or their fault they were angry. They were not manually forced to spill their milk. Their choices led to that. And on the flip side, the other child would be scolded separately for being mean.

I tried to teach them that they are responsible for how they feel and how they act. The world can't "make" them feel or act, they choose it. Time will tell if that lesson was helpful.
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If after reading this article your main concern is that the methods are counterproductive, you have a problem.
We can't know for sure whether they are counter-productive - would there be more islamists without the Chinese policy of repression? Would there be more attacks? We can only conjecture.
Palm oil is a cheap substitute for trans fats in most processed food, so should we return to animal fats?

I think so, and not just for the orangutans.
I've tried using the existing tools (G suite, Trello, Evernote) to capture and record my start-up ideas. None of these worked for me.

So i decided to build a custom tool. I would appreciate your feedback.
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Well this is normal if those network rely on their special DNS servers to connect you.

It's not cloudflare you should blame here, but those providers
It depends on the model, quality and features. The one that came with my current house was very finicky and needed a fair amount of handholding (including pouring water into a little tube at the start of the season - something about a proper vacuum). I replaced it a few years ago with a new, near-top-of-line Trane with an air filtration system and a whole house humidifier. This one only needs to have the filter vacuumed monthly (three-stage electrostatic filter), and to have the humidifier water panel replaced once a year. Otherwise it’s basically no maintenance.

Any forced-air system has ductwork, however, and that can get filthy over time and need cleaning.
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It's knee-jerk accolades. Shares held in a trust with workers being beneficiaries would just enrich trustees. In fact the workers now have even less say to what is happening in the company because it costs enormous amount of money to make trustees to do anything they do not want to do.
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You can distribute writes over multiple disks.
ICBMs wouldn't get used against military forces in the field. Shorter range missiles and other tactical weapons existed for that. ICBMs were for destroying military bases, factories, and cities. Their accuracy in the early 1960s sucked, but it was good enough for that job.
Personally i never leave my printers "unattended", as in i'm at home, but i don't watch them constantly when they're printing. They're in a room that is normally closed when they're running, and is properly ventilated to the outside after.
ABS is printed in the garage.

I made a "better than nothing" auto off switch using an Arduino, a 230V relay, a couple of MQ2 smoke detectors, and a couple of DS18B20 digital thermometers.

The MQ-2 is mounted about 50cm above my printers frame, one for each printer, connected to an arduino which has a relay controlling power to the printers.
If smoke is detected, or the temperature rises above 45C, it cuts the power to all printers.
The arduino defaults to off, requiring manual intervention to turn it on again via a push button. If the arduino loses power, so does the printers.

It probably won't prevent the house from burning down, but in case of an electrical fire it should shut that down pretty good. The problem is the filament itself. It burns like a candle, so if the flames ever make it to the filament, it should have no problems continuing to the spool, setting the house ablaze.
I dislike this study. It naively picks out a few conservative views to lampoon as examples of irrationality (I say this as a liberal), and then hopes to generalize this as "controversial topics"

This is too narrow. We shouldn't pretend that human beliefs are predominantly logical with a few strange exceptions. By and large we know incredibly little, most of what we "know" is because authorities have told us about it (e.g. I've never seen Africa with my own eyes), and most of what we believe isn't scientifically meaningful (i.e. justice/goodness being social constructs).
This sort of false equivalency is unhelpful. It requires a great lack of judgment to believe the U.S. is comparable to the regime overseeing Xianjing on domestic internet surveillance.
What would be a good alternative ?
There probably wouldn't. What perturbs people here about this approach is that it works despite going against the principles of liberal democracy; it's the first time an oppressive regime is not led by dunces, and it's working fine. That, + the fact that most nationals don't really care much about surveillance as long as it helps maintain civility and cohesion.
I don't know about furnaces in general. It's just that the old place's steam heating never really gave us any problems, whereas our furnace has needed repairs multiple times over the past few years.

Maintenance was bleeding the pipes occasionally, which I generally found to be less of a bother than replacing filters.
Oh man, Todd Margaret was gold!
There are buildings in SF that still use steam. There must be a maintainer there still alive.
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A letter out of place doesn't change the point.
Are the non-AI models any more “explainable?” Models built on multivariate statistics, processing terabytes of data a day, spitting out numbers might be “understandable” in the sense that there is some discrete representation of how their inputs map to outputs. But can anyone really look at those algorithms and explain why they work? What’s really the difference between NN and advanced statistical regression, beyond differing levels of familiarity/comfort?
Check out how much traditional publishers pay.
It's called content marketing. Some do it better than others but it is always trying to attract attention to a company or service by blogging about related content.
There is a tv show they literally makes that point about cannabis. And apples.
interesting article with a lot of good tidbits. i found it particularly interesting that the authors mention how a substantial subset of people merely reiterate their position when prompted to explain their rationale for certain beliefs.

the details regarding how for many people "reasoning" is about referencing the person's perception of their own identity is also very valuable. i wouldn't call this reasoning whatsoever, however. it's tribalism -- the opposite of reasoning. this suggests that many people simply don't think about controversial issues, and instead take cues from authorities of their identity subtype. i assume there is literature which supports this idea.

there was one thing which i took issue with, however.

>sceptical attitudes toward the scientific consensus on genetically modified foods (as safe) tended to involve fallacious reasoning of a conspiratorial bent (such as “I am hesitant to believe there are NO concerns because the multinational agricultural corporations such as Monsanto have profits as the basis of their existence so any information they put out is suspect”)

this is a poor example given the recent debunking of monsanto's "glyphosate is safe" fabrications. it isn't conspiratorial to suggest that X may not be Y because the proponent of X benefits from and encourages people thinking Y. that's basic critical thinking which recognizes that scientific results can be skewed or falsified to support a narrative.

given the rest of the article, i'm confident that the author's use of this example wasn't malicious... but there are many better examples.
Bye-bye BlackRock, your competitors are going to destroy you in the following decade! It's always about inept senior management after all...
Why is everyone saying pizza is junk food? Are you taking about American pizza which is loaded with fake cheese, monsanto soy flour, and tomato sauce fortified with acid? Then may be I aggree.
Off topic, but the cookie consent popin wants me to allow a total of more than 2500 different cookies? Only a few are actually created, but come on, do they really partner with thousands of 3rd parties for my precious data?
Oh, I know, I administer Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. Bar from bitbucket, the other two hosted versions are woefully slow. Don't get me started about the Jira Calendar.

If they're blogging about some tech, maybe they need to dogfood that first.. especially when it's due to performance
Hey what would be a better alternative to Go in your opinion?
Not just the workers though. Read more about Quaker businesses, rather than jumping to conclusions. They were responsible for treating their customers and suppliers ethically and fairly as well. For example, the reason we have standardised pricing on all consumer goods is entirely down to 19th century Quaker ethics, which required not overcharging based upon how much they percevied one could afford, and treating everyone equally required to ask the same fair price for everyone, regardless of class, race or whatever, in line with their Christian philosophy and beliefs. This also extends to treating your suppliers on the same terms. While slavery was in existence for a very short period at the start of the company's founding, it's not something which the founders of the company would have countenanced, and I don't think it plays any particularly significant role in the company's history.

Their fair and ethical business practices set the standard for how good companies should operate. Cadbury would be horrified by the practices of Kraft/Mondelez. Both are capitalist enterprises, but there are good reasons Cadbury was held in high regard, and Kraft is not. The way Kraft have treated Cadbury and its workers is contemptible. I've not bought a single product from them since the takeover, and I'm by far from the only one.
LinkedIn also happens to have interesting answers. Which I don't use.

Or skype, I had to disable it, because it looked like complete gibberish (some English suggestions for non english messages).
I don't know, but the key is to properly account for the biases in responses of those who do answer. Substantial percentages of people do answer surveys. Don't make the mistake of thinking along the lines of "i would never answer one, therefore nobody would"
Even the wording of your comment proves the parent's point.
Best alternative are static generators like Jekyll or static CMS like Publii https://getpublii.com
There is a freemium service called Write.as [0]. It might not be the exactly same kind of thing as Medium, but, personally, I appreciate its ultra-simplicity. Since I have never went as far as starting my own blog, I occasionally host text content there that I want to share.

[0] www.write.as
If you do some kind of PCA, that should help work out the correlations between the coefficients, though you are right these can be hard to interpret (although sometimes they have a natural interpretation).

And typically, you would demean, and divide by the standard deviation.

I guess the coefficients are harder to interpret in this second case than if you did not transform them, but they're still interpretable.
Why do you trust moody, inconsistent people with their own biases as your leaders in life-or-death situations then?
Btw, you don't need the App if you the 1% of Android - Pie introduced a system setting for this under Private DNS.
It's still under active development afaik.

Edit: Double checked, and it is - somewhat - for sure. Including "2009" in the title would be misleading.
I myself wasn't certified but according to owner of the farm, everything was legit.
Maybe just because it's easier to find patterns than to memorize (if you have a lot of data).
So why the hell did you use it to write this article, then?

I wrote a tool which converts your Medium blog into a Jekyll blog, for publishers hoping to migrate:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/unmediumify
I think it is. I regularly receive digests from the mailing-list.
After way too many years of running my own web server, about half the time writing raw HTML or Markdown, I started using https://www.silvrback.com/ a while ago. It has a pretty nice editor with special consideration for posts including code or mathematical formulae, and without most of the warts the OP mentions at Medium. Might not be for everyone, but I find it quite pleasant.

Non-disclosure: I have no relationship with Silvrback other than as a plain old customer.
There's a huge difference between trading algorithms and safety-critical control systems. If you're speculating with other people's money it's not entirely unreasonable to risk it using unexplainable models, provided you disclose your general approach to investors.
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I totally agree with you. I watched the video so many times that I "bookmarked it" with a one-cell Jupyter Notebook:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ontouchstart/colab_noteb...
>However, 20 per cent of justifications were subjective and involved making a reference to one’s cultural identity, personal experience or fallacious reasoning.

Well, another reading of this is that "objective criteria" aren't everything.

Even if it's "scientifically objectively" better to do X, it doesn't mean it's what a person wants to do (or should do).

There's better as in "more efficient" (which is measurable and objective) and better as a value judgement.

"This fits better with my moral code, culture, food taste, preferences, etc." is a perfectly valid justification.
I don’t know if it’s a good alternative, but I blog on GitHub using GitHub Pages. It’s a minimalist experience: I use Markdown (optional), and I have my own domain (critical!)

If they ever shutter the service, it is very easy to generate all the HTML pages with Jekyll, and then throw them up on a static host.

Every single one of Medium’s discoverability and traffic benefits feel like Faustian bargains to me, so I am not going there.

The last time I experimented with publishing in a walled garden was Posterous, mostly because they were a YCombinator startup at a time when that wasn’t some kind of golden ticket, and I wanted to make a gesture of support for them and for YCombinator.

Posterous shuttered, and I republished my work using GitHub Pages, but all the old urls broke, and I’m never doing that again.
We had fantastic access to the latest releases (Venlo) but still bought games from time to time. Games weren't that expensive to begin with and came with a nice box and manual.

Lots of cracked C64 games were unplayable to me because I didn't know about some kind of exotic move joystick left right while keeping fire button depressed movement to be executed at just the right place.
> security escorted him off the SF Google campus when he visited a friend for lunch

I mean, sure, that's inconvenient but it's really nothing in the grand scheme of things.

> some efforts he’d been taking to reduce the risk of violence to him and his family

If people have threatened him or his family, that definitely sucks and I cannot condone or support those people.
You'd have to break your numbers out a bit, but it sounds to me like you're lumping in GA with commercial flights.
`figure` here is just an instance of Shape that was previously in scope. You've got to match on an instance of an object in this syntax.
Soil erosion.

A dry atmosphere is full of nano-particles (and yes they are harmful). But natural particles tend to be larger and more benign than most human made ones.

Nature copes with them the same way it copes with ever other long term problem: it affects individuals, and individuals are all dead at the long term anyway.
Before sacrificing an island, you could always see if there’s somewhere that needs a harbour or the like.

This has been considered before, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chariot
Ghost (https://ghost.org/) is pretty nice. You can host it yourself or pay them to host it for you, either way there is no nag screen.
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Github Pages + something like disqus if you need comments? Add in a simple enough theme like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/, and that'll probably do the job.
The main downside is having to use social media for discovery, but in that regard it doesn't sound too much worse than medium by your reckoning. You can even use your own domain.

Myself, I'm using a VPS (5€ a month, but 10€ a year goes to the OpenBSD foundation) to host some static html (generated from markdown), and have done away with comments entirely. (The VPS isn't just for that blog. I'm serving multiple domains from it and hosting my own fossil repos there as well)

It's obviously not for everyone, but maybe it'd suit you.
It's SEO, they're always trying to produce content with the keywords on each paragraph.