skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guilty of not reading the article, but I find pleasure in poking apart statistical analysis.

There are so many things to consider, like average sugar intake of affluent/non-affluent families at the time of the first test and now.

If both classes consume candy, perhaps the affluent have access to tastier candy (maybe important because the wealth distribution in the early 90s was more equal), so marshmallows are not tasty to them. (Note: I haven't had a marshmallow in a long time, but they are no where near as tasty as candy bought off the check out shelves).

If present affluent families are educated about sugar (which was less so the case in the early 90s), they would probably feed their children less junk food, so the desire of wanting more of it is not as hard wired in their neurons, or it would taste overly sweet to them.

Maybe less affluent families give their children sweets all the time because it shuts them up.

Maybe the recipe of marshmallows has changed between then and now (see point 1).
This kind of rebuttal belongs on Yahoo news comments. It definitely decreases the value of HN comments overall.
Target has target restock and such?

I found the proposition fairly attractive, I just wish they added fresh grocery for target.
The 80:20 rule and Pareto distribution vs. Normal distribution.

"Don't be a dick."
I should have included previous "milking spiders" for venom.

https://www.terminix.com/blog/science-nature/milking-spiders...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJ_sVwVhpQ
The French government has been raising taxes for years. People have been struggling to make ends meet.

Macron comes off as a privileged president that has no clue about what his citizens are going through.

Things are going to escalate further if nothing changes.
Hitting a 404 now. Maybe all the comments here made them the blog editors realize they posted some bizarre advice.
If you are designing for someone, you have to base your design decisions on what you have observed that person doing or saying. By your logic, generalizing from past observations of other people is never going to be enough to make an adequate design.

So either you have to literally prototype each touchpoint (for example) with every possible customer (even the ones who can't articulate what they actually need), or the design is going to have to be based on insight into human nature and (varying) capabilities. Luckily, most designed things are simple enough that generalizing about users in order to discover the "right answer" isn't an unachievable fantasy.
Picture houses: a last glimpse of Moscow’s beautiful and derelict Soviet cinemas
All good points. One point you touched on that I'd like to highlight and tie back to your earlier point about removing information is that traditional cameras are bending light rays along paths that smaller phone lenses simply can't, and then they trivially record the information about how light behaved in that moment.

To simulate this given only a 2D projection of some light at a certain point means trying to reconstruct the scene and apply (probably flawed, and certainly imprecise) physical models of how we understand light to behave, and then try to guess how different the image would have turned out in the presence of a theoretical lens affecting the incoming rays.

In other words, there IS missing information, a LOT of it. And approximating that information to any degree of accuracy after the fact is intractable, if not impossible. So the fact that we can train a machine to generate a result this believable is just...unfathomably amazing. A human brain, with it's inherent understanding of how the physical world behaves, really is the only other thing that could feasibly accomplish a remotely similar task.
Scientists who aren't climatologists have uninformed opinions about the climatology, aka the climate; they shouldn't be listened to just as you don't poll brain surgeons about the intricacies of heart surgery. Being a scientist doesn't make you qualified to speak on the climate, being a climatologist is what makes you qualified to speak on the climate. You don't ask climatologists about physics, and you don't ask physicists about the climate. If you don't have a PhD in the field, you don't belong in the big discussions where consequences matter.

So even if your story is true, those kids did exactly the right thing.

Regardless, the consensus that's bandied about comes from the IPC meta study of all published peer reviewed articles from climatologists; not from a few kids.
Goovy things without lyrics. There's tonnes of Calm Radio / LoFi Hip Hop stations on Youtube these days.
And the EU didn't apply SME carve outs to the GDPR, really showing how much of a big company regulation lock in it was.
European union human rights should be example to their own cops in France. it is pretty shocking how SOME french cops (no generalition of course) are so violet!!!
> Added to that is the reality that many who say they are supportive have not yet come out to demonstrate. While it is possible that this reservoir of supporters will not become activists, if they did the government would be hard put to cope.

> ...

> Multiple surveys of public opinion released in the past week suggest that 70 percent to 80 percent of French people sympathize with the Yellow Vests’ contention that President Emmanuel Macron and his government “talks about the end of the world while we are talking about the end of the month.”

> The slogan refers to Mr. Macron’s focus on reducing climate change by promoting fuel efficiency and raising gas taxes in contrast to French working people who struggle to make it to the end of their month on their earnings.

I'm reminded some of Trump rhetoric. Also the Occupy movement. It's a heady mix.
Some targets sell grocery.
>I find a way to make it work... I don't worry about things.

In the past I've had goals, I "try to make it work" as you say. How do you not worry about the thing that you are trying to make it work?

> Treat your future self as someone to whom you're going to give a great gift.

Thank you for writing about your perspective. I've heard similar suggestions before, but never really focused/internalized it.
This looks amazing. I am going to show this to a few colleagues. Thanks for your hard work!
... I uhh.. I don't know if anyone can be that dense, I think you wooshed, but I'm not certain.
At least now we have some idea of the fuel price needed to start a riot. $7/gal. That means there's plenty of headroom to raise the fuel tax in the USA!
Sourceforge is almost 20 years old now, and offered version control free of charge. For a while it was almost as dominant in the free software world as github is now. The FreeBSD CVS archive is 25 years old. Version control was absolutely mainstream back then.
No I haven't...

> getting along with your peers is the most important thing

No it isn't, hence the yuk. Anyone who thinks getting along with your peers is more important than getting the science right, isn't someone I trust doing science. The most important thing is getting the science right, full stop, end of story.
It's closer to outright jingoistic hatred than fearmongering. People have managed to convince themselves that it's a Chinese government plot with conspiracy theories being upvoted left and right.

It's actually a pretty good example of situations where the fringe right and fringe left come together and hold hands.
> Part of the effort of reproducing work is certainly figuring out which aspects of the model design are critical or incidental

Isn't this the work of writing up? A paper is a claim that you have discovered something, and implicitly that other details are standard / unimportant. If it turns out that some hidden assumption was in fact doing all the work, then the claim you made was false.

I'm all in favor of sharing working code. But working code which magically does something... amounts to an anomaly awaiting an explanation. Or an advertisement.
France has high taxes, but at the same time provides more services than other countries: free education including higher education, free healthcare, generous unemployment package, etc. Even more, this is done without closing the door to immigration.

Regarding the current movement which started with taxes on gas, the tax raise is insignificant vs. the actual oil price increase. Read this article (in French) for more information: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/11/09/peti...

Also, the people who go into the protests to break cars and shops have nothing to do with the original movement. Some clearly came to loot shops (if you are anarchist, you want to burn luxury clothing items, not take them), some are anarchists who came to fight police forces, etc.
I would say it's the best game I've ever played because the aesthetics are so amazing I actually feel compelled to 'roleplay'. I've played lots of games classified as role playing but really I'm always just working the mechanics. In RD2 I sometimes turn on the game just to go for a horse ride or go fishing regardless of whether or not it's contributing to objective progress.
The problem is that those type of sciences are now mainly women and women are not looking for the truth. They look for ticking boxes, getting certifications and going through the motions. We need more men in the social sciences if we want those fields to advance in any meaningful way like other fields where men are prominent, whether it is technology or music or anything else you can think about that moves forward all the time.
I live in the USA and while I had heard the name "instacart" I didn't remember what it was and had to look it up. I don't live near a major city though.
It could be. But I wonder just who is organizing this in social media. Maybe they've left clues, inadvertently. If I knew French better, I'd look into it.
The protests are real. The violence is the false flag. Saboteurs planted into the crowds to try and discredit the movement.
Totally forgot to sell the fact that you are hiring for developers willing to learn flopnax and that you can also be hired as flopnax consultants.

Also buy my book.
I bet 2077 will be a next generation console headliner, so you don't necessarily need to buy a $500 video card to play it :)
I'm not an expert, but I think people in the comments missed a use case : you could have 1 image @ 8k, or 2 images @ 4k each, which could then be used to broadcast VR? Or 3D 4k video?
My wife and I live in Minneapolis and our experience over the past 2 years has been basically the same as yours, expect with the companies reversed.

Instacart has been generally top notch in their logistics and customer service. Small issues now and then, but rectified quickly and pro-actively.

Amazon PrimeNow and their Amazon restaurant delivery has been a total mess. Cancelled orders hours after placing them, unexplained delivery glitches where a courier attempts a delivery and leaves with all the merchandise if we don't answer the door knock immediately, etc.

I'm not shy in letting customer service know when there are problems and even the refund process is a mess - we've had charges refunded 3, 4, 5 times (like I spend $100 and they end up refunding me $300 dollars!). Tried to explain to Amazon and get in to crazy unintelligible email threads with offshore service centers.

Finally just gave up on the whole thing with them. Will try again in a couple years and see if things have improved.
You probably mean the National Reconaissance Office [1]

[1] http://www.nro.gov/
That means it has bad matchmaking either because of laziness or a shallow player base. You should be matched up with people of equal skill.
Not a single one I haven't read more than three times...

"Godel Escher Bach: An eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hoffstadter

"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" a collection by Paul Reps

"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut

"Replay" by Ken Grimwood

"Maus I" & "Maus II" by Art Spiegleman
I like that they also vote whether they want taxes:

https://lenews.ch/2018/03/02/switzerland-votes-this-weekend-...
It has. The local Kroger (a big USA grocery chain) took out like 8 of the spots closest to the doors and made them "clicklist" spots where people who order online can pull up. They are almost always empty.
Yes, sufficiently high DPI corrects for bad mastering. If they low-pass (i.e. blur) the source before sampling then there are no aliasing artifacts.
Thanks for the tip- I'll check it out.
It already happened in the previous protests at Place de la Republique.. I would not be surprised.
This. People always keep forgetting that our brain is definitely capable of some amount of superres lotion calculations especially for very specific types of structures. One aspect I've always been fascinated about is how far away someone can be when I can still tell that they're looking at me and not the person next to me. Most of the time I can definitely not read any text (even at 16 pts) if it was held at that distance but I can subconscuously tell the subtle differences in the angle their eyeballs are at. Same thing with 60fps vs 120fps. People keep saying you can tell them apart but I sure as well can at least in some instances.
If a state power wants your data, they'll get your data, no matter where it is.
Bonsai masters: The ancient secrets behind their centuries-old trees
> I mean, we've all laughed at the "you wouldn't steal a car" commercials, and the truth is, if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it.

The reason those commercials were funny is that they were a transparent attempt to pretend that copyright infringement was theft. It is not, either in law, or in effect. Copyright is a time-limited grant by a government over a category of items. It is not ownership of an item.

If someone could download and 3D print a car, the most important reason that they wouldn't steal it is that usage of the car would not be theft.
I will tell you how the short lived Russian democracy fell: it did not fell to "crazy mountain terrorists," but to people who kept on voting for food stamps, and free sausages (that is not a joke at all)

Now, when those people are genuinely fc*ked up, and have all the reasons to worry about having to eat grass in coming years, they have no food stamps left to vote for.
"fun" fact: average earner in France can buy ~2K liters of diesel with one months salary, average earner in Poland ~600 liters. Half both numbers for minimum wages. French started this protest over expensive diesel ...
Uber reduces ambulance usage in major cities, economists find
I don't believe it s their homogeneity, besides, different languages, quite different cultures, mountainous divides etc, it's all very different. But, they share the values of fierce independence . Even the (rich) foreigners who choose to make it their home seem to do so .
No one gives a fuck about services if you can’t get some bread.
You need to pay the taxes, your expenses and then you may use what the state provides. If you raise taxes and fees by X% for a few years and wages stagnate, people might forget the free education, since they can't pay their rent.

I like the European tradition, it gets their attention, and messing with people's bread and butter is a cause to rise up
Perhaps deconvolution could reconstruct the detail in theory, but I'm only talking about perceptible quality.

Cheap consumer pocket film cameras used to have a pretty crappy quality for a number of reasons.
OK, ... so what would the Hacker News Guide to Online Family Security look like?

- ISPs
- Routers
- Ad Blockers
- OS
- Data storage / backups
- Facebook or not ?
- ios v android
...
How far away were you standing and how big was the TV?
I'm not an expert on experimental psychology, but I'm fairly certain that the principles of how experiments are conducted in the sense that they control for other factors, choose sufficiently large samples etc., are pretty sound. An often mentioned problem in psychology research is "p-hacking", where researchers manipulate the data in a way that validates their hypotheses statistically, which seems like a more logical reason for a reproducibility crisis than the reasons you mentioned.

Also just because there are some problems in the field should not cause you to dismiss science completely in favor of completely subjective speculating about how the mind works, which certainly also has value, but I don't think it's warranted to dismiss actual science in favor of it.
I'm not convinced thats the reason, because that isn't how the online grocery stores in the UK work: from my recollection, you're effectively shopping from your local store and the options reflect that.
Three distinct European cultures.
Yep! Single biggest reason I'm excited for this.

Nearly 100% of the lambda functions I've written could make use of erlang/elixir style pattern matching.
AmdocsONE – Amdocs
It's common to use "we" to describe past acts of one's nation or lineage even before one was born, whether positive or negative.

"We" landed on the moon too, but I had no part in it and you likely did not either.
Sounds like a real example the apocryphal tank/shadow detector.

https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
Good luck getting tires rated to not fail at 200 mph even if your engine and transmission can propel your car to that speed.
How much of it did he write?

I suspect it was much like "Agile Web Development with Rails", which up until the most recent edition, listed DHH as an author
Taxes on gasoline make up 50% of the price.

To pretend that the increase in taxes is there to help pay for renewable energies is a joke.

It's not a secret that the government is broke and looking to raise money any way it can.

It's trying to pass this tax increase as something that needs to be done to save the planet.

But they dont tax the fuel for tankers or airplanes so where is the logic?

It's not the little guy with his diesel car that does most of the damage to the environment.
Similarly for BeebEm.
Though RetroPie (even on an ordinary PC) is not bad.
It's pretty simple that they are looking to protect the user from the everyday threats (hint hint: Bare Minimum in the title). Also while I'm sure your superman with a "security degree" that looks down on all the mere mortals. You would stand no chance against an government agency with all the time in the world and a blank check.
US people seem to underestimate how homogeneous the US is. It's quite a thing to know that you won t have to change habits when you travel across.
Instacart has popped up quite a few times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Instacart&sort=byPopularity&pr...
It's a tried and tested strategy that works for any kind of protest anywhere. People are angry and in large groups. It only takes a gentle push to create riots. The people in charge want the riots to happen so they can label their opponents as the lawless mob.

You just need to look at who came dressed for riots though. It certainly isn't the yellow jackets.
Look, if you take a group of 100 people who are into Warhammer 40k, chances are that at least 80% of them will have played StarCraft too. Collapsing that group into a single person and calling her Wendy helps some people reason about them. If you prefer to think of them a Venn diagrams and that helps you sleep at night, no crime in that.
Fraud detection. You could be using a stolen credit card, address helps with that.
It’s the second Saturday in a row that there are degradation on the Champs Elysées.

Today someone even paint a slogan on the Arc de Triomphe.

I’m not sure those good sympathetic polls will last long.

Some of the yellow vests representatives demand to raise the level and start blocking gas stations.

It’s December. One of the month where shops make a good part of their yearly income.

I’m not sure a lot of people will continue to follow. We’ll see.
Except when the voting mechanisms that elect those representatives is badly broken and easily gamed, i.e. gerrymandering districts in the US.

There are a lot of things that are a problem with the way the US government is set up. 1) The Senate is a questionable insitution born out of a bad compromise with the size of colonies at the time. 2) Our average House Representive is representing 375,000 people. It should be much, much lower than that. 3) There are NO spending limits on political campaigns and that the US considers corporations as “people”. 4) Supreme Court judges have life terms. They should have longer terms than senators but not for life (15 years?). The people of a nation change, yet parties can push through politcally motivated or judges that strike down or uphold laws that maybe the population doesn’t want anymore! 5) It’s become almost impossible to change the constitution with Amendments due to only having two parties and the fall of bi-partisanship.
I like dead cells for that kind of interval. It has a good balance and walking away from the game is fine. MOBAs and Battle Royales like dota and fortnite also give that '1 hour play session' balance typically.
All the research into interviewing and cognitive biases says that asking questions for "color" reduces interviewer's ability to predict outcomes while simultaneously increasing their confidence that they've gleaned information from the interview. There are experiments where interviewers are given some diagnostic information (e.g., hard facts about background) and conduct closed-form interviews (yes/no, this/that questions) with the interviewees responding randomly.

They'll still believe they've "learned more" about the candidate than they did from the candidates who they had biographical information alone.

See the Dilution Effect (https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social...) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking.

Here's a fun paper: http://journal.sjdm.org/12/121130a/jdm121130a.html

A good interview process reduces an interviewer's exposure to non-diagnostic information and directs their attention so they only evaluate diagnostic information (and do so in a consistent way). This is the basis for the "structured interview".
Collaborative photo documentation mobile+web app
ELI5: What is the consensus on the disadvantages and advantages of diesel? I've heard conflicting information on this:

Some say reducing the number of cows would be much more effective for slowing down global warming.

Some say diesel exhaust fumes are not so bad and are unlikely to affect our health very much.
This interpretation of the reproducibility crisis is not supported by this massive international study, at least according to the last paragraphs of the original article (which quote someone directly addressing your concern).

The results they found were that the studies that could not be successfully reproduced generally failed across all tested cultures, while the ones that could be successfully reproduced generally worked across all tested cultures. So it seems that there are some results in statistical psychology that are robust, but that researchers have not been sufficiently reliable at identifying which results those are.
>>if you are making narcotics in China, you don't fear the Chinese govt or the Chinese army and you basically have nothing to lose.

In the west you need legally accepted proofs, lawyers and all. See El Chapo, no matter what he is, his trial will last for MONTHS and appeals for years. All to prove that he did deal drugs to USA.

Now China skips a few things in the legal process and if they want they can assign 100,000-150,000 police officers to do a blitz and do serious damage to drug dealers.