skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Affirming the consequent is a deductive fallacy. It is not a fallacy in probabilistic reasoning"

Nevertheless, people commit that fallacy all the time in epidemiology. They say stuff like "if smoking caused cancer, then people who smoked would get cancer more often". Then if there is a (statistically significant) positive correlation between cancer and smoking, they conclude smoking causes cancer.

That is quite obviously affirming the consequent. I explain the (completely different and correct) probabilistic way to think about this situation using Bayes' rule in my post.

It has nothing to do with arbitrary cut-offs for telling us whether a correlation exists or not. Instead it requires comparing the relative performance of the various explanations (at least the top few candidates since extremely unlikely ones can be dropped from the sum in the denominator).
If I say Hitler was clearly a persuasive speaker, does that imply I believe Nazism?

Per my understanding, Austrian economics would presumably argue that

(1) babies are parasites
(2) parasites should be eliminated
(3) ergo, babies should be eliminated

AnCap CLEARLY comes to the conclusion that babies should not be eliminated, but makes no argument whatsoever on (1) or (2). In other words, if given the presumed premise of Austrian economics, the conclusion is thus flawed. You attributing this intellectual argument to the user as though they were a believer in that school of thought makes no sense to me.

This whole conversation is frustrating because I can't find anything notable you've written here which I disagree with other than that you're ascribing AnCap to this point of view.

> I also like that pretty much everything is readily available on mises.org. I wish all "schools of thought" would be this forward thinking.

"Forward thinking" in terms of making all of their information readily available; not forward thinking in terms of the entire school of thought.

And now you're claiming that AnimalMuppet is threatening to report you or get you kicked off HN. No one said that! AnimalMuppet was referencing the guidelines to say, instead of assuming that AnCap would like babies dead, read it assuming that AnCap doesn't want babies dead, and draw your conclusions from there.
1) there are 130mil people in japan. there are 1.5bil people in India, and they don't have iphones. Most people are poor. Most people are on android - that's a simple fact you can google.
2) there are hundreds. there are at least 25 official main ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib...). there are also hundreds of code-saavy people baking their own. you can also pick kernels, modem drivers, whatever you want. the point is, when the device vendor stops making patches, your phone still goes on for 10+ years.

3) the OP was talking about video streaming of movies and shows, not "services business." what is it you are not getting here? you actually seem like a paid shill that makes straw men.

4) Android is not privacy invading. There are 10+ versions of Android for my pixel phone alone, without a trace of google stuff. I'm running one of those.

The OS that wins is the OS most installed. If a free open source OS is the most installed one it is the winner. If you have a free OS installed on 1mil devices, and a $1 OS installed on 2 devices, it does not mean the $1 OS "wins." I'm almost positive you are a paid shill, but I'm too lazy to check your post history. No one could be so delusional (maybe religious people). Do you believe in Zeus or Jesus by chance, or are against vaccines? If you say yes, I'll understand your reasoning.
One other that helps JSON/REST to remain defacto these days, is not just a web browser support.
But also nice mobile clients like Retrofit.

Retrofit seamlessly converts JSON data by means of json de-serializer, into Java classes.
So we get typefull semantic (but, albeit at run time only).

I have retrofit integrated with RxJava, and when I looked what it would take to 'plugin' gRPC, I found that I have to change not just my backend, but all the wiring for the mobile frontends. And, at the time it looked like too much work.

If Retrofit, would make it transparent JSON vs gRPC -- then it would be great for folks that already invested into Retrofit/JSON.
UBI ?
i lost the patience to sit in front of a machine for entertainment. Doing it all day for work is enough
Weird things that happen for TV everywhere video streaming
Kim Stanley Robinson on the future of geopolitics and the power of sci-fi
99% of these crypto projects are aimed to scam people who get excited about words and expressions like "decentralised", "proof of work", "proof of stake", "unbreakable", "foolproof", "fault tolerant consensus"

As it the empty meaningless words this still can happen:

"Ethereum Classic (ETC) Hit by Double-Spend Attack Worth $1.1 Million"
That's a fair point. If we could come up with battery tech with slightly higher power density and less exotic chemistries all the better.
> $85 billion market cap for a car that can't travel to most areas of the globe at all or with severe inconvenience?

Pure electric cars have only been widely available for a few years, so there isn't a lot of infrastructure yet. The market cap prices in risk-adjusted growth, so you have to consider what the world will look like 10-20 years from now. Do you think it'll still be the case that electric cars won't travel to most areas of the globe without severe inconvenience?

> Build some nuclear power plants! Go to Mars!

Firstly, we can do both. There is enormous amount of capital in the world, and not enough actionable good ideas. Secondly, dictating capital allocation top down is tyrannical. Thirdly and most importantly, there have been human societies that have tried to avoid various will-o'-the-wisp projects and allocate capital only to smart undertakings. Historically, they haven't fared very well.
Why wouldn't she be ok with less money?
Money over $10 million is just about power, you have all your needs met. She can get significantly more of course (probably few billions of dollars, why not?), but I don't think she cares about it that much.
As MacKenzie went into the background when she wasn't needed anymore (which is not true for power hungry people), she doesn't look like the power hungry person.
The king's weapon combined the best qualities of the two bashing weapons that had previously been available to elite soldiers of the 22nd century BC: bricks and sticks.

This photo caption makes more sense if you are inscribing your gripe against the city you are warring with on your weapon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_cuneiform_text_gives...
Same could be said of tetris, though. Sure, it's very minimalistic, but it is well done and the mechanics are fun to play.
You will never be Jackie Chan, because...survivor bias and luck?!

To be constructive: Here, enjoy G.K. Chesterton's wonderful and funny short essay The Fallacy of Success, which I think agrees with you. I'd love to be able to write so well, but...I'm not him.

http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/bae.htm#l
The obvious follow up question would be: so why is slicing a string a byte-wise operation and not a character-wise operation? If a string is an array of characters, why does it let me refer to individual bytes without explicitly casting it to a byte array? How often comparatively do you want the nth byte compared to the nth character? I would suspect that's pretty rare.
Matrix multiplication is the bread-and-butter of ML (both training and inference), for fairly obvious and solid reasons. Luckily for us, it's also very important in all sorts of domains, including graphics, rendering and gaming. That's all there is to it. There's no real "subsidy from the gaming industry", only a cross-subsidy situation in which common problems that are shared across domains can take advantage of the increased scale that comes from sharing the GPU-compute platform.

I'm not sure what you mean by "ML features", but AMD/ATI's dismissive attitude towards the ML and GPU-compute communities is looking quite silly by now.
You can leak out metadata to 3rd parties so the hacker know who has access to what, no due diligence needed anymore.
Where is the data stored? How is this funded? If out of pocket, why, and how will it be funded beyond that? Would I be unwise to use this with such an unclear future or funding source? Are the videos encrypted at rest with a key as part of the link and never stored? Why not add all of the details about storage, privacy, etc in a clear and upfront way on the website (e.g. a FAQ is fine)?
"There has been a lot of talk in the past few years about blockchains, which are heavily hyped but poorly understood."

Like this article and author?
Off topic, but I just love this article: it's 22.8 KB, with a bit of hand-written JavaScript that the website works well without, and just enough CSS to make reading pleasant.
GP meant that Safari doesn’t ask for permission to use the accelerometer. In that sense, it can’t have worked just fine for you since Safari doesn’t have that as a privacy option.
>I wouldn't say Tillamook

Can't say I've ever even heard of/seen this brand although their product locator shows them at the grocery I shop at, looks like the only thing sold in my state is their shredded cheddar.

>or Cabot are fancy,

Again I've never seen this but my grocery also allegedly has 3 of their products, all 2lb bricks of cheddar. Looks like a store about 20 minutes away has 20 of their products, all cheddar but weird ones like horseradish, hot habanero, port whine spreadable.

Most of the stores seem to have 0-3 of either brand's products.

You'll see a lot of Sargento's 'snack bites' and packs of 11 slices of a few varieties though but every one I've ever tried was not worth the price and was often extremely dry/waxy.

Other than that, and the fancy case, it's some store brand bricks of a few cheddars, store and kraft brand shredded cheeses, Kraft slices and Velveeta.
Biggest tech regrets from last year, via lifehacker
> Same where I am. I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet?

I think placing medium/long term restrictions on their movement is probably the most useful demarcation line. Your squirrels are free to leave any time but a dog is typically kept in by a fence, a caged bird is a pet but one free to fly away is a wild animal. Naturally cats a somewhere in between.
Is At the Gates related at all to the melodic death metal band by the same name?
Video messaging without needing a client on the receiving end, and the ability to trivially extract or store the generated video.

Not sure it can be monetized, but definitely cool.
I want to learn more, but clicking Learn More adds it to my cart.
As stated below, indexing is an O(1) operation, and that is a O(n) operation.

> If a string is an array of characters

It is not, it is an array (technically vector) of bytes.
I'm reminded of fighter pilots: "I can't believe I'm being paid to fly!"
gRPC was contributed by Google to CNCF. Google remains extremely engaged in its ongoing development.

https://www.cncf.io/projects/

You might also be interested that Google is hosting the first ever gRPC Conf, which is being organized by CNCF the gRPC community: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/grpconf-2019/

(Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF.)
The historic picture makes a little more sense (though this is not something a 5yo would understand).

We call these things embeddings because you start with a very high dimensional space (image a space with one dimension per word type, where each word is a unit vector in the appropriate dimension) and then approximate distances between sentences / documents / n-grams in this space using a space with much smaller dimensionality. So we "embed" the high dimensional space in a manifold in the lower dimensional space.

It turns out though that these low dimensional representations satisfy all sorts of properties that we like which is why embeddings are so popular.
Living in Mountain View for the last 18 months now: Nope, San Jose also lacks charm below the surface. It's a pit, it's just a slightly better pit than Mountain View.
Sorry I am not up to date with 2019 bullshit bingo, these mean nothing: Ark, DPOS, merged mining
Compile to a static library and drag it into the Xcode sidebar?
And Ethereum and all of the guys who use similar solutions.
These are great shims until billing is part of the vehicle-charger negotiation prior to charging starting.
In Australia the ACCC which is our competition and consumer watchdog, released a preliminary report in December, into the dominance of the likes of Google and Facebook.

One of things they are proposing is stopping likes of Google from being a default search engine in Australian devices. In that consumers will be offered a choice rather than provided one as default.

I would really like to see this extend through to bloatware applications where possible such as the myriad of random Microsoft apps that get installed, as well as the Google suite in non-Google devices.

I should be able to remove the applications that are on my device and use the applications only I want to. If I use Spotify for music, then I should be able to remove Google Music and Samsung Music. In the same way that I can remove Apple music and use Spotify on my iPhone.
> (I work at Khosla Ventures and have raised money from Khosla in the past)

Shame on you.
The Making of Nefertiti 1kb (2018)
I think most people don't take the time to discriminate between their models and protobuf's. They see automagically created data models and think WELP LET'S USE THIS EVERYWHERE.
A pretty embarrassing oversight!

If the picture in this article is the mace, it's clear from the cuneiform that the 'object' would be upside down if it were in a vase orientation. Rarely ever do you start an impression from the left and trail off to the right.
I think "year of Linux on the desktop" is mostly an old Slashdot meme. There are no specific goalposts, it's just used to make fun of Linux adoption.
We are talking about investments to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars. Who is supposed to pay for this? Or, who is supposed to build it? Europe has a decent shortage of construction workers on one side and in city/government planning and approval on the other side.

In my opinion this is a task for the government if it wants to make sure people move away from fossil fuels, but the US president is holding the country hostage over a wall while the infrastructure is falling apart and Europe is locked up by populists and Brexit so no movement from there (and we Germans can't get HV transmission lines built across Germany either without lots of NIMBY protests and tons of wasted money).

My generation however will have to live with the consequences, and that sucks.
Aside from opiates, can we just get the generics for all drugs on the shelves of grocery stores? i.e. end the concept of prescriptions and instead have "recommendations" from doctors.
I don't think you are being totally fair here (and most people aren't when making the long distance EV vs ICE comparison). If you have a car full of kids and pets, are you really only stopping for 5 minutes in your ICE during a 5+ hour trip?

And in your hypothetical EV scenario, when you make the first restroom stop, there is no reason you can't do that at a charging station and top up, cutting some time off of your second refuel stop.

Another thing to consider, most people who get an EV can charge at home or at work, so they likely eliminate all gas stops during their day-to-day commutes. And that can add up to a lot of time savings (the optimistic refueling time is 5 mins, but I have had plenty take closer to 20 due to lines, traffic, out of the way, etc...). So yeah, maybe long trips require a little more planning, and a marginal amount of extra time, but it feels like nitpicking.
> lack of respect Chan gets in the west

What? He's one of the biggest breakout stars from Hong Kong cinema in Western History. Is a household name, and starred in scores of movies during his career, including a 3 picture comedy/action movie series (Rush Hour), then went on to reboot a beloved 80's action story alongside the son of one of Hollywoods biggest names.

He also had his own cartoon for a while.

How the hell do you get "lack of respect" from his shining career?
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the Bezos thing?

It's maybe a little dogmatic, but it also means that any useful internal tools can be turned into an AWS service, which seems like it's been a decent strategy for Amazon.
I'm in total agreement. It's especially confusing that the author would go through the bother of invoking Wittgenstein when it seems like he meant the exact opposite.
Where? It only states she could accept less, but why would she?
AWS Announces Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)
That's for finance you pedant. Non-finance people never use those
Does converting gRPC into a JS object has better performance than converting JSON into an object?
It even has a name: Osborne effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Does anyone else find it counter-intuitive that indie labels would benefit here?

The way I'm thinking about it is, a band stands to gain if their listeners generally listen to less (total) songs than the average user, but stands to lose if their listeners listen to more songs than the average user. My thought is that listeners who listen to more music are more likely to develop a taste for the longer tail (desire for variety and possibility for exposure.) From the studies they cite, though, it sounds like the opposite happens.
Check out WAMP? It's websockets + RPC.

http://wamp.ws

And a server that implements it:

http://crossbar.io
https://github.com/crossbario/autobahn-js
How about shipping with Firefox pre-installed? I mean, there are lots of androids that come with two or three different versions of Webkit, so why not bring a Browser that is a real alternative.

AFAIK, mobile Chrome still has the better dev-tools, but from an end-user perspective, being able to install plugins for your mobile browser (like ublock origin) without having to root the phone is a real competitive edge.
Lattice Attacks Against Weak ECDSA Signatures in Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
Booting the Raspberry Pi
Not to mention global warming and unnecessary energy wasted because of badly written software.
So, here we get to the fundamental issue then: Chinese seems to have a larger divergence between spoken and written register than most other languages (particularly alphabetically written ones).

It's unclear to me how far that extends. (This issue seems intertwined with the issue that many speakers of other Chinese "dialects"/"languages" also use Standard Written Chinese (ie Mandarin), btw.)

It is possible to write some register of Chinese in phonetic writing, though - that's shown by Dungan (written in Cyrillic), by the experiments in the 30s (quoting Mao again: "we have begun experimenting with Hsin Wen Tzu—Latinized Chinese. It is now used in our Party school, in the Red Academy, in the Red Army, and in a special section of the Red China Daily News."), etc.
> an extra layer of depth

I think that's the best way to put it. Like you intuited, a phonetic system is perfectly capable of writing down spoken conversations, but without as much context as a spoken conversation it's going to get more confusing. For example, he she and it in Chinese are all pronounced "tā", but are written as 他，她， and 它 respectively in Chinese. In fact it's common to write "ta" as an equivalent to xhe/xer/xem.
I'm not angry at Tesla, though I did cancel my preorder after their response to the NYT. I also had the opportunity to ride in one, and it was a depressingly sub-par quality car for the price.

But in this case: at the time of the NYT article, Tesla's PR department was operating on hair-trigger reaction mode: even the slightest critical comment would send them into overdrive in response. They've since learned about the Streisand effect, and no longer respond to criticism in the way they did before. (This is likely because Musk no longer directly oversees the day-to-day of their marketing.)

As for the trip logs: it's not just the NYT trip. It was every time there was an accident involving a Tesla. Or a negative review. Even Tesla's response to the Consumer Reports review included information from the CR vehicle's trip logs, even though CR acquired those vehicles from third parties. The problem isn't that Tesla is logging the cars (most new cars do), the problem is how Tesla is using that data in ways that violate cultural (and in the case of Europe, legal) norms regarding privacy.

Finally, as to "a lot of potential customers," I count more than a few dozen in LA alone across a number of industries. Jaguar has seen the biggest windfall in terms of putative Tesla buyers switching to the iPace, followed by the BMW. A lot of the rest are simply waiting until the next generation of EVs and are sticking with their current luxury/mid-range vehicles. I am aware that on an absolute basis a few dozen customers isn't much, but it's a few dozen potential customers in the market segement most likely to buy and evangelize their cars.
They're a lot closer in the dictionary. :|
> we always carefully data log media drives

So you can easily data log any driver. So any government agency or any "partner" paying enough could have access to this data.
This is more akin to the Star Trek fantasy generated by the buds attached to the CTO’s temples in “USS Callister” than “Bandersnatch”, which doesn’t try to make the viewer happy with its choices and presents a meta plot to those who rewind multiple times.

I’m sure Netflix will try its hand at faked video at some point, but its strategy of giving creators a high level of creative control seems to be producing good results. Regressing to generic AI-written storylines wouldn’t evoke many smiles.
I don't understand this theory. If we do that, how people that don't already have a lot of money are supposed to get money to purchase food for exemple ?
Why, How and When to Build a Startup MVP
makes sense, so it's really exact reduplication, but represented with the orthographic constraints you describe. thanks :)
It’s a logical thought but that isn’t how it works.

A script doesn’t really inject an image, it injects an image tag which contains a reference to the image. As the image gets loaded there is no check who created the tag.
Awesome! Thanks for the info! Excited to try this out.
This article doesn't seem to mention ads at all. I have been using Spotify for at least 6 years now, and have never paid for it.
AWS documentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
>If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.

This is a terrible mindset to have.
If you stopped eating meat and replaced it with a balanced vegan diet you wouldn't be depriving yourself of anything other than heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes etc. You'd be the winner. Also, you'd be doing your part in reducing the demand for all those animals to be raised and slaughtered. If everyone had the opinion of "well what's the point unless everyone does it" no good change would ever happen.
> but at what cost?

Yes, and at what cost to those who didn't make it! Thank social progress that it's getting better, but there's still a ways to go.
Look at the code guys [1]. I love it. This is simple. There is not a single line of bullshit. I hope he gonna become a great programmer and continue to make beautiful code like that.

[1] https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC-/blob/ma...