skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Monitoring tests on an ongoing basis and then calling them as soon as they hit some confidence threshold (like 95%) will give you biased results ...

The Bayesian method doesn't really solves this as much it answers a fundamentally different question -- modeling how your personal belief changes. These typically will not have the interpretation as normalized long term frequency. As long as the Bayesian posteriors are not interpreted as frequentist probabilities, they are perfectly acceptable.

That said, this 'peeking' problem can be easily resolved in the frequentist setting and this is well known in stats, probability and hopefully ML literature. The core results are really old. In fact this was classified information during world war II. If you are interested, search for sequential hypothesis test. They are actually more efficient than their batch cousins.

Bayesian vs Frequentist is an orthogonal axis from sequential/online vs batch. Think of a 2 X 2 box, you can choose to be in any quadrant you want.
I disagree. What is “line” you referred to and who gets to define it?

No one forced you to use Facebook. Look, I don’t use FB, and I don’t particular respect Mark or Sheryl, but the daily barrage of anti tech posts crapping on FB, Apple, or Amazon are turning this place into armchairs experts and politicians all pretending to be on some moral high ground when their own employers are likely just as greed driven.

We need comprehensive regulation IMO. What that should look like, I’m not qualified to say. Regardless, it’s sad to see hacker news morph into Reddit.
How do medical boards throttle residency programs? The biggest limiting factor today is the Medicare funding cap.

https://news.aamc.org/for-the-media/article/gme-funding-doct...
I took the hardline approach and just logged myself out of it and removed easy access to it. Think I'll take up your solution
Second Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car project secrets
That would violate the Outer Space Treaty. ICBMs are on the surface until launch. Or below it.
Speaking of folks operating with no safety devices other than that which is between his ears.

I love that channel.
> Apple's power on device owned by customers is ridiculous

It's a feature I appreciate. Malware is a serious problem and one I'd rather not deal with on my phone.
You still want the law to be there to go after the bad guys though. I agree any sensible solution will incorporate both approaches.
Days long since past I guess, when we would get a redline or an editor’s note for ninja edits like that!
Reminds me of reading one of my dads books in school, about the formation of the SAS during world war 2.

It's been a long time since I read it, but it was something along the lines of certain military leaders doubted the ability of the SAS to sneak onto a base and plant bombs on airplanes. So they organized a test, where they would sneak onto one of their own bases and place stickers instead of bombs. The leader of the base was even given advance notice that this as going to happen.

The SAS not only managed to sneak onto the base, they managed to place stickers on the planes so thoroughly some planes had 2 or 3 stickers on them, and iirc they were totally undetected.

It was a thoroughly interesting read, and they did immense damage to the german army and air force in north africa, sometimes just driving jeeps onto bases and firing second hand machine guns originally for aircraft they managed to mount to their jeeps.

After reading that book, and the success they had sneaking onto bases in the middle of a shooting war, even after the opposing army was dedicating themselves to preventing the damage, I wouldn't be surprised if much more equipment, plans, and intelligence hasn't been stolen off bases that we simply don't know about.
If by regex machine you mean a deterministic finite state machine, then any particular DFSM has bounded memory use (based on the number of states) and bounded running time (based on the length of the input string).

If they're simple enough, they can be simulated by a brain, so a brain has more computational capacity. If you can make them as complex as you want, then they can match (and exceed) the computational capacity of the brain, just by incorporating all states a brain can have and pre-computing the transitions. For practical purposes it's almost always best to treat brains (and other computers, for that matter) as Turing-complete, but I think that strictly speaking they're closer to DFSMs.

But the point is that almost all predictions about people's decisions involve time bounds. When there's a time bound, those decisions become computable. "Will this program return 1" cannot be solved in general, but "Will this program return 1 within the next hour" can be.
Wages and salaries (and, perhaps, prices) would not go down. Your argument and the parent of it, is falling for the lump of labor fallacy. By adding supply of labor, the demand for labor goes up as well. It is actually well-agreed on by economists, but I see many smart people, on the left and right, get it wrong.

I implore you both to read and listen about it (google/"lump of labor").
Read the central table, the data is from 2015. Every metrics shows the US is worse: total, per capita, per GDP. (The last two shows the US is more than twice as much polluting. I doubt thé US cut it's emmision by more than half since 2015. Other country are also not standing still. Germany vowed to cut off coal entirely in the next decades.)
That's exactly what I did several months ago. My mental health improved too. I have only a handful pages I follow and no people.
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> This outrage culture is getting to be a bit much.

Kids under 2 aren't supposed to be getting any screen time, except possibly to talk with their parents or grandparents on Skype/Hangouts/Facetime. If people are outraged about 1-year-olds racking up enormous gambling debts, then they're not nearly outraged enough since for every 1 kid who does that there needs to be thousands or tens of thousands using the app in the first place.
Apple's policy is one certificate per company. So it being a single point of failure is unavoidable.
That depends on the technique, the lifetime of the data and the lifetime of the memory that holds it.

If you want to make sure the data won't be touched and the memory won't be freed while you read it, reference counting can be a great technique.

If the memory allocation (including size) is already known to be stable but the data could change, the data can be read along with a time or version number that will let the reader make sure it didn't change while it was being read.

If the data can be read atomically, this isn't a problem. If the 'data' is just a pointer that is meant to transfer ownership to the reading thread this isn't a problem, etc.

The underlying principal here is that there are many different techniques and design trade-offs when it comes to concurrency and synchronization. Discounting one thing because it isn't a silver bullet is ridiculous, because there are not silver bullets. A system has to be architected as a whole.
> I have studied this very question previously and it's a bit more complex than that.

It's in fact far more complex that what you describe and I strongly urge readers to do their own research.

> Iran had a democratically elected government, but in the early 50s, the UK & US orchestrated a coup that ousted that government, since they wanted to nationalize their natural resources and kick foreign oil firms out of the country.

Iran had had a monarchy for 2500 years. Then, after a brief power struggle, Mohammed Mossadegh (previously appointed prime minister by the Shah himself) became a leader for two years. He did later win an election. Indeed, he was ousted by that coup and monarchy was restored.

> The U.S. the installed the King of Iran as their puppet dictator. The King was a close ally of Israel and Saudi Arabia as well.

Characterizing Reza Pahlavi as a dictator or a "close ally" of Israel is an exaggeration. He was a monarch - and a reluctant one at that.

> These forces are not occupying the territories, they're native to the land, but just ideologically align more with Iran than other countries in the region.

By these "forces", you must be referring to Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that killed over 300 peacekeeping forces in the Beirut bombing during the Lebanese civil war, or the Houthi rebels that played a major role in causing the ongoing the civil war in Yemen.

> Part of how Iran was able to attract their support was by positioning itself as the force to stand against Western abuses in the region, (including Israel).

Almost every Arab country in the region stands against Iran, to the point of covertly cooperating with Israel. Those who align with Iran are virtually all part of the Shia/Alawite religious minority.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19034132
Completely agree with you sentiment. In the cryptocurrency world, a whale is referred to some that owns a lot of a cryptocurrency because they 'make a splash' in the ecosystem. Getting kind of tired seeing daily Facebook posts on HN
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The book of Ecclesiastes from (what Christians call) the Old Testament focuses on this very thing.

Short summary: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldtestament/section12/
Then don't buy an iPhone?

I don't understand why people keep bringing up this point.

Yes, it's your phone but it's not your app store. One can use an iPhone without ever opening the app store.
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I worked on the recommenders for an e-commerce site. We deliberately renamed called those customers "platinum level", because of the optics.
Oh man heavy machinery(esp tractors and PTOs) are a whole nother class of things that can kill you in the blink of an eye.

PTO Guards, ROPS, 4WD(almost no tractors have brakes on the front wheels, so running a loader downhill can be really dangerous). All things I'm incredibly thankful for.
There are many types of fall arrestor systems for ladders, so you can climb a ladder without stopping, but still be caught in a fall.
TBH if you have to resort to bus-based cheating in a game then I'd say it counts as a win for the anti-cheat software.
I don't agree.

FB can still side load apps all they want, they just can't do it on an enterprise scale like they currently do because they've abused their enterprise agreement.

This is not different than abusing (say) Microsofts MSSQL to host on a 10,000 core machine when you have a 2 core license.

"Who really owns the phone" is a misnomer, because you've licensed the OS. The physical hardware is of course yours but the OS remains property of Apple, your data remains the property of you. This is especially clear if you take the time to read the EULA. (Although EULA's have questionable legality in many parts of the world)
Really I think what is needed for that are far more robust protection against blacklisting of whistleblowers - although the devil is in the details given the general difficulty of proving employment discrimination.

If they couldn't keep their ethical fences up we would see far more impact from the same numbers of whistleblowers - criminals think they won't be caught.
How long has the medical system been trying this sort of thing? Therefore how close are we to the limits of how much bias we can eliminate?

It seems like there are few places where we are not using evidence based medicine. Standardized treatment protocols/checklists are already being pushed and applied as much as possible. The people who don’t want to do it are not likely to do it. In some sense AI based decision assistants are doing evidence based medicine and standardizing treatment protocols, just doing it in places where simpler flowcharts or checklists would be inadequate.
Do you mean, you get a refund just by performing the uninstall action; or that on request a refund will be allowed?
Most high-dollar industries have clients that are referred to as whales (gambling, forex, stock exchanges, crypto markets). Facebook didn't normalize it. It's a term that has been use for years.

The fact that the word "children" part of the discussion is a side-note. They're high-dollar spenders (whales).

I don't understand the outrage about the term "whale" here.

I do understand outrage about the targeting of underage gamers though.
Found the engineer :)

Let’s make our internal systems depend on the good will of an outside company that is marginaly a competitor.

The worse part is there has to be someone that KNEW they where in violation.

FB seems to have a culture of is okay to be scum if we get what we need since we can always just say sorry.
That's not really helpful.
I struggle with the same problem, in fact the notation intimidates me to a point where I decided to forego getting deeper into theoretical computer science and haunts me every time I try to read a paper.

A resource that would explain formal mathematical notation would be great, much like a dictionary.

You can't google those symbols properly either.
You're looking into it way too much. This has happened every single time the term "whale" has been used in any article pertaining to gambling in the past couple years. This has nothing to do with ethics. Every industry has its overloaded words/phrases that outsiders would be confused upon first hearing. This is why context is of paramount importance (something that's often lost in mediums that are ripe for hot takes, like Twitter).

Don't try to turn this into something it's not.
I agree, I actively tried to go on a news diet last year, it was really hard. Especially in the current climate (in the UK and US at least), avoiding news chatter is nearly impossible, and trying to cull your curiosity to read up on such stuff takes serious willpower, even if you cut out the places that inject it into your thoughts (e.g. literally any feed). I find myself compulsively checking news sites at least a few times a day. Obviously (as a Brit), there's nothing but depressing news to be read...
I agree. It was individual employees who violated the agreement - if it makes Facebook employees actually think about their actions then overall it’s a good thing.

It’s gotten to the point where I start to ask myself - if you work or Facebook, are you a good person? My personal opinion is that you might be, but you are likely are not.
I guess you talk about Russia as dubious backer.

You really believe that the POTUS (notably Jill Stein and the Green Party) could be paid by Russia to enforce Russian policies to the detriment of US citizens ?

This idea is as crazy as the idea that China invented global warming to harm the USA economy.

From https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2018/0111/93244...

Back in 2012, almost three years before he declared that he was going to run for the White House, Mr Trump tweeted: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
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>The thing is that if you are an established "alpha male" either in the hierarchical sense or in the sense that you are self-sufficient, there is little need to engage in intra-group aggression, and in fact that would likely be detrimental as others are more likely to want to strip you of leadership roles if you are violent to them.

The tribal and clan-based politics of most of human history would seem to disagree with you. It's only relatively recently, post Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, that "alpha-male status" wasn't often established or leadership imposed directly through violence, albeit mediated through some kind of "code of honor" which usually only applied amongst nobles.

Look at classical literature. Who are the heroes? Often not merely poets, scholars or subtle artisans - but the men who carve their name out of the world in blood, the soldiers and warrior-kings.
Yes I noticed that too. It made me think that (a) it was somehow ok to do this to (especially to children), and (b) what other non-photographed atrocities were committed and never spoken of.
the magazine is only delivered within the NY Times Sunday issue. it can't be purchased inpendently. In the URL on the NY Times site, it's listed as a section:
https://www.nytimes.com/section/magazine
> Which, by the way, might be a bit scummy but as far as I can see theres no indication they have broken any laws there either.

It broke the agreement they made with Apple to get the key and as such Apple revoked the key. It seems very cut and dry to me.
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So your child spent 6k$ and you are now aware of it. So what? This article specifically talks about the employees who talk about child as whales when discussing whether to refund or not. Presumably the 5 year old kids did not request the refund themselves.
It's funny that a study is now required to show this. I remember before Facebook was even a thing. Back then, it was just common knowledge that an obsession with one's social life would lead to shallowness and a sense that one's life lacked meaning as well as all sorts of other problems. It took me a while to even get a Facebook account because of this. I think before Facebook people used to have stronger intuitions about the negative sides of popularity contests, the dynamics of group think, and the pressures of conformity.
In this vein consider the robo and spam calls you receive.
> this to be very poorly written?

Yah, sadly most of the stuff coming out of Wired the last couple years has been pretty low quality... this is typical. It was painful to read.
I don't use Facebook either and yet they still collect data on me. Its the same issue that happened with Experian leaking data on people who never did business with Experian.

I'd be comfortable calling that a line that got crossed
At least over here, in maintenance ladders over a few stories high there's a central C shaped track where you attach a metal car about the size of a fist. Then you attach your harness to the car. The car can't come out of the rail. It also has a mechanism that it only moves if you pull it outwards.

Makes climbing really easy and safe. Technically you don't even need to use your hands for anything .
Sounds like you might work at Facebook. If so, mild inconvenience or not, I am glad it happened. Going around the terms stated in an agreement to accomplish something forbidden by the agreement is a type of fraud. Fraud is illegal.

People are really starting to hate Facebook these days, and your guys' attitude doesn't seem to be changing much because of it. I, for one, LOVE this, because it means by the time you do recognize your sliding favor among customers, it will be too late for you to do anything about it. You will become the new Myspace, which is exactly what you deserve to be.

If you don't work for Facebook, then none of the above applies to you.

[EDIT:] the parent comment was deleted. The comment stated something to the effect of "It wasn't a big deal, it didn't affect our workflows or production applications."
@askafriend: You are totally missing the point. I am not saying you don’t have a point. Just that your point is completely irrelevant to the context and sentiment of the post. Just because you have a valid point from a domain perspective doesn’t mean it’s applicable to any and all discussions within a domain. Considering asking a friend on it :)
Removing the higher-taxed brackets, and the slow creep of inflation, which has pushed lower-earners into higher brackets, and made more people subject to AMT, has made income tax less progressive over time. The introduction and removal of tax-advantaged loopholes, that are only exploitable above a certain level of income, has made the progressiveness of the tax more volatile and harder to assess.

Focusing on how much the wealthy pay, as a proportion of all taxes paid, is rolling up the progressiveness of the tax code with the income inequalities that already exist. Why do you rob banks? That's where the money is. Why do you tax the rich? They're the ones who can afford to pay.

I really don't see why income tax can't be defined as a polynomial equation in a single variable (for gross income) and an additional constant, equal to median income for the previous year. With a floor function to obviate negative taxes.

The tax can be zero up to the median income, ramp up quickly to an inflection point at about 30% for the dollar at 3x median income, then increase at a decreasing rate to asymptotically approach 100% for infinite income. For the purposes of argument, I'll say that the dollar at 100000x median income would be taxed at 90%.

As long as it's a continuous and increasing function--after the first "median income" amount of one's income--every additional dollar of gross income is still a positive amount of additional net income. Only the winners pay. It's always worth something to increase your gross income. It could also be a viable strategy to reduce your own taxes by spending a lesser amount on increasing median income--i.e. pay your below-median workers more money.
Good point. To be honest, this was about ~20 years ago and I don't remember the exact phone number. Might have been a 900 number. Either way, the phone number was being primarily marketed towards children who probably didn't know that the calls would cost money.
It's the difference between one-way and two-way methods of communication as well as past events vs live events. TV shows are static, they are completely unchanged by your personal opinion as you watch it. You cannot submit a comment on a TV episode, nor is there any mechanism for the episode to reflect the impact of your comment (likes, replies, etc.)

In fact, even FB/Twitter/IG aren't "real-time". They don't show all the likes as they're coming in. They specifically delay showing the full number so you have a reason to come back and re-check. If you see a higher number of likes, you're going to come back again to re-check.
Counterpoint: how you contextually frame something says something about how you value it. Facebook, by calling young kids “whales” (a term usually reserved for corporate arenas and large clients) objectified what was actually happening such that they could wipe their conscience clean of the badness of it.

Have at it, askafriend.
The one you have, just like everyone. It's a collective thing.
The US emits more CO2 while Europe releases far more NOx and other more “traditional” pollutants.

The diesel emissions scandal in the US had a European counterpart that was never dealt with. 2018 models are still polluting far above the official limits which themselves are more lax than the US. [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180921140151.h...
I had anarcho capitalists tell me all they want from the government is enforcing contracts. Being a developer and mathematician I brought up edge cases right away: can a five year old sell themselves into slavery for a lollipop? I was kidding, but if you extrapolate, this comes close. Thankfully our society doesn’t let kids incur debts like that.

Dark patterns and contracts of adhesion make the idea of “personal responsibility” in contracting a bit quaint. That’s also why smart contracts may have problems in the real world - in the real world we have forgiveness and mitigating arguments.

Thanks to Privacy.com we can actually have some personal responsibility.
Labeling people as illegals is merely meant to dehumanize them. I wasn’t trivializing the border and so your response is no more than a straw man.
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why would blockchain be an issue? The idea is that you get trusted metrics instead of a black box that you can never see inside.
normalized calling people whales

You live in a weird and not particularly healthy bubble. In every industry I've ever worked in that has lots of clients but derives most revenue from the big fish, "whale" is the common and standard term. It's not demeaning and the whales are generally proud of their status.

If you need some pop culture orientation, watch just about any TV show set in Las Vegas.