skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attribution is as sufficiently advanced as needed to get approval to give BBDO another blank check for another hairbrained scheme that'll fund yet another award for BBDO. While concurrently being undermined and considered not reliable or advanced enough if the numbers it provides do not lead to another blank check for the creative agency.

I come from the performance side, but currently work with a bunch of CPG clients with products that run the gamut between commodity to luxury.

I specifically work on creating analytics and attribution frameworks, because these companies are fine with fuzzy hand-wavy "lift studies" for tv commercials and stupid in store display stunts. But they hold a double standard and anything digital has to be concretely measured to defend its budget.

It's actually pretty easy to create robust analytics and attribution in the space. But it's mainly a process thing, to be able to sprinkle around enough unique traits or identifiers along the way to measure at an aggregate level what the impact was. It tends to rarely be done though, due to a lack of that level of operational discipline for brand marketers and agencies, or due to the desire to deliberately sabatage the numbers because they don't paint a particularly flattering picture. So more often than not you end up with a botched execution on the small details that were required for proper attribution, then the resulting numbers being full of enough holes to spin the data however is convenient. Or someone slapping on some poorly integrated software that spits out a number that's taken as the holy grail, "cuz AI said so".

... which leads to a terrible cycle of distrust in analytics and attribution on the brand side, leading to fewer initiatives that prioritize it.
I wouldn't rule it out completely but both Hanlon's and Occam's razor would point against it. More likely that it's just another cybersec company that has found a way to newsjack itself into a position of fame via premature attribution.
Yes. But it's also true that if you live in a country with a lot of powerful intelligence agencies, and one of those intelligence agencies wants access to your data, they will get it through some means or another. It doesn't really matter how secure your practices are.
I thought that too, initially, but consider:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=heteroscedasticity&sort=byDate...

3 mentions in the same day out of a total of 8 mentions ever on HN (not including the 2 meta-comments). User dcomp noticed it also.

(oops, just bumped those numbers up one)
I’d call what you want to do “teach yourself maths as a foreign language”. It can very much be done because I did it.

If I could do it all again, I’d start with an old school Calculus course. E.g “Calculus” by Binmore . It’s a decent and well explained introduction to Calculus and Linear Algebra and it’s useful maths. You have to get a hang of thinking in maths and doing maths you find boring.

From here it depends on what you want to do. There’s more maths out there than there is time so you need goals.
Not 4 hours, 4am til late morning - noon. He had his dachas and opulent dinners but he was relentless at work - no way he lived a slow life.

The book is written by a Cambridge-trained historian who did a painstaking work of documentation, including reviewing previously inaccessible Russian archives and interviewing just about every possible Stalin relative and survivor at the time of writing.
Do these worms have memory?

Seems like there might be some interesting experiments exploring the memory/instinct boundary?
Reminds me very much of the Soviet Union. CPSU could also produce whatever paper numbers they wanted. Whether any of them matched reality was another story entirely. Everyone knows how that ended.

That said, I no longer trust the mass media to report something like this accurately either. For all we know someone might be throwing in a narrative to help (or hurt) the ongoing trade negotiations.
More than 1 species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microorganisms_tested_...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that pretty much exactly what ViaWeb did back then? Just use continuations to simulate a "classic" programming environment even if it's spread out over HTTP calls?
you just display the price with your local VAT. In the last step, if the user is from a different country AND if you do more than 100k eur revenue for that country/year, you recalculate with the correct user VAT.

And if you are Amazon, you then give the diff as a discount if it was more than advertised.
For another recent example Ryanair is being fined in Italy not because their practice of not including the hand luggage in the price of a ticket is illegal, but because it hurts comparability with other airlines
What is "the current total market capitalization of YC companies" that were accepted into YC since Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston left YC (~February 2014)?

That would be an interesting metric that evaluates Sam Altman's performance at YC.
13-Yr-Old Girl Arrested in Japan for Posting Infinite Loop Code
A general problem with ideology is that people, naturally, only view themselves as the 'winners' in a system. In socialism come communism everybody is going to be a Marx living off a metaphorical Engels writing and indulging their intellectual and philosophical curiosities with no constraints whatsoever. Of course nobody sees themselves as the ones toiling in the fields or industry giving 100% of their labor back to the state, or the 'community' should you prefer to imagine a stateless system, invariably under threat of brutal 'reeducation' to ensure everybody can be 'equal'.

The same is true of extreme laissez faire views. Everybody again sees themselves as those now freed to finally earn and achieve greatness. Nobody sees themselves as those being left trapped under oppressive and aggressively (and completely legally) entrenched forces using every single dirty trick in the book to undermine competition and coercively squeeze every penny they can out of everybody.
China is huge and heterogeneous - the coastal cities are well developed and there are 100s of millions of people living in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong-Kong, Shenzhen etc who are well on their way towards western level of development.

For example the Yangtze River Delta has more than 100m people (more than any European country) and GPD(PPP) per capita similar to Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River_Delta
I agree with you (there is probably a couple WP plugins that do the blocking). Though there are a lot of issues that even a small WP site is subject to (security, IP laws, etc)
I think of octopus as the closest to a truly alien intelligence we will be able to get until we can travel to the stars.
Another way to put it is building a culture that helps everyone perform better. There are conscious levers that conscious managers can pull to make sure his happen. Have you ever worked in an environment where managers created conflicting goals or perverse incentives? Did that help teamwork, or create frustration? Do frustrated teams perform at their best? How many people have you managed?
Here is the paper by the researcher making the claims. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329773795_Jeanne_Ca...
The CEO was a the son of the founder, and was very shy and not very competent for sure. The manager deserved to be fired for sure and probably more.
Wait, so you're simply declaring that my comments aren't true despite the fact I'm merely arguing the null hypothesis due to insufficient evidence of any alternative? Why is the burden of proof on me? Because you say so?
This is very much the premise of the Judge Dredd story 'Sob Story' about such a game show, in which the character Otto Sump first appears - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Sump http://dreddalert.blogspot.com/2013/12/judge-dredd-sob-story...
Or when reporting status up the chain, simply: “we’re on schedule to arrive in town, estimated time is between 4 and 6pm.”

Side note, one key to estimating is to start with a realistic and wide window which you regularly update and gradually narrow as you get closer to done. Being able to give forecasts that other people can count on is a big deal.
Don't be too quick to say "none of the benefits of being independent" though. I've talked to plenty of Lyft drivers who say the biggest benefit is being able to work any hours at any time they want. Want to sleep in and only drive in the afternoon? No problem doing that. Or being a student and having wildly different schedule depending on the day of the week and the week of the semester? Sure. And many know that they are taking a pay cut in exchange for this freedom.
Not true for the past 7 years. A Uber or Ola driver or a construction worker can make Rs.30000 per month which is the same a fresher software engineer makes at WITCH.Bit ofcourse the working conditions and future growth is very bad for a driver or a labour where as a s/w engineer has a huge opportunity provided he works hard.
My father is an investor, my mother is a hustler
No, the United States formally withdrew from the Optional Protocol to the Convention concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 14 years ago. The cases alluded to in the parent comment (Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, Medellin v. Texas) came after the US withdrawal from the Optional Protocol.
I think GP is asking about the security company, not Citrix.
That is great. I am currently archiving my pocket archive. I some times ago considered using my own wallabag instance, but too much work and maintenance. ArchiveBox worked directly locally.

Unfortunately, it seems, for some sites, it is archiving the GDPR warning or bot captcha instead of the content. For example, tumblr only gets me "Before you continue, an update from us" with an 'accept' button that does nothing; for Fastcompany the pdf output is overcast with a half page popup on each page; ouest-france gives me a "I am not a Robot" captcha...

Probably those issues are linked to the fact I do not use chromium though it is installed. When I understand how to archive the masked content, I intend to look at each screenshot to detect problems and re-archive them.
I just said the same thing to a friend yesterday. They are truly fascinating.
I don't get the sites who expend resources and effort to implement this, but not actually implement GDPR compliance. You're either under jurisdiction or not, but this half-implementation is extremely odd.
I am ashamed that* I almost googled ethylation, before I got that.

* He says, fully ethylated... But unfortunately not tonight recombinated.
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Maybe this should really be split up? Managers should be relegated to their stated role - being servants and shit umbrellas, not bosses. And since there is a need for a boss over a team, why not create a second job type, Commissar, whose job is to evaluate performance of the underlings and fire underperformers?
It is weird that these "Updates from YC" do not list the name of the author of these updates...
Articles for science lovers shortened to 5 bullet points. In your terminal
When I was growing up, my father used to say "Why do you want to pay for a shirt and then have them turn you into a billboard with the logo on the chest pocket?" It was silly at the time, but I always recall it when I see people buying luxury goods from Dior, LV, Chanel, etc. Luxury goods to my father was his collection bespoke suits from his favorite tailor to whom he was a customer but also a good friend. This wasn't on Savile Row or some haute fashion boutique in New York, but in a small town where I grew up. There was a direct... human connection between the consumer and the buyer. There is something to be said about craftsmanship-based luxury goods and services without the pretense of big-corp brand names, analytics, extravagant showrooms and marketing campaigns.
You know it's funny... the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Thank you! This is so helpful.
I would assume this is more about talking like a manager. Engineers are leaders too. Technical leaders.

Talking like a manager primarily means to focus on time and money. How much does it cost/save/earn? How long will it take? Just two numbers. At least managers would like it to be that simple. It isn't and that makes the translation between management and engineering hard.

You still must try to answer the questions though. Pick a random open bug or feature: How long will it take? How much value does it bring to the company? If you can answer both questions precisely in a sentence you should be fine. You probably cannot. Now try harder. What has to change so you can? Just get some info from someone? Change fundamental processes in your company?

Now you have work to do. Before you start doing that, ask again: What is the value in dollars? How long will it take?

Oh, and put a limit on the recursion there.
Reading OpenReview, others seem to find the result interesting though.
If that birth was before 1994, that person has French citizenship anyway, if a parent was born before Moroccan Independence.
>more $$$ than average driver who works as employee. However, he has non-existent social net. No health insurance, no pension benefits.

And when those essentials are factored in, does he actually earn mire or less $$$?
Awesome project! Keep up the good work.
>What about this comment is causing this to be downvoted?

Well

> If the degree programs are 80% men and 20% women, statistically the men will outperform the women in outlier achievements just because there will likely be more positive outliers in the larger group by definition even if the means are similar.

This would predict 20% of outliers would be women. However this is not the case.
A reasonable hypothesis to account for the gap in yoyr reasoning is that higher male variance in intelligence drives more male outliers in physics. I find your explanation for the lack of representiation of women to be comparatively unsatisying.

Now there is a better counterargument from the world of Chess. Chess has similar controversies about Men saying things about women having lower potential. Well a father didn't buy the nature based arguments decided to prove child rearing played a huge role in success and taught his daughters how to play chess. One of his daughters became arguably the greatest women player of all time although she wasn't ever considered world champion material.

Essentially though thia case may indicates its differences in early childhood rearing that causes the differentials. It's not participation in a specific educational stream that's the issue its girls being brought up in a fundamentally different way from how boys are in general. Yet I see much of the comtemporary political discussion focus on higher educational and workforce equity. Really groundbreaking physics tends to be discovered by younger physicists so if education is truly the problem this is waiting too long to address any potential childrearing problem.
By using Google you are defacto tapped. But if you use a small provider, you'll only be tapped if they can be bothered with you, which for the average folk is quite unlikely.
JavaScript arrays and ArrayBuffers are totally separate animals.
The entire value of WWDC is going to the Labs, giving an Apple engineer your Radar number, and having them read you or paraphrase the internal-only notes attached to the ticket. Half the time the question/bug will be clearly resolved internally or a workaround posted. But no updates are added to the public ticket, and it will remain open and unchanged for years.
this should embarrass anyone reading this article “They found that, in companies that explicitly held meritocracy as a core value, managers assigned greater rewards to male employees over female employees with identical performance evaluations. This preference disappeared where meritocracy was not explicitly adopted as a value.”

Glad belief in meritocracy is the critical evil
When Americans get sent to the concentration camps, will the Gestapo listen to their consciences or to the captains who sign their paychecks?
I think the best reason to downvote or upvote is because you think it will improve the community or conversation. Why and how that vote leads to a result is up to you to theorize.

It may be that if you personally upvote strong comments, you aren't doing anything interesting because you're promoting an already strong predictor, something which the community has no trouble detecting.
Where I work, direct reports evaluate their managers and managers can't arbitrarily fire people. As a manager my job is primarily to help engineers grow and clear obstacles for them and provide air cover when they need it. Not all companies view management this way - I've worked at other companies where the role of a manager was to make sure that every ounce of productivity is being squeezed out of engineers, and at places where growth wasn't even a consideration, but there really are places where managers are supporters, and some managers are better at that than others.
An American can still drive to Europe

The logistics are a bit tricky, however.
I wasn't aware that we had specified the criteria as being government run, because of course refuges are operating as independent charities...

I thought it was about government _funded_ refuges?

In July of 2018, while under austerity, the government gave 19M GBP to various charities who support domestic abuse survivors.[0]

Curiously, zero of those charities allow men to enter their shelters.[1][2]

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/19-million-fund-to-suppor...

[1]: https://localgiving.org/charity/safenet/project/janes-place/

[2]: http://www.cih.org/resources/PDF/presentations/arch2015/1Vic...
This isn't generally the case in Europe - all prices on sites and in stores aimed at ordinary consumers are meant to have VAT included by law.
Migrant farm workers must be the luckiest people. I certainly can't work that hard.
I personally feel like pricing in tax refunds into the displayed cost of the car is fair game, but pricing in gas savings is bullshit.

Tax refunds is money I'm definitely going to get back in a bounded (and reasonably short) amount of time. If I pay $40k for a car and get $7k back in the same year, it seems reasonable to advertise the cost as $33k (assuming it's clear that $7k of that is a tax refund).

But gas savings feels like bullshit -- it's money I may or may not get back (depending on my habits), the time horizon is unbounded, and even if it were bounded, it's long (an order of multiple years). That feels deceptive to me, and it's surprising they got away with it until now.
It's handled by Play services which is whitelisted to allow network access when the device is in light/deep doze mode.

Play services can also instruct Google's servers to stop sending notifications when the device is in deep doze and re-open the connection when the device is active again -- thus saving power (messages are queued at Google's servers)
Risk-First Software Development: A Quick Summary
I have never seen Apple push an update to a previous version of macOS unless there was some critical bug or security vulnerability in it.
Author here,

In Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck talks about how software development is all about balancing risk.

I’ve arrived at the same conclusion, and have been exploring this on in the Risk-First github project, which contains an argument about how this might be true and articles here about different types of software risk.

Hopefully this is useful to people here. Please feel free to ask anything.
We know the answer to that already from when Americans of Japanese ancestry were sent to the concentration camps. Both.

Also, Godwin.
How about 3 for different reasons: The Cove was pretty horrifying, Chalmers Johnson's Decline of Empires: Signs of Decay was soul-crushing and VICE's Killing Cancer was damn hopeful.
What was wrong, exactly?
>So who should pay for it? All taxpayers instead?

Let's compare/contrast your own countrymen. The Department of Veterans Affairs (colloquially known as "the VA") is entirely funded by the US budget[0]. Guess where the US budget comes from.

The VA, among many other services, provides "free" healthcare to veterans who are 50% or more disabled[1]. Sure, it's not entirely universal healtcare but...

Then we look at the Children's Health Insurance Program (colloquially known as "CHIP"). Again, not entirely universal healthcare. However, the federal government matches states governments fundings[2] and the program is designed to reach the poorest (children) in the nation.

Then, of course, you have Medicaid[3].

Essentially, for the disadvantaged, there is some level of concern and you have an approximation (if not out-right full) universal healthcare for some of them; otherwise, enter the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" mentality comes into play.

Apologies for the seemingly long diatribe of a soapbox but it seems hypocritical to say that taxpayers paying for healthcare is a bad thing when you - quite literally - do it for a sub-group of your populace.

>The only good solution, I think, is to work to make healthcare a lot cheaper in the long run.

As a comparator, surgery to remove a lipoma in the Emerald Isle costs about 800 quid[4] but this cost is about 1,725 quid[5] in the states.

So, there's an argument to made that Universal Healthcare can make the overall costs of healthcare far cheaper.

...and this is not to mention the gratuitous amount of money you'd be saving on the budget by condensing all of those government departments down into a much smaller government, yeah?

[0] - https://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ve...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Health_Insurance_Pr...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

[4] - https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/health/health_services...

[5] - https://www.realself.com/lipoma-removal/cost
Meanwhile, the icecaps melt.
Deviantart is your source? Really?
Grading homework with AI is an idiotic and destructive idea, just saying. "AI" may be able to see superficial similarities between the work to grade and a well-written text, but it won't (in its current state) be able to distinguish gibberish from a good argument. And what does it feel like to pour your heart into something, then have it graded by a machine that doesn't understand because your teacher can't be bothered to even give it a good read?
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1 Resecurity's wordpress site has directory listing turned on. Most content on the website seems to have been uploaded in february.
2 The services that does the press releases looks suspicious.
3 The second service also looks suspicious
4 Golden Bridge Silver and Gold Award winners... Anyone heard of this? Seems they sell thophies

[1] https://resecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/
[2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/resecurity-names-ia...
[3] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190226005414/en/Res...
[4] https://goldenbridgeawards.com/store/

Looks like a fish, smells like a fish
who squeezed every living hour out of the day

Most of his contemporaries record night after night of hours-long boozing sessions.

Overall there are clear insights on how they won the war

They had, and wantonly threw 10x the people the Germans had into the meatgrinder. It's not like it happened through some particular efficiency.
They're not even trying until they can match the idiocy of Microsoft's Feedback Hubs though.

Making users their testers AND not giving them good tools to file bugs takes a special kind of hubris.