skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Measuring the "content on the page" is hopelessly ambiguous and easy to scam.

Is it?

It seems pretty simple to audit your 10,000 largest ad-spend domains and check to see if they're actually just ad fraud. You'd need maybe 300 person-hours to do so, at an overhead-in cost of, let's high-ball it, 100$/hr, which puts you at a cost of $30,000.

If you mean the process is impossible to automate, then don't try to automate it. You can catch 99% of fraud with very low-effort manual review in most industries. That Google doesn't do it doesn't speak to the inability to get it done. It speaks to their unwillingness.

In short: exclusivity is there to choke out other ad networks.

>If the price offered for any non-exclusive placement is more of a reduction over the price offered for exclusivity than the amount gained from the other ad network(s), how is that any different in practice than requiring exclusivity?

The comparison you're making in the last paragraph is a common mistake in examining competition scenarios. The comparison isn't between pricing between the market leader and the incumbents following the anti-competitive behavior. It's the comparison between the prices we would have had no anti-competitive behavior existed in the first place.
I use (and recommend) wsltty. Just mind your font selection on HiDPI (I use one of the Fira variants that renders fast and speedily).
Tech Platforms Obliterated Isis Online – and Let White Nationalism Flourish
I predict nothing will change. Flaws in p-values and confidence intervals have been apparent since almost their inception. Jaynes spoke out against it strongly from the 60's on (see, for example, his 1976 paper "Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian Intervals"). Although I can't find it right now, there was a similar statement about p-values from a medical research association in the late 90's. It's not just a problem of misunderstanding the exact meaning of p-values either. There are deep rooted problems like optional stopping which render it further useless.

The problem is that with all its problems, statistical significance provides one major advantage over more meaningful methods: it provides pre-canned tests and a number (.05, .01, etc) that you need to 'beat'. The pre-canned-ness/standardization provides benchmarks for publication.

I once worked in a computational genomics lab. We got a paper into PNAS by running fisher-exact test on huge (N=100000+) dataset, ranked the p-values, got the lowest p-values, and reported those as findings. There's so much wrong with that procedure its not even funny.
Usually followed by teabagging.
I believe that the site (popular chess sites anyway) can detect when someone is continually playing the best (or near-best?) move, and often it's hard to just use the chess engine for one move because they can play "strategically" too of course.
Again, you are bundling together the concepts of belief and knowledge.

Knowledge is a subset of belief. Both are defined by different words: (a)theism is about belief, (a)gnosticism is about knowledge.

The first dictionary hit I get on atheism matches my claim:

"disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods."
> Rust is the only one that got it right the first time.

Not really the first time. They made attempts before. Dumped it along with person who created earlier solution and then developed current solution.

To their credit they identified early that an official solution is essential.
Could anyone down voting provide counter examples? I propose no one reading this could even produce the devices we're typing on without mining, handling and transporting hazardous materials, and using heavy equipment which will occasionally result in an unfortunate human death and or harm to the environment.
My definition of "wrongthink" is suggesting that facts support confirmation of a narrative, regardless of what the facts are, when that narrative has become socially unacceptable. For example, in Chinese society, to suggest that religious minorities are being mistreated by the government is "wrongthink" regardless of what the facts are.

If this kid had been from a Uyghur family in China and his father had been killed in a Chinese internment camp it would not be "wrongthink" for a western newspaper to say "8-year old fleeing from religious oppression in China wins New York State Championship", though it would be "wrongthink" to print this in a Chinese newspaper or even an Indonesian newspaper. A presidential candidate in Indonesia recently declined to comment on China's mistreatment of muslims for example.
It's a pretty simple incremental upgrade. But AirPods are the best headphones on the market if you have an iPhone.
You may have addressed it, but it doesn't seem like you understand it.

People get away with operating small businesses in residential zones because the businesses they usually operate tend to operate unnoticed and without disrupting neighbors' lives. For example, working from home as an independent contractor, or simply receiving business mail at your home address--these things have zero impact on your neighbors, generally speaking. It's quite possible to operate such a small business out of your home or apartment without any of your neighbors ever even realizing it.

Now, if you were actually engaged in providing services to customers directly from your home or apartment, that would be a different story. If you had a steady stream of clients visiting your home, your neighbors might be right to complain about the increased traffic, noise, or any other undesirable consequences.

Treating your property like a hotel is no different from treating it like a restaurant or a hair salon or a department store; it changes the character of the neighborhood, places extra (or at the very least unexpected) load on local infrastructure (which may not be designed to handle it), potentially reduces security, and causes any number of other potentially adverse side effects.

But I'd say that your argument that operating a hotel out of your home is somehow just like operating any other kind of small business falls on its face by virtue of the fact that operating a hotel out of your home is clearly quite controversial while operating many other kinds of small businesses is not. If these things were the same, this discussion would not be happening.
To me, that blows big holes in the argument that Airpods are better than wired earphones. It's compromises up and down the chart with the sole benefit being wirelessness? Are people nowadays really that rich that they can dump 150 USD EVERY two to three years just to get rid of a wire?!

Also, I just can't fathom people's willingness to let so much tech into their lives. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, airpods... all of which need to be constantly charged, and replaced once their batteries die, because they cannot be swapped out, meaning the rest of the apparatus lies impotent in a dumpster for a thousand years or more, never to biodegrade... it's depressing and wearisome to picture.
> some sort of binary test will still be demanded by researchers.

Indeed. P-hacking is so much less fun when you don't have a P to hack.
Peloton Is Getting Sued for $150M for Allegedly Ripping Off Musicians
You realize banks were foreclosing on people who didn't even have mortgages, or never missed payments, and often on mortgages they didn't legally own, right?

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamala-harris-mortage-cr...
As a parent who grew up with the internet (I'm 40), I am astonished that anyone allows their children to watch anything they want on YouTube. So much utter garbage.
This prevent things like Nodejs package hijacking. I think it's a pretty big deal tbh.
I'd be up for most anything that's not this unfortunate combination of the article title with the partial title of the book being reviewed; that combo leads to a headline that sounds like it's intending an unfortunate and incorrect (and Nazi-originated, which is the point of the article!) description of kids who have been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

I'd tentatively suggest "Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (LRB review)" but I'm sure others could come up with better suggestions.

Thanks!

(To be clear: I'm sure there was zero malice behind this title, it's just an unfortunate display issue.)
„Monolith first“ is a specialization of this.
I think a big step forward would be addressing something you mentioned earlier, with respect to documenting what changed in a given update. "Bug fixes" doesn't belong in a Spotify changelog, much less one for a product made by Boeing or Tesla.

It almost seems like a right-to-repair issue, where manufacturers are going out of their way to avoid documenting how their products actually work for fear of losing control over them or of disclosing details that a competitor or patent holder might find useful.

There definitely needs to be a strong regulatory response to that kind of behavior on the manufacturer's part when it comes to safety-critical updates, or even updates that might conceivably impact safety of life. Which, in the airplane business, is basically all of them.
Until they reduce employment.
I'm just saying that antivax conspiracies appear to be exclusively the province of crackpots, and Odlyzko is not that.
The EU? It very likely did its fair share for making that a reality.

But I wouldn't go as far as claiming it's solely responsible for it because rarely anything is as simple as that.
https://www.roadtovr.com/vive-cosmos-hits-fcc-on-its-way-to-...

https://www.vive.com/us/cosmos/
The Windows 10 start menu does the same thing. As I type "Visual Studio", the selection changes seemingly at random between Visual Studio, VSCode and the Visual Studio Installer. Infuriatingly, it seems to prefer the installer, which is never the one I want and AFAIK it's not possible to remove an item from the search results without uninstalling the application completely.
There are plenty of English speakers or locals who want to improve their English to work in tourism. There are lots of long term visitors and European or Americans running business over there like trekking, rafting, retreats etc. You're only a few hours away from 8000m peaks and the whitewater and culture is fantastic.
whoa, what? I feel like most of the value in Youtube is watching videos made by specialized content creators. Some of those creators may create content as an act of passion in their spare time, but some of them want to make money in some way. Youtube is willing to pay them money so that they're incentivized to make content. In order to cover those payouts and also cover hosting costs, they show ads. They could not pay out to content creators, but then creators would probably produce less content. They could also charge a direct fee for viewing content, but that severely limits the audience reach for most of the site. How many people would choose to watch youtube videos on a pay as you go model? An order of magnitude less? Probably more. I think advertising is a pretty elegant model for something like Youtube because it manages to make a lot of people happy: content creators get paid to do something really cool, viewers get a constant stream of new stuff to watch for 'free,' Google makes a lot of money, and advertisers get to reach an audience that in the best case may be specially interested in their products.

I think the problem with Youtube right now is their inability to respond nimbly to unwanted trends. As a human society, we've decided some things are so bad we're willing to ban their production and trade (human slavery, weapons of mass destruction). Some things are pretty much harmless (shoes, pizza). Lots of stuff falls in the middle (payday lending, pyramid schemes). Humans are exceptionally good are creating new stuff on each part of the spectrum, but Youtube seems to not be able to get a grip on the stuff near the bad end.
> I have a pair of Shure earphones that have "just worked" for going onto three years now. I had to change NOTHING on them, and they've never complained. I've worn them for 2+ hours Every. Single. Day. during that time period.

And I have a pair of Airpods that have "just worked" for I guess about two and a half years now. I've had to change NOTHING on them, and they've never complained. I've worn them for 2+ hours (almost) Every. Single. Day. during that time period.

> People are reporting rubbish battery lives on the Apple subreddit already

People are going to report a litany of problems with every new product. There is zero reason to believe that battery life on these new AirPods should be, outside of defective devices, any less than the previous model.
No one is selling fully path traced engines.

We're talking about adding RTX features on top of existing engines for a subset of calculations (reflections and global illumination).

It would be absolutely a killer app to have a fully path-traced engine. But that's 10 years away at the minimum. A $1200 GPU can only do ~1-sample-per-pixel at video game speeds (~60fps).

The heavy denoising and post-processing means that the majority of your video game graphics will remain rasterized. "RTX" is added on top for specific surfaces (ie: reflections on the water), or specific lights. There's simply not enough GPU power to get anything more than that right now.
Probably at the point new versions of your dependencies break your code. If you have no external dependencies, you should be fine.

It also gives you the freedom to have your projects wherever you want.
Comments don't get collapsed when they are flagged, they are collapsed by moderators manually.
> appeals to emotion in order to drive irrational thinking do not make for constructive debate.

In a perfect world, sure. Real world, you will never have an inherently emotional situation (road safety) where the only voices heard are those of completely detached individuals.

As humans, we have to figure out ways to connect with them, and empathize with what they're feeling. Simply dismissing their concerns as driven by emotion isn't a winning strategy.
I like comments where you can't tell if the author is defending something, or absolutely condemning it.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture was a revelation for me. Not that I went on and directly applied the knowledge in that book for the most part (largely due to the fact I've never been a Java developer), but the thinking behind the book really helped me go from "hack shit together" to a thoughtful and disciplined programmer.
After hearing this intriguing RadioLab episode some months back, I started searching around youtube for 40 Hz tones and found quite a lot of videos of all kinds that use those and other tones allegedly related to various brain waves (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc).

I listened to a whole bunch of these videos, and while I wasn't measuring my memory, I did pay close attention to how the sounds made me feel, and this one particular made me feel strangest: [1]. Unfortunately, the sound fades in and out and the effect goes with it. I wish it could have had stayed at a steady volume so that the effect could be sustained. If you watch it, just ignore the cheesy graphics and listen.

Here are some other interesting ones: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]

Video [3] is actually supposedly 40 Hz.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eTVW8VMRQ

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG22hV-gMsY

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGHbKWGgH_E

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhZPMTpW-gg

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-yz8l4Do-U

[6] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lN3X5qVoqQ
Incredible. I know Adam (the founder), and he is a super terrific nice guy. Good for them.
The fundamental failing is that the ownership of 'stroads' (including those in city centres) is typically with a government entity that is charged almost solely with vehicular traffic concerns.

The design solutions are there and obvious for prioritising pedestrians, cyclists, etc. But its impossible to enact these when road authorities are separate to planning authorities. The overarching solution is a structural change in governing these spaces.
The point of statistics isn’t to attain absolute certainty or for the statistical test to make a decision.

The point is for people to make a decision using probability as one available decision aid, and then deciding whether to place a bet.
In general I agree that regulation should be narrowly crafted.

The problem is that any law or rule is only as good as its enforcement. People forget this too often when writing regulations, ending up with rules that are too costly, or involve too much invasion of privacy to get right.

I think the lesson is that you should always consider enforcement when writing policy. It needs to be front-and-center, not a secondary concern. A worse policy may end up being better if it's more easily enforceable.
Is non-compressability a proper test for prng algorithms?

One method I know of is to seed 0x00h (binary all zero) or 0x00h - 1 (binary all 1 bits), and then mapcar every sequential set of 3 pseudo random numbers to a function that plots them onto a 3D graph as XYZ coordinates. Then count how many of those triplets have to be generated before it produces a solid 3d cube with no holes.

This often produces really interesting visual patterns for prngs that fail, and also directly tells you how efficient the algorithm is (or isn't, as the case may be).
The environmental Argument is interesting as I am thinking about getting AirPods precisely because Im sick of throwing away my regular in Ears because the headphone jacks keep breaking when I carry them crumbled in my jeans. (I hate having them tangle around while not in use). As an earlier poster pointed out: It all depends on your use case and preferences.
Hi, I implemented this. It doesn't check grammar. I wanted this project to be pretty lightweight and straightforward so it's unlikely that that's a feature I'll develop in the future.
Just because you think someone is so poor they should be grateful for a 3x loan doesn't make it legal or right. That's the definition of loansharking. It's been a pervasive problem that increases economic inequality because only the poorest would accept a loan with those steep terms. Just because it's related to something positive like teaching people to code doesn't make the 3x payback and less burdensome.

I'm not so worried about this company in particular, but if this business model works, imagine desparate people signing up for a $100k loan and having to pay back $300k, or getting $300k for a house and having to pay back $900k.

It's the payback rate that's the problem.

I also don't think it's a bad thing to be concerned about other people in our community.
Tourism is one of the great tragedies of the commons, and really tough nut to crack too.
I think the problem today moreso than 30 years ago is that the technology to view youtube videos is ubiquitous, cheap, and easy to conceal. Just the other day a coworker of mine was complaining that his child had snuck their ipod into their room and been watching youtube videos under the blankets late into the night.
Boeing Promised Pilots a 737 Software Fix Last Year, but They’re Still Waiting
"Alzheimer’s-Associated Pathology Mouse Models" doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.
atheism is dumb, whoever thought that opposing a metaphysical concept that lies way too close to the heart of those who believe in it was a good idea to curb religious influence wasn't on their brightest day.

Determining the lack of evidence of connection between religious entities and a supposed god is possible, saying a concept as ill defined as "god" does not exist doesn't even make sense to me.
Couple Have Spent 7 Years in the New Zealand Wilderness
No Spurious Local Minima in Nonconvex Low Rank Problems: A Unified Geometric Analysis [1]. Authored by Rong Ge, an absolute prodigy in the field if I might say. I'm sure we'll be seeing a great deal more from him in solidifying the theory behind the current day trial and error sort of deep learning we have today.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00708
they did mention there was a burn mark on the dining room table. not sure how that happened when smoking outside but that is damages
Again, a science critical comment was censored here. The parasite mafia needs to keep up appearances.
I don't know about corporate ownership (other than you'd be insane to not have at least an LLC) but I've stayed in AirBNB apartments that belonged to people with many such properties. My impression was it was individuals/families with maybe 5-10 properties in a city, as opposed to some MegaCorp, but this is also has a pretty nasty effect on the rental market for locals.
Don't Teslas fare significantly worse than cars in similar class in terms of driver fatalities?
Uhm, isn't the article title obvious? It would be rather surprising if they had the same characteristics.
An important clarification here: CLOs are sold to multi billion dollar asset managers (technically referred to as QIBs, entities that manage at least $100mm in Assets Under Management or more - the vast majority of the structured products business is dominated by large fund managers).

It is the highest tier of investor "suitability" recognized by the SEC. It's their job to understand these products and they have armies of people for it. It can take weeks to "market" these transactions and plenty of opportunities to sit down with bankers and CLO managers to get smart on the space. There is also a ton of supporting technology and research, all of which is available for free on S&P, Moody's, Fitch, Kroll and Morninstar's websites.

If you cannot sell this stuff to a QIB, who can you sell it to?
As frustrating as it is, you'll be amazed at how much you improve by learning things purely by ear.

Plug in some good headphones and get after it.
Baby carriages usually have some cargo space. Put the groceries there.

Also, we don't have to completely design cities around cars to support the single digit percentage of population that has infants at any given time. Some people can still drive even in pedestrian focused cities.
It's The Intercept, so...
quite opposite, see Mercedes S-Klasse.
Indeed, a terribly interesting read.

I have a couple friends who have a knack of landing on their feet like that. Somehow, they can plan nothing and experience everything in great intimacy and depth. It's a skill. I have no doubt that if the technicians were not there at the same time, some other opportunity would have arisen.
Yes the idea that its something unique to Airbnb is a myth. Miami Beach is dominated by hotels and they have strong anti-Airbnb messaging. Meanwhile their hotels dominate the skyline and take up all of the beachfront property. Some of the hotels will act like the beach is private if you don't rent their beach chairs which is of course not true.

The hotel industry distortion field is probably stronger in Miami Beach than almost anywhere because so much money depends on it.

I also don't believe that most the Airbnb rentals on Miami Beach are particularly cheap. The one nearby that I know of charges many thousands per night as its a mansion.
The majority of the demo was probably traditional rasterized graphics. Raytracing isn't "replacing" anything outside of reflections and global illumination in these realtime demos.

Will video gamers be willing to pay $600+ for GPUs like the 2070, 2080, or 2080 Ti, for a few improved shadows and reflections / refractions?

I think yes, but ONLY if you get a game to actually make shadows and reflections important. RTX benefits are a very subtle shift that costs a LOT of money right now.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/dise...

Agricultural or industrial runoff is not the only concern. The well equipment itself can become contaminated with beasties and the water can contain natural contaminants such as arsenic.
Really appreciate your replies. The two current GP partners have depth in this area. Really my big question was whether I should be asking for a piece of the GP-structure, or does general net profit share suffice? Is one generational versus the other? Again, thank you.