skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not they should be preferred, there is massive institutional and knowledge-related inertia behind frequentist approaches. Rather than throw out the baby with the bathwater, throw out all legacy code and retrain millions of scientists in Bayesian, we should consistently urge better use of frequentist approaches.

To transition the next generation of scientists to Bayesian will require universities/stats depts/other depts to do so. Have you seen this to be the case right now? Because in my experience of a few different research settings, almost no one I know, of around 50+ researchers, except those passionate about statistics (very rare person indeed) is using Bayesian methodology.

How to improve Bayesian knowledge in the world? This has its own set of challenges, as Bayesian thinking is arguably more mathematically challenging for most numerophobic people. IMO, it will take multiple generations of effort to transition everyone over.
The issue here is that garbage is an externality. If the device can be repaired it remains in service, otherwise it goes to a landfill to be replaced by another device that will itself also end up there.

Garbage is a problematic externality because if you try to charge true cost for it, people throw their garbage in the street or the ocean instead of paying. So we generally have subsidized trash pickup, and then "the market" literally overproduces garbage due to the subsidy.

One solution to that is to require the devices to pay the recycling cost up front, but everybody hates that because it makes the device more expensive, moreso than making it repairable would.

The other is to require it to be modular/repairable so that when one component fails or becomes obsolete it can be replaced or upgraded, which extends the life of the other components and reduces the total number of devices that have to be produced and ultimately end up in a landfill.

This may actually increase the original purchase price of the device by quite a bit, because the manufacturer will end up selling fewer units (that's the whole idea) but still have to recover the same fixed costs. But then the user doesn't have to replace their device as often, so the net cost should be slightly lower (the gain being the actual reduction in waste).
What happens when someone has an emergency like a stroke or heart attack? Not a lot of time to email all the local hospitals. What happens when the patient is unconscious? What happens if their condition can only be treated by a certain facility or medication?

But yes, surely people are only getting screwed over the healthcare system because they are lazy. /s
You could even skip the "sorry I can't comment" bit; just as well to introduce with, "this is what I had to do to make [other answer] work".

Answers are kinda the whole point after all; no shame in writing them...
So currently it does compromise on security? Seems extremely misleading to claim any security if you are just currently ignoring the last years worth of major security issues.
Just an anecdote on the price and quality of delivery in China -- I've lived in China for a total of 1.5 years on and off. I've yet, to date, cook a meal myself. 饿了么 and 美团 are so convenient that you can order just about any meal and have it delivered in 20 minutes. Unlike the massive fees and wait time in the US, you'll normally get the meal still hot for less than 5RMB (less than 1USD) for the delivery.
Podcasts are downloaded from source, but may also be downloaded and played locally. Knowing download data isn't the same as knowing it was actually played (I regularly delete podcasts from my feed, but my client still downloads them), let along if I'm pausing for periods at a time, or fast forwarding, or any other habits that may be useful.
I think we may be talking about different things. You're talking about the language itself. I was talking about the neurological structures that produce the behaviors that are language.

I poked through the optimality literature in biology pretty thoroughly a few years back. There is a great deal of interest, but except in a few cases where a simple piece of natural history is nicely described by an evolutionary game, the choice of criterion to optimize is generally arbitrary. Without an evolutionary mechanism and observations of forces driving that mechanism there is no reason beyond just-so stories to apply any particular criterion.
This is entirely meaningless at this point in the race. There may be some enthusiasts paying attention right now, and they're prone to focusing on particular candidates, but a more likely bet is that most primary voters are waiting to see how candidates perform with a view to backing the best candidate who has the best chance of winning.
If I was a another big company my 1 April would now be "Following Microsoft we are also banning..."
Why though? I would like my government to be open to at least listening to lots of different ideas and applying an investment mindset to them. You're right, there is little operational experience that comes with being a VC. But you dont need that to initiate groundbreaking projects. Hoover didn't pour concrete at the Hoover Dam. Kennedy didn't know the rocket equation.
> and let me be clear; I’m a pacifist... putting all the money spent on weapons into increasing interdependence is a much more effective strategy. You don’t want to level your debtors/creditors

Lots of people want to level their creditors. Economic interdependence didn't prevent the World Wars--to some degree, it exacerbated them because some countries (e.g. Germany and Japan) had strategic reasons to secure their supply of natural resources.
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Delete your cookies to get access to N.Y. Times after hitting the paywall.
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> Easier said than done when you're only other option is toiling in a field.

Yes. There is times that developer do not have a real option to say no. But, it is good for junior developers to understand what they are agreeing to and what are the consequences.

In the end businesses are going to ask for so much as legally is possible. If 15 hours/day where legalized, it is what people would get.
(P)NaCl is dead: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/31/googles_portable_na...
I had an interview about a decade ago, before doing a massive amount of prep on toy problems became standard for interviews candidates. The first question was to implement itoa, by far the easiest question of the day, and one presumably designed to warm the candidate up while also directing interviewers whether they should even bother with their harder questions.

I walked to the whiteboard and just wrote the implementation top to bottom without mistakes, then explained the code. I may have been a little lucky that I didn’t have any missteps, such as briefly forgetting to handle negatives or zero, or not immediately realizing that the first idea that pops into your head for pulling digits off will be a little awkward as you want to fill the string in the reverse order. But I’d never done itoa before so I didn’t think to offer any sort of disclaimer about why this was particularly easy, I was just happy with my performance and ready to do the next question.

The interviewers excused themselves and I saw them consulting the person who recommended me down the hall. I was surprised to learn that they were asking if it was possible I’d been supplied a list of interview questions and memorized the answers, to work out whether they even wanted to proceed from there.
Possibly, but in cases where someone is being willfully obtuse (which I'm not claiming is the case here, but I see it elsewhere a lot), how else are you supposed to respond? Constantly being polite when someone is being willfully contrary actually seems to result in the other person appearing to win the argument according to bystanders. We see this in politics all the time: the candidates who sling mud and make bad arguments and cite outright falsehoods win elections, while the ones who always take the high road lose.
A low barrier to entry is arguably a good thing.
The NaCl/PNaCl team is working on Web Assembly these days, for one.
Glass is often harder to recycle than plastic. Our county's single-stream facility recycles glass into construction fill.

We really need to get back to reusing bottles rather than trying to recycle them.
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Trump is a business person in the same way that the Kardashians are business people. They have businesses, but they are, first and foremost, celebrities.
If your dinner comes out of the kitchen faster than you think it should, there's a chance it, or is ingredients, were bulk cooked in a central kitchen somewhere else during lunch, then shipped to the restaurant and just assembled or spruced up before being presented to you.

Another sign of this is if the building doesn't seem to have enough space for a kitchen of a size needed to serve the number of seats in the dining room.
Are phones actually spark hazards?

I remember a mythbusters episode where they filled an outbuilding with dozens of different cellphones and lots and lots of open cannisters of gasoline and other petrochemicals, then called them all repeatedly without incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrkwxMhc4s

I'm sure there are parts of a refinery where even static electricity could be enough to set something off but I'd assume they were not areas that people typically worked.
Not disagreeing with you, but you can visit the NYT website as much as you want in incognito mode.
Arguably, Donald Trump is more of a media celebrity through inherited wealth that was funneled through mock business transactions for tax evasion than an actual businessman the way Yang is, but I'm not sure people are prepared to make the distinction, so that might be an effective political line against Yang even if it's not all that true in any relevant sense.
Google already deprecated them in favor of WebAssembly.
for the economics experts: how could the market eliminate this problem by itself ?
> work across the aisle and actually get things done

If the proposed action is part of / agreeable with the $opposing_party platform, I don't think I _want_ it to get done; with extraordinarily few exceptions.

I'd prefer someone who can push forward without compromising the point of the platform.
> so horrifying that nobody would eat it if they saw it in person

Is that because of food safety or the way employees are treated? I can't imagine its that different than how supermarket ingredients are prepared - most people wouldn't like the insides of a chicken slaughterhouse, commercial fishing boat etc either.
What you're saying about long wave is true for monostatic radar where you're using the angle of the beam to localize the target. In the multistatic case, you don't need to do this, it can be all timing based. This wasn't possible in the past because we didn't have the ability to easily synchronize clocks to high precision and the computers and communication technology to easily fuse the results. We do now though.
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That seems like it's _always_ how it is with stats... I find it very easy to get lost in stats presentations and articles with my STAT100-esque-understanding of simple random vars/distributions/PMF+PDFs
Sixties is retirement age.
We had a birth recently and the residents (who get paid very little) did 80% of the work while the attending surgeon came and went and probably spent a total of 15 minutes with us. The insurance company was still billed almost 10k for a epidural.
(1) By measuring the location of a few designated landmarks, it should be possible to extrapolate tectonic-level shifts to all other points on the same plate pretty accurately.

(2) Changes on a smaller scale, e.g. due to a landslide, are probably less surprising when they cause a change in location codes. On the other hand, there might be some houses on a hill somewhere slowly sliding down, where the system doesn't work.

(I also realized that my previous comment can be read as supporting a flat earth theory, especially the part about the sphere being imaginary. I firmly believe that the earth is a bumpy ellipsoid, though.)
There's aspiration, and there's reality. The reality is that virtually all games, which are most of the Play Store, depend on native code. Without those games, Android would be much less attractive of a platform. Even if Google wanted to break them, they realistically can't.
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You could start with Pachter's sendup (https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non...), and the Wikipedia article on Barabasi has a short section on criticisms. I read his work, figured out it was nonsense, and put him on the list of authors whose papers I automatically threw in the garbage. Kim Lewis is another one of those.
Huh. I gotta go put my diploma in a ziplock bag.
How do you feel about mandatory warranty periods? I see the requirement of repair manuals for a mass-produced product as a very similar thing, and both are justified as part of ensuring a fair bargain where you get what you paid for, not a device that randomly fails and wastes all the money you put into it.
The article doesn't specify, they could be just looking at patterns of "usual" vs "unusual" ad ids showing up.

However, re-identification of "anonymous" ad ids is extremely common, and they could easily be using a service that gives them, for instance, a home address and email account associated with the phone via re-identification methods.
A bit like some people hire actors to pretend you have more employees.

Could you expand on this or link to an example? It seems like this wouldn't be cost effective (or useful).
Clicker Heroes is a shameless clicker-clone, but one of the better ones.

I think universal paperclips is definitely one of the best idle games, but I'd give Clicker Heroes (the original) a strong contender. I know Clicker Heroes 2 is out, but I haven't tried it yet myself.

Clicker Heroes goes for the shameless simplicity of growth, but its got the biggest numbers and the most "acceleration" out of any clicker game I've seen.
This was the answer for me. I accumulated 200 rep basically goofing off on codegolf.stackexchange.com and no longer feel hindered on other SE sites even as a mostly-passive user. If that's not your bag there are plenty of other subsites that are accessible to users with few tech chops: puzzling, worldbuilding, rpg, etc.
I'm taking a wait-and-see approach in general, but I do find Yang one of the most interesting candidates so far. Just to respond to this specific point, Yang wrote recently on Twitter [1]:

There are lessons and principles that government can take from business - like treating customers well and resource efficiency. But anyone who says they are going to “run government like a business” is dumb. They require very different forms of leadership.

As a CEO you can pretty much tell people what to do. You are their boss. You are paying them. If you say we are doing something then it generally happens. The downside is no one tells you unpleasant truths.

In government most all of the time you are building consensus. You provide a vision and try to rally people around it. You build relationships. You compromise. You appeal to common goals. Things often happen more gradually. But when big things happen they can improve many lives.

[1] https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1107126100163858432
Seems like they should be able to get a team of volunteers together to go to the shipping container and remove the phones by hand so they don't keep going out into the ocean. How hard can this possibly be?
The problem I see in the US is a defensive approach against being sued by the patient. The doctor prescribes a battery of tests even though he is more or less sure what the symptom might be. But let's play it safe and not get sued! Healthcare professionals carry insurances in millions against being sued. This ultimately gets passed on to customers. Accountability is good, but not at this cost!
> You're right, there is little operational experience that comes with being a VC.

Operational experience is not my concern.

> applying an investment mindset to them

This is my concern. I don't trust people in the VC industry to have a healthy concept of an investment mindset.
As the poster above mentioned, I could not get the "numbers" to load on Firefox, even with uBlock turned off.
Yup, my university used Moss and caught a ring of cheaters with it. Funnily enough at my first job I actually worked on a product that was essentially Moss with a slicker UI, and it would also check online sources such as Github. It worked fairly well, essentially we highlight areas of code that look suspect and it is up to the professor to determine whether it is copied or not.

Haven't worked there in almost a year so I'm not sure if the product took off or not.
This says that by weight, only 8% of the pacific garbage patch is microplastics and that the majority is fishing gear with fishing nets accounting for 46%.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-ga...
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Are you a CEO? What you say about being a CEO doesn’t ring true to me.
Wood doesn't break down under landfill conditions either, at least not on human time scales.

But wooden objects do biodegrade within human time scales if just left in a meadow. The same is true of polylactic acid objects. Neither wooden nor PLA objects break down in a home composting system like orange peels do, but both biodegrade much faster than e.g. polystyrene.
> Okay. Your definition

Not really. I did expound on this in the very comment you replied to.

> I agree that "trust" is a component, but it doesn't have to make sense.

Perhaps that is true if you are a hobbyist commenting on the internet. It does have to make sense in security management, though. The definitions of the terms are well understood in business and there are liabilities when associated terms are violated. That is why there are security certifications that are valued and recognized by the software industry, so that the people who do this for a living having a common shared understanding of the risks and penalties.
Not entirely meaningless. News outlets will need to select who gets coverage and invitations to debates. Absent many other objective rationales, they'll lean on poll numbers to make those decisions.
Was her name Marion Ravenwood?
I'm not so sympathetic to that idea in the first place. A business, particularly a corporation, is one of the most authoritarian structures ever devised. If the government were like a business, every citizen would be either an asset to be exploited or a liability to be eliminated.
That's right, the button instantly adds the caller ID to a blacklist. In my experience, spammers don't rotate their numbers very often, so the button works well enough. YMMV of course.
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The point of the article, as I read it, is that 50 years ago there basically weren't instructors: very few college/university classes were taught by anyone other than (tenured or tenure-track) professors. That model has been increasingly abandoned in recent years: "we discard[ed] the idea of college faculty". If there ever was a reason that university teachers deserved tenure, that reason has eroded or been outright cast aside over the past few decades. The author of the article thinks that's a bad thing, and I tend to agree.
Food is cheap in China to begin with. The place in an underground garage nearby sells CNY 18 meals - a bow of rice + some stew. Downside? Completely full during lunch hours.

In a company I worked before, before the food delivery craze, we were regularly ordering fancy restaurant quality catering into office for like CNY 200 for 20 people. And that in Shanghai.

Nowadays, everybody just orders whatever they want themselves.
Can someone dumb this down a bit and explain? Why would you want to generate the random seed using your company name?
The thing they lied about was that they plane flew the same as the old 737s. So maybe I need to be more specific and say that someone inside Boeing that could prove they knew it flew differently and lied about it to keep the type rating. Keeping the type rating is fine as a goal as long as it is true. Two crashes and hundreds dead prove it is absolutely false.
Same. And they also have a more comprehensive API (though less fields, but as we never need more than lat, long, country and ZIP that is fine.
I can’t believe Apple has not yet pulled this ludicrously stupid keyboard design.

I bought a 2016 MBP and it was defective the day I bought it. Swapped it out for a new one and that one experienced the issue within a few months. Had it repaired. Now it’s doing it again.

I have a 2017 MBP for work. Same issue about a year into usage. All my coworkers have had the exact problem with theirs.

Go into any Apple Store and you’ll likely see multiple “geniuses” using compressed air on these machines to “fix” the issue.

I won’t be buying another Mac portable computer until they actually admit and address this stupid keyboard design.
Does anyone here have thoughts about the quality of candidates as it relates to their ages (i.e. comparing late 70's Bernie/Biden and these younger candidates)? While I like the policies of Bernie, for instance, I ideally would prefer someone who doesn't have a high % likelihood of serious medical issues in the next 4 years of their life.

Is there an age that is too old to be a CEO/President/Senator/leading figure? Are they necessarily out of touch, lacking in resiliency, not forward-looking, or any of the factors we look for in our leaders?
I think they need to qualify 'cheapest' because as a Brit I wouldn't have to pay anything (directly) for any of these things.

Now the costs of doing the procedures are probably lower, but I have no idea what they would cost in this country.
Andrew Yang has never worked for a VC as far as I can tell. What are you referring to?
That article doesn't make any claims about the quality or the labor except to quote a chef saying that "conditions in a container kitchen are probably better than in many traditional restaurant kitchens."
https://www.apnews.com/e48ed9941ff14766979e0fef232f4729
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It would be wise to not trust any phenomenon which blows up online, given the ease of generating such a phenomenon artificially.
Assuming there will be no content after you pass, you could always arrange for it to become a physical book.
Youre not wrong that there is a lot of focus on tech specifically with regards to progressive anti-trust policy. But it doesnt have to be one or the other. Our definitions of what a monopoly is, like the article states, has to do with consumer pricing rather than if a firm is a monopoly or not.

Personally, I think amazon, if properly divided, could be dozens of healthy, competitive businesses. Maybe if there were less monolithic, open standards would be more important to facilitate cooperation and integration. In some ways this applies to the brick and mortar / ISP companies too.
> I'm vaguely sympathetic to the idea of "elect a business person so they can run government like a business"

I really don't want a government that ruthlessly cuts costs that don't drive revenue and uses all mechanisms within reach to maximize lock-in and extract monopoly rents from customers.