skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I think it is time that we argue about definitions. Many of them are starting to get loose.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/m...
Hypothetically the more the package costs... wait, the "packager' isn't taking a cut of how much the package costs like they do as an agent (where they take a cut of how much their client gets paid, so a cut of what the studio is _spending_, so they want the studio to spend more, at least on their clients), they're taking a cut of project revenue??? (Or profits, or something in between, either way).

Oh yeah, that's evil. They're not representing their client at all anymore.

The obvious way to align these interests is that the "packager" should share a portion of their "packaging" cut with the people "packaged". But of course, the point of the whole "packaging" economy seems to be so they don't have to do this.
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Sortition (that is, random selection) is a system for roughly-proportional representation; that is, for choosing multiple winners for a legislature so as to represent a population.

Approval voting is a way of picking a single winner.

They solve entirely separate problems.

(Sortition is nearly optimal if your only goal is to match the distribution of voters by a subset of equally-weighted representatives. Technically, it's possible to improve on it slightly by allowing voters to cluster themselves into a hierarchical structure of parties and factions, then performing sortition under the constraint that each party and/or faction must come within 1 seat of its correct proportional representation. This kind of technique is called "reduced-variance sampling" when used in sequential monte carlo sampling.

But sortition, or party-clustered sortition, pays no attention to candidate quality. Most people would agree that if there are two candidates that hold the same ideology, but the only difference is that one of the two has a medical problem that only allows them to work for 1 hour a week, the other one would make a better representative. Sortition cannot be fixed to take this kind of factor into account, which is a big part of why many people prefer more traditional voting methods.)
This is one reason Snowflake is killing it. The real market for "big data" is data warehousing, and users want a data warehouse that's in the cloud and portable among vendors.
Bracketing isn't the only mechanism for progressive taxation at play. There's also EIC, child tax credit, AMT, and a whole zoo of other exemptions and credits and deductions, etc.

Not to mention that the only reason a lookup is being used is to reduce opportunity for error in hand-calculating one's tax obligation. And it's also another big reason the current tax system doesn't fit on a post card: A pretty big chunk of the instruction booklet is those tax tables.
> They need to know that, because they need to decide if it's worth it in the first place

If this is the case, they should also be able to state the threshold above which the item would be "not worth it", and I would assume this is significantly easier to figure out than it takes developers to build a decent estimate.

From a developer point-of-view, the first high-level estimate is then much, much simpler: "Is it going to take more or less than $not_worth_it to build?"

If the answer is "more", then it gets dropped -- at least in its current state. It could be re-scoped later as a new item with a smaller MVP, for example.

If the answer is "less", then the developer can put in the time to get a proper estimate. I think there might also be an argument that if the backlog is properly ranked the detailed estimate also becomes pointless -- just work on it until it's done. No one should be doing detailed estimates on items that are more than a few weeks/sprints away in the first place.

Disclaimer: I've only recently been thinking about this abstractly, and have not yet tested this in practice, though I'd love to have this discussion with anyone that has.
Yes. What I can't understand is why this extra diagnostic information is not available with a keyboard shortcut, rather than with a change to the registry. If you get a blue screen on boot, you typically have no way to alter the registry. Holding shift or something would make much more sense.
That's fine with me. The two concepts of "open-source" at hand are drastically different. The lack of ability to verify the website's source code doesn't prevent me in any way from seeing its content which helps me verify journalist claims.

I hope the author is able to grow their service through marketing, licensing, and contracts with media agencies. Open-sourcing the service's software would be a distraction from that goal and would create fragmentation of its database when clones of the service are created. What's important for a service like this is open data, not necessarily an open-source stack.
Not at all constrained. It's already on the market, but maintenance is excrutiating, so that's why we want to rewrite.
"Cutler protocol" refers to recommendations from a man with a PhD in Chemistry named Andrew Hall Cutler aka Andy Cutler. He wrote some books about doing proper chelation and served as a chelation consultant for some years. I was fortunate to be internet acquainted with him and spoke with him once by phone.

His books are considered "gold standard." They are generally deemed to have better information than most doctors do about safe, proper chelation. You can tell they are still highly valued by people trying to cure themselves after all their doctors have failed them based on their high prices for used paperbacks:

https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Hall-Cutler/e/B001K8VH30/ref=d...
> Taxis and Ubers are forms of public transportation

Not under any definition of public transit I've heard. Lyft and uber are private companies that exploit labor in unsustainable ways to compete with actually efficient forms of public transit. Taxis are much closer to being actual public transit as their cost reflects the inefficiency of having a devoted driver, but they are still not owned by the government and are disproportionately available to the rich.

Busses are public transit and actually reduce congestion. Uber and lyft are well-marketed and vc-funded luxury services. They cause congestion proportional to their users, i.e. orders of magnitude more congesting than buses.
SQL's null really isn't incomprehensible.

It just means "unknown". It's broadly like "undefined" in js.
There most definitely is. My significant other (who is training as an equine veterinarian) is frequently in contact with “synthetic cadavers” made by http://syndaver.com
Was she the wealthiest female in the world before the divorce?
This is really cool. I did not know it was possible to print metallic structures like this. Thanks for sharing!
The "why" is "they're not social animals and we didn't breed them for sociability".

Many friendlier cats do respond to their names, at least some of the time. Cats aren't completely asocial: feral cats form associations. It's just less pronounced than with dogs.

The article doesn't really get into why the cats ignore you, though I figure it's mostly "because they can".
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Arrow's theorem applies only to ordinal voting methods. Approval is not actually subject to Arrow's theorem; it's not even well-defined whether it passes the criteria.

However, there are various voting impossibility theorems inspired by Arrow which do apply to approval. Most notably, Gibbard-Satterthwaite.
And as a buyer's agent, they make more money the _more_ you pay for the house you are buying, where of course you'd rather pay as little as you can get it for.

Even if the amount more they'll be making is trivial, it ends up being the same as the seller's agent problem in reverse. At best their incentives are to not care how much you pay, but want you to buy a house already without them showing you more. At worst, they actually want you to pay more.
I am not sure that's a fair statement. The other manufacturers (most, but especially in the luxury segments) build higher quality cars with much lower rates of error. Tesla enthusiasts (much like early adopters of things) are forgiving and overlook a lot of imperfections (fit and finish on teslas vary greatly -see Youtube reviews). This has been the primary reason holding me back for purchasing one.

Tesla's existing accomplishments and ability to meet tough goals is admirable, but their first to market advantage is starting to fade away as more companies bring to market competitive cars without the quality issues (however few they might be pumping out for now).
Probably depends on how much of the stock was technically "hers" prior to divorce proceeding - maybe not much?
Note that this was from 2017.
I heard about this again on NPR this afternoon. Turns out in addition to buying a new house and not telling anyone about it he also rented a super cheap, rundown apartment. He used this for anything he was required to provide a valid address for.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw that a transfer (it's called a "wire transfer") will cost me $35 on the sending side, and the receiver will pay another $25. Then you need the bizarre routing numbers which banks bizarrely obfuscate for even more bizarre reasons and which are easy to get wrong because there is no checksum. And then it takes days.

No wonder when anything even slightly better appears, people jump on it.

For comparison, a SEPA transfer in the EU costs around 1 EUR, gets done within a single business day, and account numbers have checksums, so you can't easily make a mistake.
Yes, Boeing issued this service bulletin after Lion Air:

http://www.avioesemusicas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TBC...

And the FAA made it an emergency airworthiness directive in response.

The steps on it were broadly followed by the Ethiopian flight.
Yep this was one of the reasons that a boot partition for linux and other operating systems became some common back in the early 2000s. Disks outpaced the hardware and a lot of them didn't support reading from further in on the disk. Operating systems could use drivers to talk directly to the hardware and then get around that limitation once booted but everything they needed to that point needed to be available early on.
Could not agree more with this. Whether it is data warehousing, a maze of micro-services, or machine learning for your basic crud app you should look into whether you truly actually need it and whether it helps solve a real problem you have. A basic stack with Rails/Django and Postgres can get you quite far. This is often as much as most companies/startups ever need.

Also personally love the callout to Joe who while being a professor is consistently practical on when approaches do or don't make sense and at what scale they do.
Please don't read it literally.

Seems like author did not really meant that to be specific advice or exact manual. It seems more like talking piece and maybe some distant idea we could strive for.

I was also at first thinking "what kind of company has those kind of resources, and what kind of ideal world is that where you can plan 3 weeks of work in 1 week without adding stuff to sprint".
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In my case, a multi-tenant application, i split the application into multiple services, one service per module.

It's not about scalability or about anything technical. It's about domain understanding and data isolation.

There's NO problem here to understand.
It's just one way to manage our data. Or another way speaking, design for failure.
It is up to the seller, but when an experienced professional who tells you they have your best interests in mind tells you to underprice (because it's better for their bottom line)...

Actually, that's the poster child for a conflict of interest.
I used to be very into professional SC2. Stopped watching after realizing Protoss was always going to be a gimmicky race.

But yeah, I very rarely ever ran into others who watched professional SC2.
There has been a lot of fud and scaremongering on China and Russia with very little evidence and facts. This makes it look like the commitment to competition, free markets and due process is hollow and self serving and the moment it doesn't benefit you you try to change the rules.

China is now running into some of these invisible barriers and constraints that have been in place all along and this brings them into light and exposes the self serving hypocrisy of the current system to the rest of the world. There are global mechanisms to take complaints with evidence yet this 'war' is not being fought in the trade commissions but in the public press with innuendo and smears and political pressure on allies.

How do we then even talk about words like competition, free trade and innovation in neutral terms when companies like Qualcomm can succeed unhindered while others like Huawei are politically demonized and constrained in market access.
The trim wheel is mechanically connected via cables to turn the jackscrew.
You misread the document. You're quoting from the vulnerabilities section, which lists scenarios that Chromebooks either do or do not protect against ("We cannot prevent this attack").
My (non-expert) reading is that the co-pilot couldn't move the wheel, while the pilot was engaged in fighting to to keep the stick pulled back (a Swedish pilot tried this scenario in a simulator last week and literally had to keep both arms locked around the stick towards the end).

Counter-intuitively, letting go of the stick in brief increments might have been the correct move. Letting the nose pitch down would take force off the jackscrew and let both pilots crank hard on the stabilizer. Boeing manuals once covered this, but apparently they haven't since the 1980s, and their directive after the Lion Air accident made no mention of the necessity of such a procedure. Also they were only 7,000 feet above the ground so whether or not they'd have recovered in time is hard to say. Quite possibly the MCAS had already doomed the flight.
Anecdotally, I've heard many eSports players and game streamers talk about how working out and staying healthy has become a hobby for them because when they play so much of a game as job, they don't want to spend their free time doing it too. Sitting for that long is also unhealthy so making a hobby of working out is quite natural for them.
Aaahh, I see; thanks.

Also, *planetary.
There is a bit of transferability though.

ElkY is a former Starcraft pro who turned to poker with great success. He now plays Hearthstone.
He used his skills as a Starcraft player to play online poker on many tables at once. Reaching the highest levels on PokerStar and joining the resident team.

And while there are hyperspecific skills, like any activity at such a high level of play, what differentiate e-sports from traditional sports is that things change fast, really fast. A video game lifespan is relatively short and between that are new content, patches, and new techniques. Adapting quickly is very important. And indeed, pro players are often young and don't stay on top for very long.
It is kind of weird that the account name is unchangeable since it's really only visible to the account holder and not tied to anything else. I agree that it should be unique since it's a sign-on credential but it really ought to be a label for the account number.
This is a great demonstration! As someone with an interest in the idea of statistics, but absolutely zero formal training, this solidified a lot of the terms I have heard and kind of get, but didn't put together until now.

I would love to see more of these types of explanations for other statistics concepts!

Side note: I did find a typo in your explanation:

>To determine the outcome of our test, we compare our p-value to a significance level. This should be determined a prioir

That should be spelled "a priori"
They also made it impossible to work with someone more than a few times unless you pay extra
Yeah if you've gone through a good chunk maybe complete it.

I really hate knowing how easy it is to do some queries and struggling to use the Django ORM to achieve what I could write in minutes - but for maintainability I hate dropping down to SQL in that context.

For a fun advanced tutorial, have a go at pivot tables with crosstab using the docs. I've used it for analytics queries to chart categories as headings, with complex aggregations etc.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/tablefunc.html

Window functions are another classic

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/tutorial-window.html

In general working with SQL and gradually solving the problems you have learning as you go is excellent. If you want faster than that there probably are courses but I really do rate their docs. Postgres is great.
That looks plenty readable. Ugly as hell, sure, but not any worse then 3N6|_15H \/\/R1773N 45 1337 5P34|<, for example. It's a vast improvement over [0915][094D][0937][0924][094D][0930][093F][092F].
Does it matter what he says his intent was? He can paint whatever story he likes in interviews, but nobody would appreciate a random person going right in their face and beating a drum, especially a young kid. You can even see him flinching because of the proximity.

Not sure what you're talking about "hearing that story", the video evidence is clear as day.
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A friend of mine launched a producthunt campaign like a real noob. But anyway, take a look on it and give us a feedback. Any kind of comments are welcome!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ailment
The KD course is not outdated. I was one of those NCOs with the pith helmet for 18 months. Not only the KD course, but also the pistol course. I was also chosen to teach the Air Force and Army different skills on their own weapons because I was very good at what I did. I actually went to school for this as a secondary MOS. I can tell for a fact very few can adjust their dopes quickly when they lose fine motor skills in the chaos of battle or training. The Army regulars were shocked at the level we went to. The Rangers and Air Force PJs we worked with were always up at the top with their skills by dint of their job requirements. Even the famous Army AMU gives kudos to the Marines for the KD course. I've worked with several of them in exchange programs. The Army is largely an occupational force, while the Marines are an expeditionary force. Short of the Rangers/SF types, the missions are almost always different and the marksmanship skills are different, although they should be the same. The Marines value high levels of marksmanship more than the other services. It's not always about hop and pop. This is why the Corps copied the Russian doctrine of a DM in all platoons. In some Russian platoons, there is a DM in every squad, which is a fantastic idea. The little 5.56 is largely a poodle shooter unless you're within 100M. .30 any day, every day.
The average Ethiopian IQ is 69. Just sayin'.
Cities are valuable in part for the high variety of interactions possible with so many different people. We should figure out how to do fast point-to-point individual transportation for cities. If you live in a city and meet someone interesting, you should be able to be friends with them without one of you having to move.

The US should spend some money researching this possibility. There used to be ideas of moving sidewalks, jet packs, flying cars, etc. These probably won't work but small, high-speed, electric pods in tunnels might.
That is an interesting question that comes up a lot.

There really are no larger players who already operate reactors other than the power industry (power reactors generally cannot be used for radioisotope production) or government-run research laboratories. Realistically there is nothing preventing a government entity from joining the fun, but they will never be competitive. South Korea has spent several billion dollars designing a new reactor model and developing fuel for it (which I tested in ATR a few years ago, oh the irony!). It will be dedicated to doing the exact same thing I am. They've been at it since 2012 and they haven't broken ground on their facility yet. Last I checked the project caught a bad case of NIMBY.

The second part of the answer is that most of the processes are trade secret. If you dig deep enough, you can find a journal article or two from several decades ago, and even some newer ones where a different approach is studied. However, most of the existing players have an optimized process protected by trade secret. It takes a lot of domain expertise spread over several hard science fields to effectively get into the business.
Another reason why I like Xiaomi software over other Android phones:

When app crashes Android simply tells you that "Unfortunately, App has stopped". Xiaomi UI additionally presents you the stack trace.

BTW: Android used to (?) have "Report" button, but it seems it's gone on new versions (Since 5.0?). Anybody knows where these reports were send? Probably to Android OS team, just like MS sends some crash infos of 3rd party apps to themselves.
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If you look at America like a giant company then the American dream was somewhat alike to company vision statement. Having a vision statement like that seems to have helped a lot in the past, perhaps better than companies with no vision. One of the biggest issues with these kind of top level visions is they are pretty much set forever and even if they are not working anymore it is extremely hard to replace them with something else.

But perhaps it's time to start trying?
A site would have to get quite big to have many casual readers from Fergus Falls (population ~13000) preapproving its German articles though, even taking into account some people remember meeting him and eventually got round to blogging about it.

Actually, it's interesting how little attention internet haters paid to Relotius, considering he was writing on polarising subjects, winning awards and he was arrogant enough to throw in details that were trivially proven wrong like election results as well as random deniable lies about the individuals he interviewed or said he interviewed. Perhaps writing in German and on things happening overseas helped shield him. But yeah, agree that internet haters are the way forward for crowdsourced factchecking (at least on subjects a bit less partisan than politics or sport where the haters can generally be relied on to reach some sort of consensus)
The only thing consistent about Agile is that everyone is doing it wrong.
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Google doc with (currently) 101 options:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...
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The article does not claim that the government was giving away roads for free. It says that the true economic cost has been hidden such that decisions around it and other infrastructure have not had to account for that cost.