skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't blindly perform standard statistical analysis on such data with the usual techniques. But to declare it statistical garbage is simply going too far.

In fact, anecdotes are the way in which we are able to make sense of the world at all. We do not as individuals do most of our learning via explicit statistical analysis.

Your essential point, however, stands in the sense that one should certainly not act as if anecdotes are statistically unbiased. And your average person is terrible at proper statistical reasoning. People tend to over-emphasize their own experience. (Though this is evolutionarily and historically useful - a feature, not a bug). So, yes, someone presenting their own anecdote or set of anecdotes as data is often misguided.

But there are, in fact, many studies (academic or industrial), that, are, in fact, just that! Collections of anecdotes. Self-reported experiences via surveys, error reports, reviews, and the like, which can be mined for data or looked at to see if there are any patterns.

There are issues such as "WEIRD" (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) samples.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
There are three basic approaches: Ignore the problem and use the results as-is. Declare the sample hopelessly biased and throw it out altogether until you can find a more representative sample. Or acknowledge the bias in the sample, but continue to use it along with careful annotations as a low-confidence best-guess until better data come along. The last is the obvious best approach in an ideal world, though biases such as motivated reasoning and poor reporting by the media often means that reporting such partial results can do more harm than good.

For a more mathematically grounded approach, you could apply Bayesian reasoning: take into account your priors (including the best guess of your expected bias in your sample compared to the distribution from which you are sampling), and figure out exactly how much evidence each anecdote constitutes. It might not be much, but it's something.

I'll close by mentioning that the quote is actually a misquote:
http://blog.danwin.com/don-t-forget-the-plural-of-anecdote-i...

“I said ‘The plural of anecdote is data’ some time in the 1969-70 academic year while teaching a graduate seminar at Stanford. The occasion was a student’s dismissal of a simple factual statement–by another student or me–as a mere anecdote." - Wolfinger
> I'm not that interesting

I disagree. Your thoughts on this topic have gone to the top of HN. To me, that implies you're interesting enough to be able to write thoughtful pieces that a bunch of other online armchair commentators agree with and upvote :)

Don't sell yourself short, friend!
Really? In the US? Do you have any good article on that?
it certainly is possible. in the old days, the elite kept power over people using things like religion, and still do although to a lesser degree. however, now the internet has provided the power to control and manipulate like no other thing before.

sure, the internet has enabled some huge things. but if i step back to my life before the internet was a central component of daily life, i can't say definitively whether the internet has provided a net positive effect on my life or not. and i feel more and more that it has kept me from fulfilling myself by capturing my attention and time.

look at the way youtube has progressed. it used to be a platform filled with authenticity. now, it's been overwhelmed by what is described by leeches that try to manipulate and siphon off its users.

much of this is covered by adam curtis in his documentaries, and i would start by watching "all watched over by machines of ever loving grace". the internet started out as an authentic place but not has turned against its users in its powder to control and manipulate.
I use <last>.com which makes for a neat <first>@<last>.com email.

I've had it for more than 20 years. Funny story is that the hosting company keeps being bought, acquired or merged. I think I went through this process 6 times now which meant creating/converting a new account just in time to pay the yearly invoice.
Thousands of years ago your ancestors may have asked why they should adapt their teeth to be able to survive on either meat or plants. And it would have been a good question. Nevertheless...
EV battery maker LG Chem sues SK Innovation, alleges trade secret theft
>And why did you edit out "China's human rights may be even worse" from your comment? That's certainly something that is up for debate.

That comment didn’t seem relevant in hindsight. The article is only about Russia. Discussion of China’s human rights record would not be on-topic commentary.
Even with Robots, Manufacturers Need the Human Touch
> The saddest part about personal websites now is that if someone googles your name, your presence on social media sites, an about page of a project or company you worked for, or any news outlet article where your name is mentioned will rank first and ahead of any personal website.

I have my site linked on pretty much all those social sites, and it ranks first.

Have a globally unique name, not to mention a first.last domain probably doesn’t hurt either.
It's interesting to know that you can install partial packages. I personally roll with texlive-science.
I recently wrote a blog about “Dutch Oven Fried Chicken”[1], I don’t think it’s particularly interesting and anyone can do it. However, now I can send a link to a friend and go back and make the recipe myself.

Blogging for me isn’t about popularity. It’s about being able to share ones ideas and document your interests. I send links to my blog all the time, because I wrote about topics I found challenging / fun. I don’t think it’s the best, but it is my own thoughts.

Speaking of which... I’ve written about learning through storytelling[2] and blogging[3].

[1] https://austingwalters.com/dutch-oven-fried-chicken/

[2] https://austingwalters.com/how-storytelling-effects-learning...

[3] https://austingwalters.com/learning-through-blogging/
It's not distributed, from what I see. I don't see stuff about agents.

Oh, it does, via DYI SSH, sort of. Could work, I guess.
There's nothing wrong with those options either. But some problems are opinionated or not specific enough for Stack Overflow (e.g. "what are the alternatives to include comments on a static site"). There's also the certainty that my content remains independent from other platforms and it remains available online as long as I keep paying for my server + domain.
There is the Gosper curve :
http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mkss3-pix/CalderheadJMM2014.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve
We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned
I've tried a few different key strategies. A UUID per row per table seems to work best. Where I define "best" as "suiting my data better".

I get the thing about deriving keys from data, but it always seems messy to me. I've seen too many weirdnesses in "real" data to be comfortable that there will not be any collisions (I used to play around with a database of every person and their address in the UK. There were several cases of people having the same name, the same birthdate, the same street name, but different towns. Not to mention the hundreds of cases of twins with only an middle initial to tell them apart.)

UUID's might be clunky and a little slower, but at least I will never get a collision, and never cause a problem if I use one key instead of another. I'm totally happy to spend more time optimising my database in exchange for those guarantees.
It's not about what it's supposed to do. Any time spent among people and communicating with them affects your interpersonal skills, whether it's work, family outings or kindergarten. And human beings have thousands of years of being predominantly among other human beings.
Surge Synthesizer
Hiring (for a single position) is a zero sum game. Giving extra points to some people is the same as removing points from all the others.
In my experience, banana peels are quite slippery, especially when they form that 'layer of slime' (when the banana becomes quite ripe) and on a smooth (though not necessarily inherently slippery) surface.

Since you asked for a study, here you go (though I cannot speak for its correctness):

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29253796
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/7/3/7_147/_pdf
Im saying all tax is paid by consumers in the end. But what is being taxed is still interesting.

I'm suggesting Amazon is currently doing what it does because of taxation law. It simply complies/optimizes. Profit taxed? Dont make profit. Pollution free, dont worry about pollution.
The worst part is when you habitually come to rely on this effect for being productive. Then you're hooked and life without it is like traversing the trough of a surface before reaching a greater local maxima.
Release the documents first, then finish or polish them. If you get bored with them, someone else might want to finish them off or extend them. But unless you publish them, they're only benefiting you. You might also find more motivation if they're already out there.
Nobody claimed the Democratic party was a bastion of ideals, you added that straw man.

Why is it that someone criticizing the Republican Party immediately makes you want to attack the Democratic party? It seems they are their own entity and can be criticized as such, no both-sides-ism needed.
We ran Jenkins in-house and it was a miserable experience. Always breaking. Any time we needed to update it we knew it was going to break, and it did. Debugging startup failures was always a pain if you had a moderately complex setup. There were times where it was quicker to wipe the entire configuration and start over than trying to debug it.

We switched to CircleCI and it did everything we needed and we never had to lose half a day to CI problems again.
I would seriously throw Leaflet down the cliff and replacd with Mapbox for just the performance alone. All of the features plus documentation are there with Mapbox and the performance is ridiculously better.
Thanks for this. This is what I tried to address by my original post in this thread.
You mean the same telcos that sell location data of their users to third parties. Using dubiously marketed plans. List goes on. I think they are far away from making a case for looking out for their users.
The antitrust issues were that they were favoring their own results [0].

I would have used the site more if their response was to have a fair algorithm for results.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/google-fined-e2-42bn-for-e...
That is in EU, we're talking about the USA corporation.
Their burn rate on cash was too high. They had a ton of overhead costs in the R&D stages.

I loved Anki, but I'm guess it's good I never exercised my options.

I feel for all the employees.
Centurylink covers 70÷% of the city with gigabit for $65 a month, take a look at the cable franchise map before throwing stones: http://www.seattle.gov/tech/services/cable-service/cable-fra...
Don't forget the 2 days notice.
> Think from the publisher side of view.

Any publisher with any sense at all knows that annoying users will simply drive them away. Then there will be no audience at all, except perhaps bots which can solve captchas.
This is a well-written comment from an interesting point of view. That's all you need to write a blog article. If there are things you'd rather be doing than writing a blog, do them instead, but a blog doesn't have to be an exercise in personal branding. It can just be a place where you publish your thoughts and the things you've learned.
What's wrong with synthetic vitamins?
Those applications sound cool. Will check out that paper. Thanks.
Wow that's great to hear! Was it insulin-only or did it also have glucagon onboard? I know they're working towards releasing the insulin-only version first. I can't wait for the dual-hormone version to become available. It'll allow my wife and I to sleep through the night without worrying that our son won't wake up when he drops too low.
Don't forget that Russia Today is part of a deliberate effort to feed that rising nationalism in Western countries. Undermining international collaboration is the foundation of Putin's long-term geopolitical game.
Clarification of the Apache GitHub Relationship
I would expect that a significant portion of the money that a corporation saves by having a "remote only" policy would go into alleviating the social issues caused by that same policy. I'm not seeing any of that here, which indicates to me a company that does not prioritize the well-being of their employees.

With all due respect, I think if you feel that way it's probably because remote work is not something you would enjoy. I've been working remotely on and off for about 16 years, and continuously for the past 10 years, and I can't think of any social issue I've suffered as a consequence of this. On the other hand, I do know it has allowed me to be a lot more present for my children, since most of the times I can arrange the work hours as best fits their life. To me, a remote work is the best way to prioritize my well-being. Again, this is meant with respect, and I understand you may feel the opposite, I just wanted to offer another perspective.
>although I couldn't actually do it... because in order to rent a place I need a company and in order to form a company I need an address... so... well, it didn't quite work out

Couldn’t you get the building first, register as a corporation, then subsidize all following months through the corporation?
We in Europe have a very personal stake in this. The chance of China ever invading us is minuscule bordering to none, the same can't be said for Russia.

They've already done it in the past numerous times - I know damn well since I come from former Czechoslovakia. I have no kind word for a russians due to this, my parents and their whole generation have pretty horrible stories to tell and effects of their meddling and bloody direct invasion in 1968 are still felt these days. And they've done it recently (and still doing it while LOLing like nothing is happening) with Ukraine.

You don't need to consume cable news at all, I've stopped some 15 years ago. This is plain old history.
The system used is called ACESO: http://www.teeltech.com/mobile-device-forensic-tools/aceso/

The whole documentation (redacted) is available at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mobile_phone_data_ext... (search "ACESO documents"; note that most of the page is correspondence relating to FOIA and the usual practice of being denied and having to complain repeatedly)

The rollout was halted in Scotland: https://www.scottishlegal.com/article/police-asked-to-stop-u...

> "“It appears that, in relation to the introduction cyber kiosks, only the benefits were presented by Police Scotland to the SPA, with the known risks not provided. The SPA, for its part, seems to have accepted the information provided with very little critical assessment.

> “Even the most fundamental questions, such as the legal basis for using this technology, appear to have been totally overlooked."

(Yes, that sounds like Police Scotland to me)
But only one captcha per day per site, max, please. Seems a good trade off for me. Especially if it unlocks solely text ads.
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For what it’s worth, I think this comment would make a great single page personal website.
They never considered themselves a toy maker. The first 3 products were considered toys and a means to an end. Their 4th product was them trying to transition to their long-term goal of being a Robotics and AI tech company. The 5th product that was in R&D was certainly not a toy.
World's biggest cat
Even you can't believe it's size
See her video
https://howto105.blogspot.com/2019/04/worlds-biggest-cat.htm...

See the video a dog shopping and lots of other acts like humans
http://bit.ly/2DCpo9I

Fish walking with legs like humans
See the video on link below
http://bit.ly/2XRGyYD

This couple is different
Girls are both twins and boys are also twin brothers see how they look in video
http://bit.ly/2VwoZQd

A cute dog is dancing in video
Just watch this video and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2ZK1XVs
Why It’s So Hard to Learn French in Middle Ages

would also be an interesting article
Yeah I can understand the ethos of that but don't you think that part of the goal should be to allow them to build up the capital to expand out of the space? Do you have some type of progression to get them to scale up and out? It seems like it would be a tricky thing to navigate. You wouldn't want to artificially restrict them from growing. Then they'd end up staying in the space taking up room that could be used by one or more up and comers.
The Java methods with up to 70 arguments are highlighted. This code defines methods with up to 250 arguments. I wonder why the Apache Groovy people didn't choose a number like 256, which is more compatible with other magic numbers in the JVM.
You're being harsh for pouls/poux being singular/plural, provided it was the first time the author had encountered those words. That kind of knowledge comes with experience with the words, which the author didn't have.

Bouloche has been corrected.
Nice read, thoughtful.

Another thoughtful read, from the other side: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valle...
That kind of captcha seems unusable to me as well. No idea what could be used instead.
I hate it when people think they know better than the experts. Do you really think that if they could have made it run in parallel they wouldn't have? Get off your high horse and solve it yourself if you're so smart.
This is a fantastic idea, and your mobile website is nicely done.
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It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Vector relies heavily on cloud services to operate. That being said, it's a full fledged stand-alone device from a base computing POV. It could be operated without cloud services. You just lose things like voice-to-text processing and any advanced functionality they moved off the device into a service.
> "The lack of transparency around new policing tools such as mobile phone extraction is a serious cause for concern. There are no records, no statistics, no safeguards, no oversight and no clear statement of the rights that citizens have".

There may be places where this is routine, but it really shouldn't be - anywhere.

If you'd like to educate yourself on some of the transgressions of UK police in the past, and the extent to which subsequent cover ups have gone, I'd suggest reading some recent Irish history.
Even if you misunderstand the intent of the author, you can give a well-reasoned interpretation.

From what I remember of the standardized tests, they were either more interested in marking the structure of the content than the content itself, or looking for keywords and marking off a checklist.

To the snarky cynic in me, this might be good training for resume-writing, but not really how you want to teach your high school students to be good at creative interpretation.
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Agreed, that list of food truck names is punny.
That's what they were attempting to do. They failed and the result is shutting down with 2 days notice.
>Otherwise I find that the built-in Clojure data structures are so good for all-round use that it's difficult to justify the time to use anything else, except in extreme cases.

I don't know Clojure, so can't compare it's data structures with those of Python, but I've read a few times that Python's built-in data structures are so useful that for many applications, it suffices to just use them as is, or in combinations (e.g. lists of dicts, dicts of lists, ...), instead defining your own custom ones using classes. More so when used in combination with other Python features like {list,dict,set} comprehensions and libraries like itertools.

And I've found that to be somewhat true in my own Python work.
He's Patrick, not Philip.
> Human eye can easily see them with their details in real time, but to capture them in photos or videos, long shutter exposure is needed

Makes me want to see what people have done with the Sony A7 sII

I’ve had it since 2015 and its been the first camera I’ve used that can see better than me at night at maybe 1/30th of a second shutter speed. Coupled with vibration compensation and cleaner high ISO, just using it handheld it reveals many more stars in the sky than my eye adjusted too or would ever see.

Makes me think it could capture the aurora more accurately.

I wonder if anyone has done it
It's not something that I'd use.
JPL Sentry System: Earth Impact Monitoring
Nice article! I am just getting into writing my own decorators and I will appreciate every example and docs I can find. After 30+ years of preferring Lisp languages, I have been forced to accept Python as my main driver because of the ecosystem for deep learning, probabilistic programming, etc. Both of the books I am writing right now are Python books (one is general building intelligent systems with Python, the other covers knowledge graphs and deep learning and how they play together). Virtually all my work for the last 4 years has also used Python.

Anyway, it is rough emotionally using Lisp languages infrequently but improvements in Python 3.7 as described in this article make it less painfull.
So maybe satellites simply aren't the best-use case for gaming?

I don't think Elon is counting on gaming to be the backbone of this service.
> I don’t think it’s particularly interesting and anyone can do it. However, now I can send a link to a friend and go back and make the recipe myself.

I used to have a blog or two back in the day and two things I noted back then was:

1. If I figured something out that I hadn't found a solution to elsewhere on the net people would find their way to my site. No further SEO necessary. (I don't know if this would work anymore.)

2. Sometimes I would Google [0] a weird problem and find my own page.

[0]: yep, that's what I did until three years ago or so)

Edit:

FTR I never made any money on this. It wasn't that popular.

Also I recently started writing again at https://erik.itland.no just to contribute some stupid posts like those you'd find on the old web I used to like. Hopefully I can start adding some links to stuff I like to read as well, and deliberately not add any dum nofollow or other stupid CEO. My wesite, not Googles :-]

Edit 2:

Could we have a tread were everyone who wants posts their imperfect personal web sites? Or has there been one and I have missed it?
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Your website is indexed by Google. You can see whether it's indexed by running a site specific search. Put "site:" before the domain name. But that site has three pages, one of which is a blog listing with no content. It's not ranked because there's nothing worth ranking.
Is this actually legal in the EU? I feel like it shouldn't be. If they have a blanket approach to this, then doesn't it violate this point: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
That someone missed potentially a typo in a foreign language?
Ha, this reminds me of Pratchett's other discworld...

"Kin had seen things like it in a museum. It was a valve, a sort of neolithic integrated circuit. Only this was a valve such as might be built by someone who had never developed the transistor, so that more and more ingenuity had been devoted to perfecting the existing technology." -- Strata, Terry Pratchett.
I rarely see negative threads about the US on hackernews, but not a day goes by without the regular anti chinese/russian propaganda, especially concerning military and/or technology.