skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And so they're not expected to be the same.

Still there was a kind of hope that there would be just one Hubble constant eventually, resulting from both measurements, that some kind of unexpected error would be discovered on one (or both) of the sides. But what's happening is illustrated on the picture subtitled "Modern measurement tensions..." in the second link, plus the newest result from the Riess' paper: "74.03 +/- 1.42 km/s/Mpc" with "an uncertainty of 1.91%" which you should imagine appearing to the right of the picture, with the dot at 74 and much narrower red bar.

So, looking at that picture again, we have the "blue" and the "red" results for years already that don't converge and keep doing so, although both approaches use always more advanced techniques.

But, quoting from the second link:

"It is possible that the ways we measure the expansion rate of the Universe are actually revealing something novel about the nature of the Universe itself. Something about the Universe could be changing with time" "Some options include:

- our local region of the Universe has unusual properties compared to the average (which is already disfavored),

- dark energy is changing in an unexpected fashion over time,

- gravity behaves differently than we've anticipated on cosmic scales,

- or there is a new type of field or force permeating the Universe."

"The option of evolving dark energy is of particular interest and importance, as this is exactly what NASA's future flagship mission for astrophysics, WFIRST, is being explicitly designed to measure."

But also:

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

"The Trump administration's proposed FY2019 budget would terminate WFIRST"

"Again the Trump administration proposed to terminate WFIRST in its FY2020 budget proposal to Congress"

And finally, from the OP article:

"Distinguished University of Chicago astrophysicist Wendy Freedman" "spent five years looking at different stars than Riess to come up with a third calculation of the expansion rate. They just submitted their work to the same journal. Freedman wouldn’t reveal her number but said it is between the two other figures."
With increased sales and better revenue?

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2019/03/VW_Group_delive...
> The complete classes are over 500kB; no one will want to download these on-line

Ah, the good old days.

I can't wait to see how huge the runtimes we'll be expected to download for WebAssembly will be.
Safari doesn't support webgl2 (you can enable it as an experimental feature in the develop menu), so retrieving a webgl2 context returns null.
You can use an app like hiya to block all calls starting with certain numbers.
> It'll never work and as soon as I understand what you are talking about, I'll tell you why

This hits so close to home.

And yes, it requires a lot of mental energy to avoid falling for the same trap.
Because it's Somalia? Don't act so incredulous when comparing a third world and first world country. He should use his likely very nice, first world education to improve the country he lives in. He already has been convicted of robbery and drug sales, so it's not like he was removed for an unfair reason. He had his shot and blew it.
The experience you had is kind of standard for any dealership here in Europe, parts availability assumed to get the 48 hours turn around time.

Which really puzzles me is that a high density of cars in one small region would cause these problems. In that case you can concentrate all kinds of parts locally without any inventory risks. You can have short delivery times for these parts due to the short distance. And you can build a dense network of repair shops as the demand is there. If you fail already at that, imagine to do the same in places with a lit less Teslas on the road and larger distances to your distribution centers. All this are things other OEMs figured out a long time ago.

And no offense, but your experience is one data point and anecdotal. While true numbers will be impossible to come by, countering the article with a sample of size of one doesn't help.
Mozilla fine tuning some of their practices is as critical. These hn threads might give good pointers by concerned, well-meaning users.
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You may confuse basic demographic analysis with racism. Don't go there. People can have shitty countries regardless of their ethnicity.

It is well known most African countries have huge problems in providing basic education. Somalia included:
https://borgenproject.org/tag/literacy-in-somalia/

"The total literacy rate is 37.8 percent in the African nation. Men have a literacy rate of 49.7 percent, while only 25.8 percent of females are literate, "

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-literacy-rat...

US, while not famous for it's performance in this field, clocks in at 86%.

I would give 9/10 chances you will get better primary education in US than in Somalia based on those numbers.

There are many reasons Africa has many complex problems. Lack of decent primary education is one of those problems (and the root cause of other problems).

Edit: ... unless, of course, you are critizing the suggestion that you can put a primary education to any good use in a foreign country, without any understanding of the rules of the society, the patterns of daily life and no networks. Which is totally correct. Your answer can actually be parsed into two compeletely different connotations.
"muh socialism"
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You either watch too much TV/shows or have never lived on your own. This is a ridiculous suggestion to anyone.
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I feel sad for you but in the meantime now we can't argue more on the Internet and get instant banned if we don't agree. Like I don't agree with "Let Toys Be Toys" and already banned from Feminist of reddit.

Thanks people that joined after the trend and now running Internet.
Not sure if that logic, we are not able to maintain our cars fast enough so we get rid of scheduled maintenance, flies.
Men in your case is 2 people, you can’t really use sample size to compare.

To be honest you’d have to be incredible to succeed as a male midwife as almost all expectant mothers will prefer a female midwife.
Yeah I have to agree. It would be one thing if the poster were a known member of the HN community, or any adjacent community, but it's a brand new account. I don't think this kind of posting is sustainable.
That is one of my favourite books, it completely changed the way I think and continues to. I often wish it was more widely read.
Same in Israel. For all three of my children's hospital births, only a midwife was present. In the first two, by my request, she instructed me what to do instead of doing it herself. And being in a hospital there was a doctor on call should any issues have come up.
"The heavily negotiated text does not make explicit policy recommendations, but will serve "as a basis for redefining our objectives" "

Yes, we need yet another 'basis for redefining our objectives' and 'get the conversation going'. Sorry for sounding so sour but I am in a panic mode right now.
Yeah, we have those "future books". They're called webpages.

As for actual books (ebooks or physical), they have their own unique advantages and use cases compared to something with animations, superfluous effects, link jumping, and so on which sounds like a children's pop-up book and less something for focused study.
If Boeing had told the airlines what the consequences of MCAS and not having the indicator could be they probably wouldn't have bought the plane. This is a clear case of shipping a different product than what was sold.
Our extension sets https://www.givero.com as the default search engine. After the extension got disabled and re-enabled, searches now default to Google.

So this fix is not complete.

Our efforts in getting Firefox users to install our extension has been in vain. "Luckily" we didn't have many users yet but imagine the amount of money this will cost bigger search engines like DDG, Qwant, etc.
>However, given the amount of Boeing planes out there, and the number of employees, the company dying would be harsh.

346 dead from wilful incompetence, followed by utter bullshittery, half-truths, outright lies and finally, when it has to admit what it has been doing, a desperate insistance that executives could not possibly have known.

And all the while fighting against them being grounded.

Break the damn thing up already.
Well US is a first world country, isn't it expected that it's more civilized and educated than Somalia or Kenya ? My intuition tells me that he had way more opportunities to educate himself in US, opportunities which other Somalian/Kenyan kids did not have and in consequence he has a head start and he should take advantage of that.
Vaccination does pay, in kind.
Most companies will contract through a management firm than with the individual directly.
>Citation needed.

After a trillion dollar bailout on the real estate bubble (where banks propped house prices for more than a decade), and widespread studies of healthcare inflated prices you need "citations"?

It's like some bizarro world where to speak of something well established you also need to prove the universe exists all the way to modern history...
Not saying OP is a scammer but scams aren't that simple to figure out. For all we know, OP could be hoping someone would contact them with kindness of their heart and sent them money or some other resource. This could also be a long con.
Yes, counting down and then counting up again
Directly with the company in question? or through a resourcing firm? my experience (On the other end of that transaction) is that the former is rarer because working through a specialist contract placement firm (e.g. Spring) has various attractions to a company (albeit higher cost).
> Sticking with Firefox as an open competition to the browser monopoly is critical now more than ever before.

I think this fact cannot be emphasized enough. Or we'll have the 90s monopolized web again: "Optimized for Chrome" - not that there'd be a lack of websites already doing that as of now.
I'll see that, and raise with "I would describe it as extreme criminal negligence with wanton disregard for human life that has resulted in more than 300 deaths."
> I am not an expert and am still reading thru the article, but why is it such a strong dichotomy? Don't all predictive algorithm also assume a data model? for example aren't hidden Markov models, by assuming constant transition probability make a data assumption?

I'm going to try my best to answer your question from my experiences and background. I am from the statistic school of thought so please keep that in mind for any bias.

I can give you an example of the different mentality in applied math vs statistic with regard to modeling. Then I'll try to expand to machine learning.

So an example will be time series univariate data. Applied Math people will use probability to try to model the process which create the time series data. A statistician will not care about modeling the process that create the data, he/she only care about using all the information from the data to create a model. A very clear example to this times series model is when you do residual analysis to see if the statistic model uses all the information from the data.

I know it sounds superficial but it also drive how each field invent and research different models.

Let's go from statistic vs machine learning thinking. If you lurk in /r/statistic you will see many statisticians will separate ML models vs statistic model (data model in Dr. Breiman's term) by confidence interval. A statistical model gives the confidence interval of that prediction on top of inferences to the parameters and such. ML models does not give a CI. A con to this is giving a prediction without CI is worthless to a statistician because it doesn't tell us how good that prediction is.

Let take linear regression as an example. Many non statistic books will give you equations how to solve for it via a cost function least square. Statistic books give you that and the MLE way of doing it. We also see every prediction is the expected value from a distribution (see here https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/148803/how-does-li...). And often time most non statistic books aren't going to give you that point of view.

Another example is Deep Learning vs PGM or Bayes Network (heirarchical modeling). From my experiences ML is more empirical driven then statistic.
> This is a ridiculous suggestion to anyone.

It's pretty much the ordinary job description of a missionary.
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Two? Two?!

There is a classic post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954508:

"
The Geneticists: Use evolutionary principles to have a model organize itself
The Bayesians: Pick good priors and use Bayesian statistics

The Symbolists: Use top-down approaches to modeling cognition, using symbols and hand-crafted features

The Conspirators: Hinton, Lecun, Bengio et al. End-to-end deep learning without manual feature engineering

The Swiss School: Schmidhuber et al. LSTM's as a path to general AI.

The Russians: Use Support Vector Machines and its strong theoretical foundation

The Competitors: Only care about performance and generalization robustness. Not shy to build extremely slow and complex models.

The Speed Freaks: Care about fast convergence, simplicity, online learning, ease of use, scalability.

The Tree Huggers: Use mostly tree-based models, like Random Forests and Gradient Boosted Decision Trees

The Compressors: View cognition as compression. Compressed sensing, approximate matrix factorization

The Kitchen-sinkers: View learning as brute-force computation. Throw lots of feature transforms and random models and kernels at a problem

The Reinforcement learners: Look for feedback loops to add to the problem definition. The environment of the model is important.

The Complexities: Use methods and approaches from physics, dynamical systems and complexity/information theory.

The Theorists: Will not use a method, if there is no clear theory to explain it

The Pragmatists: Will use an effective method, to show that there needs to be a theory to explain it

The Cognitive Scientists: Build machine learning models to better understand (human) cognition

The Doom-sayers: ML Practitioners who worry about the singularity and care about beating human performance

The Socialists: View machine learning as a possible danger to society. Study algorithmic bias.

The Engineers: Worry about implementation, pipe-line jungles, drift, data quality.

The Combiners: Try to use the strengths of different approaches, while eliminating their weaknesses.

The Pac Learners: Search for the best hypothesis that is both accurate and computationally tractable.
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So you had it all, but blew it by robbing and selling drugs. Now why would you think any country would be willing to accept criminals like you inside it's borders?
No worries, I can manage to find books, if I ever need one I'll ping you.

And about the application, I was mostly curious about social dynamics. For instance how to model society in order to find weak points (Donella Meadows talks about the idea IIRC) in order to restructure/migrate population lifestyles smooth and fast towards better ones (energy use, social tissue, health etc).

Thanks again
> beats scavenging for water in Africa.

Beats scavenging for water in Kenya.

This is a petpeeve of mine and for some reason I expected to see less of it on HN, not all of Africa is a hell hole where people have to scavenge for water.

I know I'm beating a dead horse with the "Africa is not a country" saying but it ircks me to see that subconsciously not many people are making that distinction.
Just in case someone misread this like I did, you need to reinstall each add-on. Not FF Beta itself.
The main market polling company around here does pay out; usually a 5€ voucher.
This is awesome! Great work. Any support for nested replies coming?
Based on historical precedent [1] they’d find a religion founded around them, and then their followers and some other peer’s followers would use their godliness as an excuse for a pious-measuring contest in the form of war.

Sufficiently intelligent beings may be inscrutable, but our aggregate responses are fairly predicable.

[1] if you’ll permit “really smart” rather than “three times as smart as anyone else” — it’s not like smart is defined in a way that permits the multiplier anyway
I am not complaining about delivery times (i.e. the time from logistics service pickup to delivery). I know that China is a developing country and logistics operations in China have a ways to go. Once an order gets moving, it will arrive in a few days.

What's aggravating are the delays in shipping (the time that passes after you pay and before the seller hands off the order to a logistics service provider) and the excuse-making.

Usually, after a couple of days have passed (depending on that seller's "ships within [time]" promise), and I get on WangWang and ask them what's holding things up, it's due to nonexistent inventory. China's many long festivals and holidays can be an issue because enough people stop working earlier pre-holiday and resume working later post-holiday than promised to cause delays.

Buying stuff, having to hop onto WangWang to tell the sellers that, yes, the address they got from Taobao is the address they're to ship to and then having to keep an eye on it and periodically load AliWangWang to see if a seller has sent me some emoji-laden sob story to explain lack of inventory, and then deal with that. It's not fun.

On Amazon, we buy, pay through the nose for shipping, and then don't have to give the order a second thought. Amazon for us just works, painlessly.
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Most stuff on Twitter is mental flatulence ...
They shown the wrong tab. Below is the same thing, but with "Album List" tab selected:

https://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main-black.png (ignore the white-on-black, that's orthogonal style change).

See that Filter box? That's a search that, within the scope of your music library, works better than Google's or Spotify's. It's an incremental search box (I believe web kids call that "Instant" nowadays?), that filters the album list by your search about as fast as you type.

I don't think it's built for "a different kind of user" - Spotify UI is pretty complex, because everything from search to managing playlists presents you with a pretty noisy UI that makes you click around a lot to find what you want and not click on what you don't want (Foobar never "suggests" you music it fully knows is not what you're searching for). Being a user of both - having switched to Spotify when it became easier than bringing an external drive full of MP3s to work - I can tell the basic UI interactions are of similar complexity, except Spotify is a bit more confusing at times.

Foobar's incremental search is such a useful feature I ditched Winamp for it back in the old days, and I still use it as a go-to example in product/UI development sessions.
"You either agree to the terms of service, or you don’t use the product — which, in this day and age, often isn’t a viable option."

Gonna stop you there...

What day and age are we in where you have to go to concerts?

I mean yes I agree it's an invasion of privacy. The thing is, you have to vote with your feet!
> These are two sides of the same coin.

No, they really are not. One is driven by envy and petty jealousy, and the other is motivated by a legitimate concern that someone might be living in poverty.
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It seems they would be more right than wrong, though, as business owners indeed also own the majority of US real estate, with about $30 trillion business-owned vs. $19 trillion privately owned:

* Residential real estate market size was $33 trillion in 2018, of which about 80 million units are privately owned and 60 million units are not.

* Commercial real estate market size (Office buildings etc.) was about $15 trillion.
Yeah, blaming the airlines and not the obvious flaws in the plane and the way it got its security certifications is the way to go...

People should have paid for the "warning when auto-crash enabled" option and I'm sure Boeing advertised their plane as absolutly unsafe without it...
I think you're better off trying to ask for information/help here https://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/ rather than on HN.

Good luck
OP themselves described where they currently are as "hell-hole" (OP's words).
Chromium is definitely worse.

While these deserve an explanation, you should not wait to move.

Chrome is spyware that does web browsing. It's parent company also shows ads, all the time.

Chrome's auto update not only allows them to silently update or change your browser, it allows them to silently install other software on your computer.

Firefox is a browser. It can auto-update in a way that may be questionable, but it also has a lot of cranky devs looking over their shoulder to call them out years later because Mr. Robot may have been able to show them an ad. FF deserves to be called out on their mistakes, and need offer an explanation. But perspective!

Why would you not move now?
What fucking piece of shit decides that MORE SAFETY is a PREMIUM ADDONT? That is literally suggesting that some passengers lives are worth less than others.

Planes should be as safe as they can possibly be. Full stop. Premium should be for things like comfort and things you can do with out.
Rich and powerful people will never accept even the most of the "slower pace of experimentations". Nothing of value was obtained without blood, unfortunately
Does the rocket drift away from the launchpad right after launch and for the first couple of seconds, or is it an optical illusion? It appeared to me as if the rocket was imbalanced until it gained enough speed.
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Perhaps I don’t. Science is objective, it is not a consensus of opinions. I sincerely apologize for the criticism here, it wasn’t a good thing to do. I wish I could delete these comments, but I can’t. I can say sorry. though.
It's all about the money. Laws are not put in place to stop this because the companies that make the money lobby to not have them or even worse, tear down the ones that are there.
I think you are describing Ali-express or 1688.com, not the actual Taobao.

And don't buy items from Taobao with zero sales per month.
> learn to be aggressive and say "I'm not interested"

That's not aggressive, actually you're helping both parties.
The project uses WebGL2, which isn't supported on Safari. I guess it's just an oversight, supporting WebGL1 is probably trivial.