skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something similar happened in Rio de Janeiro under the supervision of the epidemiologist Osvaldo Cruz during the very same year.

Rio was infested with bubonic plague and yellow fever. Oswald started a campaign to get the city rid of mosquitoes and rats including the same idea of buying rats from the population. The result were the same, people began importing rats from neighboring towns and breeding them at home. He later switched the focus into hygiene and sanitation.

Cruz is also famous for making vaccination mandatory in Brazil, a decision that led to the infamous Vaccine Rebelion in Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Revolt
You might be mispronouncing the alveolo-palatal consonants (Pinyin j, q, x) as denti-alveolars (Pinyin z, c, s), which is common among foreigners whose native languages lack alveolo-palatals, since it's hard to figure out how to correctly curl your tongue without an explicit description.

The reason that would make your speech appear feminine is that some young Beijing women pronounce those consonants similarly, probably in a (potentially unconscious) attempt to sound cute. The closest analog in English I can think of is swapping word-initial l for w ("wuv", "widdle").

The phenomenon in Chinese is known as 女国音; I became aware of it through the talk page of the Wikipedia article on Standard Chinese phonology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Standard_Chinese_phonolog...
Very interesting and informative. But I suppose what the user really wants is the next step: not just incremental parsing, but also incremental compilation (or at least the error-checking part of the compilation process).
Because having a VoIP call is like producing a Netflix movie .1 seconds before screening that movie.

E.g. you couldn't buffer 5 seconds.
> Better circumstances are responsible for low fertility rates, not bad circumstances.

That depends on the definition of "better". In purely material terms, the developed world is the best there ever was. Yet depression, drug abuse, loneliness etc are rising, so maybe humans require more than just material things.

For animals, living in a zoo is the best thing to do. Steady meals, a doctor on call and they'll even bring you mates to reproduce. Yet somehow, many animals in captivity don't want to breed, maybe it's similar for humans.
No, because human personalities don’t fit neatly into boxes and because we currently know very little about our own psychology. And putting people into boxes can be very destructive.

Even something like introversion/extraversion, which we have strong evidence and measures for, is a continuous scale rather than a binary, with most people landing somewhere near the middle.

Most personality measurement systems (such as the MBTI) are pseudoscience; and we know this because the same person will not reliably get consistent results when testing again a few weeks after an initial test.

Sure, if we knew a lot more about psychology than we currently do, you could probably come up with a way to place a person’s personality in a continuous N-dimensional space, where N > 1000... but what good would that do you?

But anyway, that’s not the part of your message that’s most interesting. What about you do you think needs “fixing”; and how would such a theory help you?
The only reason (original) Skype existed was because there were, even at that time, not enough IPv4 addresses, so users who had public IPv4 address were tunneling data for users behind NAT. Small guy has no chance to create any kind of p2p communication app because he had no infrastructure like Skype. If everybody had public IPv4 address it would be trivial and also fast because of the direct connection. Video calls are hard but codec had nothing to do with it.
> Two days later, a team member with experience in finance saw that the hryvnia was strengthening amid events he’d thought would surely weaken it. He informed his teammates that this was exactly the opposite of what he’d expected, and that they should take it as a sign of something wrong in his understanding.

This is an experience every young trader ever has had many, many times. Myself included. You see an economic figure, you think "hey this should do x", and it doesn't do what you think. The senior trader on the desk will remind you that your wrongness is worthy of further thought.

Keep in mind that prices are themselves predictions. You are predicting what people will predict.

If you're wondering why the talking heads get things wrong, it's mainly because they are talking heads. They're paid to say something interesting, not to make money betting on it. That includes the banks' own analysts! They don't have money on the line, they are sales people at core. I've personally had conversations where the same guy will tell me to buy AND sell the same thing (USDJPY in that case). As long as I do it with him.

But mainly the guys making pronouncements on TV are there to get themselves another slot on TV.
Thank you for your advice.

Actually, I was waiting for my visa :-)
I studied somewhere else and now working in Amsterdam. I guess I can simply hide my current job in my resume or I can say it didn't work out. What do you think about that?
when will the feynman lectures expire? I think they are great, but it would be nice if it had more references to sources.
Nice site & product. Can I ask how successful these posts were in driving traffic to your site?
> Just a consideration: for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story, while love marriage are a quite modern invention.

There are cultures and countries for which this is true but Germany is not one of them.

> The Western European marriage pattern is a family and demographic pattern that is marked by comparatively late marriage (in the middle twenties), especially for women, with a generally small age difference between the spouses, a significant proportion of women who remain unmarried, and the establishment of a neolocal household after the couple has married. In 1965, John Hajnal discovered that Europe is divided into two areas characterized by a different patterns of nuptiality. To the west of the line, marriage rates and thus fertility were comparatively low and a significant minority of women married late or remained single and most families were nuclear; to the east of the line and in the Mediterranean and particular regions of Northwestern Europe, early marriage and extended family homes were the norm and high fertility was countered by high mortality.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
Sure, but then your mother comes with this picture print software she has on your computer and asks you to transfer the pics from her phone.

Stuff like this should be simple. On android it is connecting the cable and copying the pics. The only reason you are not able to do this is, that Apple values lock-in over good design. And I do not trust a company with these values to store my pictures indefinitly, sorry.
They do pay for it with higher taxes... Could you further elaborate how SUV aren’t “paying for it”?
You know the 737 and the 737 MAX are two completely different planes right?
> it's deterministic

Sort of. It's only deterministic in the sense that as soon as an object is not referenced it is freed, but it's not entirely deterministic because you don't know exactly when (or even in what thread) that "as soon as" happens.

> it detects new garbage immediately after it becomes garbage, which keeps the resource usage at a minimum.

Yes, but that comes at a cost to performance. One of the observations that tracing GCs make is that you may not need to do any work to deallocate memory at all. For example, a simple copying algorithm used to manage the young generation in many generational collectors is based on the fact that more objects die young than survive, and it only does work to keep the (fewer) surviving objects alive and does not do any work to free (the many) dead objects. As a result allocation itself becomes much faster. Tracing indeed requires more memory, but it automatically uses that memory to reduce the cost of memory management. In fact the (amortized) cost of memory management can be reduced arbitrarily by enlarging the heap and using a tracing collector, so much so that it could, in principle, be made cheaper than even stack allocation.
In other words, hostile design. If you're not doing a New York hustle walk on your way to or from spending money, you're not welcome. No sitting down to chat, not even if you've bought food. Because the unforgivable sin in a capitalist culture is engaging with your fellow humans for free, instead of paying money to engage with goods and services.
Being responsible for making the money is different from having the agency to spend the money. It's fairly common for cultures to grant that role to the woman of the household.

Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions, but it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" and believe that's all you need in order to make any statement about gender across all of time and space.
Like in Singapore:

Example A - Honda Civic 1.6 i-VTEC

Registration Fees - S$220
OMV - S$19,370
Excise Duty (20 percent of OMV) - S$3,874
COE (as of 23rd March 2018) - S$38,000
ARF - S$19,370
VES - $0

Basic Cost of Car - S$82,460 (~ 60k USD)

https://www.sgcarmart.com/news/writeup.php?AID=171
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This was two years ago, so I cant recall precisely, but I remember he liked the contacts app more on android and he liked how switching running apps worked.
Yes, this is probably the explanation.
And swift is very popular on server side ? On an overall basis, here's Github's official stats - check the growth of Kotlin vs Swift : https://github.blog/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-top-pr...

Here's my claim - Kotlin simply BLOWS AWAY Swift when it comes to server side

https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/kotlin-adoption.ht...

https://medium.com/insiden26/5-reasons-why-n26-is-moving-to-...

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-k...

https://twitter.com/yogurtearl/status/1012551386536394753

https://medium.com/@napperley/kotlin-server-side-adoption-d1...

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/11/ktor-1-0/

https://pusher.com/state-of-kotlin
Here's the Kickstarter page for this thing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eyedisk/eyedisk-unhacka...
> My sense is that the unfair discrimination is perhaps necessary, but it sits very uneasily with me.

But there are other ways to approach, and possibly fix, this problem. One would be increasing the reach, e.g. you could investigate if your job ads reach mostly women and instead advertise on some male-heavy media as well. Another would be fixing the underlying biases and misconceptions of the job (e.g. that teaching is a female job or that men that want to spend time with children are likely pedophiles) - though that one is obviously harder to do, you need society-wide influence. Or maybe you'd figure out that it's just the way it is, and there is a huge gender (or some other characteristic) imbalance in the whole pipeline (i.e. not just the applicants for the job, but already when people are applying to universities for the appropriate field of study) (in which case positive discrimination would mean you'd have to lower the bar to an unacceptable degree), which might be OK as well.
That's the same post?
Keith, thanks for your inputs.

Noob question: Where do you think Google's BBR https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45646 and CMU's HFSC https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html fall short?

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For folks unaware, Keith created https://mosh.org and is an expert in Computer Networks.

Here's a relevant talk by Keith on Sprout, a new transport protocol for live video on noisy cellular networks that uses probabilistic inference to predict congestion; and Remy, a program that generates transport protocols on-the-fly in response to network conditions: https://youtu.be/UsCOVF0vDe8

And here's a talk at Usenix on Salsify: https://youtu.be/LPj2ffe7Isk news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964112

UoCambridge's David McKay on Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks : https://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_...
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> x86 is not my thing: I prefer efficient, well-designed machines code such as ARM

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A joke in poor taste. Melbournians are notorious coffee snobs. As jpatokal said, locals wouldn’t be caught dead in a Starbucks. Basically if the cup is taller than 4 fingers 8-10cm or the ingredients include anything other than coffee, water and milk, or it was made by percolating - then it’s not coffee as far as we’re concerned. It’s either dishwater or a confection of some sort.
It may be a fact that Melbourne has more coffee shops per capita than any other place on earth.
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Traditional manufacturers of this kind of thing mess up all the time too, kickstarter isn't a very strong signal here IMHO
Adults won't get the same treatment like children.

If a non-native child lives in foreign language environment use wrong pronunciation/grammar, he would be corrected by friends and teachers. But adults won't get that feedback often.

Example, one of my colleague is non-native. He speak almost perfect pronunciation/grammar, yet he has some minor quirks time to time. I won't correct him because his language skill is more than adequate for the job and we are engineers, not the language teacher.

If I correct every minor quirks of him, he got a feedback, so in long term, his language will be improved further. But why do we have to do that when it has been more than enough already?

Another example, I'm not a English native. So my writing still contains grammatical errors. But as my language skills are improving, I rarely got a feedback these days for my writing become good enough.

Sometimes, I got a hint of feedback like : "Wow, I didn't notice that you are non-native.". People say that because they noticed unnatural writing of mine. I guess that's a polite way of saying "You failed."
I started learning French 20 months ago at age 63. I've gone from beginner to B2 (upper intermediate) level in that period. It takes a lot of time. I immerse myself as much as possible. Whenever I'm doing chores, cooking, walking I listen to French podcasts. I watch French YouTube channels. In the evening I watch French TV shows and documentaries. I talk to French people regularly on Skype. I read French novels and French newspapers. Essentially, I try to live as if I were in France. It's working. I have the huge advantage of being retired, so I have more time and I'm kind of obsessive about achieving goals. If you put in the time, you can become fluent in a foreign language at any age, especially with all the resources on the internet.
Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?
Because video streaming is one-way, and not real-time, in that the entire video file exists already. These factors make Netflix streaming a very different problem from that of two-way, realtime communication, where you send and receive data and cannot ever buffer more than maybe 1-2 seconds.
ITT: people advocating for forced arranged marriages. Jeez, what the hell?

Not to dig into such petty stuff as human rights which entirely forbid arranged marriages, that would be too easy, but as if that would even solve the problem that is literally described in the article, people having no time to develop meaningful relationships or interpersonal skill because in a cutthroat environment all that matters is more useless "certifications" and working one's ass off in underpaid crap jobs just to survive, much less afford a date?

Fix minimum wages, overtime limits and job supplies, and (young) people will start procreating all on their own!
> the DSM-V has psychopath

Please could you link to the DSM V section for psychopath?
Why is it beneficial to quickly announce a 'test prefix'? Couldn't you position fast/slow propogation instead as trusting/untrusting providers?
> > Just a consideration: for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story, while love marriage are a quite modern invention.

> There are cultures and countries for which this is true but Germany is not one of them.

My grandmother (from Germany) told me how in former generations, it was not uncommon for parents to look out for marriage partners for their children. Formally, this is indeed not an arranged marriage, but de-facto, it mostly is/was.

EDIT: Or even more indirectly, parents send/sent their children to social occasions where the child is very likely to meet the kind of marriage partners that the parents desire. To me, this still has a strong "smell" of (partly-)arranged marriage.
It might lower the average quality of female auditionees because you'd get females that aren't good enough to play in the orchestra, but told themselves that the only reason they weren't previously selected is because they're female. Males haven't been told "the only reason you weren't selected is because you're male", so you're not going to have less skilled males auditioning who think their sex is the only reason they didn't pass previous auditions.
This is not news, I'm surprised it's in the NYT. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates are very low and hospitals lose money on these patients. All hospitals depend upon private insurers paying higher rates in order to stay in business. They call this the payor mix (private/medicare/Medicaid).
Well, what your typcal symphony orchestra audience wants is a mix of challenging (for the performs & listeners) pieces and the well-known standards. Stray too far either way and it's a miss.

It not just entertainment for a lot of people, unless you consider all cultural events "expensive entertainment acts".
Feel free to read them as they’re quite fun but you will realize you need a great deal of maths and basics so yeah Khan Academy for those.
I use this as an example of why we need to be careful to think about what we're optimising for in ML. They wanted to reduce the number of rats, but incentivised increasing the number of rat tails.

Do your performance measures correspond directly to things you care about? Are there ways of optimising the number while hurting something that matters to you? A good example to me is Google marking a picture of a black couple as "gorillas" - to a training algorithm that can easily be counted as a single wrong answer equivalent to any other when it is actually very significant.

Edit - this is the same for optimising any KPI, but ML is a case where your optimiser has no wider context and so there's more surprising cases. Worth thinking about overall though, what are you rewarding?
They'd need to detect and store your keystrokes. If you have JavaScript enabled that's trivial, but hopefully you have JavaScript disabled.
And even with aluminum, there are different alloys, and you can't necessarily mix them when recycling.
For diverse values of "the audience."
Ofc this depends on the size of the project. But you have testers who will need to figure things out. It is not very creative to say “Hallo” to a thing that says “Hallo” to you, people do it every day. This is something that should work from day 1 and could have been avoided by one person testing it with their un-techy dad in mind.

And this as you said depends on the organization, but if your product speaks to people and it doesn’t know that greeting back isn’t necesarilly the end of the conversation, you skipped conversation 101
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The issue here isn't a slight decrease in population. Japan is facing a projected decline of 1/4 of their population by 2050. A change of that magnitude will mean severe consequences for their economy and overall culture. Even China has abandoned their one child policy and now has a birth rate of 1.6. We're sailing into uncharted territory where our only comparable previous experiences are famines or plagues.
If you're hungry, or cold, or have no safe place to sleep, money will fix that. If you're just managing to make ends meet and in constant fear of losing your job, money will fix that. If you're overworked and stressed from your high pressure job, money will fix that. In fact, until you're rich enough to be way off the pointy end of Maslowe's hierarchy, money will fix pretty much anything that ails you.
The article implies that Medicare is the correct rate.

If anyone has Medicare, or has worked at a clinic that accepts Medicare, or has filled out Medicare paperwork- you know Medicare isn't a gold, silver or bronze standard.

It's dollar store quality.

Things take longer, are often riddled with wrong denials, and him major limitations for patients.
To each their own, but I think the huge space left on the header could be used to establish what the project is actually about[0]. Not that its name doesn't give you a clear hint, and I love the seamless transition between pages, but I had to click on "info" to get a confirmation, instead of having it at first glance.

Anyhow, kudos to the author for putting up a website to tackle such a hugely relevant issue these days.

[0] Like this: https://i.imgur.com/GgudrKa.png.
Must be pretty cool to able to identify sociopaths just by "lookin' them in the eye!"

The more I do interviews and get assigned the "culture & fit" asessment role, the more depressed I get. It's really just code for the bias "looks and acts like me => good"
Interestingly, the article gives a tested recipe for creating a forecasting team. I wonder if it has been used for more important matters since, or maybe an expert committee advised against it :)
Would you care to enlighten us with the truth?
Doesn't Firefox disable ping by default? Or did that quietly change?
It's funny to think how these positive discriminations and the constant praise of the qualities intrinsic in being female, might stem from nothing else than the traditional sexist "gentleman" attitude towards the "weaker sex".
It's hard enough to identify good or bad, let alone assess to the degree that I can say 2 candidates are comparable. When that happens it really means I've got an equally poor measure of both.
Hospitals are one of those things that just shouldn't be run like a for-profit business. There should be regulated set amounts for how much various services cost, and those amounts should be equal (or at least close) to what the government/insurance programs cover.

It's bonkers to me how much resources and technology we have as a species, and how we decide to not let people access it because money/capitalism.

Obviously the US is notably worse at this than other countries, and it doesn't feel like we're on a path to fixing it.
I suspect the same is happening here in the US as well. There’s a growing “incel” population who are shunned because they don’t meet standard definitions of beauty or social fitness. The problem compounds as men become less and less confident about their prospects which leads to behavior like the one described in the article.
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I assume they were referring to the Oculus which is a high-end shopping mall building in the rebuilt WTC complex.