skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious why you would think that.

afaik, Taleb has repeatedly & explicitly stated “no probability without ergodicity”, which is pretty much a frequentist mantra. The problem with non-statisticians like Nate Silvers (who holds a BS in Econ, as opposed to Taleb who earned his PhD in Statistics), is that they traffic in electoral polls involving human subjects which are anything but ergodicity. Yet, they brazenly attribute probability models to their conclusions. That has severe definitional issues, which is what Taleb objects to.

As to the gatekeeping issues, my mom buys eggs for $3 and groceries for $7. 3+7=10, so she hands over a $10 bill. Wait a minute, does that mean my mom is a mathematician, because she has engaged in arithmetic, which is math ? That’s the issue here. Silvers can simply post how many people want to vote which way & leave it at that. It’s just an opinion poll. Instead he engages in an elaborate charade where he takes polls of polls, ensemble averages, then says this is what is most likely, then on election day when most likely becomes least likely, he washes his hands off. Thats just clearcut fraud. All Taleb is saying is that you simply don’t have ergodicity here so you don’t have a probability. You just have a [0..1] fraction that doesn’t mean much because it doesn’t converge to a limit as information approaches infinity. So if you had skin in the game and purchased an option based on the projected outcome you would lose big time.
No problem at all! :) Just curious about the sources of revenue from me as a customer if I don’t hold cash, don’t issue sell orders, and buy only ETFs.
I thought myself fairly well informed about macOS, having run it since the 10.1 days, administering it over the years, etc. But TIL that the quarantine bit and gatekeeper which normally prevent unauthorized executables from running is trivially bypassed, as was the case in this attack.

My paranoia level has increased.

https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x43.html

https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/9e724ea23343...

Yeesh.
Also if it's in localStorage then opening the same site on two devices would show very different numbers and quite obviously be fake.
I have very hard time to believe this. It can't be helpful to drive people away -- at least I don't use any hard driers anymore because of their noise levels.
The fraud is the $129 room was gone hours, maybe days ago. It didn't just sell, the web site simply quoted a price they though was low enough to keep you from looking elsewhere, within reason. Once you looked serious about booking, they actually checked the hotel's inventory. You can really tell this happens when you try to book a room/flight/car that is sold out. They quote you a price, if you actually try to book, then, they tell you there is no space. Consolidator travel sites do not check the inventory of every room, flight, or car they quote you. They can't possibly do that. They are all estimates until they see your credit card number. One other thing about travel booking: I don't want the last or even second to last room at a hotel or seat on a plane. The chances of being bumped are too high. So telling me "only 1 seat left", isn't going to close the deal.
Not just similar, many/most of the roots are shared.
Yes, everyone will eventually be equally poor and dependent on the government. Sounds great
I thought about that, and it’s just spit balling something off the cuff, but address to address self-spending may have positive impacts on the network vis-a-vis additional transaction fees for miners.
Anandtech mentioned in their coverage that the previous versions of Displayport "required that the branch device be capable of decoding a DisplayPort bitstream", this new version apparently drops this requirement which should make daisy-chaining or hub devices much less complex.
This is a common opinion even amongst language specialists. So much so, in the process of modernising Turkish, about 90 years ago, whatever little concept of gender Turkish had was completely stripped from the language, leaving only 'it', alongside its conversion to Latin alphabet.

The good thing is that it's truly a structural, mathematical language now, though still hard to learn, and it can avoid the whole his / her awkwardness for people whose gender is unknown to the writer. The gaps left by the Arabic words dropped from common use was filled by French (11% of its corpus is 1:1 to French) and if you know a Romance language, you can make pretty decent guesses.

The bad thing, on the other hand, is that Turkey is full of ancient history, and so much of that history is adorned in Imperial Turkish, using Arabic alphabet that no one can read. Even if they did, they wouldn't understand, since Imperial and Modern Turkish has diverged so much they are no longer mutually intelligible, not even the slightest clue.

It makes you feel like a foreigner in one's own country, in a way. Always found it funny that I can understand Middle English from 1300s, and I can read inscribed colonnades in Rome from 500 BC – but I can neither read nor understand Turkish from 1922.
When I was in the woods and found one on me, I took the batteries out of an extra flashlight I was carrying and kept the tick trapped in the handle.

When I got home, I transferred him to a double ziplock labelled with the date and where on the body I found him and tossed him into the freezer for a few months until I figured I was in the clear.
Hey, posting an LMGTFY is basically always extremely condescending and unnecessary. Here's a link that explains the quality of polling in 2016 and talks about some of the misconceptions both before and after the election: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-are-all-right...
It's a personal decision with far-reaching societal impact [0]. Even types of addiction that are not obviously health-destroying can, in fact, be killing you and thus imposing indirect burden on society [1].

[0]: https://www.erswhitebook.org/chapters/tobacco-smoking/
[1]: https://www.alternet.org/2012/09/how-gambling-can-kill-you-f...
One downside to this is that doesn't work for functions those return values aren't disjoint.

io.Reader is an example where the function can return io.EOF and still returns valid data together with a count in its first return value. If it returns a count > 0, the buffer has valid data. A lot of Go projects get this wrong because it's not obvious -- it goes against the behaviour of almost all Go functions.

Go is unfortunately full of little surprising warts like this where you have to tread super carefully. Nil channels is one of my favorites.
To everybody who wants to tackle this challenge: start by considering how you would protect your 'new internet' against SPAM and SEO attacks.

For example, if you build on a decentralized network, ask yourself how you can prevent SEO companies from adding a huge amount of nodes to promote certain sites.
yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20288486
I see Javascript made it mainstream for all sort of clients and servers, Electron desktop apps made it to mainstream.
So I remain skeptic to argument just because new features have been invented they are good or need to be implemented everywhere.
autoasphyxiation
isn't it a "self-strangling" in latin :)
Trust 'undermined' by food delivery firms over hygiene
Yeah, that's what made it such a fun read to me, like you said it just continually gets more and more out there. It explores some really interesting ideas that I haven't seen touched on in much of the sci-fi I've read. Another personal favorite is Iain M. Banks Culture series, which is much different than Liu's work but does the same thing - exploring these really interesting ideas of a far future society and how humans fit into that world.
really glad for SymPy, used it in my PhD work: https://github.com/verdverm/pypge
It wasn't a broken line, it was a botched tap job. I don't see a lot of moral difference between an organized heist and an impromptu opportunistic criminal mob, except that the former has the decency to not get children involved.
Good point, I will do a try.
Thanks for your feedback
The web browser _is_ the "safe" sandbox. Your dream of competing OS vendors coming together to build a standard UI platform makes no sense whatsoever. The current state of web apps is mostly a factor of developers being willing to do any amount of work whatsoever to avoid having to learn how to do things differently than they already know (ie, writing good native apps for multiple platforms, which would require learning multiple frameworks, so instead they create their own abstracted framework within a sandbox.
As far as I can tell there is still no support for touch screen displays. It is a shame that the data rate gets higher and higher but this simple feature is still missing.
I immediately looked for "418 I'm a teapot", and the expectations were fulfilled :)
I think this is down to manufacturer quality control. I bought the same model from Florsheim over 10+ years and they were indistinguishable. Got lucky on that one I suppose.
It's not an uvular letter though, it's pharyngeal (to epiglottal in some places).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin#Arabic_%CA%BFayn
That is awesome. And in fairness, it does show a clear variant, not vanilla Pong, so I'll fess up to being a bit trolly. Agree on the power of sharing tools rather than products, or products that are also tools.
They're not "living cost free at taxpayer's expense," they're being locked in a small room with a vast majority of their autonomy removed. That's the punishment.

They're not the only ones at fault. Society failed them as well, and must carry that burden as well. It would have been more efficient to do so by funding excellent education programs but instead we decided to do so by creating a bloated justice system. So it goes.

What cost to society did the man jailed with 3g of marijuana incur? The one that robbed a Walmart of a flat screen? Enough to justify all the things I illustrated above? Nope, because the jury and judge and legislators set down and handed down the sentence and have no visibility into a further form of punishment arbitrarily set by the prison in the form of lesser wages.

How about this: via what framework shall a prisoner's working hours and pay be set? Let's say the man jailed for a DWI, and the woman jailed for selling marijuana. Shall the DWI be paid 1$, or 2$ per hour, and the dealer 3$ because the "cost to society" was less? How did you calculate that? Oh also, can the prisoners be forced to work? How shall we fit that into sentencing?
There are valid points about being tricked here, but it's all kind of irrelevant in the presence of a javascript 0-day. You don't actually have to trick anyone to use one of those; just make an interesting post on tumblr and away the hacks go. Trying to never get hit with a 0-day is a pipe dream.
But you can say the same for tons of other hot companies as well - Uber/Lyft, WeWork, etc. I think the difference is that mail-order meal kit companies don't really have a theoretical path to profitability that I've seen in a real way. They might have a place as niche players with a relatively small user base, but that can't sustain the cash burn they run.
I don't quite follow what the challenge is to take your money elsewhere. If we're talking about post-tax investments, you can easily liquidate and buy in to whatever else you want.
They list “motion” as a form of waste. What does this mean?
> - Washable towel on a continuous roller/spindle thing? Common in past decades, now pretty rare. Requires regular servicing. Expensive? [1]

Not true by my experience. I'd say maybe a third of the toilets I use (in Europe) have these cloth rolls.
> as opposed to Taleb who earned his PhD in Statistics

Wrong.
I'm of the opinion that making a language too simple results in the worst code. Sure it's easier to learn, but you end up with crap when you're trying to do something complex and there's no good way to represent it.

BASIC and VBA are extreme examples but they support my opinion :).

Go has a ton of shortcomings. No good popular package management system with versioning, hacky JSON parsing, no generics. Rust is becoming a good counter example, they listen to the community and pump out features that everyone is excited about. Like async recently.

Google has a habit of ignoring the community. Angular is a great example. I've been following a feature request for close to 3 years that has over 100 comments asking for it. A simple thing too. Many people have opened PR's and begged for it in vein, even as recent as a week ago.
Slavery by another name.

Think of all the perverse incentives that come along with the ability to access prison labor -- an ever present need for a robust population (a.k.a locking minorities up), lax regulation in terms of various labor laws and general exploitation of labor without the need to pay market costs (wages, healthcare, etc.).
> It is for this reason that the absolute vast majority of systematic trading relies more on intimate market knowledge

Aside from reading books about market segments and biographies of companies, what are some things you can do to gain "intimate market knowledge"?
It's true in general. In practice, hosting memory-safe apps on OpenBSD rarely gets people hacked. If ever. You can also pick a better processor (AMD vs Intel) or even an obscure one like Freescale's PPC's that these hackers might not be able to exploit yet.
Thank you for confirming what it's clear several of us suspected.
True, she struggled with that part, but that technique of limiting the airflow by hand works and gives you a good feel on how to pronounce it.
I've never understood why we think we live in 3 dimensional world.

Let's put aside time, brane dimensions, etc

But just from a human experience perspective, there are so many more dimensions than X,y,z. Color for instance. Or sound, or touch, or smell.

From a data science perspective, we treat each additional column in a table as an additional dimension. This isn't metaphorical, it is reality as we best define it.
University will only hire women for engineering roles for first six months
With tabs on the side. Some of them are clearly forgotten, waiting for the next whole-window-cleanup, but there are groups of tabs I revisit.

Some people organize their tabs into trees; there was also "panorama" feature in the past; however, for me it seems like a scrollbar (with a filtering search bar) is enough.

Also, the awesomebar itself has excellent support for switching between open tabs.
Why does there need to be one central source of truth on the internet? It seems like it would be impossible to implement. Even if google worked like it did 15 years ago and you got decently relevant results to your search terms, that's still not even scraping the surface of the whole internet that is relevant to your search terms.

It's an impossible problem to solve because we don't have good consistent metadata to draw on. Libraries work because they have good metadata to catalog their collections. Good metadata needs to be generated by hand, doing it automatically is bound to lead to errors and special cases that will pollute your search results.

I say we abandon the idea of the ideal search engine, accept the fact that we will never be able to find every needle in every haystack, and defer to a decentralized assortment of thousands of topic-specific indexes of relevant information.
Some of them will be shit, but that's fine, the internet has always been a refuge for conspiracy theorists and other zaney interests. The good stuff will shine through the mud, as it's always done.
Setting Up Rails with Docker and Caddyserver
That would bring to an even bigger filter bubble issue, more precisely to a techno élite which is capable, willing and knowledgeable enough to feel the need go through the hassle, and all the rest navigating in such an indexed mess that would pave the way to all sort of new gatekeepers, belonging to the aforementioned tech élite. It’s not a simple issue to tackle, perhaps a public scrutiny on the ranking algorithms would be a good first step.
To an algorithm, harassment looks like engagement. To the market, engagement looks like success. We're participating in a system that has no choice but to create this result.
I agree. And on top of that, it takes jobs away from people who are not in prison, and gives it to people who likely can't negotiate a fair pay.
> Considering all the successful software that's been written in Go, they weren't exactly wrong.

Considering all the successful software written in PHP...? Or Javascript...? Java...? Your argument absolutely has nothing to do with my point.
Can anyone shed any light on whether these numbers make sense at all?
I think 0.2 g of CO2 per minute of video seems awfully high.
I doubt that this would matter unless you're not planning to produce more than 50 and then decide to add another 50, as you would with book editions - most products aren't produced in parallel, you'll typically get batches shipped. I'm fairly certain that you'd be asked to publish information about expected re-stocking if you publish stock counts.

The same goes for advertising & only having few items. For example, supermarkets that advertise a special offer need to have "reasonable" amounts in stock - you can't say "new iPhone X only 10 Euros" to draw in buyers and then just have two in stock.
Shoot, I get nervous and feel like crying when I see a hand dryer, and I’m in my mid 30s.

Those devices are literally painful for me to be around. I view them as a scourge and will consider not washing my hands if there’s no soundproofed alternative.
As others have commented, the problem here is the ranking algorithm and how it can be gamed. Essentially, trust.

'Web of trust' has its flaws too: a sufficiently large number of malicious nodes cooperating can subvert the network.

However, maybe we can exploit locality in the graph? If the user has an easy way to indicate the quality of results, and we cluster the graph of relevance sources, the barrier to subverting the network can be raised significantly.

Let's say that each ranking server indicates 'neighbours' which it considers relatively trustworthy. When a user first performs a search their client will pick a small number of servers at random, and generate results based on them.

* If the results are good, those servers get a bit more weight in future. We can assume that the results are good if the user finds what they're looking for in the top 5 or so hits (varying depending on how specific their query is; this would need some extra smarts).

* If the results are poor (the user indicates such, or tries many pages with no luck) those servers get downweighted.

* If the results are actively malicious (indicated by the user) then this gets recorded too...

There would need to be some way of distributing the weightings based on what the servers supplied, too. If someone's shovelling high weightings at us for utter crap, they need to get the brunt of the downweighting/malice markers.

Servers would gain or lose weighting and malice based on their advertised neighbours too. Something like PageRank? The idea is to hammer the trusting server more than the trusted, to encourage some degree of self-policing.

Users could also chose to trust others' clients, and import their weighting graph (but with a multiplier).

Every search still includes random servers, to try to avoid getting stuck in an echo chamber. The overall server graph could be examined for clustering and a special effort made to avoid selecting more than X servers in a given cluster. This might help deal with malicious groups of servers, which would eventually get isolated. It would be necessary to compromise a lot of established servers in order to get enough connections.

Of course, then we have the question of who is going to run all these servers, how the search algorithm is going to shard efficiently and securely, etc etc.

Anyone up for a weekend project? >_>
And if they refuse to work, and pay?

Does a jail in California require a greater rent than one in Alabama? What if the minimum wage doesn't match, do we make the prisoner go into debt to continue uh, their "lease?" Do they get better conditions if they pay more? Can they just not work and leverage their pre-incarceration assets to pay? Now that they're renters, do they get renter's protection under law? Via what mechanism - who enforces? What if there's cockroaches, they're paying, do they get to Lodge a complaint? Who decides the rent? What's to stop a prison setting a rent price that requires 18 hours hard labor to match?

Why do you think it's acceptable to devalue a human? What measures do you apply to that devaluing algorithm? In your mind, who is the most "valuable," and least "valuable" human?
On the same day Óscar Alberto and Valeria died, U.S. Border Patrol agents found four bodies along the Rio Grande in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, about 55 miles west of Brownsville. In that case, three children — one toddler and two infants — died along with a 20-year-old woman.
I'm really not sure it will any time soon.

I think robot enthusiasts sometimes underestimate what hands attached to a brain full of knowledge really are capable of.

There's a problem software developers have to solve if they really want robots to be a full replacement for a human physically performing a task and that's a way for the trained humans to communicate their knowledge to the robot. The problem with this is that most people really aren't great at communicating precisely. They have a hard time teaching each other and are often hopeless when it comes to giving precise and complete instructions for something to a robot. forget complex tasks like surgery even gardening and washing dishes is hard. Even something as simple as "grab the thing" is a pretty big project.

Maybe in the future as robots become more common speaking with the level of precision required will also become common (kind of like what happened to culture with the web and email.)
Security by obfuscation of techniques involved. Classic trick. It's the best so long as each security measure and their interactions are fairly secure.
What complaint do you currently see from go fmt that is closest to "you should use try here"?
Not exactly a source, but from my person experience I have seen people believing in social science results with a fervor that matches religious people believing in religious material. Questioning a study, even with valid reasoning, causes one to receive treatment that compared to questioning religious teachings. Bringing up an alternative study, if it disagrees with the person's own leanings, is comparable to quoting the wrong religious book to a religious individual. Having significant experience in both religious communities and the social sciences, there feels to be a lot of overlap and I personally see nothing wrong with seeing it as serving as a replacement religion for those who have left the classical ones behind.

Now to clarify, I am not saying it is psedoscience or some conspiracy by the elites. I think it happens, to give an overly summarized summary, because religion fills a spot in the average's human psyche that when empty people seek to fill with something else and social sciences are similar enough to serve as a good replacement. As for the reliability of the science, there is a reproducibility problem and the social sciences are plagued with issues to a far greater extent than the hard sciences. That doesn't mean it is fake, but that studies, especially those with little variations and replications, need to be taken with a measured serving of salt.