skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is SUPER important. People think redistricting is a panacea, but it actually sounds like a super tough nut to crack. Even states that have non-partisan districting enshrined in law are going through their own controversies and it doesn't (at first blush) appear to be solving anything.

99pi/538 did an excellent series on the topic I would recommend.
My understanding of Gerrymandering is to specifically have the outcome of 9-0 though. The natural distributions would make a natural outcome of 9-0 highly unlikely without rigging the district lines.
Are you also annoying as hell and a pain to work with?
One shall not see a difference as something bad.

Many autistic people have tremendously contributed to our society. The goal in this case is to develop the knowledge and tools that will help everyone use this as a strength.
I just typed "Eating disorder survivor" into DDG and got plenty relevant results. It's not going to work exactly the same as Google, and that's the point. Your "test" doesn't prove anything other than the fact that you're willing to sacrifice your user data for less keystrokes.
It becomes part of your experimental design. Just like people can quibble with your setup, with your questions, with your procedures, they can quibble with your priors. The difference is that it's out there, explicit.

Note that a big weakness of Bayes rule is that you can look at any data and specify a prior that will make it look good. To continue with the mammogram example, suppose the doctor says "We really don't know if you are likely to have cancer or not. So we're just going to give 50-50 odds, and see what the test comes back with." That's a very different prior from the known base rate. The results would be, where C means "Cancer" and "R" means "Positive Result":

P(C|R) = P(R|C) * P_prior(C) / P(R)
= 1.0 * 0.5 / (1.0 * 0.5 + 0.05 * 0.5)
= 0.5 / 0.55
= 0.9

A much higher probability. As you can imagine, you can do that in a paper as well: you know the data you have, and you come up with a "plausible" prior to make the data seem important.

In my opinion, in any switch to using Bayesian analysis in scientific work, pre-registering priors will be essential.
So the problem is corrupt and lazy managers, not that trams are bad.
Oh, glad you like nars, @tilt. Creator of nars here, happy to answer any questions!
And open source allowing for independent verification. We have tons of good open source apps like Signal and Matrix, why would we ever need one controlled by facebook of all companies?
> why does AT&T care about content moderation -- but it is something to watch?

"Content moderation" is just another kind of surveillance. You have to have been watching -- surveilling -- in order to moderate.

AT&T already has capital and people invested in surveillance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
There's also the soy-estrogen link, and soy is in everything. I don't know what the truth is regarding soy estrogens, because it's one of those things where searching brings up reams of pseudo-scientific garbage.
Thanks! For now, I don't think so.
The nice thing about direct-chat apps is that the network effect isn't nearly as strong as for traditional social networks. If you want to use X to talk with someone, you can just download it and then talk with that person. You don't have to get everyone to switch at once. You'll have more little app icons on your phone but that's about the extent of the cost.
It's just that most people aren't very smart, including most journalists. It's a not a grand conspiracy to protect billionaires. They pick on Jeff Bezos plenty.
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That makes sense. My one change to the workflow is that I tend to visit example.com again, one last time, after jumping through the captive-portal hoops to make sure it's all really working. Thus I do see the content.
From all the horror stories I hear about IBM it makes me wonder whether we are talking about the same company.

I work at IBM in europe. We have open office spaces, I will work remotely for the entirety of next year. I guess the work I'm doing would be considered 'uncool' by most people my age (Internal Devops engineering).

I'm always surprised whenever I read just how bad it's supposed to be as it doesn't remotely match my experience.
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The reducing missed cases of AKI from 12% to 3% stat was a result from the introduction of the Streams app into the AKI workflow. The model used was an existing NHS AKI model, not the new model discussed in the first part of the article.
Add Static Assets to Deployment – Building SaaS with Python and Django #29
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I had a bad experience interviewing here. After a 4 hour onsite I was sent an email several business days later with "we decided that we will not be moving forward" and no feedback. Hopefully they have improved the process since then. I have found other companies give some amount of feedback, even big corporations, so I can't imagine it's a liability thing, but maybe...
So these aren't symptoms that the individual is exhibiting but symptoms that are perceived differently by others? I could definitely see that being the case but I also feel as if that's moved the goalpost on what the parent said.
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Capital One hacker threatened to ‘shoot up’ a California social media company
I'd have lost all respect for them as a developer in that moment.
You picked on nice but ignored accessible. Look at where employers are parking their offices, next to million dollar trailer park spots.
This was exactly the point discussed in one of the episodes. Artificially create a black delegation? Or have no black delegation at all.
Edward Snowden has written a memoir
> Looking at the long term contributors, readable or un-readable code seems to be more about the person than the language. Unsurprisingly, the person who produced the most unreadable, unmaintainable code is now doing the same in a new Python only project.

I would totally agree.

I learned Perl after first learning Basic(and Visual Basic) then Java.

Coming from Java meant that I always tried to use clear variable names, good comments, broke my code into small and simple functions etc. I repeatedly had people say to me "Wow! I didn't know you could do that in Perl!"

A lot of Perl's bad reputation came from sysadmins and other busy folks who either weren't familiar with good syntax or were in a hurry and basically were playing Perl Golf to get things done quickly. This is probably where the line "Perl is a write only language" came from.

I will concede that Python and it's forced indenting leads to much easier to read code for beginners. That being said, trying to understand what's going on with advanced Pandas usage written by Numpy wizards is no walk in the park either.

I also totally agree that the Perl one liner is still my go to even though I do everything else in Python these days.
setting this up is profoundly laborious, not to mention risky considering I have to enter my spotify username/password in a config file somewhere...
Obviously, such a test isn't scientific, nor reproducible.

But more importantly, the search term was "ED survivor". If you enter the solution, I'm not surprised the solution comes out again.
Yes, you end up very quickly in Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" scenario. You can't ever know what it is like to be another person (or animal) because as soon as you are that other thing, you are no longer you. If you were still you, you wouldn't be that other thing so you still wouldn't have that knowledge.
We've already reached space with a Tesla Roadster, I'm sure a Toyota RAV4 wouldn't be much different.

It sure is a lot cheaper to go to Mauna Kea than space though.

/joke
The argument for users time is a good point, but I don't think the author was intending that. My point was just that it was not sufficiently argued to be obvious.

However, even that does not make the case that web performance is an ethical issue. It would only do so when the number of users is much greater than the amount of effort it takes to make a site.

If I make a site that I expect 1000 people to look at, then the performance of that site isn't really significant. And not an ethical issue.
These are both extreme's which make total sense but the degree at which the entire drawing of borders is taken is extreme by itself.

Are there any feasible solutions? Does simply squaring out a district make sense? Would that have unintended side effects?
I'll check nts out. Although it's not super developed yet, I do intend for lagukan to handle unstable preferences. It already kind of handles different sets of songs--i.e. it doesn't think "You like song A," it thinks "You just listened to song A, and previously when you listened to A you also listened to B". So it can adapt based on the songs in your current listening session, although it takes a while for it to learn the different sets.

I'm planning later to make it adapt to preferences changing over time and also contextual factors like working out. There's a lot of good research on context-based music recommendation.
This is me except I'm married. That's just how my wife and I are. I lived like this single too. For me, people are draining and a lot of work. I usually don't think about others, I'm wrapped up in my own life. I don't like social situations, I'm always waiting to get back home, so I just stay home. To me, it's not a problem because that's what I prefer.
That only works if you already know something is/isn't true with absolute certainty.

It's useless for fundamental research, because by definition you're exploring what you don't know yet.

The real problem is more one of labelling. "True according to science" isn't a binary, but it's treated as if it is - especially by marketers.

Science is more like a set of concentric circles of decreasing confidence. You can be very confident indeed about the contents of the centre circle which includes undergraduate physics and engineering. You can also be confident that there are commonly agreed edge cases, areas of inaccuracy, and extreme circumstances where the science stops being reliable.

As you get further away from the centre confidence decreases. A lot of the debate about replication is about research that is a long way from the centre, where uncertainty is high.

But neither researchers nor the science press nor the mainstream media will report this. Studies are usually presented as "Science says...", as if you're supposed to be just as confident of the results of a psychological study that asks a population of 30 undergrads from the same college and the same year some poorly designed questions as you are in Special Relativity.
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Probably 95+% of all my sent or received Whatsapp messages are for groups. If I don't get most of the people I communicate with to switch to another (the same!) messenger, it's pretty inconvenient.

It doesn't help that, last I checked, the good (open) alternatives were all much jankier or missing one or more major features we use. Makes them hard to sell. :-/
Wait, dumpster is trademarked? I've never heard of this before, but according to [0] it is definitely a generic trademark. Although this may be a great example of why VELCRO(R) is fighting a losing battle. At this point, it may be too late to change the average consumer's habits, as VELCRO(R) is in almost the same situation. Perhaps if they had started this campaign when the patent expired and generic alternatives appeared, but it's probably too little, too late at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster
Here are the pages of the report that make me upset:
- Page 6, paragraph 10 : "A firewall misconfiguration permitted commands to reach and be executed by that server, which enabled access to folders or buckets of data in Capital One's storage space at the Cloud Computing Company"
- Page 8, paragraph 14: "According to Capital One, the data copied from Capital One's data folders or buckets includes primarily data related to credit card applications. Although some of the information in those applications (such as SSN) has been tokenized or encrypted, other information including applicants' names, addresses, dates of birth and information regarding their credit history has not been tokenized. According to Capital One, the data includes data regarding large numbers of applications, likely tens of millions of applications. According to Capital One that dta includes approximately 120,000 SSN and approximately 77,000 bank account numbers.
>They are saying “nobody is going to loan you money if you don’t play our games”.

Completely untrue. But if you want good loan terms, yes you will need to participate in the system of sharing credit terms, because reputable banks don't want to deal with bad debt.
season three
...just do away with districts entirely? why are they needed?
Clickable above now. Thanks!
I don't know that "declaration of holy war and terrorist attacks" quite equal "social pressure from lawsuits and protesting" but it was all left vague so I guess that's a read?
If you want to play around with district mapping, 538 has a neat tool:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/

Their podcast series is a must if you are remotely interested in the topic.
I bet she was like "Scheme?! But can it do websites?"
If political issues actually split along the 95%/5% lines that correspond to that minority, then the 5% are effectively voiceless however you cut it. Another possibility is that most issues aren't about that minority group and you see something like republican:democrat:minority::42:43:5 split. Now the rep for that 5% has a ton of leverage to exchange, eg, votes for republican issues in exchange for republican support for minority issues.
Here are a few things to think about:

- A country or its institutions may be sanctioned by the sponsor's country. Increasing the difficulty of processing financial rewards.

- Increasing the number of languages covered by the sponsor via Terms & Conditions [1] and Q&A support [2] increases the cost of launching the challenge.

- Some countries have stricter and/or ambiguous digital and financial laws, increasing the risk and cost of compliance to the sponsors.

[1] https://www.openideo.com/content/cybersecurity-visuals-addit...
[2] cybersecurityvisuals@ideo.com
This is why selective / arbitrary enforcement of the law is dangerous -- everyone breaks some kind of law every day. If the government gets to choose when (or if) the law is applied, then it's no different from tyranny. There are so many laws that even Congress can't keep track of just the federal ones[1]. Then there are state laws, local laws, regulations from organizations like the FAA or motor vehicle departments, etc.

[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...
> how such activities would be paid for.

they should be paid for by the industries that caused the pollution: oil and gas, automobile, manufacturing. I don't think there is any dichotomy regarding encouraging healthy consumption. Even if we were carbon neutral today, how are we going to siphon back the excess carbon that has been released over the last century?
Sales tax is non-progressive.
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