skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly their main target market or could be a British company that was acquired.
More Coal stats: https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/c... PDF

Germany best coal reserves have depleted; 20 years is a long time.
How not? Done some math to share? If all the soy fed to beef is just fed to humans (or convertes back to rainforests in Brazil) we would be in much better shape.
demand it proactively monitor the media for possible sources of stress on particular employees

It's Google...a simple Google News alert would be easy to set up, and having a counselor would be no more unreasonable to have than the massage therapists and barbers they currently have on site.
Some suggested edits to your comment:

wagecuck -> working stiff

when you can no longer maintain an erection -> when you are past the prime of your life

With these simple substitutions you can once again sound like a reasonable human being who is not overly fixated on unnecessary crude sexual imagery.
Or, you know, we could build wind turbines and solar panels and reduce our dependence on foreign fossil fuels.
> We make money via a monthly subscription to buy and renew all of the SaaS in your stack.

I find this a bit ironic. To solve the pain of purchasing SAAS, you need to subscribe to a SAAS.
Additionally, I think it would be much more convincing if you offered an option in which there's a small upfront fee (or even none) and then you make money on how much you can make your client save.
To me this shows that Twitter is mostly US-and-Euro-centric.
I've had quite the opposite experience. I've made maybe 20 real life friends that I met first on the internet (primarily Twitter) and almost all of them have proven to be at least as funny intelligent and likeable as online. Almost all of them I now just try to interact with IRL vs online.

I've never encountered this issue of expecting this cool person based on a manufactured illusion and then finding them to be mundane. And I know without the internet I might have more of a sense of community in general but I don't think I would have found people as unique and weirdly on my wavelength.
A social benefit then?
Thanks for the feedback! I totally agree about observational studies being suggestive but not replacing A/B tests - that’s why the main use case I listed in the blog (and how current customers have used the product so far) is “prioritization of a/b tests”, not replacing a/b tests themselves. The language around “simulating a/b tests” is just a way to try to concisely explain to someone at a high level who may not be very technical or has never heard of an observational study. Happy for suggestions on how to better explain observational studies to less technical customers without over-selling! It’s something we’ve been iterating on ourselves.
Aren't patent drawings supposed to show only the essential functional elements?
Adding is actually considerably better. For high quality hashes XOR is just as good; but if there's any distributional problems at all in the hash, adding mixes stuff more.

(XORing is effectively adding with all of the carry information lost/falling off).
Well, if you refuse to look at the details, everything looks like a pipe dream.

In reality, Germany still exports electricity to "nuclear powered" France.

The plan to stop coal plants does not count on higher energy imports, particularly not in the form of electricity.
EU grids are interconnected. They will buy electricity from neighbors.
Germany imports most of its natural resources, because we don’t have them anyway. That‘s why we rely so much on exporting products.
Why is nuclear energy never mentioned as a remedy to global warming? It doesn’t have any of the problems renewables have, is safe enough in its current incarnation and research is looking promising enough that one can reasonably expect the waste problem to get taken care of properly. Plus we won’t run out of fuel for like 1000 years.
I don't know anything about the design of Germany's reactors, but the Fukushima disaster was caused by a "zipper" effect of one easily preventable failure leading to the next.

For example, the ducts that vented hydrogen overpressure vented into the interior of the reactor building rather than outside. This lead to the explosions.
US leadership (dont know how big percent of population is in denial) first needs to accept that there is a human caused global warming and ecological destruction problem. The biggest global polluter is leading in denial also.
Anything's possible.
But statistically speaking, we're looking at a loss less total environmental damage from the few nuclear incidents that have happened vs. the damage caused by tons and tons of carbon and toxins being spewed by coal plants.

I like to think of it like car crashes vs. plane crashes. Plane crashes are much more publicized, and definitely cause more death/damage per occurrence than a car crash. But because there's so few of them, planes are still much safer overall than cars.
But it's a proxy for inferring reduced gut distress. So it's not an unreasonable thing to wonder about.
Exactly right. It is acceptable to argue that the pricing is too high and unfair. But to say the structure itself is wrong isn't correct.

Breaking up the total price of a product by it's component features and then creating variants of the sold product with certain features enabled vs disabled and hence having different total prices is one fair way of create products that are tailored to customers needs.

When pricing individual features, the prices may not correlate relative to each other. There may be factors like which features are most used by which segment of customers and how valuable the feature is to that segment customer and hence how much they are willing to pay.

Demanding that all the features should be sold at the lowest total cost doesn't make sense. We don't do this in any other domain.
We don't have IT scams like this in Lithuania,as nobody ever pays for IT support,they just get someone they know to do it for free. However massive prize scams used to be quite popular and still are to certain degree today. Scammer calls a victim and claims he's calling from a radio show,some company, events organiser, whatever.Then obviously comes the part where he saya that the victim won x,y,z and all they. need to do is to buy some prepaid topup cards for mobile( these usually have a code on them that needs to be used to add credit) and tell the con artist those codes,for "verification purposes" or whatever the reason of the day is. This was many years ago. One day,a friend of mine gets home and his dad,a surgeon, shouts across the room: Anthony,we won!!!!we won it all!!My friend: what? Yeah,we won!! HI-Fi system, a vacuum cleaner and I think a washing masine as well!!!Yeah! My friend,still being quite confused about his dad's instant gains: what are you talking about, where's this coming from? Well,the guy called from the radio,they ran a game and we won.Anthony, here's some money(it was at least a couple weeks wage),go to the shop across the road and buy topup cards,will you? My friend looked at his dad and said: dad, shut up and go back to bed.
Nice... I think this is often good a good strategy, but super big companies like Google have a lot of noise on Twitter. Opening up your own, unique, support channel, like this company has done can sometimes be more successful because everyone loves a great story.
AI Talks about AI
Did you guys look into
Partial mutual information for confounding variable selection

Granger causality for estimating Granger cause
Would you say the same about Google CodeJam? Some people didn’t have the chance to go to college...
Do Code Comments Suck?
That's an LLVM talk.

Wrong url?
Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018)
Great news, but 19 years. Man.

Things take time, I get that. But we're getting close to human lifespans there.

The world in the year 2000 was such a different place in so many ways. It's difficult to imagine what 2038 looks like.

Nineteen years ago, top end computing hardware was something like a Pentium III. Windows XP had not yet been released.
This really isn't newsworthy. He's not actually considering it seriously.
You can't use the animal muscles as well. What organs need moving, active body, if you can control hormone levels etc?
> Bezos ain't paying me a dime to say I like my job. Instead, I get paid for my effort to educate others about how wonderful it is.
You shouldn't trust any company anywhere to be able to act entirely independently of the national intelligence apparatus. It's been established that many American tech companies cooperate with the NSA, for example.

But Huawei is a private company. It will probably have to comply if the Chinese state forces it to (just like American companies have to silently comply if handed a National Security Letter), but it's not an arm of the government.
Germany had a 30-year long public discussion on nuclear. There is an overwhelming majority who rejects it. And for good reasons, too. If there is no other way to achieve our goals, we may have that discussion again, but I doubt it.
This is the same problem California faced. We shut down all of our nuclear plants (over a longer period of time) and we ended up relying more on dirty power. Luckily green initiatives have been on the rise with extended geothermal, wind and solar usage.
I believe it's reasonable, yes. The SEO/Affiliate-market is strong, but the rest of the economy is much larger and runs a lot more websites.

Commercial websites are made to (help) make money, but you'll likely not convince somebody who has a non-ad business model to include ads. Similarly, a lawyer runs his office to make money, but he won't let you put up billboards with ads in his office, even if he could make a little extra money, because it would likely impact his primary business.
> That's incompatible with the Paris agreement

Honest question: is this still seen, internationally, as a serious agreement?
Germany already does that quite a lot (>30% of their production in average come from renewable), but there is a distribution issue. The north generates a lot of electricity using a combination of windmills and solar panel, but the south doesn’t for some reasons (I guess the environment isn’t adapted? Not sure why). And there are a lot of problems (not necessarily technical) to bring the electricity from the north to the south. As far as I understood, the government need to get the authorization from each land owner on the way to be able to install new cables and infrastructure, and that takes crazy amount of time. Nobody want to have this going through their property.
I find it curious how programmers are so poor at naming their projects. This could've easily been named pokésay.

That said, it's a cool project!
Very impressive, but it’s a shame to me that the vinyl figure company to lock down every IP imaginable has such horrible, dead eyes.
Inspecting network activity is more fiddly now -- HTTP is blocked and installing certificates for a proxy to intercept HTTPS is difficult. File system access is locked down. I’ve also been finding that the debugger just runs very slowly on an Android 9 test device; seems to be something to do with code verification.

Nothing insurmountable, just slower and more awkward than it used to be.
You will notice the different though. Those people only care about the end product, you can work however you like to get there. There's freedom in there.
“Free will” what an American biased invention of the rich to suppress the poor. There is no proof of this concept in the Bible, instead it runs completely opposite to “God’s will”. In an effort to promote Christianity, you might be subject to the most dangerous lie in the history of churches today- rich Jesus theology.
Specific examples would help. I'm genuinely curious what those "hateful words" were.
From their risk factors:
"Our business depends on our ability to retain and upgrade paying customers and, to a lesser extent, convert free customers to paying customers, and any decline in renewals, upgrades, or conversions could adversely affect our future results of operations" (Emphasis mine)

Kind of matches what you are saying. However, a couple of counter-points to consider:
1. Are Cloudfare fees a major portion of your costs and the first to be on the chopping block?

2. Are you OK with the risk that you can withstand cyber-crimes against your property by saving the said amount.

I don't have the numbers yet and I might be wrong but services like Cloudflare are becoming similar to some grocery purchases:
Sure you might skimp a bit during a downturn, but you won't do without them
Tihange is the perfect demonstration that humanity can not handle the responsabilities that come with nuclear power generation. The chief of staff of the ministry responsible for extending the operations on this disaster plant just went through the revolving door for a plush 'job' at the plant's owner. The minister was not amused as he broke the unwritten rule to wait to cash out till after the General election.
There's an echo of something I remember Marx saying here, about the futility of trying to abolish capitalism, in private, behind its back. Ultimately, the two stress points ruining the whole project are that the workers have to be productive, and non-productive workers must be fired. That drives both the crunch, and the lurking threat of being fired. These both have the same source - whatever organizational structure Valve chooses, it is a for-profit company with a limited hiring budget.

If nobody was being paid, nobody had to be fired, and nobody was worried about money, their system probably wouldn't give rise to any cliques, barons, and so on - simply because there would be no need for this sort of defensive politics.
> How does survivorship bias apply here?

Because he is evidently a survivor. I guess we need more info on other who tried the same and succeeded or failed to really decide, but nonetheless it's one person reporting on their experience. It has all the hallmarks of it.

> if you are willing to sacrifice everything for a goal, you’ll beat out everyone else purely due to attrition.

Big assumption that persistence assures success. It likely is a significant factor but that does not seem to be what you are saying.

I'll put it another way - I don't accept it is a tautology.
To use your analogy no surgeon is allowed to cut until he or she does have a solid grounding in biology.

I take it you're unfamiliar with the content of the MCAT exam, which is a prerequisite to admission to American medical schools.
> JAN. 26, 2019
Would You Invest in Cloudflare? [DE]
> That lawyer needs to be sued for malpractice. This is their job.

Why do you think that? Perhaps you parsed "parent's lawyer friend" as "parent's lawyer"?

The former is likely doing a favor and would not be paid the full sticker price when rendering such a service since the transaction is not truly at arm's length. The latter is more likely to be sued for malpractice since you would be paying the full sticker price.
This is potentially good news for Europe, as I am sure Germany will force other countries to follow suit. Most likely using a diktat given via the EU commission.
Microsoft bucks trend, maintains contractor reviews of voice recording
Glad we got that out of the way.
This is the "never give up" fallacy, a sort of magical thinking in our times. But sometimes giving up is the smart thing to do. You rarely hear anyone emphasise that though, due to survivor bias.
Oh stop and for a moment think at the effort to rebuild all our homes to highly energy efficient standards. Replace all conventional heating systems with heat pumps. Redesign cities to remove sprawl and car-centered lifestyles in favor of public transport, disseminated centers. Reorganize consumer supply chain around home delivery and less wasteful routes.

I see plenty plenty GDP coming from all this work, perhaps the only problem is that it wouldn’t land in the pockets of the current lobbyist crop
If the objects are not guaranteed to be in order, I would always consider them unordered. You could if both the producer and consumer are ordered, but as the OP noted this can cause problems later on and for no good reason. I'd use an array of key-value tuples if I wanted it to be ordered.
This approach only works if all confounders are known, which is never the case in practice, so the model you fit is correlational and not suitable for causal inference. Propensity matching suffers from the same issue if the propensities are estimated from the same features. If not all confounders are known, you must be able to find instrumental variables to build a causal model.
Indeed. I'm not saying it isn't inconvenient when the wheel breaks off your golden chariot, just that I'm surprised you have one at all. "Barbers and massage therapists on-site" Holy moley these people work in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Oh I didn't know this, mine has always been static.

What's the reason for having such a low lease time on public IPs?
First of all, I'd like to point out that the whole nuclear energy was pushed a lot by politics in the 1950s. Without money from the public purse no sane company would have gone for this technology.

Japan is just as technologically advanced as Germany, yet one of the nuclear plants, as predicted by Kraftwerk (the band), blew and fucked up the whole northern Pacific. Germany has had its technological disaster, for example Eschede, so don't think its powers plants to be 100% safe.

We still don't have a long-term storage solution for the nuclear waste produced by the power plants, and don't forget about waste from decomissioning the actual buildings, that's not the stuff you want to recycle for a road.
If a wind turbine is decomissioned, you simply strip it, melt it and make a better one.

Building a new nuclear power plant now is betting against a huge leap in battery technology. If that leap happens it's bye-bye for fossil fuels.
How was that a debate in the first place? Is it because of budget/logistic issues? Because I cannot see another reason to not provide basic hygiene supplies to another human being held under your responsibility.
I'm really interested in the topic and would love to just lurk and read what people say on there for a while, but the text in the signup form makes it sound like a person like me wouldn't be accepted, since I don't have super concrete plans to make that my next profession (although I'm generally interested in exploring this field if I really started thinking that my skills would make sense there).
How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100M Lines of Code
"homophobic ads running on pro-lgbt videos"

There are homophobic ads on YT? What does that even look like? Can you link to an example?
He's lowering the degrees of freedom in protien synthesis so they are simulatiable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
That feels like the ethical thing to do. If you are to build nuclear reactors, at least own the fallout.
So how you will balance the grid? You can export excess energy to whenever you want, but what happens when renewables are inactive? Russian gas?..
I think this was not possible at that time. Bank business was a lot more personal back in the old days. People knew each other and you wouldn't want to be the one in the community being know for having ordered a sex toy.

https://videosift.com/video/Dylan-Moran-tells-a-joke
That article is from January 2019 and it's not correct. There are no plans in Germany to shut down coal power plants completely.
So white people are afraid of being fired for something they chose to say, vs black people afraid of getting killed by the police for fitting a description?
Bernie Sanders joined Twitch to reach people where they are
Yeah, i was thinking "huh, I guess you could build a Markov model to figure out a string of keywords that leads to a given citation, then auto-insert for the author". All you would need to do is tell it to load a certain database/package for a given research area.

Given how many papers are online you could quite "easily" build up a nice little database. Add in some checks for quality and you've got yourself something that can make a reasonable guess for you. You would probably want some way to stop it from adding incorrect citations, but other than it would probably generally help.
>CEO Brian Mariotti called his company “recession proof.”

Famous last words. When another major recession hits, one of the first costs to be cut is plastic junk. These are just beanie babies with more Disney branded characters. People will get sick of cluttering their house with dozens of the same item with mild variations at some point, until the next “gotta catch em all” toy comes out.
They mention those two specifically in the filing itself, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

"Activities of our paying and free customers or the content of their websites or other Internet properties, as well as our response to those activities, could cause us to experience significant adverse political, business, and reputational consequences with customers, employees, suppliers, government entities, and others."
You're right that the definition of "financial engineering" varies widely based on the interests and understanding of the parties flinging it around.

One thing I'd like to point out that not all "financial engineering" involves complex mathematics. For example one of the most widespread instances of "financial engineering" across many if not most large corporations is the issuance of corporate bonds. While some corporations do this because they truly need the cash, most do so as a financial calculation based on their growth projections, the rates of returns on government bonds and other investments. The huge influx of cash raised by this sale of corporate bonds can then be used to buy back stock (inflating the stock price), paying a dividend or even taking straight cash payouts for executives. This all looks good on paper until growth projections turn out lower than expected, there is a disruption in the bond markets, currency markets or anything else that threatens to reduce the ability of the corporatation to make bond payments. This can lead to defaults, liquidation of company assets to pay bond holders or even bankruptcy. However, those executives and stock holders who made massive amounts of cash from the bond issuance, either directly or indirectly (through buybacks which artificially raised the price of the stock) walk away with all that money while the corporation itself (and the workers) are SOL.
The neighbors generally have very similar wind/solar patterns so that's not going to help much. Currently when that happens, they just buy electricity from France at a high price like the other neighbors.
> Specifically, the lawsuit accuses YouTube of filtering, demonetizing, and otherwise limiting videos that deal with LGBTQ identities, making it hard for their creators to reach a wide audience and make money. The suit alleges violations of free-speech protections and civil rights, among other statutes, and seeks class-action status.

But the youtube isn't a public institution - it's a private platform - does that apply as well even if they would put e.g. banned topics/words in their terms and conditions document? (I'm just curious)
From the point of view of the individual, do what you love.

From the point of view of the working world, do what people pay for.

From the point of view of simple optimization with no bias, find the ideal intersection of both.

From the point of view of taking it easy in life, find the highest value, lowest energy activity.

From the point of view of working on impossible problems that you find fulfillment, put yourself in situations that are constantly above your capacity and fight for every step of the way.

Or, just do what you think is best according to what you know, no need for "absolute best" ways to approach life.

But while doing that, remember to be happy with what you have at present.