skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analyzing data in academia seems like a disaster. It's almost guaranteed to produce errors like this.

You have:

- people with no coding experience and, in some cases (especially in social sciences), a strong aversion to math

- code that isn't unit tested, so answering the question, "Did it run correctly?" is often softened into, "Does this look plausible to me?"

- a strong incentive to end up with certain results

I dated a quantitative geneticist for a while, and her coding education was almost zero. She was writing code in R and essentially just changing lines until the output "looked right". It was insanely complicated math, so there was no way to make sure the output was good. The code had to be an exact match for the algorithm she had written out in mathematical notation, and there was essentially no chance of that.

It got worse. She'd write the algorithm in R and then end up with batches that would take, in some cases, years to finish running. Obviously she ended up with even more dubious hacks.

(For anyone curious, she's had a fairly decorated academic career under an acclaimed advisor who reviewed all of this code to some extent, and she's worked with most of the top genetics programs in the US.)
Not if you are doing it for yourself, but manipulating a loved one in this way is messed up - even with good intentions.
Glad to see my go-to product, Orchid Essentials, tested clean. Great product, great company.

I was confident they would. They post their lab tests on their website, and only provide PURE BHO with no additives.

They also use a ceramic heating element as opposed to a metal one which can break down over time.

I have always been worried about skeezy vape companies, so I did the research before I started using their product.
I'm confused, what does yoga have to do with this?
US tap water is far from safe to drink. Ask Flint, Michigan. (Incredible levels of lead in the water).

Pittsburgh (in 2017) didn't even have enough people to run the necessary water audits.

Milwaukee's city health commissioner resigned in 2018 because they didn't warn about unsafe lead levels in the water.

In 2018, around half of the samples from Newark's water system showed lead levels above the EPA's threshold.

Large parts of Texas' water contain elevated amounts of radium[1]. Brady, TX, has water that's green, brown, orange[2] - it changes - and has 9 times the EPA limit of radium

California has a statewide sanitation problem.[3]

And that's just a starter set.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drinking-water-radium-contamina...
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...
[3] https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/water-and-drought/art...
> Can someone explain why banks don't have systems in place to detect this kind of fraud? It seems like even the most minimal communication between banks would help detect it.

The US banking system is built on a foundation of batched communication, with batches arriving via mail several days later.

Each bank is operating as an independent ledger, with no global awareness; so, while each bank can see the deposits may be coming from the same account, they wouldn't necessarily see that the check redemptions were going into the same account. It's not unreasonable to get a series of checks from the same person, or to make a series of payments to the same bank.

Because of the delays are inconsistent and sometimes complex, it's more convenient to act on the shared fiction of deposits being immediate, and take escalating punitive action when the fiction unravels. Ex: large fees for both despotiting a check that is not honored, and writing a check that is not honored when presented. If it happens frequently, your account may be limited to transacting only in fully cleared funds, and you may be blacklisted from banking through credit reporting companies, or referred to law enforcement.

However, there have been several changes to shorten clearing times in (somewhat) recent times, including Check 21 in 2004, which allowed all checks to be processed as images instead of paper, and Same Day ACH starting in 2016, with planned enhancements through 2021. As the clearing window shortens, kiting becomes less feasible and useful.
Carbon nanotubes are similar to asbestos fibers, so it's not something that you'd want to put in a garment.
This seems to make sense to me. The executive's job, then, is one of facilitation. It's modeling how to resolve questions, and asking the appropriate questions that questions their operating assumptions. This is a part of setting and enforcing values.
I'm the PM on KV, and you're absolutely right. I am interested in possibly raising this limit. Large media like videos will probably never make sense for KV, but discounting situations like that, what would the limit be that you'd never have to worry about running into it 99.9% of the time?
I would love to see a real world use for this, maybe I’m underestimating the scale of an application that would need this.

I think Phoenix contexts are plenty and I’m not sure adding more layers of abstraction is a great idea.
Sure. We saw Hoover, Nixon, and others in the past use FBI and IRS records to harass opposition figures. We've seen some current police departments retaliate against citizens who have made internal affairs complaints and other critics in various ways.

It's part of our past, and part of our present to some degree. Not to mention what we see happening in some other places in the world. Why would we not believe abuses would be part of our future, especially if they become easier?
Likely the bigger impact is on the HVAC cost. Test it out some time. Have your facilities team show you HVAC power consumption for a month. Then for a month, turn off all the PC's on the weekend and after hours.
Good for you, you did your job and fixed a broken system. Note that this does not require anything other than average technical competency. It's expected that people know how to do their jobs. And my original question still stands -- how are they able to afford spending $20 million on a broken system, but not able to pay their employees a fair, market rate salary?
In 2012 in Boston, Enterprise refused to deal with my (European) debit card. However, in general this is right: US standards of customer service are unreachable anywhere in the world, except probably Japan. To the US people expectations, customer service is simply nonexistent here. "And remember -- here in France, the customer is always _wrong_!"
And I should care about this why exactly? They haven't been found to be harmful to humans. Best I can tell we just poop it all out. This has all the hallmarks of a manufactured crisis that's not actually a crisis.
Agreed, but maybe you have to assume that the scientist knows very little about coding for data science, which is effectively what we're talking about here.

I think a major contributing factor to problems like this is people going into the soft/social sciences being more likely to be math/stats AND programming averse. Meanwhile, all sciences continue their long term trend towards applied math via programming. This leads to people using the math/stats via code without understanding very well what it is they are doing, and, naturally, the end result is lots and lots of mistakes.
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> I've always hated the idea of checks, I rather the money be gone right away then keeping track of it... Since checks still show on your balance even if not cashed yet. Then checks have your entire account number people could misuse. I have never wrote a check in my life though, but I know my family does for bills but I know more and more places have online bill pay... They trust mailing their entire account info than doing it online.

Your reasoning isn't flawed but one big reason why I still write some checks is this: they're accepted as payment for free by the receiver where most electronic methods are charged. For example, my apartment's management company charges me $12.95 for a one-off direct debit payment, $6.95/payment for an automatic recurring debit payment, $32.50 for a payment made by debit card, or a whopping $109.55 for a payment made by credit card.

(This means that the free--or at least "included in my rent"--payment option is for me to write a physical check and put it in the night drop box the day before rent is due and then their employees have to deal with the check, as opposed to the computers handling it all. Since the night drop is right there on my way out the door, the convenience factor is still high for me.)

I don't like checks but I flatly refuse to pay money to pay a bill. If I owe you money, you will figure out how to accept it in a way that doesn't cost me more. What I owe is already figured into the balance; charging me more to hand you money is obnoxious. My apartment company isn't the only company like this so I still hand out about 20 checks per year. Fortunately, my credit union gives me one box of checks for free every year and I only use less than one book of them per year so there's no added cost there, too.
Snus?
Same here. If quoting from more than one source, I've sometimes put an identifier in front of the >, like this:

knuth:> blah blah blah

wirth:> bläh bläh bläh
Ebbing is the flowing out to sea of the tide. The “ebbing language” is the author’s Dutch, specifically see the last paragraph of section one for the sense of it.
Slightly off topic, but I once had music described to me as follows: music is to time, as architecture is to physical space. It really changed how I thought about music and how it's experienced.
Because it’s funny imagining taking a stool sample to log into Snapchat.
> You don't have to worry about cache rules, but what about your bill with Cloudflare?

> 5$/month plan is kinda open ended, you pay for each request above included in the plan (0.5$ for 1 million requests)

> With a high-perfomance language like Golang for example, I could write a script that's making 500req/second to your site. That would cost you 20$/day.

> With Github Pages it wouldn't cost you anything (or they might disable your page if it costs too much bandwidth, not sure)

500req/s would result in you being ratelimited by the global worker ratelimit though unless you distributed these requests across multiple IPs.
Aren't those contradictory? Someone talking on the phone clearly isn't standing in the circle with you.

I understand the benefit of standing together, but not if you're going to add an exception for someone talking on a phone from anywhere in the world. Physical alignment is a great metaphor for team alignment, and therefore physical absence shows me someone cares more about sitting on their porch with their dog than being part of the team at work.
Releasing your data should be a requirement for publication. If the original author had wanted to keep this a secret he could've withheld his data and nobody would've been able to correct him, there simply would've been discrepant studies.
It's not "on holiday", but the one that always bugs me is inactive account fees from banks. Is my account increasing their expenses by being inactive? No, it's not. If anything, it's decreasing them. So why an inactive account fee? The most charitable interpretation I can give is "since you're not giving us a chance to make money on other fees, we'll make money this way". The worst interpretation is "since you're probably not paying much attention to this account, we're probably safe to rip you off".
Do you need a framework to handle data fetching? We have `fetch()` after all so I'm honestly curious why you wouldn't just use it
No, it seems to be on purpose and the puns just keep going south.

> "If they work as researchers hypothesize, they could rub out many common problems at once. And based on what we know of vaginas, they could be far less messy than transplants involving poop."
"wrong results are [more likely] to be surprising".

This case is interesting because there's a large population who would find these (unproven as it turns out) results confirmatory rather than unexpected.

In the end they were neither.
Yes, lower frequency, more cores, more PCIe lanes, more throughput. Sounds good to me, as long as they use SKUs that aren't too low in frequency.
There are several lists online, but essentially tap water is safe (preferable, even) across the whole of Europe and Scandinavia.
downvoted again. lol. This place is not tolerant of non-left wing view points.
After paying, you can select 3 popular articles, or create your own URL to link to. The service creates a shortened link (goo.gl) which, when clicked, drops the tracking cookie, and redirects to the article/own URL.

Then they give you an important notice: the person you targeted with that link (which you are responsible for sending!) should also be referred to the terms of service of the Spinner. Sneaky loophole, where nobody will do that ("Hey honey, click this link and then visit this manipulation website to agree with the TOS!"), but they seemingly covered their asses, targeting people who never agreed to a TOS.
> Neat! This does require you to run your own server, which has pros and cons. I’ve heard great things about Caddy but never used it myself.

Things like AWS fargate allow you to run containers without running the underlying server though.
> Are you saying MDMA is a good replacement for marriage therapy if you are having problems in your marriage? Or that MDMA is (in general) one of the best recreational activities married couples can do together?

Both. And not only for marriage therapy, for personal therapy too - such a night washes away all kinds of stress, fears and sorrow in an instant.

> In my biased non-drug-using opinion, sitting around high is a poor substitute for having actual experiences with your SO.

Of course I don't mean it can be rightfully considered a sufficient replacement for travel and alike experiences yet it is better than most of the vacations happen to be in terms of how much does it recharge you psychologically. And it's not about sitting, it's about being overwhelmed (orders of magnitude stronger than any emotion I have sensed without drugs in my life, impossible to imagine without an actual experience) with unconditional love, care, sincerity, happiness, sexuality and perception of beauty and having sex so wild you probably don't ever have enough physical energy and psychological openness to do.

Many people don't feel it so great, many people get addicted (psychologically, and that usually are lonely people), yet I have never got addicted (once in 0.5-3.0 years feels enough for me and I never feel any kind of urge) and I certainly feel like this is the most important experience in my life.

If had just one free day in a year (no weekends and no vacations) but could do absolutely anything I want (including getting teleported to any place on earth) what I would do would be an MDMA trip at home with my loved one.
Honestly, I don’t know. I only know I will still be a programmer. Who would have thought politics would be like this around the world in 2014? It makes me very uncomfortable and likely to move elsewhere (I am not American).
Myself? Never, as I don't have one. When I want to find out what a device is consuming, I hook it up through my Fluke multimeter to obtain the current draw, then calculate the rest.

But, for general use by anyone not a EE or Electrician, hooking up a general purpose multimeter to mains power to measure current draw is a not recommended, much danger here, operation.

Therefore I erred on the side of caution and recommended the method that was most safe for all involved in all situations.

What I suspect you will find, however, is that you will find uses for the device that you never anticipated once you have one.
And I shall crib from you :) Thanks for sharing your work!
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This is why we have code review processes. It's long past time for that to be part of formal scientific peer review.
The kill a walk is really handy for debugging battery charging. I seem to use it on a regular basis, but I tinker with stuff a lot.
Fastmail also have tons of alternative domains like nospammail.net so you can make your registering emails in a domain that is separate from you email address.

So your address is me@fastmail.com but you could use adresses like mortgage_company@alias.nospammail.net...
If we assume the distribution of pilot talent for a Max 737 is symmetrical, then mean=median so the tests only require the better half of pilots land the plane.

Which is a pretty bad standard.

A better standard is that the 20% percentile commerical pilot can land the plane.
At least you're not a snake!
I'd like one of these to be named fuligin as in The Shadow of the Torturer.
Yeah; usually sharding implies some form of state or data storage that's split up across machines. If the same state is held on multiple machines it's called "mirroring"; if different state is held on different machines (and there's some function to determine which machine you need to talk to), it's "sharding". Load balancing encompasses both of these strategies, as well as the trivial cases where you have either stateless computations or read-only state that can be replicated.
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TLDR: A mummified baby.
Potential effects on YC China?
It’s about as semantics as “people of color” vs. “colored people” but I’m guessing you feel differently about that one. Words matter, especially ones with well-established definitions.
a homogenous culture is like a monocrop agriculture: complete vulnerability to pest or blight

Evolution works best in a diverse population: when the environment shifts, some varieties will be quicker to adapt than others.
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> According to LinkedIn, there are more corporate comms personnel working for Bezos at Amazon (969) than journalists working for Bezos at the Washington Post (798).

Holy shit.

Edit: I interpreted that as 969 working on Bezos' personal brand. On second glance they probably just mean 969 corporate comms personnel in Amazon. In which case I retract my "holy shit"
> I know a while back there was some dentist storing patient information in a unsecured FTP account.

There are thousands, if not millions, of people doing business like this. When I was shopping around for a home mortgage, a broker that I knew by personal family recommendation had me send tax returns to hername@isp and I, figuring that this stuff could land anywhere regardless of whether the broker operates so sadly, applied AES to the PDF and sent it on over, calling by phone to provide the password. I guarantee 99% of her clients don't bother. And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that she renamed the saved file on her computer to include the password.
Software implementations of these chips can be found here

https://github.com/byuu/higan/tree/master/higan/sfc/coproces...
I don't believe this was a good call. The title was accurate before, and the meaning of the submission has been substantively changed. Now it uses the title of the site - something we're explicitly asked not to do as part of the HN Guidelines.

As a reader, there's a real difference between deciding to upvote the original title (an observer's description of an inherently deceptive project) versus casting a vote on what it's been changed to (a brand name used to promote that project). I would absolutely upvote an article critical of The Spinner - while at the same time, I'd downvote a promotional submission.

OP did not intend to advertise The Spinner, they intended to expose it as a deceptive project without linking to third-party press coverage. The submission title absolutely matters.

If this changes your mind, please go with the original again.
Alas, these kinds of problems are not restricted to the social sciences. Case in point, this retraction from a couple of days ago: https://retractionwatch.com/2019/09/25/nature-paper-on-ocean... Very similar to this one really; the paper claimed to overturn our existing knowledge in a way that fitted a narrative people were inclined to believe (in that case: we're all doomed) and was immediately seized on by all the news sites because of it, except the statistics were mucked up and it couldn't show what it claimed to. The fact that it was so surprising should've been even more of a massive warning sign in that case though.
Naw, you have everyone try to recover the plane in the simulator.

The Max needs to ensure that 80% ("average" is too low a standard) of tested pilots recover the plane.

The other 20% take remedial classes.
There's a certain amount of electromigration that happens in silicon transistors with a voltage applied but it scales strongly with temperature so I wouldn't worry if the processor is idle. I suppose mechanical wear on the fans is a concern?
Here are some pics also from the inside and a short video: https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/artikel/rheinland-pfalz-lka-...
You keep ignoring the fact that it's a baby account pushing a agenda that's ridiculously off topic. In no way is that the same as someone's biased opinion, no matter how much you try to force that point. Are you seriously not aware that we live in the middle of a misinformation war?
How much is your rent, if you don’t mind my asking? Those fees sound exorbitant.

I used to do ACH transfers since those were free at the last place I rented. The management company only charged a $3 debit/credit card fee...
The variable for Country should have been treated as a categorical variable, but was instead processed as a numeric variable.

This mistake would be downright trivial to make in R. Just declare that Country is a Factor (which is the built-in type for categorical variables), and then throw the data into a library whose attitude towards errors is to coerce everything to numbers until the warnings go away.

Background: Factors in R are the idiomatic way to work with categorical data, and they work somewhat like C-style enums except the variants come from the data rather than a declaration. So if you take a column of strings in a data frame and cast it to a Factor, it will generate a mapping where the first distinct value is coded as 1, the second distinct value is coded as 2, etc. Then it replaces the strings with their integer equivalents, and saves the mapping off to the side.

I forget the exact rules (if there are rules, R is a bit lawless), but it's not very hard to peek under the hood at the underlying numeric representation. Many built-in operations "know" that Factors are different (e.g. regressing against a Factor will create dummy variables for each variant), but it's up to each library author how 'clever' they want to be.