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This is what happened in naval warfare -- 100 subs beats 1 aircraft carrier.
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> Note, all of these studies use a low standard of evidence (food questionnaires and the like)

Sounds like someone is optimizing for the number of papers written per grant dollar, as opposed to generating quality science.

Why do expensive research when you can just print a few questionnaires, get a few underpaid grad students to administer them, then trawl the data for acceptable p-values for publication?
People who travel a lot for work and need one bar at a time and (for some reason) prefer Dove soap.
> I suspect that most of our laws have been written without grace/forgiveness knowing that we used to only catch a small percentage of perpetrators

Or that we can choose not to prosecute in order to use their testimony against a bigger fish. It's called prosecutorial discretion, and it seems reasonable at first, but it's responsible for the slow encroachment of government in all aspects of private life. After all, why change or protest a law you break every day if it will never be used against you?

Everyone probably breaks multiple laws a day without realising it.

If everyone that broke any law had to be charged and prosecuted, we would have a much more politically engaged populace, a much more efficient process to appeal judgements and repeal unjust laws.
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And an even bigger "namespace collision" with it being the common shorthand for medical prescriptions
I have a lot of respect for Ioannadis but also find it reprehensible to talk about banning or otherwise forbidding large classes of research. Science only progresses when unfettered; prohibitions never help. If a study is flawed, address the flaws. More information might not help, but it never hurts. These flawed studies exist for a reason -- ideal studies are usually the stuff of fantasy.
>> Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

> Umm.... absolutely not. These quotes (directly from his site) beg to differ:

Do you know him? Aren't you vilifying him?

Having an unpopular opinion isn't grounds for "proper judgement" of being constantly harassed by a mob every time his name is brought up.
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Better: this works between/towards POWER 9 sockets, including knowing to execute atomics right at the destination.
Speaking of dial interfaces, this is how you manipulated 3D models on your old IRIX or Sparc workstation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box . Its audio-visual brother, the jog-and-shuttle controller, is still going strong: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contour-00496-0-Design-ShuttleXpres... . What I'd like to see is a reversible debugger manipulated by a jog-and-shuttle controller.
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> If it wasn't clear, 2100 is shockingly low for a HYPSM admit

I just looked up what a 2100 equates to in terms of current scores. It equates to 1470, which is not shockingly low for MIT. Admittedly, it's not near the top of MIT scores, but it's well within the accepted range.

MIT looks at all sorts for things when it admits students. You don't know what other qualifications this student had. He could have had straight A's, max scores on all his Advanced Placement exams, stellar recommendations from teachers, award-winning science fair presentations, etc.
It's a pretty good reason for him to step down as a public figure though.
I too am suspicious. I think it would depend very heavily on what the basket of goods contains used in the calculation. Also purchasing the same things is not at all representative of living a standard lifestyle in each country (trivially consider a country that has religious prohibitions on certain foods, or course the prices will be wildly different). Or different expectations of what constitutes shelter, etc, etc.
That said though, in my experiences traveling, it has been shocking to me how desperately poor people can be in some countries.
Perhaps to avoid support tickets for people with equipment that doesn't properly support window scaling. The 64k setting is as high as you can go and avoid that.
This looks really cool. Any plans to push to Android as well?
Answer is no, as others have said. But I think it depends a lot on which reviews and what you're looking at.

I frequently use Google's reviews for finding food places. While it's not 100%, and is HEAVILY biased to the top end (you probably want to aim for 4.2 or higher), it's been very reliable across many locations and even countries for me. Something I like is that a hole in the wall banh mi place is just as likely to earn a high rating as a 3 star restaurant - the ratings reflect the execution of what is being attempted, so cheap eats can rate well and sometimes that's all we want.

For games and media, I actually like the aggregators a lot (Metacritic). It's not the final word, and idiots do review bomb some titles (but mostly AAA games that I would avoid), but the "wisdom of crowds" seems surprisingly accurate overall. Steam reviews with their "Overwhelmingly Positive" is similar.

For individual items on Amazon or hotel rooms though, as other posters have said the mid-range reviews with something to say beyond the rating are the most worthwhile. I can tell if they're like-minded or whether their concerns mean nothing to me. On this note one amusing thing is that US reviews often focus on "the service" (probably because they're expected to pay extra for it) while I don't really care much about that and don't see it mentioned in other countries unless it's egregious.
It's certainly not an endorsement, just an observation. I think a lot of people, myself included, feel like the world just kind of went _crazy_ in 2016, and it hasn't been the same since. Of course, it didn't really change all that much - there aren't secret nazis everywhere, antifa isn't an international communist conspiracy - it's just kooks - all your neighbors are the same people. Still, our social immune system is flaring up at record highs and the symptoms are showing. Things certainly can't continue as they are.

I think that Trump be ousted via impeachment or in the next election, and then there will be an international sigh of relief, and a lot of these outraged mobs will stop gnashing their teeth so much. Everybody will go back to enjoying the amenities provided by the decline of human civilization.
Except most data shows that punishment is not an effective deterrent.
> Surely anyone who could fit 12 travel bars in their suitcase could just as easily fit a regular bar?

... why would you assume someone would take all of them at the same time? Instead of maybe multiple family members using them, keeping a stockpile at home (so they don't have to order an individual one every time they need one), keeping them on hand for guests, ...
I have to object here to your long, vaguely plausible stream of semi-coherent accusations. It adds nothing to the discussion, derails the thread and pollutes the discussion. What is your point?

I mean, states and manipulators like to use Twitter bots but Twitter bots and Twitter editorial decisions are rather distinct. Just as much, the GP doesn't seem confused about whether states use manipulation and your insinuation that they are seems disingenuous.
I thought calling it an "obscene cyber lynching" committed by "young white college graduates who live in urban California and work for evil companies" cheapened it quite severely before even getting to the latter half of the comment.
Totally. I get that the OP is from Stallman's publicist. But I think a good publicist shouldn't at worse be selective about the truth, not say outright false things like this.

Plenty of people who know Stallman have made it clear that Stallman's behavior is consistent, harmful, and willful. E.g.: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1172422966904160257
What? Subs are not made in mass quantities and subs' advantage over carrier mostly comes from...stealth.
Please use (simple) HTML instead of PDF. Everything is read on-screen these days. PDF basically has no use case that HTML doesn’t cover better in 2018.
My qualm is with the term "vilified." It implies that he is being done undue harm - he's getting what he should be getting. He should not be in a leadership position.
Yes, mb!
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What part of ”I’m disinclined to let ‘you were rude to me‘ go unchallenged just because you followed it up with ‘stop interacting with me’” do you not get?

You don’t get to accuse people of things and then summarily declare that they’re not allowed to defend themselves against your daft accusations.

This is a forum. If you don’t want people responding to you, don’t post. You don’t get to play silly little games like “You believe the earth is flat and also I wave my magic wand and forbid you from replying to me, so that claim cannot be challenged”. That’s not how a discussion forum works.
I don't understand why we are talking about real estate on Hacker News.
This is included in "Exhalation: Stories", a compilation of Ted Chiang stories. They are all very different and very good.
Unless Galois Fields doesn't refer to the more specific 'field' class of object, why wouldn't primes make sense in that context? Fields can have divisors. You can define a prime as any number whose only divisor is itself and one.

I'm out of practice, so maybe you're staying that because you'd essentially have prime equivalence classes that the meaning is different?
Well, besides the Soviet mission it mentioned that used tortoises in the past, I suspect the origin of the reference is in regard to the classic saying "It's tutles all the way down"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Not positive about that, but that's where my mind went :)
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No, this would be the pop science writers looking for click bait. Literally no one I know talks like this and I'm a black hole astrophysicist who actually knows one of the people that made the image.
"I’ve used Amazon for years, probably spend between $5k to $8k a year and have never encountered any of the problems you describe. "

That sounds hard to believe. I encounter co-mingling of reviews all the time. And to be clear, I'm a huge fan of Amazon and buy almost everything except groceries through them, but the review quality is pretty inconsistent on many items. Co-mingling is the biggest and most obvious issue I have faced, but I'm sure fake or fraudulent reviews are another big issue that's not immediately obvious to reviewers.
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Yes, exactly what I thought of!

For those not familiar, the book describes nanotech drones on the scale of dust mites, and cities protected by essentially artificial immune systems.

When a battles occur in this setting you can tell because everything is blanketed in soot, the microscopic corpses of dead drones.

Lots of cool ideas in that book, tech and otherwise.
If you have some spare time and are going for an item that's hard to make wrong, this can serve you too. I bought an item that was using a brand name in the title on eBay, but what I got was a cheap knockoff. The box itself had the Chinese branding so it was very obvious.

I ended up getting a full refund and it works fine. I was annoyed at the deception more than anything - the item is fine, but they may have cost a sale to a legitimate supplier by abusing the trademark.
I met a guy who commuted daily from Hollister to PAO with a plane he flew. With offices a bit further north, I could see SFO being the best option for him.
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Lynching is a pretty bad analogy. He did not die. He was not physically harmed. A guy around retirement age decided to resign from a couple of jobs.

Stallman got away with a lot for decades because he had much more privilege than the people he harmed. He might still be getting away with it had MIT not gotten caught making themselves absolutely eager to run with a serial predator. But just because somebody gets away with a lot doesn't mean he's entitled to do that forever. Nothing happened here but the consequences of his own actions finally catching up with him.
A very easy way to stack the deck on such providers is to just send review requests to customers that you know are happy. This is even easier if you have a two-tier system (use your internal reviews on-platform to find the happy customers).
That's really the main point, though. People complain about "punching down" in comedy, but that's all this ever looks like to me. It's always somebody who works at Google, or Facebook, or Salesforce, or blah blah blah, which is something that I consider to be far, far more egregious than telling off color jokes or defending the reputation of your deceased friend. If you spy on people or send spam to make money, you're a bad person and you've got no grounds at all to tell other people how to think. It smacks of the bourgeoisie telling the peasants to get in line. That's my opinion.
If I were in the market for some fraudulent reviews I think my first stop would be mechanical turk. I say that as someone with zero knowledge review fraud or mechanical turk but is it possible Amazon stand to gain more than they lose on paid reviews?
Yeah, the commercial usage of drones are just evolving up after a lot of R&D and a scrutinising from the regulatory bodies. Even in the case of drones, it's the products that would be damaged if anything goes bad. But in the case of flying cars, it would really be a nightmare and the cost would sky rocket for sure!
Namco is probably spending more $ on lawyers than they are developing and maintaining Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man products.
This is not correct, there are a finite number of polynomials for any finite field. This is using the usual definition for polynomial equivalence, where two polynomials are equal if they take the same values over all points in the domain.

You are talking about the polynomial ring, which is not a field.

The finite field F2 has four polynomials: 0, 1, x, and x+1. Other polynomials do not exist, because x^2=x.
I'd suspect it's a "tack on" experiement. They were doing a bunch of experiments and wanted to see if a plant could even germinate in a low gravity environment. Now that they know it can germinate, it is worth the money to see if i t could last longer.
I'd rather have professionals come and be productive no matter where they are vs. one person come and followed by 25 family members who never learn english and sit on welfare forever.
Let's say you are parsing a language that contains both negative numbers, and the "minus" symbol. Most languages use the same ASCII glyph for both of those, but they mean very different things, and are parsed as parts of different tokens.

So, I believe the author's point is that in cases like these, you have to remember surrounding context in order to correctly classify which type of (and which) token a character belongs to.
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The article is about startups mostly. There’re lots of non-technical founders who think they can outsource everything and build a company and it won’t work. I tried to provide some guidelines in the article.
See also Tau Prolog implemented in Javascript http://tau-prolog.org/
The editor does look cool. Maybe it should be called rxl rhymes with pixel.
That's fair, I don't know of a less extreme word. I don't mean it in the way that it means in the southern US, but in the more broad sense of "trial-less mob justice action".
haha, those guys sure knew how to write a good blog post!
How is the Red Pill from Matrix a magical debug value? I didn't notice anything like it on the wiki page.
I think maybe the principle is that we want to be able to transfer as many bits/second of data as possible. We have the computer->human interface down, because screens can already emit more information than humans can process. But human->computer we can only go so fast. This is partly limited by how many fingers we use to do the input. I can type faster on a keyboard than a screen. But I think the main issue people are worried about is that humans can only think so fast. So if the interface requires asking humans for input too much, it will take forever. So instead you try and guess what the humans want. And if you do this well enough, then the input method doesn't matter. Some people say they can type better on their phones because they can use swiftkey. So I think most visions of the future are thinking about AI, and intelligence, and asking "what will we be able to guess without asking the human first?" And this is where they think interaction design is going.

Another point of fact. Such a machine requires less bps from the human. That is, it requires them to do less thinking, which most people will prefer. And if you're trying to predict the future, "machines will require less thinking (but be more mass market)" is a pretty safe bet.

Sandwiches are very fancy things, as everyone knows. But I expend a lot of mental effort getting the cheese slices in the right thickness. I'm sitting there focusing on making sure I don't deflect the knife too deep or too shallow. This is a very fancy task. But many people prefer specialized cheese slicing devices, because they makes more precise slices, and because they require less mental effort. So expect UI to follow the same trend, from general tools requiring complex input to particular tools requiring simple input.
I don't think merely believing or giving credence to the people who know him, combined with observation, means that his vilification comes not at the hands of those who know him. It only followed from it. You may look for fault in those primary sources, but why separately attack the rest of the world for their opinions on the matter?

Also, for what it's worth, I think defending something somebody said by calling it an "unpopular opinion" is a really easy trope to fall into that makes your tone seem dismissive to the opposing viewpoint (the "popular" viewpoint).
Out of all the experiments in the soft sciences that captured society’s imagination, one of the most egregious is “Power Posing”.[0] The idea is that you stand like a superhero in front of a mirror and all of these measurable chemical changes happen that improve your abilities.

The professor that discovered this phenomena had a famous TED talk, a bestselling book, switched her faculty position to Harvard, and basically rode that to success in her professional and public life.[1]

All of this came crashing down when no one could replicate her experiments. It’s absolutely incredible that things got this far in science, or at least the soft sciences. Shameful

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_posing

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Cuddy
That's awesome! I was being tongue-in-cheek but also hoping that something similar existed.
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There are many examples of media outlets working for governments as weaponized tools all over the globe and as mouthpieces or instruments of foreign policy or even warfare.

Twitter is just another broadcast tool like most media outlets.

Examples of Twitter being used for US foreign policy goals are legion. Here are some from the Obama era on “regime change“ attempts in Iran with personal involvement and approval of Jack Dorsey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media....?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/obama-iran-twi...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election-twitter-usa...
Why would this be useful? Other than for human legibility, but I feel like that can be accomplished with line breaks and comments.
And Allison had nothing to do with the paper and was quoted total of one time in the article.
How would you get around speed-of-light delays? The speed of light is about 1 foot/nanosecond, so maintaining a 1-cycle access time @ 3 GHz gives you about 4 inches to play with. Current server designs have some headroom (100 cycles = 33 feet, while the actual physical distance is more like 1-2 feet), but as soon as you start going to another rack and want to maintain normal RAM access speeds you run up against physical limits pretty quickly.
How are worker co-ops and credit unions not a form of capitalism? It is a profitable application of capital, so what excludes it?
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He's actively and obviously investing in building his own brand

Which is exactly what he should be doing, as we all should.

He's further doing so in a very in-your-face manner

Great, sometimes you need to make a point.

plus encouraging others to do the same.

Good, that's a win for everybody, except the short-sighted management that want somebody who will "go above and beyond" without any reward for it.

It's almost like an undeclared work-to-rule style strike. This is potentially a real problem for the company.

And a problem the company brought on themselves. And one they could fix by working with this guy and giving him more than the proverbial "pat on the head". If they really can't promote him right now, it's hard to imagine that there isn't something they could do to appease him and tide him over. More money? Extra vacation time? Company car? New title? Guaranteed lunch with the CEO twice a year? I dunno, but most people are reasonable and it seems unlikely to me that they couldn't find some kind of compromise if they really wanted to.
One could spin it around and argue that what that maintenance level is depends heavily upon the individual's metabolic processes, which depend upon gut flora, diet, weight, exercise levels, timing of consumption...
You need wage growth. It’s half million dollars in schooling and deferred wages.
Experiments that attempt to create AGI singularities by just making huge neural networks strike me as cargo cult science.
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The USGS maintains information on the source and risks for various resources we use, at their National Mineral Information Center:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic

I attended a public talk in 2017 at USGS where someone from the NMIC explained the kind of information they gathered:

https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/2017-oct-public-lecture-gl...

Indeed, many of our strategic minerals come from unreliable partners. The US doesn't produce much of that stuff internally for economic and ecological reasons. However, potential internal sources for some (not all) are kept mothballed in case we need to switch to them.

It was really interesting watching how geopolitics influences local industrial decisions.
Yep, I had one of these back in the C64 era. It was called a "notcher".

I guess this was one of the most essential tool backs in the days of our peer-to-peer file-sharing networks ;-)
That Twitter kerfuffle was in 2018. Has there been ongoing train of events since then?

Monica mentions "this rule mandates specific, positive actions." but not what the rule is, which I find disquieting. What is the rule, and if it's so bad, and also public (it's a new rule everyone has to know, right?), why is being kept secret?
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In many cases this won't be true as you can infer from the left hand side only (for example) what - means and mode switch appropriately.
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Interesting idea. At our firm we talk in commas (e.g. “that’s a 3-comma person”)

But their bottom end of the scale is woefully wrong. The difference between zero dollars, and negative 100,000 dollars (such as some homeowners in 2009) is immense. To crowd them all as “-2” is, well, a bad fudge. Bloomberg should and can do better than this.