skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> During the presentation, he asserted that physics was built and invented by men, and stated on a slide that “Physics is not sexist against women.”

Well, the first claim is statistically true (and people who are against e.g. sexism in physics also accept it as true and want to change it).

The second is their opinion, which one might or might not agree with. Don't know about physics, but the biology department in our university was mostly women, for example (contrast with CS, which was 90% men).

>So how does the content of the article justify your snark and imaginary irrational response?

I already covered it in the second part of my response, didn't I?

"if this particular study indeed turns out to be bad (not replicating, bad methodology, etc) that would validate the above truth even more. It would obviously be because no good science could ever come from studying such issues -- not because papers regularly turn to be bad, regardless of subject"
How do you plan to compete with https://www.tailwindui.com/ or do you see it working alongside?
Is There a 12-Step Program for Horror?
Seriously. If companies are relying on the fraud estimates, it isn't going to be fun to be a false positive.
Here we go again, the SWJ hate mob HATES the truth and wants to prevent it from coming out.
If by cash you mean Tether tokens, maybe.

A bit strange how tether tokens are printed into existence to save the day for the other cryptos.
Disagree. As someone who has tried to make web art that works cross-browser, I frequently follow standards and end up with something that works in Chrome, but breaks in Safari. I end up having to write hacks to detect Safari, cut out the parts of the standard they’ve implemented wrong, and find often crappy looking workarounds.

I’ve had issues with canvases just sort of “flashing” for no reason, and if you try to use SVG filters or other parts of the SVG standard that have been standardized for years... well Safari doesn’t choose to just ignore them. Instead it will sometimes just make the parts of the SVG affected by the filter turn black and then call it a day.

So I wouldn’t say that it’s as easy to create something that works fine in Safari and breaks in Chrome. Making something that works in Safari is just plain hard.
The last spike in 2017, $10k-$19k, is what this article refers to as „the rally. That was not caused by ICOs, but likely by a single entity (I was witnessing it in real-time back then on multiple exchanges and the price action definitely looked like one entity with ultra deep pockets was running a buying bot with no limits whatsoever - I had this theory back then already, although I got the exchange wrong, I thought the action originated from GDAX, but the paper here says Bitfinex).

However, the ascent from $500 upward, which mostly happened in the entirety of 2017, was clearly caused by free money on the streets in the early ICO craze. That drove people into cryptos, mostly Ethereum as an on-ramp to ICOs, but subsequently also Bitcoin and all the others.
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Credit reference agencies are already prone to false data, and that's without anyone trying to game them.

When I checked this year, 2 out of the 3 major CRAs in my country (Equifax, Experian) had:

- An incorrect flag saying I was not registered to vote, and a note saying this significantly affected my credit rating.

- A bogus address that didn't correspond to any physical location. Nor did it correspond with any address used by any business, that I know of. (If it does, they won't be able to mail me!)

- Three credit application searches (hard searches) in 3 days, for applications I didn't make. (I complained to the relevant company, who agreed they were added due to software errors on their side, and "resolved" the complaint by agreeing to remove them; but in the end they didn't remove them, so my history has unremovable entries for applications I've never made.)

- An account with the largest telecoms provider (BT) in the country that I didn't have (I'd left them 2 years earlier, account fully closed and settled).

- Fictitious monthly entries on the above account showing new amounts being added each month, of seemingly random amounts (no obvious pattern), and flagged as severe, overdue, late payer etc. Not a good look on a credit record, and entirely fictitious. (Fixing this proved arduous, and I ended up having to use three companies in a daisy-chain of each one passing along a formal complaint to the next. I later learned from BT customer support that BT does this to other former customers without their knowledge as well, so for ethical reasons if I can muster the energy I'll be complaining about this to the government regulator)

I could say so much more about the complaints process, terrible customer service in every conceivable way from Equifax specifically, and more, but it would be rather off-topic.

Remarkably, just complaining about the above caused the errors to be acknowledged and correct data found magically by the companies involved, without me needing to provide replacement data. It's as if the companies involved had all the data they needed already, they just aren't using it until a customer finds out and complains.
I created a free service which makes it easier to get Sift (and others) to delete your data: https://opt-out.eu/?company=sift.com. It automates the process of sending GDPR erasure requests. I sent my request this morning. Support for GDPR SAR requests (get a copy of your data) is coming soon.
Forget Me for Chrome does the trick. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forget-me-clean-hi...
I don’t know why you got downvoted, your points are certainly good and reflect my one personal data point.*

I have also seen that face 2 face interactions are the best in order to align within or across product and engineering. Especially at the level of longer-term goals. Not so much at the level of weekly or monthly cycles.

And I’ve seen the exact same thing with coaching and mentoring people and teams. It feels like it’s much harder. I think when you are the person who needs to upskill, it is a lot more obvious when you are sitting next to a person senior to you. That you have to grow becomes more “material” maybe?

I love remote work, the benefits brought up are very real. I’m curious about solutions to these very real issues.

* Although in my case, I’m sure someone could come and say “you are not doing it right!” We were fairly new to this.
30 Hour Jobs[1] is a pretty good resource, I'm subbed to the newsletter as well.
[1]https://30hourjobs.com/
With the controlling part I referred to knowing what the baseband is doing, not necessarily changing the way it works.

Right now we don't know whether for example it's even powered when your phone is on airplane mode and collecting data.
"Of the responses, 24 per cent simply accepted an email address and phone number as proof of identity and sent over any files they had on his fiancée. A further 16 per cent requested easily forged ID information and 3 per cent took the rather extreme step of simply deleting her accounts."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/09/gdpr_identity_thief...
It is the same damn thing. Wages is proxy for WORKER productivity.

Go and ask Dalio why wages/worker productivity has stagnated while sector(factory/org) productivity has increased.

Listening to him is like listening to some member of British Royalty while Empire winds down having no clue why the colonies want independence. They too will say the British Empire's increased productivity will increase of the wealth gap. That's just another way of saying nobody wants to work to prop up the British Empire. People have found better things to do in life.

The only thing under threat is their model of reality. And there is no point paying attention to them about what comes next, because they can only see the empire based on obedience and domination as the best model.
I don't know much about the study quoted but I wanted to make an general counter-argument to one of your statements. I often see this counter-argument made implicitly but for the sake of clarity I'd like to explicitly state it here.

>And if this particular study indeed turns out to be bad (not replicating, bad methodology, etc) that would validate the above truth even more.

Publishing bad-science and then saying other scientists will show it is wrong is both true and does not address the central complaint: it will cause harm to those outside the scientific community.

This is because as far as the public is concerned publication functions as endorsement. For instance the Antivaxxer movement got an enormous boost when incorrect science was published that purported to show that vaccines cause autism. It is likely that publishing that study has resulted in many human deaths.

If a paper makes a claim which could cause public harm, that study should be held to a significantly higher standard of evidence than a study which is unlikely to cause harm. Consider two papers:

1. A paper which argues that photons travel faster than the speed of light.

2. A paper which argues that diet coke cures cancer.

They both might be sloppy research, they both make extraordinary claims but the second ones harm to society is higher and thus must have very strong evidence to be published.
This will also be true of self-driving cars. You won't be able to go anywhere and not have the government know about it (forever for all future governments).

Of course they're already moving in that direction anyway with automatic license plate scans and video surveillance everywhere.

I think more people need to wake-up to these things happening and how it could be bad for the future, because it won't be long until these will be virtually irreversible (save revolutions).
Drones used in crime fly under the law's radar
That is a well known fact. But what does that have to do with "The Bitcoin rally of 2017 was caused by Ethereum, ...."
Browsers could safely pull a list of very commonly requested, content addressable resources from various CDNs and pre cache it (independently of any request). That would even help with first request latency, and for mobile (where bandwidth is expensive) you could do the pre caching on Wifi.
This is a distraction. The bay area's problem is not demand and not so much supply. Seattle area has much greater supply limitations with far less of a housing crisis.

The largest problem is pricing. This is true even in economically depressed areas of California. The state of taxes in California encourage price inflation: high income taxes and low property taxes. That is a property owner's and land lords dream.

On the contrary if income taxes were sacrificed for increase in property taxes real estate holdings and value both become cost prohibitive. In this case increase value only benefits an owner when selling, but otherwise is prohibitive. This causes people to seek lower value properties, without regard for selling price, and for people to petition the tax assessor for value depletion of their property holdings. Without realistic pricing controls it only makes sense for a property owner to continuously increase the value of their property.
If you want life insurance then you are required to give permission to view this data about you. If you don't want to give permission, then you don't get life insurance.

https://www.rxhistories.com/irix/medical-data/

>How It Works

>1 Applicants sign a HIPAA-compliant authorization, enabling insurers to retrieve their medical information

>2 Insurers electronically query Milliman IntelliScript in real-time

>3 Milliman instantly gathers information from multiple data sources

>4 Irix interprets the data and generates automated decisions based on the insurer's guidelines
"China" (as in the CCP) does not, in fact, have the data. They're leveraging a network of mostly-private companies to do the dirty work for them. So there's really no difference. If the US government became a dictatorship tomorrow, all the data collected by US private companies would end up in the government's hands. Neither private companies nor government entities can be trusted, and the only right answer is to demand that the data is not collected in the first place.
Also, I think there's some confusion about how the vaccines work.

They're definitely intended to provoke an immune response, but the new ones don't use virus products. Instead, they contain particles (made by yeast) that assemble themselves into something that closely resembles the virus's structure. The immune system raises antibodies against that, priming it for dealing with future infections. More here (including a picture of the virus, which is quite pretty): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23800545
No, the idea is:

1) Keep building coal stations

2) Invade northerly regions that are now better for growing crops

Not just China and India. Russia could just about do this for the lolz when you consider they're already expansionist.

Mind you I'm not _endorsing_ this, I'm just worried about it.
There's absolutely a difference between a binary "fraud/not fraud" flag and a continuous variable for quality of customer. They measure different things and have very different use cases.
No, you didn't, or at least I interpreted whatever you were trying to say as a red herring. Who in the article makes that insinuation? Who said anything about the paper's purported flawed methodology as automatically validating the "above truth"?
Where to preorder the cookbook?
> If tether was truly under attack it would trade for under $1

You’re assuming efficient markets. (Also, Bitfinex has admitted in court filings that Tether isn’t fully backed.)

I have capital, have spent my career trading securities and think Tether is a scam. But I’m not going to short it, for a variety of reasons, one big one being the main places it trades are controlled by Bitfinex.
A quick DuckDuckGo search shows me that Coinbase has European customers for sure. The article states that the information knew exactly when the person opened the Coinbase app on their phone and the type of computer time and date they changed their password for Coinbase. I have been thinking that the only way they could have that information is if they were given it by Coinbase. I guess sure they could stop and not log anything on European customers but seeing how they are using this as a fraud detection system I feel it is likely they are using it on European customers as well.
Thanks for the Rick Beato mention. Just spent a couple hours watching some of his breakdowns. Fascinating stuff and reminded me how much I like this type of analysis.
No link to the original paper. There's really no excuse for that kind of sloppiness.
Is that supposed to be making fun of people's strawman ideas of what this paper is (and can't be be, given its topic)?

Else, it could very well serve as that.
>> Now if someone invented a way for oxygen and hydrogen split that way to remain split for more than milliseconds, physicists would be more interested

Sounds exactly like a cool research area for physicists.
Looks nice,

- What are your plans to expand the amount of items?

- What do you think about the option to add your own build items, and maybe share them across users?
Tesla batteries investigated for possible defects
Opec is a price fixing association of the most of the world's worst countries. From funding terror to obscene inequality to political and religious oppression. But if it weren't for them, we'd be in a much worse position on climate change...
The only problem with meritocracy is that it's unattainable in a society with inherited power differences. Other than that it would be a great idea. Just one that hasn't truly been tried outside limited organisations yet.
We are mostly nothing to a very very precise approximation of 100%.
Not quite - but what makes us so successful aren't the resources themselves but our (nearly) endless ability to be creative, to learn, to understand, to come up with new ways to make use of those finite resource. In a sense, the effective supply of oil has increased thanks to our increase in the supply of knowledge. I expect that to continue for many lifetimes to come.
Adventure at an Old NSA Base in Berlin
they were friendly?
Yeah, it was that. Not the endless slew of articles about how millennials ruined this or that industry, or how they’re entitled hothouse flowers with no work ethic and no spine. It wasn’t “millennials can’t afford houses because they eat too much avocado toast”. It was “OK boomer”. Ay yi yi.
> Uber doesn’t have a gigantic State apparatus with both a vested interest in and the ability to use violence to enforce it’s will on me.

Uber falls under the jurisdiction of a gigantic State apparatus with both a vested interest in and the ability to use violence to enforce it’s will on you. Being a good corporate citizen, Uber would dutifully hand over your data to said government when asked. This is a distinction without a difference.
Not sure I understand how they can be both highly subsidized and yet highly taxed at the same time.
OK Boomer
I'm very impressed with Svelte so far, I think it has set a new standard for front-end frameworks.

Pros:

- Great DX (happy developers)

- Easy to learn

- Code is easy to reason about

- Little boilerplate

- Small code base (less bugs)

- Very fast (not best in class, but close enough)

- The benefits of being a compiler (eg. data viz, more to come)

Cons:

- Lacks official support for TS (coming)

- Lacks the rich ecosystem of React/Vue/Angular (comes with adoption)
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb
> I strongly disagree with equality of outcome,

There's more to hiring than numerics, there's always the prerogative and perhaps even need to take a chance. People have not always had similar chances or abilities to produce the results you'd like to see in all candidates, but it just may be you can give a person a place to shine. The candidate that already shone may be safer, but in practice it may as well mean more of the same (that you've hired). Since you're using the same metrics (paper output etc. in your case). Sometimes more of the same is not what you need.

There's a whole universe of reasons for (not) hiring someone. Pretending anyone is hiring (or even able to) based on merit is not seeing clearly. You rarely know, apart from superstar hires for identical roles they've performed elsewhere already, is all about taking a chance. You may as well freshen up the org with atypical hires, in my experience worth their shots far more than 'default' hires, which, in my view, a nearly always just hires most similar to you.
Well, it does. Because they will use your ethical values against you to slowly boil you like a frog in a pot 'til you find yourself in a concentration camp having your organs harvested. Sometimes bad things have to happen to prevent worse things.
Not all capital was destroyed. So far Kurdistan was not the part of Syria where the war hurt most.

If you want an example where war isn't involved at all, you can have a look at Catalonia right after the fascist coup in 1936: anarchists and Communists workers just took the control of the whole industrial system and it was locally administered by workers (at least in the beginning, before the Communists allied with Republicans and massacred the anarchists).
The quark mass is somewhat misleading: It's not the mass of a "free" quark, that doesn't exist, because of confinement. The incredible strong nuclear force actually /lowers/ the mass of the proton compared to the sum of the unbound constituents, from "infinity" to some finite value. Strange, I know, but similar to what happens with the hydrogen atom: In the ground state, it's 13.6 eV less massive than the sum of the mass of proton and electron.
>“We’re not looking at the data. It’s just machines and algorithms doing this work,” said Mr. Tan.

That's still looking at it. When are we going to stop letting people get away with this lie?
Ditto for the proton itself.
> data are necessary to figure out which companies are flouting the permit program’s rules

Sending all ride data seems excessive. A few photographs taken by city officials showing scooters in wrong places should do the trick.
Well sure. And a pretty core impetus for a company like Equifax keeping data on loan repayments is also better fraud detection. That's even more true in the insurance business which uses consumer credit agency data extensively.

Fundamentally what they are doing seems like the same thing. They're keeping a file on people that corporations are using to decide if they're trustworthy.

We decided a long time ago that consumers need to have the right to see and challenge that data for accuracy, as well as to have limits on how long it can be held against them. I see absolutely no reason why those principals should not apply here as well.

And it seems at least arguable that they already do. Clearly there's arguments on both sides, but reading the basic definitions here on what comprises a credit report and a credit reporting agency, and the prohibition on reports more than seven years old, it seems like a non-frivolous case could be made:

https://epic.org/privacy/financial/fcra.html

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1681a
And there’s one more thing, I’ve found that building good interpersonal relationships are quite important to having effective discussions with someone. Especially when the topic is controversial. I’ve found this to be a lot harder when two people have never met each other.

How do people work around this?
I think they are referring to how previous generations had "respect for elders"
Legal restrictions. There's a cap and a price tag to working in the us.
>Publishing bad-science and then saying other scientists will show it is wrong is both true and does not address the central complaint: it will cause harm to those outside the scientific community.

If "publishing bad science" was the issue people were concerned with, then 80% of published (peer-reviewed and all) papers should be met with the same or worse reactions for they are time and again shown to be bad science.

But I fear that it's the "we don't like the conclusions" more than the "bad science" part. And I fear that the latter (which might very well be the case) is even a priori assumed given the conclusions.

In you response you take for granted what oughta be proved: that the paper would cause "public harm".
Much of this is contrived. The previous generation said GenX were slackers too. It's just something to sell ads.
Wait. Who was being friendly before?