skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand what their point is. The list is quite disingenuous and intellectually lazy. For example, “Dildos give you cancer” according to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2611376/These-toys...

But actually it’s not dildos, it’s HPV, and it can be transmitted by sharing dildos. But it can also be transmitted with sexual intercourse, so they should list it under sex. And while we’re continuing to go further away from the actual cause, we might as well say human interaction or just plain being a human.

This kind of work makes people say “everything gives you cancer, so therefore I won’t care about any one thing,” which ignores the fact that you can absolutely dramatically change your risk profile one way or another based upon your actions... as well as what’s legal to be sold. We shouldn’t look at this as an excuse for asbestos to be legal again, for example.
Bad science reporting is not the same thing as science. Major news cycles were misreporting the actual science. No science was predicting a coming ice age in the 80s.
An abbreviated version of this story is included in this great post on how 22 now-successful companies got their first users/customers https://www.referralcandy.com/blog/how-to-get-first-customer... (Segment, Tinder, Quora, Reddit, etc.)
At least some of those seem credible to me?

Alcohol and sausages (processed red meat) for example are on the WHO list if memory serves
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> It’s not the cooperation that’s the issue. Every country can come together for the Olympics.

It has been repeatedly demonstrated that countries can come together for the Olympics. It has yet to be demonstrated that they can do the same to fight global climate change. The opposite seems to be the case so far, as far as I can tell.

> The method of guilting people into changing makes me sick.

100% agree.

> Politics isn’t how we will get out of this, imho. Science and engineering is the key.

To move forward, we are going to need both science and engineering, and some minimum level of agreement in Democratic countries. Perhaps if we could manage that, China might consider getting on board as well.
my solution is to buy games on gog when i can and save a cracked copy of any game I end up buying on steam. best of both worlds really. When it works, the minor sacrifice of my privacy isn't too high a price for the deals and convenience Steam offers, but when it fails (and I've been locked out of my steam purchases once already) it's nice to know I can still play the games I paid for.
Not sure what level of detail you're seeking but I've enjoyed Michel van Biezen's video series on GPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xHIBmul_o&list=PLX2gX-ftPV...

Edited:
18 parts complete of a planned 100 part series but each segment is only a few minutes long.
Nope. Those having this issue purchased Tron: Evolution on Steam.
AWS contributes very little to open source and takes all the SaaS profits from the project founders.
Put the money in a CD. Probably better than anything else you can do when you're about to flush someone else's money down the toilet.
Reminds me of reading two articles: one claimed global warming caused drought and the other that it caused rain in the exact same spot, in the exact same time period.

I've also seen predictions that global warming would cause both more, and fewer, hurricanes.

We need one of those sites for global warming, because people blame absolutely everything on global warming (with zero scientific study). It's always "here's something that is different, yup, must be global warming".

(This isn't a dig on science, actual scientists would never do that - they are far more careful on blaming specific things.)
No dispute. And yet, I don't see any other instances of the a near-45-degree angle spike over the last 20k years (with the obvious caveat that our data on the past is imperfect).

Like I said, not a smoking gun; just a clue that it's worth digging into. And from a Bayesian perspective, one must ask: what are the odds that that rising temperature would happen to correlate with CO2, for entirely unrelated reasons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme8WQ4Wb5w

Don't get me wrong, I find Greta-style alarmism and claims of "extinction" to be counter-productive. But given how difficult it is to get nerds to agree on anything, the fact that there are so few credible scientists on the other side of the issue gives me pause. Pure groupthink? Maybe. Hardly unprecedented. But we've been examining the data and improving the models for decades (including from those with a strong financial incentive to debunk AGW), and yet the scientific consensus continues trending in one direction. Skepticism is a good thing, but the evidence for AGW can't merely be handwaved away by causal narrative.
> disable smart assistants on your phone and the phone won't start recording you "accidentally". You don't have that option with a smart speaker.

In fact, you do. Amazon Echos have a physical button that disables the microphone. Apple HomePod has a setting to disable the "Hey Siri" feature. I haven't tested this, but I presume that both continue functioning perfectly fine as Bluetooth/AirPlay speakers.
Right. Here's a paper with more experimental details, by the same author. He's using 1km of the Stanford Linear Accelerator as the electron gun.[1] OK, probably not useful for wafer fabs.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02166.pdf
Here’s a question I had when I learned this stuff in stats class: What does a 95% confidence interval actually mean? I could never get a clear answer.
Right. Total bullshit PR you're supposed to be smarter than.
Sure. Now do the math on how much it will cost to make the aerosols and how many deaths due to respiratory illness it will cause.
Easy. Just generate a small, but dense planet-sized mass opposite the direction of momentum, then terminate its existence once momentum has ceased. Don't break earth or the space-time continuum in the process though - you might agitate stockholders.

Seriously though, physics is physics. Software can do a lot, but it can't do magic.
it’s not just revenue. It’s also support. There’s a lot more support involved and it also increases the upfront cost making it even less accessible to people.
Aurora serverless already has a proxy by default - if it can’t scale fast enough it’s likely because your queries are too long and interleaved to find a logical switchover point.

This proxy is probably an offshoot of the serverless proxy.
You can back up study X with all the data and numerical analysis in the world, and it still doesn't increase study Y being right, except through appeal to authority.
My good friend was obsessed with a MUD while we were in college. Our friend group came to know it as Text Wars. A few years back, I remember him telling me that the server was going down. He thought about taking it over but just couldn't find the time.

It was a shame, really. He got so much enjoyment out of that.
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Unethical Interviewer Behavior
Is there a place where tech folks can warn each other about unethical interviewer behavior? I'm talking about behaviors such as:

--asking for extensive free work during an interview

--"take home tests" which are critical to the interviewer's startup, and are unpaid

--asking the interviewee to divulge sensitive information such as trading strategies or other nonpublic materials

--interviewing employees of a competitor to gather information when there is no real job opening

--and other unethical interview behavior

As an experienced data scientist, I personally have encountered all of these that I've listed, and I would guess that other hn readers have experienced something similar. It would be great if we could share such experiences so that others don't waste their time on such interviews.
I’m not sure why it’s not mentioned in the article but if I’m reading it right the act does appear to require phone companies to implement the STIR/SHAKEN protocols to authenticate calls so this isn’t just giving the FCC powers it already had to fine callers it had no way to identify.
> By who?

By government officials creating anti-competitive regulations and taxes.

> And why should those that value it more than choice for the consumer value choice for the consumer more?

They should value choice for the consumer more because the total net benefit to society via GDP or any other economic indicator would be greater.

> And how would they even go about doing that?

Reducing barriers to entry for startups/small businesses and removing/reducing regulations that exert downward pressure on existing small businesses(Ex. minimum wage laws) are the first solutions that come to mind.
Astronauts will soon get to light a fire onboard the ISS
If AWS runs everyone's open source for them as a metered service and people don't run their own software... then they can't edit that software and make contributions back into open source. The open source model breaks, no new projects except from the likes of Amazon.

AWS would have to step up open source contributions to match users' and they in fact do the opposite: they are extreme leeches compared to Google and Microsoft.
Basically, the government said loans are too risky to give to builders, except to build the things the government wants.

Longer version: Many people were abusing interest-only loans and similar financing. It was blamed somewhat deservingly for the 2008 crash, as banks had incentives to sell as much financing as possible and then sell-off the loans in packages to others, offloading the risk. Repackage, resell, repeat. Eventually crash.

Without getting any deeper into the politics of that, Dodd-Frank was the regulation heavy government response, part of which redefines risk levels of loans, making financing, in general, a lot harder and more expensive to get. Simultaneously, it enacted government guaranteed loan programs for lenders and builders that meet certain criteria.

Keep in mind, there was a large army of homebuilders that besides facing a recession, suddenly couldn't sufficiently finance their main product via banks, and needed to find a way to stay in a business that's high-risk, high-capital, slow-cashflow, and low margin.

The only government loan programs that allowed similar sized financing to these builders all basically require some sort of public housing participation, the most profitable and easiest of which to qualify for is mid to large scale apartment complexes that would be contractually obligated to accept tenants receiving public assistance from HUD sponsored / affiliated programs. Some programs are available for mixed use or similar developments, usually with the involvement of local government controlled block grants.

But this has left a sizable gap between small business residential builders and the larger scale required to take on government sponsored projects.

The exceptions to this are generally contractors that have their own sources of capital, or builders that were already big enough to have existing appropriately sized collateral. But it's very applicable, in the context of barriers to business growth, especially capital.

When you pass an apartment construction site, start paying attention to how many of them have signs that include a HUD logo. It's a substantial percentage.
The ingtersection of this and their list of things that cure it is not the empty set.
No different to purchasing a game on physical media. You only own the physical media itself, not game stored on it; the license is the same regardless.

Some physical copies of software have gone even further; the disc itself remains property of the publisher.
>Define for me in an objective way what "at least as extreme" is.

Come up with some one dimensional test statistic T whose distribution D you know under your null hypothesis. Define a one sided p value for data x as p(t <= x).

It sounds like your statistic is 0 if the sequence is always "HHTHT" and 1 otherwise? In this case your p value is 1 unless every attempt is "HHTHT" in which case it's zero, so the test statistic is 0 with probability 1/32^k for k attempts. The more attempts you do, the smaller p gets if the null is false. It's working as intended. For this test, a threshold of p=0.05 would be dumb, but it's always dumb.

It's not an awful test assuming you came up with your test statistic and "HHTHT" before collecting your data. It meshes with the intuition of betting your friend "Hey I bet if you flip this coin you'll get HHTHT." If they proceed to flip it and see HHTHT, they are reasonable to think maybe you know something they don't.

If you come up with your test statistic after the fact, there's theory around p hacking to formalize the intuition of why it's not convincing to watch your friend flip some sequence of coins and then tell them "dude, I totally knew it was going to be that" after the fact.
> It's interesting how the article accuses Ring and Amazon of selling via fear, but that's also exactly what the article itself is selling.

Just because something is published by vice doesn't automatically make it untrue (though it broadly is very suspect). However, you've made the great case yourself that these product purchases are motivated by fear, not by material return on investment.
How many of those precompiled binaries are performance critical? How about all?

From the software that runs for hours to compile a model, the software that calculates results, to the interactive analysis software that needs to load GBs of data.

The whole reason to run these things on a server farm is that you need large and fast machines that are better shared to make sure they get optimal use of the machine and of the license pool.
The parent poster is referring to the three-sector model of the economy: primary (resource extraction, agriculture), secondary (manufacturing, processing), tertiary (services). Education, R&D, knowledge workers, secretaries all fall under this.
Segment won developer mindshare because Peter and the team made a strong commitment to developer success.

For my project, he came onsite to help me, then invited me back to HQ to meet the team, debrief, and share the roadmap.

I have recommended Segment many times since then, and I'm stoked for the company's success.
It's also worth noting that, while things like overexercising will quickly set off alarm bells to us in various ways that stop it from feeling good, items that were scarce or not about in abundance long ago like sugar, fats and tabbaco never got the evolutionary "that's enough now" blocker put in on them as overconsumption of those wasn't really a thing.
What do you mean by a "non-empirical prior"?
Meteorologists are not, and have never been, scientists. Their opinion on climate is no more valid than any other lay persons. It is like equating the physicists and engineers who develop new MRI machines with the technicians who press the button at the imaging center. Time and Newsweek are not scientific sources. Your whole post is just nonsense.
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Yeah, I stopped at the first example: Afternoons.

It's just saying that the sun is brighter in the afternoon than in the morning, so sun-bathing in the afternoon increases skin cancer risk more than in the morning.

Then I closed the tab.
> However since New York "insists" on paying about 7x what Spain would for the same amount of subway it is just barely worth it to build the SAS, and anything with even slightly less ridership potential is a waste of money.

Literally any amount spent on the subway will be returned in rent to landlords. You're just looking from the wrong perspective.
But we don't know how those 17 were chosen in the first place. There would be survivorship bias if models which match observations get more attention.

With that being said, I doubt that survivorship bias is strong enough to explain their combined result of 10/17 models being significant.
You may already know all this, but I thought I’d add to what you said.

JDBC doesn’t provide connection pooling out of the box. There are connection pooling libraries that layer into JDBC. Most frameworks and application servers do bundle a connection pool out of the box.

Lambda is just a different paradigm than a single monolithic app with a connection pool. I assume that’s what you’re getting at. :)

There are other use cases though. Tools like pgBouncer are fairly useful in a large enterprise where a single database has multiple clients. They provide a single point to coordinate failovers and manage resource limits. I generally prefer a 1:1 relationship between an application and a database, but sometimes you have to play the cards you’re dealt.
There's no such thing as 0.1 fiber. A small fiber is still one fiber.
The background was a 30% higher than market value unsolicited offer.
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One screen, One face

That’s really the only way to do it. Any other situation where there are people looking face to face and someone else on a screen makes it not fully collaborative. People are naturally more inclined when there is someone they can look eye to eye.

My company is ~50% remote (or distributed) and our all hands are with every person on their own laptop. Some people in the office pushed back, but we went this direction with zoom where you can have up to 100 people on the screen at 1 time and it has been incredible. Plus, you don’t have to set up any a/v equipment because the meeting link is in the calendar invite.
This space will be interesting to watch! We live in extremely interesting times hardware wise.
I’m very grateful for the efforts of the likes of archive.org, that tirelessly dedicate themselves to the preservation of digital media.
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You're right, that's better than it used to be by orders of magnitude. However, there remain things that "just don't look right". The most obvious I can spot is the teeth, followed by warped edges (odd indentations, a missing ear that ought to merely be partially hidden), followed by the eyes(more subtle, but definitely there). The "big swathes of skin" are generally fine. There are also wrong numbers of teeth, partially missing eyebrows, etc. Finally, there's not much correlation between apparent ethnicity and facial characteristics or hair. All these "just look wrong" enough to put someone off of a marketing brochure.
I’m glad for the clarification on them being two separate games. I almost included but removed the text “the previous Tron game”. Should have kept it.
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Even if they said how many models they looked at before choosing 14 models (and explained why they chose those 14), conspiracy theorists and people skepticalof climate science would still argue that it is not legitimate because of survivorship bias and several other reasons.

"You looked at 1000 models, but what about the 1000 models that scientists made and didn't publish. You didn't look at those!"

People can always suggest more tests you need to do or poke holes in any analysis. That doesn't mean you just stop ding the work.

Overall it is impressive that different models made over 30 years can predict fairly accurate results. In my opinion that shows that the underlying physics of the models is correct and makes me trust the models even more.
"Real time" in a mechanical system is pretty generous compared to electrical systems. Changes are in the timescale of 1 to 100 hz compared to the kHz (or even MHz) switching speeds of many electrical systems. Once you switch away from the large rotating mass of an engine (+ drivetrain), you get pretty much instantaneous torque response on an electric motor for free.

I'd say it's more interesting that they were able to figure out the delta between driver intent and physical response without adding any sensors. Having that much flexibility in the firmware of multiple control units (probably collaborating between several vendors) was likely a more complex challenge.
Yet the Chinese seem to accomplish it.
It's the age of information. Putting "95% confidence interval" into Google gives back all sorts of examples.

What part of it are you having trouble with?

Here's a pick at random: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mizNAmeAT5w ("What Does a 95% Confidence Interval Mean?")
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Tax gap of Silicon Six over $100B so far this decade
Currently I neither use Backblaze or CrashPlan but restore was one of the few features (among other features like CP’s excellent versioning) where CP beat BB hands down. Heck, the last time I checked BB didn’t even let you restore using the client. You had to download the files from the portal and then put it somewhere yourself. I am not sure it has changed now. While CP’s was so seamless that it would just restore your files in the background wherever you wanted - at their original location or elsewhere. It worked so well.

Yes, BB Java app was (is?) indeed a POS.
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You didn't call anyone stupid, you asked a passive aggressive question designed to demean without advancing any worldviews or assertions of your own. That's fucking stupid.
"If you read all the way until the end, I appreciate it. In return, I want you to discover a song in a language you’ve probably never heard before: Basque."

I've heard of Basque, off of Northern Spain. Also isn't there a bit of France involved?

Good luck for the future.
Ah. Yes. The good ol' reductio-ab-London argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
A Stanford University lecture series that is "only" 65 videos:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Fyn_h6LKU&list=PLGvhNIiu1u...

A few of the longest ones are only 26 minutes, and some are less than 10, so it's actually bad as all that.
What you're essentially defending is the right for nations contributing the most to climate change and what not to essentially put people in nations most affected by climate change to the sword if they chose to immigrate away from their ravaged nation.

Instead of making an argument justifying genocide, perhaps we should instead take action against climate change before it becomes a problem? Or would you prefer the next war to be fought over water instead of oil?
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Without absolving us all of our responsibility to do better, to create systems that minimize the potential damage by bad actors, "I want to be able to download and execute random code off the internet and have it access my file system, my cameras, my network, my everything, but only in ways that don't hurt me", has always been kind of a pipe dream.

It's also kind of hilarious when the person downloading and executing random code off the internet isn't the naive user, the pointy haired boss, the stereotypical grandmother, the dumb tween, but the "sophisticated", computer-savvy, net-wise programmers.
Ubiquity cameras should be ok. Fortinet as well without having to get expensive with Arecont.
50 years ago Time and Newsweek famously ran stories predicting another ice age. Of course they had scientists behind the claims.

So I guess some scientists of the age predicted cold, and others heat?
I use the term “monomorphism”, as an antonym to polymorphism.

Yeah, not good.

And you meant update 3 files, not 2. You forgot the 1 file that uses the 1 implementation, which should have simply been nested the only place it was used.
I'm weird. I like the data staying local, but the UI being something continually updated and improved on. You navigate to a website to enjoy a real-time updated UI, that pulls data from the local network. The local hardware just primitively collects footage and that small responsibility is something I can trust in a form of 'separation of concerns'. It would be neat to extend this further where the company behind the product distributes the codebase for this webapp that you can run locally if you choose.
Please point out where I said you know the blast radius and which direction it heads. Not to mention it's an analogy and I'm not a bombing expert. You can probably figure out my point.