skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a combination of very few incentives for publishing data on failed trials.

And also the issue of trade secrets. Knowing a trial has failed can help your competitors (both industry and academia).
This is missing a key ingredient. Call the Program Officer and figure out what they want. If what you want to do doesn't align with what they're trying to achieve with the program, you will never get meaningful funding.

Your project need not align exactly, but it must support the cause of the program, otherwise it is dead in the water, no matter how well-written.

Good Program Officers are happy to communicate with PIs, and will help them make great applications. You need them, and they need you. Build that team. Do it early and often.
> Doesn't that also apply to you?

Yes indeed, and to you also. But in the same way that one can learn to better appreciate exponential growth, one can learn to better appreciate risk, and try to apply that knowledge rationally rather than basing decisions on fear.

> Have you looked into when and where testing is performed? In the US, if you don't have a china travel history, they won't test you.

Yes. The most reliable testing procedures are quite invasive and carry at least some exposure risk for the healthcare worker carrying them out, especially if done outside a hospital setting. They also aren't guaranteed to detect the virus in the early stages, or in minor infections. This is one reason why China has moved to include clinical diagnoses as confirmed cases, and it's also why they didn't just test every person on the Yokohama cruise ship straight away.

> This has an incubation period that is still indeterminate

Not really. There are some pretty good bounds on it, especially with the significant number of cases in Wuhan available as data.

I am confident in what I claim (given that what I claim is quite limited). I'm not making predictions here, I'm talking about the current state of things. Beyond that, let's see what happens...
Anytime somebody talks in absolute numbers they’re more often than not trying to be deceptive. Absolutely numbers don’t mean anything at all in relation to nation debt, the only way to meaningfully quantify it is as a % of GDP (or interest charged as a % of government revenue). The article would give you the impressions that government debt is spiralling out of control, but really the debt/GDP is pretty stable.
Someone below mentioned interest rates which is a fundamental thing and cannot be overlooked.

We are in a 'weird new normal' of low-interest rates for a variety of reasons, partly artificially induced.

But if you put your finance hat on and contemplate for a moment what that means ... well it means debt and a lot of it and rationally so.

If super low-interest rates become normative, our thinking has to change quite fundamentally because it's rational to lever up quite dramatically. We may have to reconsider entirely how the national balance sheet works.
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I would also like to know why. I suspect because it has strong potential for controversial tangents. That said I and I suspect others am highly interested in the effects of proteins I consume. I know I avoided soy for a long time because of this study but have now suspected for years (and the current research seems to support this) that there is little concern with soy as a protein source with regards to testosterone levels.
> We've worked with brilliant scientific and technical people who do not communicate their ideas well

Alan Alda did as well and that was what gave birth to the idea for his book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? (https://www.amazon.com/Understood-Would-Have-This-Look-ebook...)

It has a big focus on improv that can be distracting from the main message of the book, but I found it really insightful and had my assistant read it for discussion about how to improve communication skills and awareness.
Fun mathematical tourism stop: go up to the top of the Tour Montparnasse. Look straight down. Galois is buried in the cemetery below. Nobody knows where, but he's down there somewhere.
TestFlight is actually a simpler and better solution than having to deal with getting users to allow insecure apps
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>2. M.S holders: you get to work for private firm for 3 years. Called 'special research agents'. Mostly work for engineering related firms.

So the government essentially uses people to subsidize businesses?
People only care about the national debt when a Democrat is in the White House. The GOP’s tone will completely change once Trump is gone. A natural disaster strikes? “Oh, we can’t afford to send any aid. Have you seen the debt? We need to cut spending from some social program.” Unless, that is, there’s a recession, then it’ll be “we need to provide some tax relief.”
Of course it doesn't cause me distress. I believe the results.

Liberals like to think of themselves as forward thinking and innovative, which is also how intelligent people like to think of themselves. Doesn't surprise me that intelligent people on average tend towards Liberalism as a result. It makes them feel good about themselves.

Of course whether liberal policies are good or bad is another matter entirely.
It is clear what "the language Sussman and Steele invented" refers to, and it is not RnRS for any n.

It's a clear historic reference.

Just like "the language MacCarthy and his team invented" isn't, say, Common Lisp.
Safari because it integrates with all my Apple devices and it's much more battery/memory efficient than Chrome.

The reader mode is fantastic and the password autofill/keychain works great on all my devices too.
I think that’s more of a lack of initiative to learn. They may not know how to speak Japanese, but they can listen to it and be able to discern words from each other and be able to grasp ongoing conversations. After years of watching anime and learning kana and even a number of kanji, Japanese doesn’t seem hard at all anymore. I just lack the initiative or immediate need to advance my skills since I live in America. Now French, they speak so freaking fast. I wonder if that’ll change after I watch enough French content.
The signatures are, IIRC, checked in order, so a resigned BootMgr won't impact verification of WinLoad, etc.

As for abusing signed bootloader, the full process depends on verifying that the signed bootloader appropriately handles TPM, which is then also coupled with an encrypted disk, which in turn works to prevent loading unsanctioned code.

Of course, it's possible to defeat this, but the idea is to frustrate the efforts and raise the cost of an attack, as well as give you a longer timeframe to deal with an attack.
I thought Theano was the first real deep learning implementation. What is the difference between that and tensorflow ?
I am sure there is some setup where that will work. Set a URL handler to open Emacs, format the filename as a TRAMP path, something like that. There are plenty of things that try to transparently SSH places, and I'm sure someone has accidentally hooked that into their browser.
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I watch some running race registration sites with Zapier and when it tells me that they are open I go register immediately so I can have a low bib number.
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I sort of feel that way, that recent technological progress for the last 10-20 years has made life significantly more convenient for us as consumers, but not as producers. I’m not going to deny that we have better tools now like GitHub and Visual studio, but what’s the equivalent of two day shipping?

There’s a few companies pushing the envelope, whether they know it or not. Notion for example allows people to build shareable webpages with their blocks; if their API ever gets released, you can imagine normal people using it as a CMS for blogs or websites. Another example is Levels.fyi using Google Sheets as a backend; Firebase is hard to use, but Word and Excel aren’t.

It’s difficult to say where this trend will go, but end users shouldn’t be underestimated. We could probably teach more people python by asking them to manipulate numbers on a spreadsheet than with a black terminal and plain text editor.
There are some great spoken Latin programs out there. See https://latin.org/ and https://www.paideiainstitute.org/, for example.
Asking because I’m genuinely interested in a solution: Is there a way to design a HR department against this?

For your own company, how would you set up a HR function that does not have this tendency?
Could have been an issue with a replacement part. One time I got a replacement headlight that was internally wired backwards from the factory. (High and low beams swapped)
You are right, it would — but that’s not how it works. People don’t sample words by beginning with AAA and moving on to larger ones. So your point is just being put out there to “win”?
To some degree? Sure. But if it truly was about hating women talking about video games for being women, then how come some of the idols of the movement were women themselves? If it's all about misogyny then shouldn't they hate people like mombot just the same? This is why I said that it's a mischaracterization.
It's just as terrible a generalization to use polls that don't consider a great many of the people harassed and oppressed by police forces (immigrants, PoC, incarcerated, poor neighborhoods, homeless people). Yes, people feel both ways about cops, and that lack of uniformly friendly relationship across the populace is the whole point brought up by GP.

To their exact sentiment

> The general view of police and government as your "friendly helper" as opposed to enemies

...the key phrase is "general view" and not "enemies". The general view in america is more varied, as a function of the diversity of people, experiences and opinions, for better or worse.
I've been wanting an app like that for awhile now. I started messing around prototyping something like that around planning events with others. I'm excited to see what more of this!!
It seems like the government is pushing VDI to replace dedicated internet PCs, which are used alongside air-gapped government network PCs. That means, main office PCs will still be running Windows.

Actually, Korean military had an experimental VDI program years ago, but the program failed mainly because of the price, most of which had to be spent on Windows license. IIRC, after creating a small prototype, the program is eventually scrapped.

So, no, this is not a negotiating move. Also, I believe this will definitely happen, because Windows 10 is stupidly expensive.

The official announcement from Korean government (Korean): https://www.mois.go.kr/frt/bbs/type010/commonSelectBoardArti...
I'm terrible at discrete math so I'm not going to work it out, but I'm sure it would be possible to express that relationship in a way that it could adapt to other number bases, and then it might be easier to tell if there is something there.

(something like treating the digits as coefficients of a series of powers of the number base, defining a function f(b,n) that returns the sum of the digits of n in base b, setting that equal to the product of the forward and reverse representation of that result in base b, and seeing if the equation looks interesting)

E.g. you can use a similar technique to show why the finger counting method of multiplying by 9 works, or why multiples of 3 have digits that sum to a multiple of 3 (same for 9)
Improv cubicle... yeah. These are sad times when cubicles are a hallmark of the good old times.
If you treat it as a goal, and not as a side-effect of doing something great (for various definitions of "great") - you'll have a bad time.
> The amount of crap you get from momentarily standing near a smoker nearby outside is orders of magnitude less than you get from automobile exhaust walking around a typical city.

That is a big claim. In view of the association with passive smoke and SIDS you will need some citations. It should not be hard to find them. Huge efforts have gone into researching causes of SIDS and there should be a good correlation between city vs countryside dwellers if your hypothesis is correct.

> When someone is idling their car or truck do you go knock on their window and make a big scene about how they are poisoning your child?

When my child was new born I would have moved away from them whilst saying loudly how disgusting they are - exactly the same as I did for smokers.

If someone is running their engine for no reason I would probably ask them to turn it off.
Actually, my inspiration came from a story I heard (thirdhand) about a numerical analysis professor who would give that response, set around 1970--before C existed, let alone C++.
You can create all the strawmen you want. I am going to quote from Wikipedia:

The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading significant digit is likely to be small.

I have explained why that happens for the vast majority of UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED VARIABLES.

The vast majority. That implies that there is a collection of all possible uniformly distributed variables, and in particular those that are sampled from real world processes.

As long as they are uniformly distributed, with 0 as the minimum and M as the maximum, the first digit will appear more commonly.

I explained it several times. Why are you still insisting that statements about MAJORITY of uniform distributions are weird?

Yes statements about collections of uniform distributions are not statements about ONE SPECIFIC uniform distribution. And?
How can you discover that 50% of 17 is 8.5 if you can’t multiply 17*5? (If the answer is “by halving”, then my response is that halving and then multiplying by 10 is often the easiest way to multiply by 5!)
I don't think making PCB was ever expensive, perhaps making a professionally looking one.

In old times you had a piece of plastic with a copper layer. You put wax on it, then you could use a needle to remove wax in right places (you basically print the inverse of the circuit)

Place that PCB in acid, and after the copper gets dissolved you clean it up, and have printed PCB.

There are many techniques people have, and modern ones involves printers, but you kind of always could do one at low cost. It might just not look that nice.
I like the stories in, "Over to You" - especially about going to Cairo to pick up prostitutes!

But other than those young escapades, he doesn't come across as the most pleasant of people. He did basically make a living writing story after story of children in abusive relationships.
I've always felt that Japanese companies were very big on process because their management actually isn't very good otherwise. Promotions and status are much more based on seniority rather than merit.

As for the people at the top, they do seem to have more than their fair share of god complexes. I notice this a lot with their academics too. The average japanese person is so respectful and humble, it's like they overcompensate when they are in charge.
It's not about who patrols the Strait of Hormuz. It's about who and what backs them up. If the Iranians decide to sink the frigates there (to do their blockade) then they can expect a visit from a US carrier group. If there is no force that can be projected there then it becomes about who can move more stuff there. Seeing as that's literally next to Iran, Iran is going to win.

Look at Crimea if you want an example of what can happen if there's no force that can back you up.
Given the strong association with SIDS and cigarette smoke the desire of parents to get their newborn babies away from the poison is not theatrical. It is practical.
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i always think that Google and Microsoft are the worst when it comes to projects. They make good concept projects, but their problem is that they don't do full commitment. Much like Google Duo or Google Allo. Their problem was, while it's good to have those apps, they never made commitments into pushing them for consumers to like or even recognize. instead, they kept their hangout when they could either migrate fully, or just migrate the core from the new app.

Microsoft did that with many projects too but their problem was different.
That's why i believe the last good time google did something good was from when they announced their very first pixel.

At least Microsoft is doing great job currently with their open source approach.
Applying for grants is a giant waste of time for most startups (opinion, obviously, some exceptions).
Yes. Been there, won't do that ever again.
This kind of stuff, well the whole fertility process really, is what really opened my eyes to what women have to deal with that most men don't seem to have any awareness of.

The sheer amount of guilt, shame, tut-tutting, and general bullshit around the birthing process is just astounding.

Breastfeeding is the poster child for this (great example here) but so does every other thing about parenting. Women have to make "no-win" choices around this, plus career, plus body changes, plus so many parenting choices.

Every single one of these things has 10 books that say X and 10 books that say Y.

Our pediatrician was supportive of nursing and suggested we stick with it but also said "the data that breastmilk is better in any significant way is just not there".

My wife breastfed for 6 months with both our kids then called it good, and I thought that was heroic.

Having to duck out to pump every couple hours is literally the last thing a new mom back at work (guilt! shame! second-guessing!) wants to be doing.
Let them exist; However, their existence shouldn't be a free license to data.
True, I was more so referencing first implementation to see wide scale adoption. But maybes there some holes in my narrative...
While that's true enough for many people, adding a feedback step and some practice would improve matters quickly.

There is also a good chance someone can learn to encode quite a bit into vocalizations.
I found DuoLingo interesting, but it didn't really help me to learn Spanish. I had a lot more success (I just came back from a trip to Panama where I had to interact with people who spoke little no no English) using https://www.languagetransfer.org (it also has courses for Greek, French, German, Arabic, Turkish, Italian and Swahili).

The courses are sets of MP3 tracks that are free to download, but if you find them useful, please donate!
Now the only problem left is: Why would I go so in the first place? To browse? For the nice book store feeling?

Maybe some people do that. Since I just read E-books that were recommended to me I'm long lost anyway.
> wtf?

Yeah, I take it you didn't know that?

If I'm on any "side" it's the side of truth and health.

Other than some kinds of surgery and a handful of chemicals (like anesthetics, the action of which is still very mysterious, and penicillin, discovered accidentally) our fancy "scientific" Western medicine is actually pretty crappy.

Now I never said it's "as good as just guessing everything", and since Galen it's been kind of scientific even, but in the USA at least, the medical system is a major cause of death. Not to mention that it's more expensive and less effective than in other first world nations.

Heck, the idea that nutrition is crucial to health is still considered new-fangled and radical!

Don't even get me started on Reiki, which is a radical healing agent I have personal experience with that is typically dismissed as pseudoscience (despite not being scientific in the first place.)

> Reiki is a pseudoscience, and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki

Here is a healing life force the very reality of which is denied by the "scientific" medical system.

So yeah, if I get creamed by a car please take me to the ER to get sewn back together, that's awesome! And some morphine please. But the current system is in many ways still stuck in the dark ages.
First time I hear this. So they didn't move offices from the far away Berlin to Munich, they just moved them from a small nearby suburb into the downtown of Munich? How was that such an important decision?
I think Google is an insecure advertising company.
It's as if Phillip Morris International was trying to develop solar panels and vegan food products to make everyone forget that most of their revenue comes from tobacco.
Well if Google tried rewarding maintenance work, would people who do hard maintenance work and reduce tech debt actually be rewarded? Instead I think the result would be people gaming the new system and doing nothing while claiming to solve hard maintenance problems. Managers, as usual, would reward the wrong people. At least with the current system, google gets something kinda measurable.
Definitely a bad look for Google to say they're the only ones allowed to write kernel/driver code.
> Grothendieck and lack of machinery do not belong in the same sentence.

They most certainly do! Grothendieck’s work is heavy on definitions, but the essence of his work is that the right definitions obviate (and are seen to be right because they obviate) the need for heavy machinery. See the famous quote, taken from Wikipedia (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Quotes_...) because that’s the first place I found it:

> I can illustrate the ... approach with the ... image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months — when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado! A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration ... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it ... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.
A huge pity. Langa, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Delft, Elsies River, and Philippi are poor, underserviced areas. It’s unlikely they benefit from the fiber to the home that the rest of Cape Town has (nor could many of their residents afford it).

What they do have are cellphones and a free wireless service would likely benefit many.

I can’t see any commercial value from continuing the service in these areas: Exactly why a wealthy tech company /should/ be considering this service. It’s quite possible the new operators will retreat to the formerly white (and rich) suburbs and center of Cape Town.

* I’m a South Africa ex-pat living in the U.S.