skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the best way I know to explain it, paraphrasing Stephen Hawking:

Imagine taking a picture puzzle that you'd completed, putting it in your clothes dryer, and turning on the tumbler. I think you and I can both safely say that you'd get out a jumbled mess of pieces with little to no resemblance to the completed puzzle.

Now imagine taking a disassembled picture puzzle and putting it in your tumbler. You and I would both be very surprised if what came out was a correctly completed puzzle.

Mathematically, there is only one way that the pieces of the puzzle can all position themselves correctly to solve that puzzle. There are a huge number of ways those pieces can position themselves that don't solve the puzzle.

This is, mathematically, what is meant by "order" and "disorder." It means the system is in a configuration that is more– or less-constrained state.

A more classical version of this is to say that if you have a divided box with oxygen on one side and nitrogen on the other, this has a lower entropy than the same box where the oxygen and nitrogen are intermixed. Removing the divider from a box where they're separate will lead to them mixing, but removing the divider from a box where they're mixed will not lead to them separating. There are more configurations where the gases are mixed than where they are separate.

There are some subtleties when you look deeper at what it really means to be in a constrained state and how this interacts with quantum mechanics, but this is a reasonably accurate picture of how entropy works.
Also from the author:

>However, our results should be interpreted with some caution and should not be applied to patients treated outside of hospital settings. Our results also require further confirmation in prospective, randomized controlled trials that rigorously evaluate the safety, and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine therapy for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.

The main issue is that retrospective studies like this show promise all the time and then frequently fizzle out in RCTs. If you're not used to reading studies they will sound very promising, someone who's been reading studies for 10 years will understand why this and the French studies that started the hype early on can be very misleading.
Sure, but the thought experiment is more that you write down 128 bits, generate the 1gb, then eat the paper containing the 128 bits. You now have 1gb that behaves a lot like it is 1gb of entropy, even though it still isn't.
That's kinda how it is here. The best thing seems to be to bounce between Google Maps and OSM and an aerial view to get a sense of what's up.

For an interesting example, check out this place:
Google: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.4133003,-87.5248774,5345m/da...
OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/46.4161/-87.5406

Neither has the actual current lake boundaries (as used as a retention pond), Google has roads where the lake is while OSM doesn't, etc.
I wonder if it's possible to get it to do the opposite of summarizing

That's pretty much its main job: you provide a prompt and it writes a story about it.
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You have looked at their latest earnings haven’t you?
All of that may be true, but there's also the uncomfortable fact that the pickings of major discoveries are much fewer than they were in previous generations. Not to say that the great scientists (or their assistants) weren't geniuses, but as our knowledge advances it gets exponentially more difficult to make meaningful contributions, much less significant discoveries.
It’s sparse, I’ve actually been looking for AWS courses and things are thin on that front too. To add to it, it’s hard for me to even assess anything since I don’t know how to assess if it’s good.

Now I know how people shopping around for a coding bootcamp feel.
Technology is a powerful determinant of change but so are trade unions and state
The hero image is 3104x1876 scaled to 900x500. It's totally butchered and illegible.
Microsoft’s new Python language server is closed source
At one point, the word "scientist" in "data scientist" was used to distinguish between people who took the time to develop domain expertise from statistical consultants who applied standard methodologies without reference to what the data was or where it came from.
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The lack of a proper syncing solution is why I've moved off of iOS. The ability to sync everything I'm working on to an arbitrary folder on my phone/tablet and always have access to them with whatever program I need (without pushing them back and forth) and all my changes are immediately visible to every other program and device, that's something I can't get with iOS and it always annoyed me.
1. Yes, definitely. People do all sorts of stuff with org-mode that has nothing to do with programming, from todos to publishing. Check out the org manual for use cases.

2. You can't use org-roam on mobile but there's Orgzly for generic org-mode viewing and editing. You need to go through some steps to ensure non-conflicting syncing though.
I'm very interested in nuclear energy/bombs but don't know where to start. I don't want to get too deep on the physics of it (a bit deep/technical is OK) - you seem to know a lot about the topic, do you know where I could learn more without becoming a Nuclear engineer? I'm especially interested in the history of bombs going beyond info on Wikipedia, basically the stuff you are talking about.

Thank you in advance!
Do you live there? Is this somehow your problem? Do you know anyone who would like/needs to deal with those inconveniences in order to save money on rent?

I'm being a jerk, but even if you find something objectionable doesn't mean that it doesn't have a purpose.

Unless you're willing to buy the place, renovate in a way you see fit, and try to rent for a profit, then you should not spend so much time being concerned about this house.
Does anybody have more details why? None of the reasons given explain why: "new", "significantly enhanced", "included in proprietary service offerings". Many Microsoft open-source projects also have those characteristics.
> I'm a white guy

So you're not entitled to an opinion? That's the sort of self-deprecation that the far left wants you to have, and I say this as a non-White myself.

Read up on world history, not just American history, and you'll see that slavery spanned not just Blacks, but all sorts of races, including whites.

> but why would I - a white guy - would want to criticize this discussion

Because it's past the point where it became absurd, nothing to do with you being white or otherwise. I'm all for treating people properly and with respect and dignity, but at the same time lets not lose our minds here.
The article argues that it's difficult to judge the speed of a moving train, and I don't doubt that's true. However if you're attempting to judge the speed of a train at all while at a train crossing, you're already doing it wrong. The cautious approach is to stop and wait for the train no matter how fast you think it's moving. This is what I do every time. This is what drivers ed programs teach. It's what common sense dictates. It's what most people do, and is the reason most people don't get hit by trains (3000 collisions per year is not very many at all when you consider how many times people cross train tracks each day.)

Might I still be hit by a train I never saw at all? Sure. Somebody I knew in highschool was hit by a train on a track he believed was abandoned and consequently, never looked down (he lived after being pushed 100m down the track). It's possible that might happen to me, at least if I ever forget that it happened to him. But what won't happen is getting hit by a train I see and judge to be moving slowly or not at all, because I stop for any train I see no matter how much time I think I might have to cross the track.

> Airplane pilots (particularly military fast jet), and ship captains are taught specific techniques to deliberately and systematically overcome these physiological limitations.

The "specific technique to overcome this physiological limitation" is: Don't race trains. Don't race trains even when you feel certain you can easily beat the train. Racing trains is stupid.
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Graham Hancock is a fun fictionalist, the Erik Von Danikan of our time.
This is standard. You can fairly well deduce that someone died from CoVID from their presentation of symptoms, and a CT scan. A test is not necessary to make that determination, and similarly, it is a waste to test the dead when there are plenty of people who are alive and presenting symptoms today.
> I guess it’s the same as trying to get in the ads business by making ads less valuable?

If that damage your competitors more than it damages you, might that be of some value? Not saying that’s Apple is doing, just pointing that could be a thing.
>free Apple-made tool

I wouldn't be surprised if it requires macOS to work and a yearly paid license to use that free tool.
Mark (((Zuckerberg))) and Ben (((Shapiro))) have a lot of interests in common.
>This is probably the (unintentionally) funniest comment I’ve ever seen on this site -

I'm glad you're having fun. None of these topics are laughing matters, but, like the insults you're throwing, they're not novel either.

>you don’t have any coherent understanding of the economics of price controls

If you had 'coherent arguments' or citations, you would not lower yourself to attacking me instead of my arguments.

>so you just go on about Communist China and and the Holocaust.

If you'd bother to consider my arguments you'll find that my citations are in fact real world examples of what happens when people with ideas like yours take power.

>Surely at some level you realize this is embarrassing?

yawn if I'm wrong, prove it

If you had cogent arguments you would've made them instead of attacking me and moving the goalposts.

>Private charity is and always has been more effective than government welfare, although the proponents of government welfare would like you to believe otherwise. With the elimination of the rule against perpetuities in the West, the Waqf model would be a superior solution to what we have now.

Debunked(1).

Regardless, if you're just going to keep repeating years debunked tea party talking points I'm happy to keep correcting you.

1. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/private-charity-no...
After spending a lot of time working with GPT-3/the OpenAI API (https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments ), one notable part of GPT-3 is the high signal-to-noise ratio in generated output.

When finetuning GPT-2, only about 5-10% of the generated output is usable/coherent. But with GPT-3, easily 30%-40% of the generated text is usable/coherent, which is a big boost in quality.
This was not standard in [most of] the US two months ago.
The takeaway here is that while I wouldn't want that, the consequences of my dicking around on YouTube are significantly less severe than the consequences of police misconduct
tippecanoe (also from mapbox) is fantastic software for vector tile generation. https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
There seem to be two conflicting lines of thought about the future of advertising.

1) Companies are learning that non-online advertising is not very worthwhile and so are reducing the resources allocated to, say, network TV ads. This has already happened to a large extent to print and radio advertising. This suggests that the future of online advertising is bright.

2) Companies are learning that online advertising is not very worthwhile. They are learning that clicks are a bad metric, that online ads target people poorly, and that customers dislike online ads. This suggests that the future of online advertising is dim.

I'm curious as to what people make of these two positions. Are companies just going to spend less on ads in general?
> The best rumble strip design is the one most hated by cyclists.

What design is that? Links do not make anything clear.

As a cyclist, I think any rumble strips would be annoying if they eliminate the shoulder (the only somewhat safe place to bike). But in Canada rumble strips are mostly only used on highways, where you'd never want to bike anyway.
As has been said before - it is kinda hilarious to see people suggest Apple is privacy minded for marketing purposes because 5-7 years ago when they were privacy minded people said it would be a huge competitive disadvantage because users didn’t care.
"You have to create the map to use the map" isn't as compelling of a feature for a mapping service as you think it is
> They didn't know the flag was racist. Because, despite attempts to rewrite history, until recently most people did not know that flag was racist.

Everyone has always known the flag was a symbol of racism. That's why it was adopted. That's what it was deliberately revived for in the 20th century—as a symbol specifically against racial integration and civil rights—and what it was actively and consistently used as throughout the civil rights movement.

Adults when the show was produced, less than a decade and a half after the Civil Rights Act of 1965, would not generally have failed to understand the symbolism of the flag, or the naming of the car after General Lee.

It's possible that the individual producer was ignorant, but TV shows are not made by one person alone in a vacuum.
I feel like it's just missing the fairly fundamental thing that any flow of energy will result in an increase in entropy of the universe as a whole.

It doesn't mean that localised systems can't tend towards lower entropy.
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“He says in today's digital society, not being on a map is akin to being invisible. “

As someone who enjoys being invisible I liked their comment very much and don’t find it out of context here at all.
if we are critically examining Sumerian religion
and their creation myths, we may not want the Sumerians
in the room even if they were readily available, since
they may well take offense at us disrespecting and
dissecting their beliefs.

I would agree with this specific example.

Religion is a special case when it comes to rational discussion. It is explicitly a belief in the irrational, and is not compatible with rational thought.

When the "out group" decides to exclude the "in group" from a discussion, we should be very very sure that there's some highly specific reason why the "in group" is simply incapable of rational discussion.

For example, we exclude my car from discussions about his medical care because he is a cat and he can't speak or understand medicine. If we do that with people, we need to be very careful.

And to use a example more grounded in reality,
a group of men can't have properly conduct a
discussion on how to attract women with women
in the discussion.

This is completely opposite to my experiences.

I certainly think it's healthy and good for men to discuss sex, attraction, etc, without women as well. Heterosexual men are a part of the group that experiences dating and sex with women. (I wonder how many hours of my life I've spent on this? Thousands? Tens of thousands?)

This is markedly different than, say, a panel of men discussing/deciding things for women, i.e. a panel full of men deciding what women can and cannot do with their bodies.

a group of rape victims can't have a discussion
with a rapist, even though the rapist would be
able to add their side of the story to the discussion.

I agree with caveats. (Some victims find power and closure by confronting their rapists, etc.)

To generalize this specific example into something broadly applicable, the reason why this example works is because in this case the rapist has done something highly transgressive - essentially, they have broken anything that might reasonably be considered a social contract - and it would certainly be reasonable for a rape victim to find it highly upsetting to see their rapist, much less listen to them.

So again, I would say the validity of excluding a person from a discussion relevant to them would highly depend upon some explicit evidence or reasoning that productive discussion simply cannot occur if they are a part of it.

This would not apply to, say, a room full of white people deciding things about the Black experience.
And incredibly boring. The usual estimate is that data science is 80% data wrangling: finding, collecting, and cleaning up data. The term "data scientist" replaced "data miner", because miners are looking for gold. Scientists are obsessed with finding out the nature of reality, gold or mud. They will do seriously boring stuff to set things up so that reality is revealed.
Exactly. I was about to pull the trigger and pay for a subscription for the Overcast podcast player just to support the author. He wasn’t offering anything useful for the subscription - I am not complaining. It was more of an honor system.

Then he introduced ads - mostly podcast ads. Marco created his own ad platform just for his app and he doesn’t use any third party ad SDK. I both found the ads useful and I didn’t feel guilty because he was generating revenue.
> You do know you can also repeat the same 10 hours 1000 times right?

What’s the likelihood that someone takes their same 10-hour drudgery cycle and doubles down on it by doing the exact same thing in their side project and why does that likelihood round to zero?
> Apple last week disclosed features in its forthcoming operating system for iPhones and iPads that will require apps to show a pop-up screen before they enable a form of tracking commonly needed to show personalized ads.

Christ almighty I don't think I can take more pop-ups.

They're just cancer. Cookies, newsletters, forced logins, individual folder permissions... how many bullshit popups do I have to deal with per day? It's just popup fatigue.

Pretty much the only popups I ever want to deal with are when apps need access to my private hardware (webcam etc.) or info (location, photos, contacts, etc.). You know, the actually important ones.

Things like cookies, tracking, etc. should be a browser- or OS-wide setting. Asking me individually for every site, for every app, is the absolute worst user experience ever. Sorry but this pattern just has to DIE.

My only hope is that the more that popups proliferate, the likelier there will be legislation against them, requiring system-wide settings instead. Kind of like legislation against unsolicited robocalls.
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I hadn’t heard of sciencealert before, so I clicked the home page and it’s full of click bait content. Very high noise, low signal stuff, and the ads are just awful.

> Plus, if the video can be looped, it'll make for an absolutely baller screensaver.

This line in the article really got me, lol, and made me question the source of information.

Some other articles:

> There's a Weird Structure in Our Inner Ears That Hardly Anybody Talks About

> That 'Human Bone' Found in a NASA Mars Photo Isn't Even New. Here's The Real Story

Here’s a link to the actual paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2376-8
> You have a very disappointing standard for "proof":

Lol, are you trying to tell me what sources I'm using? I'm not even American.

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-wants-stat...

What's that supposed to tell me? That a liberal agenda is trying to inflate the numbers? Just looking at actual test results isn't any prettier: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Look at Russia, Mexico, Ukraine, Sweden.

> https://google.com/?q=ny+coronavirus+cases

https://google.com/?q=florida+coronavirus+cases
Just like almost all software work is maintenance, almost all data science is data cleaning.
I this guy opening himself up to a lawsuit by publishing everything like that? Last I remember, people got nailed for simply pointing out there was an issue on a server and with anti-repair laws out there, you never know what's gonna happen.
If I understand correctly, I think you and the other poster are describing transfer learning.
The kind of company that says they hire 'rockstars' and 'ninjas'
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As a vegan Emacs + org-mode user, I found your comment hilariously spot-on!
The author writes that a scientist is probably best remembered by his or her expository work. How ironic that I have never heard of this author before, and this paper is probably the only one I will ever read of him. So his statement rings true. His name is Gian-Carlo Rota.
I don’t think it is dishonest - it is more interesting that Google is anti-privacy, everyone already knows this about facebook. Additionally Google is nearly 2x the size of facebook so it takes precedence. You can’t disclose everything in a headline so you lead with what you can.
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They tried before from 2010-2016 [1]. I do think this is their long term play — getting credit card transaction data and shutting others out.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd
Is that a typo? It makes more sense as "good results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn't acceptable"
Do trademarks protections apply against noncommercial works, too?
At Airbnb, we built an internal tool called Deployboard which made it easy for engineers to promote deployments across environments. Then we transitioned over to Spinnaker in order to codify deployment processes and help automate the analysis of canary metrics.
One athlete might choose to spend their free time socializing while another works out. One med or engineering student might socialize while another hits the books or lab.

Do we believe that the outcomes will be equal over 100s of such trials? If we believe the outcomes will be different, why should we not consider that among other signals we get in interviewing?
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How do you generate flashcards from LibreOffice and what do you mean with “no modification”?
Which is something I think deserves a bit of context. It had been the Finnish air force's official insignia since 1918, so it was unrelated to the German Nazi Party, although of course that association was inevitable once they seized power.

Similarly, the stone elephant holding the gate building to the old Carlsberg grounds in Copenhagen bear huge swastikas on their sides, since they were erected in 1901:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Tower,_Carlsberg#/med...

There are a lot of swastikas still present in old sculptures and designs with no relation to nazism.
It doesn't seem to work quite as well. For single sentences, GPT-3 output usually hangs together pretty well. For longer stretches of text, often there are internal inconsistencies that are jarring when you read it, or parts that don't quite make sense when you read it as a whole.
The schemas are not that important though, I just use search 90% of the time anyway.
I’d even go as far as acknowledging that many people were miseducated about the history of the CSA - our local used bookstore just had a kid’s ABC book about Virginia stating that Lee was anti-slavery - but that doesn’t excuse what happens when you learn the truth. The decent reaction is to apologize and stop using it; people who don’t change are just saying they’re okay with the racism but don’t want to have any personal accountability for it.
Actually, I think even if a majority of users don't vote in the way that was intended from the beginning you might still be able to handle it because you can throw away users whose "quality" and "agreement" votes are most correlated, which I think is the most likely way users would deviate from the intended voting system.

Now, if you had a majority of users who all voted the same but were not correlated with "agreement" (e.x. "vote according to the day of the week" or something), or if only very few users were voting correctly, then it might be difficult to distinguish, but that seems unlikely.