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> How can there ever be a disinterested party when it comes to matters of national or societal importance?

The scientific method doesn't require that I be a disinterested party, but it does require that I evaluate evidence, to the best of my ability, in a disinterested manner.[2]

E.g. I might believe women are discriminated against in academia and locked out of opportunity; my heart might beat out of my chest because of all the horror stories my friends tell me. However, the data seems to indicate that 57%[0] of university degrees in the U.S. are awarded to women, and that this proportion is increasing. I am emotionally invested in my belief in the former injustice, but I have to evaluate the data as though I weren't and update my beliefs accordingly.[1]

> This approach doesn't scale up to meet most of the world's difficult and interesting questions and problems. Issues of society, race, gender, economy, and so forth affect all of us.

Anecdotally, I've heard many social justice advocates recently assert that dispassionate analysis of evidence and data can't lead to solutions for social problems. "Other ways of knowing" or different "epistemological frames" such as "lived experience" are emphasised. I find this misguided: Indeed mathematics and the scientific method are _the only_ tools that can help us find the truth about social problems. Why would the intellectual tools that build homes, bridges, hydroelectric dams, energy grids, the internet; that find surgical methods, discover medicines, design microchips, and so on, be somehow less effective than lived experience in the social realm? No, these are humanity's most powerful tools. We must not abandon them.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/20/u-s-women-n...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/gender-...

[2] "What is Science?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJZUiQnBtBg
> [1] Except empirical Bayes, which is a dark art.

As a not-an-expert-in-stats, why would you say that? Is not empirical Bayes basically the same thing, but with priors stemming from the known data?
Or perhaps the first store would make the second store's clients pay for the parking. How this usually works: a store or shopping center has paid parking, but if you buy more than R$ XX at that store or shopping center, the parking fee is waived.
Even in the ridiculously hypothetical case of Alice and Bob, how would we apply impartial standards of evidence to decide who gets the $100?
New evidence has been coming out that HCQ + azithromycin is not a bust. Not a magic bullet, but a very decent mitigation.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/ful...
But the impact of malaria, where it exists, on the economy is massive. In the West there were large-scale public works projects undertaken to drain swamps and eradicate it. Where you have it, the amount of productivity lost because people are too sick to work or go to school and the amount of money spent on treating sick people instead of something productive is just staggering.
I'm not at all opposing complaining about another team's work. If it's not up to scratch, complain by all means! I have lots to complain about regarding our accounting department, for instance.

> at least one my U.S. team the women (including PoC) complained about the India team's work significantly more often than the men,

Yep, I don't see a direct contradiction here? Complaining is fine, using race/nationality-specific language is not.

Perhaps I should make it emphasize that the thing I disliked was using generally reductive term “Indians” which is much wider than the subset they are referring to, which is the specific set of people employed by their company who are working out of India. It could have included you, for instance! (even though my guess is that you're not Indian).
This was pretty much what I did for a driving test in Massachusetts 15 years ago. Mine was even easier..., I just had to execute a three point turn.
I thought it was a better meme personally when Malcolm in the middle made it so everyone would do the ok sign below their waist and if you looked, you got a punch in the shoulder.

That definitely went on for a couple years when I was a kid, to the point where everyone got really sick of those few people that didn't get when it stopped being funny.

That's the thing though, all it takes is one meme to take off to change the meaning of a symbol and you can't really predict what or how.
While the text is pleasantly written and free of noticeable counterfactuals, it’s just a recounting of what’s happened. It doesn’t provide new insight.

Also, who was being quoted in the title?
I had a lot of weird issues with Notes. Notably folders wouldn't delete and would randomly come back after deletion.

Just strange stuff like that.

I ended up switching to Bear for notes.

I use iA Writer for writing longer form stuff like documentation and where I need to work with files directly. It's a great app.
The cities in our area are heavily subsidized by the state. The state collects the vast majority of its taxes from the suburbs.

In return, the cities here have non-functioning schools, despite being well funded. The cities have very high crime, and basic services in the cities are lacking.

There is a perpetual cycle of 20 somethings moving into the cities as they start their careers, and then moving to the burbs within 5-10 years as they realize that their kids will be uneducated if they remain there, and they will get mugged every couple of years.
>we can in fact have a conversation about whether we should murder 10 people for no reason

>interesting discussion on ethics and moral philosophy

>as long as everyone is discussing in good faith

The parent didn't mean "as a hypothetical", e.g. in a "would you rather" way. They are referring to somebody who is actually a proponent of the killing, in which case it is impossible, or at least moot, for that person to be arguing "in good faith". This seems obvious to me, so maybe I'm missing something else you're trying to say.
Agreed. IMO an economic collapse similar or worse than the great depression is much more catastrophic than this pandemic. At least with the pandemic many people are able to make decisions to protect themselves as needed or opt to risk exposure depending on their situation.
Road rumble strips already wide spread and used for this exact reason.
I'm coming around to C-with-good-tools as a decent option. It's everywhere and it's been studied and meta-programmed to death and back again.
So my understanding of the legal requirements of terms of service (which are generally not strongly enforced either way) is that if it changes you just have to sign the new one, or decide that you disagree enough with the changes that you won't sign it.

To the "extremist" point, I have to say I really don't see it. Changing "master" to "main" doesn't seem like an extreme political position to me. Extreme would be someone murdering protesters, tweeting someone chanting "white power", or hanging black people from trees in Texas. Those are pretty easy things to not want in your society. The same with people setting businesses on fire or brandishing weapons in public. But I don't see how someone trying to reduce their harm externalities by changing words is particularly extreme.

This may come down to the difference between the ideas and the people holding the ideas. I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea. I think we can both agree that we wouldn't want people harassing each other for either making or not making this change, as anyone should be free to make whichever decision they feel is right. To the extent that the "left" is the cause of the harassment, I can agree I'd rather those people deal with this more calmly. But again, they're not the ones murdering people.
I enjoy living in a rural area and I understand your sentiment, but disagree with your reasoning. Somebody owns the forest behind me; as much as I like it, I don't feel right restricting what people can do with their private property. That's what public forest is for; it's land that is held in trust for all the people.

Obviously, I wouldn't like it if someone built a mall next door to me, but in a philosophical framework that includes land as private property (which is how I can own the little bit of land that I have and plant trees and garden on it), I have to accept that other people have rights on the land they own.
“Increase the chance of user refusal” - imagine that applied to literally any other context, such as bank accounts, credit cards, buying cars, etc. to see how ridiculous that statement is.
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> In Waterkloof Heights, Pretoria, South Africa OSM was roughly 7 years out of date and had barely any information even then.

I did some mapping on the Garden Route years ago. When I later went and looked back at those communities, I was disappointed to see that little work had been done since my own edits long ago. And in general, much seemed to have been added by other foreign overlanders like myself, and not any kind of local OSM community. I wondered if this is because those demographics in South Africa that are affluent enough to be interested in nerdy tech things like OSM, have also grown up in a culture that always warned them of idly walking around towns with phone in hand?
>in that life can be roughly separated from nonlife by the observation that organisms do appear to tend toward less entropy in a universe where everything else seemingly does the opposite.

In a superficial way, I suppose, but it's still wrong. Another way to look at it is that life actually tends to a more efficient increase of entropy than otherwise would be expected (when compared to non-living processes). For examples, humans are a complex chemical reaction that has reached the point where it can release energy through splitting of atoms - which raises entropy so much higher than it would be been possible otherwise and completely impossible via non-living chemical reactions.
I disagree, cities have survived worse pandemics than todays. This is why we have parks and pedestrians streets in Europe. What I see is a more livable cities across North America, like NYC or DC.
However, ill-considered action can be very bad, regardless of intentions. And most calls to action by activists are ill-considered. See http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Pas...
> The group of European marketing firms said the pop-up warning and the limited ability to customize it still carries “a high risk of user refusal.”

If you’re doing something and you know users are going to refuse to let you do it if they have the choice, don’t do it. Apple will give them a choice soon enough.
Asking someone else to pay is always easy for those not being asked, sure.
This is an explosion of red flags that should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
Gwern should train it on his own corpus and see if he can automate himself. :)
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That's a shockingly ignorant article, particularly when it comes to nonbinary people — it even uses "transtrenders" to try and separate the good, gender-conforming trans people from those icky blue-haired weirdos.

Thank you for confirming that Pluckrose is in fact deeply transphobic. If you think that is "nuanced" you are seriously mistaken. Consider re-evaluating your priors, in SSC speak.
I believe their attacker model is a manager who can look at statistics on a web page. Not a developer who can do git-checkout. :)
If not building parking is going to tank the sales price they can get for their new development, which is the concern that was expressed, then they will build parking.
I have a suspicion that fast data entry and automated search might be a red herring for this sort of tool. I believe that the real utility of my notes comes from actively engaging with them, and automation runs the risk of damaging that.

My own system (which is an entirely physical one) is designed around this principle; each step is designed to make me engage with my own recorded thoughts in a different way:

- Every note gets written on an A5 sheet of cardstock, with a unique slug written in large print at the top of the card. The bottom ~(1/3) of the card is reserved for cross-references.

- After writing a note, I look through the file box of existing notes for 2-3 related ones; these become the initial cross-references and are notated on both cards.

- The new card gets photocopied, and the original placed in the file box, ordered alphabetically by the slug/title.

- The copy gets turned into a flashcard by blacking out the title and put in a Leitner box (a physical spaced-repetition system)
Except when you're discussing things, over email, chat, call, etc.
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> Also, who was being quoted in the title?

It's from World War I. See this comment on the (flagged) submission of the last post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897805
So, having twice ignored the ATC instruction to turn left to 180 away from the approach, you think there is a good reason to believe they would've heeded a direction to go around?

If ATC is to blame in this, it is primarily in excessive deference to the PIC.
How do you explain the "sudden drop" in cases in new York [1] after reaching some 25% infection rate? Do you think herd immunity (ish) can be reached at a lower saturation rate possibly?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/nyregion/hospitals-corona...
What big tech databases are you forced into just by living? Do you count banks and social security here?
hey this is what i am doing right now to prep for 'system design interviews'
> > Abolishing single family zoning won’t do anything to prevent you from buying a single family house.

> It might just prevent you from living in it, for instance if it happens to be in between a discotheque and a pig farm.

Abolishing single family zoning does not imply abolishing all zoning.
I use resilio sync for this. https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
The iOS (and I assume android) syncing is fine, and it hooks in with the files API so I use pretext/ whatever markdown editor to edit / look things up on the go. For some reason resilio isn’t talked about highly on HN though, not entirely sure why.
That still leaves out a lot: unincorporated lands, First Nation reserves, small settlement where all the mail goes to a post office instead of individual buildings, etc.

Also, one of the main benefits from Canada Post API is that it gives you the canonical address Canada Post uses to deliver packages. I don't think this always overlaps with addresses municipalities use to assess taxes. For example, I can imagine for an apartment building belonging to a real estate management company, there would be a single entry in the municipality database (because there is only one owner who needs to pay taxes), but one entry per unit in Canada Post database.
And in all honesty, no data scientist with an ounce of self-worth should work long-term for such companies, unless it just happens to be their own.

You're basically doing 3 jobs for the price of one: Software Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist.

Sure, you'll be a jack of all trades, as far as data goes, but it'll be at the cost of some specialization.

I'm probably gonna get a lot of sh!t for this post - probably from data [x] people that are in that exact position themselves, but the above description is exactly why I'd aim for larger companies with somewhat established analytics / data / ML teams or offices. You get to focus on the important stuff, instead of juggling ten balls at the same time.

(And it's not only in the field of data science. Some of the traditional SE positions I see at startups or small companies look absolutely grotesque - basically the whole IT and Dev. department baked into one job)
"Facebook app" is an ambiguous term. IIUC, this is "third-party apps running on the Facebook platform", rather than "apps created by Facebook".
Now I'm wondering if the best way to deal with this is to give the decision to the person who would suffer the consequences. If they make an informed decision for, e.g. Newark, that would maybe lessen the blaming if it goes wrong.
I am hoping to train more for my ski instructor certification this year.

But i am doing 'mountains 101' during the pandemic
https://www.coursera.org/learn/mountains-101
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Given that it's clear that this is not how people behave in practice, maybe we should take different steps to prevent the problem? Rather than blaming the user for the system's poor UX?

"Human error" isn't a very useful "root cause" for any incident. Humans make errors.
“Non-Bayesian” stats uses bias in the exact same way that Bayesian stats does, because Bayesian stats and frequentist stats are mathematically equivalent. When someone thinks they’re not using priors, they’re wrong, they’re usually using a flat prior on the model parameters, but that adds bias just like any other prior! A flat prior on theta is different than a flat prior on log(theta) or some other parametrization, and flat priors are often times the wrong choice, so this notion that Bayesian stats is some “special” type of inference and that there is some way to do inference without bias is just a very large misconception.
I do think that the area of knowledge management is very interesting and worthy of discussion. When it comes to tooling though, I've tried out a couple and I don't find anything superior to a folder full of markdown files + your favorite text editor (I use VSCode, but I don't think that's especially important).

Systems like Zettelkasten are interesting to read about, but again, everyone's brain is different and for me a bunch of folder categories and one misc/daily folder is just as good.

On a purely personal level, any tooling or system more complex than what I already use is unnecessary.
"career criminal" is begging the question. You claim these people exist, and by definition they are going to continue crime rather than find legitimate ways of making money.

Furthermore, you're suggesting that when their way of making money through crime disappears they will migrate towards worse crime. That's a bold claim.
I think the third party you're alluding to is the demographic that actually cares about improving things for most people, regardless of the political philosophy that the idea comes from.

I've always thought there should be more like us than the other type of people who are purely idealogical, but that's exactly what everyone else thinks.

At least I can console myself knowing I don't support such hilariously incongruent ideas as the social conservatives you mention. But I'm not sure how what I believe are good policies for most actually win out
Shameless plug: I've been building a similar tool for the past couple years, although it is not FOSS :(

The major differentiator is that content is based around notecards rather than documents/files, and there are multiple ways to structure these cards.

The most powerful way to organize things is with multi-parent nesting, where you put cards inside of other cards, and each card can have any number of parents. You can share these cards with others, and they can add their own parents to it that don't interfere with yours, allowing you to have shared cards that exist within entirely different hierarchies that are unique to each individual user.

That's a feature that I think is unique in the space, but we also have the links/backlinks and tags that you will see elsewhere (though tagging is similarly powerful in that shared cards can have tags that are public vs tags that are private to the user).

You can check it out here:

https://supernotes.app
The only minor annoyance I have is that I put a video on fullscreen, it takes a second or so. First the frame resizes and then the picture, doesn't happen with chromium/chrome.
I disagree, I road my bike in Phoenix in middle of June by +100ºF. What was awful was the lack of infrastructure, and car drivers who have no idea how to use an oversize roads with oversized vehicle and no one else.

Biking on a hot day with a nice hat at a leisure pace is fine. Specially if you provide safe environment.
I did, too, but I still don't get it. Is it a typo for "min" (as in minutes) ?
I think it goes Trump bad therefore Hydroxychloroquine bad by association.
Those are fair points but I still don't think we are helping anyone with this over-protection. Would you hesitate to say that expression without knowing that coworker's background? Should he/she be offended when there isn't malicious intent behind those words? It looks to me more sensible and a better long term solution to help this person to deal with his/her emotions instead of trying to change everybody around them.
> Sixteen marketing associations, some of which are backed by Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, faulted Apple for not adhering to an ad-industry system for seeking user consent under European privacy rules.

How did this turn into "Google-backed groups"?! Where's Facebook in the title? Is there no attempt at unbiased reporting anymore?
Isn't "banning anyone who displays a swastika" a method of enforcing "banning swastikas" ?
Can tracking be useful, if used correctly?
MIT Distinguished Professor of Finance, Deborah J. Lucas, who is also the director of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy would disagree with you: http://gcfp.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BailoutsV12.p...

She's done research and cites evidence. You CAPITALISE basic terminology to patronise people out of wanting to challenge you.
The list of changes already includes innocuous terms like "sanity check", "grandfathered", and "dummy value" so, frankly, it's pretty hard to make the case that the "take a mile" isn't already happening.
I agree, just raise the price of gas by 10, then people might reconsider where to park, shop, and live.
Quite like this boatbuilder in RI building small boats completely from milling the tree to finished product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22Crc7XHoI&list=PLzlN3A2DLg...
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The worry that motivates parking minimums is, if your street has 1 parking spot per home, and my street has 0.5 parking spots per home, that car owners will buy homes on my street anyway, and they'll park on your street when there's no space on mine.

This is called 'displaced parking' and it's a pretty well known problem among parking planners. You'll get the same thing if, for example, the college campus starts charging $5 to park when students can park for free on nearby streets and walk.

You can get around this with parking permits and towing everywhere in walking distance - but you can't be timid and imagine the new street won't interact with other parking locally.
It is not an attachment to the words themselves it is a reaction to the idea that words have some kind of implied sinister meaning outside of the context in which they are used.

And yes, I use the word "sinister" deliberately - why aren't we banning the use of this word on behalf of left-handed people?

Words get their meaning from common understanding, common usage and most importantly context.

In context these words are fine.
That's a highly rosy history. I flew PIA from Tokyo to Karachi with my parents in 1985. Our unanimous conclusion: never, ever again.

I don't have an axe to grind with them. My mother's uncle was head of maintenance for them in Karachi, and a good family friend the station chief in Paris. Sadly, like many other Pakistani institutions, it was overtaken by incompetence and corruption, long before the Gulf carriers burst into the scene (and ate European carriers' lunch, not just third-world ones like PIA or Air India).
> I want a web browser that remembers every single page I have visited (#) and then lets me search them.

Did you check out WorldBrain's Memex <http://worldbrain.io/> browser extension yet?