skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of a consensus opinion isn’t an argument from authority. To claim so is an interesting form of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy ('after this, therefore because of this'). The argument for agreeing with the consensus isn’t the existence of the consensus, but rather the same argument that caused the consensus to exist, the underlying body of research.

Framing it as a result that flies in the face of consensus is fun and exciting, especially since people who are science-literate know that a single compelling result can overturn a consensus formed by a large body of previous work. But framing it in that sense is unhelpful, since the vast majority of publications that “fly in the face of consensus” do not. It’s a lot less exciting to view this as one more paper on a large pile supporting MOND, that is still small in comparison to the pile that support dark matter. The paper is obviously worthy of attention and isn’t being dismissed out of hand, it is published in The Astrophysical Journal. But would Hacker News be discussing it if not for the contrarianism embodied by the former framing, as opposed to the latter?
Sounds like a good thing to not touch by accident...
Hi! I lead the development of this dataset. I'm delighted that it found its way onto Hacker News :D Anyway, I'd love to do all of this rendering on the GPU in future. I'm sure that would be more cost-efficient. When I looked into this topic last year, I remember finding out that GPU rendering with V-Ray is not as flexible in terms of generating all of the different ground truth layers that we want. The ground truth layers that we ship in our public release are a subset of all the layers we generate. Have a look at our public source code for more details. I don't believe it's possible to generate all of those layers on the GPU. But I'd love to be wrong about this!
An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami (2018)
I guess the question then is should they have a legal obligation to the workers. Western companies make a big show of complying with regulations and higher standards of worker safety only to contract that work out to the lowest bidder, where in many cases that bid could not possibly be offered if they were actually treating their workers in the way the western company claims they are.

A recent example of this is exemplified in the practice of shipbreaking. Sellers can tell based on price exactly which type of shipbreaking yard their ship will end up[1], but will attempt to claim ignorance by using a series of middlemen to extract the most value, sending ships to places where people are forced to work in subhuman conditions[2].

[1] https://recyclinginternational.com/ferrous-metals/the-nether...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/dec/02/c...
Thanks, your photos are great.

I'd like to get myself a long lense for those kinds of shots but I really can't afford Nikon prices!
Have you just not been paying attention the last 4 years or just being willfully ignorant.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you aren't living in the US and haven't logged into facebook during the recent election year.
It is also spider-friendly as to its static pages. See robots.txt

Take the page URL for any work, add .json and you get bibliographic information, including the page URL(s) for the author(s).

For example,

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1234567W.json

All the page URLs for Works and Authors are available as gzip'd XML at

https://openlibrary.org/static/sitemaps/
Also a thread from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=699569
Very useful to tell feminists what they are doing.

We are useful by default.

They have to prove themselves
It also doesn't help how insurance handles ER visits.

I was in the ER earlier this year. Had an ultrasound done and a BUNCH of labs. $500 copay for the whole visit and insurance eats the rest - regardless of where I am on my deductible.

I'd had the exact same ultrasound done "routinely" 2 days prior, at the same hospital, and similar lab the week before.. I had to pay about $1,300 for the privilege because that all falls to my deductible. (Insurance paid nothing)

So it cost me almost 3x as much to go during the day than it costs during the ER - but my insurance paid out about 6x as much for the ER visit. I wonder how many "ER Abusers" have figured out it's actually cheaper for THEM to go to the ER than "normal doctors"?
Look for CA and NY companies and salaries, but live in a low cost of living region and work remotely.
What is the deal with mirrorless? (no mirror, but why does this improve optics?)
Can't sell them back to the company or to another investor in the company?
Full title:

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Highlights of GAO-19-105, a report to
congressional committees:

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How to Choose an Attribution Model
This sounds somewhat cynical, but there is certainly some truth to it ;-)
I saw some mentioned ways to represent binary patches, but wonder if there is there also some sort of chunk-level deduplication?
The MovieLens recommender system works pretty well.
Hi! Metaflow ships with a CloudFormation template for AWS that automates the set-up of a blob store (S3), compute environment (Batch), metadata tracking service (RDS), orchestrator (Step-Functions) notebooks (Sagemaker) and all the necessary IAM permissions to ensure data integrity. Using Metaflow, you can then write your workflows in Python/R and Metaflow will take care of managing your ML dev/prod lifecycle.

https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow-tools/tree/master/aws/cl...
Take time to learn how to use your company's issue tracking and source control systems and how they are used. For example, the place I work now is very opinionated about squashing and rebasing. Something I am personally not keen on, but that is their "way".

Always take small bites at a time. Don't do huge changes or drive by refactoring in the context of a commit.

Do not be shy about asking for clarification or help.

Resist pride of ownership. Try to separate a review of your work from a criticism of you.

Your new employer has traditionally done stuff "their way". Try to integrate into it and understand why they do it that way BEFORE your try to champion changing the way they do it.

All offices have politics. Make sure you understand them before you complain about how crappy one particular person is.

Understand how you will be evaluated and make sure you are working in that light.

Dress for your boss's job

Be the first to arrive for meetings. Make sure you give everyone a chance to speak.
For actual free market, you would need to get ride of most regulations.

Basically like going to the vet. Or dentist or cosmetic surgery.

Fairly cheap, fine “most” of the time. Sometimes it’s not.
> Is it bad I much prefer loops to reduce?

It…depends what for.

There are things loops are more clear representations of intent for, there are things map is a more clear representation of intent for, and there are things reduce is a more clear representation of intent for.
Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI [audio]
Your homepage doesn't explain anything about what I should do when I land on it.

What's a space? What's going to happen if I create or join one?

Why would I want to do this?

Or is this intentional and you're soft-launching or just doing some testing?

edit: I clicked create a space and you immediately ask for access to my camera.. but there's no explanation of why you're asking for it, or what I'm getting out of it.

I feel like there are huge assumptions about users understanding what's about to happen..

And before I grant access to a remote site to my camera, I want a better idea of why I'm doing it, and what you're doing with the feed.
Clinton's comment that you highlighted isn't at all incompatible with Mc_Big_G's explanation. The Russian influence on the 2016 election was via use of advertising as a propaganda vector and compromising email servers, not compromising the voting mechanisms or machinery directly.

No reason to risk the blowback from changing even a single vote if you can instead just convince millions of Americans via micro-targeted advertising that a con artist who lives in a gold-plated room atop his skyscraper is somehow their savior from sclerotic government, or that the same con artist is less corrupt than his political opponent (having no political track record in which to generate a history of corruption).
Plot was straight from South Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts

Spoilers:

Collect underpants

?

Profit
They are both at fault here. Facebook are trying to get your soul for free, so they cam resell it to the world. Apple are trying to wall it in so they keep it to themselves. Both are deeply cynical moves.
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There is a lot of overhead in a hospital ER. You need medical equipment to handle all types of injury/trauma. You need advanced and very expensive diagnostic equipment (e.g. MRI, CT scanners). You need treatment/operating rooms and all the supplies. You need physicians and nurses and supporting staff. You need lab services. All of your patients arrive more more or less at random, unscheduled, so you can't really optimize any of it. It's probably the most expensive way to deliver medical care that you could think of. Even if it's only a minority of the care delivered, it's very expensive to deliver it.
As Long as I can afford,.I prefer not to appear in. Such coding interviews. I rather prefer off-line assignment with a reasonable time to solve it. I don't like solving riddles.
During Rationing, you mean?
Free markets generally work better the less leverage one party has over another. When the negotiation is "pay up or die" then it's de facto not a free market [1] and the government has a responsibility to step in and address it.

The minimum viable remediation is a two-tier system in which the government takes the "or die" out of the conversation. The best approach IMO is single-payer where the government takes the "pay up" part out too, as it allows the system to be globally optimized.

At the end of the day health insurance isn't insurance, it's at best a structured payments plan. You buy insurance against things that may or may not happen. You will get sick and you will die. That's not insurance.

[1] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ec...
Do you think geniuses work for those services? They are perma drunk simpletons that are no good for anything higher than beating up a person. Add the fear they harbor from their psycho superiors and if you push them right, they will fall that easy.
> So in this case I find strange that the super Russian spies never manage to kill anyone even when they use military grade chemical agents that are supposed to kill full cities

That's actually not surprising. Chemical weapons turn out to have lousy effectiveness in terms of killing people. In 1995, a terrorist group released sarin into 5 subway cars during Tokyo's rush hour and managed to kill a whopping 12 people in the process. A single grenade would likely have killed more people. Admittedly, sarin isn't the most lethal chemical agent, but it is one that was actually used in chemical weapons programs, and the stronger agents implicated are only like 10× more lethal. The notion that "military-grade chemical agents" are "supposed to kill full cities" is propaganda about the effectiveness of chemical weapons; it's not a realistic assessment of their actual capabilities.

At the same time, there's also a world of difference between a targeted killing of a single individual versus a generalized killing of a large mass of people. The mechanisms you need to use to achieve this are different: in one case, you want to deliver a more spiked concentration of chemical to one individual, preferably in a manner that allows it to take effect when those who delivered it are nowhere near. But killing an entire city requires you to have extremely fast diffusion with extremely high initial concentrations, so that you can kill people before they start to run away (or don protective gear). That someone screws up the dosing when trying to use it as a targeted weapon is easily plausible.
You could explain anything with dark matter, but it's a lot harder to explain multiple things with the same dark matter. The different observations (galaxy rotation curves, the Bullet Cluster collision, CMB power spectrum) all put different constraints on what the explanation has to be, and a particle that feels gravity but not electromagnetism is consistent with all of that.
Point me towards a mobile device I can actually own that has a healthy ecosystem of apps and I'm there.

Librem and Purism sound interesting, but without apple and ios there would be literally no hope in getting away from the toxic business model the ad-tech giants are shoving down our throats.
There’s also no example of a monopoly forming inside the molten core of the earth, but that doesn’t mean sunshine causes monopolies.
I like this! have been thinking about FPGAs and how much fun I had learning them! AU and flip-flops might be a little lower than what you meant tho :-)
If anyone's interested, the fables make terrific conversation starters with your kids, and also they give me a lot to think about.

At their best, they seem to describe timeless patterns in human behavior. http://read.gov/aesop/001.html

(note, the library of congress version has the 'moral' spelled out at the end, in a way that sucks the life out of what you just read)
How does this compare against TensorFlow Extended (TFX)?
https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx
> Even in Ruby, no one uses loops, they use Enumerable.

Enumerable#each is quite deeply equivalent to a for…in loop.

But no one uses for loops in Ruby because not only are they basically an alternate syntax for Enumerable#each, but they became non-idiomatic because in earlier versions (through at least 1.8.x, IIRC; I think this may have been resolved by the switch to YARV in 1.9) “for” had some implementation inefficiencies which made it notably slower than #each.
Functional paradigm closer to Python? I think you mean procedural as Guido has openly professed his distaste for all things functional to which Python's crippled lambdas bear witness. Ruby, on the other hand, with its procs, blocks and lambdas, supports an elegant functional style even if it is implemented in OO.
I wonder how you would define a proper loss function for this? You probably need to optimize distance versus “sketchyness”. How would one go about that? Also every user probably has a different feeling about how much sketch they will endure to save a couple minutes walking distance.
That's a fair point, here's a little more information: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pop-9
Difference being is all break pads eventually wear out and need to be replaced and all decks need regular maintenance. Not all teeth are going to eventually need work.

Plus the huge disparity in recommended treatments is an indication some are just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

>Studies that explicitly focus on overtreatment in dentistry are rare, but a recent field experiment provides some clues about its pervasiveness. A team of researchers at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, asked a volunteer patient with three tiny, shallow cavities to visit 180 randomly selected dentists in Zurich. The Swiss Dental Guidelines state that such minor cavities do not require fillings; rather, the dentist should monitor the decay and encourage the patient to brush regularly, which can reverse the damage. Despite this, 50 of the 180 dentists suggested unnecessary treatment. Their recommendations were incongruous: Collectively, the overzealous dentists singled out 13 different teeth for drilling; each advised one to six fillings. Similarly, in an investigation for Reader’s Digest, the writer William Ecenbarger visited 50 dentists in 28 states in the U.S. and received prescriptions ranging from a single crown to a full-mouth reconstruction, with the price tag starting at about $500 and going up to nearly $30,000.
The solution is easy, and it exists here and in other countries: attend a "college" -- not a university -- for the first two years. Here in the US they are community colleges. No reason to do your intro Sociology or Calculus for Business Majors general ed class at Harvard or Stanford; the content is exactly the same as at Podunk U.

Instead, students should go to community college for the first two years and transfer into University upper-division majors (or, just get a 2 year cert rather than "dropping out" if you decide you don't really like college after all!). You can spend two+ years mucking around in Community College for the tuition cost of half a single semester at a private university -- my local community college credit-hour cost is literally 10x less than out of state tuition at a private school: $41 vs $441. It might even allow for some sort of internship or apprenticeship program in the interim period to let kids have some experience before they settle in on a major program.

All of this sort of assumes though, that the system actually cares about student success, rather than laundering privilege, credentialism, and the student-loan fleecing described elsewhere in this thread.
Bulb[0] fits in 4kb of RAM on the omnipresent SCHIP virtual machine. The complete program is under 3.5kb, and of that, 1kb is the workspace. The nature of the platform also means the program must include its own font and terminal IO routines:

[0] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/bulb
Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VVt0zCU.jpg

In short, you move around in the virtual space and your avatar's head is your webcam feed. There is also positional audio, so your position changes who you hear. User can also apparently spawn screen share windows in the sky.

Give it a try, it works and feel better than it looks. It is very similar to what you'd find in a VR chat application but it works surprisingly well from the browser with just the mouse.

(Completely unaffiliated, simply gave the demo a spin.)
The thing is, government intervention is probably the biggest way the wolves take over. They distort the market to their benefit using governmental force (aka. regulation)
It's assumed the user will always block invasive tracking, given the choice. So it was a flawed, unethical business from the start.
Not only that, but the Big Three in film (Kodak, Fuji and AGFA) were at the forefront of digital photography when it was still barely a thing. Of them, only Fuji was making "serious" cameras for general photography (medium format rangefinders and the studio beast GX680, along with Fujinon optics for large format and enlargers).
> Cancer and other disease are extremely expensive to treat and fairly common in the population. Yet, somehow, emergency care which is a minority of health costs, eats up 10% of the spending.

Emergency care is not actually uncommon. Heart attacks, car accidents, these are the leading causes of death. It's completely reasonable to expect this to legitimately consume 10% of healthcare resources.

> Anyone that's been to an emergency room knows how excessive the price gouging going on there is. Pills that cost $0.10 OTC (or less!) routinely see 100x markup. That same pill can cost anywhere from $10->$15.

This is just opportunism, but it isn't really the core of the problem.

Emergency care is inherently expensive for a specific reason. You need an emergency heart surgeon on premises in case anybody needs heart surgery regardless of whether anybody does at any given time. You also need a neurosurgeon and one for every other specialty, and all the supporting equipment. It's very expensive, which is why it amounts to 10% of healthcare costs.

They then try to recover some of those costs by massively overcharging for ibuprofen and band-aids, which is silly (charge insurers the actual cost for emergency heart surgery instead), but it's not going to be a source of major net cost savings just to do the accounting differently.
I just got mine and apart from being fast and cool it doesn't feel exciting...

ARM is actually quite far from the user and even from the developer as to be exciting (at least for me)
Even then it would not be truly free because you would need to make decisions in a medical emergency with limited options. It would be like shopping for a dentist with an abscess that could kill you tomorrow.
You can buy short term insurance. It is outside of the healthcare market place and typically does no cover pre-existing conditions (you have to qualify for it). I actually switched to it 100% as the premiums are way cheaper and I just want insurance against million dollar fees on the low chance I get cancer or I'm in an accident.
Journalism Is Not a Crime
It's not just that (obviously, since It's not even possible for me to rate a movie more granular than thumbs up/down)

What happened is that the notion changed from "predict a scalar rating" to "predict a binary satisfaction."

As parent poster noted, the effect of this is to push "3 star" and "4 star" acceptable shows to the user, instead of "5 star" great (in the user's view) shows.

Also, in Netflix's defense, users are horribly inconsistent in their expressed ratings (they'll rate a movie based on their personal mood at the time, and they'll binge shows they claim aren't 5 stars while ignoring their 5 star movies)
This is kinda the scary part of insurance, and it happens in every industry where insurance exists. It's very expensive for insurance companies to fight charges, so generally mechanics know a magic number they can give that is way higher than they'd charge you, but the insurance company wouldn't bother to fight.

Ever have work done on a car/boat and have the mechanic offer to pay your deductible? I've had it happen most of the time.

And this part of insurance is hard to fix simply because of how valuable people's time is, and the cost of the insurance company simply being wrong in the end (reputation hit, possible legal repercussions, and cost of the investigation).
The problem is that we've taken on this hidden assumption that "free market" somehow means that a hospital can create an arbitrary bill for urgent care, and you have no choice but to pay it. That's not really intrinsic to the free market paradigm, but rather an orthogonal corruption pushed via the legal system.

In a different thread I pushed the lack of a contract argument, and got back a more fitting legal theory that hospitals are allowed to charge you under the idea that you not paying would be "unjust enrichment" - they treated you, incurred expenses doing so, and therefore its your responsibility to compensate them. But that still doesn't support them charging you some arbitrarily high price, rather just expecting to be reimbursed for their costs. And so such bills should actually be constrained by the lowest rate they have with contracted insurances.

As for the analogy, I've been pretty hangry to the point where I wouldn't have been able to form a contract. It was also just a more straightforward example than the overall food market still functioning even though we're all just three weeks away from starvation.
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But what about the children...... (So tired of these pathetic straw men)
Is this a good thing?

I know that meditation is lauded, and I practice it myself, but I do wonder if it is good for you.

My best definition of “good” in this context is “closer to your true self”, or possibly “happier and content”.

I fear that meditation will make me lose my drive (generated, in part by my ego).
Bitcoin Is the Great Definancialization
Real-time Background Replacement at 4k 30fps
Sorry, could you please define "same" here? That "same" dark matter could also explain the room evacuation. Should I stretch it further to include poltergeists?
OneTrust raises mammoth $300M round for its enterprise privacy platform
Myrrh mystery: how did Balthasar, one of the three kings, become black?