skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monte Carlo here is just a way of adding together estimate distributions without doing any of the fancy math. The variance of resulting compound estimate strongly depends on the variance on inputs.

Feature-based estimation seems to coarse to me. Not only none of the features is ever like the others once you dig into it, they're also interconnected.
Well, it doesn't have the artistic purity of the magenta square, but it's definitely spooky.
Decentralization describes my polticial philosophy pretty well. The challenge is: how?

Laissez-faire is a decent default, though obviously companies can cetralize power a lot.

Regulation seems reasonable, but it implicitly requires you to give some government power, and they tend to expand the scope of that power over time.

I think it's best when government is decentralized, and the smaller units of government can do what they want; while something as big as the US givernment would be highly constrained.

Allowing individual, smaller governments to regulate makes it harder for companies to take over. But if the government amasses too much power, you just move a few towns over.
The AI tends to prefer solid blocks of color over actual drawings, and a particular shade of pink over other colors. However, I think this is the case because the drawings are largely terrible. For one of the challenges that I saw, I couldn't beat a very well-drawn giraffe with a solid color. Of course, it's possible that for that particular challenge a different color from the standard pink would have been more highly rated.
My wife got a high end Ph.D. in sociology:
E.g., two of her profs were President,
American Sociological Society. Well, high
end sociology tries to be a science of
groups of people.

Well, the theory of that field can start
with a statement, observation, claim such
as

"It’s a hundred years later and we still
imitate Europeans and ape European culture
when we want to pretend to be rich and
upper-class."

I can believe that some or much of that is
true! E.g., way back there when I wanted
to learn to cook so I could serve
something good to guests, I went for
European cooking, sure, especially French
cooking. Much of that cooking is still
like the first class dinner scene from the
movie Titanic! Even now, I'd like to
serve guests something from Vienna coffee
house cakes -- some of which look
spectacular, even if actually they don't
taste better than good American apple pie,
warm, with good vanilla ice cream!

So, the statement seems clear enough,
might seem like good insight, maybe it's
obviously true, etc. Still, it turns out,
it is usually not easy actually to
validate such a statement just from data,
e.g., survey data, and associated
statistics. More generally, literature,
i.e., belle lettre, is awash in
statements that maybe one would like to
validate with data and statistics as
sociology science but which in practice is
tough to do.

But for belle lettre, there is a way
out!

First, f'get about asking if the statement
is true in some scientific or statistical
sense.

Second, instead, call the statement art
as in the definition "the communication,
interpretation of human experience,
emotion". Then look at the statement as
an example of such "communication,
interpretation", that is, just see if the
statement does communicate some emotions,
impressions, feelings, beliefs, behaviors,
suspicions, etc. of some people, maybe
even some strange people with no attempt
to consider average, most, or all
people.

First, then with a lot of such examples of
belle lettre, can accumulate a catalog
of possibilities for people, call it a
collection of Bayesian statistics
priors, as first cut guesses when meet a
new person.

Second, if some of those claims, etc.,
from literature seem to describe ones
self, then can start to believe that are
not alone, not the Lone Ranger, not a
total anomaly different from everyone
else.

Uh, I wish my various literature teachers,
at least one of them, would have made
those points to me!
I can think of others ways this sort of thing could occur, with the document being ‘real’. Some photocopiers use text recognition and so presumably just attempt a font match when printing. This has caused issues in the past and could cause this sort of confusion too (although this seems a smear attempt).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584172
The article says CBS received downsampled copies. They failed to do due diligence, but they would have outed the hoax had they seen the “original” documents?
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It's not just mHealth, normal consumer companies attempt to predict incipient new family members as well.
I started to try to understand this debate through a political lens, since it seems so many political people are interested in it's answer.

Centralization is a key tenant to progressivism, largely in the name of efficiency: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_...

> The progressives' quest for efficiency was sometimes at odds with the progressives' quest for democracy. Taking power out of the hands of elected officials and placing that power in the hands of professional administrators reduced the voice of the politicians and in turn reduced the voice of the people. Centralized decision-making by trained experts and reduced power for local wards made government less corrupt but more distant and isolated from the people it served. Progressives who emphasized the need for efficiency typically argued that trained independent experts could make better decisions than the local politicians. In his influential Drift and Mastery (1914) stressing the "scientific spirit" and "discipline of democracy", Walter Lippmann called for a strong central government guided by experts rather than public opinion.

At first I thought, well hell, of course these people are constantly at odds with each other. Then I discovered this on the dangers of decentralization:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization#Criticism

> Other challenges, and even dangers, include the possibility that corrupt local elites can capture regional or local power centers, while constituents lose representation; patronage politics will become rampant and civil servants feel compromised; further necessary decentralization can be stymied; incomplete information and hidden decision-making can occur up and down the hierarchies; centralized power centers can find reasons to frustrate decentralization and bring power back to themselves

It turns out the answer to this has been studied and sounds like it's somewhere in the middle:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150211220702/http://mpra.ub.un...

1. Social Preparedness and Mechanisms to Prevent Elite Capture

2. Strong Administrative and Technical Capacity at the Higher Levels

3. Strong Political Commitment at the Higher Levels

4. Sustained Initiatives for Capacity-Building at the Local Level

5. Strong Legal Framework for Transparency and Accountability

6. Transformation of Local Government Organizations into High Performing Organizations

7. Appropriate Reasons to Decentralize: Intentions Matter

8. Effective Judicial System, Citizens' Oversight and Anticorruption Bodies to prevent Decentralization of Corruption

How this translates to Fediverse hosts likely matters and is probably worth reading for anyone interested in hosting.

My takeaway from this is that the web does need to go back to being decentralized, but a loose yet robust framework, like the one described above, should be in place for providers and community maintainers alike.
very odd, here is the original when it was published

https://web.archive.org/web/20200103170008/https://tjcx.me/p...
A nice and fun tutorial. I'd also like to see a text editor example in Rust implemented using a persistent data structure, for better concurrency (e.g. background save) and undo support. Perhaps I should have a go!
Unfortunately I suspect the bot mostly appreciated the solid black background.
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Who decides if they are “racist, sexist or violent”?

You?

Because I see a those terms thrown around a lot with a lot of evidence to back it up.
Hmm, I guess I was using an informal term, but I don't think greed quite fits, either.

I think of greed as self-defeating. Letting your bet ride on the blackjack table, or believing a conman in hopes of a get-rich-quick scheme.

What I was trying to express when I said "materialism" is the idea that money is the solution to any problem, and that everyone else values money as much as you do.
Oh yes, this is one of my pet peeves.

I do think taking into account the feedback from the load as well as the weight of each section of the arm itself, needs to be done. In addition, some aspects of vibration control also need to be incorporated. (I guess the right word is proprioception, as mentioned in another commentor).
It's great they linked that actual data, to often the media does not do this.

And it seems like Canada is exactly the same as the OECD?

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-555-x/2013001/t/tbl1....

I don't feel like "Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy" is justified.
You don't need to read books to be literate. You can read magazines, newspapers (paper or electronic), if you look on such statistics [1] then, well, numbers are different.

Here Poland is on the 3rd place in Europe in terms of time spent on reading - I think this includes not only books, not sure, as this article is a typical XXI century click-bait journalism that does not provide any substantial details about the subject.

Besides, the good question is, what is more valuable and mind opening: reading stupid book or watch a good documentary on TV or some scientific channel on YouTube. It is 2021, times has changed, we have more media of idea exchange.

Reading books is no longer such a good measure of ones "intellectual development".

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/chart-of-the-day-wher...
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> ma·te·ri·al·is·tic

excessively concerned with material possessions; money-oriented.
They are great because they are the first to prove that it is possible to build a unicorn on purely open source software.
Saving is not bad because "it slows the economy". Savings is bad in the views of governments and central banks because it removes their power over money. There is no meaningful practical diference between the fed printing money, and people using their savings in the event of a crisis, but only in the first case does the fed and government have control over it.
> globals in Go modules. Seems like a bad practice to me.

It is, and good packages don't have them.
I had the same process -- I mis-clicked and saw that it has been appeared on HN a number of times since ~2013.

I am glad to see the community continually re-discover this site now and again.
I really like how jails get stuff like their own IP address and more. Indeed it seems like the underlying tech is superior. But your point is on target too, the tooling has brought the dev experience to the front with docker.
> It is not known how the account was accessed

I don't think the question was sidestepped, I just think as of yet they don't know exactly how the account was compromised.
This point was recognized quite early. there is an influential article by Jack W. Reeves from 1992 [1] that looks at the manufacturing analogy and argues that "the code is the design" whereas the "manufacturing" is just the compilation and packaging (that is, super cheap and automated). I believe it‘s this line of thinking that inspired Agile practices, where software developers are seen as engineers rather than code monkeys.

[1]: https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design....
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That is a very interesting question that I have never seen a satisfactory answer to. I suspect there is some broad-based misinterpretation of the Paradox of Thrift [0].

If everyone has enough that they don't need to work any more, then the economy will start signalling to people to stop producing resources because they aren't needed (by lowering prices and reducing production). Rather than making the obvious connection that most people have what they need and lower prices will free up resources for people with very limited means, the mainstream thought seems to list towards savings & retirement being an adversary that must be defeated because the GDP might drop.

Basically if people stop working because they don't have anything they want to work for, economic output will drop in a way that can only be described as good. My interpretation is economists & government aren't ready for that idea so have declared an ongoing war against retirement (and - by extension - savings).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
Wow, I am amazed at this. It’s even got recent history on it too!
If you think it’s difficult for an app to detect its running on a desktop instead of a phone, think again. If Apple doesn’t allow developers to specify if their apps work on the desktop or not they will all just include some library that crashes the app on the desktop.
'Cause people often acting like Gatsby: live in a mirage, unrealistic dreams, high expectations, not always (so) romantic as described in the book. So there are natural reasons to be sympathetic.

Have doubts if you can understand it all in high school, but for 20-30+ people it's great book and shows perfectly what happened if you are obsessed with your dreams.
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I expect this is said in client meetings all the time. You hate to be a lowest-bid commodity supplier; you want to play up your long-term high-touch relationship and understanding of the client's business. "The code for this application is just one of many tools along the way to our enabling your digital transformation strategy."
> FWIW, advertising and to a larger extent advocacy in 1988 and what is today are entirety different animals.

There certainly are more forms and techniques of advertising, but if you teach the fundamentals sufficiently well, the critical thinking skill set can adapt as advertising adapts.

An important fundamental is to recognise that you have a desire for a product or service and to know to be conscious of the chain of events that have led to that desire.
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Doesn't this count as "practising medicine without a license?"
Hasn't anyone tried to replace time estimates with probabilities?

(Like "There's a 80% chance we'll finish this today." )
You immediately start to understand why it can take so much longer than expected (You've rolled a dice before; I want a six... How long will it take)
Well, Airbnb and Uber aren’t the best examples, are they? Their growth and “success” is fueled by either operating in a legal gray zone, or defying the local regulations all together. Many people all over the world think their lives were made much worse since Airbnb is negatively affecting the long-term rental market.

Point is, the effect of the company on the society can’t just be measured by market cap.

Back to the original article, the author was using statistical analysis to provide medical advice. Now, it’s incredibly easy to arrive to false conclusions with statistics. That’s why there’s regulations, peer reviews etc. What if the “Egyptian contractors” screwed the data up. Was the founder qualified to spot an issue?
It's always just me. I never had an imaginary friend. I never felt a different entity speaking in my head. It's always my own voice in my head saying things or conversing with itself.
Centralised or de-centralised, why would make any difference? The lies are lies, if you don't have a centralised platform they will spread p2p as long as people can communicate.

What we need is a mechanism for breaking circuits of lies and propaganda. In real world social networks we have methods like labelling liars(You have one identity and you risk it every time you say something), right to defend yourself(You can actually identify and force your way to reach the people who are exposed to, or facilitate it) if you are being smeared for or accused of wrongdoing. You don't have these mechanism in the digitalised version of social networks. Social networks work like cults, your reply to an online mob at Twitter/Instagram/Reddit/FB etc. reaches no one else but your own cult(if you have one).

Oh and believe me, lies are dangerous. In istanbul there are many abandoned beautiful buildings in central locations, many these belong to Greeks who lived in Istanbul for generations but in 1955 were targeted by the Turks who were told by a newspaper that the Greeks bombed the Turkish consulate and Ataturk's birth house in Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom

There was nothing centralised about this Progom, the newspaper was not the governments publication like in a Communist dictatorship. Yet, it caused so much pain to the Greek minority and Turkey lost so much as the Greek christian population declined from 120K to 7K in 20 years.

If anything, decentralised networks can be targeted very efficiently by a bad actor and the rest would have no recourse. There's nothing stoping (fascists/communits/liberals/$_YOURBOOGYMAN) to identify decentralised networks, connect to all of them, participate and run a propaganda campaign through a centralised unit that connects to all the decentralised networks.

If there were thousands of decentralised social networks, QAnon could have used Buffer to manage their presence in all of them.
I wonder why they are not using the in-built numpy api - https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/tf_numpy

This will be accelerated by Tensorflow - which means acceleration on Macbook M1 as well
ok I'll bite, what's leaking a meeting? Like, recording the video and distributing it?

I must be too far detached from large companies to know/care about this.
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According to Yahoo Finance, ZTNO has an average daily volume of about 10k shares ($2.5k) so it would be pretty easy to pump the price up. I could probably singlehandedly double the price if I wanted to. It's possible that the 1000% price increase was caused by only a handful (or even just one) trader(s).
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There's a CBC article at the top of hackernews right now, headlined "Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy" [0]

The article makes a point of stating that most Canadians leave school with those skills, but they atrophy over time until Canadians either need to re-learn them for a career change, or lose them entirely.

I'm unconvinced focusing more on reading comperhension and considering sources in school is any sort of fix here, considering those are skills we leave school with. It won't help, IMO, when 49% of Candian adults cannot disregard irrelevant information to complete a task (as referenced in the article). These are skills that won't be practiced, and therefore will be lost.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/let-s-get-digital-from...
Germany has a very weird relationship with clean energy to begin with. I always found the stance against nuclear energy there anti-scientific in origin... Phaseout instead of better understanding and development...
>You don't need to read books to be literate. You can read magazines, newspapers (paper or electronic)

Where, even in the best, you'll find 1/10th the substance you'll find in the best of books, packaged in vacuous snippets for quick consumption, and written to gather advertising...

The person who wont read any of the classic books (be it science, non-fiction, literature, history, etc.) but will still read magazines and newspapers, I'll still call illiterate - even if the magazine was the Economist or the National Geographic, and not Men's Health and Cosmopolitan (which more often than not, is).
Oh that's why, I thought that was a bug with Firefox.
Where does one look to search for second hand CNCs?
Have you tried the cmph (C Minimal Perfect Hash) library?
Web apps still exist, and can be installed to the Android/iOS home screen. Sites like Gab which are banned from major app stores are designed to be used this way.

When I use Twitter or Facebook, I do so exclusively via Chrome on mobile. I want to give adtech companies as few native hooks as possible into my smartphone.
You misinterpret the law of large numbers. What the law says is that if you have a large amount of samples, and assuming there's no pervasive bias in the samples, then any large enough sample (and often that's much smaller than you think - the classic example being election voters, with a group of only a few thousand representative voters being enough to predict the outcome of an election over a large country with millions of voters) will look identical to any other... that is, over a large enough sample, in the case of this article, the conclusion of many papers should converge to the same answer, with outliers being marked out as likely "bad" papers.

The only assumption you may reject here is that there's no systematic bias in the papers. Perhaps there is... or perhaps most papers are just very unreliable, in which case there should also be no convergence... but if you find convergence, there's a good chance the result is "real".
There may be a lot of uncerntainty in Data Science and ML projects. However, recently I started feeling like I actually have it better than someone from pure software engineering sides of things:

For either, there is often a function from time spent to quality. 100% perfection is basically impossible and before that the function increases very slowly, seemlingly logarithmicly.

For SWE, expectations are often close perfect solutions. Too greedy effort estimations cause a lot of trouble. For DS/ML, however, perfect is usually off the table and this fact is widely (not universally though) accepted. When it is accepted to give estimates in this way, suddenly there no harm from being quoted on it and I really don't mind to give estimates anymore, where I just make a guess at a good 80/20 point. If I am wrong with that point, chances are nobody on the outside/higher up ever knows.

This may be different in domains where very clear targets have to be met (e.g., "self driving cars that pass lawmaker's requirements for use on the streets") and then I'd guess it is a true nightmare.

Like this, I never felt overly pressured by ML/DS deadlines over the last years. Some things were great successes, sometimes the quality wasn't great enough and projects were stopped or customers left. But there never really was a case where anyone thought that working extra long might have been an option to meet higher expectations.

I don't really have a solution for SWE, I don't really see how one would sell something like "I can do it in X time and it will only crash / stop working / make mistakes / become too slow / have vulnerabilities so often. More time will lead to fewer problems". This just isn't what's expected. But at least for complex systems and security vulnerabilities, I'd argue it is actually quite true. Guarantees for 100% perfection just aren't realistic. Avoiding the most obvious pitfalls is done rather quickly and the more time spend, the more is needed for further improvements.
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Also need to quantize all of the pauses between speakers and the time of each new speaker starting, and the rate of speaking, since as others have pointed out, Zoom varies these anyway for delay compensation.
Oh - I never read the frame. You're right. My brain processes those things like advertisements and skips right over.
Sweden also had this system until recently.
My startup journeys were not successful in the eyes of the world in terms making money or blowing up. Yet the experiences, people I met and most importantly the skilled (developer/designer as a living) I learned made it successful for me!

It was the best way to learn how to code for me personally.