skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Section V is where he explains why he doesn't believe the results.

"I looked through his list of ninety studies for all the ones that were both exact replications and had been peer-reviewed (with one caveat to be mentioned later). I found only seven...Three find large positive effects, two find approximate zero effects, and two find large negative effects. Without doing any calculatin’, this seems pretty darned close to chance for me.

...

That is my best guess at what happened here – a bunch of poor-quality, peer-unreviewed studies that weren’t as exact replications as we would like to believe, all subject to mysterious experimenter effects."
This thread makes me sad because when I was taught and used matlab we had strong pressures to properly comment and document our code to make it legible (if only to our own future selves). It feels almost criminal to not do that in these circumstances.
I’d look into idle connection handling, I’ve had problems in the past with cloudflare and it’s long open sockets to origin being quietly closed at origin, breaking requests to cloudflare.
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My grandfather used to tell the story of getting bored in Valparaiso, Indiana one day during the depression and deciding to walk to Calgary. Alberta. Canada.

He stopped at farm houses to ask for work, sometimes working for shoes. It took him most of a year to get there. Regrettably, I neglected to ask how he ever got back to Valparaiso.
there's an interesting recent video on the differences between Cl and Clojure here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q9ew9JH_U
Thanks so much. Yes, it makes perfect sense. Please do keep me posted if you need something specific, and in the meantime I will do my best to get the feedback in a fast-almost-automated way :) adar@jiga3d.com
AD is a symbolic technique.

If you use a symbolic technique over numeric data without knowing what you're doing, I feel sorry for you.

(numeric: specifically the inclusion of floating-point.)
There is a problem in the CMS industry. Everyone wants to build a headless CMS to power Jamstack sites—only the content itself lives in databases and the CMS is usually a proprietary SaaS. Doesn't leverage Git for content in any way.

This is deeply problematic. We should have dozens, if not hundreds of contenders for "the next WordPress" that leverage Git as a foundational aspect of content management. Instead we have a bunch of Contentful clones (no disrespect to Contentful) with REST and/or GraphQL APIs.

It's bananas that if you search for Git-based CMSes you have NetlifyCMS, and…wait what? Is that all??? Forestry gets mentioned a lot because it's Git-based but that's also a proprietary SaaS. I just don't understand it. Is this a VC problem or a real blind spot for CMS entrepreneurs?
I wish I’d read this advice before I turned 30 last year.
I am sorry but that that analogy does not work.

Using candles does not add any complexity to your lighting situation.

But if half of my applications can use docker and half can (for now) use BuildPacks that adds needless complications to my build and dev environment for minimal (if any) benefit.
That's basically it.

If every action taken against an account by automation is appealed, then the automation becomes worthless.

In gaming forums that are run by the developer, such as the World of Warcraft or League of Legends forums, I have very frequently seen people whining and complaining that their accounts were banned for no reason until a GM or moderator finally pipes in and posts chat logs of the user spamming racial slurs or some other blatant violation of ToS.
"They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers"

funny line in a story that's basically just twitter/clubhouse drama
> A reporter lied and attempted to slam a public figure

That... seems kinda spun. The source material isn't so damning. Taylor Lorenz was on the call, and tweeted:

"@pmarca just openly using the r-slur on Clubhouse tonight and not one other person in the room called him on it or saying anything"

Then later when she was corrected that it wasn't Andreessen but someone else, replied:

"Thanks for clarifying that it was Felicia saying that word, rather than Marc as many in the room heard it. I hope you can understand how some people in the room felt hearing it"

I mean, as I (someone who reads and values Lorenz's work) read it, she was offended (more, it seems, at the casual use of "retarded" going unchallenged than at the specific speaker), and tweeted about it, but made a mistake in attribution which she recognized (while pointing out that her original offense was that the word wasn't challenged).

And Greenwald wrote like 1000 words to go after her. And his essay, not her tweet, is at the top of HN right now.

So... who's cancelling who here?
It's less than you thought? What did you think it would be and why?
One is aimed at crushing ordinary peoples possibility to send private messages.

The other is aimed at preventing that.
I largely agree, but OTOH the degree to which this is a sticking point for many people is an early warning that that this is a serious issue that Google has to solve. This problem will only get worse as Google grows. Yes it's unprecedentedly difficult to solve, but I suspect it'll become increasingly difficult to ignore. Systemic failure on this level is the CEO's job and it's disappointing to see Pichai seemingly fail to do something big about it.
> If they had a plan that was, I don't know, 1 euro per person per month

If you're building your own SaaS you will quickly realize it's very difficult to build a sustainable business if you only charge 1 euro/month.

I just looked up the price of Duolingo [0]. It looks like it's only ~6 euros/month not 10, but think about the difference in revenue between 6 euros and 1 euro.

You need 6x as many customers at 1 euro/month to make the same amount of money!

[0] https://www.duolingo.com/plus
> The oaths made in a typical marriage are impossible

> Life-long good marriages exists

I'm sure you have this reconciled somehow, but it sounds contradictory to me.
> I used to be a free speech absolutist myself back in Snowden times, but having seeing the flip side of anonymous, unverified, amplified and maliciously orchestrated communication of lies by unknown actors myself over the past few years

This is a strange lesson to take away, not least of all because we've seen a lot of egregious, potent, and dangerous lies from credible, verified institutions including the former POTUS, prominent newspapers, and other important cultural institutions. Further, it seems strange to suggest that "anonymous lies" are somehow more dangerous than lies by verified parties--pretty much by definition this is incorrect since a lie by some credible institution does more damage than a lie by someone with no credibility at all.

I don't know how someone can look at American politics and politicians (never mind cultural institutions) over the last ~decade and conclude that these people are fit to regulate Americans' speech. Indeed, how can anyone praise democracy without also valuing its prerequisite: free speech. I suspect people don't want a democracy, they want their own candidate to be elected--hardly a noble or democratic sentiment.
If that is the case, then I think a good test would be to fill the tanks entirely with the synthetic version on a cargo plane, make a few dozen national flights, then a few dozen international flights, log the usage per distance so that we get a table with the total cost. This test should also invoke full engine maintenance before and after so that we also get an idea of how much more or less stress and wear this puts on the engines.
You might want to consider using https://thetvdb.com/ for your data source. It still has problems, but overall it seems to be more accurate than IMDb.
This is just a wrapper around:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-billion-galaxies-lurk-in-a-1...

Probably should change the link to that
I think this is really interesting, but I don't see any reason why you'd abandon the idea of a filesystem. UNIX has been consistently useful for all sorts of purposes largely because of the everything-is-a-file concept.

Are we going to keep only a single copy of everything in memresister or whatever? someone will reinvent raid, and someone will reinvent the disk controller.

i'm sure this tech will change all kinds of things but why wouldn't i want a simple hierarchial naming system to refer to all of the different blobs i have?

that said, i'm sure i'll watch this!
If you want something to live on the web long after you've lost interest in it static HTML/GitHub pages seems like the way to go. The chess board I built in high school to learn JavaScript is still going strong: https://github.com/PJ-Finlay/JavaScript-Chess-Board
I’d imagine if it’s targeted at non ML experts then it wouldn’t be of much help to you,
My blog provides tag (https://jlelse.blog/tags) and time archives (e.g. https://jlelse.blog/2020) and there's also search https://jlelse.blog/search).

I keep the reverse chronological order, because my blog is like my journal, but that might be different for other people.
Your mileage may very depending on a variety of factors. I got a free Stadia kit (controller + Chromecast Ultra) for being a YouTube Premium/Music subscriber, and decided I'd give a good and honest attempt at playing through a full game on Stadia.

I played through Superhot and the best I can say is latency is impressive given it's beaming my inputs to a server, rendering, and beaming the frames back to me (though still not as good as just playing locally). But I had some horrible issues. Several play sessions had to end because my internet was being unreliable, as home internet tends to do. Not sure if someone started streaming Netflix or what, but that's kind of the issue -- I don't want someone else doing something on my network to be able to affect my gameplay session. Or if my ISP is just experiencing high traffic, or if the internet in my neighbourhood goes out, etc. There's so much that can and does go wrong, even if it's 99.9% reliable, that's not near enough for a video game.

Thankfully the game I was playing wasn't particularly time-sensitive, if it started lagging I could stop for a second and the game doesn't move forward (that's just how Superhot works, for anyone who isn't familiar). But I was seeing on the front page of the store you can buy Celeste and I just could not imagine playing a precision platformer like that with the bit of latency that exists, plus the possibility I get a lag spike and by the time it catches up I'm already dead and restarting the segment.
Where did you see memory consumption results?
On the Reproducibility of Neural Network Predictions
A NYT reporter posted an ostensibly private conversation of absolutely no newsworthy value for the sole purpose of ruining some peoples' lifes, got the facts completely wrong, posted a non-apology, and then played the victim. At best, this is bad tabloid journalism.

> And here he is calling the situation "Stasi-like".

He is calling it stasi like because people routinely get blacklisted when this happens to them - they lose their job, their friends, and become unemployable. In fact, blacklisting is the exact point of this behavior!
I was speaking to a profesional sound engineer who was recording my friends band and he says he can in fact tell what a lot of things are based on the spectrogram in the DAW
> It seems to seriously scare some folks that there are places where they cannot deplatform whoever they want for anything.

Jeez. At least give your opponents a charitable take on their argument. This stuff isn't some make-believe silencing of online Socratic circles that just happen to have "non-approved" viwes or "wrongthink". I don't think you get how scary some of these mobs are. They're online witch-hunts fueled by hate and the belief that their marks are the cause of the bad in the world. And when you add actually crazy people into the mix it bleeds over into the real world. They will doxx you, stalk you, find every public picture of you, your friends, your family online and send them to you with death threats. They will Photoshop those pictures so it looks like you're being tortured or raped and pass them around. If they find your address you'll start getting them in the mail and eventually messages with pictures of your house.

Like this problem is hard. I want free and open communication as much as the next person it's not so easy. Trading other people's safety for my liberty doesn't sound quite as noble.
In the spirit of the article, shouldn't he be banned or fired?
I agree that one shouldn't support the genetic predetermination theory of sexuality just as a defense for oppression. That's not how science should be done.

That being said, I still doubt that people really have a choice over their sexuality. Otherwise there would be far more stories from people who have "successfully" turned straight or something, instead of stories from people who have tried to suppress their true sexuality for years and who just turned sad in the process.

It might not be genetically determined, but there are so many more immutable determinants to our behaviour that are outside of our control. The brain is a giant state machine and not all of that is plastic all of the time. It might be determined before you are even born, in the womb. It might be determined in your first few years of life. Or it might actually be genetically determined but through a complex interplay from multiple genes, something that our statistical tools can't catch yet, especially as we don't have an objective measure for gayness. Last, there might be multiple ways someone turns gay.
they need an experience that sells the actual upsides of game streaming in the same way that mario 64 sold 3d movement and the analog stick.
'here's popular game except worse' will never be a winnable pitch. even casual users who don't know what latency means will instinctively recognize that all the games just feel kind of shitty to play. you need a tailor made experience where latency is a much more negligible factor.
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The media used this approach of magnifying the voices of violent rioters across the country while providing political cover, then no longer covering it and sharply condemning Republicans doing half as much.
I may or may not be surprised by the result, I'm definitely not surprised by the 'Thing A is thing B' in machine learning.

Every tom, machine-learner, and harry, is an expert on proving to the whole world that thing-A is thing-B. The only problem is people don't hire them with a million dollars a year total compensation.
He was advocating for the death of British servicemen.

Wasn't subtle either. Straight up "the only good X is a dead X" statement.
I'm even hesitant to trust Auth0 for this, why would I trust a new company?
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> Doing a Mac build from Unreal or Unity is generally easy

You'd think, but a lot of mainstream engine-based games that could "easily" have a mac port never get one, even an unofficial one offered as totally unsupported. Look at Among Us for example. Not by any stretch a high-end game. It runs on Windows, Android, iOS, a bunch of XBoxen, and probably other consoles. I bet the developer could spit out a working native macOS version with the push of a button, but so far hasn't.

Kerbal Space Program is another example. When last I checked, they did have a native mac version, but it was hamstrung in some way--I think it was limited to 32-bit or something.

I can't imagine these examples are actually a huge amount of effort to make happen. As a fan and programmer I'd be willing to do it for free.
I would guess that literally no-one else on HN has "had a government take all their money because of unpaid parking tickets". I don't reckon it's as common as you think.
That's because forensics has a sordid history of being overvalued in trial cases because of magic thinking like "it's science it must be the truth". When in reality a lot of it is quackery and science is the last thing that leads to a simple, quick and direct truth.
Agreed - but I would also be interested in knowing if they hold cybersecurity breach insurance. That way, users could actually submit a claim for major issues.
So... What did the Tweet say?
As someone who uses Django which has user management out of the box, why would I use a service like this?
To be clear, journalists approximately never get to pick the title. Editors do that. Who should also have integrity, of course, but the clickbait incentives are very strong...
"Stasi-like" is an extremely hyperbolic way to describe the situation. However, I think "big mistake, but she owned it" is far too forgiving a response.

She is a NYT reporter - a profession which trades on trust - and clearly uses her Twitter profile as an extension of her profession. She used that platform to make a false accusation regarding a member of an event of little-to-no public interest using details taken entirely out of context. That speaks volumes about her intent. Instead of retracting it, she posted a "clarification" and in the same post continued to grandstand about how the imagined infraction was wrong and talk down to the accused.

A post where she "owned it" would look something like this: "Earlier I said ___. I have since discovered that I was incorrect. What actually happened was ___. I'm sorry for my mistake and I will make an effort to do better going forward." What actually happened was worlds apart.
Sorry but forensic ”expertise” in the court room has always been laughable. In ”full view of the judge and jury” means absolutely nothing when these people are completely scientifically illiterate and defer to the so called expert who has a financial incentive to help the prosecutor. There’s an entire industry of people who make their livings by reliably testifying to the guilt of defendants and then being compensated for their “expertise.” They just need to be paraded as experts and how would a layperson be expected to know any better? The quality of defense in the American justice system has everything to do with who can afford to pay for it. I could cite a hundred sources but here’s a small sample...

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/reversing-legacy-jun...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30447642/

[2] https://theconversation.com/how-corruption-in-forensic-scien...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire
It's a strange day when the Daily Mail has better information in its article than the BBC.
Retarded is not a slur. Never was. People keep picking arbitrary words and saying they're "offensive", but there's no reason why. I have heard kids call each other "mentally challenged" and "developmentally delayed", I kid you not. Younger kids have trouble pronouncing those, so maybe that's something? Anyway, I refuse to partake in the euphemism treadmill.
Depends if you think "a human unlikely to perform well on an example which deviates strongly (as defined by experience) from all training examples." is true.
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Look no further than Disney, who achieved this in the 60s.
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This is my question as well. It's an honest question and hopefully someone can educate me.

Why would anyone trust a third party with what is the most important asset, their users?

Thank you in advance.
There was no attempted insurrection.

It was a riot less violent than most we’d seen in the proceeding six months — and you’re quoting highly partisan propaganda. Since you want to bring up Myanmar — false accusations of sedition before soldiers occupy the capitol and crackdowns against political rivals begin is what Facebook is aiding in the US, not stopping.

Private companies shutting down conversation is censorship — it’s just private rather than government censorship. Etc.
The tweet said: "The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn."

Seems pretty innocuous compared to the stuff we normally see online. Hardly worth government intervention. Interested to see where this goes regardless.
There is no V8 here, you don't need a JS VM to run WASM. It uses wasmer, a Rust based WASM VM: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
I still think—even when applying Hanlon's razor—there's an imbalance in incentives that leads to a weight in favor of the interests of the party paying for the test.

Take the store pricing example. Suppose the store's pricing & labeling process produce an equal number of bugs at checkout in favor of the store and in opposition to the store.

The store is heavily incentivized to detect the errors that are opposed to them. They are much less likely to detect the errors in their favor. Consider the manager that looks at the cash at the end of the day and notices they are $500 short. They likely dig hard to find the root cause of the issue, detect the pricing disparity and correct it. Now consider the manager that is $500 over at the end of the day. They are much more likely to say: "that's weird", shrug their shoulders and move on.

The same applies to forensic tools. Even if they originally produced bugs in both directions, their own internal QA and the market of police officers are likely to work hard to detect bugs that make them less likely to allow them to make an arrest.

The net result is that the tools end up with a bias in one direction, even if the original developers made an equal number of mistakes in both directions.
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"The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn."
Hey there, this is Braden, one of the founders - not yet. However, we're actively working on this :) We're probably going to start with basic RBAC/invitations before getting into planning for the full feature set -- which will include SSO/SAML/ more complex permissions (possibly ABAC), Audit Logs.

Since we're tackling both the APIs and the customer-facing UIs, we think we'll be able to add a lot of value here
Apps would still appear in a system like this as soon as you have third-party developers, as a natural consequence of Conway’s law. And once you have that, there’s also security and principles like the rule of least power that motivate the current design which you haven’t gotten rid of.
Visit a bar in a not-so-good part of your city (or some bigger city near you, if you live in a small one), it's way too common, just hidden to you. Even I was really surprised how many people are fucked over by the government, and I didn't have the best opinion of it before.
Thanks for the amazing write up!

> There's a price to pay: currently the best-in-class experience is still Emacs and SLIME

Does viper-mode work well with this setup for vim users?
there's a nice tool here for visualising the results in more detail... https://ajdust.github.io/tfbvis/?testrun=Citrine_started2020...
Yeah I don't see how nVidia doesn't dominate this market. Their product just makes way more sense.

To even get on Stadia you have to port to their custom Linux distribution, which is a pretty huge ask for most games.
As an indie dev I disagree very heavily with this. Games like Hentai Nazi (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1183970/Hentai_Nazi/) are allowed to be on the store because they're generally very permissive, as long as you're following the laws that they have to follow because they're in America. If you're making games with sexual content and characters of questionable age (as many of these banned anime games do), then it's reasonable that some of them will get banned, since Valve has to obey the law.
Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country
He died 42 yrs old, and collapsed on one of his walks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
Bookmarked for later review...