skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I routinely launch canaries before deploying new code to production. Given there is no intent to deceive, mislead, or otherwise harm customers, and all internal testing has yielded a 'ship it' signal, is there any ethical need for users to opt-in to these A/B tests?

In my view, the alternative is to ship something we _don't_ have data on and hope for the best. And if we demand informed consent, I have to assume it goes into boilerplate agreements nobody reads at signup, which is a mockery of the term 'informed' IMO.
> It kinda feels like most people are missing the actual point of the video.

I love his videos, but the reason most people are missing the point is because he only obliquely hits the point. The title and thumb are the clickbaitiest he's ever done, and the content does a wide end-run around the facts, rather than tackling them head on. This is also why there are so many rebuttal videos that agree with him and explain it more clearly: he failed to clearly state his argument/explanation. The circumlocutious explanation does little to edify the audience or clarify the concept.
All that website inspires me is the American Psycho business card scene. Sometime reality is stranger than fiction.
I'm not sure it's about death. Organised religion dulls that fear, but I think that ritual existed long before any promise of a savior from death existed. I think it's main purpose is to syncronise large groups of animals that are naturally only social in smaller groups.

EDIT: Though re-reading I do take your point about legacy.
Here's a copy:

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> To Whom It May Concern:
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> My name is Tom Harris, and I am a resident of Sacramento, California. I have a few questions about your process for responding to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data access requests:
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> Would you process a GDPR data access request from me even though I am not a resident of the European Union?
> Do you process GDPR data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a website, what is the URL I should go to?
> What personal information do I have to submit for you to verify and process a GDPR data access request?
> What information do you provide in response to a GDPR data access request?
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> To be clear, I am not submitting a data access request at this time. My questions are about your process for when I do submit a request.
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> Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions. If there is a better contact for processing GDPR requests regarding nymeria.io, I kindly ask that you forward my request to them.
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> I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within one month of this email, as required by Article 12 of GDPR.
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> Sincerely,
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> Tom Harris
IMO, you really need to reexamine your life choices if your consider Facebook an essential service on par with electricity.

Frankly, it provides negative value and my life has been vastly improved since I logged off and blocked their cookies a couple of years ago.
Howdy Paul!

I definitely see a problem in that some people think that if the IRB doesn't object to what they're doing, it's OK. But ethics is a responsibility of the entire research team, and the research team is usually far better placed to understand the implications of their research strategy than the IRB.

The following are big problems here:

- lack of informed consent
- deception

Researchers should be trained that those are only allowed in exceptional cases where the benefits outweigh the harms.
I'm a happy Linode user. And I'm a very small hoster. I'm renting a $10/month VPS for quite a few years now, and I've been very impressed with them.

A while back I made a stupid mistake while tired, and I was panicking and couldn't find the feature I needed in the account.

I called Linode at around 11PM CDT, and got a helpful friendly guy on the line who walked me through what I needed. I was amazed that I could get a human on the line in less than a minute after hours, when only paying $10/month.
I hope you periodically restore the off-premises backup to check they're working too. Not really fun to discover your backup is broken when you need it the most.
I feel like "coercion" (legal threats) should probably be a separate bullet point from "deception"?
One wishes they had written something like "belief conforming to established practice" or something, that would defend against antivaccionationists making up stuff on the spot.
We called the Track I papers “fake PNAS” in grad school.
Graeber believes that our current state is a local minima (or maxima depending on your perspective) and there are social, political, and economic options that result in systems without these "bullshit" outcomes. His underlying beliefs are anarchist, he believes people can self-organize without many of the concerns we have in modern society.

The reason he is interesting is that his underlying views of society are of those from way outside of the Overton Window, so he sees some things more clearly than those with more "normal" viewpoints. While I do not agree with him on many things, all his books are critiques of the entirety of the modern socioeconomic system.

> Do we want some congressional committee to sit around and decide which jobs are bullshit? I sure don't.

The suggestion that he thought the government should decide which jobs are real and which are bullshit is antithetical to everything he believed. He would argue that the fact that you can only see it as a question of either "free market" or "government managed" is a part of the oppressive system itself.
A single core small Redis server can do wonders.

For fire and forget type jobs you can use lists instead of pub/sub: save a job to a list by a producer, pop it on the other end by a consumer and execute it. It's also very easy to scale, just start more producers and consumers.

We're currently using this technique, to process ~2M jobs per day, and we're just getting started. Redis needs very little memory for this, just a few mb.

Redis also supports acid style transactions.
Steven crowder just got banned until the end of the year on YouTube. Second strike. Both for lgbtq jokes. 5 million subs. One more strikes and he's out.
Not sure how 5 million of his subscribers will feel after. To me it seems short sighted. Since this will just strengthen competitor platforms. I suppose will it lead to conservatives having to create their own internet infrastructure and banking system eventually if the bans continue.
I agree, but I think the trickier part is that the semantics of words are even blurrier/more ambiguous than the syntax.
Yeah, being the honest small customer is tough. I find things like "pre-pay" or "use some third-party ID verification service" or "talk to sales" kind of off-putting, but honestly there aren't a lot of great options. (We went with the "talk to sales" route.)
0. But it would require giving up some creature comforts.
That's where LISTEN comes in. It's very simple to write this loop perfectly correct.
> You cannot, as implied by the email, demand a response to an arbitrary query.

I wouldn't say that the questions were arbitrary; they were exactly the things you would need to know in order to submit a request for information, but without the actual request.

The only alternative that I can think of to get the same information is to register at all of these websites, use them for five minutes, then make an actual legal request, and if not provided with "information" and "purposes", to make an actual legal threat.

I don't get the impression that site owners would feel a lot happier about that approach. I can see how sending the email that was actually sent would be seen by a researcher as a better approach. And can also see a self-serving aspect, in that it's a cheaper approach - saves the labor of registering a bunch of accounts.

But I'm getting the impression that site owners went to defcon 1 after getting a single request for information that should be easily available on the site if it were subject to the law (which the blog author has stated clearly that they were not.)

If anything was missing imo, it's that there should have been help in the email mentioning the for-profit/$25MM revenue/50K Californians requirement in the law - but that might make it sound more like a threat, not less. They could also have made better guesses about whether the sites they were emailing would be bound by the law, and targeted the emails better.

But if the site does fall under the law, and they felt threatened and hired a lawyer to answer those questions, I'm not sympathetic. They're supposed to be able to answer those questions if any of the >50K Californians they work with ask, at any time. If they were, replying would be a simple matter of sending a link or a form email that they already had ready.
I agree with you. It would look more like Pascal and Ada because of readability. Many languages look like or are way too easy to turn into cryptic chicken scratch, that even confuses the person that wrote it when they return to it after a few weeks or months.

The IDEs for it would be more like Delphi (without the price tag) or Lazarus (open source). Way more likely to want WYSIWG GUI designers. They can't go no code (total visual programming), if they want a more useful language, but would want it to be low code. In addition, very helpful to use IDEs and fast compilers (like Pascal/Object Pascal has).
They can't make a musical but a musical about Nauru itself has potential. A tiny island nation 5km in diameter that somehow survived WW2 despite being the site of many battles and for a brief point in history was the wealthiest nation per capita thanks to bird poo. Their government proceeded to squander the wealth and today the only industry is as a prison for Australia's pacific solution.
A presentation from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg
Amazon removed reviews of Xi Jinping's book on orders from Beijing
I admit I don't check them often enough, but I did makes sure to verify after this post!
Quakers break the mould in more ways: they include the small subset of athiest quakers. Well, let's be polite. Nontheist.

A charming church of scotland minister in fife told my athiest brother it was no barrier to a successful career in the church, one should not allow a trivial obsession with the 39 articles to stand in the way. He specialised in computer aided stylometry of amongst other writing, the Pauline epistles.
Google Books is not a reliable sample of language over time due to shifts in genre representation that are correlated with all kinds of things like university library policies, interactions of OCR with typesetting practices, etc.

Also note this is a “contributed by” paper which means it didn’t go through the usual PNAS review process. (Presumably the authors didn’t think it would make it through.)
While those in Hong Kong still enjoy more freedoms then China mainland... locking people up for only holding up signs and chanting (not excusing those who were violent)... has scared off Taiwan. No one wants to vote for the "Patriots" and now those in HK live their lives to try not to go to jail.
Seems like a career academic with no experience in the real world playing around like this is some kind of game. I'm sure they meant no harm, because they don't consider anyone "participating" to be anything more than a potential subject in their agenda to get a good review on their paper.

That letter and their social media posts are nothing more than a facade to maximize return with no consideration of impact.

Total negligence.
Didn't know that owning stock makes you selfish but k.
and during this discussion of electrons flowing, did it now also contain discussion on the fields produced around the wire? did I just have an exceptional teacher (I know my high school physics teacher was one of those teachers and am indebted to him), or did I just pay attention?

To the point, during the time that I was learning fields produced around a wire carrying a current, I was also learning recording studio audio and how hums can be created by running cables in parallel and avoided by crossing them perpendicularly. I had a conversation about it with said physics teacher, and he gave a lecture about it the next day. Yeah, one of those teachers that sets one on a positive course.
>> obviously the missions will be tested on earth before we yeet billions of dollars to another planet and hope it all works.

That's my whole point. This work is only interesting as a precursor to doing it on another planet. Nobody has any motivation to do the work and spend the money without a direct connection to transferring it to another planet.

Whenever someone says "why don't we just do it on earth first??". We will: but only as the testing phase of an actual mars colony mission.
Agner Fog's optimisation guides: https://www.agner.org/optimize/

Fabian Giesen's blog has some good stuff. here's a 16 part blog series from 2013 taking apart and reworking an intel software occlusion culling demo: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlu...
Postgres is really just great for being able to build just about anything to get that first viable product built. It's basically the swiss army knife for anything data in my opinion. You got sql, nosql, job queues, full text indexing. It's great.

I use it as a sql database and full text search for little personal project I work on off and on and it works great. I haven't touched it except to check every few weeks for security updates for months since I got a promotion and it, the golang app server and python scripts have had no issue just churning along keeping a 30 day archive of links found via reddit and twitter. Postgres is great.
Well if you have informed consent, it's not going to be a problem. If you don't, then you need to do a more careful analysis of ill effects might ensue when someone gets the letter (feel distress, spend money on a lawyer).
This is just racism. They’re undoing a meritocracy to admit their favored demographic groups.
When IIT research is knocking people's socks off, let me know.
Bodily autonomy is a fundamental civil liberty.
It would be if cloud providers didn't keep changing the deal all the time. Ownership is control and control comes with a premium.
It's just sad that a historically prestigious institution is essentially committing suicide by no longer even pretending to uphold the ideal of meritocracy. It served as a shining beacon to millions of immigrants who came to this country in hopes of sending their kids to a top university. They came to a country where your name or rank in life matters a whole lot less than most other places. They told their children to study hard, and score well on this one test and they'll have a future for themselves their parents could never imagine.

I still believe western democracy, as embodied by America is a positive force on the world. At least when you compare it to the alternatives: China, Russia and the Middle Eastern countries. Our institutions of higher education are the envy of the world and we'll lose that as we abandon our ideals of objectivity, meritocracy and actual fairness. Other countries will fill the power vacuum and exert influence on world affairs in a negative way.
I think this is a pretty good summary for the US as well.
> When the researchers used an antibody to neutralize fabkin in mice, the animals did not develop diabetes. When the antibody was given to obese, diabetic mice, they reverted to a healthy state.
Inappropriate
Transmissions and symptoms are roughly correlated through viral load.

The household attack rate of ultimately asymptomatic infections is much lower than ultimately symptomatic. The window for vaccinated people is also shorter since mRNA loads peak at about the same levels (where the entry criteria for the study was the same level of symptomology) but they decline faster and have less culturable, infectious virus for the same level of mRNA load.

And delta already spikes viral loads much, much higher in the presymptomatic phase of an infection (doesn't matter if its naive, breakthrough or reinfection) so that people are walking around spreading it before they know they have it. That ship already sailed.

Once someone is infected, then its better that they get less symptoms and less viral load / less shedding and that they're vaccinated.
What's going on -in time- is a lot more complex than the 'steady-state, Occam's razor' simplicity most of us (outside of EE) were fed. One example: the math you'll see in the analysis of 'skin effect'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect

I hope one of the outcomes of this discussion is that someone will tackle explaining how AC power gets from source to load, and what 'earth grounds' have to do with that ... and WHY. The usual hand-wavy 'simple' discussions leave out WAY too much.
If I had to guess, the wording is in the study's FAQ is carefully chosen: "an application detailing our research methods" doesn't necessarily mean "an application with the verbatim text of the emails we planned to send, including our thinly veiled legal threat at the end."

Not trying to turn this thread into a generic flameware against "academic" research methods, but this whole things seems oddly reminiscent of the "let's try to insert malicious code into Linux" fiasco [1]. I'm conceptually fine with generic passive tools like web crawlers to conduct research, but since when did the internet become a place where nonconsensual interactive research became fine?

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-bans-un...
This is certainly valid for some number of uses, however there isn't a good way of mapping all reasonable uses of linked structures to unlinked structures except via associative array.

There are many linked structures such as an Linked hashmap or LRU cache that can’t be efficiently represented in safe rust. There are engineers who need to code and use such structures outside of an interview context, these engineers must use unsafe to code valid programs.

I honestly wouldn’t mind if the docs were simply upfront on the need to use unsafe and the insufficiency of any alternative for these situations. Long ago it was thought that users would simply use something along the lines of GC<Type> to handle these situations, but none of the rust GC projects materialized.
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My only point here is that any framework for generalization needs to be able to account for and incorporate these kinds of "exception-seeking" cases. Similar to the same way that mathematics uses counter-examples to strengthen and reinforce the definitions chosen.
namedtuple is my usual goto for this but problem but I am glad to learn of SimpleNamespace
Why wouldn't the effect happen with a circle? Shouldn't the same thing happen just with more delay since they are more separated?
We can make an analogy to trains. Suppose instead of a circuit, we have a long train on a circular track, completely occupying that track. To "turn on" the circuit, we begin to move one of the cars. Now there is slack in their coupling, so a ripple effect occurs: the cars do not all move a the same time, but a wave of motion begins, and this propagates in both directions around the circular track, away from the initially moved car. Eventually, both these ripples reach the opposite side of the circular track where the motion starts to occur and can be used to do some work. Then we can get into a more or less steady state: the cars are moving around the track.

This steady state of motion is like "drift current", whereas the initial ripple of couplings clattering together an initiating the motion is like the electric field propagating through the circuit.

Of course, EE's know about drift current, transmission line behavior and other topics.
isn't diabetes an autoimmune thing?
What kind of problems?
It says "NOT aspire". As in, if you think they are so shitty then stop wanting to go there.
But there’s proportional impact as well. The person who got the AWS treatment might be responsible for $50K of AWS budget. And the person at Netflix is responsible for millions of dollars of budgets, royalties and other schemes.
I used to work with a black lady at the water treatment plant for my town in high school. The JW's disfellowshipped her for the crime of having opinions and divorcing her husband. Maybe you need to take a close look at your proposed solution with 144000 slots on the lifeboat.
That's just not a great analogy because I don't need a hotel for 5 years or a train forever. When you don't own it, and especially when it's a large org, you don't have much leverage when they want to change the terms.
I'm just not interested in the "you will own nothing and like it" society. I don't trust the giant corporations and landlords to do the right thing. So, I own a house, a car, and my data.
Short term, like an Uber (or a plane) it's fine, but it's not a long-term solution unless or until I can rely more.
As a research group leader, I find it unfortunate that the grad student seems to be the public face of this and is therefore attracting most of the ire. Feels like the student is being thrown under the bus, and responsibility for ensuring the study is conducted ethically should ultimately be that of the principal investigator.
Agglutinative Language (Wikipedia)
Maybe it's not about whether the article can or can't be shared, it's just that they don't want lies to be explicitly told about their article, because that negatively impacts their reputation? For example, the claim of the fact-checkers that the article contains "flaws".
Yeah, hence the turn away from dictionary definitions and things like WordNet towards continuous distributional vector representations in NLP.

I don’t think you could really give an uncontroversial symbolic definition for any natural word.
Tesla added the camera eye tracking very late in the game, just like they didn't add driver hands-off wheel detection and enforcement to autopilot until it had been available quite some time.

I think this is one of the issues with Tesla FSD - the company basically has had to be forced to take safety seriously repeatedly and has not done so from the outset.
This is an untrustworthy company whose activist policy making will lead to them banning any ideas they disagree with from their platform. Everyone should advocate for personal and business use of Google to move to other, better providers.
Hey at least it wasn’t a WhatsApp. Progress, see?
I agree with you. The networks allow incursion, the law seems to allow for excursion.
https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2015-roth.pdf
Ya, i bought knowbe4 because we also needed it for PCI compliance, and it made things easier for the IT/Sec team.

But you are right. All those ceryification companies are a mafia.
Type 1 is. Immune system kills the cells that produce insulin.

Type II has unknown causes, but not auto-immune.
Weighing in to say; same exact experience here.
They might, if McDonald's starts selling salmon burgers.
Flat rates in law are useless and often don't affect the rich. It should be proportional to the profit they made, just like minimum wage should be a percentage base on living wage in your area and age-cap in politics should be output of a function of longevity and lifespan.

I hate the way we do government. It does not scale.
This is a neat idea, but I think it's missing a large and important area for generalization, and that's the process of seeking and exploring exceptions or counter-examples (see my other comments for examples).

Language defines things through subtraction, inversion, comparison, and contrast as much as construction and straightforward language.

Engineering and computer science rely too heavily on induction, but deduction and other non-linear processes are largely missing from these kinds of analyses/approaches. And until they are accounted for I don't think we'll reach any kind of true approach to generalization.
Obvious scams are a lot easier to dismiss without worry than ones that actually look like potentially credible legal threats.

You're just blaming the victim here, possibly because you're biased by the hindsight of already knowing the legal threat was never real in the first place.