skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claiming that this study was "human research" is straight-up insane. There's as much "human research" going on there as there is when statisticians acquire data by going to a human who possesses it and asking for it (e.g. they want to study baseball, so they go to the Head Excel Overlord of the MLB and ask for their data) - that is, exactly none.

Analyzing data that was given to you by a human does not automatically make your research project "human research", full stop.

The research question here is "How do organizations fulfill their legal requirements due to the GDPR and CCPA?" and has nothing to do with individuals. The researchers didn't want any data about the humans, they didn't ask for it, they weren't studying reaction time, psychological response, brain activity, or anything else about any humans at all.

If the answer to the question "Could you replace a human in experiment with an automated process and still perform a meaningful experiment with conceptually identical results?" is "yes", then there is no human research going on. Test: Stanford Prison Experiment: answer "no" (because the students were actually the ones being studied), turns out to be human research. Test: studying the properties of a crystal in a lab, and one of the machines is operated by a human grad student, answer is "yes", not human research. (note also that this test just proves that human research isn't being done - if you replace the baseball players in the above example with robotic batters, the answer the above question is "no", but clearly human experimentation isn't happening)

Similarly, if each of the individuals who were contacted were replaced with a Perl script scanning for keywords that automatically replied with the organization's GDPR and CCPA policies, the results from the experiment would be. Exactly. The. Same.

In fact, let's go and look up the definition of "human subjects research":

According to 45 CFR 46, a human subject is "a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research:

Obtains information or biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information or biospecimens; or
Obtains, uses, studies, analyzes, or generates identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens."

...from the NIH at https://grants.nih.gov/policy/humansubjects/research.htm, and clearly does not describe what's going here.

Let me repeat again: the fact that humans responded to the emails about GDPR+CCPA compliance of an organization owning the email is completely irrelevant. The experimenters didn't care about whether their request was serviced by a human or a computer, and in fact would have preferred computerized responses (instant response, more standardized formats, no possibility of human error).

Claiming that this is "human experimentation" is disingenuous to the point of malice.
My wife tried to buy a new car with an extremely high credit score. They wouldn't give her the auto loan because of insufficient credit history, which acts as a second undisclosed factor in loan approval. I had to co-sign with my worse (~700) credit score because I had a history with student loans, credit card consolidation loans, &c
Thanks, this is good to know!
Hoist up the John B sail!
Their marketing has been all about taxi services for years. It's unclear if you'll ever he able to purchase one.
I think promises are a inner platform in Rust and JS, due to the function coloring problem. They are a different world that you can't escape from. In the async book from Rust [1]:

> Asynchronous and synchronous code cannot always be combined freely. For instance, you can't directly call an async function from a sync function.

Same with JavaScript from [2]:

> The await operator is used to wait for a Promise. It can only be used inside an async function within regular JavaScript code; however it can be used on its own with JavaScript modules.

In JS, the promise world is a different world. Exceptions won't work like they usually do for example.

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/03...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Yes, that is the only place you can communicate with them. If they haven't tampered with the history it should still be there for anyone that wants to dig.

I was simply describing my experience and yet someone always tries to minimize or discredit assuming some other motive; whatever, the world isn't all rainbows and sunshine. You seem to have missed the point, didn't read, both, or have some other agenda.

To turn it around, what's your motive for being 'unusually' defensive? You know there are three lichess right, the organization, the service, and the OSS code. What are we talking about here? The former, not the latter two.

At this point I could care less how they run their ship. I've learned that what they sell to the public, and the process by which they operate are different things, and through their actions that they don't value processes that are generally accepted and work.

As a result, I won't have anything to do with them, but its annoying how many people blindly have to assert the assumption that Lichess (the organization) can do no wrong, and the marketed narrative is the whole picture, and implying that anyone saying differently is attacking or has some subversive plan to hurt the community.

Honestly, that kind of propaganda strategy sounds just like something one might hear in the Nuremberg trials (Henry Goering interview with Goebbels).

To be clear, I only posted today because this spoiled my newsfeed.
If they want to be transparent they should publish a professional post-mortem.
> underfunded ... expensive

You're at least going to have to provide some numbers if you want that conspiracy theory to be taken seriously.
And yet I do, and I’m under 40. It’s almost as if people can have different opinions that aren’t dependent on their age.
what is the point of those lockdowns when 1. practically everybody is vaccinated and thus gets no symptoms or only light disease (and according to the latest science - superimmunity after that) and 2. the delta's and now omicron's transmissibility is so high among both - vaccinated
as well as unvaccinated - that everybody susceptible to it (i.e. 30-70% of population, and anecdotally it seems to me that for covid it is on the lower end, ie. like 1/3rd) will get it (or omicron++) in the near future anyway (and the thing becoming endemic like flu).

I mean technically the lockdowns possibly make sense as a way to control the spread until a spread controlling vaccine (the existing mRNA ones aren't such) is widely applied - ie. that seems to be the case in China where initial spread was effectively controlled and they use inactivated covid virus vaccine instead of mRNA - though we don't know for sure because Chinese government info can be very different from reality.
>In the UK, the consumer finance regulator the FCA did an in depth analysis of subprime lending

source?

>and concluded that "fair" maximum charges were interest rates of 0.8% per day

"fair" in this case being what? The interest rate being enough to offset defaults? Or enough to offset defaults + overhead + profit?

>and total costs (interest, fees and penalties) no more than the amount of the loan principal borrowed.

I find this baffling. 0.8% per day compounded for a year is 18.3%, but they say that total costs can be equal to the principal? That means the effective APR can be up to 100% (if borrowing for a year), more than 5x the "fair" APR from before. Speaking of which, why isn't the length of the loan factored in? Surely a 1 week loan should have a lower "total cost" than a one year loan?
> Long distance extreme high voltage transfer loses about 5% per 1000km.

That's an incredibly low amount. Taking Berlin as an example, even 5000km lets you reach plenty of hot, sunny desert areas where any losses will be easily offset by vastly increased solar efficiency. Or you could spread out your wind energy sources to get more consistent coverage.

In fact that's pretty much what Singapore is doing: building a solar farm 5000km away in Australia.
Well having 70% Fossil Fuel share means you can be easily manipulated by petrostates she in fact You don’t want that
> I have several wechat groups discussing serious political issues in China.

Maybe you do, but do you discuss how millions of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province were (are?) detained in concentration camps [0] and forced to provide quarter to government agents in their own homes under a dehumanizing “big brother” program [1]? Or how the CCP forced Uighurs to surgically implant IUDs and undergo forced abortion and sterilization procedures [2]? That would probably get you on the CCP’s radar.

Don’t pretend like there’s any semblance of open discussion about truly controversial issues.

> I mean, there is no way that one is constantly watched in China.

The “constantly watched” bit is a total strawman. Nobody is implying that all Chinese citizens are constantly watched by CCP thugs. All that is needed is a search engine on top of indexed WeChat message contents to help direct a limited number of investigations against political dissidents who may threaten the CCP’s grip on power - or as they refer to it, “stability”.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1270014

Selected quote: “Every former camp detainee Amnesty interviewed in the report recounted cruel and degrading treatment, including torture. The report, released Thursday, is based on interviews with 108 people, including 55 camp survivors and several government cadres who worked in the camps.”

Yes, it happened. Your most recent comment as of right now attempts to cast doubt on this fact.

[1]: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/08/asia/china-xinjiang-ethni...

Selected quote: “Her four "guests" are Chinese government cadres who lived in her home for 10 days every month for two years before her family fled, she said.”

Think about what that would be like. It’s as horrible as it is effective, and it’s partly why the Third Amendment to the US Constitution exists.

[2]: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

Selected quote: “But while equal on paper, in practice Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang’s other ethnicities, interviews and data show.”

Think about what it would be like for your government to show up at your door, handcuff you, take you to a hospital, anesthetize you, and surgically remove your ability to procreate. That’s what the CCP does to its own people.
I suppose "more direct" can be interpreted differently, but to the best of my knowledge the signal from your cochlea takes more axonal jumps[0] than e.g. visual, which jumps "only" through LGM[1]. Even more direct is the olfactory pathway which skips the thalamus altogether[2].

However, in the context of the article you might be referring only to intertelencephalic processing, in which case I'd love to read a paper which compares the directness of hearing vs other modalities.

[0]: https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/pathways/auditory-p...

[1]: https://www.ophthalmologyreview.org/articles/the-afferent-vi...

[2]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2015.0004...
> Hardware for mining cryptocurrency is self-financing in a relatively short period of time when the electricity is "free"

No it isn't. I know because I looked into it.

Assuming the price of bitcoin doesn't rise or fall, a cutting edge bit of dedicated bitcoin mining hardware will pay for itself in 3 years if operated continuously on free electricity, and will be effectively obsolete in 5 years, as difficulty increases and rewards drop.

So if you only operate the hardware 50% of the time it'll be obsolete before it's paid for itself.
The middle class and why it is disappearing [5m video]
You're confusing civics with history. We absolutely do expect teachers to teach students how to get along with others and how to regulate their emotions to be productive contributors to society. What, specifically, is the radical subjectivism of LGBTQIA+ groups that you object to that the article says is happening in schools? What I see is teachers suggesting students get involved in Gay-Straight Alliance groups to help their fellow students.

Your comparison to teachers encouraging students to join a Bible club doesn't fit because that is illegal.
This looks like a nice result that can be useful in some cases, but it is limited to a single arrow. When you have more than one arrow, you get constraints like "minimize the number of crossings" and then "minimize total arrow line length". At this point, it becomes way more complicated.
Yes, that’s how credit history works. You can’t expect to get a $30,000 loan at a reasonable interest rate without having at least some history of repaying smaller credit lines first.

But you don’t need to go into debt to have a credit history. Anyone with a credit card who pays it off monthly is building a strong credit history despite never paying any interest.

It’s standard practice to use credit cards for this reason. Credit cards also have a lot of buyer protections that debit cards and checks generally don’t.
Or when their nuclear power plants boil their rivers...
You gotta remember that the vast majority of infections are asymptomatic or mild. We focus on the ones that aren't, for a number of valid reasons, but this also skews the average person's risk tolerance and awareness toward thinking that there's life altering danger in each infection. There's millions walking about who think it's a fake virus because they got a headache and a sore throat for a day while being told that they are at risk of intubation and a range of "long covid" symptoms, and this doesn't meet their experience or that of their entire friend and family circle. Yeah, lots of families also experienced the opposite, but you'd probably be hard pressed to convince those ones that it's a mild disease. Thing is, it's both.
An airframe parachute is included in the Lilium design. At least it was last time I checked.
Thanks. I didn't even realize that the post had gone up, since I got redirected to an earlier thread with the same link. There is also one about the Wired article that I located this through:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
I was under the understanding that coal and hydro were more flexible and hydro even being pretty responsive (just reduce the flow rate and build up the water level in the reservoir). But in any case, wouldn't the surplus just cause the price to drop, causing other power sources to just dial down production thereby stabilizing the price?
There's a happy medium with debt. Dave Ramsey takes a conservative approach in that he prefers saving your entire stack before buying something, I personally like to keep (total debt < net worth), with some consideration for liquidity risk thrown in. If I lost my job could I be a free man or am I buried and sweating? Others take that multiplier even further and sometimes luck out.

On one hand debt causes issues for those who lack knowledge, but on the other hand it allows a great degree of near-term accelerated growth and societal load-balancing. The fact that society enables folks to collectively trust others to pay their debts is why we're not still stuck with a barter economy and the inherent inefficiencies of a "trust-less" economic approach.

So much of present growth and fruitfulness is rooted in the future faith that others will make good on their promises (debt). Debt is a great thing in moderation.
Stoicism put a person at the whim of the Fates. It was essentially Calvinism, where you could not affect your destiny, because you were either chosen by the gods, or you weren't. Shakespeare summed up Stoicism well when he said "as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." Contrast that with the proposition of Christianity, which is that the Creator of the Universe, because of His infinite love for creation, humbled Himself and condescended so low as to be a Person born in a cave to a poor family, suffered betrayal by almost all of his closest followers, suffered an ignominious death, then rose from the dead on the third day after His death, thereby conquering death by death, and you, poor, broken, sinful, incorrigible you, can have a personal relationship with the God-man who calls Himself Jesus Christ.
At the rates phd students get payed they basically already are.
I don't know how well this relates, but the topic of logistic growth (exp. growth with a limit) is common in undergraduate differential equations classes. I guess it can work well for simpler models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#Modeling_ear...
Every stalking incident described in the article can be done with screen recording. Which one do you think can't?
I’d debate the extent that they were ‘caught’ in the feud. The imperial powers barely ventured into the desert. They had barely any contact with the true Fremen. Most of Arrakis was unexplored and considered uninhabitable.

Similarly it’s difficult to see the Bedouin and Berber tribes as being oppressed . The Romans, Persians etc mostly stuck to the coasts and rivers and avoided the deep desert. The same is true on Dune.

When the Muslim armies swept out of the desert they didn’t throw off oppression, they came out of nowhere to crush the Persians and nearly end the Romans, establishing one of the world’s largest empires. They did plenty of colonisation of their own. And their cultural and scientific impact on the world continues today.

Similarly the Fremen were grossly underestimated by the Empire. They were barely aware of their existence, but as it turned out they were far more numerous, culturally sophisticated and technology advanced than anyone knew.
But then what is the alternative. If you don't get the car fixed, then you will not be able to commute to work. If you won't work, then you won't be able to pay rent. Isn't the $500 loan then a better alternative than ending up homeless ?

Would'nt it be better to rack up a $500 loan and then try to pay $100 per month so that it can be paid off in 6-9 months - even with 36% interest ?
I would say the cultural issue is more that the employer doesn't pay you immediately for your work. I understand there are regulatory reasons behind this, but still, this is what creates the dependency on credit.

There's nothing wrong with a credit card company giving out free 30 day loans with reasonable interest if they are not repaid on time.
NFTs aren't rights to photos, or any other kind of tangible or intangible property right. That would be an actual property. But that's not what NFTs are.
The hospitalizations in South Africa went from 19% to 1.7% but trust Imperial (whose highly inaccurate lockdown modelling last year caused who knows how much damage) to produce a study that gives significantly less favourable numbers. If anyone has the patience to read it, it would be interesting to know what statistical/definitional trickery they've used to make omicron maximally menacing.
Overstated argument to tell a story. Their creative writing tutor should be asked for a refund. This is one of those half-right statements: the regionalism of brain function is Overstated? Yes. There is no locality to specific tasks? No, that's overstated itself. We know loss of prefrontal cortex has different effects to loss of other regions. What's disputed is the specificity and singularity of the regions. Some functions can be reacquired despite loss of a region. Some functions are more diffuse.
> Ethical guidelines on research exist to prevent an adverse impact on participants.

Not relevant in this case, because (1) it's clearly not human research[1] and (2) all kinds of other clearly-non-human-experiments still have adverse effects on humans tangentially involved, so that's not unique to human research, either. When scientists were testing the first particle accelerators, they caused some people a lot of stress who were worried that they would destroy the world - does that mean that those tests were human experiments? (clearly not)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656792
I highly recommend watching his YouTube videos. He’s pretty enthralling to watch.
Radio Free Europe is a CIA funded propaganda outlet. No different than RT.
having written a websocket game server that serves hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections, I find the tone of this article really frustrating, because the author is peddling a lot of FUD about websockets while at the same time building a SaaS websocket server product. Websockets involve different challenges than traditional http servers, but I've always found them to be fun and stimulating.
These are very old power plants that need to be decommissioned.
Not when your building's central heating is done by a natural gas furnace. Not without expensive retrofitting.

(Which should be done. But it'll take time.)
This is a mechanical spline [1]: a thin strip of wood constrained at one or more points, or "knots". They were used by ship builders and draftsmen before mathematicians and programmers invented cubic curves for computer aided design. IIRC, bending a beam with a single point force and no bending moments at the ends gives you a quadratic curve shape, and other, and adding bending moments gives you cubic curves.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_spline
The water in a small lake is enough to drown a billion people.

These horror fantasies mean nothing.
Jean Gebser: The Ever Present Origin (1949)
>These synthetic fuels can be stored and transported in the same way as normal petrol then you wouldn't have to build that much more distribution infrastructure.

Which is highly desirable for developing nations, who will be driving ICEs well into the 2040s since a large chunk of their supply is used stuff exported from rich nations.
There's no impersonation involved; the analogous email would say that the sender would notify authorities about the recipient based on the answers.

It's unclear how this would be more or less random than the e-mail to websites.

And you'd be just as quick to defend such an asshole, right?
The Ever-Present Origin is a translation of Ursprung und Gegenwart, a book which was published in German in two parts around 1949 and 1953. The central contribution of this book is Gebser's analysis of the history of culture -- mainly but not exclusively Western culture -- in terms of the predominance of different modes of consciousness. Gebser details five structures of consciousness: the archaic, the magical, the mythical, the mental, and the integral (or aperspectival). His theory seems to be that these structures unfold in a sequential but non-linear fashion (i.e. in quantum increases in the self-transparency of consciousness), and have different kinds of characteristic ways of experiencing self, other, and world. With each leap, the previous structures of consciousness are superceded and yet retained in a subordinate fashion. Meanwhile, the other structures lie largely latent and untapped. VERY briefly, the archaic is instinctual and primitive. The magical is tribal and involves participation mystique. The mythical is imaginative and often involves seeing through complementary polarities (darkness and light, good and evil). The mental is analytical, dualistic, and skeptical of the other structures of consciousness. And the integral structure allows for a re-membering of all of the structures of consciousness without the problematic reification of their respective "worlds". The integral or aperspectival structure additionally involves going beyond the previous four structures in something akin to Buddhist or Christian (a la Meister Eckhart) enlightenment as understood in terms of the perennial philosophy.
Is the bottom 10% that sticky ... nvm, looks like it may be. From a quick search, 43% of the individuals raised in the bottom 25% stay in the bottom quartile.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...