skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why do these biases need to be defeated?

are they getting in the way of finding a middle ground between being lost in space and being the center of the universe? do we need to find a middle ground?

in my opinion a compelling narrative primarily needs to address the problems humanity is facing today: poverty and wealth, climate change, gender equality, war and conflict, disagreement of religion, racism and prejudice, injustice...

i think to address these, it doesn't matter much whether we are lost in space or the center of the universe
I think there is a sweet spot.

Too "modern" and I assume a site is using excessive amounts of tracking and playing other tricks with A/B testing different marketing tactics for services to try to milk their customers for all their worth.

Too crappy and I start to question if the site is actually secure and if they are putting enough money into IT... or if it's even the real site vs some kind of scam.

Both can be problems that erode trust, but they are different problems.
I can see it now:

"3 million lost works of Shakespeare found"
Either it's safe or it's unsafe. If you use the keyword "unsafe" it should definitely not mean "safe" (and it doesn't, but you seem to suggest it).
I've rarely met anyone who can get more than four useful hours a day. Sure, there's lots more time when you are thinking about work, writing code in your head, prioritizing, and planning. That stuff can and does happen when you sit at your desk, or while you are biking, running, doing laundry, or watching tv.
If we are talking fairness, I will take the doctor salary, thx.
The TV license is certainly bit ridiculous, but being legally blind doesn't necessarily mean you can't see at all, just you fall below the legal threshold where it's judged that poor sight will interfere with your day-to-day life. Lots of people registered as blind can still watch the TV just fine even if they won't be able to see the detail.
Both JB Hunt and Tyson Foods are nearby. Both very large Fortune 500 companies. Lots of smaller companies that work with Walmart have offices there, too.

And as others have said, it's mountain bike heaven. Super low cost of living, too.

Not my thing and I wouldn't move there, but for some folks it's very attractive.
I believe this is demonstrating the performance improvement of RTK [0] alone, not dead reckoning. GPS + dead reckoning is what phones and wearable do afaik, whereas RTK requires getting correction data associated to base stations nearby and seems mostly relevant for industrial applications (you need a subscription in the case of u-blox).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_kinematic_positionin...
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> loicense

Should obviously be spelt loicence.
You had bad teachers which says nothing about the paradigm or how it's taught generally.

When I did my CS classes (at the beginning of the 'OOP will solve all the problems' era), we had excellent introductions to encapsulation and polymorphism and the rest with detailed examples in (early, cfront) C++ and Modula-2 & Ada. But then we had FP with SML & Hope and a couple of others that were poorly taught and most of us thought "this functional stuff is awful". YMMV.
If I had to guess, they’re probably just expanding the Scheme code into C code during compilation. Also: it isn’t an endless C loop; do{/statements/}while(0) is a common macro idiom for a block of code that requires a trailing semicolon, i.e. one that behaves syntactically like a normal (void) function call. It only runs once because the condition is false.
Aha, I see. Line segments from quads suffer from all the issues mentioned in the article as well, especially in the distance, but I didn't quite understand in what context is the grid shader applicable. Thank you for clearing this up.
As you are probably aware, popular phones like the iPhone 15 and Samsung Galaxy S24 (#1 and #2 in the USA) are in that range, costing $700 and $1300 for the 'basic' models.
This attack was harsh...it's a shame such people don't spend their intelligence on doing something good for society.
>smaller countries like Germany

wat
Can't speak for Bentonville, but Little Rock is awesome!
Regardless of how valid it is, it makes for some great movies.
Talking about someone's track record of predictions is not an ad hominem, in the context of evaluating their credibility with respect to the subject of those predictions.
or, you know, instead I'm going to continue with my strategy, but you do you. I can't believe it's 2024, and we have to have a conversation about personal preferences, so odd, right?
This is how Australia's public broadcaster is funded. But it means politicians directly decide its budget, which makes it a political football.
I don't think that is a more accurate headline.

The potential regulation is about the government making phones unlock automatically after two months of purchase. The regulation isn't about banning discounts or sales.
The point about re-evaluating expectations after breaking up really resonated with me. 6 months ago I broke up with my girlfriend after months of being unhappy with certain things in the relationship. Now, 6 months later, I can say that this was one of the worst decisions, if not the single worst decision, I ever made in my entire life. Turns out, that relationship was pretty ideal for me in many ways, and I should have tried to resolve the issues I had rather than bottling up my dissatisfaction and letting it eventually boil over. I now have a much better idea of what I want out of life and what I'm looking for in a relationship. I just wish I could have learned that lesson without causing someone so much pain and then going through so much pain myself.
Yeah these security holes they exposed were huge! I hope the company gets sued.

Lulz are a really cheap bounty program and a lot of kids value the opportunity to be a shitass way more than money.
What happens when the buyer says "no, I'm not paying" and sells the phone?

Instant money. Meanwhile the telecom company has to sell the debt at a massive discount to a collections agency or spend a ton of money collecting on it. That's assuming it can be collected on at all from someone that might just be running a scam.

With a locked phone, the phone just stops working and loses most of its value.

A rule forcing carriers to unlock phones after the term is up is fine. Forcing them to do it before is illogical. How many people are going to pay for two plans on one phone because they didn't like the first plan? I doubt it's more than those who will immediately abuse this rule and stop paying for the phone. I don't see the benefit to society here.
> But the Church and some others didn't like the answer

The church does not have a position on it. You’re expanding the number of people of the religious side who really deeply care about it. And this forms my opinion of the motivation of those skeptics who feel the need to prove again or get heated when the topic arises that it’s not genuine—It feels like it’s less about debunking an object and more about debunking a church.
Are you familiar with how large the jurisdiction claimed by the CBP is? It's 100 miles from any border of the country [1]. What exactly counts as enough camera coverage? Should we just cover one border? Do we need to expand this to the Canadian border as illegal crossings increase up there as well? Should we blanket the majority of the population in these cameras now that we've established how big their jurisdiction is despite low evidence of their usefulness for their actual job?

[1] https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
Why isn't the surface smaller then? Probably something inside is pushing out? It's full? Also on the way to a black hole bodies clearly have insides. Do they somehow evaporate the moment a black hole forms?

Edit: My understanding is that all bodies are the size that they are because the inner/outer pressure equalizes, and this has many equilibriums based on the makeup of the body. Black holes are the ultimate degenerate last-stand where the make up is basically raw "information" which cannot be compressed any further while allowing said information to be recovered, which seems to be a fact of our universe. And it just so happens that the amount of information is proportional to the surface area of the black hole rather than its volume, which is probably a statement about how efficiently information can be compressed in our universe. One dimension is redundant?
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I never even knew they did this.
I had finger running on login to `finger stacy` I was at SDSU on a very large SunOS system and she was at a private school and I assume that computer was a bit more limited.

`Finger Stacy` would run every minute and typically be running for 15 minutes max... that is until I moved into the dorms and my machine was online all the time.

A few weeks go by and I get an email from the SDSU admin requesting that I stop fingering stacy as it was bothering the other Sysadmin. I remarked with a grin that all I was trying to do was in fact try to `name of the command` and they promptly deleted the script from the account.. It still makes me smile as I write this.
"Language" in the sense of "the thing only humans have been shown to do" requires a bit more than just one to one correlations between signifiers and objects (or a "sentence" of signifiers with the same meaning as all of the words added together independently). For a system of symbols to be "language" there must be a difference between "what the cat ate" and "what ate the cat". No animal communication has been shown to have a grammar to it, and thus the ability to express exponentially many unique ideas with each additional word.
Oh but C# can do even those: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
Too ironic
"To this day, it is used as a case study in psychology classes to highlight both the psychology of evil as well as the ethics of doing psychological research with human subjects."

should read

"To this day, the thoroughly debunked session is used as a case study in psychology classes to highlight both the psychology of 'publish or perish' as well as the fundamental flaws in the science psychology pretends to have"

But it doesn't, because that would require the field admitting it is deeply flawed
They type of people they target don't even have money saved for an emergency. Let alone money to invest.
Keep in mind that prices in France are WAY lower than in the US according to this site. https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/ (edit: bad autocorrect)
Non-Violence as a Societal Value
Cheaper phones have a way higher value/$ ratio. Instead of financializing expensive phones the market should encourage cheaper phones through increased demand.
Because if you free-fall into a black hole you can go past the event horizon.
Thanks for posting. Reminds me of Dan Gilbert's famous paper on the subject. He took polls of people at random times during the day when smartphones first emerged.

"In conclusion, a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost."

https://dtg.sites.fas.harvard.edu/KILLINGSWORTH%20&%20GILBER...
I agree with the general sentiment of your comment and I think there are several factors at play here.

* The human brain is not capable of evaluating and re-evaluating every possible option amongst the plethora of technical choices developers are faced with. This forces us to develop certain coarse grained mental heuristics (prejudices and biases) to navigate technology, and even if these broad generalizations are roughly true initially, we tend not to re-evaluate them over time. This leads to stale biases (e.g. some library/language was missing an API 10 years ago, and someone formed an immutable opinion on it).

* These broad generalizations lack nuance. I watched a talk recently by Dan Abramov where he calls these heuristics (I'm paraphrasing) a form of information compression [1]. That compression is lossy — it doesn't preserve the original context in which the heuristic was formed.

* There's also some insecurity at play here too. Developers want to believe that they've chosen The One True Solution, and harshly invalidating the alternatives is one way to reenforce that fantasy.

* And of course, social media has exacerbated this problem by rewarding inflammatory hot takes. You won't get nearly as many views/upvotes/likes for a sober take that says "technology X is well suited for this narrow use case" as you will for a hot take that says "why technology X failed", or "why everyone hates technology X".

You might enjoy this link: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KCHwOwgms
Indeed, they could be hacking e.g. book publishers.
I don’t understand the hate. Anyone here want Jessie as a co-founder? Of course not. So what do you want instead? Make a list. You can learn a lot by learning what not to do. And I’ve met some founders, CEOs, leaders, characters I’d certainly not want as a co-founder.
There's a very simple and effective way to completely stop the immigration "crisis". The root cause is immigrating coming here for jobs.

Okay, now if you're an American company and you hire illegal immigrants, everyone goes to jail. Within a year, the problem will disappear.

Nobody would actually suggest this though, let alone the right. It's politically advantageous to keep around cheap pseudo-slave labor while simultaneously espousing semi-fascist narratives about "an enemy inside" (spooky!)
Ah, sorry. I forgot part of the story :)

No, after over a month of them saying "it'll take a week for it after I escalate" and then me calling a week later and starting the whole conversation over, one day it finally was unlocked. And I moved to a new carrier.
The school I went do did a lot of oral examinations where each student would walk to the front of the class then answer questions, do math problems, recite poetry, etc.
Somehow the rest of the world gets by with much cheaper phones.
> I mean: you can disagree with Jordan Peterson (I'm certainly not a religious person, for a start) but what did he do that warranted the old Twitter censoring him?

This tweet[0] was the kickoff point as I recall. I don't really think that getting banned pending deleting the tweet is that egregious. It's one thing to have non-woke opinions and argue for them. I don't follow Jordan Peterson, but I imagine he had posted many times on transgender issues, before he posted the offending tweet.

The issue seems more to have been specifically calling out specific persons, "criminal physician", Elliot Page, in a way that could be construed as inciting to violence

[0] https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/twitter-suspends-jordan-peters...
I think the implication was that the majority of the demographic will find a deep red state governor a non-starter. Perks of a given city aside, for decades their tax dollars will get thrown away fighting causes like trans rights, same as with all the losing battles against civil rights, interracial marriage, gay marriage, heavy metal, video games, etc.
Not having a built-in syncing mechanism is the #1 reson I'm looking to move away from KeepassXC as soon as possible. Making users kludge together their own makeshift sync methods using file shares and dropbox is honestly comical when syncing is probably one of the main features people think of when talking about password managers.
Ars Technica has been downhill ever since Condé Nast bought them. So has Wired - sometimes the stupidity is just unreadable.
It is, of course, a malware writer's first amendment right to publish those plugins...

https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/
It depends on whether you're publicly sharing your valuation work or confidentially advising a client about valuation.

The former is what equity research analysts do at major investment banks (like Morgan Stanley, BAML, JP Morgan, etc.) and boutique / middle-market research firms (Stifel, Cantor Fitzgerald, Raymond James, Guggenheim, etc.). Google has led me to this LinkedIn post with a long list of equity research firms which seems accurate and credible after skimming it briefly: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-comprehensive-list-sell-...

The latter is what I used to do as an M&A advisor. Basically the "I want to buy company X, how much should I pay?" or "I may be interested in selling / people are reaching out expressing interest in my company, how much am I worth?" type of scenarios, plus some other more complex but not necessarily more fun things like merger of equals and what have you. In these situations, the analysis tends to be more of a "let's look at it from all angles" which usually gets distilled into a one-page summary nicknamed "football field" showing ranges of values according to various methodologies. Things like DCF, discounted equity value, relative trading multiples (also called "comps"), LBO (also called the "floor valuation") all get featured and are the standard metrics on which an advisor's view is supported.

As an advisor, I never came up with my own projections for valuation, because that would open the door for litigation so it's just not done. Instead, we point to what "the street" is saying, by taking the consensus view (often some filtered average/mean of equity research projections usually provided by Bloomberg, FactSet or Capital IQ for liability reasons, but which may be "handspread" in some situations by actually pulling the specific numbers from the latest available research reports from several analysts and calculating the mean).

I hope that helps answer your question but happy to answer any follow-ups too since I'm always glad to share what I know about the topic
Someone discovered a large chunk of blog.twitter.com was gone, so some screwing around has already happened. The IA is now below Wikipedia for credibility :/

EDIT: https://x.com/0rf/status/1847814884794253671
I've been using Comic Code in my terminal and editor for several years now and quite like it. It's easy for me to read, doesn't have any ambiguity between characters that I've noticed, and I find it entertaining. Fonts don't always need to take themselves so seriously.
> and lacked basic curiosity

This is an incredible take, and I have no idea where you have seen this, as it's entirely counter to my own personal experience. I have never, in my life, met a finance bro or management bro who had any non-work curiosity about anything beyond sports, cars, and sex.

Most engineers I know are immensely curious about how the world works, how the universe works, etc, and are constantly trying to learn and understand.
I overexagerated, it feels like dozen of ads by the real estate they take up. you're technically and precisely correct by your definition. I just don't go to most news paper and magazine websites.
I once came up with a not so easy mathematical proof for a homework exercise while taking a nap.
I trust sites that aren't heavy with javascript (less ad tech and so better privacy). In my experience, banks sites are often optimized to run on low end user devices and so make good use of old fashion HTTP requests for managing interactivity.
compared to a car (medium) or house (large)?
It's copyrighted so I should not even look at it, and therefore not comment on it.
That would be really funny if true. You're totally right about the stamp part.
I’m genuinely interested In this kind of thing but isn’t any evidence of their usefulness or actual proof they do what they claim just Anecdotal?
Spectacular failing doesn't need to be humiliating or ruinous, but it does need to be a spectacle. An incredibly obvious, public showing of failure that needs no additional explanation for people to recognize it as such. Even if the additional explanation makes it even better.

This is just "failing a personal goal", sans spectacle.
My family (parents, siblings) are asking me "How did our T-mobile phone bill balloon so much in the past decade?" and I can point to the slow creep and the plan changes they made that (without them knowing or anyone telling them) un-grandfathered them out of a favorable promotional plan. For instance my sister needed to increase her data cap about a few months before they moved our data to unlimited. It pushed her out of the promo and now the family plan costs $35/mo extra even though her line is getting the exact same things as mine, which is still on the promo pricing.

Then I tell them they'd be better served by switching to an MVNO offering significantly better rates and they come back and tell me they're locked in for a while because they just financed new devices.

I'm souring on the ways we create systems where you have to be super savvy and walk on eggshells with how you use the service and utter the right incantations or else you get hosed.
There is an even simpler thought experiment you can do to reach this conclusion: consider what the result of measuring anything to an infinite precision could possibly look like. It would require somehow recording an infinite amount of information. How would you do that, particularly when you take into account that everything you can interact with to make an information storage device is subject to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
There's a real tendency to overthink, and be too close to a complex problem, in just about any intellectual endeavor.

I believe that it's important to try and refrain from making big decisions, or big changes, in a project before you've had an opportunity to step away from it and clear your mind: with a shower, a jog, a nap, or all of the above.

It's amazing how my perspective can change after stepping away, sometimes voluntarily. My hot temper has an opportunity to cool down. My analytical neurons have opportunities to chew on the problem for a while. I make better connections and get a better "big picture" view after zooming out.
I haven't work with Cheryl for probably 15 years now, but at the time her family was very important to her and I don't imagine that has changed. There are more than just monetary costs for relocating.
Ask HN: Use AI to pay students based on how well-behaved they are in class?
An AI could constantly monitor student behavior in class and determine how much each student should be paid.

Wouldn't that solve the problem of bad behavior among K-12 students nowadays?
I don't follow this. I would imagine an influx of extremely cheap labor would raise everyone else's living standards, not lower them. Because everything is cheaper to produce. That's why Dubai has extremely extravagant places put right next to pseudo-slave's shanties.
I think that in your case you've correctly observed that it would be nearly impossible to commission or otherwise fake your particular dissertation/project because of its experimental nature, and that you were called to a viva.

There are certainly similar projects being completed by students every year, and doubtless those students are not cheaters, but for each dissertation like yours, there are probably 10 or more projects that are not collaborative and have no artefacts or supporting evidence other than a written report. Such projects are fairly easy to commission. For a reasonable price (potentially thousands of dollars) you can pay a poor research student in the same field as you to churn out a mid-tier dissertation. This can be detected with a viva, but the academics need to be very confident before accusing someone of cheating. More often than not, you can get away with it and just get a not great grade.

I think that in general the natural/formal sciences don't suffer nearly as much as social science and humanities do, simply because exams and labs tend to highlight irregularities, and cheaters are less likely to be drawn into "hard" fields. However, it still exists in every field.