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Weirdly enough, facial recognition works for me with a mask already, but only if I take off my glasses.

I only go to Allrecipes now for exactly this reason. It’s funny, people used to mock that site for the stupid reviews, but what matters can quickly change...

Things may have changed, but last time I read about this topic, Uber is doing a lot less to help the efficiency of the drivers than you’d think. Making real money requires the driver’s themselves to learn their local area’s hotspots and strategies. Which probably makes sense from their incentive perspective.

Conversely, I think a lot of people buy digital movies and never watch them because they want to own them. We all probably have friends who buy games they never play off of steam.

I’m pretty sure that’s the point. But since it’s trendy people try to apply it to everything.

Given that people had a bimodal distribution of confidence, I would assume that means a lot of the perceived overconfidence come from people answering a question wrong that they thought was easy. I wonder if the test takers would say “that was a trick question”.

14 billion dollars was spent in the 2020 election [1]. If someone wants to “nefarious”ly analyze public information for political purposes, they can easily do it with private funds.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/10/28/202...

Fish’s predictive suggestions are also greatly for quick navigation

If ethics is confined to politics and religion, humanity is in big trouble...

> A README is meant for someone who is first encountering the project to be able to quickly decide if they want to learn more about it.

In the past, by time I got to the readme I had already downloaded the project. It’s kind of weird how places like GitHub rendering the readme have changed the practice.

> In other words, only 10% of developers from the given country scored higher in their coding tests than the results you see below. We made this change because the mean score includes outliers that often influence averages and skew results.

That feels risky?

Sweden’s numbers are illustrative here, with COVID cases rising steadily since January, but deaths are going down.

The point of the trolley problem is that it’s hard to make the right decision. Yet apparently anyone who doesn’t make a decision based on the move naive application of utilitarianism is a coward.

Only if you assume that utilitarianism is the answer to the Trolley Problem

I realize the pandemic has led to many people having limited social interaction with the outside world, but I would encourage you all to dig deep and recall the imprecision of casual, spoken language before reaching for a counter example and declaring checkmate.

Apple apparently has 308 million dollars of incentives to fix the system, so maybe that’s a good start.

Agreed. But flashy title aside, it’s probably a nice page to send to someone looking to get started in the terminal.

On the theme of the posted article “Literally any real language would be better” is how I feel every time I write cmake/auto tools/etc

> The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini

It seems countries like this could benefit massively from an effective vaccine

It wouldn’t shock me if the recent drop was pandemic related, but “70% in 1999” really puts into context what a big social shift we’re living in.

The article has some interesting notes about English, but I don’t really understand the connection to the post title?

> One person was not upset enough. The other was too upset.

This immediately made me think of Camus’s The Stranger, though maybe it’s an overreaction to bring existentialism into the conversation!

This might be naive but, in the age before spell check, I wonder if a lot of people consistently made spelling mistakes like this. I mean you wouldn’t know you were wrong unless you checked in the dictionary.

Yes but science and computer programming are fundamentally different activities. The programmer tries to reproduce the bug because his main fear is that he can’t see its effect. But the scientist’s main fear is that the experimental setup does not robustly test the underlying hypothesis. If you reproduce exactly the conditions (and remember you will always be criticized for missing X), the best you can learn is whether the previous result was not completely fabricated (or statistical noise). It’s much more productive to subject a result to a wide battery of tests.

> despite not actually trying to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons experimental setup accurately

I’ve been seeing this claim in another field: about hydroxychloquinine. Every time a study comes out which doesn’t show a benefit, people rush in saying “that’s because they forgot X, didn’t dose the right amount of Y, etc”

I’m actually not sure what to make of this phenomenon in general. I will say though that when you’re trying to test a hypothesis, completely replicating another experiment isn’t necessary. You should test it under a variety of conditions. That makes it easier to avoid the same hidden mistakes that the original experiment might have included.

It’s a shame the article doesn’t offer any hints as to why. I’m sure that we can point the finger at lobbyists and grift, but a big spike in 2020 probably is COVID related?

It’s interesting, a couple years ago I remember there was some debate about upgrading the public transport in Seattle(?), and I saw some comments saying maybe we need to hold off in case a full autopilot car infrastructure might emerge as a cheaper alternative. I think we’re all a lot more grounded at this point...

The nerve of that website to beg for donations while being plastered with advertisements

There’s a lot of research in the field of scientific computing aimed at exactly this kind of data. You can definitely gain a lot of your floating point data is varying slowly.

I think the trade off here is that if you don’t put the end meeting button there, users will get frustrated because they can’t find the end meeting button.