skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t that sort of like saying most humans die because their heart stops beating?
The first argument is not evaluated but used as data, the second argument is evaluated after the macro function returns, as part of the macro evaluation rules, i.e. (eval (let '((x 3) (y 5)) '(+ x y)))
Mathematically, I would phrase this by saying that the mapping of physical location to (lat,lon) pair is continuous. Space-filling curves and related things like Google's plus codes are nearly as good, in that (if you squint) they are continuous almost everywhere (everywhere but the boundary of some grid). W3W on the other hand is discontinuous everywhere.

I think the advantage of lat/lon boils down to the fact that everyone knows 79.999 is close to 80.000, even though they look quite different as raw text.
It's ironic that the author's recommendation of using `shareReplay(1)` actually leaks a subscription as well. Unless the operator is a supplied with `{ refCount: true }` config parameter, it does not unsubscribe from the source observable, even when all its subscribers unsubscribe: https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/src/internal/o...

Sadly, issues like this seem to crop up all the time when using reactive programming. I'm not as anti-reactive as most other commenters here seem to be, but there's no doubt that certain areas, particularly memory safety, sharing and buffering, seem hard to understand and get right.
Do we know if being diagnosed with cancer is the same as actually having cancer?
It reminds me of self-plagiarism.
That's how I feel when I have to complete those hellish recaptcha 2 challenges. I can't imagine doing something like that for longer than 15 seconds.

This is truly depressing, third world country type employment.
How is this less error-prone?? Have you tried doing a git clone of Linux on a case-insensitive filesystem and running git status?
If only that was true. Consistency is a design constraint, not a production problem. Making things work well in real world in production is the hard part, this is what distributed systems are actually about. And I like that about Aurora, focusing on the hard part.
I'm not arguing that the F-35 solves every problem here. I'm trying to deconstruct this weird interpretation of CAS that many people have.

> Why would the A-10 (Or a light attack aircraft) be hauling ass from there instead of already being in the air near the AO since it has a lot more fuel and loiter time (and lower cost per flight hour)? Or being closer since they can launch from more austere airfields.

That's a bad way to frame it, I could just argue that a bunch of B-1s should have been at altitude already as well. I guess we'll prop up multiple airfields in Syria because .... well we don't have to, we'll just use other equally as good assets that can be rapidly fielded from regional bases. It simplifies cost, provides quick and effective fire all at a much lower risk. Ultimately the ground force commander builds their own stack and helps arrange and field assets before any major operation. In a low threat environment, hell yes have a bunch of A-10s in the stack ready to rock. But what about some ODA in Nigeria that randomly gets ambushed? That's how we need to be talking about CAS.

> Quoting JTACs saying dialling in the fast movers afer their arrival takes a lot longer than a slow-mover in a near-contact situation which can be a serious issue (and large removes the "haul ass" 8-minute rule advantage).

"Quoting JTACs" is like quoting the private news network in my eyes.

> Quoting army captains saying the loiter time is so low after the fast movers have arrived that enemy forces basically learned to stop the attack for 30 minutes then resume after the fast-mover has had to go to the nearest tanker to refuel.

I wouldn't say that the loiter time is what led to that outcome. Being all holed up in a COP on a mountain side isn't the best place to be in the first place. That's why local CAS must also come into the picture somewhere if you plan to sustain operations.

> Or when I read about Special forces literally having to do end-runs around official policy to get some A-29s to support them because the existing kit wasn't doing the job.

Special mission stuff will always be special mission stuff. We still have OV-10s doing high speed shit in Iraq. That doesn't mean we should build more OV-10s. Tailored solutions are just that.
What are the associated problems?
Honestly, I'm a little disappointed with this article. Plagiarism detectors themselves are neither a crutch nor a problem--they're simply a tool. People's use of them as the grand arbiter on plagiarism as though they were stone tablets delivered to them from Mount Sinai is the problem.

I thought that, despite the title, that's what the author was talking about for the majority of this article, but then they mention things like...

> Only if a text is somehow off, and online searching does not help, should software systems be consulted.

Sorry, what? The only reason text would sound weird is if it's been specifically mangled to defeat plagiarism software (which makes plagiarism software already useful). There's practically no way you, as a student marker, busy professor, or someone reviewing hundreds of academic proposals has the time to slowly wade through each paper you get by googling choice sentences manually--something the plagiarism checker software can do just fine. I'm more-so confused, by the pair of statements that 1) "Software cannot determine plagiarism [...] That decision must be taken by a person" but also 2) "Only if a text is somehow off, and online searching does not help, should software systems be consulted". Isn't the author's whole point that plagiarism software false flags all the time? Isn't this, then, just "hey this sentence sounds funny, time to fail this student on some plagiarism."

If their argument, however, is that you should use plagiarism software for curatable results, then this seems like the opposite order of what should be done. Why waste all your time fruitlessly finessing Google if the software will straight up just find the OG source for you? You're not going to have read every single piece of writing conceivably connected to the essay/etc. you're reviewing (unless it's a field you know much about and also so narrow that you'd never consider using plagiarism software in the first place), so you're bound to be missing actual plagiarism all the time.
Clear proof that the majority of parents have neither the effort, the energy, nor the inclination to pay attention to what their children do while on their phone, to the extent of losing thousands of pounds of money (or in some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds)

and,

the children's ability to access porn through their parent's mobile phone over a phone network,

are unrelated?

That doesn't seem the case to me. In my experience, even very innocent searches can (unfortunately, and unexpectedly) bring up porn-related material.
> Uber's new CEO didn't just say that prices had to go up 50%-100% (to basically cab fares) to create a sustainable business.

I’m assuming you mean to say he did say that? Otherwise I’m not sure I understand your comment.

If so, can you link the statement you’re referring to?
You can structure your shorts to have limited downside
We do those things. She also does like an electronics kit we got, so it's not exclusive. But she prefers the girly colored legos. :)
Are you also talking about VOIP or only old fashioned phone systems?
Yes, it is fascinating.

I would say this is more related to cultural understanding and values, than how to just do something profitable.

The cognitive dissonance comes from valuing work, and getting affirmation from others that your work was worth more because of your efforts.

But this has nothing to do with math and accounting.
I think you hit on the way economists define "value"; value is derived from people believing something is valuable. Take gold or diamonds for example, which were highly valued before they even had industrial usages. Yes, both are pretty and are rare; however, there are many other equally pretty/rare things that weren't valued as highly. The only value they had was from perception, and that made the value real.
I actually had a virtual mailbox for a while. I don't currently, in part because I am in housing, in part because I'm chronically short of funds.

But maybe I should get one again at some point. Maybe that would help with some of mail/address issues.
That is what's happening, yes. But that still doesn't explain the why.

It would seem that people really don't understand the question I'm asking, and I'm at a loss to find another way of asking it that makes it clearer. Everyone is answering the how, no one is answering the why.

Here's another way of asking the question:

Based purely on what a photocopier does, and without knowing anything about how it works, can you deduce the result of photocopying a mirror?
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If one were to pursue this strategy, what's the quickest way to execute it? I called into my brokerage to ask, and they said it will probably be a week from tomorrow. Is there some lag after IPO's before the options market is established?
The problem with those kind of numbers is that they are easy to get wrong by a couple of digits. Think about how difficult it can be to read a number over the phone.

And guessing distances seems like a pretty unusual thing to do. Especially as latitude/longitude is a terrible system for that anyway. Small distances are very small numbers and hard to think about.

It is possible to make a spelling mistake in what three words, but the mistake will be readily obvious if you know the general location.

I shared your scepticism until I tried the app. The auto-complete is really slick and it just works. For sending coordinates through a human/speech interface it is just going to be more reliable. For ever other problem use another solution.
I knew I'd get this kneejerk reaction to "simply create and allocate the currency," I was holding out hope that responders would finish reading the sentence.

What I said was:

>a nation-state... can create and allocate the currency to serve this purpose.

I totally agree with you in a general sense. Creating and allocating currency and distributing it to the general population equally will cause the scenario you describe. "More dollars chasing fewer goods," as Greenspan described[1].

However, if we take the hypothetical scenario that the government agrees to pay exactly the current cost of the procedure at Narayana for medical procedures, none of what you described will come to pass. Wait times at Narayana might increase because more people might come in to have the services performed, but it will not cause runaway across-the-board inflation.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCZHAQnfGU
For 35 years Garfield phones have been washing up on a French beach
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photos captured on an iPad and automatically tagged to the site plan rather than realtime video feeds (which is both more practical and preferable from a liability standpoint, as the GC and architect both have incentive to maintain a paper trail of who approved X change, etc.)

There's no reason why the realtime video feed and the voice communication between the architect and GC couldn't be tagged and timestamped as well.

The AR angle certainly sounds cool but even aside from the HW not being there yet, I'm not sure how it would add much value.

For plans/models which have some 3D complexity, being able to crane your neck and move your POV around might be valuable for understanding exactly what's going on. This might be more applicable to building the 1st iteration of something like a large jetliner than to a building, though I've heard of situations in the building of stadiums where this would've been applicable.

The point is really to save the project time by letting the workers ask clarifying questions quickly, while enabling engineers and architects to understand the situation quickly, all while communicating in realtime. The turnaround for answering such questions probably couldn't get faster than that.
You keep saying "never" despite having given a counterexample two comments ago.

Besides, the point of a filesystem isn't to have opinions on right or wrong. It's to store files.
And there are a bunch of suckers who put in X% the work that each cofounder put in and are getting (X/1000)% of that 500M. It's because they assumed 1000x less risk presumably.
Do you mind sharing what school you went to? My partner is looking at getting into software engineering and I don't think a bootcamp is comprehensive enough for them and would prefer they look for schools like this.
Perhaps they’d be able to make living wages by putting their barn on Airbnb. It will be just like that episode of the office.
That is the real url. I was in a hurry and pasted the internal one.

It doesn't redirect automatically though.
This is a good point, though for most people, valuable skills are often "dry" and undesirable like plumbing, so someone who was really passionate might've persevered on his own anyways. Even if academia has the merit of making you persevere through a class you wouldn't have on your own, it's not efficient; Most of the classes colleges require from you to just graduate aren't "you-will-actually-need-this-later-in-life" classes and are just filler classes.

Front-loading on dry subjects also has the downside of scaring away people who would've otherwise done well given a different path of learning.

The timing of when you learn some things is also important; it matters not if you learned software architecture in college only to have all the knowledge become obsolete by the time you really need that skill - you'd have to review or worse relearn it by yourself all over again.
> in reality wealth is largely the result of labor and ingenuity

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that this is true.
I don't even need to write up a full reply, because you went and proved my point perfectly.

Idiots like David Duke and Richard Spencer make weak strawmen here. And i'm not even going to play into that game.

The problem is that paying better attention to whom you... defend(?), works both ways. Certain groups and people are literally believed and "protected" by the mainstream media by default, when they are clearly coming from a pretty strong POV.

>your own making

No it's a silencing tactic, no more and no less.

When one side stops calling everybody else nazis, then maybe we can all come together and have an adult talk about "toxicity" but that's not going to happen as long as some keep acting like little children on the playground calling others names to shut down debate.
> even if you ignore them

But you don't ignore them. If you have a bruise on your shin, you may not think much about it, but it's pretty unlikely that you'll bump your leg just as hard again on the coffee table on the same spot.
I'm saying that Uber basically kept prices where they were when they really needed to jack them up. Which he didn't do.
How so and in what way? Just stating something without even the slightest bit of explanation is hardly believable.
They should apologize not only for failing keyboards, but for creating a keyboard that is likely to give a lot of people repetitive stress injuries. The previous model started this trend. Most people will, hopefully, not experience this, but for people with RSI problems, each new generation of Macs has been worse and worse. Compare this to the 2007 MBPro models and there is simply no comparison. Unfortunately, the industry seems to follow wherever Apple goes blindly and does not care about healthy use of its devices. I expect a keyboard without any moving parts where one just jams on a glass surface (like the magic trackpad 2) any year now. I just hope we have universal healthcare in the US by then as worker's compensation is not too keen to pay for obvious work injuries like this in many states.
How about an ICBM based on the Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule that's designed to land gently in enemy territory, so the pilot can step outside in a silver suit and say "klaatu barda nikto!"
Shit, back before G+ called this “circles”, we had “friends groups” on Livejournal, and I sure do remember my friends making a good number of posts that they notes were locked to one group or another. And these were not programmers for the most part, they were artists and writers and other non-technical types.

You’d decide to start following someone and you’d get a screen with checkboxes for all your friends groups, so you could add them to whichever ones you felt appropriate. It was super easy. Or do it later if your feelings on who you wanted to share particular things with changed.
I appreciate the clarification.
The problem is that if you do the intuitive thing (which is what pilots are trained to do for most trim overruns - pull on the stick to counter the trim), the MCAS goes through the increasing cycle to full nose-down. It's 40 seconds to realize that your usual strategy isn't working, figure out what to actually do, and then turn off the exact right system.
the fact that you don't know anyone with a rare cancer doesn't mean that the chances are not doubled. empirical one man observations cannot contradict a study even if the study is flawed
JEP 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

Can we start blaming Physicians and Pharmacists yet? Physicians are 300k+/yr earners because they artificially limit admissions of medical school.

Not to mention its dangerous to use Pharmacists in 2019. Everything should be done by computers. Expensive Dangerous rubber stamp.

But yes, Hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmacies are to blame.

To no surprise, all top 20 lobbyists, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Boeing has delivered 376 737MAXes since May 2017. About as many were delivered in 2019 as 2017, so figure their median age is 9 months. Figure a month from delivery to going into full service. That makes for 90,578 flight days of service. Figure 6 flights per day, you get about half a million flights. We know that the AoA vane had a failure in at least 3 flights, and we should probably assume that there were another three failures on the alternate side. That gives a failure rate of 6/500,000 = 1.2*10^-5. That's about 8x better than my spitball 10^-4.

The reason two planes have gone down is that the MCAS cure is worse than the instability disease. MCAS incorrectly activates at 10^-5, and empirically this failure is 66% fatal. If you can get MCAS to only activate when it's needed, the fact that it won't always be there to protect you is not so crucial.

Think about it like this: Would it bother you if the airbag in your car only went off 99.9% of the time when you got in an accident? It shouldn't, and it would hardly make any difference in auto fatalities. On the other hand, if the airbag in your car randomly went off on 0.1% of drives you took, you'd have that happen to you once a year or so, and there's a good chance that it would eventually cause you lose control of your car and crash.
In some Universities these mandatory Liberal Arts "electives" are fluffy filler topics where you are forced to buy the textbook written by the lecturer. You can only choose between four equally fluffy filler topics per semester.

I was fucking furious when I realized I'd been duped. I'm a voracious omnivore and I do believe Universities should promote wider learning but this was a straight up money extraction scam.
It seems like the existence of these tools implies that all of your papers are "going to be gathered in a centralized database," right?

(I'm lucky enough to be old enough that this wasn't an issue. OTOH, we couldn't just Google or search Stack Overflow from source code examples...)
My point is that DQN is pretty far removed from the biological equivalent. It's impressive and useful but the main reason it succeeded was not because of some deep insight from neuroscience but because it scaled well (or at least better than alternatives at the time).

EDIT: Richard Sutton (largely credited as the grandfather of RL) has written about this recently: http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
To be fair, if you ask the average guy on the street which is the better school, Yale or MIT? They're gonna say Yale. If you ask the average guy which is better, Stanford or CalTech? They're gonna say Stanford.

We, on HN, might think MIT is better than Stanford, but outside of the bubble, believe it or not, there is an entire world of people who never even heard of CalTech. A world of people who have no idea what MIT is.

There is no point in using something for conspicuous consumption, unless that something is actually conspicuous.
There are likely document retention policies that limit how long the relevant emails and text messages may be retained. There could be Word files or other documentation that captures discussions still floating around though.

Hopefully whoever is investigating this is acting fast to acquire the emails before they automatically get wiped.
It assumes you follow the calendar of the British Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750
What vacuum do you think military aviation operates in? Honestly. The A-10 will loiter for an hour or two at most depending on loadout. The F-35 will do about the same.

Loiter time isn't as big of a variable as people make it out to be. We'll just throw more assets into the mix. What matters is getting there fast to be able to actually impact the fight in a meaningful way.
That's a bit glib, though. They are the 2nd mover in a capital intensive business. Kalanick did better, in a pretty direct comparison. Anyway, I'll drop it. They have set up their families for centuries, build a huge company in extraordinary little time, made a lot of their employees rich, made life a lot better for people trying to hail a cab, and I don't want to rain on their well-deserved parade today.
I’ve worked as a surgical technician and can say that this already occurs in most hospitals. It was within my scope of practice to help the doctor suture at the end of the case as well as apply staples and bandaging so that they didn’t need to.
To be clear, when I say degree, I mean any piece of formal paperwork that indicates mastery of a skillset - in my first post I mentioned apprenticeships, but there are all sorts of degrees, certifications, and diplomas which all serve the same purpose.

Yes, but if you're an employer you want some basis for knowledge of competence. For CS or whatever you can often look at their prior work, for physical engineering, or chemistry, etc, there isn't an equivalent.

As for Law: there are a number of legal professions that don't require passing the bar exam, so having a signifier of knowledge is useful. As for pass the bar but no degree: I don't know enough about law to have a real opinion, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that amount of education require to pass the bar exam seems exceed that required to get the degree.

And you are right, lots of people come out of university who are completely clueless, but for any position where it isn't possible to have a prior example of skill and knowledge, you need to propose an alternative to a "certificate of knowing stuff" that isn't simply a different form of the same thing.
I just learned this myself, but apparently if you don't cite yourself as the source of previously published information it's considered self-plagiarism.
I wonder about the economics of the Japanese bullet trains. Are they profitable?

Are cars so expensive in Japan that the cost of a train ticket can be higher in comparison to the US?