skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a weird mix of English and French (Montreal) :)

It's just surprising to me since butt always was less formal than "posterior" and less rude than what we'd more frankly call an "ass".

I definitely want to acknowledge that I know not all environments are similar to mine :)

I'm just surprised to hear there are contexts where someone might find the phrase "I've fallen on my butt" to be more rude than if any other body part was mentioned. I would have assumed the problem is less the word choice and the fact that people are being rather prude about bodies and their function, much like grade schoolers are like to be.
Everything depends on taste but I love Neuromancer, it's really good at building a complicated world that isn't overburdened and I find the notion that it is "boring" kind of crazy! It almost reads like a thriller. Immediately one of my favorite books when I picked it up. It's certainly of our time, one of those books that you won't believe was written when it was. And it doesn't really feel dated, we might still be heading towards the world it portrays, hard to say... haha
"I put on the cloak... the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings and gatherings so far as the eye is concerned, showing only a featureless dark."
1. Absolutely my experience. NPM is pain.

2. Whether you go positional or use an options hash, you still need to carefully unpack your args at the top of the subroutine. And do it consistently. There are a ton of libraries to help with this, too.

The most important thing is to pick a house style and do it everywhere that doesn't need to be different.
sure you can. easily done with basic server side tracking by parsing the User-Agent header. you should be logging this any way in some kind of access log.
Ironically on your point, a book seems like a poor way to send a message to this particular president...
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Same reaction. You could handle this kind of traffic with, just as examples, procmail or inetd on a single PC.
Pretty soon your app is just a bunch of proprietary cloud provider products glued together and now there’s vendor lock-in and much less flexibility.

You might want to throttle messages based on user settings or say ML models to avoid too many annoying messages. For critical stuff you might want to switch over to email or SMS.

These are startups that have the funding to do this kind of thing. This is a core part of the stack for any such company.
Unfortunately Dorkinson's comes for us all.
Well that felt facetious
The thing is, you could be similarly screwed by a biased human whose grading is not checked by a less biased human.

At least the machines offer the following hope: even if unbiased humans are rare among paper-grading teachers, those humans can be used to train the machines, so then bias-free or lower-bias grading becomes more ubiquitous.

Basically, the system has the potential for systematically identifying and reducing systematic bias. A computer program can be retrained much more readily than nation-wide army of humans. Humans can be given a lecture on bias, and then they will just return to their ways.
`n \choose k` is for the heretics (or maybe hereTeX)

Just say NO! to plain TeX commands.
Sure, but I have literally no interest in revolting and there is no possible world in which a revolt would succeed due to the Evil Dictatorship dutifully uploading all their information advantages to a public server.

Back in the real world, I don't have any issues with the supermarket videoing me self-scanning, but would have issues with them being compelled to share information on my shopping habits in real time with literally anybody that wanted to know where I was and what I was doing right now and who I was with...
They do mention irritation:

>She did notice, however, that the European kids would experience red eyes, irritated by the salt in the water, whereas the Moken children appeared to have no such problem. “So perhaps there is some adaptation there that allows them to dive down 30 times without any irritation,” she says.
> If it is cost-prohibitive for every essay to be graded by humans, then they should be dropped from the tests.

Apparently it is. But everyone still wants writing to be assessed…
That doesn’t make sense?
I have a Tesla, mostly love the software, but I would far far prefer CarPlay.

Having to use my phone to select podcasts or songs or deal with texts is pretty damn backwards.

The integrated music service for Tesla is third rate and a bit embarrassing. I don't know why I have to be stuck with their terrible deal that they made many moons ago.

Just give me CarPlay or Android, Tesla.
Their not being exact is why 0.49999997 + 0.5 = 1. There isn't enough precision in the range just below 1.0 to represent the number 0.99999997.
Sure, but just because the average is 278 per second doesn’t mean the events happen at that rate. Bursts are way harder to process, which is much more typical. But someone writes an article like “How We Handle X things every Y”, and inevitably someone does basic division and surmises that it shouldn’t be so hard.
To go on a tangent, even though my personal search for the ultimate handheld computer shall never be concluded, I feel like I found a lot of the things I've been looking for (specifcally in Zaurus and the Psions) in my 7" GPD Pocket 2, which incidentally (paired with a keyboard and screen) is my main machine these days, yet I do carry it in my jacket's inner pocket to do some programming on the go.

It runs Linux, is run-of-the-mill Intel-based ultrabook somewhat on the lower end (Core i3, 8GB ram, 128GB disk), with indeed its only non-boring feature being its size. Build quality, battery life, etc. is all on par with big-brand ultrabooks.
This is my first time learning that AI-graded essays are a thing. Am I the only one who thinks that's insane? I feel like you'd probably have to have an AGI to meaningfully evaluate an essay.
Cannabis gives me manic and schizophrenic symptoms. I feel emotions I don’t have names for. I don’t get these symptoms without. This is a strong psychedelic with a very long binding time deep inside our neurobiology.
There's the promise of faster Emacs (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs written in Guile Scheme.) But it has 2 main problems: A) it's apparently stalled and B) not even it's supposedly known-good commit is compilable... :-(
Because a (likely unsophisticated) algorithm is grading the essays, there's probably a deterministic method to do score well.

This seems like a terrible idea.

It's not a stretch to imagine the opportunity for nefarious behavior this allows - think of the recent college admission scandals, and how happy they'd be to have a guise of algorithmic indifference'.

If used long-term, it could offer a big advantage to the wealthy in other avenues. Another hypothetical, probably not far from reality: the algorithm becomes solved (almost or completely) by some premier 'tutoring' company. Said company can charge a pretty penny given its stellar track record, offering yet another hidden advantage to the wealthy/elite.
I think machines could be valuable in giving feedback on writing, like that grammarly.com.

A lot of what students write is actually garbage from that point of view. Even if they happen to have a good basic idea about what they want to say, the point of essay writing is to master the mechanics of expression so that you get the idea across effectively.

Whether the student has a brilliant idea isn't even so important, and it wouldn't even be fair; imagine if high school computer science expected students to turn in a best-selling app for a term project. Not everyone can come up with something brilliant to say; and even relatively mundane lines of reasoning can be given a good treatment in writing to develop the skill.

I remember when I had essays graded in school, a lot of the comments were low-grade fluff like "run on sentence", "wrong word", "faulty parallelism", "missing colon before 'for example'" and such points having nothing to do with the content being original, well-considered and well-argued. That sort of thing might as well be done by machine, at least as a preprocessing step to improve a student's rough draft.
I just realized that EPUB is the CHM of the modern world.
"they'll replace it with the same faulty keyboard"

We know they've gone through several revisions that have purportedly reduced the incidents of problems, and they'll likely go through more improvements. When you get your keyboard replaced they will use the better variant.
Can you even buy a car without all this software crap anymore?
Ha, literally the only person to directly answer the question. downvoted.
The use of the future continuous when there is no reason not to use the simple future is both awkward and needlessly wordy, though it's more in the class of things (in a programming analogy) you'd catch with a linter than the kind that throws compiler errors.
One big factor is being free from bundling proprietary, vendor-specific libraries that may also leak user's information or otherwise increase the security risk footprint of your app. Having control over the services that make up the core of your business, as opposed to outsourcing and relying on 3rd-parties, can be very freeing and also cost effective in the long run.
Add to these multiple dispatch and support for literate programming.

There's also a nice interface for writing command line utilities that takes advantage of the above.

See my Christmas themed 2018 Perl6 Advent Calendar article on the topic: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/day-17-checking...
I would think that manually granting (or revoking) specific permissions on a per-software basis equals more control, not less!

I agree that users need full control. I also think a few decades of personal computing have shown us that the defaults should be pretty safe and therefore restrictive.

Users should have to jump through a hoop or two (perhaps as simple as `sudo enable-expert-mode` in a terminal, or some such) before being able to shoot themselves in the foot.
I have a super fancy new car that is quite expensive. It has all the gizmos on your list and then some.

It has a relatively small incremental benefit. I love the thing, sure, but it really isn't 'worth it' at all, it's purely an emotional thing of having a whizzy whee rocket sled, and I can actually definitely afford it.

If I had, say, the median net worth in the US, I'd be driving a 1998 Civic. That's what I did, until I didn't.

It's just like, not that big a deal. Most people, myself included, are probably doing this stuff for status. Having a battleaxe car is a specific type of signaling in and of itself (in fact this is one of the things I miss the most about my old car...)
Almost nobody involved is incentivized to accurately measure student’s writing ability

It's the same reason you see keyword posters in math education. "Together" means "plus", that kind of thing. It's completely worthless, except for one-step problems, and even then it doesn't always work. What is happening is collusion between teachers and testmakers. You can't teach understanding, but you can teach test-passing techniques because the way the test is set permits this.

You see the same thing here, in English you can get away with not teaching quality writing if you teach techniques to score well.
Interesting. I haven't read his column, and that really isn't something I would have guessed from the book. It's nuanced on Microsoft as a company and pretty empathetic towards the people working on the project who are the characters in his story.
Back in the day, you could work your way through college, not having money, by being a nanny.
Cherry Bombing: Presenting Tainted Evidence So You Can Later Complain About What Evidence Really Is Anyways
The SAT dropped the writing section a few years ago, and many schools don't care about the GRE writing score.
While I don’t like Brave, from what I’ve read the ads are decided on locally, so no information is sent to the advertiser. Again, this is what I’ve heard.
Honestly typing "privacy" into a UI that is designed to act as a search field for Google, and blaming that on Mozilla somehow, that's a stretch. What's next? Typing "which company faked the moon landing" and WOW you're redirect to Google! It must have been them.

It's nothing but opinionated. You can't honestly call this a "fact" and go on to claim that HN is hypocritical. That's... is there a word for hypocrisy about hypocrisy?

(The first point made is not even that bad, it's just that quagmire following it which dilutes the whole thing)
If that's your concern, lean on Firebase.

You have to use Firebase to deliver messages to Android anyway, having it deliver to APNS as well you get for free with that implementation.

Maybe you do want to do those things, but this implementation doesn't, nor do they mention the intention to do that. But if you did, SNS also provides implementations for delivering SMS and Email (preferably through SES).

Startups shouldn't waste their money on this type of thing, especially if you consider most startups will fail. Vendor lock-in is a pretty stupid thing to worry about for an early-stage start-up (and I argue it's stupid to worry about long-term too if that vendor is AWS, Google or Azure who are all very competitive with each other).
> Congestion is solved by properly designing cities and their transit systems

Redesigning a city/system won't eliminate congestion because it can form even in straight-line conditions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZC9h8jgSj4

It all starts when a single car slows down, causing the car behind slow further, the chain reaction continues until all traffic stops. The phenomena can be seen as waves in the video. However, breaking is not the cause of the problem because this situation wouldn't exist if individual cars were able to accelerate at the same time as those in front. The answer are smart vehicles capable of accelerating with zero reaction time.

I don't think congestion is a problem by itself as long as there are no traffic waves and no bottlenecks ahead. Just imagine congested traffic moving uniformly at high speed.
I work in AI, and was very surprised when I heard about this (a few years ago). I don't think anyone who works in the area thinks the tech is ready for this kind of deployment. There is research on the subject [1], and NLP systems can do better than baseline methods, but the error rates are still pretty high.

A thing you quickly find if you try to download off-the-shelf NLP tools and apply them to anything is how little is reliable at all, unless you can constrain the domain. Even basic topic identification only works with low error rates when constrained to something like NYT stories, or PubMed abstracts, not arbitrary text by arbitrary writers. And I would bet ETS is using worse tech than research state-of-the-art.

[1] e.g. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-1053
This is in Europe so there's bound to be a law. In the UK it's 1 week minimum notice period for redundancy and I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same in Ireland.
Ubuntu, to livepatch the kernel between reboots, you need to sign in (== some kind of user tracking for free patching). After three machines you need to pay:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/canon...

They advertise this paid service in the MOTD:

https://linuxconfig.org/images/02-change-welcome-message-ubu...

That's not fundamentally any different to Microsoft advertising Office 365 in Windows, is it?
Yes, this is one of my pet peeves too. The steering wheel has volume controls with press-to-mute, then right next to them are forward and back controls... a press on that control would be perfect for play/pause, but alas— no.
It would be even more awesome if they added stablecoins like DAI on top of BTC & ETH!
I feel like the news and government response has been to very strongly err on the side of caution lately. The moment the path was updated to move to a direct hit of north Florida yesterday, grocery stores and gas stations were flooded with people preparing a week in advance. 10 or 15 years ago you'd hear a lot of "well a storm hasn't hit here in 100 years" in the region, but nobody fucks around like that anymore.
Uber was never a career, it was a side gig.
> Apple doesn’t certify third party repair shops, there’s just no way of knowing.

Isnt that like a car mechanic, there are good ones and there are bad ones, you need to find the good one or you can go to Apple if you dont want the hassle.
My mother worked grading standardized tests. It was a hellish job for many reasons (limited breaks, etc.)

One question she had to grade was essentially, "What's something you want your teacher to know about you?"

It was an essay answer, and she was supposed to grade it on grammar, etc. Just the mechanical aspects of writing. (The real question explained the details more, but that was the core of the question.)

She saw answers that would make you weep.

"My daddy touches me."

"I haven't eaten today. I don't know when I'm going to eat again."

Stuff like that.

And my mother was going to be the only human who ever saw their responses. Their teacher had no chance to see their responses, just my mom.

So she goes to her supervisor and asks, "What can we do to help these kids?"

The supervisor said there was nothing you can do. Just grade the answers.
Given that corporations get sweetheart deals and perks all of the time as "job creators", they either should have reallocated those people to different jobs, or receive a proportional reduction in perks. It's only fair to respect the original agreement.
I wonder if "no longer will be supporting" is more technically correct, to keep the verbs together.
> Marijuana companies will want to continuously increase its appeal and image

Yes and like other legal recreational drugs it can and certainly will be taxed, with taxes used for addressing problem use including propaganda designed specifically to reduce the drugs image and appeal.
What laws and regulations is Uber breaking?
You are correct. That’s why it’s not in the sentence.
Brave blocks third party ads by default.
Should start with the thinnest lines and work backwards.
I think very few people, even on Hacker News, are so pedantic to argue strongly that someone is lying when they call 999,999 notifications in one second "a million".
This test is a relative assessment that tests the employer more than the employee.
Interestingly, the technology of Signed HTTP Exchanges could potentially be used as the basis for a system that removes the need to trust the server. The current Internet-Draft even includes a section on the Binary Transparency use case:

https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...

What's still missing, I think, is a way for a publisher to tell a browser "Only run new code from this domain after checking that the user is happy to upgrade". That would put the "web app" on roughly the same security footing as a desktop application with a built-in update system.
Those are most likely all integration issues.

- the car can choose to always open carplay when the phone is plugged in, or it could use other signals to "intelligently" decide if it should open carplay. You can try seeing if it pops up depending on what state the UI is in (are you in a menu?), the time since you last interacted with the display, or whether or not the car is moving.

- likely an issue with attenuation on the car's side (if you're listening to music via the car; if music and navigation is through carplay that's an issue)

- car might be doing something to activate or pass through the microphone to the phone
Indesign ended up being the best, and using ingramspark
I totally agree with you. In my comment I wasn't trying to say the article was false, just my own experiences weren't negative. Some of my closest friends that I smoked all day with in HS never went to college and work in lower wage/service industry jobs.

Also to be fair, I was an awful student. However i was always the type that if I didn't want to do something, nothing could get me to do it. Yet when I want to do something, I tend to have pretty positive results. I still think I would have been a terrible student even if I didn't smoke weed. Who knows!
>You're brushing off my point, why no selection on the allele? Why did they all die out? Easiest answer is it never made it.

Evolution works in more complicated ways than the toy model of sickle-cell disease/malaria you've been taught in high school. Just having an edge in a particular situation is no guarantee for your alleles being selected. But even then, there could very well have been very little mixing while still everyone shares the same set of ancestors. Even a little mixing is enough.

>The simulations are nice, and make a theoretical lower bound but a single remote tribe somewhere on earth would push it back tens of thousands of years.

The subject is well-refined and the results are old news so I'm going to go on a limp and assume that the researchers who did the simulations know how to do their jobs and accounted for that possibility you described.

>DNA Sequence an Andaman islander and every bushman and Amazonian, then we'll see.

Ignoring the fact that the various peoples in the Amazon have not been isolated at all, or that the Adamans have been settled approximately in the time range of the estimated IAP and have known a few exchanges since, that's not how genealogy works. See, if a single outsider gets into the Adamans or Australia and starts having children with locals, and assuming the line doesn't die out, there's a statistical certainty that eventually every current living person in that territory will be descended from that outsider. Just one is enough. It doesn't matter that their genetic contribution is diluted to the point of being barely detectable. I invite you to read the link about IAP in more detail and do some rudimentary math on why it has to be the case (or more accurately, why the opposite is so statistically improbable as to be pretty much impossible).
Except, of course, that while a Toyota has an excellent reputation for reliability, a Porsche not so much. So the latter may not get you to work at all.

But you'll look damn good sitting at the side of the road...
In my company, side projects are divided into two groups: products or toys. Both can be done during work hours without problem (if you continue to deliver your sprints, of course). Your work should always be deletable (you should keep version control somewhere non local) and your peers should always be able to see your code (asking or not, If it is in a company computer, everyone in the company has access to it). We also incentivize presentation on new technology or topics that emerged from the projects and usually people pitch each other their projects for new contributors. Projects considered products (that the programmer has started expecting profits at some point) should consider our non compete policy: if the product is in the same field as one of our products, our company has the right to be the first investor, with a minimum of 5% and cap of 15%. The valuation process is a bit dense to explain here, but several ex coworker are now partners with their own companies. The system works well but we have to watch out for talent retention. Usually the new companies are SaaS that replace part of our needed logic and cost us less to use than our ex coworker salary.
AI has a lot more potential for bias than humans. It depends on the input data which is likely heavily biased based on other data set results like face detection. It will only amplify any small bias present in the data.
I don't understand your implication that people choose between two year and four year schools. Wouldn't people going to a two year school either be looking for an associate's degree or to transfer to a four year school?
I’m guessing you live in a country (i.e. not the US) where education is taken seriously?
Technically you can transfer to the Shoreline East in New Haven and go all the way to the Connecticut River.
[sic] is Latin for self-satisfied smirk