skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you completely ignored me when I said I supported fusion power.

Thorium waste is still nuclear waste, and there would be tons of it. You did not address this issue.
Seems like an indirect response to right to repair, which is gaining some momentum as of late:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proposed-laws-could-change-how-...

FTC is even asking for comments on right to repair until September 16th 2019

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FTC-2019-0013-0001

Whether you're for or against, you should comment if this issue is meaningful to you!

https://repair.org/policy
https://money.howstuffworks.com/right-to-repair.htm
> If there's a 50% chance, do I prepare? What about 20%? 10%? 5%? 1%? 0.1%?

Prepared/unprepared isn't a binary state either and your level of preparation can match the certainty. At 10% check your supplies of water, candles, gas, canned food. At 20% decide if you'll evacuate. At 50% tape/board up the windows.
Right now the vast majority of money printing is being given to banks and then placed right back into the Fed and earning interest for those same banks.

Just look at the M2 monetary velocity[1]. It fell off a cliff in 1997 and never really recovered. It's now at an all-time low. For all intents and purposes we're operating on a light version of MMT.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
I don't think vendor lock-in is what small startup should worry about.
I think it is everywhere in the english language world. It might not be in common usage but most adults would know the meaning.

Butt is such an innocuous word for arse it is used by preschoolers and cartoons. It isn't offensive to anyone and clearly it no more means arse in this term than it does when referring to the end of a cigarette or gun or hitting someone with your head.

I once had a client see a server monitoring package refer to daemons and I thought I was going to be the victim of a satanic panic but I quickly pointed out how the spelling differed from the usual biblical version and that a bunch of hippies in california in the 60s were into mythology and the name stuck. People are weird.
What's stopping you from using Waze in a Tesla? It has worked great for me in the past, and I assume would now as well.

This is like people who think that by using one browser you must "switch" and get rid of the others... no.

But the latest updates of the Tesla stuff are great so I can't remember the last time I used Waze.

CarPlay, I can't speak to, but I find the built-in music features just fine.
Great, a giant WebAssembly blob reading and writing my files. What could go wrong?
This seems weird to me because the official parts are better. If Apple was skimping out on their parts and selling them to shops at a huge premium then independent shops would have the advantage because they could repair your phone with higher quality 3rd-party parts for less.

I might just not understand the market here but why would I assume that my local repair shop would be able to offer me labor at a cheaper rate than Apple's huge repair system?
Adding further bias against the underprivileged is not "cool". Implenting this while avoiding publicity or providing a means to publically audit the results is doubly not cool.

It is fine to play with "cool" techniques when you are doing consequence free stuff like playing Mario. When you are creating systems that have significant and long term effects of people's lives a different standard applies.
To me, it's the other way around. Most of my real friendships were initiated by contacts on social networks. This is the only way I could have met a number of wonderful people who live far away from my city.

And transparency, (tunable) FOAF features is exactly what made it possible rather quickly. If anybody here remembers FriendFeed, they had this mechanics well-polished. (They also invented the Like button.)
FTC: Submit Your Comments on Right to Repair
When I hear a result like "software which understands basic grammar structures can predict what grade a human would give an essay" I think my views are roughly:

* 5% - cool, we could make a company that grades essays

* 15% - cool, we could make a company that grades essays and sell our source code to the test-prep industry

* 80% - fascinating, it sounds like the exam designers need to reevaluate what they are trying to measure with essay questions
Add to the LOOOONG list of "I really liked X but a recent update has screwed it up". It's amazing how often this happens.
The only thing odd I see here is an expectation that the ideal matches the reality. Doesn’t everyone have values they hope to live UP to?

Regardless, if I hated market economics, I would also try and bilk my publishers for all they’re worth.
No abstract but how about https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/pc204/NoSilverBullet.html ?
I remember when I was in middle school 16 years ago, my English classes would have us submit some of our work to a web app. It would then grade the submission. I remember this distinctly because I asked my teacher to intervene on at least two occasions. The app failed to recognize the words "squirrelly" (as in "That guy in the corner has been acting squirrelly.") and "defragment". My teacher decided to subvert the app's recommended grades because she, as a human, understood the intent of my use of those weird words.

To emphasize, this was 16 years ago.
> But don't make the mistake that there are no kids who go for shock value or are wantonly manipulative when they know it can't come back to them.

In the US, school funding is based upon standardized test results, and bad results can shut a poorly performing school down.

It's drilled into every kid's head that these tests are very important, super strict and if they accidentally mess up, it can ruin their academics, because retesting and regrading are expensive.
a subject piece you had maybe 10 minutes to skim

That's a travesty, and you know it because when the kids are in college and they have as much time as they like to write their assignments they all use the wrong words and then misapply them.
The mods respond rapidly to emails to the address in the footer for these. I’ll send one now.
So, it seems given the last paragraphs of the article that the study cannot really be replicated. Or it would at least be very difficult to replicate.
PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator
I wonder if your mother scored those higher than she might have. And I wonder if that's why such essays were written. Hmm, wonder...
I've no doubt that it describes a good part of the market but we're talking about people's primary phone and computer. Having turnaround on the order to days rather than weeks because of shipping at least to me would be super valuable. Hell one of the reasons I bought my last iPhone was because the official repair process for Pixel devices was so miserable.
As I said elsewhere in this thread, check out my article for the 2018 Perl6 Advent Calendar.

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/day-17-checking...

I walk through the development of a utility for auditing Santa's Naughty and Nice lists. Along the way, I introduce literate programming, multiple dispatch, types, type subsets, links to documentation, perl6 collections, and File IO. And, I've been told I managed to do all this without making the reader they've been dragged over rough ground behind a certain festive sleigh.

The key thing to remember when you start learning a Larry Wall Language is that you only need to worry about the parts you need to worry about. It's more like learning a natural language than a programming language. Learn how to say the things that are important to you, and it will serve you well even if you speak with an accent.
The Hasegawa Typeface
Operation Yellow Ribbon
Any state that relies on the AI as the primary grader does not understand the current state of AI.

It would make sense to use the AI as a first pass, and then not randomly grade the essays with a human, but specifically choose all the essays that are on the cusp of the pass fail line. Then use all those human generated scores to update the model, especially if someone moves from pass to fail or fail to pass. Then maybe throw in a few of the really high and really low outliers to make sure those are right, and throw away your entire model if the human scores are drastically different (and obviously don't tell the humans what the computer score was so they have no idea if they're reading a "cusp" essay or an outlier essay).

But putting the educational fate (and therefore future earnings) in the hands of an AI is unconscionable.
Here un Mexico we pay $1.00Mxn per MB. Thats about $0.05 usd. If you use 2000mb per month and 20% is ads, you'll pay 400x0.05 = $20 usd a month for ads. Which is around $240 usd a year.

Edit: And apparently ad traffic is between 25% an 45%(https://venturebeat.com/2015/07/08/blocking-ads-can-cut-netw...) So my estimate is quite conservative.
That particular company seems to do a not-horrible job. But they’re not the only game in town, so presumably most or many essays are graded by another company’s system.
This is because Tesla is a classic Silicon Valley tech company masquerading as a car manufacturer while the actual car manufacturers are trying to masquerade as Apple with a hundredth of the budget and a penchant for outsourcing critical parts of the experience to the lowest bidder.
Each person might replace their phone every two years but that's not very often the end of the devices life. Some people pay a premium to have the newest device every year or every other year but then someone else uses that phone for the next 2-3 years until it actually wears out.
I came first in English for my school, many moons ago. Leading up to the finals, I regularly finished ahead of the hard core the English essay people, generally to my amusement. My exam essay responses were generally half the length (sometimes even shorter) than the prodigious writers. Although I've an ok vocabulary, I always made sure I made the right choice of word to hit a specific meaning, rather than choosing words with a high syllable count.

I'd find it highly interesting to see what kind of result I'd get using an automated system.

Why?

Because, I once asked a teacher (also an examiner) why I got good grades above the others, and the answer surprised me: my answers were generally unique /refreshingly different, to the point/ not too long and easy to read.

I suspect with this new system, I'd be an average student. It'd also be interesting to find out, several years down the road, if the automated system could be gamed at all -- I suspect it could, and teachers would help students 'maximise' their scores as a result of that.
I’m fairly certain this is intentional. Workers can’t unionize or agitate for better pay if they just leave after 6 months. The real question to ask the execs at these companies is: what did you do to achieve such high turnover rates?
I don't love browser extensions but the trust model issues with it are not identical to content-controlled Javascript.
good on them
> The problem with these libraries are significant ramp up time. Unlike what the authors are claiming it’s not because it’s a difficult or greatly different mental model to grasp, it’s because the API is clunky and poorly designed.

Regardless of the quality of API design, reactive programming (and by extension RxJS) does indeed require a different mental model, as it is a different model for the flow of a program.

> You’ll notice most of the popular and highly successful abstractions all share the common trait of being easy and quick to pick up.

That is subjective. I remember how many people found node's async callback style unintuitive and confusing on first sight, and I personally find (at least the core abstractions of) RxJS pretty intuitive.

> If the author’s haven’t factored in ease of use and uptake it’s already failed at its first principles.

Yes this is part of the goal with CONNECTIVE, to bridge the gap between the description of a reactive flow (the code) and the most intuitive way to think about it (a directed graph), so that the end-result would be much more easily readable and intuitive code. I would love to hear if you have any more specific feedback on this front.
I feel like we have passed the peak of technology working well. Now my life is full of devices I can't actually get to do what I want or figure out how to use, and every year it gets worse. Crappy TV, crappy car computer, can't seem to manage to get my calendars to sync on all my devices so I'm never really sure if I'm looking at all my events (and let's not talk about trying to get facebook calendars on there), afraid to try upgrading the OS on my Mac laptop cause who knows what the hell it will do...

or wait, is this just what getting old is like? Do the kids these days think everything works great?

I feel like I'm not in control of most of the technology in my life, and most of it is unreliable and unpredictable and has terrible UX.
Never tried CarPlay, but I do find that the inbuilt car navigation systems provide a convenient flat surface to attach a Tomtom.
Mostly GMOs are used so they can spray more glyphospate. Not sure why anyone thinks this is a good thing. We have had enough discussions on this very forum about insect collapse etc
> University is supposed to provide networking opportunities, cross-pollinate interesting theoretical ideas that have limited practical application and provide a feeder ramp into the research community. If universities try to teach employable skills it will be hugely inefficient compared to teaching people skills in entry level jobs.

Not to sound flippant, but if this is the case, why do we bother requiring a university degree for really any job?
> Of course they use the example of focusing on climate change studies that are opposed to consensus, but what about when consensus is actually wrong?

Even funnier is that their claim is flat out wrong, based on the study linked in the article.

Claim: For example, a notable study on climate change examined thousands of scientific papers on the topic, and found that approximately 97% of them support the consensus position that humans are causing climate change.

Relevant text from the study: We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

Fact: ~32.6% of the 11,944 peer-reviewed climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'peer-reviewed scientific literature endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

This is one of my favorite memes.

And yes, I realize if we were to contact all of these folks who didn't realize their studies would become fodder for propagandists, many of them would likely change their stance in support of the "consensus" (but not actually, based on this study), but that's no excuse for literally lying. And people genuinely wonder why there is a distrust of media and science.
Does their two weeks of paid leave count towards that week?
Kind of grotesque to think that in practice a doxing forum like that is a way to make some cash. Probably not hard to set up that forum or expensive to operate it, but in the end the operators cashed out because someone was willing to spend money to make it go away.

There are other far worse forums out there that run for-profit and seem to show no sign of stopping, unfortunately. Some of them have an actual real-world death count (and that's the point).

Don't really know how you solve it. Censorship isn't the answer (even if it were, how do you get it universally applied in countries that might host these services), and there aren't shared morals here to apply either. The legal system? Maybe, but it moves so slowly...
They do when graded by a computer program as described in the article. Are you disputing the article's veracity? What is your point?
Key words in this story: "while on a trip".

This isn't actually $21/hr. It could very easily end up being under $10/hr. Just depends how lucky the driver is.
Pick a Language That Aligns with Your Why
Guess I am the only one but I heavily depend on my smartphone's ssh client and a fast and close VPS. I use it all the time and a phone's keyboard is actually the perfect interface for console apps like vim.
Having a middleware to abstract firebases API from the services makes sense if just to minimize the disruption the next time Google changes it. I've always left tokens up to the callers to sort out before calling the notification service, but I see the appeal of centralizing it if you have a lot of small products. I agree there is no longer any good reason to directly target APNS.

Nothing in the article really said how they got to millions an hour. In my experience the notifications are cheap enough to send that that figure is easy to obtain without any special effort on the push side. It's also embarrassingly parallel/easy to scale. How everything else scales around that (recipient filtering, reporting) is the interesting part.
> So do what? Contact her local police?

> With a written accusation from a child? Is that enough to get a warrant to force the company to release the demographic information?

Absolutely! My girlfriend works as a counselor at a school and she is required by law to report all serious abuses by parents.
> What do you think about compromises (like macOS, and Android) where non-blessed software is disabled by default, but can fairly easily be sideloaded?

I think that's exactly what the vast majority of people advocating for sideloading are proposing. At least it's what I'd propose.
Very annoying, but I guess makes sense as chromium doesn't support epub and they'd want to keep the different edges consistent. And the old edge will be gone soon anyways..

A natural question is: is edge still going to be the default PDF reader in Windows? And will edge's pdf viewer look just like chrome's
When you think about it, YOU work at the supermarket now.
Paris is one of the highest-density cities in the world... and even then, the city by area is more than half parkland.
>but that's not a guarantee that the same applies to everyone else

It's a pretty well supported statement though. This comment is better applied elsewhere in the thread however.
I read the headline and thought it was improbable (thinking of the famous All-Weather Fund).

Then I read further, seeing AWF is a 'bright spot'. All those bonds are doing their job!
I am a machine learning service engineer looking for feedback
I'm 38 and started smoking daily when I was 13. There's been some periods of break in my life, but mostly I've been a daily smoker for 25 years.

I'm the lead developer at my company, who I've been with for 10 years. In my late teenage years I ran my small own software company for a couple years and then a small custom pc builder company for a couple years. I've done manual labor at times. I built furniture for a while.

I'm a bit of a homebody, and feel lazy at times, but thinking also of the list of personal hobbies and projects I've done in the last 20 years, I can't really say I'm very lazy at all.

I'm also an active father, and polyamorous and in two long-term relationships.
Spending money to hunt them down with the legal system and repeatedly take them offline and demand logs would work.

It would cost a million dollars to find one poster, but it’s worth a billion dollars to strike fear into their hearts that they could be identified and named and shamed in lawsuits and judgements in their home towns.
Why use a real-world example if it's not going to be based on data? Surely if the numbers are correct that there's 60-70% accuracy with the cone (on any particular day? or possibly early on) then they could use real data.

It also starts with "The National Hurricane Center publishes graphics like this one" (with "graphics" directly linking to a different graph than the one shown [1]) which would lead one to believe it was an actual NHC example being challenged.

The general point can still get across but its just important to choose your anecdotes carefully if you want to be taken seriously.

Especially in the hyper-critical social media age when everyone is looking to kick anything popular down a peg or two, for their own personal satisfaction of being smart (or w/e the motivation is).

[1] https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/174008.s...
You can always add a CarPlay compatible aftermarket infotainment panel.
How the United States Reinvented Empire
They could be paid while they have 'accept rides' turned on and then Uber could stop accepting an infinite number of drivers.
‘Gay gene’ search reveals not one but many – and no way to predict sexuality
Tyson's explanations are often wrong. Possibly the most inaccurate pop science celebrity who has every lived.

Not remotely the same league as Richard Feynman.
I smoked weed from the age of 14 to 24; also dropped LSD about 100 times between 14 and 19 years of age.

I'm in my late 40's now and totally normal. I think I smoked weed like 3 times in the last 20 years and it is not my thing anymore.

Smoking weed was definitely more fun in my youth. Did it affect my brain development? maybe
This. People underestimate the amount of force and damage small items can have in your car.
Nobody has any idea what their inner experience is. People who've been blind since birth still exhibit visual activity during REM sleep and dreaming, as do fetuses (Schöpf et al. (2014). Some people born without limbs still feel pain in phantom limbs. Most people born with congenitally missing limbs do not experience phantom limbs, but a small subset do (body maps exist in the brain inherently). Pain can absolutely be perceived without any form of 'input'.

Be that as it all may, it is impossible to tell whether something is experiencing qualia. The best we have to go on are brain waves and the existence of neurotransmitters which serve qualia--both of which organoids begin to produce.
If Mozilla wanted to respect privacy the "UI that is designed to act as a search field for Google" could be a "UI that is designed to act as a search field for DuckDuckGo", it wasn't that long ago it was a search field for Yahoo. What's notable here is that Google is the default and in doing so is endorsed and recommended by Mozilla for its users.

So the fact here is that Mozilla made that choice to be in bed with Google.

The sad irony is Chrome on Android will insist on asking users for the default search engine choice (in the EU at least https://www.techspot.com/news/81273-google-android-users-eur... ).

Maybe think about it another way. Imagine Greenpeace defaulted to offering to book supporters private planes to get to every protest. It is this nature of extreme distance from organisational values that Mozilla is expressing when it defaults to Google search.
Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness
I don't really have a suggestion, to be honest. I've only used Emacs within the context of Spacemacs and don't know of a better alternative. Maybe sometime later in my life I'll look at what Emacs looks like without Spacemacs. I've been putting that off because I haven't really learned elisp and I don't know if it's actually possible to have a more flushed out and polished emacs experience without being an elisp master.
The Company You Keep
GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer
I don’t know about calling it manipulative. I remember taking the ACT, and struggling to plan out one of my essays. It was something like “tell us about a book that inspired you”. So I changed details about the plot so it all fit nicely and was easy to write. I can see something similar here, where someone takes on a persona when writing in order to effectively communicate.