skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the engines also focus heavily on metrics like sentence length, vocabulary, spelling, and subject-verb agreement... The systems are also unable to judge more nuanced aspects of writing, like creativity.

This reminds me of a wonderful essay/speech by Stephen Fry on the harm done by pedantry. I also feel that schools focus so much on a single structure of essay writing and similarly take the joy out of language.

https://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY
Were that the case, we'd see a prevalence of people unable to afford cars. This is not the case. The cost of an automobile is an even smaller fraction of an average person's disposable income than it was during Henry Ford's day. And this isn't considering the fact that a modern car is far safer, more comfortable, more fuel efficient, and just broadly way better than a model T.

American workers are too highly paid to make many manufacturing jobs viable in the US. If GM et al. were to pay American workers more they would either not be making enough money to stay afloat, or the cost of their cars would rise considerably (and likely lose sales and not be profitable anyway).
Anesthesia, yes. Paralytics, maybe. Depends on what you're using.
It makes sense, you don't want to be poisoned later, that can kill you.
1.3B tons of food being wasted each year. Can we stop it?
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Consider that your brain already has to do this anyway even with all-natural eyes. It receives an independent image from each separate eye, so it has to line the two images up with each other in order to produce binocular vision. It's not as if your eyes come pre-calibrated or something, and even if they did, your skull grows throughout your life, so the alignment of eyes relative to each other must change over time, requiring your brain to gradually recalibrate. So it makes sense that the brain would be able to recalibrate to an artificial change in your vision as well.
It still works just fine but the tools haven’t been updated for a while, almost no modern software supports exporting to it and it’s not “cool” anymore. So now we use often inferior stuff instead, or merely get a link to some online documentation, until someone “reinvents” it five years from now probably using some kind of electron variant making it cool again.
I wonder if I have more success because my GV number was originally a cellular number (many many years ago). I've used it with Uber and Lyft successfully.
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Or perhaps just bike away. https://historythings.com/choir-boy-bandit-robbed-26-banks-9...
What would you like to know about it specifically?
Small repair shops are generally cheaper. They can be much more hit and miss too. Also, The aftermarket parts market is competitive.
In Denmark, phone sales to consumers are generally illegal though strangely insurance and newspapers are excluded.

There's a national "do not call" list you can sign up to as well. This is amusing called the "Robinson List", presumably after Robinson Crusoe. The same concept is used in a dozen other countries.

I guess the penalties are severe enough that it generally only very shady people call, such as those pretending to be from Microsoft and calling to fix your computer.
This is great news, I think NPM handled this quite fast and in a good way.

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also:

Aww, thought I - for once - was first with submitting something to hacker news! :'(
This is exactly the experience I had. Driving my friend's Honda Civic was way more pleasurable than driving another friend's BMW, because the former had Android Auto. Now I refuse to rent a car without one.

OP could probably buy an OTT Apple Carplay unit I think, rather than throwing the whole car out just to replace the infotainment.
True, although Ruby is called Ruby because rubies the birthstone of the month after the month for which pearls are the birthstone.
Fair enough - I'm a bit out of touch with current OS X. Windows has some pluses but lots of downsides too. Same for Linux. They're all an unhappy compromise from my perspective. I've reached a stage of frustration with the dreadful desktop OS scene that I now invest as little as possible in any of them. I keep my data portable, use x-platform apps as much as I can, and generally keep the OS, as far as I'm able, to be just a file store and app launcher.
https://www.openphone.co is a 2019 YC company trying to make a replacement.
"This is fine."
> "The stagecoach ride in Frontierland was discontinued after it proved too top-heavy and prone to flipping over."

This one caught my fancy. Did they discover the behavior by trial and error?
does PlayProtect flag anything actually?
and the results are affected but you don't know why

Well, that's just your assumption without knowing the exact problem and I think you are missing my point.

You can approach to data preparation by randomly changing things, and maybe you can get some interesting results but I promise you you will fail many many times. Other way is to know what does it means to change the mean for the median for instance (as I mentioned in this just random example), and I promise you will find better solutions.

The idea is not just "change and test" and see what happens. The interesting part is to understand how the model uses your representation and why one is "better" than another.
I agree that the things described are very bad. But I do want to point that many western democratic governments do things that might be just as bad (are the Uyghur Muslims treated worse than immigrants in many western places like US / EU / AUS?).

Though I have to admit I'm not well informed on exactly what type of "democracy" they are after. If you get the majority of people to not care about what happens to a minority, it doesn't really matter how a government is structured (when it comes to democracy we see see things like "Tyranny of the masses").

EDIT: everyone disliked this comment but I think because I used the wrong examples. So I quickly want to clarify what I mean:

He wants a different political system (democratic) and his arguments are that the current one did many bad things. My point is that changing the political system doesn't change the bad things he's talking about. As we can clearly see in many democratic systems in the world.
You only have to update the robots.txt of a website to purge the history on the way back machine. They apply it to the history too, which is sometimes a bit sad.
That's the time I was told it would take at Computerwerkstatt in Linz. I think it takes so long because they mail phones to a different country for repair.

In any case, it's pretty ridiculous, and I went to a different repair shop instead.
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wait, you get the score in real time? Like some kind of objective function you can train a machine to maximise on?
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You should write this in Chinese so the Mainlanders could actually read it.
I've relied on HDR histograms for that. It looks like your sketches are a bit more performant in the paper, but what was the issue with accuracy that histograms couldn't fulfill?
I was in Miami, Coral Gables specifically, for this guy:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/1992andy1.gif

I hope you never have to live through one of those. Not fun. Good luck with Dorian.
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Hey uh, that actually seems valuable.

I'd believe that ML could spot abuse that humans miss pretty well from signals like non-overt references in homework and school records, if one could come up with an adequate training set.

Much more likely than teaching ML to score reasoned and creative activity in any reasonable way.
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I was about to share it too, really GREAT intro :)
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> are the Uyghur Muslims treated worse than immigrants in many western places like US / EU / AUS?

For one, the Uyghur are not immigrants. As bad as you may think immigrants are treated in US/EU/AUS, China wouldn't even let them in in the first place.

Also given that China has to actively prevent the Uyghur from leaving, while the West has to prevent immigrants from entering, should tell you who's treated worse.
Western countries may not always live up to ideals with the pressures of migration, but it is disingenous to compare immigrants to a resident minority. Please note that in EU at least, a lot of the conflict is about who counts as an asylum seeker and who must immigrate normally.
First off congrats on launching and thanks for the "small teams eat free" pricing tier!!!

I've just tried Zepel out by importing my current project off Trello (loved that this feature was available) so here's some things that threw me off:
- I'd like an easy way to move multiple cards from one board list into another cause I can't multi-select or drag-select. Organising a freshly imported project is a hassle without this.
- When creating a new feature I couldn't find a way to drag existing tasks/cards into it but as far as I could see I'd have to create new ones.
- I would expect tags to auto-complete when adding them to a card but it didn't seem to work.

Generally it seems to work well if one is populating a new project from scratch but cleaning up an imported project would require a little more thought and additional features cause the barrier to entry for users of existing products seems rather high.

Keep up the good work!
That’s actually really interesting to hear, although tbh I strongly disagree.

Serious question: did you and fellow googlers ever have discussions like “what if that argument is actually not true? What if it’s just a convenient rationalisation?” I think even if you dismissed that POV, it’s a sign of a healthy culture that you can question the mission, even if you then decide it’s right.
Because the entity who supplied the exploit has no relation to the entity who supplies the implant and control framework. The latter is commodity developer work, easily done in house or via a defense contractor. It’s not unlikely that the exploit developer had no idea what it was being used in or how.
I suspect the main issue is that regardless of what Google does, manufacturers still need to make any new updates available, which most do not for anything but their most recent models.
Apple replaces devices and then takes the old devices, disassembles them, and checks each component for issues individually. They take each phone about and literally have buckets of these components that they test. Those that pass inspection get turned back into the remanufactured assembly line where older out of warranty phones go. It's not like they're just dumping these devices that they're replacing. It's just easier to replace an entire device and then have trained pros deal with testing and repairing the components than it does to have customers wait for someone at the Genius Bar, who probably couldn't do it anyways. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, most people aren't Louis Rossman. Most people don't know how to do those kinds of repairs.

And yes, part of the bills that are being considered for a lot of these Right to Repair laws include regulations that would require Apple to sell OEM parts to third-party repair centers and that they would have to provide service manuals to them, free of cost. Apple is ok with doing that as long as they get to certify the people who get the manual to their repair standards. They're not intentionally making the devices difficult to repair. Most of the complaints that people have about their reparability have to do with their small size or software locks that, in reality, are meant to protect people's data from unauthorized access. Error 53 that everyone loves to point out as an evil Apple move was actually a software lock to prevent someone from putting a false Touch ID sensor on the device that was collecting biometric data but still relaying the lock command to the phone. Apple's security chain in that regard worked exactly as intended. They didn't expect to ever see a legitimate use for a fake Touch ID sensor but it happened when people decided that losing Touch ID was worth getting their screen repaired cheaper.
New blood and the kernel sound like a great combination for problems.

There are many more kinds of errors that people could make besides memory errors. Linux powers a good portion of the world, the vetting of kernel contributors should be done accordingly and the processes put in place should be strong enough that even if 'young and new blood' makes contributions that these are reviewed with a keen eye to all the lessons learned over the years, something those new and young people will still need to do.

I'm all for including newcomers into important open source projects but the kernel is the one place where I would expect some experience to be a requirement before contributing simply to avoid overloading the people further up the chain with a stream of obvious errors.
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There has been abusive treatment of some illegal immigrants into some of these countries, particularly recently, but there had also been massive outcries about it.

In almost every case the law and public opinion has stopped or prevented the worst mistreatment. The Australian detention centres are winding down, the separation of children from their families ordered by Trump was successfully challenged in court. Massive public protests and press coverage worked.

Therefore it seems perfectly reasonable to hold China to the same standards of public accountability and legal due process that other countries are held to.
Why are algorithms grading essays in the first place?
"The Nobel committee gave him the prize for Brownian Motion"
This is not true.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/

Einstein explanation of Brownian motion served as convincing evidence that atoms and molecules exist and was further verified experimentally by Jean Perrin in 1908. Perrin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter".

Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1926/perrin/lectur...
Florence, like Rome and all cities in Italy are dirty, chaotic cesspools with the few remaining crumbling ruins to remind us of a better time.
Not even raw security footage, that includes for private individuals.

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/guidance-landing/guidance-d...
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Safari/DDG user here. Presumably Firefox could load the search results into a container that throws away all the cookies after the search is done. Doesn’t it work like that for FB?

Presumably, the real problem is that this would be against Google’s terms of the agreement between google and. moz, but - at least technically - there is no reason to throw away access to google if that’s seen to be a desirable default.

Of course - I’m guessing that google is gonna add its own tracking variables to URLs, so any search result returned by google really is going to be suspect regardless of what we do.
Here is a sample image:

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And if you do make it here then please let me know and I'll be happy to buy you dinner.
Well that’s easy, I simply won’t buy a car where CarPlay is a subscription.

The market will decide.
I'm happy that you now agree that C doesn't need an UNIX like environment to be portable. You haven't pointed out any lack of knowledge, you were just being rude. Again you are arguing with a straw man, I haven't claimed anywhere that C is special (there are other system languages), although it is true that not all languages are equal when it comes to bare metal.
Thats a very cool model. And a really good point here:

> Usually the new companies are SaaS that replace part of our needed logic and cost us less to use than our ex coworker salary.

Its a win-win to have the company as the new founders first customer too.
What do you think the false positive rate is likely to be?
we just finished implementation of an event sourced/CQRS solution using kafka.

Yes, you need to have monitoring etc, but the testing and debugging were substantially easier because of how we broke down the "services". For each major entity (or aggregate) there was a service that subscribed to a number of command and event topics, it produced output to an event topic for the aggregate.

We had FSMs for each of the aggregates, documenting the effect of each potential command or external event and the change of state and the resulting state changes (events) and/or commands.

The architectural constraint meant that the infrastructure was the same for each aggregate, the testing of each was independent and could be mocked easily using topic producers.

So as opposed to the "Big Ball Of Mud" we have a monitorable infrastructure (kafka + alerts/stats sent to a statsd integrated with AWS Cloudwatch), we have individual aggregate processing that only respond to incoming commands or events and have defined outputs for each potential incoming command/event.

Much much easier to design, develop and debug.

But the trick is at the start (like anything else). Analyzing the domain to determine the entities/aggregates, modelling the externally generated commands, modelling the FSMs for each aggregate etc.
Go I'd consider, even if Google ditch it, the language still exists and is sufficiently entrenched to continue on. I wouldn't go near Flutter at all. Exactly the sort of thing that Google will lose interest in and stop backing leaving you with a product built on an un-supported platform.
Wouldn't modern C++ be better suited than Rust because it's closer to C?

I know that old C++ got some bad reputation in the past but I think it's time to reconsider that with the changes that started with C++11. The only area where Rust really is better is the management of lifetimes and its associated higher memory safety.
My first system was a ZX-Spectrum 128k; I would love to get one of those keyboards; change out the cassette by to stick in the raspberry pi and use that as a dedicated system hooked up to a monitor. That was a really nice keyboard from memory; granted 30+ years have made the mind fog up a bit.
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Regular people keep copies of banking, chat, emails printouts on their "My Documents", even if they use Web applications instead of native ones for those services.

Speaking of native applications, usually many regular users still use native native applications for email, chat, text processing, spreadsheets, etc.

So while you specifically might take care of having a very clean $HOME, most people don't.
> it also potentially prevents consumers from receiving vital communications—calls from the doctor, banks that are flagging issues, schools calling about parents’ children.

That's bullshit. I have these important number in my address book. In the unlikely case the doctor wants to call me from a phone booth or from their friend's phone (why?), they'll leave a message and I'll call them back. As for the bank, they know my e-mail and I asked them not to use the phone for communication anyway.

Really, for many people there is no reason to answer unknown calls at all, especially if their experience is that most of these is someone wanting to sell something to them. Not to mention in our times asynchronous communication is very important for mental health.
The usual approach is to assume that those that have dedicated a good chunk of their life to a problem have tried the obvious. Aka as the 'why don't you' fallacy.

It's a good approach to entering a new field, and sometimes (rarely) it actually gets results. But the normal situation is that those in the know have thought of, tried and probably reject all the approaches that a newcomer would come up with in the first 10 minutes.
What’s the relation to the first link though? That looks like an old twitter thread.
>its missing a cryptographic handshake blessing

No it is not. Where the heck did you pull that out of? It's a micro-controller on the battery that's tied to the phone. The micro-controller only provides the sensor on the phone that measures battery health a connection on first power. If that's what you mean by cryptographic handshake blessing then fine. It doesn't matter if the battery is original or not. The point is that the phone can't verify the health of the battery if it's not the first time the battery has been connected to something. To provide information on the battery's health that is inaccurate could be dangerous.
milenials also consume a shitload of sugar every day peing poor and sick will hit them as hard as anyone
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Depends upon what false negative rate you're willing to tolerate. ;) And I don't know how good of a signal there is. This is pure handwaving.

But this type of thing seems like the exact kind of spooky correlation that ML is good at spotting compared to humans.
That might rather be the "verse" (yet to be renamed for tm reasons) app.
You don’t need PAC if you disable scripts in Safari. Besides, baseband/browser/iMessage vulnerabilities are in the same price range. [i]

It also isn’t difficult to infer what a “code signing bypass” is, so I guess being arrested is a good excuse to buy a new phone? (Assuming we’re talking about a state based actor, in control of the territory you live in)

i. https://zerodium.com/program.html
for multi-tenancy users(=customers) there are 3 main solutions,

1) Single DB with a) dedicated table per user or b) shared table with column that identify the user
2) Dedicated Schema for every user.
3) Dedicated DB for every users.

there is no good answers and you'll find everyone have solved it differently as they scale... few biggest names i can think of my haed are SalesForce, Workday and ServiceNow
This is a great example of why it's grossly irresponsible for members of the ML community to talk about how AGI is just around the corner. In addition to the fact that we have no idea whether this is true, it primes a naive public for believing that technologies like this are worth the tradeoff.

"People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."
Yes, but I'd emphasize the "temporary" part: hope of better things in the future is important for the human psyche (for extreme case see religions, for example). Students are full of hope, someone at 24k may feel like they are at a dead end.
I think some candidates would be open to performing a half-day exercise. But the best candidates wouldn't, which is what drives the anti-selection I mentioned in my previous comment. More broadly, I don't think it's realistic to create an assessment that's representative of real-world data science workflows without being onerous enough to exclude good candidates.

If representative isn't an option, highly correlated is the next best thing. In practice, for my team specifically, this means screening for math aptitude and general business acumen during a phone screen, data manipulation (moderately complex SQL + tidyverse/data.table/pandas) during a "take-home", and delving more into problem solving approach, model selection and validation, etc. during an onsite. Broad business questions (e.g., "How does a life insurance company make money?") and communication skills generally weed out the candidates who picked up the bare minimum math and programming background through Kaggle + MOOCs.

As an aside, I absolutely think that the sort of assessment in the OP kills creativity. I care a lot about whether a candidate would think to include covariates like Internet usage and segmented urban population when predicting mortality rates; I don't care at all whether they're able to write the trivial amount of code that's needed to include those covariates in a model, given a data set that already contains them.