skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone working in the field, I congratulate the excellent accomplishment but agree with the authors that we shouldn't get too excited yet (their quote below after the four reasons). Here are some reasons:

1) Most likely, the model is still susceptible to adversarial triggers as demonstrated on other systems here: http://www.ericswallace.com/triggers

2) T5 was trained with ~750GB of texts or ~150 billion words, which is > 100 times the number of words native English speakers acquire by the age of 20.

3) Most or all of the tests are multiple-choice. Learning complex correlations from sufficient data should help solve most of them. This is useful but human-level understanding is more than correlations.

4) The performance on datasets that require commonsense knowledge, COPA and WSC, are the weakest relative to humans (who score 100.0 on both).

Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a
Unified Text-to-Text Transformer, p.32
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10683.pdf

"Interestingly, on the reading comprehension tasks (MultiRC and ReCoRD) we exceed human performance by a large margin, suggesting the evaluation metrics used for these tasks may be biased towards machine-made predictions. On the other hand, humans achieve 100% accuracy on both COPA and WSC, which is significantly better than our model’s performance. This suggests that there remain linguistic tasks that are hard for our model to perfect, particularly in the low-resource setting."

I’d like to emphasize that the work and the paper are excellent. Still, we are quite far from human-level language understanding.

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We may need more advanced tests to probe the actual language understanding ability of AI systems. Here are some ideas:

* Test for conceptual understanding in a non-multiple-choice format. Example: Write a summary for a New Yorker article, rather than standard news pieces (which tend to follow repeated patterns).

* Commonsense test with longer chains of inference than those needed for solving Winograd Schema and set in non-standard situations (e.g. fantasy world). This should greatly reduce the chance that an approach can simply detect correlations from huge datasets.

* Understanding novel, creative metaphors like those used in some essays by professional writers or some of the Economist's title articles.
Thank you for the reply. I’m just not sure that intentionality, self-expression, and idea development are so clearly absent in the requests made to so many specific services.
Ohh, never heard of Ultralight. Will check it out, thanks! I agree that licensing makes these products an issue for some, but they both seem to offer a very flexible free use option...
> it was obvious to me why people who see themselves as 'scientifically-minded' would dismiss it

Most people who reflexively dismiss the mind+body link haven't heard of Lipton.

Rejection of this concept is the default for conventionally-minded people in western society, because we've been conditioned over generations to see the mind and body as separate entities (likely due, ironically enough, to religion), and consequently it's a largely unquestioned assumption in medical orthodoxy.

People who are enthusiasts for modern science (i.e., devotees of Richard Dawkins, staunch atheists, etc), seem particularly resistant to questioning this orthodoxy.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. My own worldview is not heavily based on Lipton's. I just suggested it to give people something to start out on, in case it takes me some time to write my own doc.

Like everyone else here, you're welcome to contact me for a copy. I'd welcome your constructive feedback.
Yeh. That segment is usually referred to as something like "compact pickup truck".
I used to spend a lot of time with the kooks because conspiracy theories used to be fun instead of dangerous - https://web.archive.org/web/19961220171417/http://www.geocit...
> YC alum

Ah, ego!
I think the problem is that trust in American police is very low.

Given the training and conduct this cannot be surprising.

The number of stories where police act in bad faith is overwhelming.

So I get why people would be hesitant to collaborate -- your neighbor might get shot of you report a door left open.
I see that you have very little acquaintance with politics as it is practiced.

What we see happening in the US, with the small amount of migration occurring so far, is spending $billions on building walls.
That’s the story of every consultancy since the beginning of time.
This might sound hyperbolic but I'm almost getting Theranos vibes from reading this story.

Using refugees to push your nonfunctinal product is slimey to say the least.
Am I wrong to say that even if the universe of your concern is discrete, calculus can at least describe the behavior of recursive discrete processes, among other things?
Hi, one of the paper's authors here. We didn't submit our model's predictions for the AX-b task yet, we just copied over the predictions from the example submission. We will submit predictions for AX-b in the next few days.
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> 2) T5 was trained with ~750GB of texts or ~150 billion words, which is > 100 times the number of words native English speakers acquire by the age of 20.

...but, humans evolved the ability to use language over hundreds of generations... So... Maybe that's not such a bad thing?
Their hostility towards f-droid and saying it's too small potatoes gives me a very bad feeling about their security and that the play store version actually is safe.
I've read it for the first time today and although I recognize the cringe factor, I recognize something else much more deeply. Which is that feeling of alienation. Lost not because I am necessarily more intelligent than my peers, just thinking in different ways entirely. Being forced to align my thought processes was torture and it regularly failed. I wish I understood better what was happening as it happened.
There are almost no technical reasons, only political, for why we don't have a truly cross-platform, truly native UI framework by now.

The whole situation is bizarre and comical if you look at it from a distance:

Everybody ALREADY puts tremendous effort in making sure things look and work the same everywhere: Browsers!

Not just Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, but the thousands of third-party maintainers (like yes Electron) in this newly-created circle of Hel that is the JavaScript ecosystem.

And now we're trying to turn the browsers into operating systems!!

Everyone keeps trying to reinvent a wheel that doesn't travel very far to begin with (see all the missing features from web apps that native apps get, being discussed on this page.)
Well, it isn't something I search regularly so perhaps not accurate. Or perhaps YouTube has started removing some videos? I remember seeing a lot of fuss made about this in the YouTube community about a year ago. At work now and not really keen to add that search to my history, but might see if anything has changed later.
My has often problems seeing messages on her desktop client while they do appear on her phone.
Caches improve performance, Intel is banking on adding another cache layer between RAM and SSDs/HDDs. It could work very well for databases (being able to store 500GB+ indices in RAM without spending tens of thousands of dollars for RAM)
Nah, those are just some crappy sites made from copy-n-pasting source code from everywhere.
It goes beyond habits. I know what Office was capable of many years ago. Many of those features became completely hidden by the ribbon. Once I managed to find them again, I would be looking at the unchanged dialog boxes from Office 97 inside the pretty Ribbon interface.

Let me put it this way - I am qualified to write a book about Microsoft Outlook. One of my presentation interaction points when talking about Outlook was to tell the person asking the question "This was already a feature introduced in Outlook __".

Outlook got especially destroyed by Ribbon. It is capable of so much more than is exposed by the UI. The same is true for Excel, especially once you add various add-ons.

Ribbon made it easier for novices to learn a handful of shortcuts using multiple key strokes (press alt and follow the letters that appear). It also destroyed workflows of countless power users.
chat apps aren't a replacement for email, they're a replacement for in-person face-to-face talking.

You can't search or even store voice conversations (unless you explicitly record them, so by your logic, why would you talk to people at all?
If they are not keeping their deal, can the state just not give them the tax breaks or whatever was promised?
This seems quite complicated. Rarely the big perf hit is in js. The big perf hit is usually layout, composite and paint cycles. They are eons slower than manipulating a virtual dom tree in js.

So I don’t get it. You can’t interrupt the browsers native paint cycle. Once you say node.appendChild or change some attr/style. The browsers gonna do what the browsers gonna do.

React was simple. With hooks , concurrent mode, virtual events and mumbo jumbo. I don’t get it anymore. It’s not a lean mean library that takes minutes to run and one can’t read the source in a couple of hours
I use it.
Spotted the guy that's into over engineering.
Typescript goes in the right direction, but the last time I checked, its type system was mediocre at best.
A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
I tried something similar to learn Samoan, but didn't get far. I would compare some phrases in English and Samoan, then ask native speakers what a confusing word meant. I stopped pretty quickly because I found that a phrase made of three words might mean "tree", but if you just take the first word alone it means something extremely vulgar (I couldn't get anyone to tell me what).
Maybe it's a cultural side effect of high religiosity?
Office can do many things that I wouldn't be able to even begin to describe as a search query. They are all well-hidden. Dig a little under the facade and look at the VBA methods. Most of that functionality is or was available somewhere in the UI.
The amount of data required may not be a decisive factor but rather a canary in the coal mine that something is off.

If we wish to use a model in critical situations, such as a medical setting or commanding a self-driving car, 1) and 4) above cannot be ignored.
I read a long time ago that this quote was originally (and surprisingly) coined by the science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell. It certainly fits his humorous style, and the type of stories he used to write.

Unfortunately, I can't remember the source of this claim. However, this article does quote Arthur C Clarke's reference to the 'curse': As the old Chinese curse has it: “May you live in interesting times,” and the twentieth century is probably the most “interesting” period mankind has ever known.

Clarke and Russell were (as far as I recall) friends at university in the 1930s, which certainly fits the time period attributed to the quote.

So, I go with Eric Frank Russell, a writer who definitely had the finesse to create something so enigmatic and seemingly-authentic.
Humanity is not facing extinction, even if we indulge in global thermonuclear war.

Comfortable civilization will vanish, for at least centuries, taking with it food security, education, and high-tech industry. We will retain iron scrapping. We might keep dentistry, in luckier pockets.
> a downside about React is the fact that your template is also JavaScript

Everytime I read this (and it still seems to happens in 2019) I just don't get it--I don't get why people want to stick to the past. It's the best thing which could happen, everything is JS, FE development finally got bearable, no, enjoyable! It freed us from all the subpar patterns before.
Have you looked at getflow.com?
> user is entitled?

Is #2703 a user report or a developer report? Why would a user use GitHub and not https://support.signal.org/? Who is directing any sort of negative energy, when the reporter is swearing publicly at the developer?
The article does not explain in any way what the link is between MPC (the phone company) and the assassination.
Photographer uses drone with thermal camera to find missing 6-year-old boy
As someone whose going up for tenure next year...you vastly overestimate the benefits of tenure.
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Lucky you. That experience does not generalize.
As a non-Christian I find it interesting and not at all a problem if true. I think the same basic thing is common in some punk circles today (partly due to some racist Sweedish metal bands, but that is a different topic, although maybe not coincidence that it looks like the author of the book in question is Sweedish). I don't know anything about the author and maybe it is a interesting book, maybe not.

However, I did quickly get the feel that this article was not what it appeared to be (e.g. "nobody dared to do", which seems an unlikely phrase for actual historians) and after very quickly scanning and reading the last paragraph I didn't read it. I would be interested in a historical look at this topic, but not something written to whip up bigots. IMO this particular article should not be on HN.
Also libgen (since the authors are all dead):

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Mathematics+methods+mea...
Thank you so much your comment really answered my query. I am also more curious to checkout NeoCities.
It's 4/6 after the switch, not 3/6.
i have no idea what to do.
Because they are the number 2 smartphone manufacturer in the world. You would expect the number 2 to be trying the hardest.
Though as I recall the old testament has more quotably poetic one-liners.
For me, a quick "hang on" or "sorry, one sec" acknowledges people enough that they don't feel ignored while I make my notes, and is also scripted enough that it doesn't usually knock the thoughts out of my head.
I have been making a living building Rails apps for over a decade. It’s never too late, and while Rails is no longer the cool kid on the block, it is worth learning because:

1. There’s still a market for it. It shines at early stage, and plenty of companies like it, and the community is still decent (even though the energy of the early days is gone).

2. Many other newer frameworks and languages have borrowed many concepts from Rails and Ruby. Your learnings will translate!

3. It’s not all about money. Yes, you can make great money working with Ruby and Rails, but it’s a fun language and framework that cares about developer happiness (though, yes, there’s unhappy areas). So pick a language and framework that makes you enjoy your day. That’s why I have worked with Ruby so long.

4. Diversify. It’s not just about one language and framework. Learn other things too. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket (as it sounds like you kind of have with PHP). I particularly love learning Go, Dart, TypeScript, Vuejs, Nestjs, Swift, etc. Those are just a few. The point here is you learn the fundamentals in ways you will carry to whatever your future in programming will bring by taking some learnings from each one.

5. If you don’t actually enjoy learning new languages maybe consider another career? Not saying you should drop out of programming, but do what you love. We have one life to live. As cliche as that sounds, it’s true!
I find that hard to believe. US consumers overwhelmingly favour Apple compared to the rest of the world.
Woah dude! I checked NeoCities and i got hooked up, checked the featured websites. So, my general question why Yahoo closed the Geocities?
right, that's what i mean by redirecting. Taking negative energy and slinging it back. It's lame. Learn from everyone
Humanity never had a point. It just is. Humans will survive everything imaginable, in much reduced numbers.

There were once 100M people in the Amazon basin, wiped out by plagues brought by Europeans 5 centuries ago. A few survived. The trees growing in unchecked in the depopulated Americas reduced CO2 enough to cause a mini ice age.

That won't be enough to bring down temperatures in the next collapse because the CFCs and HFCs won't go away. But at least the oceans will get less acid.
I'm confused by people today in general. On one hand side, yes... tiktok videos seem to be full of highly sexualised teens, which they may regret later. On the other, is it that much worse than what you find by searching for "kids ballet" on YouTube (approved and posted by their parents and teachers)?

Tiktok seems like an enabler, but it doesn't look like the reason videos like that exist. I wish this wasn't really want the prude part, but about: should those videos be globally available forever without teens understanding the issue with that.
But can you name a single one that wasn't TED talk friendly nonsense?
My immediate thought was captured ie. "Iran successfully landed our UAV by transmitting false GPS data".

This language is used on the Wikipedia page about that incident.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
Love at first sight. It's a Landau but for mathematics. Love it.
Here's the explanation I like to use every year when this makes it to HN:

You pick door 1. Out of three doors you have a 1/3 chance of having a car behind your door. The chance that the car is behind one of either of the other two doors is 2/3. Let's pretend that instead of opening a door and revealing a goat, Monty instead says to you "You can switch to both of the remaining doors. If the car is behind either one of them you get to keep it." Your likelyhood of getting the car by switching is now 2/3.

Instead, Monty does the statistical equivalent: He allows you to know for sure which of the other doors definitely has a goat.
How the website were created? Through direct html code injection or something else
When I did analysis at university, I read Rudin instead of the recommended text. When the exam came around, I tried to generalise all the problems on the exam and gave answers which did not impress the person marking it, as they looked nothing like the standard solutions. As a result, I very nearly failed analysis. I wasn't particularly upset, as I used to consider my exam grade as a reflection of how well the course was taught, rather than a grading of my own comprehension. This is not a level of arrogance I would recommend to students looking to pass their exams.
> Dear Sir,

In Finnish culture is this considered a generic term of address? From the write up it seems like the author knew that Joyce K. Reynolds was on the IANA but still addressed the email to “Dear Sir”.
nice system, i have something similar setup. currently +10k notes, versioned with git and use vim as my primary editor.

currently building a service that can index and query across text based knowledge bases. you can find demo here: http://demo.alphacortex.io

would love to hear your thoughts and talk further about organizing knowledge :)
Because they can charge monthly service fees, duh. It's the new age economy. Find anything and turn it into a subscription.
For high religiosity you should go to Spain or Italy, not California.
> Moore’s team found that the conventional indoor setup grew microgreens at four inches per week—twice the rate of the food computer.

I’m very happy to read that some science teachers in the US get it right.
Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations
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Architecture of In-App Purchase in iOS Application
> A private messenger should be usable anonymously, shouldn't it?

It would make a good feature, but anonymity is not a requirement for privacy. I want my connection to the bank's website to be private, but there's no need for it to be anonymous. Signal offers a lot of advantage over traditional SMS with familiar usability. It doesn't perfectly solve everyone's threat model for privacy and anonymity, and doesn't have to.
Eh, no it's not? Ubiquiti's camera solution for example works by negotiating a direct connection between the actual local NVR and the connecting phone app. This is more than easily possible to do securely.
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The prohibition on homosexual intercourse is ancient. What your [2] says is that the word "homosexuality" did not appear in an English Bible until 1946, which is unsurprising, since the word didn't even enter the English language until the end of the 19th century.

Also your [2] is highly eisegetical.
Because you're in private mode? You can still read the text of the article, as it's briefly displayed before being obscured. While the full text is visible there is enough time to do an alt-A (select all) clt-C (copy) key sequence, then at your leisure paste into your favourite text editor and read.
The US no free market- no good. China porduct only good. Go TikTok! dominate to facebook and youtube
Thanks for the correction, the 1.25 million number is worldwide, not US https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

Self driving systems however do adapt. Most companies are using neural networks which can be retrained based on their mistakes. Unlike a human, they can also be trained on each and every crash for which sensor data is available.
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We are hiring a circuit verification engineer in order to perform verification for our circuits as well as some parts of the architecture. Note that this is primarily a circuit level verification problem. For example, ensure that the output of a multiplier is correct and works across multiple corners. Knowledge of SPICE and digital circuits is a requirement.

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If anyone would like a docker image, I created one today:
https://hub.docker.com/r/greglinscheid/polynote
https://github.com/Vilos92/polynote
> A "native" macos app is fundamentally different from a "native" windows app.

The visual and interactive differences between a macOS app and a Windows app are actually less stark than the differences between a macOS app and a watchOS app (crown) or a tvOS app (remote), but so far, despite its early bugs and limitations, SwiftUI does a great job of outputting the native controls on all [of Apple's] platforms.

Things like NavigationViews and TabViews produce different beasts on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, from the same code.

See WWDC 2019: SwiftUI On All Devices: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/240/
I think you make a valid point that also is the most plausible argument I’ve heard. Except though if I do this exercise for USA sites, I don’t see the same thing. My guess though is that the USA sites are maybe just more aggressive about filing abuse claims to the registrar?
It was founded by one phreak and a slick-talking salesman.

(And also by Ronald Wayne, poor bastard.)
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Slight amendment.

The heyday of wardriving (IMHO) was before the industry got its shit together with WPA.

Because before WPA, there was WEP. Which it turns out had multiple vulnerabilities, given enough traffic.

https://www.dummies.com/programming/networking/understanding...

Ergo, there was a period from ~1999-2004 whereby one could aim a Pringles cantenna at a neighbor's AP and crack their WEP password in order-of-an-evening (depending on how much traffic they were generating).

Not that I ever did such a thing, mind you.
That reminds me of this post which touches on that idea.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
"Big Brother is watching" but people forgot the crucial rest "... listening, measuring and recording, and people paid money for and installed him voluntarily."
No. They are typically all custom rendered using e.g. Cairo. In a native Win32 app every entry would be its own HWND. In a web page every input element is not an HWND; then entire web page is a single HWND.
Really fixed :-)