skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think universal triggers exist, since at that point they are just language features. But there are plenty of less universal triggers

Let's imagine that that in the brain everything goes through a series of models, first tokenization into words, then we build something like an abstract syntax tree, then we analyse meaning in the context etc; and each time one of these steps reaches a nonsensical result we start over with additional parsing time allocated. It's probably not true, but close enough to be a useful model.

Now what you consider an adversarial example depends on how far down the stack it has to go until it's caught:

- "The old man the boat." fails in the early parsing steps. We reliably miscategorize old as adjective when it's a noun.

- "More people have been to Russia than I have, said Escher" goes a step further, it parses just fine but makes no sense. The tricky thing is that you might initially not notice that it makes no sense. This is about the level where AI is today.

- "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" makes perfect sense, but you could notice that the straight forward way to parse it leads to a non-sequitur and parsing it as "time-flies love eating arrows; fruit-flies love eating bananas" is probably a better way to parse it.

Of course that's just the parsing steps. You can trick human "sentiment analysis" by swapping words without changing the meaning. Compare "this bag is made from fake leather" to "this bag is made from vegan leather". PR and marketing have made a science out of how to make bad things sound good. Similarly PR is great at finding adversarial examples for reading comprehension, where they say one thing that's nearly universally understood to mean something different (or to mean nothing at all; or where something that seems to mean nothing at all actually means something very siginicant).

Of course we assume all text to be targeted to humans; so if something is widely misunderstood by humans we blame the sender for writing such a bad message; when it's widely misunderstood by AI we blame the AI for being so bad at reading.
I think you're assuming their roads were straight. This wouldn't work at all on a winding road/trail where turns are constant.
Sounds like you want to move VBA into the cell. I issue no opinion on doing that, just offering an observation.
Who's his opponent? Let's donate and make him a throwaway.
Keyword translation poses MAJOR problems when you open the Excel file on another computer, indeed.

Unfortunately, Excel files were more often opened on other computers than Java files...

To be inclusive is hard. Even if we imagine one Excel version per continent, all Latin-based people would be ok, it would also suit countries that can be globalized under the Chinese or Arabic areas. But the offshore situations with 2 different continents wouldn’t work well.

And sooner or later you end up with one Excel version per alphabet. Russian, Tamil, Farsi, etc.
> The gravity waves were triggered by thunderstorms, with cold air flowing out from the squalls resulting in a disturbance in the atmosphere

That's not a gravity wave, but a downward convection flow causing wind. Anything to clickbait the title.
In general, I don't think air powered tools have less torque. Rather, they have less torque at low rpms.
> Fire those unwilling to play along and grow a culture of collaboration

Gosh that sounds like an oxymoron
Neither of these two links seem to go into much depth about the language itself. I'm very excited to read more. Do you know if there is a summary in English that explains how it works, and how Russian influenced the language?
It's a quote by Robert Heinlein from Starship Troopers (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/141333-there-are-no-dangero...). I don't agree with your reasoning either by the way.

Men with pencils are more dangerous than men without therefore pencils are dangerous.
Relying on speed traps seems a terrible way of financing a city. I can’t imagine this being stable. If people start speeding less (which should be the purpose of speed traps) what are they going to do?
There are still plenty of people literally living only from web design.

Just because you have access to good Drag&Drop builders does not mean web design or web design programmers (CSS etc) are out of business.
their counterpart of "hello world" is probably "hello twintowers"
Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)
Well, since they have a government-granted monopoly, and they have been doing a very terrible job, the only group that can seemingly improve things is the government. Now, it may be true that there isn't a huge difference between the state taking full control, or the state finding another private utility company, or the state implementing more regulations on PGE. I agree that may not matter that much, but the point is that the state government absolutely needs to fix this, because no one else will.
The conclusion here in this article should come as no surprise.

As has often been pointed out by sites such as TorrentFreak, the one aspect that paid content has an advantage over pirating is the convenience factor. There is a huge convenience factor in the flow of "open Netflix" -> "search for movie/show by title" -> "start watching".

And, as the world has witnessed over the last few years, many individuals are indeed willing to pay some amount of money greater than zero to achieve that "convenience factor".

But, the balkanization of streaming content into separate, non-cooperating, silos is causing both the cost to increase while simultaneously causing the convenience to decrease. For the decrease in convenience, compare the flow above to the new flow: search for title in Netfix, find it is not there, switch to Amazon Prime Video, search, find it is not there, switch to CBS All Access, search, find it is not there, switch to Hulu, search, find it is not there, until one finally finds it in new service X, which itself wants an additional $10/month on top of the $10 per month that all the prior searched services also want.

So, less continence (can't just find it as easily anymore) and more costly (have to pay for 5 or 7 or 10 separate services).

What the streaming market is discovering is that there is an upper limit to how much viewers will pay for convenience, while the streaming services are simultaneously reducing the convenience factor (the one factor where they do have an edge over the pirating method).

Therefore it is not surprising that pirating might take an uptick. With pirating the user gets to go to a single search system, perform a single search, look through and select one of several results, and wait a few minutes for the content to download.

Pirating always had the advantage on cost, now the balkanized streaming services are slowly handing over the convenience factor to pirating once again as well.
The regulator specifically approves the maintenance levels.
NLM's remapping of vertical to horizontal scrolling is absolutely maddening.

When I indicate an up/down movement on a page, I expect the page to move top-to-bottom. And absolutely NOT left-to-right.

I instantly switch to the "classic" view, though disabling JS on the site has the added benefit of "breaking" the dysfunctional mode.

Any other remapping of scroll behaviour is also annoying as flipping heck.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669363/
I live in SF and have said that too many parts of it seem like a third world country.

The biggest shame is how much money there is in the Bay Area and how many (already solved problems) exist here.
Except that it doesn't mean what you imply.

> The term lingua franca derives from Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the pidgin language that people around the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean Sea used as the main language of commerce and diplomacy from late medieval times, especially during the Renaissance era, to the 18th century. At that time, Italian-speakers dominated seaborne commerce in the port cities of the Ottoman Empire and a simplified version of Italian, including many loan words from Greek, Old French, Portuguese, Occitan, and Spanish as well as Arabic and Turkish came to be widely used as the "lingua franca" (in the generic sense) of the region.

> In Lingua Franca (the specific language), lingua means a language, as in Portuguese and Italian, and franca is related to phrankoi in Greek and faranji in Arabic as well as the equivalent Italian. In all three cases, the literal sense is "Frankish", leading to the direct translation: "language of the Franks". During the late Byzantine Empire, "Franks" was a term that applied to all Western Europeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
the randomization on the topic 5 you mention is the mutation. there's a 25% chance of mutation at each reproduction. The mutants have alterations on their color and their behavior.
The Ethical Minefield of [Human] Microchipping
If market forces would make something which is already unsustainable untenable without subsidization, it is the subsidization that is the problem because it enables the unsustainable behaviour.

In other words: let the cotton farmers get stuck with paying for the water, and the business will simply dry up, and the water will be used for economically sound purposes.
Related:

No scroll bars on iOS makes it look like features aren’t available and no indication that you need to scroll.

https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
go-to-URL-bar is also Ctrl+L which I tend to favor, for some reason

Also I miss typing ".." in the URL bar to go to my home page (I'll admit this was an iexplore quirk, albeit a really convenient one...)
Maybe this is an uninformed comment, but how is this different from the Firestore database in Firebase where you can listen for when a document changes?
A train is 150+ year old technology that could not be simpler and yet the cost of building out high speed rail is 10 times the number you quoted at least. You're delusional if you think experimental technology is going to be cheaper.
Asks a real question about whats precious cargo, downvoted.
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Thank you. The title alone made me wonder if they perhaps drafted a bunch of appropriately qualified civilians into that role, perhaps on basis of some ancient law that has never been enacted so far but it's technically still on the books. Because who knows how exactly "reservist" is defined in the Netherlands. (and if it meant, in the context of "cyber-military", that they might occasionally come for you at weird hours with requests for consulting, it might not even be all that terrible)
The novelty here is that they are waving the physical requirements of military personnel while still enlisting them as military allowing them to engage into certain offensive actions that would, under dutch law, be prohibited to civilian personnel.
I have no idea whether that is at all unique in europe or globally.
The poorly maintained power infrastructure is due to a poorly regulated monopoly placing shareholder returns over delivering safe and reliable infrastructure to its customers. Arguably a California problem since the regulation is mostly at a state level.

The drought, above average heat, and likely the dry late season winds which are huge contributors to this problem are due to global warming which is symptom of a global problem which the United States government refuses to address.
> Why would you buy an EV with 150 miles today

Because they are cheaper. And many will by high mileage EVs on the used market. A 200mi EV will have a lower usable range later in it's life, but otherwise work great. For example, I can imagine buying a used Chevy bolt for my kids to use around town 8 years from now.
Because they don’t exist? You can definitely learn programming following local language tutorials. It does not require learning English grammar or a large vocabulary. But you might need to communicate witn other people, especially if you’re doing open source.

I feel there is a point you want to make, but am not sure what it is.
> At its core, Microsoft is a company that makes its money the old fashioned way: by creating products of value that people willingly part with their money to use.

Call me skeptical, but there's not a whole lot of products I willfully pay Microsoft for. Most of them I pay for with a strong feeling of resentment that I have simply no other choice, since there are no competitors to the market or the lock in is too strong.
I wasn't suggesting that Turing completeness means that all languages are somehow the same. To the contrary, I was arguing that languages are differentiated primarily by how easy they are to use for a particular task—in other words, their accessibility.

Execution speed is clearly not the reason why multiple programming languages exist, because assembly is as fast or faster than high-level languages. Rather we use programming languages because they are easy to understand and reason about, allowing us to work quickly, among other things. The usability of a language is impacted by things like whether it has automatic memory management, or whether it uses functions instead of gotos, but also by the vocabulary it uses. Consequently, I see the vocabulary of a language as not particularly different from those other attributes.
For hardware, perhaps, but the Chinese have no realistic way to replace the rest of the world for software. If they want to sell their hardware to the rest of the world, English is the only realistic language to use for that. I see no evidence of mass learning of Chinese anywhere.
German manuals can be weird enough. I still remember one that explains the DEC(x) function as "erniedrigt eine Variable" (It's true that "erniedrigen" can sort of mean "decrement", but it mainly means "degrade").
You can still rotate the entire chariot. There’s a vertical axis of rotation through each wheel. Think about how you can rotate a wheelbarrow by rotating the entire thing at once. The tire doesn’t spin, but you’re still rotating.
Most people don’t get crazy big salary. That’s it.

Also, French company are not very good at giving what you’re worth. They are kind of strict on the salary range given some amount of experience.

But if you are good, you can either get the top 10% of salary, or create your own company.

The top 10% don’t advertise much about what they have, but it exists. You can reach 100k level in France. (Not with only 3y of experience of course)
There would be no electricity, since the automatic safety systems should detect such a failure and break the circuits, similar to what should happen if a cable fails in your bathroom. But assume not, to make it interesting. The way of shortest resistance is probably still through the cable. Or it would all go into the ground. I doubt that there would be any danger to a swimmer (that is not too close). Note that such cables are buried in the ground to protect them, or rocks are deposited on top of them.
WOW. Ok I had no idea you could scroll that menu. wtf. I was also confounded by the new iOS 13 update not being able to save photos, but I got around by tapping on the pic from the conversation thread and getting a save action sheet.
Basically act as an artificial force for selecting poorly fit agents. Just like what we're doing to ourselves right now??
Not necessarily a negative considering the human need for community.
> <1yr, or even a 3-yr lease on a used car

Why not just buy an used car and sell it after it is no longer needed?
Unfortunately, so can radiotherapy. Both treatments are very hazardous options.
Google says its quantum computer has completed a decade task in less than 4 mins
How the mine gets its power is irrelevant. The point is that these vehicles are rarely stationary at any sort of base where they can charge. Most mines run 24/7 (though often not at full capacity during the "off" hours). The duty cycle is much higher than buses and delivery vehicles.
The difference between your cake and real life programs is that business processes tend to be rife with exceptions and details — frequently exceptions that are unknown at initial design time.

The whole reason for the existence of iterative processes like Scrum and friends is that your premise doesn't hold in the world of software, because then we could just use a waterfall process and be on time and budget every time.
Linda McCartney’s Polaroids: Instagram before it was cool
As a programmer and every day user of really advanced Excel shenanigans, I can confirm your view is pretty spot on. The fact that I have the mental model of a programmer means I instinctively follow best practices that non-programmers simply can't get into their heads. Namely: keeping data and presentation separate, DRY, the concept of named variables, understanding how array formulas work and why you can map functions to intermediate in-memory vectors, the list goes on...
Apparently they've started several large wildfires over the years. . .

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/18/business/pge-...
I believe there are some dams in California that are in severe disrepair caused from years of spending money in all the wrong paces.
Nobody finds this interesting.
I've heard somewhere that Twitter maintains a copy of all tweets in a user's timeline for that user.

If I had to make a Twitter clone with CouchDB, I would probably have one timeline document per user, and maybe one per day to limit the syncing bandwidth.
You see similar issues with e.g. Haskell or a lazy FP languages where certain idioms behave wildly different from each other.

Ultimately I'm not sure what his complaint is. He says "If it takes too long, or takes no time at all, that’s not the language’s concern, strictly speaking." Would you trade correctness for speed? Would you make programs maintain poor performance in the face of hardware upgrades?

What is the point of either?
China threatened to invade if the British allowed democracy in HK. It has been the Chinese denying HK democracy since the early 80s.

https://www.scmp.com/article/48108/thatcher-reveals-dengs-th...
Ballmer is a buffoon. Even if we are to accept that MS was caged. I remember being at a launch party during an internship. Suddenly half the people ran out of the massive tent. I thought it must have been a fire, I ran out too, grabbed someone and asked why the mass exodus. Their reply was that Ballmer just went on stage. With that response I figured I have to see this. I went back in and recorded it. I was not disappointed, the performance was very cringe worthy.

I do hope MS becomes a nice place for women to work, as a white guy I hated it so hopefully in the future they can do better.
I wonder if part of this (the web part anyway) comes from a desire to monetize content paragraph-by-paragraph. With simple HTML scrolling (which browsers are really good at) it's hard to report what content is actually being read. With JS-controlled pseudo-scrolling, that's easy but it makes for a lousy UX.
> In OAuth, you have a server that both 1. knows who a user is (can authenticate them) and 2. can do things on behalf of the user (send emails, provide files).

No! OAuth servers don't necessarily authenticate a user by themselves, and can't "do things" on behalf of the user (or at least, they don't have to). You misunderstand OAuth fundamentals if you think that.

OAuth is all about delegation. You use OAuth when you want a user (resource owner) to be able to delegate "access to a resource" to a registered client (an app or website, normally), without disclosing its credentials to the client directly, simple as that.

The OAuth server doesn't need to know anything about how authentication will be performed, it only has to be configured to redirect to an authentication server when necessary to obtain an authorization grant from the end user.

The authentication method is not defined in the specs because it would be extremely foolish to tie implementations to particular methods of the day for identity proof.

OpenID extends OAuth by defining how identity can be provided to the client (in simplified terms, by defining the format of tokens _and_ an user API so that they can identify users), something that OAuth omitted, causing a lot of confusion (but keeping the spec sane).
You are wrong here, the problem statement states "Monty Hall opened a door and it had a Goat", so the situation you describe where he selected a car didn't happen. Since he didn't select a car you now have 50% chance behind both doors. But you are right that you have 1/3 chance from the beginning, but the situation described in the problem is not at the beginning.
If we can also predict side effects, maybe we could find the perfect drug ?
https://is.gd/yyZCzB
Yes, everyone hates speed trap towns (rightfully IMO.)

The schadenfreude of small government failing to produce a thriving city with that particular cherry on top is why this is on the front page.

If this city had connected to the sewer, got a Walmart and become a normal and forgettable suburb other than its tax rate nobody would be interested in its story but because the insistence on low taxes and small government created what many here would consider bad results it is of interest.
Piazza absolutely sends spam about the recruiting side of their platform, whether you like it or not.

I absolutely click spam on every single one of those pieces of mail, and I'm glad that they are being penalized for it.
Dang! One in ten thousand?! That's crazy, thanks for the perspective. They should be easy to spot though - just look for the one dude zipping around using iOS 13.3's new hoverboard function ;)
For smaller screens, scrollbar-on-scroll (with a slow fade of 0.5 - 2s or so) would be a reasonable compromise, if the scrollbar were also a manipulation interface, and not merely informational.

The default Android PDF viewer operates in this manner, and provides a grabbable scroll control. Much of the rest of the app is otherwise less than impressive, but this would be a useful motif to pick up.

I'd offered the feedback to Ello in the piece as both relevant to the site specifically, and in the spirit of having long offered feedback on both good and bad elements of the site, at least for as long as there was any response to those (this stopped being the case around 2016, the site is now effectively dead).

I am a firm believer in the right to provide feedback on tools and services used. "Go self host" isn't a reasonable or scalable response generally.
While we're on the topic, those screen-masking "tutorials" you randomly get when apps push out an updated UI are annoying. I always skip past them. When I open an app, it's for a reason, and I want to start using it.
A map of California crop production
Or to have two statues on the same cart, or to keep some sort of a more discrete and orientable object on the same cart to keep track.
That tends to result in highly-paginated articles. In the worst cases, approaching paragraph-by-paragraph "slideshows" or pagination. An extreme anti-pattern.
Back from the Blender Conference
Regarding a specific thread going back and forth (span of a month or so, not years):

Google marked as spam my 7th or 8th reply in a chain of emails with a prospective tenant (presumably) because my email contained instructions for sending me money. I assumed that they weren't interested anymore and had ghosted, but luckily we crossed paths at a grocery store or some such.

My emails continued to be marked as spam after they added me as a contact, individually fished each one from their spam folder, and continued to write replies. Weeks later (with no apparent cause) I started arriving in their inbox again.
Can't they use an accelerator ring such as used in a particle collider, to get the objects at the desired speed before launching them?
That's the right way. Makefile, shell script...something easy.

Because then you can also run it locally to produce the same effect.

Jenkinsfiles/Groovy DSL/XML files should be the 20 other things: job dependencies, notifications, VCS configuration, retries, coverage reports, etc.

Same with anything: Travis, CircleCI, etc.
One issue with that is that there has been an arms race since 2008 with "search engine optimization". If you used a crawler from 2008 on today's web, you'd probably get a ton of spam.