skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fantastic thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1163192701472428032?lang=... from Taleb. As always, a little bit over the top, but mostly on point. I've seen the exact phenomenon he describes play out so many times now its not even funny. I'm doing a PhD in mathematical statistics, which is sort of like "calculus on steroids". I basically do calculus day in day out. Many of the problems we attack are simply not of much interest to mathematicians. I used to run my problems by math profs & they would say something like yeah it can be done, have you tried mathematica etc. instead of buckling down to do it. For instance, yesterday I had to prove that Fisher information of Cauchy is half. Now that's entirely calculus. You take a function f(x,t) = (pi*(1+(x-t)^2))^-1. You then take the log of that. Then you differentiate that w.r.t t. What you get is called the Fisher score function S(t). So you take the score function and differentiate that again. Lets call that g(x,t). Stick a negative sign in front of that. So now you have a complicated looking new function -g(x,t). You multiply the -g(x,t) with your original f(x,t) and integrate that product over the reals. The result is half.
Most mathematicians usually get stuck on that last step. But for (mathematical) statisticians, this os sort of our bread and butter integral. So we know a bunch of tricks. Here's one such trick - https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/145017/cauchy-dist...

Its like riding a bicycle. Those who ride the most know how to ride. But there are some who want to know how do bikes actually work...which is not going to help you much with riding the bike.
If you don't have the causal explanations then you cannot generalize beyond the population you sampled.

What does that mean? That the correct conclusion to draw is very narrow:

Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do [in Graz, Austria, in the year 2019]
Spin-driven electrical power generation at room temperature
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This language is slightly more interesting for being Arabic than (say) German or Greek.

You're got three barriers between the learner and the language: unknown keywords, unfamiliar letters, and the wrong LTR/RTL order.

It all adds up to where, boy, it would be intimidating for me to learn this language, as someone who already knows how to program. Doesn't that imply it would be equally intimidating for someone who only speaks Arabic to learn C?
I think that the point about the majority of tests being multiple-choice is the most important one to underline.

Structuring a problem as a multiple choice task is basically turning it into a classification problem, but it doesn't really answer the question everyone wants answered: is it really possible to reduce the problem of language understanding to classification? i.e. is it really possible to understand human language with no other ability than the ability to identify the classes of objects?

But that is a question that has to be answered before any performance on benchmarks that reduce language understanding to classification can be appraised correctly. If accurate classification is not sufficient for language understanding, then beating benchmarks like SuperGLUE tells us nothing new (we already know we have good classifiers).

The problem here is that we have no good measures of language understanding, of humans or machines- because we have a poor, er, understanding of our own language ability. Until we know more about what it means to understand language it won't be possible to evaluate automated language understanding systems very well.

Hopefully though, the skepticism I've observed around results like the one above, will lead to a renewed effort to research our language ability, and perhaps our intelligence in general.
Here I was thinking stuff was loaded down in the mine and then driven UP out of the mine.

I realize there are differnt kinds of mines, but assuming it's a hole in the ground, the truck takes the material up, and the hole isn't situated on a hill... why and where is it going down with material? Really interested to read about this.
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Anything related to the "culture" of the workplace. The higher ups are raking in tons of money. That's it. That's why they are doing what they do. "Culture" is to keep the workers entertained while the execs scoop up all the cash.
If you believe the original point was questioning the dictionary definition, I'll leave you to ponder what else they could have been trying to say.

Personally, I think grouping all men together isn't constructive a lot of the time.

Sexuality and gender attributes aren't binary. Most attributes can be defined on a scale. I think this was the nub of the OP's argument.
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Taylor here. I welcome your feedback on how we do email campaigns.
The problem is not so much non-Arabic speakers having difficulty dealing with the language, since they're not really the target audience. But if an Arabic speaker tries to use this language to write a program for some specific use case they have, they'll have to work around the complete lack of ecosystem that comes with a novel language in a tiny niche.

It's the same reason why Chinese developers haven't banded together to create a Chinese-based language. They still code in Chinese, but the languages and libraries they use are mainstream: C++, Java, Python, ... All of these languages support arbitrary Unicode in comments and Java and Python also support Unicode identifiers. As a result, Chinese documentation is available even for software that's otherwise in English. However, if you tried to convince Chinese developers to abandon their battle-tested languages with a rich ecosystem for some other language just so they can use different keywords, you'd get laughed out of the room. It's not solving a problem they have.

That doesn't mean that localized programming languages can't be useful e.g. in education. But translating documentation and libraries is useful for many more people than translating the syntax of a language.
Among US women, fear/wariness-of and preparedness-for attempts at bodily harm and abusive behavior by men appears to be near-universal.

EDIT: Removed bad pre-coffee math. See replies below for better math.

I hope this helps you see why such a consideration could be considered relevant to the study.
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It's actually "Domain", not "Daemon". There's a couple of good episodes of "The Network Collective" podcast that discuss the early history of DNS and BIND:

- https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/hon-dns-origins/

- https://thenetworkcollective.com/2018/01/dns-adoption/
I definitely heard at least one mention of Dyalog APL there last year (not in a conversation I was in, I was literally walking past some others who were chatting).

I hope to see some of you there sometime in the future.
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It might be useful for providing therapy to understand the differences in how men and women see things.
I'm managing the production on the server with over 50 engineers working directly in shell on daily basis...

I moved 100+ various scripts from Cron to Jenkins in this year, including some mission ciritial applications.

Jenkins makes it super easy to know and measure what is going on, and setup procedures for failback.
I think you're wrong. System thinking and abstraction are required, unless the users have some mileage in it or a natural talent, they will hit a wall real quick.
The definition of gender that applies to people is “ the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”. I don’t see the part you quoted, where is it?
J.L. Borges: "Le tocaron, como a todos los hombres, malos tiempos en que vivir."
Qapla!
Not at all. It’s fundamentally much better designed software.
> not Saudi royal money

That's the missing piece of all this. The Saudis may legitimately be in the market for turning $15B into $10B, and being happy.

Oil is under a LOT of pressure, and while it won't go away anytime soon, the Saudis need to put their money somewhere. They likely already have a diversified portfolio of other stocks, they have after all made billions for almost a half century, and risking a smallish percentage of their wealth (there's a terrifying thought) is likely a smart move, even if they lose big, by anyone else's standards.

As a political strategy it is also probably sane. Vision Fund is likely good for the Saudi's reputation, as investment in innovation over, say, real estate in London or SF is less politically charged.

The Saudi's likely get a lot of this investment.
So, here is the thing. ML shouldn't just be about learning rules. It should be about actually learning, and understanding.

Just because you've never heard the word used that way, you were able to infer it meant something different. Even with the use of aircrafts.

We all make mistakes when writing or speaking. We don't let that get in the way of interpreting the information being passed. Even if we post comments that contain errors.
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Sssh dysgraphic. It's not an excuse.
The worst part is that this doesn't stop people from concluding things that they can't, especially if they have an axe to grind.

I can easily imagine someone reading the headline and interpreting it as either proof of women being less reasonable, or proof of men being worse ex-partners, depending on which side of the sexist coin they land.
Yeah it's noticeable. I think it's because the site is a "mobile first" design that accidentally became a "mobile only" design.
Another iOS 13 ui issue I ran into today

I have a lot of tabs open on safari on my iPhone. Both because I continuously open in new tab and forget to close the old one and also as a low tech “read later” list. Today I went through cleaning up tabs, and while going through the list pressing the x on some tabs, a pop up came up and asked me something (didn’t have time to see what) and as I was on semi autopilot pressing x’es to close tabs I accidentally hit the option Saying something About “1 day“. I figured it had something to do with cleaning up tabs (which I don’t want) so I go to the settings for safari and sure enough it’s now set to clean up old tabs after one day

So when I went back to safari all of my tabs had been cleaned up

I always browse in private mode (because why not?) so I lost a ton of “bookmarks”

Goddamnit
> Code is written entirely in Arabic, highlighting cultural biases of computer science and challenging the assumptions we make about programming.

And using the Imperial system of units is highlighting the cultural imperialism of the metric system, the so-called SI ("International" System) and its Modernist desire to fit man to the unit, as opposed to fitting the unit to man. As long as humans walk on feet, and not meters, or metres, we shall persist! Ich kann nicht anders! (... primarily because I lost my metric socket wrenches)
Most bad management practices boil down to answers to the question, "how can you manage people you don't trust when they're doing work you don't understand?" Of course if you've reached that point, the grevious mistakes have already been made.
He co-founded ISC, and was in charge of BIND 8 IIRC.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie

See also Vixie cron.
Maybe it's not your objective, but comments like this would be a lot more convincing if they were accompanied by a proposal for replacing cars and especially a steel man of the pro-car position.
Maybe the examples for a language test should use language that people actually use every day.
> If the point isn't to talk about climate change there isn't much to this article.

Sure there is. The article talks about non-climate-change human impacts, like the use of upstream water for irrigation. There's discussion to be had around that.
This right here. I remember one night, after 9 hours at work, I was gonna log back in to make some additional commits.

I even cancelled a night out with some friends, because "I really have to make this deadline"

Then it hit me, if as a competent developer I can't hit the deadline, it's because management added some extra work on top of our usual capacity, hoping we'll do whatever it takes to make it.

There's always more work to do. If they don't like me, they can fire me.

Nobody on their death bed said: I wish I spent more time at the office.
I remember this domain/author name from his fantastic Matplotlib tutorial a few years back, which is still the best matplotlib tutorial I've seen in the wild, and made me realize matplotlib could be as viable as ggplot2 for good data viz: https://github.com/rougier/matplotlib-tutorial
Sure it was, there were zero reasons to use C on CP/M, MS-DOS, Atari, Amiga, Mac.

It was just another programming language fighting for developer eyes.

On Windows and OS/2, although IBM and Microsoft decided to go with C for the underlying low level layers, C++ was the way to go for high level coding, C Set++, MFC. With Borland having Turbo Vision, OWL and VCL.

Macs were Object Pascal territory, and when MPW got C and C++ support, PowerPlant C++ framework was the way to go.

Epoch, BeOS and Symbian were also C++ territory.

MS-DOS games were also adopting C++ via Watcom and its DOS extender.

UNIX and the rise of FOSS, based on UNIX culture, were definitely the only reason.
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It's not just iOS, it's the web too -- buttons and error messages that are off-screen with no indication.

A banking site I use commonly has a "next" button that is inexplicably about 3/4 of a screen's worth after the main page content which is only a few lines long, with just blank white space in between -- so just below the fold. For weeks I thought the site had a bug where there was no way to get to the next stage of the operation.

Similarly, it happens regularly in a shopping checkout site that I'll click "Complete order" at the bottom of a long form and... nothing happens. Click again and again... still nothing. Finally think to scroll up to the top of the page and there's a tiny message in red that I didn't fill out the "state" field or something like that.

Off-screen indicators/functionality is a problem everywhere.
[The following Firefox tests were on Windows 7]

As fyi... I copied your code and it does not work in Firefox 68.0.2. The browser does nothing. I also made sure of the settings[0] in about:config and browser.urlbar.filter.javascript=false -- and it still doesn't work.

As a lark, I also tried it on an older 57.0.1 and it works fine there. (Dialog popup appears to let you enter a number.) To add to the strangeness, it works even though browser.urlbar.filter.javascript=true

So something changed (security setting?) in Firefox between 57.0.1 and 68.0.2. Whatever the magic incantation is to make javascript bookmarklets work in the latest Firefox the same way it does in Chrome, my google-fu hasn't found it. Until then, I have to use Chrome.

(Other Firefox users said they had to install a browser extension to make javascript work in the url bar. I'd rather run plain Firefox instead of installing any extra extensions.)

[0] https://n8henrie.com/2017/11/how-to-open-javascript-bookmark...
C is Sparta! :-)
My ex whom I dated for 5 years cheated on me towards the end of our relationship. It was hard initially, but now I don't have any negative feelings towards her. I accept that I wasn't perfect either. While, I don't want to make excuses for her, people do dumb things and make mistakes. I would never be with her again but I don't see a reason to still be upset about it.
I heard that most water consumption comes from farming and industry use and that personal use is only a very small percent of global water use. It seems that industries and farmers see water as a nearly free resource and have no problem drying up water supplies. The avocado industry is an example of an industry that through greed has contributed to many ecological problems.
Place you live matters a lot for salaries. Come on Silicon Valley to win 100k$ and discover home prices. You won't be rich.
Nice! Perhaps the problem is that there's too much water on the market, due to the government handing out too much too cheaply?

Edit: Ah, looks like yes; the government was working on undoing this mistake by buying back water rights at large expense, but stopped because, errr, politics. Although it sounds to me like the real mistake here was maybe giving away rights to use water in perpetuity in the first place (which requires the government to "buy back" such rights), instead of selling non-renewable allocations by the litre (which would allow them to just raise the price depending on conditions, or auction the available water yearly etc).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-23/water-buybacks-everyt...
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To clarify, I meant this comment as an expression of skepticism- I don't believe that the SuperGLUE benchmark really evaluates language understanding, or that BERT and friends are within a few percents of human language understanding. I think SuperGLUE is just another benchmark that is measuring something else than what it's supposed to be measuring (machine learning benchmarks usually do).

It seems that the teams behind the attempts to beat such benchmarks are aware of the weaknesses of the benchmarks though, so that's encouraging.
it is also upgradeable - i.e. an improvement in efficiency for a motor of the same format, or improvements of the battery in the same format can both be "drop in" upgrades. Not necessarily trivial, but much easier than with ICEs.
I worked at a startup that would only hire SWEs who did a 3 month internship first. The startup would not disclose the post internship salary.

Of course, the post internship salary offers were significantly below market rates. Many would accept the offers anyways because they had invested time and energy into the company.

The lesson is to never enter into a contract without full knowledge of it's consequences and how it will play out.
I’d call a language like Scheme simple. C—especially post ANSI—is veritably not simple.
I was wondering what the advantages of compressed air are over water. Given water is an incompressible fluid, I would have thought it was a much more efficient means of driving turbines and other moving equipment.
Similar to "get certified and we'll see about getting you a raise".

Gets certified, no raise.
It doesn't really need to be about climate change - the main issue people are upset about seems to be this:

> At Menindee, 830 km west of Sydney, despair has turned to anger as residents

> blame the government for exacerbating the drought by drawing down river water

> in 2017 for irrigation and other uses downstream.
While I agree in doubting that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can be used in the way the author does (for one thing, I do not think the strong version is supported by the evidence, and I think the strong version is required here), I think it is worth noting that De Forest, inventor of the audion (precursor of the triode), had a very mistaken idea of how it worked. Today, we have devices that use high-temperature superconductors without having a complete theory of how they work. The inventors of smelting and gunpowder did not understand the chemistry of their inventions...
Farmers could help solve the climate crisis–we just don’t invest in them
Honestly? Because sex is a borderline bad word in polite company, and can get you into trouble if someone misses context and thinks you're talking about sex sex, while gender isn't a problematic word. The United States is so damned puritan in its culture that it's risky to use words that have a normal context that's problematic.

[For instance, someone could overhear it out of context and think you're being inappropriate. That may not amount to anything in isolation, but then they might start selectively watching for problematic things you say or do based on their initial mistaken impression, and if you look for something hard enough you're likely to find it.]

Also, I've noticed even when I use the word sex in that context, I'm immediately on guard against making any kind of sexual reference or anything that might have double meaning, and that's just exhausting. I'd rather use gender and save myself the trouble.

GP quoted the wrong definition, but the right definition is there too, also from Merriam-Webster:

2a: SEX sense 1a
the feminine gender
Softbank made the vast majority of its profits off a lucky bet on Alibaba back in 2000 (not unlike Yahoo). So using your analogy, saddad got rich off lotto cards and the son is just copying Dad.
The parent is completely correct, why are you fighting it? This isn’t something you can out-logic, the words have definitions. Sex is the biological part and gender is the social & cultural aspects of sex.
I had trouble with the whole 0.999... = 1 thing as a young lad until I noticed something about fractions.

Any digit over 9 equals a decimal of zero point itself repeating. I.E.

1/9 = 0.111...
2/9 = 0.222...
3/9 = 1/3 = 0.333...
...
1 = 9/9 = 0.999...
It's always been that way and always will be.
Perhaps, but personally I think we all vary a great deal.

Any truly effective therapy needs to be based on the individual.

Generalisations can be lazy - and in a pragmatic sense, only really seem useful in very specific circumstances.
Also, the more barriers you overcome to get to the basics (that one's Greek too, btw), the less you'll struggle moving on, getting used to a certain confusion towards foreign concepts.

I really liked your angle, not over-ascribing meaningfulness, yet making an effort not to step too many toes by focusing on context, questioning the stereotypical basis.
I personally don't like the idea of that coupling, I prefer to use my own events, and go through websockets for ex..

This is a nice feature for some, but not all situations..
Fair is probably done al la WeWork. Out of money, living a 25 million dollar loan from Softbank, and abandoning everything but their Uber rental product. The Uber product is the Xchange Leasing one they took over from Uber because Uber was constantly losing money on it. In exchange for taking over that Softbank had given Fair a pile of money that lasted just over a year. Now that is gone and Softbank is just trying to figure out how to keep a pale shadow of Fair alive because Uber needs those cars on the road.

This 40% came very hastily and was focused on product and eng. 4 weeks severance and no clarity on if you have benefit coverage during this. This was cutting for the sake of cutting, no clear consolidation
of teams. Folks on the lots are expected to go in the next wave. Word is there is another 25 million out there Softbank will give Fair once Fair cuts enough overhead.

Also some suppliers haven't been paid for months, some going back to July. At one point an irate supplier blocked the entries to the Irvine lot with his tow trucks until Fair paid at least some of the 700k they owed.
Eh? There's still another confirmation step before it actually sends.
> Is working at a coffee shop "surveillance"?

The security camera guy of the shop is surveillance. Being in a public space, knowing who is looking at you (let alone, he is being seen by others as looking at you), is not the same thing.

Maybe precommitment is not what i had in mind but but you do mention explicitly "implementation intentions" as "what to do and how you will do it" which may not be an optimal thing to do.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/200...
Should we introduce a license to publish math papers? This should supposedly raise the overall level of mathematicians.
They're pressured to improve KPIs of economy and life quality (including employment rates) and that's the complete opposite of what fixing the climate requires.