skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While i see where you are coming from; i feel that you are putting the cart before the horse. While Intuition by itself is not enough, it should absolutely be the first thing you should focus on before doing the hard work through rigor and formalisms. The former can be "grasped" while the latter needs "practice and applications". This is how Science itself developed (a good example is Faraday vs. Maxwell's approaches). Intuition/Rigor are analogous (in a certain sense) to Theory/Practice. You need both, each amplifying the other's effects at various stages.

Here is a neat communication from Faraday to Maxwell on receiving one of Maxwell's paper;

“Maxwell sent this paper to Faraday, who replied: "I was at first almost frightened when I saw so much mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered to see that the subject stood it so well." Faraday to Maxwell, March 25, 1857. Campbell, Life, p. 200.

In a later letter, Faraday elaborated:

I hang on to your words because they are to me weighty.... There is one thing I would be glad to ask you. When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as I to express them so? translating them out of their hieroglyphics ... I have always found that you could convey to me a perfectly clear idea of your conclusions ... neither above nor below the truth, and so clear in character that I can think and work from them. [Faraday to Maxwell, November 13, 1857. Life, p. 206]”
(I work in this field, although not specifically on benchmarking)

I think that this article makes a good point, and correctly identifies weaknesses.

However, I also think that humans often take very similar shortcuts. There are good reasons why "bag of words" approaches work much of the time. Additionally there's lots of evidence showing that very rapid reading by humans does not imply deep understanding.

I think it's very important that people are aware of the weaknesses of these types of models. However, I think it's interesting that these weaknesses are becoming harder and harder to find.
8 1/2" drives are reliable (fast, too) if you're comparing to 9-inch tape.
> It's easier to feel that you know something than to actually know it.

Well said! All students need to keep this in mind.
When I read ute I was expecting to see something like an electric Maloo, not a 4x4.

It's really only since the demise of Ford and Holden in recent years that "ute" has been used to describe an American-style pickup like a Ford Ranger or VW Amarok with an enclosed tray.

Maybe someone will do an electric "Sandman" panelvan conversion. The petrol fumes were always terrible driving around with the back open.
But what's the difference? You PAY gitlab in both instances and your leverage is the same. Do you want to be involved in reviewing their motherboards for spyware chips as well?
Article is gone. But this appears to be the game:

https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
Thank you. They're staggeringly bad. I'm surprised no one else commented.
> If, for example, an alchemical world view sufficed to describe and predict the results of forging a particular metal or alloy then it was sufficient for understanding within the constraints of what was needed.

I strongly doubt alchemy predicted any significant aspects of steelmaking. All alchemical reasoning that I've seen has either been post-hoc trying to explain an observation, or has been quaintly incorrect (see the typical description of how to produce a basilisk, for example).
And of the recent revelations? [0]

"Why MIT Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Jeffrey Epstein’s money"

[0] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/11/20860717/mit-me...
They weren't being treated like slaves. Rio would have been paying them more money than they'd ever seen in one place before, and I have it on excellent authority that the mine was trying hard to bring up the standards of living on the island.

It is not reasonable to blame Rio Tinto for the PNG government was corrupt. That is the fault of the PNG government and the PNG people. As for the profiteering - operating a mine is not profiteering; it is pretty routine business. They had a 20-25% profit sharing agreement with PNG. They were investing in training the locals.

Rio wasn't shooting at anyone and wasn't advocating shooting at anyone. They were using explosives on rocks, the Bougainvillians were using them on buildings. The locals and their own government are ultimately responsible for tensions escalating out of hand.

I'm picking up that you might not like corporations here, but you can't call a company genocidal and responsible for war crimes because some backwater has a corrupt and ineffective government and it turns out they don't have an advanced enough social system to handle big infrastructure projects. Corporations simply do not have primacy over a government; governments get to do what they like and are responsible for that power. People who are in an active state of rebellion are also responsible for their own actions.
Shoot, entered it wrong.

(Weird how it got four upmods.)

https://write.as/simone-robutti/mindustry-sets-a-new-standar...

@dang, help (actually, he's asleep, I'll just resubmit and whiteout the title of this one.)
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> us corporations optimize short term profits over sustainable businesses

Speak for yourself. I think the investor culture is where this comes from, more than from the people operating the businesses.
Most of us rarely write such formal letters. I don't remember when is the last time I've written something as formal for a Finnish recipient.

At school I was taught to use "Dear Sir or Madam" or "To whom it may concern" but neither of those sound natural, they're just learned. If writing for a Finn, I just start with "Hei" ("Hey") (in fact that has lead me to start emails in English with just "Hey" as well). I may have used some other formality once or twice in my life when it was required for school or such matters but not as an adult.

So it may be that they were out of their element when writing that email and just put the first thing that came to their mind.
> It just does't add up except in specific applications like mushroom farming

If you want to make money growing food though, mushroom farming seems like the best bet. Right now there are several edible mushroom species where, if you were to start growing them commercially, you would literally be the only person in the country offering them for sale. And some of them solve serious culinary or food science problems. E.g. right now impossible burger has been able to do a pretty good job imitating the texture of protein in ground beef, but they haven't yet been able to do a great job at imitating the texture of the fat components.
Plenty of other HNers, myself included, don't work in aviation and still find this use of "landed" nonsensical.
50.6MB for me on a 2018 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave.
> the trade war came along and may kill it completely if the Gods favor us

Why would the trade war with China kill off this deal with a Korean company?
Training Markov Chains on Game of Thrones (AI for Text Generation)
Right click is still here, with one button and many possible modifiers

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/right-click-3610351

I don't own a Mac so I don't know how new Mac users discover how to do it. I remember there is something like a right click on Macs and I asked how to do it last time I had to use one for a few minutes. But if there are people that don't explore a UI with a visible right button, what are they doing with invisible controls?
another way to think of it is:

monty has the car 2/3 of the time. when he has the car, he must tell you where it is (by showing you where it isn't).

that last part is key. he is not making a random selection. so if you go with his remaining door, it will have the car the same 2/3 of the time.
This is true, and absolutely a weakness of these tests.

However they don't publish how well a human performs on the dataset without "not" in it.

They do initially note that Even human beings don’t do particularly well on this task without practice

I've looked at the warrant task. It's pretty tricky! I'd bet real money that untrained humans perform much, much lower than the 80% correct rate they get on the full set on ones without "not". I don't think it would be as low as the 53% BERT gets, but it would drop significantly.

I find the HANS analysis[1] much more compelling, but again I'd note that humans suffer on this dataset too (although again - not as badly as models do).

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1334.pdf
Gut feeling says these are older computers where the drives are user replaceable. I’m almost willing to bet the firmware assumed the stock drive from Apple was in it but those users put larger platter or SSD drives in those machines. Firmware attempted to flash and prep the stock drive to APFS for Catalina (they possibly were not on APFS and on 10.13 with HFS+), and low and behold they’re bricked.

I’ll Bet $20 if they put a stock Apple drive and tried again it’ll work. When I worked Apple retail we would decline repair of machines that had the hard drive or RAM replaced with a third party manufacturer. These machines are out of warranty, Apple won’t likely give them the time of day unless they pay out the nose.
What claptrap? Satanism and occultism on particular is intricately interleaved with many of the greatest thinkers from that time period. These influences are generally understated and coming to understand this relationship has done a great deal to improve my regard for the value imparted by both both of these ideologies.

If you take a minute to step outside your kneejerk reactions, you might learn something here, regardless of any bias by this particular author.
Do you normally "float" a cruise ship though? A more apt analogy might be "dock". Maybe a news report says that a vacation company has broken some regulation so the government docked a cruise ship, meaning they took away a cruise ship like you would dock someone points. It's ambiguous at best.
Absolutely. My apologies if the comment above came across as disparaging to the whole institution. I come from academia myself and the MIT name still carries unparalleled prestige with it. But this only makes it more heartbreaking to see the brand diluted by a small yet highly visible section ran by a former nightclub owner.
This is a great
I sincerely believe that our society would be a much more just place if C-level executives were held accountable for profit motivated decisions that harm the privacy and security of their users.

He is choosing to go override his engineers moral and legal objections in the hopes that it will make his stock go up in value by a few percentage points. This kind of greed motivated behavior is at the heart of nearly every evil brought upon society by silicon valley.

Do I expect my post to actually affect Paul Machle in any way? Probably not, but I really hope it does. Society will be better off without these greed-at-any-cost types having positions of power.
FTP was also how mail was transported in the NCP days (and you'll notice that RFC 733 still refers to FTP mail for back compatibility).
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I'm actually having a similar problem recently, although my messages are declined at the SMTP stage, "due to the very low reputation of the sending domain", which I attribute to the output of certain cron jobs being sent towards my own Gmail account — it seems like my whole primary domain name has subsequently been blacklisted a few weeks ago:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340460

* https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-October/10381...

It also seems that more and more of the mailing list posts end up in the Spam folder, too. For example, I'm subscribed to the nginx list, and recently found that all the mails from one of the core developers are now in the Spam folder in Gmail.

Gmail is becoming less and less useful as days go by. If it cannot be used for the mailing lists anymore, and inbound forwarding into the account is so unreliable as well, leaves fewer and fewer reasons to continue using it, especially as it's no longer free as they've stopped their infinite storage growth, so, I now need to pay 1,99 USD/mo because I bought into their infinite storage claims back in the day, and subscribed to way too many mailing lists to fit in 15GB of space.
Ask HN: What are some resources to get started on data analysis in sports?
I am looking to implement data analysis in sports, preferably soccer/basketball. It would be helpful if you could point me to data sets, tutorials, resources or people(that I can follow) that could guide me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352183
That might help. I don't think a native speaker would ever say it this way.
This is interesting book
Do you have a specific criticism of his post or do you just fully the hate the idea that there are systems structured such that for some set perturbations, they regain a stable equilibrium??
However, the details of the problem matter more than you might think. On the original TV program, there were sometimes two contestants who picked doors for the grand prize. In such cases Monty would sometimes reveal a small prize behind the door selected by one contestant, and then offer the other contestant the option to switch. In that situation, the frequentist logic works out exactly the opposite, and the logic that says 'switch is better' when there is only one contestant says 'switch is worse.'
It's funny; I taught both of these in a literature class for Korean exchange students. (I paired the Declaration with Barlow's song Estimated Prophet.) Fun topic to cover, but I think the students were too cool to feel like cyberspace was something really important to them.
Also solved the issue of people walking off with a giant stack of newspapers and throwing them in a gutter, as occurred with some completely free papers.
Do you continually update the organisation structure as you go? I've got something similar in Onenote and I always get stuck when I find that a piece of content can appear in multiple places
Resubmit from this thread, where I copied the link wrong (HN doesn't allow you to delete links that have comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352092
I’ve got this crazy feeling that you’re not asking these questions in good faith, especially if you don’t understand how anonymity is important for people using secure messengers or need a Github issue to inform you about a feature long-discussed in the app.
Lets make the world a better place... https://bit.ly/2PkajhA get here and see for yourself
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> Surely you were already rubbing shoulders with the Internet giants of old?

I was, but I just didn't see Eric that way, I guess because I saw him all the time? I mean looking back, there were quire a few Internet giants that either worked there or hung out at the office, but that email with Paul was the one that really got me. Maybe because the response was that data I was creating was getting mirrored to a-root.
I just finished reading this, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It provides a clear description of the fundamental intuition at the heart of calculus (chop stuff up infinitely, then put it back together again), and a mix of the historical background of its development and its ancient and modern applications.

All books of this nature are somewhat idiosyncratic – it's not a history, not a textbook, nor an applied maths book; it's a packet of passion sent by someone who's clearly excited and enthralled with his topic: "Here's a story about something really cool! Maybe you'll think it's cool too!"

I've been investigating recent books with different approaches to calculus (trying to build a free online course that empowers people in maths). Here are some other books I can recommend/mention:

[0] "Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself" Goes from 1+1 all the way to derivatives and integrals. My favorite work of math demystification and pedagogy.

[1] "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" Released this year, exactly as the title says. An accessible history, explaining each idea as it enters the world stage. I've only just started this, but it's a definitely more historically thorough, albeit less engaging, book than Infinite Powers. (Since historical accuracy seems to be TFA's main focus, I wonder what they would think of this book.)

[2] "Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World" Another just-published book – this is the year for Calculus! Amazon has lost/delayed my preordered copy, but from the author's other work I expect this to be a LOT of fun.

[3] "Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece" Sort of "the annotated Newton". Outlines Sir Isaac's history, social environment, and development of the Principia Mathematica. The bulk of this book is going through each section of the Principia, translating the language into modern speech/formulations (where needed), and explaining what Newton was getting at. Also not as gripping as Infinite Powers, but a great way of reading and understanding one of the most foundational scientific/mathematical texts of all time.

[4] "Introductory Calculus For Infants" I'm about to have my first child, so am naturally collecting suitable reading material for the budding babe (suggestions welcome!).

[0] https://amzn.to/2pVXJwj
[1] https://amzn.to/2pMCZr5
[2] https://amzn.to/31Ny32e
[3] https://amzn.to/2BIimyM
[4] https://amzn.to/33ZxbJj
Build that whole infrastructure then pivot to magic mushrooms as states legalize
Here in the UK, most food cans are steel. I checked several with a magnet, and the only ones that didn't stick were sardine cans. All the cylindrical food cans stuck. But canned drinks are usually aluminum.
I don't know about the New Testament, but I'd recommend Robert Alter's The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary for the Old Testament.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BN5HWWX
They (mediabiasfactcheck.com) literally called Politifact and Snopes neutral.
Different thing. "American" coffee in Japan refers to light-roast drip coffee.
Ah, my bad. It works on Android which is all I've ever used it on.
Exploiting CVE-2018-19134: Ghostscript RCE through type confusion
https://docs.rs/em contains not only documentation but also comprehensive explanation on effectively using Emu.

I would recommend looking through it first. Of course, if you have questions feel free to ask - https://gitter.im/talk-about-emu/thoughts
I've always enjoyed the multiple valid parses of "Time flies like an arrow". I can't wait for AI to generate more Escher sentences like "More people have been to Russia than I have" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion )
According to [1] and [2], Spain and California seem to have very similar levels of religious observance. Italy is substantially more religious, though.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Spain

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California#Rel...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Italy
I mean, I think you're planting your flag in some intellectual what aboutism. The confidence in the strategy of the process here is only as anti-intellectual as it is simultaneously conducive to that actual work trying to be accomplished.

Say a man marries a high caliber lady. Beautiful, smart, great personality. If he says, 'I did great here'. Does anyone say to him, 'Well what was your false negative rate?'. I guess you might
He does not, because the rules are defined to allow some discretion on the part of the host. It's not bending the rules, it's deliberate leeway in them functioning as designed.

In particular, if a contestant gives an ambiguous or incomplete response such that it's not immediately right nor wrong, it's up to Alex how soon to rule them wrong or how long to wait for the contestant to supply more information. Besides that, the host does have some discretion on whether to accept a close mispronunciation, and if the judges disagree enough then it will be addressed and corrected at the next break.
Always remember that your kid will eat a fair amount of hamburgers, ramen and pizza ten years later. And beer, twenty years later.

Obviously breastfeeding is better if you can, but no need to lose sleep over it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)

> Traditionally the term referred to vehicles built on passenger car chassis and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body. However, present-day usage of the term "ute" in Australia and New Zealand has expanded to include any vehicle with an open cargo area at the rear; which would be called a pickup truck in other countries.

My first two vehicles were utes: Holden, of course (HJ '74 and HX '76).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_HJ#/media/File:Holden_U...
The travel would be the problem. Conan tapes in New York and Jeopardy is in L.A.
Ask HN: A more convinient Magic Wormhole alternative?
Magic Wormhole (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) is an incredible piece of software that facilitates data transfer between computers when URL/id/hash digital transfer or copy-paste is not an option.

But, in my opinion, it has one significant drawback - it has to be installed and has not so few dependencies.

Thus if, for example, the objective is to transmit a single send.firefox.com URL from one machine to another, then installing Maic Wormhole on both of these machines is an overkill.

I usually resort to manually typing data on the second machine (a binary data block could be base64 encoded beforehand).

Do you know any software or services that could facilitate such scenarios (you need to transfer a small amount of data from one machine to another but it's impossible to use ssh, rdp, clipboard, etc.)?
Jennings has said he doesn't want it. He would have to relocate his family to L.A. or commute weekly from Seattle, which he doesn't want to do. He also doesn't really want any more of a celebrity/showbiz lifestyle than he already has.
I guess that whole Jeff Zucker leak from CNN just didn't happen.
Monty Hall Problem is to me the single most bewildering and depressing thing when I wonder how come mainstream/basic/MBA economics still keeps rational agency as its central tenent.

I mean, if people can't sort this out, how on earth someone that is not either extremely stupid or extremely evil (or both) can seriously think that people can figure out their optimal health insurance even if the terms were not incomprehensible legalese designed to trick you?
What Is the Best Way to Analyze Data?
I had an android variant with this feature once.
> Jack wanted companies to pay more tax to the city.

Uh, no. Jack has specifically and consistently lobbied against paying taxes (see: previous link). In 2011 he threatened to threatened to move Twitter to neighboring Brisbane unless he got the now infamous mid market tax break.[1] Exactly what Stripe just did. He greatly exaggerates the impact of a hypothetical $10M extra towards fighting homelessness on a $26B company with $3B in revenues.

The best response to this “fairness” line was from Marc Benioff himself, who said to Jack, ok, tell us how much you or Square or Twitter has given towards addressing homelessness in any other form. Crickets from Jack. He really doesn’t like paying taxes or giving.

[1] https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/square-ceo-jack-dorseys-tax-...
The sun is free, but not all plans will grow everywhere. In many cases, there just isn't enough sun, or the climate is wrong. The economics of growing, say, pineapples in England don't work out, in part because it's so expensive to grow them there (if that's even possible in a highly climate-controlled room), but also because transportation costs are so low.