skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key to explaining the Monty Hall problem to someone is to reverse the logic.

When you picked a door at the start you may have excluded the winning door from the host. This has a 1 in 3 chance of happening.

So that means the host has a 2 in 3 chance of being left with the winning door.

The host who has knowledge can't pick the winning door, so those 2 in 3 odds are passed on to you if you switch.
For non-Australians, "ute" is the widely-used abbreviation for "utility vehicle".
Have caught a fish though
It should be noted that "the Amish" is painting with a very broad brush. It's like saying "All Californians are surfer dudes."

There are many different groups of Amish, each with special rules.

For example, In some communities, tractors of prohibited. But in others, tractors are fine. And in still others, tractors are only OK as long as they don't have rubber tires.

As with any group of humans, generalization is often inaccurate.
Oh No! That is an unfortunate link from Amazon where somebody is trying to hustle money. You don't need the 2nd edition since there is no change from the 1st which you can get for $10+ from many sites.

The book is quite good. It is written like a "Manga" book and hence has tons of drawings to help develop intuition for the concepts. It is written by a group of ordinary people with help from Scientists (a quirky club named Transnational College of Lex from Japan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_Family_Club ) and thus is very accessible. Highly recommended for High school students and above.

Note that the same group has also published two other books in the same vein; a) What is Quantum Mechanics b) What is DNA; both of which are also highly recommended.
Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell you.

People argue about whether the odds go up at all, not about how much they go up.
By targetting fixed price we are making sure we have our same priorities over all our customers and thus we will be able to give better customer support to all.

Also, We wont be targetting big enterprises so we can always have a choice of improving our product not by just adding more and more features like other typical enterprise software but making it more simpler and user-friendly always.

At last, maintaining our system simpler will help us targetting masses(SMBs).

I agree the Fixed price is hard to monetize but companies like Todoist have fixed pricing model and still able to have valuations near to about $800 million.
Imagine the backlash if we started posting things like "See this engineer here! They caused the bug that resulted in downtime and a loss of $10mm for the company" and attempted to Google-shame them for posterity.
Why create a custom form factor when off the shelf tech will do fine?
I provided several top of mind examples. It doesn't take long to think of entire industries that are shady, from payday lenders to cigarette companies.
Unrelated to the post, but I find it beautiful that a colloquial phrase 'they say in India', has a sort of global recognition to me growing up in the United States.

We used to call poor handwriting 'chicken scratch' for fun all the time when I was a kid. I would know because my handwriting has always been horrible. I was always jealous of people who had pretty handwriting :)

I'm sure this is a term people in many other countries would recognize, I wonder what other coloquialisms have this sort of widespread recognition?
Is land an acceptable habitat for a fish?
Joyce K. Reynolds died in 2015.
The article seems to say the “first responder” was just a cop. I would have guessed a fireman would have broken the glass to extricate the man. Can’t really see a cop doing that.
I really recommend this podcast on how negatively this deal affected the town the center piece plant was targeted for. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
The example directly below that: "Justify the margins" and "The end justifies the means" is the one I find dubious. Obviously the former could mean to format a document, but those exact words in that structure could be a demand for someone to justify a financial margin for example. It is both true and false depending on the context.
One thing to always point out in these cases is that the human baseline isn't "how well people do at this task," like it's often hyped to be. It's "how well does a person quickly and repetitively doing this do, on average." The 'quickly and repetitively' part is important because we all make more boneheaded errors in this scenario. The 'on average' part is important because the errors the algo makes aren't just fewer than people, they're different. The algos often still get certain things wrong that humans almost never would.

This is really really super great, let's be clear. It's just not up to the hype "omg super human" usually gets.
> The receptionist accidentally moved her task bar to be oriented vertically on the left and couldn't get it back to the horizontal bottom position.

A lot of people hate the lack of features in gnome, but this is why I think KDE's style of configurability is a terrible idea. I can give my dad a gnome desktop and it just works, give him a KDE one and 3 hours later there will be six menus bar taking up half the vertical area of the screen, and that's from a locked config. As a power user I'd prefer text configuration or to use the separate tweak-ui app anyway.
> If he was opening doors randomly then you're left with a one-in-two chance.

No. Or, well, it depends on what happens if Monty opens a door with the car. If I lose if he does that, then switching doors doesn't change the probability.

It's easy to prove. Let's say that I always pick door #1, and Monty always picks door #2. Then we get the following probabilities:

car-goat-goat:
I stay, I win.
I switch, I lose.

goat-car-goat:
I stay, I lose.
I switch, I lose.

goat-goat-car:
I stay, I lose.
I switch, I win.

Staying: 1/3 chance of winning.
Switching: 1/3 chance of winning.
It's a great idea, if you do it right, and scale it up, which is what industry had been doing for decades. The problem with the MIT version is it was a toy, that also didn't work, and was developed by people who had no grasp of the problem space.

If you look at a Hasbro Easy-Bake Oven, it would be easy to discount "ovens" as a good way of cooking food. They're too small, and the incandescent bulbs don't produce enough heat. How could anyone thing this was a good idea?

It is...unfortunate...that the MIT name was attached to a group of people trying to pass off shoddy malfunctioning knockoffs of toys as new innovation.
the shrill hissing and whining noises of a workshop are one of the more fatiguing sounds to hear.

Can confirm.

In the early 2000's, I built a web site for a small factory that ran almost entirely on compressed air. Part of the project involved spending six months on the production floor photographing items as they were built. (15,000 different SKUs!)
You damn kids and your Monte Carlo’s. When I was a kid we did everything deterministically and we were grateful! And we didn’t have no fancy tablets either. You wanted a mobile computer, you had to steal a cart from Larry. And Larry didn’t like people stealin’ his carts, no sir.
By way of comparison, the translation occurred entirely during Shakespeare's adulthood. Othello and Macbeth are thought to be written in the early years of the translation.

Shakespeare certainly had different linguistic goals and ideals, but they make for a nice contrast.
Bear in mind that Silicon Valley sprung up, by sheer coincidence, in a place with two world-class universities close enough to loathe one another's sports teams.

Primary and secondary schools may well be training indicators.
- Free Software Foundation

- Wiki Media
Maybe I’m misremembering it? I remember the digital thermometer falling from -30 to -40 on the bus I was riding on from Changchun, but maybe it was something like -20 to -30? Anyways m, Beijing felt absolutely balmy when I finished that trip.
I wonder how many more years it will take for uBeam to give up the ghost. Dave Jones has so thoroughly dismantled that one, it should have been over years ago.

There's a sucker born every minute and a skilled con man can exploit that unfortunate truism to keep a scam for quite a while. Moller's skycar is an example of a flagrant scam that lasted for decades.
Stop linking to shitty news sites with clickbait headlines.

Start just posting the link to the study/report.
> There were many more concerns than we expected.

I really don't understand how this can be true. Just reading it briefly I knew there were going to be a ton of concerns.
Medicine is still more an art than science. We don't have clear evidence based practice guidelines for many conditions so doctors have to prescribe based on habit and intuition. Plus as with any profession, some are just incompetent.
The ice sculptures are worth it, as is the huge frozen solid river. They also sell ice cream in the winter and don’t bother using freezers.
So many options for sentence number two.

- The enemy stole the aircrafts, and after some drama in flight managed to land several of them.

- The enemy used remote control to force them to land.

- The enemy used coercive force to force our pilots to land them.

- The enemy captured them.

- The enemy shot them down.

- During a friendly event while we set our differences with our enemy aside and agreed to fly each other's aircraft at an airshow for some reason, we landed several of theirs, and they landed several of ours.

- There was a hearing mistake and "energy" (as in energy beam beamed by a UFO) was accidentally transcribed as "enemy."

- The writer is just screwing with us.

- The writer is not a native speaker of English, and they made a mistake and actually meant that the enemy boarded several of our (parked) aircrafts.

- The writer is creative with language and believes that it would be cute to say that when an enemy projectile struck one of our aircrafts, then the enemy has "landed" that aircraft as one would land men on the moon or land rovers (no pun intended) on Mars.
"The enemy landed 4 of our aircraft" without context wouldn't generally mean "forced to land" imo (as a native speaker). It would mean that they either destroyed them or managed to acquire them.

For example I might say that "they landed 4 aircraft with their daring" if they forced us to abandon an air craft carrier (e.g. by sinking it) and then managed to steal 4 of the planes (before it sunk). Or I might say "they landed 4 aircraft with that bomb" if they dropped a bomb on an airfield and it destroyed 4 aircraft.
Wardriving was driving around town with a laptop scanning for WiFi access points without any encryption. Most wardrivers would have a GPS card and software that’d build a map up as you drive of all SSIDs and locations, which could be uploaded and contributed to by others.

This was back before ubiquitous open WiFi and encryption.
Same thing is happening in the US just in slow motion.
Racism is a strong indicator of lack of integrity and a belief in the scientific process. If you believe that people are less intelligent because of the color of their skin (despite numerous scientific evidence failing to show any correlation between race and intelligence) it’s a good indicator that you don’t believe in the scientific method.
What phone assistants are you using? I’ve never had this problem.
The bible is by far the most translated text (and a reasonably sized one). I just wish it wasn't written in a weird way.

I learned a little bit of Korean by reading the bible as the primary source and when I tried to speak, I only got weird looks. I get why. It is like someone asking you "How art thou?"
> Joe found using software for the first time to be frightening and only continued at my reassurance and (sometimes) insistence.

Without the background to fix general computer problems, the whole experience seems like they'll be a point of no return. The iPod menu button and later iPhone home button were great at countering this by offering an UI escape at any moment.
> In industry you _eventually_ need to show result and earn money

> It doesn't take long to think of entire industries that are shady, from payday lenders

I trust you aren't arguing that payday lenders don't earn money!

There's a huge difference between "I don't like what this industry is doing" and "this industry is fraudulent, can never produce the goods/services claimed, and will never turn a profit for the investors".
It's a reasonable assumption if only for the simple reason that humans said the sentences being tested, so how would you surpass that?
My mom said that, when recovering in the hospital from a certain operation, she was prescribed morphine for pain, and when she had some, "colors looked brighter, the air smelled sweeter, and everything just felt nicer"; when it wore off, she said, "Wooooow. So that's how drugs can be addictive." She refused all morphine after that.
Both those examples produce bucketloads of cash for their shareholders. They're not defrauding the people who bankrolled them, they're taking advantage of the vulnerable, which is an entirely different problem.
A big part of it is the cult of individualism. Do you really think that you, by willpower alone, are going to be able to resist all the temptations of multinational corporations who collectively spend billions researching how to manipulate your lizard brain?

The Amish do it through community, accountability, and literally physically separating themselves from the vast majority of this influence.
Things like this are only going to get worse, as we continue changing the climate. It's a good thing urchin roe is delicious, time to get eating.
The revolution never had much success?

What do you think is the hacker culture? Everything you hate about tech is post hacker culture. Also its purely about the hack value, making computers do what everyone thought was impossible before, and sharing it with those who appreciate it. That attitude surely have fizzled down. And that is simply the heart of hacker culture.

Being good person or bad person is totally tangential. You can be a good hacker, but maybe not the best person, or you can be a good hacker and absolutely nice.

EDIT: The scene is not actually dead. People are still doing magic with 8 bit computers and Amigas. The sky is the limit inside the box!
I find it sadly ironic that the industry that's responsible for most emissions and actively influences political position in this country to put profit before the environment is the one that this zero emissions car is being targeted at.

With that said, bravo on the implementation and using the 79 as a very solid platform. The sales pitch of the article doesn't sound very compelling though, so I wonder how much success they'll have. Until they can hit a cost parity with diesels, it could be a bit of a slog.
I am creating what I am calling a "quiet social network".
Paid by subscription, not ads. Which allows a model with no notifications, that you only add few friends/family, with a lot of control of who sees your posts.

It is a side-project, with moderate bootstrapping ambitions only.

If the idea and company style fits you, email me (on profile)
I'm not sure how you think the NRA looks good here.
I'd argue that greater-tham-human language ability is by definition useless.

Language is specifically a human communication tool, there's no value in surpassing the language skill that humans have, if indeed such a thing is even meaningful (what does it mean to be better than the best* French person at French?)

* By whatever language-related metric
Driving through the midwest the most surprising thing I saw was a big Amish family birthday party... at a Texas Roadhouse.
Besides oil, what else has mankind killed each other over as much as religion?

Edit: sensitive ass down voters that can’t ack their own bigoted bullshit. I was force fed the Bible for years. Read that shit, or “interpret it” as you will. It’s all contradictory bullshit.

If god is so infallible why does his word change between versions?

How can _you_ interpret it differently?

Maybe because it was written but a bunch of assholes trying to control peons thousands of years ago.
> I agree with others in that using wasm to build a web app would be lunacy.

Figma:

1. https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

2. https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
Because principle of least surprise is a good thing for almost any application?
Personally, both. And I'd say something like... industry projects eventually have to actually be profitable or it gets cut or eventually called out as fraud. Same is true of academic projects, except the currency is reputation and hopefully application. Once a field is believed not to be fruitful, those projects stop getting funded.

But academic projects are inherently closer to aspirational, so I'm not sure it's fair to conflate aspirational with fraud. This episode sounds like fraud. Aspirational is claiming your novel magnetic media "could" enable a terabyte per centimeter storage density when you know perfectly well it couldn't hit that in a real application. I dislike the rhetorical overreach and would not use naive statements like that, but it is a different thing entirely to take claim for work that wasn't even done.
> ... also doubt there's "literally billions" of Android phones out there ...

> AWS alone had 1.3 million active servers in 2016 alone ...

According to a quick Google search:

In 2018, Samsung (alone) sold ~295 million phones [0].

In 4Q18, there were ~3 million servers sold (across all vendors) [1].

> Even if you only talk about tech in active use, people only need 1 phone ...

Here, between two of us, the girlfriend and myself, we've got at least seven Apple devices that I can think of. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that there are other households just like ours but with Android devices instead.

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ETA:

FWIW, a few months ago, Stephanie Cuthbertson, Android product manager, stated [2]:

> “Today there are over 2.5 billion active Android devices.”

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[0]: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-02-2...

[1]: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44905719

[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/07/android-passes-2-5-billio...
The Tipping System Is Immoral
Not the Amazon counterfeiters, yet.
Exhalation, Ted Chiang http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te... (full text)
Short story: it’s complicated. But if you want to read up on something really fascinating about using technology to get the most accurate translation, look into CGBM: https://www.uni-muenster.de/INTF/Genealogical_method.html
Of course. It might be something that actually binds humanity together in singular, syncretistic opposition.
China has taken over the black market and weaponized it against us. China sends the fentanyl precursors to Mexico. There the fentanyl is manufactured and sent to the US and Canada with the help of Mexican cartels. Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us. A powerful move against an already over-prescribed society.

Fentanyl is found in lethal quantities in all kinds of street drugs. Not just heroin but in pills labelled “Xanax” and in cocaine powder.

We would respond very differently to these casualty numbers in a shooting war with China. Maybe that is why China is killing us with fentanyl.

I draw the line today with 7,000 deaths/yr in Canada and 40,000 deaths/yr in America. What are your numbers?
In academia it's even worse. There's a glass floor that's also a glass ceiling. There's one group of people making tons of money publishing worthless material. There's a second group doing all the work in the false hope that they'll someday get to join the first group. I was lucky enough to learn this lesson as an undergrad and didn't get tricked into going for a PhD.

By the way, the "research" about texting while driving you might have read about or heard discussed on NPR is just highly plausible bullshit.
Hmm, lots more transceivers support multimode (not just Ethernet, serial/video etc) and a lot cheaper too. Direct attach is the only way to go for in-rack, both cost and cooling effects. Probably not the best in an office environment though.

In the desktop, QNAP recently released 8/12 port SFP+/T switches starting at US$500, which is the sort of pricing that will push this tech into small business. Probably buggy as hell at saturation and no features, but who cares, these are for doing occasional file transfers instead of passing around USB3 SSD drives.

https://nascompares.com/2018/04/12/unboxing-the-qsw-1208-8c-...
Fatally overdosing on opium is more difficult than overdosing on acetaminophen, or many other OTC drugs you can pick up from your local pharmacy.

The alkaloids in opium are STRONG emetics. While it is certainly possible to fatally overdose, it is far more likely one would vomit for a few hours and be fine, assuming they did not consume far above a 'normal' amount for their bodyweight.

Which, by the way, is true of alcohol as well.
>If this is true it would really undergird the possibility that the top of the industry is just a bunch of guys who went to the same kinds of schools, universities, and fraternities, and just keep recycling each other over and over. It's not failing-up, it's the glass-floor.

This is true for every major industry and the political class and has been true for decades.
Initial pick: 1/3 chance of winner

Question: did you pick the correct door?

- If correct, both remaining doors are losers, eg. {loser, loser}.
- Otherwise, the remaining doors are {loser, winner}.
And the loser must be revealed according to the game rules.

If you don't change your answer, you're stuck with the initial chance: 1/3

If you change your answer: (1/3) * 0 + (2/3) * 1 = 2/3

- (1/3) you initially picked correct, then change to a guaranteed loser.
- (2/3) you initially picked incorrect, then change to a guaranteed winner.
Should we post “left bias” from The NY Times, Washington Post, Citylab, et al? This is exactly what’s wrong with society, especially among the so-called smart people.

What’s wrong with a right bias? Doesn’t that enlighten the conversation? Is it possible that there a lot of good ideas from another side of the spectrum of ideas? Why do we call out “right bias?” Why not just let people think for themselves. Apparently that’s not allowed — anything veering even a slight bit right from the left of center or far left gets belittled and chastised. Open your mind. It seems the tolerance of the left is a myth.
> whereas the comments are a universe of wonderful discussion

[ * spits coffee all over keyboard * ]
Yep, we will be adding a plug-in to support Graal languages (little bit of learning to do on Graal first). We didn't want to make the project depend on Graal, though, because it's a pretty small segment of users (and we're not using it on our team at this point).
dot com boom and bust?

Like Whole Foods or broadcast.com?
Won't do it justice, but there was a sermon I thought was pretty interesting a couple years ago relating to the passage where Jesus asks Peter if he loves him.

Basically Jesus asks Peter three times whether Peter loves him. And three times Peter says "You know I love you".

Seems like a pretty uneventful passage in English.

Our pastor elaborated a bit and explained that in the original (greek / aramaic, don't remember which), there are several kinds of love.

What Jesus is saying is basically "Do you love me perfectly, the way only God can?"

What Peter is replying is basically "I love you the way that man can, imperfectly."

This happens twice.

The third time Jesus asks "Do you love me imperfectly, the way that a man can?" And Peter gives the same refrain.

Put's a different spin on it since in the first it's just a repetitive exchange, but in the second form it's an instance of God coming down to man's level.

Thought that seemed really interesting.
I got this: Poλλλote.
Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
Hopefully the otter population will also expand. Adorable otters! Squeeee