skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> E-Mails are fairly easy to archive.

I mean unless you think the value of the knowledge contained within email is obviously less than the value that will be unlocked by self-driving cars, it stands to reason that solving the problem may not actually be any less complicated.
If taking the "captured" interpretation, I think it could be reasonably inferred that they successfully landed the aircraft at an airfield afterwards (same meaning). This was my initial read of it and it does not seem strange to me on reflection.

I would like also to point out that even if we do interpret the second as meaning "destroyed", the first could then be interpreted as a combat aviator shooting down an opposing aircraft, bringing us back to the same meaning. Or perhaps both of my interpretations are correct and the meanings are different...

What this tells me is that the benchmark is not very useful.
The only thing I have ever wanted from phone assistants is to tell me whether a coffee shop was open or not, or what the closing time is. I still can't get this info, nor is this question understood. I still have to stop, launch a browser, navigate to the site, and dig around their website for opening hours, or in the worst case find a phone number and call to ask them.
I think your examples help prove the parent comment's point. Each of those companies faced a reckoning when they weren't able to deliver on their promises.
Citing legendary scams from the last 10 years is not exactly a way to show that an entire industry is fraudulent.
"The Bible" in its current form didn't exist at the time the book of Revelations was written. So clearly it could only be talking about the book of Revelations otherwise the act of compiling the Bible would be violating this warning.
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There are plenty of people who keep getting tripped up by this problem even when it's correctly formulated. Statistics and probabilities are sometimes incredibly unintuitive and hard for a lot of people.

I only took a single class of statistics at university, but my biggest take-away from that class is that you absolutely cannot trust your gut, because the human bias is crazy strong.
This line really stuck out to me:

> Adventure Canada expedition leader Jason Edmunds always works with communities to develop a plan that’s about “connections and what they want to show us” instead of just what we might want to see. The company only goes where it is welcome.

If only more companies would operate that way.
I do read reason articles from tuner to tuner of course with the caveat knowing there libertarian pov. That being said replacing college with charitable apprenticeship doesn't seem like a scalable solution either. It's doing wrong in the opposite way where as free college may invest too much resource the idea of a apprenticeships trades networks seems to be neglecting allocation, particularly it neglects stem as there is no room from zero to hero apprenticeship for bioengineering typically because startups and companies really don't want to be the school. If we are to have a technological explosion this century then investing in the pipeline and finding out the equilibrium of stem and humanities rsrc allocation is going to be important without overselling them either.

Tl;dr ReasonTV has no solution either
One of the biggest conceptual moments in my life was taking an intro class to complex analysis in high school (not through my school itself, this was at a nearby university that runs a weekend program for interested applicants). It's probably not a novel intellectual framework for anyone who's spent time learning math from a theoretical point of view, but the guy who taught it opened with an (admittedly ahistorical, but that wasn't the point) tour of the development of numbers, starting with the intuitive case of counting, moving on to algebra and the question of what type of number could satisfy an equation like x + 5 = 2, and so on. He wasn't taking any philosophical position re the question of discovery vs. invention, but merely inviting us to consider the particular case of operations over a set not being algebraically closed and what it looks like to extend that set to support algebraic closure in a rigorously defensible way. Reading Spivak's Calculus, with the way that it starts off its path of inquiry by showing that, beginning with the basis of a totally-ordered field, the axioms at hand don't suffice to demonstrate the existence of e.g. a number that satisfies x^2 = 2, made me feel right at home again. It's like a detective story.
Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be
prohibited in all their forms.

I could continue pasting the remainder of the document, but I would argue that the ability to defend oneself (from the State, or other individuals) is the fundamental human right. Without it, all other rights are null and void. Gun ownership is the final fallback for securing our human rights.
> We need it too to improve the the user experience of the product.

I really appreciate you guys engaging in this public discussion. I hope you take what follows in the friendly spirit I intend:

> We need it too to improve the the user experience of the product.

This ^^^^ sounds like exaggeration to me. Taken literally, you're saying that the gitlab user experience could not be meaningfully improved without adding telemetry.

I'm not a UI designer, but I'm fairly sure that before telemetry existed, product-improving iterations were a thing.

But based on other people's comments, I think this is a tangent. I suspect that 99% of people's upset is making the telemetry something other than opt-in. I suspect that if gitlab would just commit to making telemetry opt-in and GDPR-compliant, all would be right with the world.
What is the hardest part about organising a date with your partner?
> I think the part that isn't intuitive to everyone is how to "accumulate" potential energy if you don't have batteries/capacitors. Like how I can't fill my car tire with my bike pump. There's... there's magic missing.

As others have pointed out, you can! If you're rather patient. They've even got compatible valves!

And you can think of a pneumatic tire as a kind of battery -- potential energy is roughly the volume times the pressure differential.
I think if we really looked at it, it likely comes from fishing where "to land" a fish means to succeed in quite literally getting it onto land from the water. But we use it as "to successfully get" (something typically uncertain) in many other contexts.
The NET bible has very extensive translation notes. Basically anytime something is even slightly ambiguous there's a note with information on what the ambiguity is and why they went with the translation they went with.
Do you think they wouldn't do that?
Welcome to cognitive hierarchy theory!

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_hierarchy_theory
> It's a speed limit.

Spot on. Sounds like in the OP's case, people are putting a weight on the current velocity numbers and not looking at when features will be ready. Usually means the stories are too big.

Velocity over time is what you use to predict when future features will arrive. Yoyo velocity likely means the stories are too big or too small. If velocity drops and those features just move down the road. It should be clear as to why velocity drops (someone goes on vacation) or the story isn't broken down enough and takes too long.

Usually, in a velocity driven workflow, you don't need to lessen quality of code because developers point their stories and they should factor in testing into those points. If the stories are too big, break them into smaller stories so there is more accepted work each week. Like what we learned in math class... break a bigger problem into smaller problems...
Maybe I'm not the right audience but why would notebooks need to have no hidden global state, and be reproducible? I personally use notebooks as a way to jot down things I would've tried in a REPL. Notebooks aren't meant to hold pieces of software; they are a dump of my explorations. I have a hard time understanding some of the requirements that went into the design of Polynote.
The trolley problem is not relevant because an autonomous vehicle should never put itself in a position where it might drive into anything.
The second implies that the aircrafts were shot down; the first states that the aircraft landed safely. It looks like this reduces to the machine being able to figure out whether or not something is good or bad for the speaker.
I'll throw in my explanation too:

Your first choice is either right or it's wrong. If you switch, right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right.

Your first choice is 1/3 right 2/3 wrong.
I know, it’s amazing! Nice to see someone else here gets a kick out of it. Electron absolutely makes HNers lose their minds.
Can't you do IP load balancing and run multiple Tor processes to handle different circuits?
When you put it that way, why aren't we all Amish? It sounds great.
reminds me of Capt Crunch :)

I managed to get in on this kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2086704960/beyond-the-l...
You are 100% wrong. Your odds go up to 2/3 if you switch. Not 1/2.

Please stop spreading this misinformation. Leave the math up to the experts.
huh, that's actually the first time I've heard a somewhat reasonable answer for that question. I wonder why pep8 gives such a terrible reason (editors that show newline chars) when there's actually a somewhat defensible reason. I still disagree with it, and other guides don't appear to consider this a problem even for projects like the linux kernel, which considers terminal users to be first class citizens, but it's at least nice to know a better reasoning than showing newline chars.
What does wardriving mean?
I was skeptical after hearing the correct answer, and just couldn't wrap my head around it. I'm no developer, but I wrote a simple Python program to simulate multiple plays of the game. It seems to be human nature to argue a problem like this even when one has the tools to solve it.
Heard of generators? You can do that.
>only adopt a technology if they see that the benefit outweighs the cost

I remember reading this explanation a while ago and it seemed completely logical. I feel like I've been swept away with a lot of things without ever stopping to consider its necessity.
The iPod at 18: the gadget that changed music and tech for ever
Every day many severely pregnant Chinese roll off the airplane straight to the hospital. Free Canadian citizenship for the kid and less room in the hospital for Canadians.

I believe Chinese food restaurants are more about spreading a positive message by China. Of course some people overeat at these restaurants but that is probably not the main point.
But gasoline & diesel are okay despite polluting? That doesn't make sense, nor does it follow that petroleum based fuels are permitted despite be extracted and refined using tools and appliances well beyond what most Amish communities currently permit.
I still think that Win 3.xx files and program visual arrangement and grouping is better than the stupid menus we have now.
Going back? The F-16 is 45 years old.
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I'm grateful for the folks that came before, but holy shit was that world toxic. Information was horded and coveted, misogyny ran wild, and it took 10x longer to learn than it does today.
From the abstract of the associated paper: "performance on the benchmark has recently surpassed the level of non-expert humans, suggesting limited headroom for further research."

It occured to me that hn_throwaway_99's question, and the responses to it, is the sort of dialog in which one could find additional headroom for further research into natural language understanding. We can understand, for example, that while the two uses of 'landed' are different, they are not completely unrelated, and we can explain how they are related, for example by introducing a third construct, 'landed a fish', as a couple of replies have done.
The housing mortgage crisis, dot com boom and bust, payday loan industry, for-profit universities, fad diet companies, supplements with no scientific basis, cigarette manufacturers... There are whole industries and periods of time where large numbers of shady companies are rising and falling.
https://www.artscroll.com/Products/STOH.html
I don't have children.

I am an adult.
Hospital data breaches linked to uptick in fatal heart attacks
Yes, but those don't help manage async fetch jobs.
I am sure the site admin will find surprisingly high traffic today :)
Learning requires a lots of false starts, traps, etc. Once one has mastered, he/she can provide an intuitive explanation (a path through the wild forest that learning is).
Neat, another weapon to use against emacs in the vim vs emacs war.
Landed in the sense of a fisherman landing a marlin.
I think classifying this as human level is misleading.

Look at the sub-scores on the page. One score that looks very different from humans is AX-b.

The SuperGlue paper provides more context about AX-b

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00537.pdf

AX-b "is the broad-coverage diagnostic task, scored using
Matthews’ correlation (MCC). "

This is how the paper describes this test

"
Analyzing Linguistic and World Knowledge in Models GLUE includes an expert-constructed,
diagnostic dataset that automatically tests models for a broad range of linguistic, commonsense, and
world knowledge. Each example in this broad-coverage diagnostic is a sentence pair labeled with a three-way entailment relation (entailment, neutral, or contradiction) and tagged with labels that
indicate the phenomena that characterize the relationship between the two sentences. Submissions
to the GLUE leaderboard are required to include predictions from the submission’s MultiNLI
classifier on the diagnostic dataset, and analyses of the results were shown alongside the main
leaderboard. Since this broad-coverage diagnostic task has proved difficult for top models, we retain
it in SuperGLUE. However, since MultiNLI is not part of SuperGLUE, we collapse contradiction
and neutral into a single not_entailment label, and request that submissions include predictions
on the resulting set from the model used for the RTE task. We collect non-expert annotations to
estimate human performance, following the same procedure we use for the main benchmark tasks
(Section 5.2). We estimate an accuracy of 88% and a Matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC, the
two-class variant of the R3 metric used in GLUE) of 0.77.
"

If you look at the scores, humans are estimated to score 0.77. Google T5 scores -0.4 on the test.

How did T5 get such a high score if it scored so abysmally on the AX-b test?

The AX scores are not included in the total score.

From the paper: "The Avg column is the overall benchmarkscore on non-AX∗ tasks."

If the AX scores were included, the gap between humans and machines would be bigger than the current score indicates.
non-paywall version: https://outline.com/R34gx8
how much tax should Amazon pay?
I don't think this was one of the most well-known or highly-praised projects before this scandal. Certainly I can think of at least 10-20 other projects from the same time that were more well-known to me.
You've never landed a fish?
The location of the Windows hosts file.
You can write down the physical laws that apply to a given system, but we don't usually call that "knowing what it will do", unless you can actually predict the state, or in the case of a program, the output. The mere fact that compilers exist is a meaningless form of "knowing what the program will do", only superficially relevant. You can't solve the halting problem with compilers in the same way that Newton's laws don't solve the three-body problem.

Also, did you catch the part where the point is about how expensive it is?
Your examples seem to support the point you were replying to. Theranos is a perfect example of a scam unravelling because eventually the scammer needs to produce results, and not just self-referential research papers that never quite go anywhere.
There's a reason traditional Jews read the five books of Moses in the original Hebrew (and why I was raised to be fluent in Hebrew, and also studied Aramaic, in addition to the Yiddish we used for daily conversation at home and the English I used outside in the United States).
It's hard to understand how someone would want to share their explorations with others?
This related article is on HN currently

https://reason.com/2019/10/24/wisconsins-massive-foxconn-boo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21350837
But you, myself, and most people in here of that age are most likely kids of upper-middle-class parents who actually had computers, back when most office computers were still up to a $10k investment.

Floppy disks were around a lot back then, but that doesn't mean kids actually encountered them. I'm 28. My first computer experience was at the age of 6, but most people I knew as a kid didn't touch one until the age of 15. By then, floppies were already gone.

I don't think there's any age range that has a majority of people aware of what a floppy disk is. We have magnitudes more tech-aware people than we did back when floppies were a thing.
It doesn't matter.

If Monty knows what's behind the doors, we arrive at the scenario immediately where the door that's left has 2/3 chance of hiding the car, because the door you picked has 1/3 chance of hiding the car.

If Monty doesn't know what's behind the doors, and goes into a cycle of opening doors and shuffling the prizes if it was the car, or rewinding the universe, or whatever, at the end of that sequence, you will still hold on to the same door you initially picked that has 1/3 chance of hiding the car. And the door that you get the offer to switch to therefore has a 2/3 chance of hiding the car.
Windows has become a complete UI disaster. I feel like Windows 7 was the last cohesive UI. The control panel is a great example. I'm not sure how it could possibly be more of a train wreck. Settings are in seemingly random locations split between the new and old style control panels. The deeper you get into dialogs it is like stepping back in time. Printers or network adapters you end up jumping back and forth to find the correct setting.
Rails is probably a better fit for your needs. If you're primarily concerned with sending forms to and showing data from a server, React isn't going to give you much.

React is great for Figma, Dropbox Paper, Coda, and Pagedraw: apps that are basically entirely local, and may or may not happen to be syncing with a server in the background.

CRUD is a special case of app, and the modern HTML/CSS/JS browser is pretty well tailored to handle all the needs for the client side of one. Maybe sprinkle in some Turbolinks [1] if you want some fancier page transitions.

It'll take time before someone makes a good CRUD framework on top of React. Until then, Rails is a great CRUD framework, and isn't missing much I'd expect to see React solve.

[1] https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
right wing bad!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
>> " partly to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War."

Just Wow: "We're afraid that another power might assert claim/dominance over this giant region, so we we'll get a few dozen people, who have no real skin in the game, to form a small hunting/fishing villiage. That'll stop another power from claiming this WHOLE area." ~Humans are weird....
I just stumbled upon Infinite Powers in B&N, and after reading a bit, decided to buy it. Loving it so far. I’ve been curious about calculus for a long time now, since I’ve never taken a formal class on it and am now in a graduate CS program, I feel like I’m missing the deeper understanding of many of the formulas that are presented.

My plan is to get through it to get some background on the main ideas of calculus, then work through khan academy and/or read through Aleksandrov’s Mathematics Contents/Meaning.

If anyone knows of active forums/q&a/online practice for self-learning calculus, it’d be a huge help if you could share.
Gender is just a social construct anyway.
Very expensive. AUD200K is over USD$136K
Most research is useless. It's almost inevitable.

But this is stupid levels of over-hype, and it has nothing to do with academia / business. It has everything to do with overbranding and rushing the hype.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/117189568344985600...
Comparison with other contemporary religious practices is a much neglected aspect of lay Bible study. For many people the Old Testament is the only ancient Middle Eastern text they'll ever read.
Psalms 119:

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

Versus the NIV's

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

Would be a good candidate
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Indeed, up to the prevalance of birth control in the last century, living with hordes of small humans was the default mode of existence for all humanity.

Nowadays it's rare to have more than 2-3 siblings. In the old days, everyone pretty much had older and younger siblings, and lots of them. So the "dealing with children" skill was well practised and common.

I juxtapose that situation with myself. Although I had neices and nephews, I didn't spend any significant time with children until I had my own (late 30's). And wow what a shock! I had lived mostly for myself, for decades prior. All the work and responsibility for dealing with babies and toddlers was a real surprise. If I knew anything about kids, I'd long forgotten it.

It's been one hell of a learning curve. My kids are really creative and clever. They can be kind and generous, they can be little fiends. They can be sweet as honey or ornery as can be. But they're PEOPLE. When you make kids you make PEOPLE. Miraculous and banal all at the same time.
So interesting to see something like this right after vscode added jupyter notebook support this past month, which I was excited to see given how poor the editing experience is in standard notebooks, especially around intelligent autocomplete.
Have you looked at GraalVM to bring in more languages?
React.js is literally the only reason I'm still in software engineering. I know I should learn Scala and be a full stack developer again, but at almost 34, I really feel like I've found my niche in frontend React development. I trusted the React team when they released hooks, and I've never loved coding more than now. Everything just makes sense, and it seems to always work when you follow the best practices.

I'm excited to start learning more about Concurrent Mode and Suspense.
On the flip side, one could also argue that as a public employee, everything that congressman does should be on the public record out in the light for everyone to see, and that the best security would actually be zero security.

This would also have the positive side effect of making it really hard for public employees to engage in corrupt and illicit behavior (which, as we all know, is so rampant that it's practically industry standard at this point).
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Limited headroom? Seems like they're assuming greater-than-human language ability is just impossible and will never be surpassed.
That's probably a bit too on the nose. The idea came to me while watching a Michael Wood documentary[1] and seeing a street performer in it. The way he told his story reminded me of the way the Bible was written.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272979/?ref_=tt_urv
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