skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice you don't address his actual point though.

If, let's say, a group advocating for the abolishment of asset forfeiture wants to communicate their message, and the media is not covering it, it would be natural for them to try paying for ads, and the obvious place to put ads are on social media, since that's where the eyeballs are (cf, the collapse of the news media). If social media bans those ads then while the group clearly still has free speech, they will have little way to meaningfully exercise it.

You might say - and I'd certainly agree - that the real problem is a world where everyone is on Twitter and Facebook to the exclusion of all else, and thus a world where 3-4 CEOs can unilaterally decide that nobody needs to hear anything about asset forfeiture (or whatever). And yet, that's the world we're in.

(You also don't seem to understand what "free speech" is. By your logic, a law banning the purchase television ads for Democratic candidates - but allowing the purchase of television ads for Republicans - would be okay, because after all, those ads cost money, so it's not restricting the Democratic candidates right to free speech. That's absurd, no?)
Shh the Secret to Building Great AI
Or perhaps it's news that's just missing a few details.

Cracking and wear and tear on the structure might be normal, but it sounds like the issue here is that the 737NG airframes are showing signs of wear and tear much faster than expected.
Airlines with many more 737's handled it correctly. Not saying it isn't a crisis. Just saying it's an airline specific crisis, not a Boeing crisis. That's the piling on bit.
I'm somewhat surprised that this would be permitted by the card issuer.

Aside from that... why aren't Airbnb detecting when multiple properties have very similar photos and investigating this themselves? (Of course they may be, and these examples are cases where they didn't pull the fraudulent listing).
Except that when you call the cops, you are escalating the situation to include a potentially violent actor. You might want justice, but most people just want help. Multiple times I can name the cops have been called to help and have instead shot innocent people.
Because US healthcare suck.

It's a fact.
>...parashoot

A typo but that slip created a great brand name for a rocket-propelled parachute the "ParaShoot".
The lesson is actually not to be pedantic. It is okay for things to feel a certain way to you but it's not okay for you to not recognise that in some subjects you need to operate from a position of empathy and sympathy to the party you are conversing with. Social situations need you to be delicate sometimes, and that goes way beyond "conversations about sexual assault". It applies to every part of your life.
I was only an intern, and I haven't read that book, but it was overall a fun job. I was of a bleeding-heart-pacifist, so I made it pretty clear that I didn't want to work directly on weapons or anything like that and as a result, around 90% of what I worked on was actually C++ working on a camera to help detect mines.

The Fortran I touched was actually in an unrelated department; to what I was doing. Basically there was some old code that needed to be ported to an newer system; it was largely following the Fortran 77 spec so all they needed was an intern to copy the code over to a newer machine, and fix the compiler bugs.
Head and tailwinds are real
Or connect the computer to human neurons directly.
It should go together with respect
some korean players were so quick at inputs you'd think they were half way to brain-computer interfaces already
Not excusing anything about MCAS, but the "cracks in an aluminum airframe" thing is a VERY normal and established cycle/process.

Cracks can be a normal and expected thing. These parts were designed to last the lifetime of the airframe (around 90,000 cycles) and are failing in under 30,000 cycles.

This raises eyebrows for two specific reasons: 1.) Boeing was already installing subpar parts (edit: not pickle forks) from Ducommon in the 737 NG 2.) The wings fall off if the pickle forks fail completely.

This news piece is just journalistic piling on to hot news.

MCAS isn't the only fire Boeing is fighting right now (they're also battling poor quality control with their KC-46 and 787 lines among other things). Some guy on PPRuNe is claiming that the pickle fork problem was just improper manufacturing[1], which when put in context would make it appear as if Boeing has some major structural problems with its organization.

1: https://www.pprune.org/showpost.php?p=10595986&postcount=258
Yes and I am sure all these airlines know this too and yet they are grounding them even though it costs them real money. It seems these airlines are less comfortable with the kind of cracks they noticed or the speed of their growth, but maybe you have a first hand knowledge why they are just wrong.
>Couldn't disagree more with your definition, panicking is never a desirable action

Well, complains should be directed to evolution.

>Being chased by a predator and you run? Are humans likely the fastest animals?

Depends on the predator, for humans it will many times be other humans (or other homo species), and the extra boost panic mode gives you can very much help. Besides you don't have to merely run, you can run and hide, run and jump on some tree, etc.

>The only way out is to outsmart it and you can't do that if you're panicking.

You don't care much for outsmarting and subtle strategy when it's life or death either.

From Wikipedia:

"An evolutionary psychology explanation is that early animals had to react to threatening stimuli quickly and did not have time to psychologically and physically prepare themselves. The fight or flight response provided them with the mechanisms to rapidly respond to threats against survival."

If I come at you screaming with a knife would you sit and think how to outsmart me for a while, or start to panic / hide behind something / run trying to escape/avoid me? I'd like to see someone try the former...

>The word itself carries an undesirable connotation and is never - by definition - the best course of action

That's at the human cultural level, where it's 99.99% applied to non life-threatening situations, one should not worry as much about.

On the evolutionary/animal level, panic (aka fight or flight) is an excellent mechanism to stay alive...
Or even a turn based game, where click speed does not matter...
What are you solving for here? They already limit the AI to human like speed, reaction times, and accuracy.
And the 'free lunch program' raised public health/reduced malnutrition by a large factor when introduced in the US. Urban legend has it that the military mandated it because of poor WWII conscript health, but free lunch predated that by 50 years. It was a federal act only after WWII because of scarcity and the decline of local programs.
Wasn't blink stalker micro pretty central to its playstyle as protoss, the race it was best at? Why would you say that is minor and marginal?
> For humans that would be almost impossible, because the screen would scroll when the mouse approaches the border.

That humans cannot reliably perform these actions because of the limitations of our corporeal form means that Alphastar has an advantage over a human player. Limiting APM isn't enough.
Why don't companies like AirBNB who have a lot to lose (reputation wise) from a (small?) number of scammers sue those scammers into oblivion? Not only are they violating the TOS but they are committing fraud, and likely breaking a few other laws.

AirBNB must know who they are as those scammers are getting paid, right? It would be expensive for AirBNB (they would certainly lose money) but it can't cost more than the revenue they lose when people read articles like this?
"Free" as in "from prior restraint by the government".

It's not a coherent comment in the context of the US 1st amendment.
FYI all major airlines have a sat link to their planes with monitoring. While they don’t have a remote fly by wire link, they can load live data from a plane into a sim and have a pilot on the ground troubleshoot with the troubled craft
They are testing the AI's ability to do tactics and strategy, not motor and visual tasks. It has built in delay and needs to move around the map to gather information just like a human, so it doesn't have any significant unfair advantages.

Edit: Note that the version they sent out to the ladder had significant larger delay, significant lower APM, and didn't get any information not visible on the screen unlike the first iteration.
ah god damn it. I was just coming back to make an edit as enough coffee registered the mistake.
Yeah I've been working with a lot of AWS lambdas the past year and one of the design decisions was to limit our jar sizes because of warm up time concerns. So, libs like Spring or Guice are not allowed and I can say we really haven't missed them as we just construct new objects by passing in their dependencies when needed.
> Neither party is for stronger US labor unions.

The Democratic Party believes that when workers are strong, America is strong. Democrats will make it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions. We will fight to pass laws that direct the National Labor Relations Board to certify a union if a simple majority of eligible workers sign valid authorization cards, as well as laws that bring companies to the negotiating table. We support binding arbitration to help workers who have voted to join a union reach a first contract.

https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/raise-in...

> It was under a democratic president [...]. It was Clinton, in the 90s, [...].

Yeah, it was both those things. But was is about the past, not the present. The Democratic Party— and the Republican Party, too—has shifted since then (and particularly since the Great Recession). The Democrats have seen the pro-labor progressive faction that had been marginalized since
Clinton (and somewhat even earlier) by the neoliberal faction resurgent, while the Republicans have xenophobic mercantilist protectionists come to the forefront. The neoliberal consensus that peaked around the 1990s is well and truly dead; it may have supporters in bot parties, but they aren't dominant in either. No one is campaigning on free trade any more, and candidates are more likely to be disavowing their past support for free trade deals than endorsing current efforts.
Learn biochemistry not biology
> The democratic means for eventual independence are HARD and SLOW because they HAVE to be. You should need a lot more than a loud voice and a molotov cocktail in your hand to push more than half of your presumed co-citizens out of their country against their will.

It sounds like you're arguing that to democratically separate, using a referendum isn't sufficient. Instead, you have to have a molotov cocktail and something else - presumably heavier, more effective weapons?

What the rest of the world hears Spain saying is, Catalonia cannot separate and even asking the question and discussing the matter is a criminal offence. When people are locked up for making sure there's interest before they start negotiating, what's left isn't "the democratic means for eventual independence are hard and slow because they have to be". What's left is "there's no democratic means for eventual independence; if you want to separate, it's over my dead body". And that means war.

The democratic means to separate can only be a democratic majority vote in the territory concerned. Otherwise it is by definition not democratic. Likening Catalonia's actions to Trump and Brexit and presenting Spain as the side of the lessons of the 20th century is hilarious. Catalonia said "let's have a vote on it, oh look independence won [in a questionable referendum], let's have a discussion". Spain said "you can't have a vote on it, you can't discuss it, thanks for trying: now you'll spend a decade in prison". Spain and rSpain do not have to agree with independence to have respect in this - they just have to not lock people up for democratic expression.

Spain and the EU are losing a lot of respect in this process.

For it to be a democratic process, there must be a way for this to happen, and there must be a way for this to happen that sees Catalonia exiting even though everyone else in rSpain is unhappy about it. Yes, of course, that means Catalonia will be paying a price when exiting. Maybe they will lose some of their territory or continue to pay some taxes for a certain number of years. And that price might mean they decide not to leave at this time, democratically.

But if the price is too great, if rSpain says "we will unhappily allow you to leave but we will veto your EU membership application and close the borders", if the price is something that Catalonia could never pay, then the democratic process will still be stifled and Spain will continue to be taught the lessons of the 20th century because, as you say, the Spanish "don't fucking learn".
Ah, ok. I've read about OpenAI Five (it plays Dota 2); and as far as I understand it's fully trained with self-play.
Nobody selects larvas directly? I guess I am a computer then. Way worse than Alphastar tho.
I think the comparison is lacking, but you do have a point.

It is really more than awkward to use "free speech" to advocate for something that is, inherently, not free.
The claim was only that hiring by previous income is not commensurate with contribution at the new job.
Oh god, I feel another 50 articles with AI in the title incoming to War on The Rocks...
Whilst battery farming is cruel and inhumane to the animals, it can be done in a better way.

However, foie gras can never be done humanely, it's a horrible practice where the animal has to suffer in order for a diner to have 5 minutes of gastronomic enjoyment.
I use and contribute to open source, and I know I can't compete with Amazon in terms of operational excellence, and that operations is where the value lies in this unregulated cluster-fuck of douchebaggery that is the modern software world. I'm already very aware, Tim, that if I make something useful, and I open source it and try to make a business out of it, some asshole like you will come along and deploy it at scale and market the hell out of it and tell me I'm cute for even trying, and that you just might throw an Amazon job my way if I'm lucky. This kind of arrogance makes me think twice about contributing to open source, and it makes me hope your arrogance runs up against something intractable, and soon.
Isn't that a situation where a machine would excel? One challenge is the abundance of decisions with only one non-deadly option, the other challenge is lack of time. The first challenge is solved by well-defined decision trees and mental checklists, but those make the second challenge harder. Computers don't need to balance between checklist thoroughness and decision latency, they can look at all the data they have in practically zero time.

Mandatory bad car analogy: a driver will often prefer a faster response over spending time to check the rear view mirror before slamming the brakes, a computer would never have reasons to do so, they can check without meaningful delay.
Even without that the chances of two planes colliding is nowhere near what autonomous vehicle are facing. + a lidar wouldn't do much in the air, it can't see very far, that's why we have radars.
The title seems to contradict the subtitle:

> Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II

vs

> DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game.
Show HN: Should I Advertise?” interactive form
Hey guys,

Some context here: we’re a sales/marketing agency that had some free time and thought it would be useful for others (and fun for us) to create an interactive form that would allow startups/entrepreneurs/marketers to figure out if advertising is right for their business. Here it is: https://shouldiadvertise.typeform.com/to/wb7AEi

This idea came about from talks in the startup/venture capital space on the decreasing ROI on Facebook/Google ads, as well as from our own experience helping other companies navigate ads.

We used Typeform to create this because we don’t have the coding skills and time to pull off what we had in mind. If we get positive feedback and people find it useful, we’ll look into developing a more custom version. For full disclosure, we’re not affiliated with Typeform.

We’re looking to hear your feedback on the form mechanics, form logic (does it make any sense??), look/feel etc. At the end of the day, we want this to be both practical/helpful and also fun to use. Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study

> The classical twin design compares the similarity of monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins. If identical twins are considerably more similar than fraternal twins (which is found for most traits), this implicates that genes play an important role in these traits. By comparing many hundreds of families with twins, researchers can then understand more about the roles of genetic effects, shared environment, and unique environment in shaping behavior.
A system without restrictions favours the rich, it favours the dishonest, and it favours those who wield the best weaponized psychology. (And it favours most those with all three.) Your passing reference to platforms being open to a "variety of ideas" is—and I'm sorry in advance for the snark—but it's just adorable.
On Twitter it's at least possible for candidates or organizations to have a huge reach without paying money. On Facebook, they limit your reach so that even people who explicitly follow your page don't see your updates in their timeline unless you pay up.
He's been threatened over meetings etc but Biden's kid outright goes into corruption using his dad's name and the media is carrying water for them.

Makes complete sense to me.
> "computers" less powerful than an ordinary standard wristwatch of today: going to the moon, surviving there and coming back

This is more of a statement of how little computing power is needed for rudimentary space travel. The technology itself was quite advanced, just in other aspects than raw computing power.
Yes, Venus.
Lean is also a really, really good dependently typed functional programming language. If you're on the software developer/computer science side of the coin I highly recommend looking into it. It's not only for maths research (although that is definitely a big focus of the majority of the Lean community).

I'm working on a forthcoming series of blog posts investigating FP concepts from scratch in Lean to see how it takes with the FP-curious.

The refreshing features Lean has to offer over other FP languages like Haskell is that

1. It's dependently typed which gives it a lot more flexibility to define objects that depend on types and types that depend on values, such as vectors that know their size.

2. Lean is interactive by default -- type inference is really fast, even for complex objects and functions.

From my perspective Lean is a great programming language that happens to have a theorem prover available. This, in itself, can be a great feature for code that needs to provide strong guarantees about its operational parameters.
Is there a link to that? A video of this would be interesting to watch.
>> I wonder how many programmers can relate who've found their tendency toward problem solving extending beyond the computer screen.

Just this summer I was told I'm thinking too logically. Of course I wanted to protest and also to take it as a compliment, but the person who said this, what they really meant was that I was being, well, a square.

It's important to remember that most of the time people don't start a conversation because they want to get to the bottom of things. They're doing it because they want to say a couple of things without really thinking about them, just to have a nice time and to bond with their interlocutors.

So sometimes you have to forget about communicating accurately and focus on communicating productively. For another example, I had a big fight about the Deluge, last summer (I go see my family in the summer). An older relative was very vague about what he meant by "deluge" (did he mean just a flood? The Flood? A big flood? A small flood? A local flood? A global flood?). I was determined to be confused with his inexact terminology and in the end we had a fight. What was achieved? Nothing. I mean, I still don't know what he was talking about and I don't want to ask him because we'd just have another fight again.

So sometimes you just gotta let go. Most people don't like conversing like this, like we're all computers. And you don't want to sour your relations with friends and family. That's what I learned.
This is the service locator pattern. Biggist complaint is implicit dependencies, and it's hard to control lifetimes.

So this has the advantages and disadvantages of that.
I feel like this PDF is a portal to an alternate reality where something something Display PostScript something something something something.

Wow.

I want to click at the UI in the PDF :( it's not working :(
Why didn't the journalist contact Airbnb in the first place? Or after he arrived at the 2nd place and it wasn't the location listed/promised. (yes I can understand being tired, frustrated, etc)

Last minute host cancellation is the one thing they can actually something they help with since it ruins the marketplace for them.

As a host I've had my set of horror storied interacting with Airbnb. Most hosts do try really hard, but every marketplace has scams at some level, and I'm not sure how you could find them all once it's under some value/size.
What is the point you are trying to make with this?
I am familiar with Java, C++, C#, TypeScript, Python. My interest areas are async frameworks, open source DBs, not really excited about UX, but can manage it.
>Some examples of languages that use dynamic scoping by default are APL, Bash, Latex and Emacs Lisp.

bash isn't dynamically scoped by default; it has only global scope by default. You have to use "local" to dynamically scope a variable binding.
no. will check.
Except this is not about cracks in the airframe but in a component that is certified for significantly more cycles than when the cracks are being found. If these were benign FAA wouldn’t have released an AD to inspect and repair them.
It's largely the card issues fault. They charge a fee for each chargeback and punish or increase the fees for merchants who receive many chargebacks, so merchants try to avoid chargebacks, which includes banning everybody who uses them.
This is an extremelly well written and well thought out post. Thank you.

Here is my suggestion: how about for the next LHC scale physics project we get all the governments in the world to put in manhatten project levels of funding to research machines which can control the climate and the weather to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.

This would be a lot more practical and better for science and the future of the human species than confirming what everyone has known with 99%+ confidence for over 30 years. Just my 2 cents.
> That reminds me of a common issue with modeling:

The scientific field that studies this is called "Dimensional Analysis", and its major is probably the Buckingham Pi-Theorem, which takes maybe 10 minutes to learn, and is one of those simple physics ideas that translate to a lot of fields (like conservation laws).
Crime fiction and television strongly informs the self-image of people working in law enforcement though
AirBNB was built on spamming Craigslist and willful ignorance of local zoning and tenant laws. It is in their DNA to allow operations like this...like WeWork, just trying to make it to the IPO cash-out.
Depends on the language/compiler/platform. In C# there's a minuscule difference [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/7225205/998987
This is why integer sign should be part of the operation rather than the type. Every language but assembly gets this wrong.